The Central Business Improvement District (CBID) of Fort Smith, Arkansas, held a regular board meeting at The Blue Lion, chaired by Matthew Holland. The board approved routine items, received program updates from Main Street Fort Smith and city staff, discussed the Butterfield Trail Monument and Cisterna Park projects, reviewed a board vacancy, and set the next quarterly meeting. Note: the agenda, minutes, and transcript list the meeting date as September 15, 2026, while the provided timestamp indicates September 17, 2026; this summary uses September 17 per instructions.
Okay, I have 9 30, so let's go ahead and call this meeting to order. We'll read the uh attendees again, Phil White, Bill Hannah, Stewart and Matt Holland, Trent Goans, Eric Hartness. Quorum is here. Thank you, Eric. If you look in your agenda, you will see the minutes from the last meeting, August 20th, 2026. Please read through those minutes. If you have any questions or comments, please let me know. Matt, I've read the minutes before the board meeting and uh moved, make a motion to accept. A motion to accept the minutes as presented. Do I have a second? Second. Second. All those in favor of approving the minutes as presented, please say aye. Aye. So moved. All right, the treasurer's report. Uh on the back page here. You can see at this point in time, we are down. A commissioner uh Sam Seacard did resign. He was the treasurer, so uh Mr. Dangman, do you have any comments on our uh treasurer's report? No, the only comment I would make is that the general uh revenues typically, as we've said before, will come in an October-November time frame. So uh that'll that'll change. Um the rest of it really is can is consolidated in the uh operating expenses for the personnel. So I mean even the even the transfer down at the bottom is essentially uh transferred to uh the general fund backstop expenses on personnel dedicated to the downtown area. Matt, I'd like to make a comment on the budget or the the finances here. Um I had a spirited debate with a city director uh talking about the taxes uh that are spent from the CBID, and I would like to make sure and point out that the CBID is not a city tax, it is an assessment of property owners in the district, and I would hope that our city directors would know that, but it appears that they do not all. So I would like to make sure and put it on the record that this is not a city tax. We our funds come from assessments from those that own property within the district, and that is the confines of where the CBID operates is properties and zones that are within the district that is defined by the Central Business Improvement District. Thank you, Commissioner Goens, for that clarification. Do I have a motion to approve the financials as presented to us? So moved. Second. Motion and a second. All those in favor of approving the financials that presented, please say aye. Aye. So moved. All right. I do not see Sarah here, so we'll jump down to I guess Amanda. Morning, Amanda. Good morning. Morning. I know it really does. Um, so I'm Amanda Hager. I'm the executive director of Main Street Fort Smith, where a nonprofit organization that operates to help revitalize our historic city center in downtown. Um we released a biannual impact report. Um, so we're looking at uh reporting from January through the end um of June. Um I sent that to all of you via email. Um it's also posted on our website, mainstreetfs.org for anyone to see. Um so it just gives an update on what our organization has been doing as well as um looking at some impact numbers that are in events that are happening in downtown Fort Smith in general, outside of um just what we do as an organization.