Policy tweaked on public comments
The city has updated its policy on public comment during Board of Directors meetings, known as "citizen communication."
The new rules, which Mayor Frank Scott Jr. announced from the dais at the end of the board's organizational meeting Tuesday, require a person who wishes to speak to turn in a card before the start of the meeting and allow a person to speak more than once about the same topic.
Previously, people were not allowed to speak on a topic that had gone before the board before.
Each person who turns in a card is allowed three minutes to express a viewpoint, grievance or other message. A maximum of 30 minutes is allotted for public comment per meeting.
In an interview, Scott said he believed the changes enhanced transparency and order.
Meeting to feature plans for sidewalk
City employees will present plans for sidewalk construction on Marshall Street from Roosevelt Road to 33rd Street at a public meeting on Jan. 24.
The area is in Ward 1. The meeting will take place at the South End Neighborhood Resource Center at 110 W. 33rd St. and begins at 5:30 p.m.
Representatives from the civil engineering division of the Public Works Department will be there.
Mayor, board pick panel assignments
The mayor and city board have decided which city committees and commissions they will serve on and as liaisons this year.
The appointments, which will end Dec. 31, are as follows:
• Mayor Frank Scott Jr.: Advertising and Promotion Commission; Arkansas Arts Center board of trustees; Historic District Commission; Port Authority; Downtown Little Rock Partnership; Metroplan.
• Vice Mayor B.J. Wyrick: Land Bank Commission; MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History Commission; Oakland and Fraternal Historic Cemetery Board; Rock Region Metropolitan Transit Authority Board.
• City Director Erma Hendrix: Community Housing Advisory Board; Land Bank Commission; Little Rock Housing Authority Board of Commissioners; Municipal Airport Commission; Port Authority; Sustainability Commission.
• City Director Ken Richardson: Housing Authority Board of Commissioners; Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission.
• City Director Kathy Webb: Arts and Culture Commission; Commission on Children, Youth and Families; Midtown Redevelopment District No. 1 Advisory Board; Sustainability Commission; Zoo Board of Governors.
• City Director Capi Peck: Arts and Culture Commission; Central Arkansas Library System board of trustees; Parks and Recreation Commission; Sustainability Commission.
• City Director Lance Hines: MEMS Ambulance Authority; Commission on Children, Youth and Families; Water Reclamation Commission.
• City Director Doris Wright: Americans with Disabilities Act Citizen Grievance Committee; Parks and Recreation Commission; Sister Cities Commission.
• City Director Joan Adcock: Animal Services Advisory Board; Land Bank Commission.
• City Director Gene Fortson: Advertising and Promotion Commission; Central Arkansas Water Commission.
• City Director Dean Kumpuris: City Beautiful Commission; Museum of Discovery board of trustees; River Market District Design Review Committee; Downtown Little Rock Partnership.
Metro on 01/13/2019