City Council

MINUTES SPECIAL CALLED MEETING October 9, 2018 CITY HALL CONFERENCE ROOM 5:30 Call to Order: Mayor Randy Horton. Atendees: Mayor Randy Horton, Finance Officer Jerrold McKaughan, City Attorney Trey Smith, City Clerk, Pat Taylor, Councilmember’s Phyllis Carruth, Larry Brown, Mark Tripp, Phil Sims, Eric Westcott, Robert Wiley. Also quite a few members of the community, including Leslie Teaff, Bell Anhalt, Jeanette Anhalt, David Fike, Sharon Wright, Brent Priddy, Bruce Holden. Before the general meeting began, Mr. Garza was asked to give an engineering report and he itemized the status of several projects. Mr. ? And Lynne Jacimore also gave the Council the cost on putting fiber optics in the city. There was discussion in regard to the possibility of putting that throughout the city but this was decided to be impractical. The question was asked how long the project would take and the answer was that it would take about a month. There were also several questions from the council about the size of the pipe needed and the number of strands available. The items to be discussed in the meeting were: Item 1: Appropriation from the General Fund of $11,490.07 to be used for property tax on the Dalton King property. This item was approved after a few questions from Mr. Tripp about when the interest began to accrue. Item 2: Appropriation from the Capital Sales Tax Fund of $5,886.00 to be used for Evaporator Coil Replacement and recharge at City Hall. Mr. Brian Holstein let the council know that five of these had already had to be replaced at a cost of more than $5000.00 apiece, and that there were a total of twenty that needed to be replaced, also that these were defective parts from the Diakon Air that installed the units for City Hall and that he had tried to talk to them about it with no results. There was discussion about ‘cutting our losses’ and just installing a totally new unit. The item was passed. Item 3: Discussion of changing the definition of ”Family” in the R1 Zone of the planning ordinance. Several people signed up at the end of the meeting to form the committee that was suggested by ….in order to form an ordinance fair for everyone. Here is the list: COMMITTEE ON SHORT-TERM RENTALS Martha Kralicek mkralicek@yahoo.com 479-264-0181 Garland Gee garlandgee@hotmail.com 479-264-2322 Christy Gee garlandgee@hotmail.com 479-264-2322 Barbara McCullogh mcculloughbarb5@aol.com 479-264-2224 Sharon Wright Sharonkwright@yahoo.com 479-970-4176 Eddie Rood eddie@RoodArkansas.com 479-567-9115 Brent Prweddy brent@rentpreddy.com 479-567-9115 Phil Hutchison hawgs2000@aol.com 479-219-3299 Council Members are: Phyllis Carruth and Eric Westcott