Springdale City Council Meeting - May 12, 2026
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Springdale City Council Meeting - May 12, 2026
The Springdale City Council held its regular meeting on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, at 7:00 PM local time (20:35 UTC). The meeting was called to order by Mayor Sprouse after the pledge and invocation. All council members were present. The council approved the consent agenda items (minutes and procedural motions) unanimously.
Planning Commission Report and Recommendations
Sharon Tromberg, Director of Planning and Community Development, presented four items from the Planning Commission. She noted two corrections: the title of item B should refer to Ingram Street (not Schmeeting Avenue), and item C involves two single-family homes (not one). All items were approved 7-0.
- Item A (Ordinance accepting replat RP 26-05): Combined two commercial lots into one (1.34 acres on Hale Lane) in Hammett EOF Business Center. Planning Commission approved 8-0 with no public comment. The council adopted the ordinance and the emergency clause (7-0).
- Item B (Resolution approving waiver W2610): A waiver of street improvements for 200 feet of a 900-foot frontage on Ingram Street in connection with a non-large scale development (1,200 sq ft office addition to an existing 6,000 sq ft commercial building). The applicant agreed to all improvements in the improved zone. Planning Commission passed 9-0. The council approved the resolution (7-0).
- Item C (Resolution approving waiver W2619): A sidewalk waiver for two single-family dwellings at 323 Cottle Avenue downtown. The planning commission recommended a 5-foot sidewalk with a 6-foot green space, but the city engineer may allow modifications for transitioning to existing sidewalks. Ken Hall, representing the applicant Campus Edge, requested discretion to adjust the green space width near the property edge to tie into the neighbor's existing sidewalk. The council approved the resolution (7-0) with understanding that engineering can work out the transition.
- Item D (Resolution approving waiver W2620): A sidewalk waiver for a single-family dwelling at 3440 Arkansas Highway 112, citing ongoing ARDOT improvements to the highway. Planning Commission recommended approval. The council approved (7-0).
Finance Committee and Recommendations
Councilman Jeff Watson presented three items from the Finance Committee, all recommended for approval and passed 7-0.
- Item 8A (Resolution authorizing property acquisition from Gerardo and Irma Garcia): For the Sunset Avenue Extension and Powell Street Improvement Project (project 23BPS6). The city's estimate was $218,100; the landowners' expert appraised the loss at $56,000 higher. After negotiation, the city agreed to $235,835 (a difference of $17,735, or about $3,300 per parking spot due to conversion of eight private spots to public). Approved 7-0.
- Item 8B (Resolution authorizing property acquisition from Morelli Investments LLC): For the same Sunset Avenue project, adjacent parcel with identical compensation issue. The city negotiated the counteroffer down by 50% from the experts' initial demand. Approved 7-0.
- Item 8C (Resolution creating temporary deputy director of animal services): Due to the resignation of Courtney (effective June 1, 2026), a temporary position was created for a few weeks to train a new director. Maximum budget impact $3,908. The position will be eliminated June 1, 2026. Approved 7-0.
Other Business
- Councilman Randall Herman clarified that the approved options for items B and D were the Planning Commission's recommended option one. For item C, the modified recommendation (5-foot sidewalk with green space) was approved.
- Councilman Brian Powell formally announced his candidacy for reelection for Ward 2, Position 1.
Key Outcomes
- All four Planning Commission items (A, B, C, D) were approved unanimously (7-0) with the noted corrections and modifications.
- All three Finance Committee items (8A, 8B, 8C) were approved unanimously (7-0).
- The council will announce Courtney's replacement for Animal Services within the next week.
- Meeting adjourned without further business.
Meeting Transcript
Like to welcome everyone here tonight. We're just about to start our meeting and call it to order, but before we do, I'd invite you to stand and join me in the pledge, and then uh I'll bring the invocation. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for this opportunity tonight to meet together and to do work for our city. It's important work that you've given us to do, and God we're thankful for that, and we ask that you bless our work tonight, and uh and that good decisions will be made and the decisions that will be made best for for the for our residents. God, we just again ask for you to guide us tonight. We thank we're thankful for the city you give us in which to live, and God, we just uh ask your blessing now on the rest of this evening. We ask it in Jesus' name, amen. All right, I'd like to again welcome everyone here tonight. I'll call to order this regular meeting of the Springdale City Council. This is Tuesday, May 12th, 2026. And we'll start things off with the roll call by City Clerk Saber Jeffers. Mayor Sprouse here, Brian Powell, Emilia Taldo, yeah, Jeff Watson, Mike Overton, here, Mike Lawson, here Aaron Huntley, here Randall Herman here, Mark Foodrews, Garrett Harlan. Here all right, thank you. Item four, comments from our residents. Do we have uh do we have any residents that would like to comment on anything that is not on tonight's agenda? If you do, uh just come on up to the microphone and state your name and address, and please keep your comments to thirty no more than three minutes. Not seeing anyone. All right, we'll move on then to the approval of minutes. Council, do we have a motion to approve as presented if there are no changes or additions? Okay, we have a motion, a second to approve the minutes as presented. All those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed, same sign. All right, we're at item six, procedural motions. What's your pleasure, Council? I move for A and B. All right, we've got a motion and a second for A and B. I'll call for the vote. It carries seven zero. All right, thank you. Item seven, planning commission report and recommendations. Sharon Tromberg, director of planning and community development. She's promised to take it easy on us tonight. You've probably seen what she sent out this morning. I know we all appreciate that, Sharon. And uh it's all yours. Mayor, council. Okay, I'm gonna start off with um a couple corrections that I want to point out for tonight. I forgot my printout of ones, but I have some here. Um the very first one, it's it's item A that we're about to talk about, and it is simply one word in the title. So the all of the resolution is correct except the title. The title says uh Schmeeting Avenue, and it should say Ingram Street. And I have a printout, I forgot my stack to give you guys, but if you wanted to look at it uh more. And the second one is for item C. And the only word change is it goes from a single family home to two single family homes. And I have the that printout if you guys will look at them. So I wanted to address that first and say if these are acceptable to move forward. Okay. So we've when we're ready to entertain motion for those, those they just need to be uh as as amended. Okay, okay. All right.
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