05-23-00724
Minutes
Board of Directors Room
City Hall — 500 W. Markham
May 23, 2000 — 4:00 P.M.
The Board of Directors of the City of Little Rock, Arkansas, met in a reconvened session
from May 16, 2000 with Mayor Jim Dailey presiding. City Clerk Nancy Wood called the
roll with the following Directors present: Directors Pugh, Hinton, Lichty, Cazort, Keck,
Stewart, Wyrick, Kumpuris, Kelly, and Adcock —10 Total.
The purpose of the reconvened meeting was to consider adoption of a resolution
approving the terms and provisions of that certain amended restated and substituted lease
and concession agreement by and between the City of little Rock, Arkansas Partnership,
empowering and directing the mayor and the City Clerk too make and execute the escrow
agreement and to make, execute and deliver the amended lease and concession
agreement, declaring an emergency and prescribing other matters pertaining thereto.
There was brief discussion pertaining to the agreement. A motion was made by Director
Kumpuris and seconded by Director Cazort to adopt the resolution. By unanimous voice
vote of the Board Members present, Resolution No. 10,826 was adopted.
There was a motion by Director Adcock and a second by director Cazort to add item M -1
a resolution authorizing the City manager to enter into contract negotiations with
organizations to provide services to Welfare to Work eligible clients; and for other
purposes. By unanimous voice vote by Board members present, the motion was adopted
and the item was added to the agenda.
Mr. Bruce Moore, Assistant City Manager stated this was one of the components of the
Welfare to Work grant, the education and training component. These services will be
available to those who are enrolled in the Welfare to Work program. Dorothy Nayles,
Director of Community Programs, added these services that come under the category of
educational and occupational skills training. These are designed to move the Welfare to
Work eligible participants further along on the way to self - sufficiency, by making sure
there are providers identified who can provide educational and occupational training
services. In the request for proposal process they identified four providers who met the
requirements and are prepared to offer training. They are (1) CDL, The Commercial
Drivers Licensing Training, (2) Career Development Training Institute, which provides
training in medical and legal transcription and legal assistant and data processing, (3) Our
House, provides training in basic literacy and computer training, and (4) Pulaski Tech for
general education and vocational training. Ms. Nayles stated as of the end of last week,
they reported 72 enrollments, and felt they were well on the way to meeting the goal of
100 that had been set earlier and fully expected to meet and possibly exceed that goal.
She said this would help with the spending down of the dollars.
The resolution was read and a motion to adopt the resolution was made by Director Keck,
and seconded by Director Kelly. By unanimous voice vote of the Board members
present, Resolution No. 10,827 was adopted.
Mr. Bruce Moore gave the City Manger's Activity Report which consisted of the
following: An update on the Riverfront Concerts and the problems dealing with
scheduling with North Little Rock, a report dealing with the Police Department re-
organization that will go into effect on June 3, 2000, an update on the speed hump
installation, an update on the homicide from this morning and the April Crime Report
summary. Director Keck asked the City manager's office to report on Hinson Road, the
curve that is in the road at Marlow Manor and Hillsboro; at Pleasant Valley Estates. Mr.
Keck said there had been two serious automobile accidents there and there was a
tremendous amount of speeding and to turn left. He stated he understood the theory and
the engineering standards the city is required to adhere to for traffic signals and traffic
stop signs, but wanted to figure out what, if anything could be done in that area. He
asked Mr. Moore to encourage the Traffic Engineering staff to extend their creativity to
see what can be done. Mr. Moore stated they would re- examine that issue. Director
Cazort stated that having gone out and talked to this group, there was also a blind curve
coming out of Pleasant Valley Estates that you could not see down Hinson Road to the
left, because of a hump in the road, which was there for no apparent reason, and asked for
Traffic Engineer to also look at this to see if there was some way to flatten the hill there
to increase the line of sight. Director Cazort addressed the report dealing with the concert
conflicts. Director Cazort asked the Mayor on behalf of the Board or to send an official
statement through the Mayor from the Board that asks North Little Rock's cooperation in
getting the situation of having concerts on the same nights stopped. Mayor Dailey said if
it was the Boards wishes he would formally put something in writing. Director Pugh
stated she was getting a lot of complaints from the 33`d Street area from 33`d Street
between Arch Street and Martin Luther King Drive, and asked if sped humps could be
put in that area. Mr. Moore stated $50,000 had been budgeted in the 2000 Budget. Some
changes were made to the criteria for getting a speed hump installed, and this has enabled
staff to identify twenty -one routes that immediate work efforts will begin on. Director
Hinton asked know how much money had been appropriated for the twenty -one routes
listed, and if other mechanisms will be looked at for other areas. Director Adcock asked
for the area where Our Child (a day care that takes care of children with special needs) in
Director Hinton's Ward, to be looked at for a speed hump, that she had had several
complaints about he children running out in the street area going back and forth to their
cars. Mayor Daily stated he would like some comment from the Police Chief on other
types of speed enforcement, such as cameras at traffic signals where the ticket is sent
later, more intensive enforcement team that does nothing but work on traffic speed
violations and enforcement of speed violation. Director Stewart wanted to know out of
the 732 positions in the Police Department, how many of these officers are residents of
Little Rock. Mr. Moore stated that all of the 732 employees were not officers, some were
civilian personnel. Director Stewart stated she would like to know how many officers
were residents of the City of Little Rock. She also asked if there were any incentives in
place for officer's to live in Little Rock. Mr. Moore stated the city did have an incentive
program that offered officers low interest rates to live in targeted areas of the city.
Initially that went over well, but money ran out for the program. He stated this was
something that possibly could be looked at again. Vice Mayor Wyrick asked about the
reorganization of the Alert Centers and the COP staff. Mr. Moore stated that basically
what the chief was trying to accomplish was to diminish the perception of a difference in
the patrol officers and the COP officers. Mr. Moore said by combining both divisions it
allows the patrol and COP officers to work in the same division and work closer together.
It is basically a matter of the officers reporting to a different location. Director Adcock
asked for an update on take home police vehicles, and how many officers are taking
vehicles home outside the city limits, and what the criteria is for an officer to have an
automobile to take home. Mr. Moore announced that Ms. Paula Patterson has been
named the Vision Little Rock Project Manager. Vice Mayor Wyrick asked what the
process is to take care of basketball goals located on public streets. Mr. Moore said he
would provide a written summary of the process and enforcement strategies and would
also provide an update on the three locations of complaint.
Director Cazort made a motion, with Vice Mayor Wyrick seconding the motion, to go
into executive session, to begin the process of appointing the applicants to various work
groups. Mr. Tom Carpenter, City Attorney stated that in addition to the manager's office
as the Chief Administrative Officer, there may be a need to have the immediate
supervisor for the Vision Teams present, and the request has to come from the Board.
The Board approved the request. By unanimous voice vote, the motion was adopted, and
the meeting was recessed at 5:00 P.M. The meeting was reconvened at 6:55 P.M.
Mayor Dailey announced the Board had begun the process of appointments to the various
work groups and had directed staff to examine the recommendations and make additional
recommendations to the work groups for final approval of the Board. Director Keck
made the motion to recess the meeting until Tuesday, May 30, 2000 at 4:00 P.M.
Director Cazort seconded the motion and by unanimous voice by Board members
present, the meeting was recessed at 7:00 P.M.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk nancy Wood
APPROVED:
yor Jim Dailey
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