Agenda Highlights 11/9/21
At the Fort Smith Board of Directors study session meeting to be held 11-9-21, there will be a presentation from Convention Sports and Leisure International’s Bill Krueger who is conducting a feasibility study concerning a potential indoor sports complex. Some aspects of the study will include cost benefit analysis, study of local market conditions and market demand, ownership and management and partnership possibilities, and facility design criteria. In addition to participation in the Board of Directors meeting, while Kreuger is in town he will spend Monday through Wednesday meeting with local officials and stakeholders, including city officials and State Representative Jay Richardson, Convention Center General Manager Marc Mulherin, representatives from UAFS including Assistant Vice Chancellor Stacey Jones and Director of Athletics Curtis Janz, Northside High School Coach Felix Curry, and other authorities and stakeholders in area sports including baseball, volleyball, softball, and track, as well community leaders including 64.6 Executive Director Talicia Richardson, Chaffee Crossing Executive Director Daniel Mann, Boys and Girls Club Executive Director Jerry Glidewell, River Valley Fitness and Training Center owner Randy Hilmer, John McIntosh, Sam Sicard with First National Bank, and Storm Nolan with Hampton Inn. The visit will also include a driving tour of Fort Chaffee and a driving tour of potential sporting facility sites.
The Board will also decide on the Board meeting dates for 2022.
At the Budget Hearing Meeting held on 11-4-21, it was decided that the Board needed further time for consideration and discussion of the New Needs requests addition to the 2022 budget that were only presented to the Board late in the evening the night before the Budget Hearing. So the New Needs section of the budget is on the agenda to be discussed at the 11-9-21 study session meeting. Discussion may include further discussion of the $2 million for employee pay increases that was already discussed some at the the Budget Hearing and will include discussion of the other $2 million in new needs requests .
