The Fayetteville City Council held an agenda session on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, to prepare for the upcoming council business meeting. This was a non-voting, non-business meeting focused on reviewing agenda items, hearing staff presentations, and discussing future actions. Topics included consent agenda approvals, unfinished business items, and a preview of the November bond election.
Kiss for a 30. We are gonna get started with the um agenda for the Tuesday. This is Tuesday, October 14th, but we'll be going over to the agenda for next week's council meeting. And just a reminder if we have um uh members of the public here. Um this is not a voting meeting or a business meeting, it is settled stage for next week's council meeting. And we will run through um first and foremost. We will um dive into the consent agenda. So I will read that and then stop after each one if you all can ask questions and we can um hear more about that from the staff. Should you have uh should you like to? A one is approval of document destruction lists, um, a resolution to authorize the destruction of certain documents pursuant to relevant sections of the Arkansas Code related to maintenance and destruction of accounting and other city records. Clark Maxon, would you like to speak to that a little bit? So this is a process that we go through each year, and we include information in your agenda packet that shows the documents that are required your approval before we can destroy as well as well as uh for transparency purposes. We also include the documents that do not require your approval because we want to make sure that we're putting all that information out there. Thanks. God bless council members for witnessing the destruction of the records that require witness year after year after year. No, I can drink my coffee. Take one for the same months. Well, the settings of this job. Thank you. Clark Pyson. A2 is the I-49 and Stephen Cart interchange. It's a resolution to approve task order number 18 with Michael Baker International in the amount of 97,850 for evaluation of alternatives for improvements to the Stephen Carr Memorial Boulevard and I-49 interchange and to approve the related budget adjustments. And I know Chris is here to speak to that one if you have questions. I really appreciate just um a summary of that. Sure. Uh, this interchange, we see a lot of uh traffic backups on uh Mount Comfort Road in the in the morning. So uh looking at ways to improve the efficiency of that interchange. Uh city selected Michael Baker International. Uh there are their national firm, they have a local office. Uh they've been selected, and uh the first phase of the work is uh to study and come up with alternatives, work with RDOT uh to see what we can get permitted uh through their process. Uh and then once that's done, then we'll go through with final design and uh then move forward to construction. Uh, this does have federal aid funding uh through regional planning. Uh so we're paying 20% of the cost uh of this contract. Of course, it's been on the um on the west side or the east side. Um both sides. Yeah, the the biggest problem at that interchange is the the left turn movement of the uh eastbound or southbound left turn getting on to go north. Uh so that's where we see the largest backup. Um so just looking at alternatives to improve that turning movement and uh push more traffic through there. You say left turn south then left turn northbound. Okay, so it'll just be one size side of I-49, they'll be evaluated. Well, they're gonna look at all of that as a system, um, and they'll be looking at uh roundabouts, uh looking at possible additional signal additional lanes, um, and then there are some other kind of more exotic um intersection treatments that that might be used as well. They're gonna look at all the alternatives. They'd be looking at um southbound. The uh well, the the southbound uh the to get the the southbound I-49 that you're talking about, that absolutely will be included in the in the design. We're not gonna leave that out. That's not really the the problem area, uh, but definitely they'll be looking at back up to it's if you want to get on I-49 going south in the morning. It's almost all the way back to local. Sure, yeah. The the the uh the eastbound Mount Comfort traffic is is the problem. Yeah.