Agenda Highlights 7/9/24

At the Fort Smith Board of Directors meeting to be held on 7-9-24, the Board will vote on whether to change the monthly opportunity for citizens to publicly address the Board on any topic. The current Citizens Forum agenda item at the end of the first study session meeting of the month allows each speaker 5 minutes to speak and the Citizens Forum is televised and live-streamed on the City website as part of the meeting. The Board will vote on whether to do away with the Citizens Forum agenda item format and instead hold Town Hall Meetings that would be held after the end of the meeting at the first study session meeting of the month but would be considered a separate meeting and therefore would not be live streamed/televised and would only allow each speaker 2 minutes to speak instead of 5.

The Board will vote on whether to purchase a set of 5 water slides for Parrot Island from White Water West. The slides were built for a water park in Florida and were not installed there, so they are currently available at a deeply discounted price, $1.6 million off of full regular price. The cost of the City’s share of the slides (the County would be paying half of the cost) would be $2.1 million.

The Board will vote on whether to contract with Forsgren for $5,635,330.56 for 1.8 miles of street resurfacing on Phoenix between Towson and Old Greenwood. That cost would include $1.6 million for utility work that would need to be done before the resurfacing.