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The Texarcana, Arkansas Board of Directors held its regular meeting on October 20, 2025. Assistant Mayor Laney Harris presided in the absence of Mayor Brown. The board addressed a police vehicle purchase, property rezoning, code corrections, and community outreach for a street bond initiative.
I'll be in the order. I guess first item on the agenda is to do the roll call. Director Kruger? Here. Director Jewel. Here. Director Smith. Is absent. Director Roberts? Here. Director Hollibush? Here. Assistant Mayor Harris? Here. And Mayor Brown is absent. Okay, and then the next item would be I was uh would be the firm. Well, you got uh okay, uh prayer and the and the pledge of the legion. The prayer would be done by Director Roberts, and I would do the Pledge of Allegiance. Let us pray. Our Heavenly Father, we come to you tonight and ask for your wisdom and welcome your presence among us. Guide us in our discussions and decisions and help us to come to the right resolution for all the citizens, and that you will always be glorified. In Christ's name we pray. Amen. Amen. I please allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. One nation under God and individual. I normally don't say a cell phone, but you forgot to do it. Would you hold these out to your cell phone? And uh I guess uh the next item is still communication time, but before we really start that, I guess I got uh three questions to ask to the uh city manager. I've been getting a lot of questions about the bridge on Seba Street and Washington Street. What's the status of that and when's when is that gonna get done? I I told the the people who had it some concerns about that to come out to the meeting and also express what I don't see no one here, but it's the bridge on uh C will and wash in the corner of Washington Street. We are still awaiting the the R Dot engineer study. Um there's not much of anything that we can do until that point unless the the city wants to go in and and spend the money to to replace the bridge themselves. Uh you know, we've got a we were approved for a grant to replace that bridge. Unfortunately it didn't last long enough for it to for those funds to come through, but um there's we're still awaiting the the R DOT study um in order to move forward with it. Okay, and uh other issue which uh I'll probably wait uh maybe to the next board meeting let they come and talk about the roof store on uh college or the lack of road store, let them give an update on that. And oh, another thing, housing study. Are you planning on doing a housing study uh what Texas County area Arkansas here? We did a housing study in conjunction with uh the chamber with Texas side, uh the ready group, uh maybe Tex America's too, I'm not sure, but um it wasn't uh a detailed text recant of Arkansas study. Um what I believe you're talking about, what you and I talked about previously was something a little more detailed as to the specific needs. Um it was not budgeted this year. We didn't have the funds to do that. We'll see if we can get it into the budget for 2026, but as of now that that is not budgeted. Okay, all right.