Agenda Highlights 4/1/25
At the Fort Smith Board of Directors meeting scheduled for 4/1/25, the Board will vote on a resolution inviting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin and Attorney General Pam Bondi to Fort Smith to discuss the consent decree with City officials and staff.
The Board will vote on whether to reallocate the expenses for the credit card fees from 2024 and the first quarter of 2025 to the General Fund instead of coming out of the Water and Sewer Operating fund. Now credit card fees are passed on to the customers instead of being paid by the City so it will not be an issue to be accounted for in future budgets. This issue was discussed at the 3-18-25 meeting.
The Board will vote on whether to approve for The Goat House to apply to transfer their private-club alcohol license from their current location at 9501 Rogers to a new location at 1121 Garrison.
The Board will vote on three separate sewer contracts with Hawkins-Weir for design services on consent decree sewer projects. The one for Sub-basin P008 is for $407,450. The one for Sub-basin P009 is for $188,750. The one for Sub-basin FL02 is for $227, 950. The funding for the projects would come from the sales tax for consent decree sewer work.
The Board will vote on adding an additional $492,000 to the streets overlay contract with Forsgren to include the removal and replacement of dilapidated concrete storm drainage pipe.
The Board will vote on whether to enter into design services agreements with McClelland Engineers for streets overlays for $117,415, with Garver for streets overlays for $83,300, with McGuire Engineering for $95, 730 for streets overlays, with McClelland for $86,085 for a drainage study on Homestead Terrace, and with Hawkins-Weir for $144,200 for drainage improvements west of South 66th between Fresno and Phoenix.
The Board will vote on whether to contract with Crawford Construction Company for 736 ft of concrete encased 66 inch steel pipe water transmission line running under the I-49 on and off ramps. The $2,213,560 project will be reimbursed in full by ARDOT resulting in no cost to the City.
