Agenda
May 5, 2015
6:00 PM
ROLL CALL
INVOCATION: Director Erma Hendrix
PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE
PRESENTATIONS
International Building Safety Month Proclamation
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CONSENT AGENDA (Items 1 - 6) |
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1. MINUTES |
To approve the minutes of the December 2, 2014, and December 16,
2014, Little Rock City Board of Directors Meetings. |
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2.
RESOLUTION |
To authorize the City Manager to award a contract to JCI
Construction, Inc., in an amount to exceed $573,204.00 for the West 17th
Street Improvement Project; and for other purposes. (Funding from the 2013 Limited Tax General
Obligation Capital Improvement Bonds) Staff
recommends approval. Synopsis: Authorizes
the City Manager to execute an agreement with JCI Construction, Inc., for
West 17th Street Improvements from Brown Street to Woodrow Street,
Project Number 13-B-1C, Bid Number 15-004.
(Located in Ward 1) |
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3. RESOLUTION |
To authorize the City Manager to award a contract to Shields and Associates,
Inc., for the Yarberry Lane Improvement Project in an amount not to exceed
$462,861.60; and for other purposes. (Funding from the 2012 3/8-Cent Capital
Improvement Sales Tax) Staff
recommends approval. Synopsis: Authorizes
the City Manager to execute an agreement with Shields and Associates, Inc.,
for the Yarberry Lane Improvement Project, Project Number 13-7-057, Bid Number
15-005. (Located in Ward 7) |
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4. RESOLUTION |
To authorize the City Manager to enter into a contract with Watch
Guard Video Company, in the total amount of $68,766.82, for the purchase of
in-car camera systems for fourteen (14) new Police Patrol Units for the
Little Rock Police Department, utilizing the Houston-Galveston Area Council;
and for other purposes. (Funding from the 2012 3/8-Cent Capital
Improvement Sales Tax) Staff
recommends approval. Synopsis: Approval
of a resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into a contract with
Watch Guard Video Company to purchase in-car camera systems for fourteen (14)
new Police Patrol Units for the Little Rock Police Department, at a total
price of $68,776.82. |
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5. RESOLUTION |
To authorize the City Manager to enter into a contract in the total
amount of $62,790.00, for the purchase of two (2) Dodge Ram 2500 Bi-Fuel Pick-up
Trucks from Red River Dodge Chrysler for the Housing & Neighborhood
Programs Department, utilizing the Arkansas State Purchasing Contract; and
for other purposes. (Funding from the 2012 3/8-Cent Capital
Improvement Sales Tax) (Deferred from April 21, 2015) Staff
recommends approval. Synopsis: Approval
of a resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into a contract with
Red River Dodge, Chrysler in the total amount of $62,790.00 to purchase two
(2) Ram 2500 Bi-Fuel Pick-Up Trucks for the Housing & Neighborhood
Programs Department. |
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6. RESOLUTION |
To make certain findings in connection with a program for the
financing of certain industrial facilities in the City of Little Rock,
Arkansas; authorizing the execution of an agreement to issue Bonds; and for
other purposes. |
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CITIZEN COMMUNICATION Three (3) minutes are
allowed to present a specific item which is not already on the Agenda. This time is allotted for any person to
express a written or oral viewpoint, grievance, or other message to the Board
of Directors. Board Members may ask
questions of the speaker or make a relevant comment after the presentation
has been completed. A maximum of
thirty (30) minutes is allotted for citizen communications each meeting. No advance permission is required, but
persons wishing to address the City Board are required to fill out a yellow
card listing the specific subject to be addressed and hand it to the City
Clerk upon arrival. Citizen
Communication will be held immediately following the Consent Agenda items on
the first Tuesday and at the end of the printed Agenda on the third Tuesday. |
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SEPARATE ITEMS
(Items 7 – 9) |
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7.
ORDINANCE |
To condemn a certain structure in the City of Little Rock, Arkansas,
as structural, fire and health hazard; to provide for summary abatement
procedures; to direct the City Staff to take such action as is necessary to
raze and remove said structure; to declare an emergency; and for
other purposes. (Deferred
from the March 17, 2015) Staff recommends approval. Synopsis: One
(1) residential structure, located at 1325 West 12th Street, which
is in a severely dilapidated and deteriorated condition and causing a
negative environmental impact on the residential neighborhoods in which it is
located. All notices have been mailed
in accordance with Arkansas State Law.
(Located in Ward 1) |
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8.
ORDINANCE |
To call a Special Election in the City of Little Rock, Arkansas, for
the purpose of submitting to the Electors of the City the question of
reducing and extending the levy of a portion of the existing annual Ad
Valorem Property Tax pledge to the repayment of the outstanding Library
Capital Improvement Bonds from the aggregate rate of One and Nine Tenths of
One Mill (1.9) Mils to the new rate of One and Eight Tenths of One (1.8) Mil
on the dollar of assessed valuation of taxable property in the City; to
pledge Nine Tenths of One (0.9) Mil of said Ad Valorem Tax to secure the
repayment of an issue or issues of Bonds of the City of Little Rock,
Arkansas, issued under Amendments No. 30 and No. 72 to the Constitution of
the State of Arkansas and Act 920 of 1993, not to exceed $37,000,000 in
aggregate principal amount, to refund one (1) or more outstanding issues of
Library Construction, Improvement and Refunding Bonds and to finance the cost
of acquiring constructing, and equipping land and additional capital
improvements for the City’s public libraries operated by Central Arkansas
Library System; prescribing other matters pertaining thereto; to
declare an emergency; and for other purposes. |
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9.
ORDINANCE |
To authorize the issuance of a promissory note to provide short-term
financing under Amendment No. 78 to the Arkansas Constitution for the
acquisition, construction, equipping and installation of real and tangible
personal property; to declare an emergency; and for
other purposes. |
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REPORTS (Item
10) |
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10.
REPORT |
December 2014 Financial Report – Sara Lenehan, Finance Department
Director |
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EXECUTIVE
SESSION (Item 11) |
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11.
RESOLUTION |
To appoint three (3) Commissioners to fill vacancies on the Board of
Commissioners of the Pecan Municipal Recreational Improvement District No. 4
of the City of Little Rock, Arkansas; and for other purposes. |