April 16, 2015 MINUTES
WEST MEMPHIS CITY COUNCIL
April 16, 2015
A regular meeting of the West Memphis City Council was held on Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. in the City
Council Chambers at City Hall, 205 S. Redding, West Memphis, Arkansas.
Invocation was given by Reverend David Mosely of First United Methodist Church. Mayor Johnson called the
meeting to order at 1:35p.m. Phillip Para, City Clerk, called the roll. Those present were: Mayor William H.
Johnson, City Attorney David Peeples, City Treasurer Frank Martin and Councilors:Ramona Taylor, Helen Harris,
Willis Mondy, James Holt, Melanie Hutchinson, Lorraine Robinson, Tracy Catt, and James Pulliaum. Absent:
Councilors Marco McClendon and Taz Tyrone. Quorum being present, Mayor Johnson proceeded with the
meeting.
Mayor Johnson welcomed students from Jr. Leadership Group and the West Memphis Christian School and then
turned the floor over to Councilwoman Lorraine Robinson. Councilor Robinson read and gave the group of
students from West Memphis Christian a Certificate of Appreciation for helping with the Keep West Memphis
Beautiful Clean-Up Campaign. Mr. Jeff Tacker from West Memphis Christian School addressed the Council and
said they believed in giving back to the community. Groups from the school have done various acts of kindness
such as visiting nursing homes and helping at the Eighth Street Mission. Today they are picking up trash around
the grounds of City Hall.
BIDS
(1) Bids for the Street Department—One new 6-8 yard dump truck
(2) Bids for the demolition of Mayfair Apartments were opened at 1:00 p.m. and copies of the bid tabulations
were given to the City Council. Councilor Robinson made a motion, seconded by Councilor Pulliaum to
accept the bids and refer the dump truck to the Public Works Committee and the demolition of Mayfair
Apartments to Planning and Development. Upon voice vote, the voting was unanimous. (See attached)
MINUTES
Councilor Catt moved, seconded by Councilor Pulliaum to dispense with the reading of the minutes of
April 2, 2015 City Council meeting and approve them as submitted. Upon voice vote, the voting was unanimous to
approve.
OLD BUSINESS
NEW BUSINESS
R-1 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE DONATION OF 1002 FERGUSON TO THE CITY OF WEST
MEMPHIS FROM WELLS FARGO BANK AND AUTHORIZING WELLS FARGO BANK TO ISSUE A DEED TO
THE CITY FOR SAID PROPERTY
R-2 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE DONATION OF 514 AUBURN TO THE CITY OF WEST MEMPHIS
FROM WELLS FARGO BANK AND AUTHORIZING WELLS FARGO BANK TO ISSUE A DEED TO THE CITY
FOR SAID PROPERTY
Councilor Pulliaum made a motion, seconded by Councilor Robinson to table R-1 and R-2 until the next City
Council meeting. Upon voice vote, the voting was unanimous.
0-1 AN ORDINANCE GRANTING A SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1589
THOMPSON, ALLOWING A 150' CELL TOWER IN AN 1-1 INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
Councilor Pulliaum made a motion, seconded by Councilor Taylor to suspend the rules and read the title only of
0-1. Upon voice vote, the voting was unanimous to approve.
City Attorney Peeples read the Ordinance for the FIRST time.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
AIRPORT COMMISSION - Councilor Robinson reported Airport Engineer Stacey Morris reported that the North
Apron Rehab project should be starting back up any day. A scope of work for the pending Master Plan Update
has been submitted to FAA for review. FAA has asked for comment on their pending decommissioning of Outer
Markers and VOR/DMEs at airports across the country. The Airport Commission asked Airport Manager Lynda
Avery to prepare a letter which will share their concerns. Removal of this equipment should not impact jet traffic
and smaller, piston powered aircraft with GPS equipment, but does add an additional safety level for instrument
approach equipment. The Commission asked that a design, bid and application be expedited to The Department
of Aeronautics for a 90/10 Pavement Improvements Grant.
PERMISSION REQUESTS
Councilor Taylor reported she would like to donate her share of the Charity Day funds from Southland as follows:
$100.00 to Young Life, $100.00 Boy Scouts, $100.00 Main Street, $100.00 MSCC Foundation, $100 Families in
Transition, $100.00 American Legion Girls State, $100.00 CASA, and $36.26 Hope House. Councilor Hutchinson
said she would like to donate her share of the Charity Day funds from Southland to Alpha House in the amount of
$736.27. Councilor Pulliaum made a motion, seconded by Councilor Robinson to approve the disbursements.
Upon voice vote, the voting was unanimous to approve. (All charities have to be a 501-c-3 non-profit organization
before a check is written for the donation.)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Councilor Robinson announced the Keep West Memphis Beautiful Clean-Up Blitz is scheduled for May 2nd from
8:30 until noon. T-shirts will be available for the first to register and lunch will be provided at noon.
Mayor Johnson announced that VDCI started spraying for mosquitos last night. If the truck spraying does not
help, they will bring in the plane for aerial spraying.
Councilor Taylor reported Main Street West Memphis opened a Spring Pop-Up Art Store on Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays in the first block of Missouri. Lunch is available to purchase.
CITIZEN REQUESTS
Rev. Tony Wilson spoke representing Helping Young People Excel (HYPE). Their office is currently at 805 S.
14th. They are a non-profit 501-c-3 organization dedicated to assisting at risk youth and young adults through
structured mentoring, leadership development, faith-based, higher education and extra-curricular activities. He
said he would like to bring this Program to West Memphis and asked the Mayor and City Council to consider
letting them use the building currently being used for the LR Jackson Girls Club. Their web site is
hypeoutreach.com.
Kyle Watkins asked the Mayor and City Council to please help the children on 25th Street at the LR Jackson Girls
Club. He said the baseball field there is still not done and the kids in that area have nowhere to go.
Having no further business to come before the City Council, Mayor Johnson asked the Jr. Leadership"Mayor for
the Day" Kennedy McClanahan to come forward and adjourn the meeting. After a motion, and second, the
meeting adjourned by a majority vote at 2:05 pm.
PASSED and APPROVED this 7th day of May, 2015.
WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, MAYOR
ATTEST
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PHILL P PARA, CITY CLERK
Minutes prepared by Cindy Greenwood, Sr. Deputy City Clerk
BID
Public Works
6-8 YARD DUMP TRUCK
April 16, 2015
TOTAL BID
BIDDER
CROWS TRUCK SERVICE 41 I 4 101 , 512.
CROWS TRUCK SERVICE -2 $ 106, s-19
STRINGFELLOW $ q q , /133
SUMMIT TRUCK GROUP a 6q ,505
CITY OF WEST MEMPHIS
DEMOLITION BID
WM-15-02
Mayfair Apartments
974 McAuley Drive/900 East Barton
Date: April 15„ 2015
Name: Bid Amount
B& W EXCAVATING
P. O. Box 80408
Memphis, TN 38108
(901) 354-2476 $369,500
HULBERT DEVELOPMENT
1326-1 S.Avalon
West Memphis,AR 72301
(870) 735-6553 $543,000
JONES WRECKING
606 East Woodlawn
West Memphis,AR 72301
(901)210-7947
$398,000
ROY'S TRUCKING
70 Stafford Road
West Memphis,AR 72301
(901)218-6632
$148,000
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I-Ielping Young People Excel
Equipping, Educating and Empowering Youth for Destiny
Helping Young People Excel, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization dedicated to assisting at-
risk youth and young adult through structured mentoring,leadership development,faith-based,
higher education and extra-curricular activities. HYPE collaborates with faith-based,
community based, grassroots, government and private partners committed to
developing/implementing empowerment activities to reverse moral, social, economic&mental
deterioration by mobilizing and utilizing all available resources which enable us to provide
education,guidance, support, and personal development within the targeted areas
OUR MISSION
We re-direct, inspire and motivate youth/young adults to become purpose driven individuals.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Our scope of services targets: Crittenden County/The Arkansas Delta.We target youth from
single parents and/or low-income families with a history of welfare dependence, average/low
academic performance ages 5-18 (mentoring program); first time generation high school
students/first-generation college entrants ages 19 &older.
THE PROBLEM
Many youth in our community suffer from: lack of or minimal family support and resources,
high levels of peer pressure,low self-esteem,lack of positive/successful adult role models and
illiterate parents who are unable to assist them through their obstacles.
THE SOLUTION
We promote activities that involve faith-based renewing of the mind concepts; self-discipline;
social-responsibility, cognitive reasoning, sports and recreation development, entrepreneurship,
life skills development and mental health therapy if applicable.
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THE VISION
Helping Young People Excel, Inc. (HYPE) was a vision given to Tony Wilson the
Founder/Executive Director in 2000. HYPE is a community-based organization that was
established and grew out of the outreach ministry of Whole Truth Gospel Church of Faith where
Mr. Wilson once served as associate Pastor. HYPE was designed to help strengthen the family
and structure their lives by providing life skills training, parenting classes,job preparation and
mentoring to poverty stricken individuals and families.
HYPE began its work long before 2000. In 1990 Mr. Wilson was appointed as Youth Pastor of
Whole Truth Gospel Church, Inc. and desired to implement a secular positive environment and
structured activities for the children of Earle,Arkansas. Mr. Wilson began holding youth forums
and workshops developed to allow space and opportunity for the young people to come together
and openly discuss problems they face as well as provide alternative solutions to way they were
dealing with their issues. The program proved to be effective resulting in tremendous growth
and considerable change in the children who attended the program. Although our primary focus
was on young people, our relationships with the children opened the door to their families and
allowed us a more personal examination of their lives.
HYPE then expanded our program to include not just the children but to include their families
and individuals of all ages.
Our founder's perspective? "Our young people are products of their environment; in order
to help them we must change their negative environment to a positive one. If we cannot make a
change in their home life then we must show them how to look beyond their present situation
and see a positive future and show them the way to achieve it in the face of adversity".
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BOARD
1. Tony Wilson, Entrepreneurship Coordinator, MSCC
2. Corey Garrett, Coach-Earle School District
3. Shonnon Sims, Recruiter-AR Army National Guard
4. Vernon Wilson, Coach/Dean of Students-Osceola School District
5. Tekeisha Luckie, Case Manager-Life Strategies
EXISTING AF'I'ERSCHOOI,/SUMMER PROGRAMS
1. Earle Mentoring, Tutoring, Recreation, Basketball
2. Crawfordsville Mentoring, Tutoring, Recreation, Basketball
3. Marion Mentoring, Tutoring, Recreation, Basketball
PROFESSIONAL, REFERENCES
1. Dr. Glen Fenter, Mid-South Community College
2. Sheriff Mike Allen, Crittenden County Sheriff
3. Pastor Eddie Wilson, Whole Truth Gospel Church
4. Milton Nicks, State Representative
CITY OF'WEST MEMPHIS VISION
1. Request 1 year lease of former L.R. Jackson Building/Qtrly. resources
2. Appoint Progressive 3 member Community Advisory Panel
3. Appoint Executive Director for the Center
4. Implement Mentoring/Tutoring/Recreation/Sports Program
5. Issue Quarterly Accountability Report to WM City Council with:
a. Accounting for City issued funds
b. Summary or Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
c. Outcomes of Programs
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