The Springdale City Council convened on May 5, 2026, after a recess from an earlier April 28 session due to a lack of quorum for procedural votes. The meeting included a future land use plan presentation, a series of rezoning and conditional use approvals, sidewalk waiver decisions, an update to the downtown form-based code, and several budget amendments. All votes were unanimous unless noted.
And Councilman Watson will bring the invitation. Let us pray. Our Heavenly Father, we thank you for the spring range that you're blessing us with. We thank you for all of your gifts and your blessings in our community. And we ask that you uh be with all those that are out in the storms tonight and give them uh safety and shelter, be with all those that can't be with us tonight, and uh watch over them, um protect them during their travels. Um Lord we are so thankful for the opportunity to serve you to serve the city of Springdale and to be here tonight for the citizens. Um we ask that you be with us and help us and lead us in our our uh decisions and our actions and uh continue to uh guide us and bless our community in Jesus' name. We pray. Amen. Thank you, Mr. Watson. I'll call this uh April 28th, 2026 meeting in the Springdale City Council to order and ask the city clerk to call the roll. Mayor Sprouse, Brian Powell? Here, Amelia Taldo, Jeff Watson, Mike Overton, here Mike Lawson, here Aaron Huntley, Randall Herman here, Mark Fujirus, Garrett Harlan, Ernest Kate here. Uh we do have a quorum council, but as you can see, the mayor is not here, so I would entertain a motion uh to elect a pro tem to run the meeting. I think Mike Overton should do it. And that's my motion. Thank you. Motion second. All in favor do voice vote. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Mr. Overton, the meeting is yours, sir. Item number four on our uh agenda is uh comments from citizens. This is a time when we reserve comments from our citizens to uh present uh an issue or a question before the council, and uh we ask that it not be something that's already on the agenda. There'll be time for uh uh questions and actions during that time. No action will be taken tonight on any uh any comments. Uh would anyone like any citizen like to make comments I just begin? Uh give us your name and address, please. Uh Richard Coger, 4310 South Thompson. Um I have a bunch of these packets if you guys want them to study later. It's a lot of information, but I just have a brief speech about it. Yeah, you can hand those out if that's okay. Okay, so I'm here tonight with five connected issues. Uh I've already handed out the full written statement. Okay, first off, the federal wireless authority. January 2025, the FCC has eliminated eleven hundred and eight rules, three hundred and twelve pages of federal documents, two thousand forty-eight public comments. The largest mass docket termination in FCC history. They're asserting Section 253 preemption to override local tower sitting authority. The infrastructure being permitted right now is 5G advanced. This includes a new standard called Isaac. Integrated sensing and communication. That turns the towers into sensing instruments. The European standard published a formal use case April 2025, named augmented human sensing. The USPTO has granted and published patents on non-invasive brain reading. And the patent numbers listed on my thing. Anyways, I'm asking the city council to pass a revolution uh resolution reasserting local authority over wireless infrastructure, sitting and objecting to the federal preemptions. And in my packet, it shows you other cities have done it, how to do it to a lot of questions that you guys may have are in the packet.