Finance & Administration Council Committee Meeting – September 9, 2025
Finance & Administration Council Committee Meeting – September 9, 2025
The Finance & Administration Council Committee of the City of Jonesboro met on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at 4:00 PM at the Municipal Center. All six members were present except Anthony Coleman (absent). The committee considered one data services renewal resolution and eight municipal lien resolutions, all of which were recommended to the full City Council by unanimous votes (5-0).
Discussion Items
RES-25-112: 5-Year Renewal Agreement with Urban SDK for Speed and Volume Data
The committee reviewed a resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into a five-year renewal agreement with Urban SDK for comprehensive speed and volume data. Engineering Department Director Craig Light explained that the city has had a yearly contract with Urban SDK for the past few years; this is the first five-year agreement. The service uses digital data to track vehicle speeds and volumes, updates a map monthly, and includes analytical software. The city validates the data with its own field counts and finds it to be within the same order of magnitude. The data helps prioritize roadways for physical traffic counting, saving time and equipment. The MPO also holds a separate contract with Urban SDK and uses the city’s data for county purposes. Councilmember David McClain asked about the data collection process and whether Urban SDK makes recommendations; Light confirmed they do not—the data is for internal use only. The committee voted 5-0 to recommend the resolution to the full council.
RES-25-113 through RES-25-120: Municipal Liens for Property Maintenance
Eight resolutions were introduced to place municipal liens on properties where the city performed mowing or other code enforcement actions. The liens ranged from $275 to $315 per property. The properties and owners are:
- 654 W Washington, Michael and Barbara Pearson ($275)
- 700 Melody, Ignacio and Emile Patino ($275)
- 2612 Crawford, Randy & Aley Crawford ($275)
- 4713 Yukon Drive, Rickie Lynn Sims, Jr. ($275)
- 808 1 & 2 Richmond, E&C Investment, LLC ($275)
- 212 Pecan, Sky Park Holding, LLC ($315)
- 215 Pecan, Sky Park Holding, LLC ($315)
- 1313 Pardew Street, Michelle Nutt ($275) No questions or comments were raised on any of these items. Each resolution passed 5-0 on a motion to recommend to the full council.
Public Comments & Testimony
No members of the public provided comments.
Key Outcomes
- All nine resolutions (RES-25-112 through RES-25-120) were recommended to the full City Council by votes of 5-0.
- The meeting was adjourned by a motion from David McClain, seconded by Brian Emison, with a 5-0 vote.
Meeting Transcript
All right, good afternoon, everybody. It's four o'clock. I'm gonna call today's Finance Administration Council Committee meeting to order. Um please record your attendance. Do have a quorum. We'll move into item number three. Approval of the minutes from the finance committee meeting on Tuesday, August 26, 2025. Move to adopt. Motion second. Any comments or questions on the minutes as presented. If not, please record your vote on whether or not to approve the minutes. Move into new business first up resolution 25112. Resolution by the City Council City of Jones for Arkansas authorizing the mayor to enter into a five-year renewal agreement with the urban SDK for comprehensive speed and volume data. Bridge to new contract year, February 2026, $5,341.67. Year one, $16,025. Year two, $16,506. Year three, $17,001. Year four, $17,511. Year five, eighteen thousand thirty-six dollars. Whereas the funding for the execution of the five-year renewal agreement shall come from the engineering department operating budget and compensation shall be paid in accordance with the agreement. Now therefore be resolved by the city council for the city of Jonesville, Arkansas that section one that the City of Johnsville shall accept a five-year renewal agreement with Urban SDK to provide comprehensive speed and volume data. Section two, the funding for the execution of the five-year renewal agreement shall come from the engineering department operating budget and compensation shall be paid in accordance with the agreement. Section three, the mayor and city and the city clerk are hereby authorized by the city council for the city of Jonesboro to execute all documents necessary to effectuate the agreement. Move forward full council. Second. I just have a couple of them, Ms. Chairman. Go ahead. Excuse. So this group STK, they come in and they collect information on speed. Is that correct? And then also what do we do with that information? Is that and how do they work with the I guess this traffic committee? What's the other committee you guys have? Um the size of signs and all that kind of stuff. If they work with the traffic control, that's it. We've actually had a contract with Urban DSD, Urban SDK for the last couple years that the council has approved. Um it's been on a yearly basis. This is the first time that we brought a five-year agreement to you. We've been doing it about once a year coming and asking for approval for this. Um what they do is they they ping digital data to keep track of vehicles moving down the street and how fast they're moving and how many are moving, and and they uh they mine all that data and they populate uh a map for us on a monthly basis. They update it so we can see the the uh vehicles going up and down roadways and the speeds in which they're traveling. They also have some analytical stuff that we're able to use with their software as well. Um we do compare that with actual field counts. Um, so we'll go set our own equipment out occasionally, or actually most of the time. Uh if there's if it's questionable of whether or not how accurate the data is, we'll go set our own out and compare it. And they've been uh the data that we're getting through them and the data we're collecting ourselves are are within the the same order of magnitude. Um so it's it's useful information to us. It keeps us from having to go out and put out counters on roads that we know are below thresholds. Um, you know, if we're if our criteria is 300 to 3,000 vehicles a day and and we count 9,000 vehicles a day on the roadway through urban SDK, we don't have to go out there and set out counters to verify it.
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