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On September 29, 2026, the Fayetteville City Council held an agenda session to review items scheduled for the October 6, 2026, council meeting. No votes were taken. The session allowed council members to ask questions, receive staff updates, and discuss upcoming items including consent agenda purchases, pending ordinances, and new proposals. All items are set for formal action at the October 6 meeting.
Council reviewed the following consent calendar items without objection, though several received clarifying questions:
Hi everybody. We will get started with the agenda session. Today's Tuesday, September 29th, and we'll be reading the agenda for next week, which is I believe October 6th. Is that correct? It's not listed on here, so I don't know. Um okay. First up next week, we will have a sales tax and monthly financial report from Stephen Dodson, our chief financial officer. Um and then we will have the consent agenda after approval of the meeting minutes. The first or the item A2 is purchase of expansion dump trucks for the water and sewer department through Bruckner Truck Sales Inc. It's a resolution to approve the purchase of three dump trucks from Bruckner Truck Sales Incorporated in the amount of six hundred twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars pursuant to a Houston Galveston area council cooperative purchasing contract, plus any applicable surcharges, tariffs, freight charges, and delivery fees, and to approve a budget amendment. Both uh Ross and also Aaron from our water and sewer department are here and can answer any questions that you might have about this purchase. And I don't see any. So item A3 is a resolution to approve a budget amendment in the amount of four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars to transfer funds from the shop fund balance to the shop operating budget for the ongoing purchase of city fleet fuel and petroleum-based fluids through the end of 2026. Also, the shop fund is what we also sometimes interchangeably call the fleet fund. Um and Ross is here and can speak to that. Should you have any questions? Or Steven, I suppose also can answer questions about that if you have them. Okay. I will go on to item A4 is a resolution to award bid 26-48 and authorize a contract with ground zero construction inc in the amount of three hundred and fifty-four thousand sixty-seven dollars for construction of the East Cinnamon Way drainage project, and to approve a budget, I'm sorry, and to approve a project contingency in the amount of fifty thousand dollars. Chris and I believe I saw Alan, maybe not, or maybe I dreamed that Chris and Chris and Alan are both here if you should have questions about that project. Ms. Turk. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to make sure it was only a culvert. That's a really expensive culvert replacement, or if there's more uh more additional uh work that's being done under that contract. Thank you for the question. There is a little bit more work, a couple of fairly large inlet boxes and junctions and things like that, and a couple large head walls that are going along with that project. Um it actually did come in about 200,000 below what we had it estimated, so I do feel like we got a pretty good bid on that one. But thank you, Alan. Item A5 is a resolution to authorize an agreement of understanding with the Arkansas Department of Transportation and the Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission for planning, design, and environmental phases of the MLK Boulevard and East Huntsville Road Corridor Project, and to approve a budget adjustment. Um Bob, I know you have questions, and we have Justin Bland, City Engineer here to answer those. Yes, I would love to hear more about this. If you could just give us a general overview, Justin, I know this is something Mr. Councilmember Stafford has been talking about for several years now. So he's excited. Yeah, it's very exciting. Um so yeah, this is the first step to uh to look at this corridor. So this is gonna be MLK and Huntsville, so it'll start on school street and go all the way to Rolling Hills. Or uh not rolling hills.