The Agenda: Housing project, construction, lawsuit settlement
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Some of your local city councils meet Tuesday. Here are a few highlights of what's on deck.
Bentonville will vote on:
🐶 Accepting an anonymous donation of about $1.2 million, $400,000 of which will go to the library and the remaining $723,000 to the animal shelter.
🚲 An agreement worth about $2.7 million with J&L Concrete and Excavation for the construction of the Elm Tree sidepath trail.
- Work on Elm Tree Road is needed to connect neighborhoods to Elm Tree Elementary School. It's a critical connection to the Eighth Street bike lane, providing active transportation access to Gateway Park and Coler Preserve, according to city documents.
💧 An agreement worth about $1.7 million with Steep Creek for the Northwest Tiger Boulevard and Northwest G Street stormwater improvements project.
Rogers will vote on:
🏘️ Accepting a $5 million grant from the Walton Family Foundation for the city to design and construct infrastructure like streets, water and sewer to support workforce housing developments.
Springdale will vote on:
⚖️ Settling a lawsuit against a police officer for $50,000, $45,000 of which the Arkansas Municipal League would pay. The city would pay the remaining $5,000.
- Springdale resident Tony Santiago Martinez sued Springdale K-9 police officer Jordan Jacobs, arguing that Jacobs in 2022 allowed his police dog to bite Martinez even though he was unarmed, not resisting arrest and not attempting to flee, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Martinez says he's had surgeries to regain limited use of his left arm.
🏦 Establishing a separate bank account exclusively for employee payroll and related payroll obligations to improve oversight and reduce risk of unauthorized or erroneous transactions.
📍 If you go: 6pm at Bentonville and Springdale city halls and 6:30pm at Rogers City Hall.