The Fayetteville City Council held an agenda session on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, to review items for the regular meeting scheduled for the following Tuesday, May 19, 2026. The session covered a wide range of airport projects, infrastructure grants, a major recycling program launch, development fee updates, zoning appeals, and an economic development quarterly report. Key decisions included authorizing multiple airport contracts and grants, setting the stage for the cart-based recycling rollout, and introducing a new fee structure for development services.
Okay, let's get started with the agenda session. Today is Tuesday, May 12th, and we're going over the agenda for next week, Tuesday, May 19th. Um presentations for next week. Uh we'll start right out of the gate with the consent agenda after the approval of two sets of minutes. We'll go into item A3. Um and these first one, two, three, four, actually, these first five items are all from Jared. So I what I would like to do is read all of them, have him come up and then treat them, speak of them more generally. So item A3 is a resolution to award bid 26-26 and authorize a contract with Emory SAP and Sons Inc. for pavement crack repair at the airport in the amount of 142,393 and 23 cents, and to approve a 10% project contingency. Item A4 is a resolution to approve a memorandum of agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration to authorize continued installation, operation, and maintenance of FAA owned navigational communication and lighting facilities on the airport property. A5, a resolution to authorize an application for an Arkansas Department of Aeronautics grant and the amount of $300,000 to fund 80% of the costs for the terminal apron rehabilitation project. Also, this is one that led to a little bit of confusion in the memos. You will notice it talks a lot about ADA grants at the airport. In this particular instance, that ADA refers to Arkansas Department of Aeronautics, not Americans with Disabilities Acts, as which is what we typically talk about. So to be fair. A6 is a resolution to authorize an application for an Arkansas Department of Aeronautics grant and the amount of 200,000 to fund 90% of the costs for the North General Aviation Apron rehabilitation project at the airport. Those two work in tandem. And then finally from Jared A7, a resolution to authorize Mayor Ron to convey a utility easement, Southwestern Electric forgive me, to convey a utility easement to Southwestern Electric Power Company for the relocation of electrical infrastructure serving the airport terminal. Jared, can you discuss with since you have several coming, what can you kind of give us an overview, please of this? Absolutely. So first of all, I apologize for having this many. And we can't hear you. Do you mind to there you go? Better. That is a little bit better. So I have a lot more than normal tonight. Normally I have one or two. But uh what we have tonight are good. Two ADA grants, which again, Arkansas Department of Aeronautics. Uh those are both for ramp rehab projects. These are existing ramps that we have on the field that they've reached their useful life. They need some uh upkeep. Uh and then we have the SWEPCO utility easement. Uh that one is a hangar project that's already happening. We found some utilities weren't quite where we expected them to be. So SWEPCO has graciously agreed to relocate those, uh, but we do need to update their easement uh out of the way of the current footprint of the hangar. And then the MOA with the FAA, the memorandum of agreement. Uh this is a renewal of a roughly 20-year-old document. Uh it doesn't really have any changes from the previous version. It's just expired and up for renewal, but this allows the FAA to maintain our navigational equipment on the field. Uh we there's no cost to us for that. It provides uh navigational equipment to the flying public. And uh this is just a renewal of that current agreement that gives them access. Thank you, Mayor. So Jared, you said the 20 UL contract is just up for renewal. Have we had legal or you have legal someone to look at it to ensure that some of the verbiage didn't need to be changed or are talking about automation in alignment with 2026? Gotcha. So yes, this went through the standard staff approval process. So it's been through legal. Oh, thank you, Mayor.