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Minutes for the City Council meeting on November 3, 1997
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CITY COUNCIL MINUTES - NOVEMBER 3, 1997
The Jonesboro City Council met Monday, November 3, 1997, at 6:30 p.m. A full quorum was in attendance. Present were: Mayor Brodell, City Clerk, Donna K. Jackson, City Attorney, Phillip Crego and 12 council members. Those members were: Kelton, Rorex, Province, Davis, Tate, Crockett, Rega, Pratt, Young, Fletcher, Bowers, and Roddy.
The minutes of October 20, 1997, were approved as amended, by Councilman Pratt seconded by Councilman Bowers. The minutes were amended under new business to show that Councilman Pratt presented Council with an Attorney General opinion which states a city’s advertising and promotion commission has the ultimate authority to determine the uses of the advertising and promotion tax, without approval by the city council, provided that the chosen use of the tax is one that is authorized by the provisions of A.C.A. 26-75-606, which set forth the permissible uses of the advertising and promotion tax. A voice vote was taken resulting in all council members voting aye. Those members voting aye were: Kelton, Rorex, Province, Davis, Tate, Crockett, Rega, Pratt, Young, Fletcher, Bowers, and Roddy.
Mayor Brodell read the next order of business, a request to address Council regarding Ordinance No. 2787 by a group called, “People For Parks.” Mr. Don Mullinex (a former Councilman) stated Attorney Keith Carle, would address Council on their behalf. Before Mr. Carle began, Councilman Rega made an opening statement, saying the Council as a whole had met on numerous occasions, in public hearings and in council meetings to discuss Ordinance No. 2787, and during that time, neither Mr. Mullenix nor Mr. Carle had attempted to contact him, the Mayor, nor any member of the Planning and Advisory Committee for Parks & Recreation. Councilman Rega continued to say it was an attempt, in this the eleventh (11th) hour, to grand stand in front of the media, under...
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