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West Memphis council approves Charity Day agenda item, endorses local tax-back applicant and adopts budget amendments
Summary
The West Memphis City Council on July 6 approved an ordinance adding Charity Day money distribution to meeting agendas, adopted three resolutions including a local endorsement for a tax-back program applicant, and passed amendments to the 2025 and 2026 budgets; individual roll-call votes were not recorded in the transcript.
The West Memphis City Council on July 6 approved several administrative and budget measures, including an ordinance to add a Charity Day money distribution to council agendas and three resolutions affecting economic development and the city budget.
Mayor McClendon presided as the council took up an ordinance to amend section 4 of ordinance 25-17 to add Charity Day money distribution to the council meeting agenda. The council suspended the rules to move the item to second reading, advanced it to third and final reading, and then voted to adopt it; the clerk recorded the ordinance number as 2739.
City Attorney Stevenson presented R1, described in the meeting transcript as "a resolution of the city council, West Memphis certifying local government endorsement of Sedai or Inc to participate in the tax back program as authorized by section 15-4-2706(d) of the Consolidated Incentive Act of 2003." The council moved and seconded the resolution and approved it; the clerk recorded resolution number 2360. The transcript presents the applicant name as transcribed above.
The council also approved R2, a resolution to amend the 2025 budget (recorded as resolution 2361 in the minutes), and R3, a resolution to amend the 2026 budget (recorded as resolution 2362). During discussion of R3 a council member and staff said the contracted manager (referred to in the transcript as Kemper's Force) would furnish a day-to-day operational budget for council review, and that a full 2027 budget proposal will be presented in October.
Several motions were moved and recorded verbally as "aye" in the meeting; the transcript does not include a roll-call tally or named yes/no votes for each member. When the council discussed procurement and vendor permissions, members asked the city attorney to prepare resolutions or ordinances to formalize waivers or approvals and to return them at a future meeting.
What happens next: the city attorney is to prepare any required ordinance or resolution language for formal adoption (the transcript records a plan to return items in two weeks for finalization).
