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CBC 07-05-2012LITTLE ROCK ciTy BEAUTIFUL C0MMisSToW The City Beautiful Commission held its regular meeting Thursday, July the 5th, 2012, at 11:30 a.m. at Curran Hall. Chair Wiedower called the meeting to order. MEMBERS PRESENT: Bill Wiedower Steve Homeyer Carrie Young Linda Bell Chris Minor Jennie Cole Lynn Warren Herb Dicker Brittany Cliff MEMBERS ABSENT: vacancy vacancy ALSO PRESENT: Bill Tedford, Stephens Inc., concerned citizen, signage issues within the City of Little Rock Christy Marvel, Plans Development Administrator, Department of Planning & Development, City of Little Rock Beth Blevins Carpenter, Deputy City Attorney, City Attorney's Office, City of Little Rock APPROVAL OF THE l%� MINUTES: Motion: Commissioner Warren made a motion to accept the minutes with changes noted. Second: Commissioner Cliff seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. SIGNAGE ISSUES WITHIN THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK: Citizen, Bill Tedford Mr. Bill Tedford presented concerns to the City Beautiful Commission regarding the use of signage within the City of Little Rock; including a handout of information. Of primary concern are the temporary, illegal signs found on utility poles. Three (3) years ago Mr. Tedford began removing the signs himself; in the course of doing so removed over one -thousand (1000) signs. Upon speaking with the City Attorney regarding ordinances and laws in place to discourage such; additional information was pursued. Mr. Tedford noted a five (5) step process for the City of Little Rock to adopt and included a newspaper article from a city in Florida, regarding, "robocalling". The handout information follows: "To the Little Rock City Beautiful Commission: Little Rock, like so many cities, is papered with illegal signs attached to power poles or stuck in the ground along roadsides. This has become so commonplace that there is likely a fair degree of ignorance about its illegality. (Therefore publicity about the illegality might deter some of it.) But there is no doubt about how unsightly this practice is. Typically these signs are advertising services like computer virus removal, tree trimming, house painting, gutter cleaned, leaves raked and many others. 99% of these signs have a telephone number listed on the sign. Suggestions to get signs removed include the following five, (5) ideas: (The goal is to get the violator to remove the signs and abstain in the future.) 1. Issue a press release about the new program. Encourage citizens to call a dedicated telephone number at City Hall (like 375-SIGN) to provide the location and telephone number of illegal signs. 2. Have a city employee (a secretary could do this) call the offender's telephone, get his (or her) name and inform them that a complaint has been received that they have posted illegal signs on public property. Tell them that they are being given a two (2) week grace period to remove the signs. 3. Explain that, if another complaint is received after the grace period, the city will have the signs removed and the violator will be fined $50.00 per sign. Since the city is understaffed, it could offer to pay volunteer off -duty police, fire fighters, or other city workers $25.00 per sign to remove the signs. 4. If the offender fails to pay the fine, then consider using the robo-call procedure that has been used successfully in Florida. (See attached) for an investment of $300 the city can purchase the software that will dial the offender's telephone 20 times a day with a recorded reminder to pay their fine. (This procedure could also be used by the city for unpaid traffic and parking tickets if phone numbers were available.) 5. A variation of this idea would be to forego the fines and just use the robo-call to harass the violators until they remove the signs after steps # 1 and # 2 above. To get the calls stopped, they would have to contact the city and assure that they had removed all their signs. Per William L. Tedford, Jr. July 5, 2012" Vice Chair Dicker inquired about the legality of calling with robo-call. Commissioner Wapmmt noted it was under the CBC ,'s purview to recommend policy to the Board of Directors as needed. Deputy City Attorney, Beth Carpenter, noted the issue was being looked into further. It was recommended the CBC draft a letter to the City Manager regarding the issue presented today if the CBC was compelled. Motion: Vice -chair Dicker made a motion for the Chair of the CBC to draft a letter to the City Manager outlining the recommendations put forth today. Second: Commissioner Warren added, "the letter needs to be carbon copied (cc:) to Tony Bozynski, Planning Director" and seconded the motion. Motion passes unanimously. Discussion commenced on public awareness and/or a public service announcement (PSA) that would educate the public regarding the illegal posting of signs. It was agreed public awareness was the best avenue for the elimination of the signage. Discussion included adding information to the CBC website. Discussion also commenced regarding the cleaning, maintenance, and adoption of medians. TREASURER'S REPORT: Commissioner Bell noted there was no change in the balance from last month. The regular CBC account continues to have $1,297.05 to date. It was noted Chair Wiedower still needs to be reimbursed. OLD BUSINESS: COMMITTEE REPORTS: UPDATES: I-630 Trees Dicker Minor Marvel - no report. Vice -chair Dicker and Commissioner Minor will discuss plan of action at the pick up on Saturday. Ci Hall -South Yard (Homeyer/Warren)-Chair Wiedower drew a plan of the area and distributed it to the CBC. The landscape bed includes three (3) flag poles. Commissioner Homeyer noted there is also a sprinkler riser in the area. It was noted how the last project at City Hall was all donated. The design, materials, maintenance, etc. were discussed. CBC give all your suggestions to Commissioner Warren. Chair Wiedower noted he would discuss it with Bryan Day, Assistant City Manager. Website (Warren) -no report. Libra Exhibit/History Exhibit Bel! C -The exhibit was taken down at Fletcher Library. The exhibit will be at the Main Library the months of June and July. New CBC Brittany Cliff plans to join Commissioner Bell with the exhibit. Commissioner Bell noted she would love for Commissioner Young to join too. Commissioner Warren noted she may have some older photos that could be used in the exhibit. Chair Wiedower noted he'd resend the landscape award photos to Commissioner Bell that he'd previously sent to Julleah Johnson. KLRB (Wiedower)-Chair Wiedower noted the Adopt -A -Street program will soon be run by the KLRB Commission. Currently, the City of Little Rock, Public Works Department administers. David Hathcock, currently handles the program; however, is retiring soon. More volunteers are always encouraged to join the KLRB Commission. Adopt -A -Street (Dicker) -It was noted the pickup will commence this upcoming Saturday at 7:30 a.m. Commissioners meet at Senor Tequilas. Information/Communication Cale -Commissioner Cole noted she had contacted Meg Matthews and the Newspaper about various ongoing projects. The Homestyle Addition may run the Eye of the Beholder Award soon. Commissioner Cole also contacted the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and spoke with Joey. Joey said she would try to run an announcement about the Landscape Awards in the July newsletter. Commissioner Cole noted Meg mentioning that Comcast may run some of the film from the last landscape award ceremony. The Eye of the Beholder Award was also mentioned at the Master Gardener class. Chair Wiedower noted he would call Roby Brock about getting a copy of the production. Commissioner Homeyer noted he contact Larry about getting a copy of the production too. Eve of the Beholder Youn -Commissioner Young noted five (5) nominations per Commissioner Warren. Commissioner Warren showed the five (5) nominations addition in an excel document. If each CBC member will bring one (1) nomination next month that'd be optimal. Landscape Awards Home er -Commissioner Homeyer noted the nominations are open. The Governor's Inn-Bestwestern Inn off Mara Lynn were nominated per Commissioner Homeyer. For nominations include any photos that could be taken; sooner than later; would be optimal too. Allied Bank was also mentioned. Betty Ruth Davis, at Allied bank can be contacted; Chair Wiedower noted he would get in touch with her. Landmark Award iedower -Chair Wiedower noted that July 31" would be optimal for a presentation of the award. August 21" was also mentioned for an open date to present in front of the Board of Directors. Chair Wiedower noted he would continue working on the award and the ceremony. NEW BUSINESS: CBC Business Cards: Commissioner Minor discussed various options for CBC business cards. Beth Carpenter, Deputy City Attorney noted she had drafted a one (1) page letter about the process for the Tree Fund for the City Manager. Upon receiving feedback Mrs. Carpenter will update the CBC. Commissioner Warren noted she had run into Robbie Hudson, City Urban Forester and he mentioned September would be a good month to have him discuss pruning with the CBC. Business card discussion returned. Chair Wiedower noted his company was able to print some business cards and showed examples of his company's. It was ask if the City of Little Rock's print shop could/would print them for the CBC. City staff answered probably so but we would need to check. It was noted the CBC used the print shop in the past and it was very time consuming and not much of a price break. Motion: Commissioner Minor made a motion to purchase 2,500 (twenty five hundred), generic sets of cards for approximately seventy dollars ($70.00). Motion fails for lack of a second. Discussion commenced on personalization of the CBC cards. Motion: Commissioner Minor made a motion to spend twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each CBC cards. Second: Commissioner Cliff seconded the motion. Commissioner Cole was opposed Commissioner Bell abstained. Motion passes. A mock-up will be done for each Commissioner and brought to next months meeting for approval. ADJOURNMENT: Motion: Commissioner Cliff made a motion to adjourn. Second: Commissioner Homeyer seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at 12:42 p.m. Robinson, To a A. From: wallyloveless@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 5:02 PM To: City Clerks Office Subject: Boards and Commissions Application Attachments: ATT00002.bin Applicant Information: "" , Name: Wally Loveless ,f-A Phone: 501-960-8014 P-f Address: 6 Holly Springs Court Alternate Telephone: 501-227-9299 Email: wallyloveless@gmail.com State: Arkansas ZIP:72212 Length of Residency in Little Rock: 64 years Application Status: New Application Registered Vote: Yes Board Commission Current Openings Selection: Board of Adjustment City Beautiful Commission Parks and Recreation Commission Interest in Serving City of Little Rock: As a life long resident of Little Rock and a pratitioner of residential real estate since 1973 I have acquired a unique perspective on Little Rock. Knowing Little Rock since childhood and living in various neighborhoods, including the Stifft's Station, Hillcrest, the Hall High area and west Little Rock and selling homes in those areas provides an intimate view of neighborhoods, the unique characteristics each has and their special needs. As a Realtor, working with clients moving to Little Rock from around the world, I see through their eyes and am often proud of the hidden jewel that is Little Rock. And at times struck by constructive criticism that is accurate and calls for solutions that we can accomplish if we only have the will. ¢ualifications: 1st Choice: Name of Board Commission: City Beautiful Commission Position Seeking: Board member State your experiences, interests or elements of your personal history that qualify you for this advisory body: Education: Batchelors of Arts in Business Administration from the U of A Fayetteville in 1970. Portfolio manager for Arkansas for Lomas and Nettleton Mortgage Company from 1971 to 1973. Residential real estate ,roker from 1973 to present. Partner Loveless Huddleston Real Estate from 1976 to 1990. Have experience in home renovation due to several projects. Served on the Hillcrest Residence Association in the'80s. Served on Arkansas Savings Bank board of directors late'80s and early'90s. Cooperative Arkansas Realtors Mulit List Service board member 2000 to 2006 and chairman of the board 2006, Little Rock Realtos Association board member '90s. Trustee, Arkansas Realtors Political Action Committee 2001 to present, currently chairman ARPAC. Current Vice Chairman of the Ark Rltrs Assn, Legislative Committee and member of the board of directors of the ARA. Served on two construction projects to Honduras 2nd Choice: Name of Board Commission : Parks and Recreation Position Seeking: Board member State your experiences, interests or elements of your personal history that qualify you for this advisory body: Father of three adult children who used city parks and recreation facilities. Active biker cycling on many of the bike trails around the city. Grandfather of 7 grand children in Little Rock who use the parks and recreation facilities. Mortgage portfolio for Lomas and Nettleton from 1971 to 1973. Residential real estate broker from 1973 to present. Have experience in home renovation due to several projects. Residential real estat broker from 1973 to present. Partner of Loveless Huddleston Real Estate 1976 to 1990. Served on the Hillcrest Residence Association in the'80s. Served on Arkansas Savings Bank, board of directors late'80s & early'90s, . Cooperative Arkansas Realtors Mulit List Service board member(2000 to 2006) and chairman of the board of CARMLS in 2006. Little Rock Realtors Association board member, late'90s. Trustee, Arkansas Realtors Political Action Committee 2001 to present, currently chairman of the board of trustees of ARPAC. Current Vice Chairman of the Ark Rltrs Assn, Legislative Committee and member of the board of directors of the ARA. Served on two construction projects to Honduras 3rd Choice: Name of Board Commission : Board of Adjustment Position Seeking: Board member State your experiences, interests or elements of your personal history that qualify you for this advisory body: Most of my experience has been in existing neighborhoods primarily in residential with some experience in light commercail real estate transations. I am sensitive to the give and take sorting through issues associated with the board of adjustment and have appeared before the board with requests. Education: Batchelor of Arts in Business Administration from the U of A in Fayetteville in 1970. Portfolio manager for Arkansas for Lomas and Nettleton Mortgage Company from 1971 to 1973. Residential real estate broker from 1973 to present. Partner in Loveless Huddleston Real Estate Company from 1976 to 1990. Developed 12,000 sq R office/retail bldg in Hillcrest in the'80s. Have experience in home renovation due to several projects. Served on the Hillcrest Residence Association in the'80s. Served on Arkansas Savings Bank, board of directors late '80s and early'90s. Cooperative Arkansas Realtors Mulit List Service, board of directors (2000-2006) and chairman of the board CARMLS (2006), Little Rock Realtors Association board member'90s. Trustee, Arkansas Realtors Political Action Committee 2001 to present, currently chairman of ARPAC board of trustees. Current Vice Chairman of the Ark Rltrs Assn, Legislative Committee and member of the board of directors of the ARA. Served on two construction projects to Honduras. Self -identification Survey : Race: White Gender: Male How did you learn of this Board/Commission vacancy?: 56 & over 7ther, specify