DECEMBER 2007 VOL. 63, NO.12 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ARKANSAS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE
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DECEMBER 2007 VOL. 63, NO. 12 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ARKANSAS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE
Season’s Greetings! from your Arkansas Municipal League FEATURES Officers and Staff
Longtime League supporter passes 06 After helping the League serve Arkansas’s cities and towns for more than 65 years, Louise Zimmerman, wife of late League Executive Director Glenn G. Zimmerman and mother of current Executive Director Don A. Zimmerman, has died. Several of her long-time colleagues share their memories. ON THE COVER—Fireworks lit the sky above the dome when Little Rock kicked off the Christmas New tax system takes effect season with its annual parade and Arkansas 7 The new Arkansas streamline sales tax becomes effective Capitol lighting ceremony on Dec. 1. When the Jan. 1, 2008. The Department of Finance and Administration holiday celebrations wind down, it’ll be time to outlines the changes that will most impact cities and towns. prepare for a successful 2008 at the League Win - ter Conference, Jan. 9-11 in Little Rock. Register and read the tentative conference schedule inside Cash you can manage beginning on page 12. Read also inside about 8 the new streamline sales tax, The League Cash Current market returns and ease of use are just two of the Management Trust program and more. Enjoy and advantages cities experience participating in the League’s happy holidays!—atm Cash Management Trust, an effective cash management tool.
Conference call DEPARTMENTS 12- The League’s Winter Conference is less than one month away. Animal Corner ...... 24 15 Register and read the tentative schedule inside. Attorney General Opinions ...... 20 Calendar ...... 19 Engineering Perspective ...... 28 Grant Money Matters ...... 34 Health Fund Provider changes ...... 36 League Officers, Advisory Councils ...... 5 Municipal Mart ...... 42 Municipal Notes ...... 18 Obituary ...... 6 Publisher Editor Planning to Succeed ...... 22 Don Zimmerman Ken Wasson Professional Directory ...... 40-41 Communications Coordinator Sales Tax Map ...... 38 Whitnee Bullerwell Sales Tax Receipts ...... 39 Publishing Assistant Managing Editor Debby Wilkins Andrew Morgan Sister Cities International ...... 26 Urban Forestry ...... 30 Here’s where to reach us: Your Health ...... 32 501-374-3484 • FAX 501-374-0541 [email protected] • www.arml.org Cover Photo by Andrew Morgan, League staff
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• eNewsRoom offers online news articles from Arkansas’s municipalities’ dailies. • City & Town isavailable to download in itsentirety in PDF from the Publications page. • Cities of Arkansas local government portal page givesvisitorsa sneakpeek at the quality of life in the municipalities across Arkansas. • Flyout menus provide easier navigation and cut down on search time. • A search engine makes it easy to locate topics, based on specific words. • Legislative Action Center is now home to legislative matters, including a new Legislative Bulletin. t Jus • eCart, order and pay for publications and mailing lists online by Visa or MasterCard. ed! nch lau • Legal Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : Mayor Bobbie Bailey, Alpena ; Mayor Rick Elumbaugh, Batesville ; Mayor Rick Holland, Benton ; Mayor Tim McKinney, Berryville ; Mayor L.M. Duncan, Bono ; Mayor Arkansas Municipal Larry Mitchell, Bryant ; Mayor Chris Claybaker, Camden ; Mayor Dan Coody, Fayetteville ; City Director Gary Campbell, Fort Smith ; City Manager Kent Myers, Hot Springs ; Councilmember Kenny League Officers Elliott, Jacksonville ; Councilmember Joe Gies, Lakeview ; Mayor Steve Northcutt, Malvern ; Mayor Mike Gaskill, Paragould President Mayor Robert Taylor, Marianna ; Mayor Frank Mayor JoAnne Bush, Lake Village First Vice President Fogleman, Marion ; Mayor Betty Feller, Mulberry ; Mayor James Valley, Helena-West Helena Vice President, District No. 1 Mayor Gerald Morris, Piggott ; Mayor Carl Redus, Pine Bluff ; Mayor Howard Taylor, Prescott ; Mayor Mayor Mark Stodola, Little Rock Vice President, District No. 2 Belinda LaForce, Searcy ; Mayor Jerre Van Hoose, Mayor Jackie Crabtree, Pea Ridge Vice President, District No. 3 Springdale ; City Clerk Patti Scott Grey, Texarkana ; Councilmember Dorothy Henderson, Mayor James Morgan, White Hall Vice President, District No. 4 Warren ; Mayor Paul Nichols, Wynne . Don A. Zimmerman Executive Director ADVISORY COUNCILS PAST PRESIDENTS : Mayor Tab Townsell, Conway ; Councilmember Bay ; Recorder/Treasurer Janice Hanson, Garland ; Councilmember Larry Combs, El Dorado ; Mayor Tommy Swaim, Jacksonville ; Jeff Braim, Gassville ; Councilmember Verlin Price, Glenwood ; Mayor Mayor Patrick Henry Hays, North Little Rock ; Mayor Robert Patrick, Ed C. Hardin III, Grady ; Mayor Lionel Johnson, Hampton ; St. Charles ; Mayor Gene Yarbrough, Star City . Councilmember Rose Marie Wilkinson, Haskell ; Mayor Jerome Norwood, Highland ; Mayor Randy Holland, Mayflower ; LARGE FIRST CLASS CITIES : Mayor David Osmon, Mountain Recorder/Treasurer Bobby Brown, McDougal ; Mayor Robert Sullivan, Home , Chair; City Director James Calhoun, Arkadelphia ; McRae ; Mayor Mike Cone, Melbourne ; Mayor Jim Reeves, Councilmember Chris Sooter, Bentonville ; Mayor Eddie J. Williams, Councilmember Don Sappington, Norfork ; Mayor Becky Dunn, Cabot ; Councilmember Phillip Gordon, Camden ; Mayor Mike Dumas, Palestine ; Planning Commissioner Dan Long, Rockport ; Mayor Bobby Councilmember Dianne Hammond, El Dorado ; Mayor Pat Moles, Neal, Smackover ; Mayor Ian Ouei, Stamps ; Mayor Rodney Harrison ; Councilmember Trece Shepherd-Williams, Helena-West Williams, Waldo ; Mayor Lorraine Smith, Wrightsville . Helena ; Human Resources Director Charlotte Bradley, Hope Water & Light ; Councilmembers Bill Howard, Kevin McCleary, Reedie Ray INCORPORATED TOWNS : Mayor Stanley Morris, Menifee , Chair; and Bob Stroud, Jacksonville ; Intergovernmental Affairs Manager Mayor Leroy C. Wright Sr., Anthonyville ; Councilmember George Odies Wilson III, Little Rock ; Councilmember James Moore, Hallman, Ben Lomond ; Mayor Larry Myrick, Delaplaine ; Magnolia ; Mayor Michael Watson, City Clerk Joshua Clausen, Councilmember John Pfeneger, Fountain Lake ; Mayor Laura Maumelle ; Mayor Joe Rogers, Monticello ; City Clerk Diane Hamilton, Garfield ; Mayor Randall Homsley, Higginson ; Mayor Whitbey, Treasurer Mary Ruth Morgan, North Little Rock ; Jimmie Lou Nuessner, Lead Hill ; Mayor Don Sikes, Maynard ; Mayor Councilmembers Randal Crouch and Bill Eaton, Russellville ; Marion Hoosier, McCaskill ; Councilmember Margarette Oliver, Clerk/Treasurer Tammy Gowen, Councilmember Dale English, Searcy ; Menifee ; Mayor Anne Armstrong, Mount Vernon ; Recorder/ Mayor Virginia Hillman, Councilmembers Marina Brooks and Lex Treasurer Naomi Mitchell, St. Charles ; Mayor Charles Miller, “Butch” Davis, Sherwood ; Mayor M.L. Van Poucke Jr., City Clerk Councilmember Hazel McGhee, Tollette . Peggy Woody, Siloam Springs ; Clerk/Treasurer Mitri Greenhill, PUBLIC SAFETY : Mayor Scott McCormick, Crossett , Chair; Finance Officer Jane Jackson, Stuttgart ; Mayor Bob Freeman, Councilmember Larry Hall, Bay ; Mayor Frank Anderson, Bella Vista ; Councilmember Kevin Johnson, Van Buren . Fire Chief Ben Blankenship, Police Chief Gary Sipes, Benton ; Financial FIRST CLASS CITIES : Clerk/Treasurer Regina Walker, Mena , Chair; Director Marilyn Payne, Bryant ; Clerk/Treasurer Marva Verkler, Councilmember Shirley Jackson, Ashdown ; Clerk/Treasurer Carol Cabot ; Mayor Allan Dillavou, Councilmember Willard Thomason, Crump-Westergren, Councilmember Tracy Lightfoot, Beebe ; Caddo Valley ; Councilmember Marshall Smith, Police Chief Robert Clerk/Treasurer Jean Lee, Councilmember Ralph Lee, Bono ; Mayor Baker, Jacksonville ; City Clerk Lynette Graham, Lake Village ; Barbara Skouras, Brinkley ; Mayor Lloyd Hefley, Cherokee Village ; Clerk/Treasurer Janette Lasater, Lowell ; Fire Chief Keith Frazier, Mayor Billy Helms, Clerk/Treasurer Barbara Blackard, Councilmember Malvern ; Fire Chief John Puckett Sr., Mena ; Police Chief Larry Yates, J.G. “Dutch” Houston, Clarksville ; Mayor Dewayne Phelan, Nashville ; Mayor Gary Crocker, Pocahontas ; Mayor Jerry Duvall, Councilmember Steve Weston, Corning ; Councilmember Candace Police Chief Blake Herren, Pottsville ; Councilmember Robert Wiley, Jeffress, Crossett ; Clerk/Treasurer Donna Jones, DeQueen ; Russellville ; Councilmember Sheila Sulcer, Sherwood ; Councilmember Gwendolyn Stephenson, Dermott ; Mayor Aubrey Councilmember David McCoy, Star City ; Mayor Marianne Maynard, McGhee, DeWitt ; Mayor Marion Gill, Councilmember Taylor C. Pickett, Stuttgart . Dumas ; Mayor Danny Maynard Sr., England ; Mayor Ernie L. Penn, MUNICIPAL HEALTH BENEFIT FUND BOARD OF TRUSTEES : Farmington ; Mayor Kenneth Edwards, Greenwood ; Mayor Jackie Mayor Barrett Harrison, Blytheville , District 1; Finance Director Bob McPherson, Heber Springs ; Mayor Donald Roberts, Hoxie ; Sisson, North Little Rock , District 2; Clerk/Treasurer Barbie Curtis, Clerk/Treasurer Linda Simpson, Lake City ; City Clerk Billie Uzzell, Van Buren , District 3; Mayor Chuck Hollingshead, Arkadelphia , Lonoke ; Mayor Dixon Chandler, Marked Tree ; Councilmember James District 4; vacant, At-Large Member. Turner, Mena ; Mayor Mike Reese, Councilmembers Jackie Harwell and WORKERS’ COMPENSATION TRUST BOARD OF TRUSTEES : Vivian Wright, Nashville ; Clerk/Treasurer Linda Treadway, Newport ; Mayor William Johnson, West Memphis , District 1; Councilmember Mayor Vernon McDaniel, Ozark ; Mayor Bill Elsken, Paris ; Mayor Murry Witcher, North Little Rock , District 2; City Attorney Howard Charles E. Patterson, Parkin ; Mayor Sonny Hudson, Prairie Grove ; Cain, Huntsville , District 3; Group Manager Mayor Lane Jean, Mayor Randy Butler, Waldron ; Mayor Michelle Rogers, Walnut Magnolia , District 4; Mayor Doug Formon, Jonesboro , At-Large Ridge ; Mayor Art Brooke, City Clerk John Barclay, Councilmembers Member. Ginger Tarno and Glen Walden, Ward ; Treasurer Bertia Mae Lassiter, Warren ; Clerk/Treasurer Paula Caudle, West Fork . CASH/PENSION MANAGEMENT TRUST BOARD OF TRUSTEES : Finance Director Bob Sisson, North Little Rock , Chair; Finance Director SECOND CLASS CITIES : Recorder/Treasurer Carolyn Willett, John Walden, Benton , Vice Chair; Mayor Gordon Hennington, Smackover , Chair; Mayor Veronica Post, Councilmember Mary Hamburg ; Recorder/Treasurer Mary Ruth Wiles, Highland ; Finance Darter, Altus ; Mayor Fred Jack, Bethel Heights ; Mayor Kenneth Director Bob Biles, Police Sgt. (Ret.) Lee Harrod, Little Rock ; Mayor Jones, Brookland ; Recorder/Treasurer Sarah Roberts, Caddo Larance Davis, Shannon Hills ; Mayor Virginia Hillman, Sherwood ; Valley ; Mayor Barry Riley, Caraway ; Mayor Danny Armstrong, Mayor Horace Shipp, Texarkana . Councilmembers Richard Harris and Linda Harrison, Cedarville ; Mayor Jack Ladyman, Elkins ; Councilmember Arthur Deller, Fairfield
DECEMBER 2007 5 At left, Louise Zimmerman, center, at the 70th League Convention in 2004, with Sara and Martin Gipson, former North Little Rock alderman and past League President. At right, at the League’s 53rd Convention, 1987.
In Memory Louise Moorman Zimmerman 1915-2007
Louise Moorman Zimmerman, age 91, of Little Rock, League Assistant Director Ken Wasson said, adding that passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007, at St. she was rightfully proud of her family’s long history and Vincent’s Hospital surrounded by her family. association with the League. She was born on Dec. 7, 1915, in Helena to Beulah “Mrs. Zimmerman was the very essence of a Southern and Louis A. Moorman. Her family moved in 1917 to lady—always well-dressed, well-mannered, well-spoken, Little Rock, where she graduated from Little Rock High with a compliment for everyone she came in contact School (now Central High), Little Rock Junior College with,” Wasson said. “We considered her the grandmother and Draughon’s Business College. She then worked of the League, and she will certainly be missed.” at the Employment Security Division and as a social Lake Village Mayor and League First Vice President worker. She was a member of the First United Methodist JoAnne Bush was a timid, 19-year-old city clerk when she Church in North Little Rock from 1938 until transferring first met Mrs. Zimmerman at the 1972 League Conven - her membership to Second Presbyterian Church upon tion. She had a way of putting you at ease, Bush said. moving to Little Rock a few years ago. “She’d say ‘you’re doing fine, honey, you just gotta She was the longest serving Arkansas Arts Center stick with it, ’” Bush said. “I would always make a point volunteer, having started in 1974 working in the museum to visit with her because she was a very unique lady. She shop. She was a life member of the United Methodist always struck me as so giving.” Women and state PTA. She served as president of the She was as much a part of the League as her husband North Little Rock Boy’s Club Auxiliary for two years and and son. chairman of the Membership Committee for 15 years. “She loved what her husband did and loved what Don She first attended a League convention in 1940, the did, because she loved it herself,” Bush said. year her husband, Glenn G. Zimmerman, was first elected Louise was preceded in death by her parents; her to be city attorney of North Little Rock. She attended 65 husband, Glenn G. Zimmerman; daughter, Glenda annual League meetings while her husband and son served Zimmerman; and sister, Kathleen Donovan. She is the organization. survived by her brother, Luke Moorman and his wife Nancy Sheehan, who worked 29 years at the League Carolyn; son, Don Zimmerman and his wife Jan; grand - doing “a little bit of everything” before retiring in 2000 as daughter, G.G. Millard and husband Chad, all of Little deputy director, recalls Mrs. Zimmerman treating the staff Rock. Also surviving are step granddaughter, Lea May and just like family. husband Chris of Philadelphia; step grandson, Bo Brister “We just felt like she really cared for us,” Sheehan and his wife Heather; niece, Colleen Moorman; nephews, said. “She brought us casseroles and things like that. We Sean Moorman of Little Rock, and Kevin Donovan; and just felt like we were all family.” nieces, Julie Desecker and Ellen Donovan, all of California. “I loved to hear her describe how she and others Any memorial donations can be sent to the Arkansas prepared for and conducted League conventions long Arts Center or the Arkansas Municipal League to be used before there were computers, e-mails and blast faxes,” for city and town park assistance. Streamline sales tax takes off
rkansas’s new streamline sales tax sys - ered by an employee to Little Rock collects tem, which has been in development by Little Rock taxes. the state Department of Finance and Ad - • Example 5—Out-of-state delivery: Arkansas ministration (DFA) since 2000, goes into goods purchased and delivered out of state Aeffect Jan. 1, 2008. The system is designed to do not collect Arkansas sales tax. For exam - “even the playing field” by making it easier to col - ple, if a Fayetteville business sells and deliv - lect sales and use tax on goods and services, espe - ers restaurant equipment to Tulsa, no cially those provided by out-of-state sellers and Arkansas sales tax is due. However, the Internet sales. Arkansas business may be required to collect Though many of the changes in state sales and and remit Oklahoma sales tax. Contact the use tax law may go unnoticed by most, the biggest out-of-state taxing authority to determine how change municipalities will experience is a shift to its tax laws may apply. destination-based taxing of goods and services. They have been taxed at the point of sale until now. Taxable services performed in Arkansas The following guide, provided by the DFA, State and local sales and use tax for taxable reviews some of the changes impacting cities services will be collected based on where the and towns. customer receives the service. In most cases, the customer will pay tax on taxable services based Delivering merchandise to customers on where the business is located, but there are Retail sales of goods delivered to a customer exceptions. will be charged state, county and city sales tax • Example 1—Customer picks up repaired item based on where the purchaser takes receipt at store location: If an auto repair shop in or delivery. Jacksonville fixes a motor and the customer • Example 1—In-store sales: For goods and picks up the motor at the shop, Jacksonville services purchased at the store, local taxes local sales and use tax applies. are based on the location of the store. This • Example 2—Repaired item delivered to does not represent a change in state tax law. the customer: If the motor repaired by the • Example 2—Delivery by company truck: For Jacksonville shop is shipped to the customer goods purchased and then delivered, sales in Conway, Conway’s local, county and state tax is charged based on the destination. For taxes apply. example, if furniture from a Little Rock retailer • Example 3—Taxable service performed at is delivered to Sherwood, state, county and customer location: If a Pine Bluff landscaping local sales tax for Sherwood applies. company performs a landscaping job in • Example 3—Delivery by mail or other carrier: Monticello, Monticello taxes apply. This does For goods purchased and delivered by mail not represent a change in state tax law. or other carrier, sales tax is charged based • Example 4—Taxable service performed for on the destination. For example, if an auto out-of-state customer: If a West Memphis part from a Cabot store is mailed to Jones - office repair business repairs equipment boro, state, county and local sales tax for and ships it to the customer in Nashville, Jonesboro applies. no Arkansas tax is collected. However, • Example 4—Delivery by company personnel: Tennessee taxes may apply. Contact the out- Again, sales tax is destination based. Pizza from a North Little Rock restaurant and deliv - (see Streamline , page 35)
DECEMBER 2007 7 CMT offers simplicity, safety and current market returns The League’s Cash Management Trust program offers cities and towns an effective, easy cash management tool that provides current market returns.
By Paul Young
or more than 10 years, the Arkansas Local Gov - ticular bank’s demand for deposits. ernment Cash Management Trust (CMT) has pro - Cities may want to use local banks that support vided cities and towns in Arkansas an effective their communities as a place to deposit or invest funds. cash management tool that is very easy to use However, with an investment alternative like the CMT, Fand can assure that available cash funds are invested a city has the means to achieve an appropriate rate of at a current market interest rate. The funds are avail - return for public funds. able upon request for regular monthly expenditures or Benton recently established several CMT accounts can be transferred when appropriate to other invest - for various city funds. “The CMT offers the City of Ben - ment vehicles such as bank ton an attractive cash man - certificates of deposit. agement tool with Arkansas law permits professional investment man - turnback funds received from agement,” Benton Finance the state to be deposited di - Director John Walden said. rectly to the CMT. Direct de - “The CMT can take advan - posit means that funds are tage of more investment op - immediately put to work in tions and greater flexibility an interest-bearing account than cities have on their without further transfer. Funds own.” Walden also serves on deposit in the CMT can easily be withdrawn by as a member of the CMT Board of Trustees, which check or wire transfer. Cities can use the CMT as a monitors the CMT. cash management tool by depositing funds when re - The CMT operates like a money market fund and ceived at the beginning of the month and withdrawing offers investment safety by investing in high-quality in - or transferring funds as needed during the month. vestments authorized by law with a very short maturity. One of the most important benefits of the CMT is Obligations of U.S. government-sponsored agencies the availability of a market-based rate of return. As il - are the most common investment vehicles. Such agen - lustrated by the graph, the average daily interest rate cies include the Federal National Mortgage Associa - paid by the CMT during 2007 has been 4.79 percent tion (Fannie Mae), Federal Farm Credit Bank and versus 4.65 percent for the one month U.S. Treasury Federal Home Loan Bank. While not U.S. government bill. The current return paid by the CMT is available guaranteed, they are considered to have the implied on the League’s Web site, www.arml.org, and is up - backing of the U.S. government. Maturities are no dated weekly. longer than 30-60 days and typically less than 30 The CMT rate of return will adjust as market inter - days in order to offer the investment liquidity provided est rates change but should always be a competitive by the CMT. The CMT also uses commercial paper rate when compared to similar alternatives. The inter - with similar maturity terms issued by the highest rated est rate on account balances went up as the Federal corporate entities. Reserve increased short-term interest rates a couple of For more information about the CMT, contact Paul years ago and has declined in the past few months as Young at 501-374-3484, Ext. 125, or Lori Sander at the Fed has begun to reduce rates. In any event, you Ext. 238. We would be happy to meet with you or can always be assured that your funds are receiving your city council or board to discuss the CMT and an acceptable rate of return based on current market assist with the process of opening an account. conditions as opposed to what is determined by a par - Paul Young is League Finance Director. 8 CITY & TOWN Employer-provided cell phones are taxable fringe benefits To help municipal employers comply with tax laws governing taxable fringe benefits, the IRS offers tips on monitoring and reporting personal use of employer-provided cellular telephones.
By Jan F. Germany
fringe benefit is defined as something the employer has to match the taxes. of value provided in connection with the • Have a policy of “no personal use” on performance of a service. Generally, any employer-provided cell phones and monitor fringe benefit provided by an employer the statements periodically to verify that em - Ais taxable and includible in the recipient’s wages ployees are not using the phones for personal unless law specifically excludes it. use. This would not be taxable to the employ - Cellular telephones are listed property as ees and requires no reporting on the W-2s or defined by Internal Revenue Code §280F(d)(4). withholding. As listed property, their usage is subject to the sub - • Provide statements to all employees with stantiation requirements of the amount, time, place employer-provided cell phones showing their and business purpose per Internal Revenue Code monthly calls (vendor statement). If the bill is §274(d)(4). structured as cents-per-call and there is a Is personal use of employer-provided cellular monthly fee, each employee identifies their phones taxable? Yes, personal use is taxable unless personal calls and reimburses the employer the employees account for their personal use and for the fair market value (unit cost) of the min - either reimburse their employer for the personal use, utes that were personal and also pays a pro- or the employer includes this personal use in the rated portion of the monthly fee (personal employees’ wages subject to the applicable employ - minutes divided by total minutes times monthly ment taxes with employer matching reportable on fee). Otherwise, employ the pro-rated portion Form W-2. of the monthly fee only. Thus, the employer To comply with the correct reporting/non-report - accounts for personal use and is reimbursed, ing of personal use, here are a few suggestions: so no reporting is necessary. • The employer can pay a flat allowance to the For more information see the Taxable Fringe employee each month to cover the cost of busi - Benefits Guide available for download on the ness calls placed on the employee’s personal IRS Web site, www.irs.gov, e-mail cell phone. The flat allowance is included in [email protected], or call 501-396-5816. wages and subject to the applicable employ - ment taxes. No accounting for personal use is Jan F. Germany is FSLG Specialist, Office thereby needed by the employer. Limited ad - of Federal, State and Local Governments, ministration is required by the employer, but Internal Revenue Service
DECEMBER 2007 9 Advertise in the 2008 Directory The Arkansas Municipal League Directory reaches municipal officials and many more. The Directory is a working reference of state and federal agencies, legislators, city and town elected and appointed officials, munici - pal department heads and others. It is a one- stop information guide to all of Arkansas’s 500 incorporated cities and towns. • Published in early 2008 • More than 1,200 copies distributed • 100-110 pages Ad sizes and rates • Inside front cover — $3,000 • Inside back cover — $2,500 • Back cover — $3,500 • Full page — $1,500 • Half page — $1,000 • Quarter page — $500 • Eighth page — $250 Advertising deadline is Dec. 31, 2007 . 20% discount for City & Town advertisers!
For more information, contact Debby Wilkins at 501-374-3484, ext. 138, or E-mail [email protected]. Want the latest information? Are you a member of the Arkansas Municipal League? Subscribe to our list servs and be automatically notified of pertinent municipal information. How do I subscribe? Step 1: Choose the lists from which you would like to receive information. Discussion lists: J Mayors/City Managers J Clerks/Recorders/Treasurers J City Attorneys Announcement lists (choose all that apply): J General J Arkansas City Management Association J Fire Chiefs J Police Chiefs J Legislative Advocacy J Loss Control J Meetings J Technology J Municipal Health Benefit Fund J Municipal League Workers’ Compensation Trust J Municipal Vehicle Program/Municipal Property Program Step 2: Subscribe to the list servs by using one of the following options: Option A: Visit www.arml.org and click on the Discussion List and Announcement List links. Option B: Complete Step 3 and fax to 501-374-0541, attn: Whitnee Bullerwell. Option C: Complete Step 3 and mail to Arkansas Municipal League, attn: Whitnee Bullerwell, P.O. Box 38, North Little Rock, AR 72115.
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DECEMBER 2007 11 WINTER CONFERENCE Peabody Hotel January 9-11, 2008
Registration fee after Dec. 14, 2007 , and on-site registration for municipal officials ...... $125 Spouse/guest registration ...... $50 N Child registration ...... $50 O
I Other registrants ...... $150
T WEDNESDAY NIGHT BANQUET ONLY ...... $25
A • Registration will be processed ONLY with accompanying payment in full. R Make checks payable to the Arkansas Municipal League. T • Registration includes meals, activities and copies of Handbook for Arkansas Municipal S Officials, 2007-’08 edition . I • No daily registration is available. G • Registration must come through the League office. No telephone registrations will be accepted. E • No refunds after Dec. 14, 2007 . R • Cancellation letters must be postmarked by Dec. 14, 2007 .
To set up direct billing, contact hotel accounting offices. Capital Hotel—501-374-7474 Doubletree Hotel—501-372-4371 Wyndham Hotel—501-371-9000
Peabody Hotel (headquarters hotel) G Single/ Double ...... $114 Check-in ...... 3 p.m.
N Capital Hotel
I Single ...... $179
S Double ...... $199 Check-in ...... 3 p.m. Doubletree Hotel U Single/ Double ...... $105 Check-in ...... 3 p.m.
O Wyndham Hotel Single/ Double ...... $89 Check-in ...... 3 p.m. H
• Cut-off date for hotel reservations is Dec. 14, 2007 . • Rooms in Little Rock are subject to an 11.5 percent tax; in North Little Rock a 14 percent tax. • If your first choice and second choice are unavailable, the Housing Bureau will assign you to an available facility. • Rooms will be held until 6 p.m. and then released unless guaranteed by credit card. • Contact the Housing Bureau at 501-376-4781 (9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. M-F) to make changes or cancellations in hotel accommodations until Dec. 14, 2007 . Contact the hotel after that date. • Hotel confirmation number will come directly from the hotel. TWO WAYS TO REGISTER Complete the steps and mail with payment to: 2 ARKANSAS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE Attn: 2008 Winter Conference Register online at www.arml.org OR P.O. Box 38 1 and pay by credit card. North Little Rock, AR 72115-0038 Step 1: Delegate Information Name: Title: City of: Address: City: State: Zip: Telephone: Spouse/Guest will attend: Yes No Name: Children will attend: Yes No Name(s):
Step 2: Payment Information • W HAT IS YOUR TOTAL ? (see opposite page for fees) Regular Registration Spouse/Guest Child Other Registrants Total $125 $50 $50 $150 $ • HOW ARE YOU PAYING ? Check Mail payment and form to: Arkansas Municipal League 2008 Winter Conference P.O. Box 38 North Little Rock, AR 72114 Credit Card Complete information below and send to address above. Credit Card: Visa MasterCard Card Number: _ _ _ _ — _ _ _ _ — _ _ _ _ — _ _ _ _ Exp. Date: _ _ /200_ Card Holder Name ( as it appears on card ): Billing address ( as it appears on statement ): City: State: Zip: E-mail address (required for credit card payment):
Step 3: Housing Reservation Request Make my hotel reservation as indicated below. I prefer a SMOKING room (if available). I do not require hotel reservations. I need information for handicapped accessibility. Arrival Date: 01 / _ _ / 2008 Time: 3 p.m. Departure Date: 01 / _ _ / 2008 Time: Hotel Choices: First choice: Second choice: Type of Accommodations: 1 bed 2 beds List all people staying in room (include yourself):
Step 4: Housing Payment Payment Options: Credit Card Direct Bill Note: only two payment options. Direct bill my city. (The Peabody does NOT accept direct billing. Otherwise, contact hotel to set up an account.) Use my credit card to obtain/guarantee my reservations. Credit Card: Visa MasterCard Discover AM EX Card Number: ______— ______— ______— ______Exp. Date: _ _ /200_ Card Holder Name (as it appears on card): 2008 WINTTenEtaRtive Program CONFERENCE Wednesday, January 9 Thursday, January 10
2:00 P.M. REGISTRATION ...... Osage Room 7:15 A.M. REGISTRATION OPENS ...... Osage Room, SCC to 7:00 P.M. Statehouse Convention Center(SCC) to 5:00 P.M.
2:00 P.M. VISIT WITH STATE AGENCIES ...... Exhibit Center 7:30 A.M. VISIT WITH STATE AGENCIES ...... Exhibit Center to 6:15 P.M. State agencies have been invited to set up ...... Governor’s Hall II to 4:30 P.M...... Governor’s Hall II in this area. Take time to visit with them about how they might best assist your city. 7:30 A.M. HOST CITY BREAKFAST BUFFET ...... Exhibit Center to 8:45 A.M. Enjoy a traditional Arkansas breakfast before ...... Governor’s Hall II 2:00 p.m. MLWCT Board of Trustees ...... Manning Room the Opening Session...... Peabody Hotel 9:00 a.m. OPENING GENERAL SESSION ...... Governor’s Hall I 4:00 P.M. GENERAL SESSION ...... Governor’s Hall I to 10:15 A.M. Presiding: Mayor Mike Gaskill, Paragould to 5:30 P.M. Governmental Agencies: How They Can Help Presiding: President, Arkansas Municipal League A panel of governmental agencies explains funding sources and assistance programs available to municipalities. ADDRESS OF WELCOME : Mayor Mark Stodola, City of Little Rock Speaker: Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, State of Arkansas Presiding: Mayor Mike Gaskill, Paragould Presiding: President, Arkansas Municipal League 10:15 A.M. BREAK ...... Exhibit Center Speakers: Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department to 10:30 A.M...... Governor’s Hall II Speakers: Arkansas Urban Forestry Council
Speakers: Arkansas Department of Correctional Industries 10:30 A.M. GENERAL SESSION, CONT’D...... Governor’s Hall I Speakers: Arkansas Department of Economic Development to 12:00 P.M. Proposed Constitutional Amendments Speakers: Arkansas Department of Rural Services and Issues Before the Voters Speakers: Arkansas Department of Aeronautics Speakers: Arkansas Federal Surplus Property Moderator: Mayor Mike Gaskill, Paragould Speakers: Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration Moderator: President, Arkansas Municipal League Speakers: Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism Annual Sessions Speakers: Arkansas Natural Resources Commission Speaker: State Rep. Eric Harris, District 94 Speakers: The Grant Book Company Speakers: Legacy Consulting Lottery Speakers: Arkansas Broadband Advisory Council Speaker: Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter, State of Arkansas Speakers: (all invited) Water Bonds Speaker: Randy Young, Director, Natural Resources Commission 5:45 P.M. TOPICS OF INTEREST to 6:45 P.M. Presiding: Mayor Mike Gaskill, Paragould 12:15 P.M. VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY OF THE YEAR ...... Peabody Ballroom Presiding: President, Arkansas Municipal League AWARDS LUNCHEON Speakers: Benefit Bank of Arkansas Presiding: Mayor Mike Gaskill, Paragould Speakers: Federal Emergency Management Association Presiding: President, Arkansas Municipal League Speakers: Arkansas Department of Emergency Management Speakers: 211 Program Speaker: Governor Mike Beebe, State of Arkansas
7:00 P.M. OPENING NIGHT BANQUET ...... Peabody Ballroom 2:00 P.M. GENERAL SESSION ...... Governor’s Hall I Main Street Awards Presentation to 2:45 P.M. Timely Topics of Municipal Interest The General Assembly has enacted changes for 2008 in the Presiding: Mayor Mike Gaskill, Paragould application and administration of the local sales tax. The Presiding: President, Arkansas Municipal League Department of Finance and Administration will explain Featured Speaker: U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor and answer questions. Presiding: Mayor JoAnne Bush, Lake Village 8:30 P.M. PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION ...... Peabody Hotel Balcony Presiding: First Vice President, Arkansas Municipal League After the Main Street Awards Banquet, stroll to the Peabody balcony area and enjoy delicious desserts Moderator: Executive Director Don Zimmerman and a variety of beverages while visiting. Moderator: Arkansas Municipal League
14 CITY & TOWN The New Streamline Sales Tax Running for Local Offices Speaker: Excise Tax Administrator Tom Atchley Speaker: Mark Hayes, Arkansas Municipal League General Counsel Speaker: Department of Finance and Administration Consider the Legislature 2:45 P.M. BREAK ...... Exhibit Center Speakers: State Rep. Tommy Baker, District 55, to 3:00 P.M...... Governor’s Hall II Speakers: former councilmember of Osceola Speakers: State Sen. Jack Critcher, District 12 3:00 P.M. GENERAL SESSION, CONT’D...... Governor’s Hall I Speakers: former mayor of Grubbs to 5:00 P.M. Speakers: State Rep. George Overbey Jr., District 69, Don Zimmerman and other members of the League Staff will discuss Speakers: former mayor of Lamar and update officials on current topics of municipal interest such as: Speakers: State Rep. Gregg Reep, District 8 Statewide Tauma Centers and Their Impact, County Jails and City Speakers: former mayor of Warren Prisoners, The Significance of Annexation, Rural Water Growth and Its Impact on Municipalities, What Is OPEB?, The Benefits 11:45 A.M. CLOSING REMARKS of a Statewide Severance Tax, Outside Employment for Uniformed Mayor Mike Gaskill, Paragould Police and Employee Benefits. President, Arkansas Municipal League
DINNER ON YOUR OWN NOON LUNCH BUFFET ...... Peabody Ballroom Before you depart, join us for a buffet of Southwest cuisine. 8:30 P.M. INVESTMENT MANAGERS’ RECEPTION ...... Peabody Ballroom to 10:00 P.M. Other Friday Meetings:
Friday, January 11 1:00 P.M. MHBF Board Meeting ...... Manning Room Peabody Hotel 7:15 A.M. REGISTRATION OPENS ...... Osage Room, SCC
7:30 A.M. BREAKFAST BUFFET ...... Exhibit Center to 8:45 A.M...... Governor’s Hall II
8:30 A.M. CITY ATTORNEYS ...... Riverview Room to 4:30 P.M. City Attorneys will meet for six hours of Continuing . . . . . Peabody Hotel Legal Education.
9:00 A.M. GENERAL SESSION ...... Governor’s Hall I to 10:00 A.M. Update from Washington, D.C., and the Arkansas Supreme Court What are the major issues in Washington, D.C., that could affect Arkansas municipalities? How will the new district court laws impact your city? Congressman Vic Snyder and Supreme Court Justice Jim Hannah explain.
Moderator: Mayor Mike Gaskill, Paragould Moderator: President, Arkansas Municipal League Speakers: U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder Speakers: Chief Justice Jim Hannah, Arkansas State Supreme Court
10:00 A.M. BREAK ...... Exhibit Center to 10:30 A.M...... Governor’s Hall II
10:30 A.M. GENERAL SESSION, CONT’D...... Governor’s Hall I to 11:45 A.M. Opportunities for Public Service: Current Election Information Presiding: Mayor Mike Gaskill, Paragould Presiding: President, Arkansas Municipal League Running for State Offices Speaker: Secretary of State Charlie Daniels, State of Arkansas
DECEMBER 2007 15 arkansas municipal league Municipal Health Benefit Fund (MHBF) Announcement Notice Codification Service The MHBF Board of Trustees has a vacancy to fill. All municipal officials interested in being Having your city ordinances codified appointed as a Trustee to the Municipal Health to a single book is like carrying a minia - Benefit Fund Board of Trustees, please notify ture city hall with you! Plan Administrator Don Zimmerman by calling 501-978-6100 or submitting a letter of intent to AML, Attn: MHBF Trustee Vacancy, P.O. Box 38, North Little Rock, AR 72115, no later than January 7, 2008.
Contact Cathy Moran at 501-374-3484, ext. 214
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We don’t know either, without your help. Fill out the Directory Information Re - quest Forms and return them to the League. Watch for the new Di - rectory in early 2008.
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For further information, call 501-978-6100. Attorney general opens health care division Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has Municipal announced the creation of the Health Care Bureau within the Attorney General’s Office. Aimed at Notes protecting consumers from unfair health care prac - tices and shaping consumer-related health care policies in the state, the Bureau will: • Assist consumers with complaints against health care organizations involved in unfair and deceptive practices; • Advise the governor and the legislature on consumer health care issues; Notice • Handle health care related litigation; and • Work with state and federal agencies that Municipal Health focus on health care issues. “When I asked Arkansas for this job, I made a Benefit Fund (MHBF) commitment to create a division within the Attorney Change in General’s Office dedicated to assisting Arkansas consumers with health care issues, handling health Eligibility Requirements care litigation and developing policy in the field of Allows More Participation health care,” McDaniel said. “I am very excited to announce that such a division now exists and is available to Arkansans should they have questions The MHBF Board of Trustees regarding these often complex issues.” met Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007, at Assistant Attorney General Jean Block will serve as the health care attorney for the new League headquarters. During the Bureau. George Karpoff will serve as the health meeting, the Board voted to amend care advocate and will handle consumer com - the eligibility requirements for partic - plaints and inquiries. ipants in the MHBF. Consumers who have health care related questions or concerns or who wish to file a health The new eligibility requirements care related consumer complaint may contact the Health Care Bureau on its consumer hotline, for cities and towns are: 1-800-482-8982. • When less than three (3) • full-time employees Philander Smith honors King • 100% participation rate Little Rock’s Philander Smith College will honor the • of all eligible employees. 78th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at 3 p.m. Jan. 13 at the I Have a Dream Memorial in • This allows participation the courtyard of the school’s M.L. Harris Center • by municipalities having Auditorium, 812 West 13th Street. • only one or two employees. Gov. Mike Beebe will speak at the celebration of the life of the civil rights leader who was assas - For more information on joining sinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968. For more the Municipal Health Benefit Fund, information please contact Dr. Carey Wynn II at 870-329-1682 or 501-396-2361. please call 501-978-6100. (see Briefs , page 27) 18 CITY & TOWN Arkansas Municipal League’s R Winter Conference January 9-11, 2008 Statehouse Convention Center Little Rock A
National League of Cities’ Congressional City Conference D March 8-12, 2008 Hilton Washington Hotel & Towers Washington, D.C. N Arkansas Municipal League’s 74th Convention
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National League of Cities’ Congress of Cities A and Exposition November 11-15, 2008 Orlando, Fla. C
arkansas municipal league CASH MANAGEMENT TRUST If your municipality’s checking balances are earning less, the cash manage - ment tool can help increase your % municipality’s ability to provide 4.10 services to your residents. as of Dec. 14, 2007, The Trust provides safety, liquidity at close of business. and competitive returns. To learn more contact, Lori Sander at 501-374-3484, ext. 238.
DECEMBER 2007 19 ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS Summaries of attorney general opinions Recent opinions that affect municipal government in Arkansas From the Office of Attorney General Dustin McDaniel
Civil service exam determines term “hiring authority” in the ACLES Specification sim - eligible candidates ply reflects the fact that someone other than the depart - Opinion: 2007-242 ment head may be responsible for hiring. Q4) No. Q5&6) Requestor: Breedlove, Steve—State Representative Response unnecessary. Q7) Generally yes. No, regarding 14-51-301(b)(2)(B)(i). If the Conway Police Department does a background check on a candidate for hire who is participating in a City ordinance violates civil service testing and the chief disqualifies a candidate Affordable Housing Accessibility Act pursuant to Specification S-3 (the background check), Opinion: 2007-252 does this authority conflict with the civil service commis - Requestor: Broadway, Shane—State Senator sion’s authority to make an evaluation of “good charac - ter” under its rules? Q2) If there is a conflict between a Are the provisions of Benton City Ordinance No. 22 in determination of character pursuant to civil service rules compliance with the Affordable Housing Accessibility Act and a determination pursuant to the chief’s conclusion of 2003 (Act 624)? RESPONSE: It is not apparent from pursuant to Spec S-3, does the chief or the commission the face of this zoning ordinance that the city allows the have the final word on “good character”? Q3) Who is the placement of “manufactured homes” on individually “hiring authority” pursuant to Spec S-3 in a city with a owned lots in at least one residential district, as required civil service commission, the commission or the police by ACA 14-54-1604. Consequently, the zoning scheme chief? Q4) Can the police chief remove or disqualify a in my opinion is in violation of the Affordable Housing candidate who has been certified by the civil service Accessibility Act. See Opinion for discussion of the commission to a list of eligible candidates after testing ordinance, with respect to siting a “mobile home” or based upon the candidate’s failure of a background “modular home,” and ACA 20-25-102 (part of the check? Q5) If the answer to Q4 above is “yes,” would the Arkansas Manufactured Homes Standards Act, which civil service commission be liable to the disqualified can - tracks the definition of “manufactured home” under the didate for discrimination or other alleged unfairness in National Manufactured Housing Construction and the moral character determination which was made by Safety Standards Act). the chief? Q6) Under what authority could the civil serv - ice commission challenge a disqualification by the chief Moving election date may void vote pursuant to his authority pursuant to the Commission Opinion: 2007-279 on Law Enforcement Standards statutes and regulations? Requestor: Edwards, Marilyn—State Representative Q7) Are the names, scores and rankings of entry level, non-employee fire or police applicants subject to Utilizing the procedure set forth in ACA 14-40-303(f), release pursuant to an FOIA request? Does ACA 14-51- the cities of Farmington and Prairie Grove may be re - 301(b)(2)(B)(i) provide any basis for exempting such quired to hold a third annexation election on January 1, entry level scores and rankings of other applicants if the 2008, a legal holiday. Consistent with provisions of ACA FOIA request is made by a fellow applicant? RESPONSE: 7-1-108, should the election occur on Wednesday, The first, second and sixth questions are based upon an January 2, 2008? RESPONSE: The answer is unclear incorrect assumption that the minimum standards under Arkansas law. As a general rule, a statute setting promulgated by the ACLES authorize the police chief to the time for an election is mandatory, and an election remove or disqualify a candidate from a list of eligible held at any other time is void. It is unclear whether ACA candidates (eligibility list) that has been certified by the 7-1-108 applies in this instance to allow the date to be civil service commission. The chief may decide not to moved to January 2. I cannot conclude that city officials hire a candidate based upon the background investiga - are clearly authorized to conduct the election on tion, but eligibility is established through open civil January 2. As a consequence, the cities would be best service examinations. I do not interpret the regulations protected by obtaining court approval as to the correct promulgated by ACLES as taking into account civil serv - ice testing. See ACA 12-9-104 and 14-51-301. Q3) The (see AGOs , page 25)
20 CITY & TOWN Municipal Property Program Your Municipal Property Program offers broad coverage for your municipal property. The limits of coverage are $50 million per occurrence per member for damages from fire, windstorm and other incidents in excess of $5,000. Coverage is $15 million per occurrence per member for losses exceeding $100,000 on earthquakes and flooding. The Municipal Property Program’s 2007 annual meeting in November adopted rates according to the following scale. The rates are: FIRE CLASS I — .0015 X covered value = Premium FIRE CLASS ll — .0016 X covered value = Premium es FIRE CLASS lll — .0017 X coveread vtalue = Premium R FIRE CLASS IV — .0018 X cdovered value = Premium FIRE CLASS V — .0019 X ecovered value = Premium uc FIRE CLASS Vl — .00e2 d X covered value = Premium FIRE CLASS Vll — R.0022 X covered value = Premium w FIRE CLASS Vlll e— .0024 X covered value = Premium N FIRE CLASS IX — .0027 X covered value = Premium FIRE CLASS X — .003 X covered value = Premium
For more information, call Linda Montgomery at League headquarters, 50 1- 978-6123 or 501-374-3484, ext. 233. PLANNING TO SUCCEED Who would have thought it? As 2007 winds down, a busy urban planner takes time to reflect upon what over the years has changed and what hasn’t in Arkansas’s cities and towns.
By Jim vonTungeln
ach year at this time I take a few moments to Mid-south, capped by a Presidential Library. recall the naive ex-serviceman (me) who moved • Due to the hard and thankless work by our building into Little Rock on Jan. 4, 1971, to go to work for and code officials, fire would no longer constitute the Ean urban planning firm. It’s been a rollercoaster primary peril to the safety of homes and businesses ride surely enough. Old Man (Arkansas) River and I have in the country. witnessed some strange and wonderful times together. • The most successful downtown renovation project Some left me exhausted, some left me puzzled, and some in the state would occur in the south Arkansas city left me wondering about the future of our species. But ... of El Dorado and would be accomplished without the good times prevailed, and I’d do it all over again in a federal assistance. second if I had the chance. • Gas would cost $3 a gallon with an inexplicable This particular year offered so many strange opportu - amount of development occurring at considerable nities that I couldn’t forbear mentioning some things that I commuting distances beyond the city limits of never would have believed had you prophesied them in major cities. 1971. For example, I would have never thought that, in the • The first decision in designing any building or year 2007: large-scale development would be where to park • We would still believe, despite all evidence to the the cars. contrary, that building new highways would solve • The biggest deterrent to orderly growth in the state our traffic problems. would be the proliferation of rural water systems • For the most part and despite all, downtowns would strangling the urban areas. still be hanging on. • There would be such things as personal computers. • The grid system of street layout would be enjoying • Most Americans would own a personal computer, new respectability. and the device would become ubiquitous in city • Mixed use developments would be the current rage government. in urban developments. • There would be a thing called the Internet and that • Cities would learn to exist without grants from the we would be purchasing a huge amount of our goods feds or the states, and in fact would even learn to through it, and cities would be faced with new chal - manage the unfunded mandates passed down from lenges concerning the taxing of those goods. those entities. • That same Internet would allow us, by simply • Two young people just beginning their careers could punching a keyboard, to access most of the raw obtain financing for a home costing a quarter of a data necessary for urban planning, saving planners million dollars. (Stay tuned on this one.) countless hours in drawing maps or searching out • A majority of real estate agents would be female information in dozens of different places. with the same to soon be true for attorneys and On a personal note, it would have been hard in 1971 urban planners. to imagine that: • The greatest fear of many urban residents would be • I would be working for the Arkansas Municipal that anyone earning less money than they could live League and representing it to the most wonderful anywhere close by. cities on the planet. That sure keeps me feeling • The nature of individual school systems would young. So, thanks for the opportunity and here’s be the greatest determinant of population growth hoping that the coming year will be the most suc - in America. cessful in your city’s history. • A large percentage of the best mayors that I would Jim vonTungeln is staff planning consultant ever work for would be females or minorities or that available for consultation as a service of the I would ever have the privilege of working for a Arkansas Municipal League and is a member mayor like the late Marvin Vinson of Clarksville. of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Persons having comments or questions may • The old and battered East Markham Street area reach him at 501-372-3232. His Web site is in Little Rock would be the crown jewel of the www.planyourcity.com . 22 CITY & TOWN Your Arkansas Dealers— Call for a demo! 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Dare to Compare—Call for an on-site demonstration! GSA Contract Number: GSO7F-8756D ANIMAL CORNER Education cure for city’s growing pains When a city experiences exponential growth, as is the case in Conway, the animal population can skyrocket as well, but by educating the public about responsible pet ownership and spaying and neutering, Animal Welfare is helping ease the growing pains.
By Shona Osborne
he City of Conway requested a special census in perception of our roles as animal control officers. Animal November and December of 2005, and results Welfare funded these efforts through the purchase of city indicated Conway ’s population near 52,450. tags by pet owners, and although both the trailer and TConway is the second largest growing city in spay/neuter program have proven to be successful tools, Arkansas, boasting three colleges and is estimated to it is a challenge to reduce the flow of animals. Keeping reach a population of 65,000 by 2010. the lines of communication open to organizations such The city has experienced all the pains that come as rescues can also be a contributing factor. with growth, including increased traffic, restaurants Calls for service have also increased an average and construction and longer lines at the grocery store, of 35 percent in comparison to 2006. These calls include just to name a few. Animal Welfare has also experienced welfare complaints as the city limits expand and wildlife these pains. intrusion complaints as construction increases. It is estimated the relationship between man and Deer have found their way into the high school and a wolf began some 400,000 years ago, and by the Stone local children ’s store. The skunks and raccoons that were Age, humans had tamed dogs primarily to help them in the “country ” are now in the back yard dining with the hunt. By 4500 B.C., five different types of dogs existed. dog and cat on the back porch. The sounds in your attic Today it is estimated 60 percent of households have are raccoons, and the armadillos are digging in your on average three pets. flower bed. Conway ’s pet population is growing, and although These are some of the growing pains experienced 2007 has not yet come to a close, it is estimated numbers by Animal Welfare in an expanding city. None are un - will increase by 35 percent in comparison to 2006. This common, and all are possible to overcome. Public aware - means an increase in animals —cats and dogs —that are ness about spaying and neutering and responsible pet found at large and those that are surrendered by owners. ownership will be key factors in reducing numbers as Conway Animal Welfare has made efforts to reduce cities ’ populations increase. Wildlife calls can also be these numbers, in part by a spay/neuter program avail - reduced through education. Growth almost always comes able to those who live in the city and wish to adopt a at a price; however, the long term benefits are many. shelter animal. In July of this year, Conway purchased a self-contained adoption trailer. This trailer, capable of housing up to 18 animals, has become a must-have tool. Off-site adoptions have been very successful with a placement rate of 100 percent. Shona Osborne is manager of Conway Animal As an educational tool, the adoption trailer has Welfare. enabled us to reach the public about spaying and neuter - ing, responsible pet ownership and has improved the
24 CITY & TOWN TREE AND BRUSH DISPOSAL MADE EASY AGOs continued from page 20 date. Otherwise, there is some risk that the election would be held void in the face of a challenge.
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DECEMBER 2007 25 SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL Winning strategies rely on market research Before actualizing your international business plan, understanding the ins and outs of the foreign market is key, and your sister city can help. This is the last in a series of columns on developing an international business plan through your sister city.
By Sherman Banks
ow that you have finalized your export to cultivate continuous growth. Having a written plan—a strategy and determined short-, medium- commitment by all parties involved—can better ensure and long-term goals, you will need a market - that the program will be fulfilled. Ning research plan before you actualize your Working through your sister city, you can receive business plan. assistance in examining your foreign market research. As you can imagine, the international market can Through their support you can readily identify market - be as different as your sister cities. Marketing strategies ing opportunities and constraints and identify prospec - differ also. Despite the sometimes obvious differences in tive customers. Your sister city can help you develop a language and culture, such differences as environmental market research plan that determines which foreign considerations, availability of raw materials or product markets have the best potential. It saves you money as alternatives, lower wage costs, varying amounts of pur - you analyze the markets to determine the fastest growing chasing power, foreign exchange and government import markets, market trends and outlook, market conditions control can figure into the equation. and practices, and competitive firms and products. Now that you have decided that your city and com - You can begin international business without market panies within your city are committed to exporting or research only if you receive unsolicited business. This can importing, the next step is to begin the development prove valuable, although in the long run it is more prom - of a marketing plan. ising to conduct market research. Market research can be Generally there are six immediate benefits to devel - done using either primary or secondary data resources. oping a written strategy: Your sister city can help you conduct primary market 1. Written plans help to display strengths and research by assisting with interviews, collecting data weaknesses, and they help in putting together directly from the foreign marketplace and by surveying an export strategy. direct contacts and potential buyers. The primary market 2. Written plans cannot be overlooked or ignored. research is tailored for your city and companies’ needs 3. Written plans are easy to communicate and are and gives answers to specific questions. Under normal less likely to be misunderstood. circumstances, the primary research can be time- 4. Written plans assign responsibilities and a process consuming and very expensive, but your sister city to evaluate the results. can help reduce both. 5. If there is a need for financial assistance, written Conducting secondary market research with the plans reassure investors that you have a clear and assistance of your sister city is invaluable as you collect concise approach to your international business data relating to trade statistics for a country and prod - program. ucts. There are limitations to conducting a secondary 6. Written plans show that a commitment has been market research, however. For example, the statistics may made to international business and gives manage - be outdated, the data may not be specific enough to you, ment an understanding of what is required of or the statistics may be unclear because the data collec - them. tion process may be incomplete. Sometimes statistics are It is important to realize that your sister city relation - unavailable, but secondary research can be valuable. ship is an essential advantage and should also be a part of Methods of market research are key, and since pri - your international business plan. It is also important to mary research can be very expensive, it may become nec - realize that it takes time to develop that strong sister city essary to rely on secondary data sources. It is in this relationship, just as it takes time to build international process that your sister city can be most helpful. Here are business. Both can take months, even years. It takes time three reasons to seek secondary information:
26 CITY & TOWN Briefs continued from page 18 Fayetteville and Little Rock fleets recognized Government Fleet Magazine honored both the Fayetteville Fleet Division and Little Rock’s Fleet Services Department at a November conference in Norfolk, Va., the Northwest Arkansas Times has reported. In its 100 Best Fleets in North America competition, the magazine named Fayetteville’s fleet the fifth most efficient operation and Little Rock’s seventh out of the 1,250 fleets invited to contend. The magazine praised Fayetteville’s Fleet Divi - sion, which has 17 employees and 525 vehicles, for operating a biodiesel dispenser capable of blending fuel at the pump, the first of its kind in the country. The biodiesel program has reduced petro - leum use in the city by 60,000 gallons annually. Little Rock’s Fleet Services Department consists of about 1,300 vehicles and received praise for its working environment and productivity. “I am proud of the Fleet Services Department,” City Manager Bruce Moore said in a media re - lease. “These men and women work hard to keep the city literally on the move. Without them, our police, fire and public works departments could not do their jobs.” Visit Us. www.arml.org
1. It can help in staying up with current world ant (your sister city is definitely your best events that affect the international market. asset); and 2. It can help analyze trade and economic statistics. • Trade and industry association staff. Trade statistics are usually gathered by product Your sister city can act as your representative with the category and by country. This provides you with U.S. Department of Commerce and other government information needed for the shipping of products agency counterparts. Gathering and evaluating secondary over a specific time frame. Other useful key indi - market research can be complex and tedious. Please con - cators of market potential are such things as pop - tact me if you require assistance in working with your ulation size and makeup, per capita income and sister city to help develop a written marketing plan. production levels by industry. 3. You can obtain expert advice. Sources include: • The U.S. Department of Commerce and other For further information about how Sister Cities can government agencies; help to bridge the gap between public and government • Seminars, workshops and international trade engagement, please contact: Sherman Banks shows; at 501-376-8193, Fax: 501-372-6564 or e-mail, [email protected] or surface mail, P.O. Box 165920, • An international trade and marketing consult - Little Rock, AR 72216.
DECEMBER 2007 27 ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE Let’s talk asbestos Asbestos abatement and disposal is expensive, but cities and towns can’t afford not to deal with structures contaminated with the mineral’s potentially deadly microscopic fibers.
By A.E. (Al) Johnson Jr.
sbestos is a mineral. It is mined, just like coal, tion and are undisturbed do not pose health risks. It is copper and talc. It is mined in many countries when the materials are damaged or disturbed—intention - around the world, but the largest and most ally or unintentionally—that they pose significant risk. Aaccessible deposits of asbestos are in Canada. When disturbed, microscopic asbestos fibers are released Asbestos has some unique characteristics. It consists into the air. These fibers enter your lungs. The barbed of microscopic, noncombustible fibers with interlocking fibers can attach to the lungs like little fish hooks. Healthy barbs that make it extremely strong. lungs do a good job of expelling fibers and combating In the early 1930s, the fiber was identified as a new those that attach. Smokers and people with respiratory miracle additive in construction materials. Asbestos not problems are more vulnerable and are much more at risk only made construction materials stronger, it made many for cancer, particularly if having been exposed to the grey materials fireproof. amosite type of asbestos. Asbestos was added to roofing tar for crack control, to The EPA regulates any material containing one per - sheet rock mud for consistency and to floor tile for dura - cent or more asbestos. Only trained asbestos workers can bility. Asbestos was added to spray-on acoustical material remove this material. The Arkansas Department of Envi - and insulation for its fire-proofing qualities. It became the ronmental Quality must be notified 10 days prior to the material of choice for clutches and brakes in the automo - abatement in order to have time to inspect the job site. bile industry and the insulator of choice for pipe fitters in The site must be contained to avoid the release of air - the ship building industry. Asbestos cement board, known borne fibers and the air must be monitored. The removed as transite, became popular in the building industry for its material must be sealed and labeled. Only a Class 1 land - durability and fire-proofing qualities. It was put in roof fill can accept asbestos material and must be notified 24 shingles, rolled felt, concrete water pipe, caulk, ceiling tile hours in advance in order to prepare a site for the waste. and hundreds of other building materials. OSHA also regulates asbestos. The agency requires During World War II, asbestos was placed on the that where asbestos is present—regardless of percent - critical materials list for use only by the U.S. Department age—all workers must receive asbestos awareness training. of Defense. After the war, it was readily available to the Regulations state also that before any building is re - construction industry and was added to many materials modeled or demolished, an asbestos survey must be per - during the post-war building boom and into the early formed. Any asbestos that can be removed safely must be 1970s, at which point the health hazards associated with removed from the site before work begins. If the material breathing asbestos fibers began to emerge. cannot be safely removed, all debris must be considered Contrary to popular belief, asbestos has never been contaminated and must be disposed of accordingly. banned in the manner lead-based paint was banned. Many cities consider compliance too costly, arguing Many materials today still contain asbestos. High- they can’t demolish abandoned structures to improve temperature automobile clutches and furnace neighborhoods because of the expense of complying with gaskets often contain asbestos. asbestos regulations. But let’s be clear: A city cannot af - It took more than 10 years after WWII before ford not to comply with asbestos regulations. The risk of doctors began to detect that pipe fitters working in the exposing citizens to airborne asbestos fiber is too great. ship-building industry installing and insulating pipes in When you conduct an asbestos survey, grouping your confined spaces were contracting lung cancer. abandoned structures to survey all at one time can signifi - Attorneys searched the files of asbestos manufacturers cantly reduce the cost per unit. Then divide the buildings and found warnings from company doctors about severe into those that contain asbestos and those that don’t, and respiratory problems associated with the mineral fibers. into those that contain asbestos and can be removed and Because the manufacturers failed to act, millions of as - those that have asbestos that can’t be removed. bestos liability cases are still in litigation to this day. Contract with an abatement specialist to legally Materials containing asbestos that are in good condi - remove asbestos that can be taken. Group the asbestos-
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How? Cost is only $20 a firefighter a year. All volunteer free buildings in one contract and advertise for demoli - and part-paid firefighters in the department must tion without asbestos. Demolition of the remaining be covered. The minimum premium for each city problem structures can be deferred until you can hire a or town is $240. demolition contractor with an asbestos license. Most companies that didn’t act responsibly when Call: Sheryll Lipscomb at advised about the hazards of asbestos are either bankrupt 501-374-3484, ext. 234. or out of business. Cities shouldn’t be the next group of asbestos defendants. Protect your loved ones’ Contact Al Johnson, P.E., staff engineer, at 501-374-7492. He is available to consult financial security. with member cities and towns for one on-site Arkansas Municipal League’s Volunteer consultation a year as a service of your Arkansas Municipal League. Firefighters Supplemental Income Program
DECEMBER 2007 29 URBAN FORESTRY Celebrating trees across Arkansas Cities and towns across the state, including Conway, Maumelle and Dumas, had reason to celebrate Arbor Day.
By John Slater
hat a wonderful fall day Day. The Pinnacle Group, from Ellen it was Nov. 3 for a cele - Smith Elementary, also participated in bration in Conway— the program with a choral reading of Wcool, clear, perfect “Trees of the Fragrant Forest.” weather. Three maple trees growing More than 100 people attended close together caught my eye immedi - the celebration, and over 200 trees ately as I entered Conway’s Lauren were adopted. The tree board had the Park. The trees appeared to be on fire adopters sign forms pledging to plant as the morning sun shone on their and maintain their trees. I personally brilliant yellow and orange foliage. It want to thank Mayor Townsell and was a great day to hold an Arbor Day Tree Board Chairman Wright for an event to help Conway celebrate its first outstanding event. All the volunteers year as a Tree City USA. and participants deserve recognition Ouida Wright, Conway’s Tree as well. Board Committee chair, kicked off the event with a welcome and an intro - Maumelle off to a good start duction for the program. Conway Maumelle held its Arbor Day cer - Mayor Tab Townsell spoke about the emony on the same day as Conway’s, Tree City program and its benefits. and close to 100 people helped cele - The distinction of being recognized as brate with girl scouts and the local a Tree City USA serves as national recognition for “our AARP to plant trees along the Lake Willastein jogging efforts ... to help our tree inventory in the city and ex - and bike path. Mayor Mike Watson said he hopes the pand that as the city expands,” he said. I spoke also about event will get people to think about planting more trees the program and presented Townsell with an award. in Maumelle. Conway received an Urban and Community Forestry Urban Forester Pete Rausch, a resident of Maumelle, Grant from the Arkansas Forestry Commission to per - is helping the city conduct a tree inventory so it can bet - form a tree inventory this year. This will give the city an ter manage its trees. “Trees and vegetation are part of the idea of what they have, where it’s at, where it’s not and city’s green infrastructure just like the gray infrastructure the condition of the city’s trees. The Conway Tree Board of street, gutters, curbs and streetlights,” Rausch said. is drafting a tree management plan for the next three Maumelle has established a tree board and is work - years that will address which trees along city rights-of- ing toward the Tree City USA designation. To get started way need to be pruned or removed to prevent hazards. with educational materials, the city has applied for an The tree inventory also identifies areas where trees can Urban and Community Forestry Grant. be planted. Representatives from the Forestry Commission held Dumas seeks ReLeaf mini-seminars covering an array of subjects, such as tree As part of its ReLeaf program, the Arkansas Urban planting, pruning and selection. The Tree Board hosted Forestry Council, in partnership with the Forestry Com - an Arbor Day young artist contest open to all the ele - mission and the city of Dumas, held a tree give-away mentary schools in the area. The winners displayed their Nov. 2 on Main Street in Dumas. The Forestry Council work around the park’s gazebo. The artwork was excep - and the Forestry Commission donated trees so that tional, and I would have enjoyed having any piece of it homeowners who lost trees due to damage from recent framed to display in my home. tornadoes could receive a free tree. Within 30 minutes, The Scat Cats from the Ida Burns Elementary School homeowners had claimed all but a few trees. The Council sang “Trees for America.” Meredith Turner, president of is planning a tree-planting project in the city park at a the Conway 4-H Club, presented the history of Arbor later date
30 CITY & TOWN Surrounded by examples of tree-inspired work by young local artists, Conway Mayor Tab Townsell and Ouida Wright, Conway’s Tree Board Committee chair, top center, celebrate the city's first year as a Tree City USA; the Scat Cats, center, from Ida Burns Elementary School, sing the praises of trees; Urban Forester Pete Rausch, bottom center at right, engages a young arborist at Conway’s Nov. 3 celebration.
The ReLeaf project almost every year helps a com - nering with the Arkansas Recreation and Parks Associa - munity that has been impacted by an environmental dis - tion to promote an educational opportunity for a wider aster to replant many of its lost trees. If your community range of participants. For more information, call is interested in receiving help, go to the Council’s Web 1-800-958-5865, e-mail [email protected], or site at www.arkansastrees.org. visit www.arkansastrees.org. Make a memory ... plant a tree Arkansas Urban Forestry Conference coming up Mark your calendar for the Urban Forestry Council’s John Slater is urban forestry partnership 17th annual conference, Feb. 19-21 at the Best Western coordinator with the Arkansas Forestry Inn of the Ozarks, Eureka Springs. The theme this year is Commission. Contact him at 501-984-5867, “Partners in Green: Building Sustainable Communities,” or at [email protected] . and for the first time, the Forestry Council will be part -
DECEMBER 2007 31 YOUR HEALTH Depression’s silver lining: Treatments work The individual cost of depression can be devastating, and the cost to society is in the billions of dollars.
By Christopher Scott Cargile, M.D.
n the United States alone, depression costs about ment. Today, there is a range of effective treatment $45 billion a year, with most of that in lost produc - options for patients. tivity—often due to self injury and suicide—and As many as 80 percent to 90 percent of patients are Iabout $12 billion in hospital stays and treatment. treated successfully for depression, and mental health On average, one of every 15 people will qualify for a professionals are able to tailor treatment based on the diagnosis of “major” depression in a given year. patient’s preferences. Some patients wish to avoid med - Major depression is the clinical term for what most ication, so they choose psychotherapy, which is effective people think of as being depressed. That includes for mild to moderate depression and takes 12 to 24 decreased interest in what previously were pleasurable therapy sessions over that many weeks. activities, weight change, difficulty sleeping or sleeping Other patients may choose medication with little or too much or too little, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, no psychotherapy. Those patients typically begin to feel a depressed mood and feelings of worthlessness or guilt. substantial improvement in about three weeks and will Depression occurs in people whether or not they’ve remain on the medication for nine months to a year. experienced stress or life-altering events, although things Some patients have elected to stay on medication like the death of a loved one, divorce or job loss also can permanently because they have no side effects and they trigger depression. can’t afford another episode of depression, either finan - cially or emotionally. The stigma wanes People often confuse depression with sadness, which Help friends, coworkers seems to contribute to its stigma. When bad things Getting yourself or your friends, coworkers or happen to us, it’s normal to respond with sadness and employees into treatment for depression is important. anxiety, but most of the time those aren’t debilitating If it’s not treated it can be lethal, and if not lethal it can events, at least not for very long. be debilitating. Depression, on the other hand, lasts for long periods Coworkers, supervisors and managers can help by and prevents people from going to work or severely looking for changes in mood and behavior of your limits their productivity, and they usually don’t improve colleagues. If you know someone who seems to be much without medical treatment. struggling, ask questions like, “Are you doing OK? Is Many people still believe that it’s not an illness; they there something I can do?” feel that, like sadness, they should be able to talk them - That approach and concern helps identify people selves out of it, and there’s something wrong with seeing with drug and alcohol problems, undiagnosed physical a mental health professional. ailments and depression. Recognizing those people and Fortunately, over the last decade or so, the stigma helping them on a path to treatment may be the first step surrounding depression has been somewhat reduced. toward saving their lives. Depression is discussed in popular literature and on television shows much more than it was just a decade ago. People now will walk into our clinic office and say without hesitation, “I have depression.” Christopher Scott Cargile, M.D., is Director and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Successful treatments Fifty years ago, there were limited options for treat -
32 CITY & TOWN Historic preservation tours set for 2008
he Arkansas Historic Preservation Program’s lunches with them on the tours, which begin at noon. Walks Through History and Sandwiching in The 2008 schedule includes: History tours will visit historic properties across • Jan. 4, Marlsgate, Bearskin Lake Road, Scott Tthe state in 2008, AHPP Director Frances • Feb. 1, Christ Episcopal Church, Little Rock McSwain has announced. • March 7, Baker House, North Little Rock In the Walks Through History program, historians • April 4, Christ Temple Cathedral, Little Rock each month lead free guided walking tours of historic • May 2, Skyline Drive, North Little Rock structures and districts across Arkansas. Tours begin at • June 6, Parnell Hall, Arkansas School for the Deaf, 11 a.m. on Saturdays. The 2008 schedule includes: Little Rock • March 8, historic Fordyce • July 11, Little Rock City Hall, Little Rock • April 5, Dumas Commercial Historic District • Aug. 1, Albert Pike Hotel, Little Rock • May 3, downtown Augusta • Sept. 5, Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, North • June 7, historic Mena Little Rock • July 12, Osceola’s courthouse square • Oct. 3, Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock • Aug. 2, downtown Mountain Home • Nov. 7, Boyle Park, Little Rock • Sept. 6, historic Heber Springs • Dec. 5, American Foursquare House, Little Rock • Oct. 4, downtown Beebe All tours are free and open to the public. For infor - • Nov. 8, downtown Magnolia mation, call the AHPP at 501-324-9880; write the agency • Dec. 6, Johnson County Courthouse square at 1500 Tower Building, 323 Center Street, Little Rock, The Sandwiching in History tours target Pulaski AR 72201; e-mail [email protected]; or visit County sites. Participants are encouraged to bring the agency Web site at www.arkansaspreservation.org.
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DECEMBER 2007 33 GRANT MONEY MATTERS Building requires a blueprint You would never begin building your dream home without a plan; community development is no different.
By Chad Gallagher
efore building a house you must evaluate your the city’s leadership and involve every sector and group needs, evaluate the quality of your building site within the community. Town hall meetings, surveys and and develop a detailed blueprint. Your vision cre - focus groups are all methods that can be used to solicit Bates the idea of an architectural plan, but it is the community input and participation. This provides the blueprint itself that ensures you end up with what you process, the resulting plan, and the necessary support and want. Building and developing a city—and obtaining strength for long-term implementation. Evaluation allows funds through the grant process—parallels the example of a community to have an honest dialogue about its weak - building a house. Though planning ahead may seem labo - nesses, greatest needs, challenges and obstacles. It also pro - rious, it reaps the reward of a better community and easier vides an opportunity for review of under-utilized access to outside sources of funding . strengths, resources and assets. The community’s entire re - Obtaining grant dollars is an important and under- newal may very well be centered on a community asset utilized funding method to help your community achieve that has not yet been realized, appreciated or developed. its goals and objectives. Arkansas municipalities are chal - Though community input is important, the needs as - lenged to provide a wide array of services while also pro - sessment must utilize other measuring methods as well. viding important leadership for the long-term growth and The assessment should also evaluate demographic trends prosperity of the community. These demands upon city that impact long-term social needs or workforce changes. leaders far outweigh the funds provided by the tax base of It must also review the composition of the local economy, most communities. In order to expedite the realization of regional challenges or strengths, comparative data, as well community dreams, leaders must be creative and seek out - as indicators from similarly situated and like-size cities. side funding. Government and private grant programs are The assessment should be comprehensive and thorough. great tools for our cities and are often overlooked. Ultimately it will become the guiding force to developing a The key to obtaining grant funding is proper prepara - strong and healthy community blueprint. tion. Seemingly endless grant opportunities and millions This process demonstrates to citizens that municipal of available dollars will tempt you to dive hastily into grant officials desire citizen input from the broad spectrum of applications. Doing so may work on occasion, but most the community and are focused on the community’s long- often it leaves the applicant disappointed and frustrated. term success. A thorough assessment will unleash creative As in building a house, you must be prepared for the grant solutions, and as ideas to flow from citizens to city hall it writing process. King Solomon wrote in Proverbs 21:5, will build a strong sense of trust. “The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those Funding agencies and organizations are looking for of everyone who is hasty, surely comes to poverty.” His grant recipients who are trustworthy, organized and able wisdom still applies today. The best results come when we to execute the goals of the grant. A thorough evaluation is plan well. the first step to demonstrate to the grantor that your city is serious about identifying challenges and solving them Evaluate through long-term planning and solution implementa - The first step in long-term community planning tion. As it becomes clear that your community is organized should be a thorough evaluation of your community’s and deliberate in its efforts and that the money invested needs, strengths and weaknesses. A needs assessment will there will be utilized well, you will reap great dividends. evaluate the current status of your city on every front. This process can be formal or informal, but it must be inclusive in regard to both the citizens and the areas it evaluates. To be objective, it is recommended that you consider having Chad Gallagher is principal of Legacy an outside entity conduct the assessment. It is difficult to Consulting and a former mayor of DeQueen. discover and implement long-term solutions if the nature Contact him at 501-580-6358 or by email at of the actual problem has not been properly identified. [email protected]. A needs assessment must have the active support of
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of-state taxing authority to determine how its Note: This guide is designed to offer general guid - tax laws may apply. ance and information and is not meant to be all in - clusive. Municipal officials and businesses should City and county tax caps familiarize themselves with the changes in have been eliminated Arkansas law that affect local business and should Another change impacting cities and towns is contact the DFA for a written legal opinion concern - the elimination of local tax caps on single transac - ing specific transactions if needed. To request a tions. Since the caps no longer apply, local retail - written legal opinion, contact the Office of Revenue ers will collect the full amount of state, county and Legal Counsel, P.O. Box 1272, Little Rock, AR city taxes on all transactions. 72203. However, the local tax cap will continue to For additional assistance, contact the Sales apply to the first $2,500 per item on the sale of and Use Tax Section’s Taxpayer Services Group at motor vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, modular homes, 501-682-7104, or visit www.state.ar.us/salestax. manufactured homes and mobile homes. Sellers should continue to apply the cap only on sales of these items.
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DECEMBER 2007 35 MUNICIPAL HEALTH BENEFIT FUN D PREFERRED PROVIDER NETWORK CHANGES TO THE 2007 MHBF DIRECTORY , AS OF DECEMBER 1, 2007 Also visit League Programs on League Web site, www.arml.org , for these changes and providers.
LAST NAME FIRST NAME CLINIC/SPECIALTY ADDRESS CITY ST ZIP PHONE IN-STATE ADDITIONS SKORCZ, MD MISTY ASH FLAT CLINIC 970 ASH FLAT DR ASH FLAT AR 72513 870-994-7301 BARGER, DC TONY BACK-N-MOTION CHIROPRACTIC 914 ROCKY ST BENTON AR 72015 501-765-8100 ELSNER, DC GERALD CHIROPRACTIC 3105 NE 11TH ST #3 BENTONVILLE AR 72712 479-254-1177 MUNSON, DC BRANDON CHIROPRACTIC 3105 NE 11TH ST #3 BENTONVILLE AR 72712 479-254-1177 BARKER, DDS JOSEPH GENERAL DENTISTRY 206 N MAIN BRINKLEY AR 72021 870-734-2700 DELTA PHYSICAL THERAPY PHYSICAL THERAPY 105 N JACKSON ST #B CABOT AR 72023 501-941-2230 BERGER, PHD ELLIE SA REGIONAL HEALTH 715 N COLLEGE EL DORADO AR 71730 870-862-7921 SARIKUN, MD TJANDRA SEMSI INTENSIVIST GROUP 7303 ROGERS AVE #202 FORT SMITH AR 72903 479-314-4600 SIDANI, MD TARIK AR. ORTHOPEDICS & SPORTS 224 W ERIE AVE HARRISON AR 72601 870-741-8289 AHEC FAMILY CLINIC FAMILY PRACTICE 300 E 6TH STREET HOPE AR 71801 870-779-6000 AR DEPT OF HEALTH & HOME HEALTH HEMPSTEAD COUNTY HUMAN SVCS HEALTH UNIT HOPE AR 71801 870-777-9424 DOCTORS EYE INSTITUTE OF TEXARKANA OPHTHALMOLOGY/OPTOMETRY 1820 S MAIN ST HOPE AR 71801 870-777-8215 LR CARDIOLOGY CLINIC CARDIOLOGY, CARDIOVASCULAR 2015 S MAIN ST HOPE AR 71801 870-777-3130 HOT SPRINGS CLN. OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY OTOLARYNGOLOGY (ENT) 307 CARPENTER DAM RD #N HOT SPRINGS AR 71901 501-624-5422 MONTE, MD ERIC HOT SPRINGS CLN. OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY 307 CARPENTER DAM RD #N HOT SPRINGS AR 71901 501-624-5422 FAMILIES INC PSYCHOLOGY 4508 S STADIUM BLVD JONESBORO AR 72404 870-933-6886 SOUTHEAST REHAB HOSPITAL HOSPITAL 2729-A HWY 65 & 82 SOUTH LAKE VILLAGE AR 71653 870-265-4333 BAUER, LPC KATHLEEN PSYCHOLOGY 406 S MAIN MTN. HOME AR 72653 870-425-2030 MCKAY, LPC HAROLD WALTER III LIGHTHOUSE COUNSELING 406 S MAIN MTN. HOME AR 72653 870-425-2030 AR DEPT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SVCS HOME HEALTH HOWARD COUNTY HEALTH UNIT NASHVILLE AR 71852 870-845-2058 HAHN, DPM PHILIP J PODIATRY 700 N MAIN #1 NASHVILLE AR 71852 870-845-2729 TEED, MD FRANK S OPHTHALMOLOGY/OPTOMETRY 220 S SECOND NASHVILLE AR 71852 870-845-2828 NORTHSIDE OPEN MRI MAGNETIC RES. IMAGING 2929 LAKEWOOD VILLAGE DR NO LITTLE ROCK AR 72116 501-687-6736 KRUPKA, DDS MICHAEL ALL ABOUT SMILES 3207 ARAPAHO DR ROGERS AR 72758 479-621-9700 DAVIS, MD KRISTIE ANESTHESIA SPEC. OF ARKANSAS 2215 WILDWOOD #212 SHERWOOD AR 72120 501-552-7268 RUDDER, CRNA BILL ANESTHESIA SPEC. OF ARKANSAS 2215 WILDWOOD AVE #212 SHERWOOD AR 72120 501-552-7268 BOGLE, MD SHAWN AHRENS CLINIC 414 W OLD MAIN ST YELLVILLE AR 72687 870-449-6777
IN-STATE UPDATES KANE, MD JESSE ADVANCED WOMENS CARE 2037 W. MAIN CABOT AR 72023 501-843-1100 MCCOY, OD JAMES F. OPHTHALMOLOGY/OPTOMETRY 2526 HWY 65 SOUTH #204 CLINTON AR 72031 501-745-2500 ROBBINS, OD ERIC OPHTHALMOLOGY/OPTOMETRY 2526 HWY 65 SOUTH #204 CLINTON AR 72031 501-745-2500 FORD, OD SHANE OPHTHALMOLOGY/OPTOMETRY 3005 FOUNTAIN DR CONWAY AR 72034 501-329-9851 MCCOY, OD JAMES F. OPHTHALMOLOGY/OPTOMETRY 3005 FOUNTAIN DR CONWAY AR 72034 501-329-9851 ROBBINS, OD ERIC AR EYE CARE GROUP 3005 FOUNTAIN DR CONWAY AR 72034 501-329-9851 FT. SMITH WOUND HEALING & HYPERBARIC CTR WOUND CARE 1001 TOWSON AVE 1ST FLOOR FORT SMITH AR 72917 479-441-5078 GAST, MD KRISTI FORT SMITH RADIATION ONCOLOGY 1502 DODSON AVE FORT SMITH AR 72901 479-709-7410 WILLIAMS, DDS MATT HIGHLAND FAMILY DENTISTRY 1474 HWY 62/412 HARDY AR 72542 870-856-4050 LEDBETTER, MD CHARLES AR. ORTHOPEDIC & SPORTS 224 W. ERIE HARRISON AR 72601 870-741-8289 COVAS, MD EVE FAMILY PRACTICE 205 SMITH RD. #D HOPE AR 71801 870-777-8420 DAVIS, MD R. CRAIG PEDIATRIC & ADOLESCENT MED. 405 W. 16TH ST. #B HOPE AR 71801 870-777-7588 DOUGLAS, MD LAURA CHIROPRACTIC 908 S. MAIN STREET HOPE AR 71801 870-777-6161 DOUGLAS, MD W. LADELL QUALITY CARE PEDICATRIC & ADOL. CLINIC 100 E. 20TH ST. #B HOPE AR 71801 870-777-2100 DOWNS, MD MICHAEL R. AHEC FAMILY CLINIC 300 E. 6TH ST. HOPE AR 71801 870-779-6000 FRAZIER, MD G.T. AR SPECIALTY ORTHOPAEDICS 114 MEDICAL PARK DR HOPE AR 71801 870-777-0789 GARRETT, MD GEORGE FAMILY PRACTICE 302 BILL CLINTON DR #102 HOPE AR 71801 870-722-5011 HAYNES SPORTS THERAPY & REHAB PHYSICAL THERAPY 501 N HERVEY HOPE AR 71801 870-777-6798 KHAN, MD ABDUL HOPE HEMPSTEAD EMER. GROUP 2001 S MAIN ST HOPE AR 71801 870-777-2323 KHAN, MD IQTIDAR INTERNAL MED. 302 BILL CLINTON DR #102 HOPE AR 71801 870-777-2970 MEDICAL PARK WOMENS CLINIC OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY 302 BILL CLINTON DR #102 HOPE AR 71801 870-777-1404 OPIELA, MD JAROSLAW OPIELA INTERNAL MEDICINE 2001 S MAIN ST #6 HOPE AR 71801 870-777-0437 PRIMEAUX, DC CHRIS A. CHIROPRACTIC 802 E. THIRD ST HOPE AR 71801 870-777-3100 RUSHTON, MD STEWART JR OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY 302 BILL CLINTON DR #103 HOPE AR 71801 870-777-0700 SOOMAN, MD SANDRA PEDIATRIC & ADOLESCENT MED. 2001 S MAIN ST #5 HOPE AR 71801 870-722-6568 TEED, MD FRANK S OPHTHALMOLOGY/OPTOMETRY 1420 S MAIN STREET HOPE AR 71801 870-722-6060 WRIGHT, MD KENNETH MEDICAL PARK FAMILY PRACTICE 2001 S MAIN ST #4 HOPE AR 71801 870-722-8444 GRIFFIN, MD JAMES HOT SPRINGS CLN. OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY 307 CARPENTER DAM RD #N HOT SPRINGS AR 71901 501-624-5422
36 CITY & TOWN LAST NAME FIRST NAME CLINIC/SPECIALTY ADDRESS CITY ST ZIP PHONE
ABRAHAM, MD DANA C. ABRAHAM BREAST CLINIC 9101 KANIS RD #201 LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-492-2600 AL-TAKROURI, MD HATEM CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72202 501-320-1100 DILDY, MD DALE CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72202 501-320-4362 DRISCOLL, LCSW JEANETTE LIVING HOPE SOUTHEAST 100 S UNIVERSITY #401 LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-663-5473 DSOUZA, MD SHIRLEY CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-320-1021 EVANS, PSYD LARRY CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-320-1830 FISER, MD P. MARTIN CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72202 501-364-1479 GOOD, MD HENRY LIVING HOPE SOUTHEAST 100 S UNIVERSITY #401 LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-663-5473 HARDIN, MD BRIAN CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72202 501-320-1849 LEITHISER, MD RICHARD E. JR. CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-320-4865 LILE, MD SCOTT CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72202 501-320-1100 MOHIUDDIN, MD SHIREEN CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-320-1100 MORROW, MD ROBERT W. CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-320-1018 NELLURI, MD PRAMOD UAMS 4301 W MARKHAM LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-686-8000 NOLEN, MD MISTY CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-320-4201 OCONNOR, MD JUDITH CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72202 501-364-1100 PASOLD, PHD TRACIE CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72202 501-362-1100 RHODES, MD ROBBIE CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72202 501-320-4020 ROWE, MD RICHARD A. CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72202 501-364-1028 SANGARI, MD TARANJIT CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-320-1100 VURAL, MD EMRE CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72202 501-364-1100 WARREN, MD ROBERT H. CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-320-3352 WEWERS, MD DARIN A. LR ANESTHESIA & PAIN MGMT. 500 S UNIVERSITY #505 LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-664-4532 WHEELER, MD J. GARY CHILDRENS MEDICAL GROUP 800 MARSHALL LITTLE ROCK AR 72202 501-320-1060 WINANS, PHD T. REVILLON LIVING HOPE SOUTHEAST 100 S UNIVERSITY #401 LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-663-5473 WRIGHT, LPC JULIE LIVING HOPE SOUTHEAST 100 S UNIVERSITY #401 LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-663-5473 CARVER, OD J. RICHARD OPHTHALMOLOGY/OPTOMETRY 414 MENA ST. MENA AR 71953 479-394-2020 DEVLIN, MD TERRI A. MOUNTAIN VIEW CLINIC 1102 CRESTWOOD CIRCLE MENA AR 71953 479-394-7301 FINCK, MD JOHN RICH MTN. FAMILY MED. CTR 209 N. MORROW MENA AR 71953 479-394-4703 MANIS, MD ROBERT J. FAMILY PRACTICE 400 CRESTWOOD CIRCLE #J MENA AR 71953 479-394-4703 SESSLER, MD LONNIE WATCH CLINIC 1201 S MENA ST MENA AR 71953 479-437-3449 SHORT, DO BRADLEY M. WESTERN AR REHABILITATION 311 N MORROW MENA AR 71953 479-394-6100 FERGUSON, MD CLAY FAMILY PRACTICE 900 W LESLIE # 3 NASHVILLE AR 71852 870-845-0033 HEARNSBERGER, MD JOHN GENERAL SURGERY 900 W LESLIE #2 NASHVILLE AR 71852 870-845-3757 HOLLINGSWORTH, MD CHARLES PLASTIC & RECON. SURGERY 900 W. LESLIE ST. NASHVILLE AR 71852 870-845-2662 KING, MD JOE D. FAMILY CLINIC OF NASHVILLE 1400 LESLIE ST. NASHVILLE AR 71852 870-845-1933 LEISURE LODGE-NASHVILLE PHYSICAL REHAB 812 N MAIN ST NASHVILLE AR 71852 870-845-2021 OGE, MD BRIAN OGE FAMILY MEDICAL CLINIC 410 N MAIN #2 NASHVILLE AR 71852 870-451-9199 PATEL, MD HASMUKH INTERNAL MED. 900 W. LESLIE #5 NASHVILLE AR 71852 870-845-2203 SAYRE, MD JOHN FAMILY PRACTICE 900 W. LESLIE ST. NASHVILLE AR 71852 870-845-2201 SYKES, MD ROBERT FAMILY PRACTICE 900 W. LESLIE #7 NASHVILLE AR 71852 870-845-1666 HOLLIS, MD ROLAND FAMILY PRACTICE 400 HWY 49 NO. #2 PARAGOULD AR 72450 870-236-1014 SMITH, DDS RICHARD L. GENERAL DENTISTRY 1904 S BUERKLE STUTTGART AR 72160 870-673-3330
IN-STATE DELETES DANIELS, MD ANTHONY E. BENTON WOMENS CLINIC 5 MEDICAL PARK DR #GL2 BENTON AR 72015 501-778-1010 COSTA, MD EMIL OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY 302 BILL CLINTON DR #105 HOPE AR 71801 870-722-5011 HARRISON, MD ROBERT FAMILY PRACTICE 205 SMITH RD. #D HOPE AR 71801 870-777-8420 HIXSON, MD MARCIA. AR SPECIALTY ORTHOPAEDICS 2015 S MAIN ST HOPE AR 71801 870-777-0789 JACOB, MD JOB GASTROENTEROLOGY 509 S MAIN ST HOPE AR 71801 870-777-6665 KITTRELL, MD JAMES FAMILY PRACTICE 205 SMITH RD.#D HOPE AR 71801 870-777-8420 MASON, MD ROGER ALAN GENERAL SURGERY 100 E. 20TH STREET # F HOPE AR 71801 870-777-2224 GIBSON, PT MITZI ORTHOPEDIC REHAB & SPECIALITY 13100 CHENAL PARKWAY LITTLE ROCK AR 72211 501-975-4040 ROWE, MD RICHARD A NEUROSURGERY 4301 W MARKHAM LITTLE ROCK AR 72205 501-686-6979 SANGARI, MD TARANJIT ANESTHESIOLOGY 800 MARSHALL ST LITTLE ROCK AR 72202 501-364-1100 KULPEKSA, MD JOSEPH M. RANDOLPH EMERGENCY GROUP 2801 MEDICAL CENTER DR POCAHONTAS AR 72455 870-892-6000
OUT-OF-STATE ADDITIONS MYERS, DC MICHAEL CHIROPRACTIC 230 N MAIN ST SPRINGHILL LA 71075 318-539-5111 QUALITY CARE OPTICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY/OPTOMETRY 2323 KENNEDY LANE TEXARKANA TX 75503 903-255-1105
OUT-OF-STATE UPDATES FIRST STEPS ORTHOTICS & PROSTHETICS ORTHOTICS & PROSTHETICS 2448 E 81ST STREET #3450 TULSA OK 74137 918-491-7373 HILL, MD BRANDON D. ALLERGY & ASTHMA CARE 7205 WOLF RIVER BLVD #200 GERMANTOWN TN 38018 901-757-6100 WALLACE, MD ROBERT D. UT MEDICAL GROUP 7945 WOLF RIVER BLVD GERMANTOWN TN 38138 901-347-8290 FEIR, MD BETTY PSYCHIATRY 5501 MEDICAL PARKWAY TEXARKANA TX 75503 903-793-8588
OUT-OF-STATE DELETES CRAFTON, MD EUGENE GASTROENTEROLOGY 1203 BELK BLVD. #130 OXFORD MS 38655 601-234-9888
DECEMBER 2007 37 Local Option Sales and Use Tax in Arkansas
BENTON Nimmons Little Flock (1) BOONE (1.25) BAXTER FULTON (2) Cherokee Village RANDOLPH (1.25) CLAY (.5) Avoca (1) Gravette (2) CARROLL (.5) MARION Corning (2) Peach Orchard Bella Vista Alpena (1) Valley Springs Big Flat Horseshoe Bend (2) Biggers Datto Piggott (1) Lowell (2) Berryville (1.5) Bull Shoals (1) Maynard Bentonville (2) Pea Ridge (1) Bellefonte Zinc Mammoth Spring (1) Greenway Pollard Bethel Heights (1.5) Eureka Springs (2.25) Cotter (2) O’Kean Rector (2) Rogers (2) Bergman Flippin (1) Salem (1) Knobel Cave Springs (1) Green Forest (1) Diamond City (1) Gassville (2) Pocahontas (.75) McDougal St. Francis Centerton (2) Siloam Springs (2) Pyatt SHARP (1) Springdale (2) Oak Grove (1) Everton Lakeview (1) Viola (1) Ravenden Springs Success Decatur (1) Harrison (.75) Summit (1) Reyno GREENE (1.5) Gentry (1.625) Springtown (1) Mtn. Home (1) IZARD Ash Flat (1.375) Sulphur Springs (1) Lead Hill Yellville (1) Calico Rock (2) Cave City Delaplaine Garfield (1) Omaha Norfork Alicia Gateway Franklin (1) Cherokee Village Black Rock (1) Lafe WASHINGTON (1.25) MADISON (2) South Lead Hill Saleville Evening Shade LAWRENCE (1.5) Highfill (2) Guion (1) College City Powhatan Marmaduke Hardy (1) Johnson (2) Hindsville NEWTON Horseshoe Bend (2) Hoxie (1) Ravenden (1) Paragould (1) Elkins (1) Highland (1) Imboden Lincoln (1) Huntsville (1) SEARCY Melbourne (1) Horseshoe Bend (2) Sedgwick Oak Grove Heights Elm Springs (1) STONE Lynn Prairie Grove (2.25) Jasper (2) Oxford (1) Sidney Smithville MISSISSIPPI (2) Farmington (2) St. Paul Minturn Springdale (2) Gilbert (1) Pineville (1) Williford Strawberry Bay CRAIGHEAD Luxora (1) Fayetteville (2) Western Grove Portia (1) Bassett Tontitown (2) Leslie Walnut Ridge (1) Black Oak Egypt Manila (1) Goshen Birdsong West Fork (2) Bono Jonesboro (1) Marie Greenland (2) Marshall (.5) Fifty-Six INDEPENDENCE (1.25) Blytheville (1) Winslow Pindall Mtn. View (2) Batesville (.125) Brookland Lake City (.5) Burdette Osceola (1) Cave City Caraway Monette Dell JACKSON (1.5) Cash Cushman Amagon Dyess CRAWFORD Magness Etowah (1) Beedeville (.5) Victoria Alma (2) JOHNSON (1) Moorefield Campbell Sta. POINSETT (1.25) Gosnell (1.5) POPE VAN BUREN CLEBURNE (1.75) Trumann (1) Wilson Dyer (1) Clarksville Newark Diaz Fisher Joiner FRANKLIN (.5) Damascus Concord Oil Trough Kibler (1) Coal Hill Grubbs Tyronza Keiser (1) Altus (1) Atkins (.5) Clinton (1) Fairfield Bay (1.5) Pleasant Plains Harrisburg (1) Mountainburg (2.5) Jacksonport Waldenburg (2) Leachville Branch (1) Hartman Dover (1) Fairfield Bay (1.5) Sulphur Rock Newport (1.5) Lepanto (1.75) Mulberry (2) Greers Ferry Weiner (1) Charleston (1.5) Knoxville Hector Shirley (1) Swifton (1) Marked Tree (1) Van Buren (1.5) Heber Springs (1) Tuckerman (1.25) Denning Lamar (1) London Ozark (1) Higden Tupelo Pottsville (1) CONWAY (1.75) Weldon CROSS (2) Wiederkehr Quitman (1) Higginson WHITE (1.5) Russellville (1.5) Cherry Valley (1) CRITTENDEN (1.75) Village (1) LOGAN Menifee (2) FAULKNER (.5) Bald Knob (2) Judsonia WOODRUFF Crawfordsville SEBASTIAN (1.25) Hickory Ridge Earle (1) Blue Mountain (1) Morrilton (1) Conway (1.75) Beebe (1) Kensett Russell Barling (1) Damascus Augusta (1) Parkin Edmondson Booneville (1) Letona Searcy (.5) Bonanza (1) Oppelo (1) Enola Bradford Cotton Plant (1) Caulksville Wynne Gilmore (1) Central City Morrison Bluff Plumerville (1) Greenbrier (2) Garner McRae West Point Horseshoe Lake Magazine (1) Hunter Fort Smith (2) Paris (.5) YELL (1) Guy (2) Pangburn Jennette (1) Greenwood (1.75) Holland Georgetown McCrory (1) ST. FRANCIS (2) Ratcliff Rose Bud (1) Jericho Hackett (1) Scranton Mayflower (1) Griffithville Patterson (1) Caldwell Palestine (1) Marion (2) Hartford Belleville (1) Subiaco Mount Vernon Colt Forrest City (1) Sunset (3) Huntington (1.5) Danville (1.5) PERRY (2) Twin Groves (1) Lavaca Madison (1) Wheatley (1) Turrell (2) Adona Fourche Vilonia (2) LONOKE PRAIRIE Mansfield (2.5) SCOTT (1.625) Dardanelle (2) Wooster Widener Hughes (1) W. Memphis (1.5) Bigelow Houston Allport Midland Havana (1) Perry Biscoe Casa Mansfield (2.5) Ola (1) Perryville (1) Alexander (2) Austin Des Arc (1) LEE PULASKI Cammack Village Cabot (2) Waldron (2) Plainview (1) DeValls Bluff (1) MONROE Aubrey Marianna (2) SALINE Jacksonville (2) Carlisle (1) Hazen (2) Haynes Moro (1) Little Rock (.5) Coy Brinkley (2) Ulm LaGrange Rondo GARLAND (.5) Benton (1.5) Maumelle (1) England (3) Clarendon (2) North Little Rock (2) Bryant (3) Humnoke Holly Grove (2) POLK MONTGOMERY (1) Sherwood (1) Cove (1) Shannon Hills (1) Keo (1) Roe (1) PHILLIPS (2) Black Springs Hot Springs (1.5) Wrightsville Grannis Lonoke (2) Elaine Mount Ida (1) Lonsdale Hatfield (1) Ward (1) Helena-West Helena (2) Norman Mountain Pine ARKANSAS Mena (1) Lake View Oden Fountain Lake Vandervoort (1) JEFFERSON (1.5) Almyra (1) Lexa Wickes (1) Donaldson GRANT Altheimer (1) DeWitt (3.5) Marvell HOT SPRING Friendship Humphrey (1) Gillett (2) HOWARD PIKE (2.375) Malvern (1) Pine Bluff (1) Humphrey (2) Sheridan (2) Redfield (1) Antoine Perla (1) St. Charles (2) (1.75) CLARK Sherrill (1) Daisy Rockport (1) Wabbaseka (1) Stuttgart (2) SEVIER (2.375) Dierks (1) Delight Amity (1.5) White Hall (1) Glenwood (1.5) Arkadelphia (1) Ben Lomond Mineral DALLAS (2) Murfreesboro (1.5) Caddo Valley (2) DeQueen (1) Springs (1) LINCOLN Gum Springs (2.25) Carthage CLEVELAND (1.25) Gillham (1) Nashville (1) Gurdon (2.25) Fordyce (1.5) Gould (1) Horatio Tollette Okolona Sparkman (1) Kingsland (1) Grady (1) DESHA (1.5) Lockesburg HEMPSTEAD (1.75) Whelen Springs Rison (1) Star City (2) Arkansas City Blevins Dumas (2.5) Emmet Fulton NEVADA McGehee (3) Hope (1) OUACHITA DREW (2) Mitchellville LITTLE RIVER (2.25) McCaskill Bluff City Reed 2007 Elections McNab Bearden (1) Ashdown (2) Ogden Bodcaw Jerome Tillar Foreman (1) Wilton (1) Oakhaven Cale Camden (1) CALHOUN (1.5) BRADLEY (1.5) Watson CONWAY COUNTY , March 13. Ozan Prescott (2.375) Chidester (2) Monticello (1) Winthrop Patmos (1) Hampton Reader E. Camden (1) Tillar Defeated. 0.25% for 5 years Perrytown Harrell Banks Washington (1) Rosston Louann Wilmar For: 770 Against: 1,058 MILLER (1.5) Willisville Thornton (1) Hermitage (1) Reader Winchester Tinsman Warren (1) HOWARD COUNTY , March 13. LAFAYETTE Stephens (1) CHICOT (2) Fouke (1) (2.25) Passed. 1¢ for hospital Garland (1) Dermott (3) COLUMBIA (2) UNION (2) ASHLEY (1.75) For: 866 Against: 804 Texarkana (2) Bradley (2) Eudora (2) Buckner Emerson Lake Village (2) CRAWFORD COUNTY , May 8. Lewisville McNeil Calion Junction City Crossett (2.75) Montrose Renewed. 1% for 8 years Stamps (1) Magnolia (2.125) El Dorado (1.25) Norphlet Fountain Hill (1) Parkdale Taylor (2) Felsenthal Smackover Hamburg (1) Portland For: 3,592 Against: 884 Waldo Huttig Strong Wilmot FARMINGTON , May 8. Renewed. 1¢ for 7 years For: 232 Against: 17 KEY: Counties with countywide tax (shaded is 1¢ unless otherwise noted) HELENA-WEST HELENA , May 8. Passed. 2% (2) 2¢ being collected in that municipality For: 1,492 Against: 1,415 (2co¢) 2¢ being collected in that county MAGNOLIA , May 8. Source: Debbie Rogers, Office of State Treasurer Passed. 1.125% for hospital For: 1,089 Against: 518 See also: www.arkansas.gov/dfa McGEHEE , May 8. Passed. 1% for jail Sales and Use Tax Year-to-Date 2007 with 2006 Comparison (shaded) For: 417 Against: 249 CLARK COUNTY , June 12. Month Municipal Tax County Tax Total Tax Interest Passed. 0.5% for 7 years Jan. $33,890,076 $32,687,504 $32,664,439 $33,033,724 $66,554,515 $65,721,228 $244,719 $184,083 For: 1,755 Against: 804 Feb. $41,087,573 $40,075,677 $39,706,942 $39,032,068 $80,794,515 $79,107,745 $209,743 $76,989 CONWAY , June 12. Passed. 1% of existing 2% extended March $33,903,991 $32,771,550 $33,441,917 $32,771,095 $67,345,908 $65,544,012 $217,856 $256,793 For: 1,140 Against: 391 April $34,080,456 $32,010,237 $33,492,256 $32,413,705 $67,572,712 $64,423,942 $260,149 $174,245 CRAIGHEAD COUNTY , June 12. May $37,876,497 $35,233,916 $37,104,109 $35,510,242 $74,980,606 $70,744,158 $314,008 $240,060 Passed. 1% for 3 months June $34,784,978 $34,375,245 $33,994,936 $33,751,145 $68,779,914 $68,126,390 $107,240 $67,572 For: 2,932 Against: 1,207 POCAHONTAS , June 12. July $36,406,855 $35,046,470 $35,855,841 $34,756,794 $72,262,696 $69,803,264 $372,404 $322,687 Passed. 1% for hospital Aug. $37,261,021 $35,934,262 $36,979,140 $36,071,576 $74,240,161 $72,005,838 $269,694 $55,735 For: 1,010 Against: 34 Sept. $35,967,336 $34,686,426 $35,453,871 $34,960,684 $71,421,207 $69,647,110 $185,317 $366,161 BENTONVILLE , Aug. 14. Oct. $37,792,879 $35,582,119 $36,789,413 $35,884,130 $74,582,292 $71,466,249 $405,158 $129,536 Passed. 1¢ for 25 years Nov. $36,731,437 $34,770,334 $35,645,991 $35,090,669 $72,376,928 $69,861,003 $122,624 $273,208 For: 521 Against: 147 SEARCY , Sept. 11 Total $399,783,099 $383,173,700 $391,128,355 $383,275,832 $790,911,454 $766,449,532 $2,708,912 $2,147,069 Defeated. 1% temporary Averages $36,343,918 $34,833,973 $35,557,123 $34,843,257 $71,901,041 $69,677,230 $246,265 $195,188 For: 607 Against: 1,112
38 CITY & TOWN November 2007 Municipal Levy Receipts November 2007 Municipal/County Levy Receipts Alexander ...... 23,893.15 Jonesboro ...... 1,107,819.93 County Sales and Use Tax Anthonyville ...... 1,347.12 Lee County ...... 27,104.65 Prairie County ...... 26,806.09 Alma ...... 163,708.01 Keiser ...... 2,446.78 Arkansas County ...... 261,720.61 Clarkedale ...... 334.07 Marianna ...... 22,066.18 Hazen ...... 9,740.64 Almyra ...... 1,620.03 Keo ...... 1,608.74 Ashley County ...... 257,825.94 Cross County ...... 218,853.03 Aubrey ...... 941.25 Biscoe ...... 2,832.34 Alpena ...... 2,105.25 Kibler ...... 1,910.83 Crossett ...... 50,988.56 Cherry Valley ...... 5,552.76 Haynes ...... 911.44 Des Arc ...... 11,501.92 Altheimer ...... 2,166.06 Kingsland ...... 1,177.03 Fountain Hill ...... 1,329.70 Hickory Ridge ...... 3,028.78 LaGrange ...... 519.61 DeValls Bluff ...... 4,659.08 Altus ...... 5,788.07 Lake City ...... 4,195.37 Hamburg ...... 25,414.83 Parkin ...... 12,635.69 Moro ...... 1,026.42 Ulm ...... 1,219.81 Amity ...... 7,062.79 Lake Village ...... 59,217.80 Montrose ...... 4,398.88 Wynne ...... 67,950.38 Rondo ...... 1,009.40 Pulaski County ...... 918,028.29 Arkadelphia ...... 131,593.42 Lakeview ...... 4,182.62 Parkdale ...... 3,152.81 Dallas County ...... 125,405.87 Lincoln County ...... 40,577.48 North Little Rock ...... 1,036,006.86 Ash Flat ...... 69,294.53 Lamar ...... 6,471.57 Portland ...... 4,616.32 Desha County ...... 91,282.77 Star City ...... 9,836.84 Alexander ...... 2,982.89 Ashdown ...... 107,018.36 Lepanto ...... 16,339.66 Wilmot ...... 6,573.24 McGehee ...... 36,207.29 Gould ...... 5,195.10 Cammack Village ...... 14,245.89 Atkins ...... 12,869.71 Leslie ...... 4,805.74 Baxter County ...... 292,079.80 Arkansas City ...... 4,666.54 Grady ...... 2,082.02 Jacksonville ...... 512,851.94 Augusta ...... 19,123.52 Lewisville ...... 6,663.69 Mountain Home ...... 141,572.38 Dumas ...... 41,499.73 Little River County ...... 181,660.54 Little Rock ...... 3,139,460.97 Avoca ...... 5,127.46 Lincoln ...... 15,408.58 Cotter ...... 11,840.55 Mitchellville ...... 3,937.64 Ashdown ...... 36,312.36 Maumelle ...... 180,979.34 Bald Knob ...... 58,142.21 Little Flock ...... 4,654.80 Gassville ...... 21,932.66 Reed ...... 2,178.78 Ogden ...... 1,625.36 Sherwood ...... 368,764.48 Barling ...... 20,393.41 Little Rock ...... 1,872,896.28 Norfork ...... 6,222.40 Watson ...... 2,281.77 Wilton ...... 3,334.27 Wrightsville ...... 23,451.71 Batesville ...... 32,991.95 Lonoke ...... 88,136.53 Lakeview ...... 9,809.27 Tillar ...... 261.46 Winthrop ...... 1,412.70 Randolph County ...... 105,381.86 Bauxite ...... 14.72 Lowell ...... 197,731.19 Big Flat ...... 1,337.04 Drew County ...... 255,092.60 Foreman ...... 8,544.53 Biggers ...... 2,550.53 Bearden ...... 9,108.29 Luxora ...... 4,924.50 Salesville ...... 5,618.16 Monticello ...... 85,507.68 Logan County ...... 88,945.32 Maynard ...... 2,737.33 Beebe ...... 59,517.21 Madison ...... 1,280.10 Briarcliff ...... 3,085.49 Jerome ...... 430.06 Blue Mountain ...... 942.58 O’Kean ...... 1,444.10 Beedeville ...... 96.21 Magazine ...... 2,841.25 Benton County ...... 673,022.17 Tillar ...... 1,935.28 Caulksville ...... 1,663.80 Pocahontas ...... 46,829.20 Belleville ...... 1,512.34 Magnolia ...... 345,763.56 Benton County Wilmar ...... 5,338.39 Magazine ...... 6,533.80 Ravenden Springs ...... 984.30 Benton ...... 587,018.34 Malvern ...... 258,499.75 Special Aviation ...... 13,627.80 Winchester ...... 1,785.70 Morrison Bluff ...... 528.42 Reyno ...... 3,477.34 Bentonville ...... 1,147,717.57 Mammoth Spring ...... 8,122.30 Siloam Springs ...... 170,075.03 Faulkner County ...... 566,553.16 Paris ...... 26,470.80 Saline County ...... 11,817.67 Berryville ...... 153,595.55 Manila ...... 18,791.41 Rogers ...... 621,072.66 Damascus ...... 791.43 Ratcliff ...... 1,363.89 Bethel Heights ...... 46,139.39 Mansfield ...... 26,203.36 Bentonville ...... 309,469.73 Enola ...... 1,260.93 Scranton ...... 1,585.25 Scott County ...... 70,586.11 Black Rock ...... 2,907.11 Marianna ...... 64,403.50 Bethel Heights ...... 11,199.26 Mount Vernon ...... 965.82 Subiaco ...... 3,134.78 Waldron ...... 25,097.28 Blue Mountain ...... 203.74 Marion ...... 164,823.66 Decatur ...... 20,610.40 Wooster ...... 3,460.85 Booneville ...... 29,398.51 Mansfield ...... 6,274.32 Blytheville ...... 286,406.04 Marked Tree ...... 25,389.72 Gentry ...... 36,781.88 Holland ...... 3,869.98 Lonoke County ...... 215,329.00 Searcy County ...... 34,505.90 Bonanza ...... 2,286.59 Marshall ...... 12,709.35 Gravette ...... 29,676.47 Franklin County ...... 135,629.55 Allport ...... 1,138.64 Gilbert ...... 183.39 Booneville ...... 91,315.84 Maumelle ...... 133,525.56 Lowell ...... 84,417.95 Branch ...... 2,611.43 Austin ...... 5,424.24 Leslie ...... 2,678.67 Bradley ...... 5,645.82 Mayflower ...... 21,318.32 Centerton ...... 33,660.52 Wiederkehr Village ...... 336.48 Carlisle ...... 20,656.95 Marshall ...... 7,296.86 Branch ...... 1,368.38 McCrory ...... 14,287.09 Pea Ridge ...... 36,797.57 Altus ...... 5,976.29 Coy ...... 1,040.02 Pindall ...... 527.95 Brinkley ...... 95,250.34 McGehee ...... 139,560.20 Cave Springs ...... 17,300.80 Charleston ...... 21,688.73 England ...... 27,040.52 St. Joe ...... 716.90 Bryant ...... 837,135.68 Melbourne ...... 29,239.01 Sulphur Springs ...... 10,524.79 Denning ...... 2,962.54 Humnoke ...... 2,510.39 Sebastian County ...... 704,266.73 Bull Shoals ...... 12,839.10 Mena ...... 120,191.58 Avoca ...... 6,634.86 Ozark ...... 25,785.09 Keo ...... 2,106.95 Fort Smith ...... 1,220,958.70 Cabot ...... 551,734.13 Menifee ...... 4,205.59 Garfield ...... 7,685.77 Fulton County ...... 83,729.57 Lonoke ...... 38,435.92 Huntington ...... 10,465.19 Caddo Valley ...... 31,348.11 Mineral Springs ...... 4,586.73 Gateway ...... 7,748.51 Mammoth Spring ...... 4,970.90 Ward ...... 23,131.48 Mansfield ...... 10,738.98 Calico Rock ...... 21,441.12 Monticello ...... 147,634.35 Highfill ...... 10,258.15 Salem ...... 6,895.12 Cabot ...... 136,825.41 Barling ...... 63,521.25 Camden ...... 130,512.94 Moro ...... 2,423.00 Little Flock ...... 40,546.34 Viola ...... 1,651.19 Madison County ...... 150,955.86 Greenwood ...... 108,180.82 Carlisle ...... 25,608.24 Morrilton ...... 120,564.46 Springdale ...... 31,543.01 Horseshoe Bend ...... 30.34 Huntsville ...... 11,787.49 Bonanza ...... 7,818.47 Cave Springs ...... 7,112.84 Mount Ida ...... 21,241.70 Elm Springs ...... 203.91 Cherokee Village ...... 3,506.07 Hindsville ...... 432.09 Central City ...... 8,077.06 Centerton ...... 57,926.82 Mountain Home ...... 344,097.15 Springtown ...... 1,788.12 Ash Flat ...... 8.67 St. Paul ...... 939.08 Hackett ...... 10,556.45 Charleston ...... 22,315.80 Mountain View ...... 164,818.33 Bella Vista ...... 245,191.63 Hardy ...... 117.01 Marion County ...... 67,961.27 Hartford ...... 11,742.91 Cherry Valley ...... 2,842.65 Mountainburg ...... 12,664.48 Boone County ...... 317,324.35 Garland County ...... 610,632.61 Bull Shoals ...... 12,784.29 Lavaca ...... 27,760.12 Chidester ...... 2,839.08 Mulberry ...... 27,671.31 Alpena ...... 3,322.65 Lonsdale ...... 830.42 Flippin ...... 8,674.14 Midland ...... 3,848.39 Clarendon ...... 20,388.22 Murfreesboro ...... 23,478.31 Bellefonte ...... 4,614.79 Mountain Pine ...... 5,432.91 Pyatt ...... 1,617.21 Sevier County ...... 212,140.19 Clarksville ...... 139,676.36 Nashville ...... 85,020.49 Bergman ...... 4,695.55 Fountain Lake ...... 2,878.32 Summit ...... 3,745.80 DeQueen ...... 40,868.27 Clinton ...... 83,618.35 Newport ...... 132,751.21 Everton ...... 1,961.28 Grant County ...... 115,472.40 Yellville ...... 8,386.49 Ben Lomond ...... 893.22 Conway ...... 1,641,086.72 Norfork ...... 4,159.98 Lead Hill ...... 3,311.11 Greene County ...... 343,753.94 Miller County ...... 320,535.51 Gillham ...... 1,332.74 Corning ...... 190,560.31 North Little Rock ...... 2,710,766.33 Omaha ...... 1,903.60 Delaplaine ...... 1,382.31 Garland ...... 6,347.24 Horatio ...... 7,067.76 Cotter ...... 10,345.95 Oak Grove ...... 733.76 South Lead Hill ...... 1,015.25 Lafe ...... 4,190.46 Fouke ...... 6,347.24 Lockesburg ...... 5,040.30 Cotton Plant ...... 1,451.03 Ola ...... 6,716.79 Valley Springs ...... 1,926.67 Marmaduke ...... 12,604.04 Texarkana ...... 142,812.86 Sharp County ...... 62,301.75 Cove ...... 3,187.04 Oppelo ...... 2,328.50 Zinc ...... 876.81 Oak Grove Heights ...... 7,912.90 Mississippi County ...... 619,660.33 Hardy ...... 5,733.34 Crossett ...... 338,674.71 Osceola ...... 74,134.99 Harrison ...... 140,197.26 Paragould ...... 239,640.00 Osceola ...... 87,897.54 Ash Flat ...... 7,689.14 Danville ...... 37,656.67 Oxford ...... 1,080.05 Diamond City ...... 8,421.99 Hempstead County ...... 199,862.10 Keiser ...... 8,002.39 Cave City ...... 14,857.78 Dardanelle ...... 141,472.28 Ozark ...... 64,497.54 Bradley County ...... 104,887.07 Hope ...... 72,495.23 Bassett ...... 1,663.86 Evening Shade ...... 3,667.13 DeQueen ...... 78,106.40 Palestine ...... 6,005.41 Banks ...... 704.38 Blevins ...... 2,492.54 Birdsong ...... 396.16 Sidney ...... 2,168.73 DeValls Bluff ...... 3,371.18 Paragould ...... 320,135.74 Hermitage ...... 4,513.86 Emmet ...... 177.55 Blytheville ...... 180,964.94 Williford ...... 496.84 DeWitt ...... 128,313.48 Paris ...... 16,231.18 Warren ...... 37,813.11 Fulton ...... 1,673.07 Burdette ...... 1,277.61 Horseshoe Bend ...... 39.43 Decatur ...... 12,952.70 Patmos ...... 157.46 Calhoun County ...... 50,818.85 McCaskill ...... 573.62 Dell ...... 2,485.89 Cherokee Village ...... 30,275.49 Dermott ...... 36,485.20 Patterson ...... 1,218.15 Hampton ...... 13,043.39 Oakhaven ...... 368.76 Dyess ...... 5,100.53 Highland ...... 7,775.89 Des Arc ...... 14,368.15 Pea Ridge ...... 23,167.31 Harrell ...... 2,420.34 Ozan ...... 553.14 Gosnell ...... 39,298.87 St. Francis County ...... 141,842.47 Diamond City ...... 1,941.21 Perla ...... 2,133.74 Thornton ...... 4,270.70 Patmos ...... 416.56 Joiner ...... 5,348.13 Hughes ...... 28,112.52 Dierks ...... 17,839.51 Perryville ...... 17,322.28 Tinsman ...... 619.54 Perrytown ...... 1,741.36 Leachville ...... 19,619.72 Forrest City ...... 222,460.79 Dover ...... 15,117.25 Piggott ...... 31,810.73 Carroll County ...... 143,711.64 Washington ...... 1,010.67 Luxora ...... 13,043.50 Wheatley ...... 5,601.42 Dumas ...... 115,135.73 Pine Bluff ...... 575,865.41 Beaver ...... 541.21 McNab ...... 512.16 Manila ...... 30,256.56 Palestine ...... 11,157.68 Dyer ...... 1,091.91 Pineville ...... 1,454.20 Blue Eye ...... 205.09 Hot Spring County ...... 179,805.69 Marie ...... 1,069.63 Madison ...... 14,861.84 Earle ...... 19,427.54 Plainview ...... 2,813.79 Chicot County ...... 113,546.98 Malvern ...... 84,931.78 Victoria ...... 584.33 Caldwell ...... 7,001.78 East Camden ...... 2,955.75 Plumerville ...... 5,054.64 Lake Village ...... 16,996.83 Perla ...... 1,082.71 Wilson ...... 9,299.82 El Dorado ...... 459,562.82 Pocahontas ...... 74,448.26 Eudora ...... 16,972.74 Rockport ...... 7,456.60 Etowah ...... 3,624.85 Colt ...... 5,541.20 Elkins ...... 16,982.41 Portia ...... 2,254.39 Dermott ...... 22,475.79 Donaldson ...... 3,069.26 Montgomery County ...... 46,349.57 Widener ...... 5,044.27 Elm Springs ...... 3,822.81 Pottsville ...... 14,097.02 Clark County ...... 210,336.37 Friendship ...... 1,939.47 Black Springs ...... 703.86 Stone County ...... 81,754.12 England ...... 50,640.54 Prairie Grove ...... 56,596.09 Clay County ...... 70,017.63 Midway ...... 3,219.89 Norman ...... 2,611.68 Mountain View ...... 27,792.54 Etowah ...... 702.92 Prescott ...... 114,533.43 Datto ...... 431.22 Magnet Cove ...... 4,264.95 Oden ...... 1,358.32 Fifty Six ...... 1,575.17 Eudora ...... 26,188.83 Quitman ...... 12,006.51 Greenway ...... 1,084.72 Howard County ...... 279,551.35 Mount Ida ...... 6,056.87 Union County ...... 392,903.55 Eureka Springs ...... 193,307.17 Ravenden ...... 2,756.50 Knobel ...... 1,591.51 Nashville ...... 55,097.75 Nevada County ...... 31,401.51 Calion ...... 11,450.71 Fairfield Bay ...... 23,969.35 Rector ...... 23,174.50 McDougal ...... 866.88 Dierks ...... 13,893.04 Prescott ...... 23,387.75 El Dorado ...... 509,103.07 Farmington ...... 58,870.56 Redfield ...... 16,824.82 Nimmons ...... 444.56 Mineral Springs ...... 14,277.07 Bluff City ...... 1,002.51 Felsenthal ...... 2,736.44 Fayetteville ...... 44.70 Rison ...... 8,753.14 Peach Orchard ...... 866.88 Tollette ...... 3,659.63 Bodcaw ...... 977.13 Huttig ...... 16,949.00 Fayetteville ...... 2,650,488.98 Rockport ...... 3,229.79 Pollard ...... 1,066.94 Independence County . . . . . 340,224.22 Cale ...... 475.88 Junction City ...... 15,296.65 Flippin ...... 39,666.62 Roe ...... 411.05 Success ...... 800.20 Batesville ...... 105,888.27 Emmet ...... 3,045.61 Norphlet ...... 16,946.09 Fordyce ...... 78,138.53 Rogers ...... 1,910,610.97 St. Francis ...... 1,111.39 Cave City ...... 695.08 Rosston ...... 1,681.43 Smackover ...... 47,192.29 Foreman ...... 8,109.21 Rose Bud ...... 7,289.79 Cleburne County ...... 336,155.49 Cushman ...... 5,168.29 Willisville ...... 1,192.87 Strong ...... 13,995.91 Forrest City ...... 150,831.47 Russellville ...... 907,000.54 Concord ...... 2,556.32 Magness ...... 2,141.31 Newton County ...... 27,365.22 Van Buren County ...... 290,236.05 Fort Smith ...... 3,080,392.35 Salem ...... 17,750.74 Greers Ferry ...... 9,323.03 Moorefield ...... 1,793.77 Jasper ...... 1,769.17 Shirley ...... 3,587.76 Fouke ...... 8,370.15 Searcy ...... 322,286.10 Heber Springs ...... 64,479.30 Newark ...... 13,666.26 Western Grove ...... 1,445.88 Damascus ...... 2,001.48 Fountain Hill ...... 711.52 Shannon Hills ...... 8,419.16 Higden ...... 1,012.50 Oil Trough ...... 2,444.01 Ouachita County ...... 82,008.97 Clinton ...... 24,305.22 Franklin ...... 5,468.26 Sheridan ...... 149,869.94 Quitman ...... 6,856.94 Pleasant Plains ...... 2,993.35 Camden ...... 90,635.69 Fairfield Bay ...... 24,635.25 Garfield ...... 3,611.35 Sherrill ...... 718.25 Fairfield Bay ...... 1,463.62 Sulphur Rock ...... 4,719.84 Stephens ...... 7,937.68 Washington County ...... 1,238,800.07 Garland ...... 3,569.24 Sherwood ...... 308,302.76 Cleveland County ...... 29,161.84 Izard County ...... 71,793.31 East Camden ...... 6,215.10 Elkins ...... 20,223.72 Gassville ...... 29,170.00 Shirley ...... 2,990.94 Rison ...... 4,121.16 Jackson County ...... 126,707.21 Bearden ...... 7,751.65 Elm Springs ...... 16,667.19 Gentry ...... 44,712.06 Siloam Springs ...... 469,608.21 Kingsland ...... 1,455.86 Newport ...... 68,133.69 Chidester ...... 2,480.53 Goshen ...... 12,156.87 Gilbert ...... 525.77 Sparkman ...... 2,595.43 Columbia County ...... 311,547.77 Tuckerman ...... 15,325.94 Louann ...... 1,343.62 Greenland ...... 14,662.60 Gillett ...... 6,152.97 Springdale ...... 1,905,798.96 Emerson ...... 519.05 Grubbs ...... 3,820.58 Perry County ...... 71,946.47 Johnson ...... 37,489.06 Gillham ...... 1,415.27 Springtown ...... 103.99 McNeil ...... 957.14 Amagon ...... 828.66 Adona ...... 759.98 Prairie Grove ...... 41,061.76 Gilmore ...... 282.82 St. Charles ...... 1,808.80 Magnolia ...... 17,011.63 Beedeville ...... 915.89 Bigelow ...... 1,337.08 Springdale ...... 707,862.66 Glenwood ...... 61,117.66 Stamps ...... 11,522.41 Taylor ...... 818.34 Campbell Station ...... 1,988.80 Casa ...... 849.39 Tontitown ...... 32,817.07 Gosnell ...... 13,160.92 Star City ...... 56,879.05 Waldo ...... 2,304.66 Diaz ...... 11,200.06 Fourche ...... 239.78 West Fork ...... 33,011.07 Gould ...... 2,517.35 Stephens ...... 5,385.14 Conway County ...... 297,829.76 Jacksonport ...... 2,049.85 Houston ...... 646.19 Winslow ...... 6,450.26 Grady ...... 3,806.44 Stuttgart ...... 331,892.15 Morrilton ...... 71,857.41 Swifton ...... 7,597.55 Perry ...... 1,276.12 Fayetteville ...... 938,390.48 Gravette ...... 44,093.90 Sulphur Springs ...... 1,581.79 Menifee ...... 3,411.86 Tupelo ...... 1,543.93 Perryville ...... 5,925.45 Lincoln ...... 29,163.55 Green Forest ...... 26,453.16 Summit ...... 2,004.15 Oppelo ...... 7,953.68 Weldon ...... 872.28 Phillips County ...... 128,903.21 Farmington ...... 58,278.60 Greenbrier ...... 95,539.25 Sunset ...... 798.27 Plumerville ...... 9,368.89 Jefferson County ...... 564,536.86 Elaine ...... 9,911.81 White County ...... 753,744.37 Greenland ...... 20,395.77 Swifton ...... 3,055.82 Craighead County ...... 250,651.64 Pine Bluff ...... 491,306.49 Lake View ...... 6,084.59 Rose Bud ...... 4,923.55 Greenwood ...... 138,723.73 Taylor ...... 3,958.68 Bay ...... 26,817.22 Wabbaseka ...... 2,878.24 Lexa ...... 3,792.85 Beebe ...... 56,580.61 Guion ...... 1,394.75 Texarkana ...... 333,632.80 Black Oak ...... 4,260.96 White Hall ...... 42,166.72 Marvell ...... 15,984.94 Bradford ...... 9,181.44 Gurdon ...... 55,962.19 Texarkana Special ...... 143,291.44 Bono ...... 22,526.47 Redfield ...... 10,310.00 Helena-West Helena . . . . . 172,018.64 Kensett ...... 20,554.94 Guy ...... 3,486.47 Thornton ...... 1,219.78 Brookland ...... 19,844.74 Altheimer ...... 10,621.88 Pike County ...... 143,529.57 Garner ...... 3,259.41 Hackett ...... 3,073.09 Tontitown ...... 102,369.32 Caraway ...... 20,098.02 Humphrey ...... 3,555.48 Antoine ...... 1,000.09 Georgetown ...... 1,446.08 Hamburg ...... 25,259.39 Trumann ...... 61,076.22 Cash ...... 4,380.15 Sherrill ...... 1,122.78 Daisy ...... 756.48 Griffithville ...... 3,006.92 Hardy ...... 18,059.73 Tuckerman ...... 17,291.52 Egypt ...... 1,504.74 Johnson County ...... 93,023.35 Delight ...... 1,993.76 Higginson ...... 4,338.23 Harrisburg ...... 22,451.05 Turrell ...... 5,689.81 Lake City ...... 29,141.38 Clarksville ...... 62,227.86 Glenwood ...... 13,507.61 Judsonia ...... 22,747.01 Harrison ...... 856.27 Twin Groves ...... 675.49 Monette ...... 17,565.28 Coal Hill ...... 8,069.71 Murfreesboro ...... 11,308.70 Letona ...... 2,306.84 Harrison ...... 228,791.49 Tyronza ...... 48.58 Jonesboro ...... 827,087.84 Hartman ...... 4,804.74 Poinsett County ...... 109,349.88 Hatfield ...... 2,883.37 Van Buren ...... 443,223.42 Crawford County ...... 230,294.31 Knoxville ...... 4,119.50 Lepanto ...... 14,595.49 McRae ...... 7,586.16 Havana ...... 2,697.13 Vandervoort ...... 245.89 Alma ...... 38,422.41 Lamar ...... 11,407.24 Fisher ...... 1,813.32 Pangburn ...... 7,505.83 Hazen ...... 31,038.30 Vilonia ...... 46,651.17 Van Buren ...... 175,357.66 Lafayette County ...... 70,157.84 Harrisburg ...... 14,999.21 Russell ...... 2,616.71 Heber Springs ...... 124,322.53 Viola ...... 2,159.29 Mulberry ...... 15,027.23 Bradley ...... 2,654.00 Marked Tree ...... 19,159.58 Searcy ...... 217,232.81 Helena-West Helena ...... 187,825.76 Wabbaseka ...... 979.23 Mountainburg ...... 6,299.06 Stamps ...... 10,045.61 Trumann ...... 47,139.41 West Point ...... 2,387.15 Hermitage ...... 3,844.03 Waldenburg ...... 6,039.37 Kibler ...... 8,949.84 Buckner ...... 1,866.76 Tyronza ...... 6,281.61 Bald Knob ...... 36,840.52 Highfill ...... 62,688.06 Waldron ...... 40,154.01 Dyer ...... 5,403.15 Lewisville ...... 6,057.54 Weiner ...... 5,200.46 Woodruff County ...... 14,103.48 Highfill Special Aviation . . . . 27,132.86 Walnut Ridge ...... 57,475.83 Chester ...... 914.38 Lawrence County ...... 118,294.59 Waldenburg ...... 547.41 Cotton Plant ...... 5,114.97 Highland ...... 31,039.34 Ward ...... 10,963.74 Rudy ...... 665.00 Walnut Ridge ...... 25,334.89 Polk County ...... 210,451.49 Augusta ...... 14,199.38 Holly Grove ...... 4,569.87 Warren ...... 57,214.96 Cedarville ...... 10,464.56 Alicia ...... 745.90 Mena ...... 95,385.95 Hunter ...... 809.87 Hope ...... 143,887.34 Washington ...... 829.06 Crittenden County ...... 582,450.03 Black Rock ...... 3,688.35 Cove ...... 6,480.90 McCrory ...... 9,856.98 Horseshoe Bend ...... 22,320.66 Weiner ...... 7,558.95 Marion ...... 47,962.69 College City ...... 1,383.77 Grannis ...... 9,729.80 Patterson ...... 2,488.23 Hot Springs ...... 1,347,707.80 West Fork ...... 20,459.11 West Memphis ...... 149,077.15 Hoxie ...... 14,491.04 Hatfield ...... 6,802.40 Yell County ...... 81,835.17 Hoxie ...... 14,690.80 West Memphis ...... 482,127.34 Earle ...... 16,359.37 Imboden ...... 3,518.59 Vandervoort ...... 2,030.58 Plainview ...... 4,169.95 Hughes ...... 8,198.48 Wheatley ...... 4,411.95 Crawfordsville ...... 2,769.67 Lynn ...... 1,620.40 Wickes ...... 11,421.95 Dardanelle ...... 23,351.72 Humphrey ...... 1,871.73 White Hall ...... 44,038.58 Edmondson ...... 2,764.28 Minturn ...... 586.43 Pope County ...... 323,573.88 Ola ...... 6,649.83 Huntington ...... 2,827.26 Wickes ...... 3,016.93 Gilmore ...... 1,416.09 Portia ...... 2,484.62 Russellville ...... 320,917.86 Danville ...... 13,211.29 Huntsville ...... 44,703.29 Wiederkehr Village ...... 2,049.71 Horseshoe Lake ...... 1,729.70 Powhatan ...... 257.21 Atkins ...... 39,000.15 Belleville ...... 2,049.07 Jacksonville ...... 556,508.25 Wilton ...... 1,240.21 Jennette ...... 601.35 Ravenden ...... 2,628.65 Dover ...... 18,009.45 Havana ...... 2,165.06 Jasper ...... 21,727.36 Wynne ...... 12.62 Jericho ...... 991.48 Sedgwick ...... 576.14 Hector ...... 6,856.87 Jennette ...... 113.70 Yellville ...... 17,088.47 Sunset ...... 1,687.66 Smithville ...... 375.52 London ...... 12,534.80 Interest: $122,624 Johnson ...... 45,067.65 Turrell ...... 4,641.08 Strawberry ...... 1,455.79 Pottsville ...... 17,223.49
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DECEMBER 2007 41 M U N I C I P A L M A R T LITTLE ROCK Healthcare Profiles FREE space is provided to Arkansas municipalities with job opportunities or products to buy and sell. Ads will run for two consecutive months unless the sponsor notifies City & Town to extend or discontinue an ad. FAX: 501-374-0541; E-mail: [email protected] . Families GENERAL MANAGER —Fairfield Bay is seeking a General Closing date: Until filled. PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR —Owasso, one of Manager for the Fairfield Bay Community Club. Fairfield ZONING OFFICIAL —Pine Bluff is seeking a Zoning Official. Oklahoma’s fastest growing communities, is seek - Bay is a resort/retirement area with fishing, boating, golf - Will be responsible for the administration of zoning, ing and tennis amenities located 90 miles north of Little subdivision, flood plain and sign codes for the City ing resumés for Public Works Director; position is in Crisis Rock. The Community Club is a nonprofit corporation of Pine Bluff. The Zoning Official handles various responsible for planning, organizing, directing and managed by a board of directors. The General Manager aspects of administration of zoning codes, reviews coordinating the activities of the Public Works will be hired by and report to the board of directors. The and issues permits for new construction, additions Department . Requirements: bachelor’s degree from Don’t Have General Manager’s position has an anticipated salary of and operation of business. All applicants must have an accredited college or university, master of $70,000-$85,000 plus an excellent health benefit pack - at least an associate’s degree and 4 yrs. of directly science degree in Civil Engineering or related field age. A master’s degree is preferred. The Board will expect related experience, a bachelor’s degree in a related preferred; P.E. certification a plus; 5 years’ increas - to Wait at least 3 years’ experience as a Community/City Admin - field or equivalent combination of education and ingly responsible experience in a broad range of istrator/ Manager or Assistant in a community of similar experience. Applications will be accepted in person municipal services including engineering/architec - complexity. Applicants must have strong financial man - or by mail at the City of Pine Bluff, HR Department, tural design or operations, refuse system opera - innacle Pointe oers agement and budgeting skills. The General Manager will 200 E. 8th Ave., Room 104, Pine Bluff, AR 71601. tions, water/wastewater and/or street maintenance; free, condential be responsible for interacting positively and successfully Resumés may be faxed to 870-850-2449 or e-mailed Okla. Class “A” license as Wastewater Operator with the board of directors, Club membership, City gov - to [email protected] . Applications may be and Okla. Class “A” license as Water Operator or assessment and ernment and business community as well as Club man - downloaded at www.cityofpinebluff.com Closing date: ability to obtain; other combination of experience referral services 24 agers and staff. The General Manager will be required to Until filled. and education that meet the minimum requirements P reside within Fairfield Bay. Apply in confidence to: Fairfield FOR SALE —West Memphis has for sale 8 police cars, 1997 hours a day, 7 days a week as a Bay Community Club, Inc., Attn: Carol Messer, Director of through 2003. For police depts., these units may be pur - may be substituted. community service. Dr. Streett Human Resources, P.O. Box 1370, Fairfield Bay, AR 72088. chased complete with lights, radio and all emergency If you want a to be part of an organization that pro - suggests that parents seek help if E-mail: [email protected]. equipment. Your choice, $4,500. Contact Rex Suggs at motes character and a is dedicated to improving the a child exhibits: POLICE OFFICER —Marianna Police Department is accept - 870-732-7580. lives’ of its citizens through a innovative public ing applications for a full-time police officer. Certifica - works concepts, log on to www.cityofowasso.com • Aggression toward other CITY PLANNER —Owasso, one of Oklahoma’s fastest tion is required. Must be willing to relocate or live in for more information. Position open until filled. children area. Insurance, LOPFI, retirement and 3 weeks’ paid growing communities, is seeking resumés for City vacation. Application available at the Marianna Police Planner. The hired professional will work under the • An inability to cope with Department, or mail resumé to Chief Kevin Evans, direction of the Community Development Director, IPS CONSULTANT III/MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT feelings and will be responsible for implementing land use CONSULTANT —The University of Tennessee Mu - Marianna Police Department, 16 Court St., Marianna, • Frequent crying AR 72360. planning programs as well as providing broad based nicipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS) has an POLICE OFFICER —Caddo Valley in Clark County seeks appli - planning services to the Public, City Council, ap - opening for a Municipal Management Consultant in • Pleas for help cants for a F/T certified police officer. Benefits include pointed boards including the Planning Commission our Knoxville office. This is a non-faculty position. • Fears of everyday things and Board of Adjustment and City Staff including the paid holiday, health, dental, eye insurance, retirement, This organization is one of a kind in the nation. and/or possible disasters 3 weeks’ paid vacation and LOPFI. Send resumés and Director of Community Development and the City MTAS serves 347 cities in Tennessee by providing copies of certifications to Caddo Valley Police Manager. elected and appointed officials one-on-one help such as the deaths of family Department , 137 Malvern Rd., Arkadelphia, AR 71923. Requirements: must have extensive knowledge of with all facets of local government. The Municipal members POLICE OFFICER —Smackover Police Department is accept - land use, policy, long-range planning, development Management Consultant is the key contact for cities • No interest in playing ing applications for full-time certified police officer.Salary codes, public speaking, and cartography; Bachelor’s and serves as a generalist for 30-40 cities. Job in - • Isolation starting at $27,000 to $29,500 DOE.Must be willing to degree in City Planning or related field required; volves answering questions from city officials, fre - work 12-hour shifts and nights. Application available at must have at least two years responsible experience quently traveling to cities in the consultant’s • Discussions of death and the Smackover Police Department, or mail resumé and in governmental planning; AutoCAD experience pre - territory, performing research, conducting training dying; statements like “I wish copies of certifications to Chief Michael Fife,Smackover ferred. Police Department, 201 East 7th Street, Smackover, AR sessions, writing publications, attending occasional I were dead.” See www.cityofowasso.com for more information. council meetings and requires a few overnight trips. 71762. Benefits include: 3 weeks’ paid vacation, 13 paid Send resumé to [email protected] or • Trouble sleeping holidays, paid insurance (single), overtime pay, uniforms No two days are the same, independent judgment Human Resources, P.O. Box 180, Owasso, OK is a must, and the university emphasizes continuing • Sexually provocative and weapon supplied by department. 74055. Position open until filled. early STREET DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR —Pine Bluff is cur - education for its staff. For more about MTAS and for behavior rently seeking applicants for the position of the Street educational and experience requirements, visit the • Self-mutilation Department Director. The Street Department Director CIVIL ENGINEER —Owasso, Okla., Public Works Web site: www.mtas.tennessee.edu . intervention: • Harm to animals Department seeks a Civil Engineer to service a oversees and reviews the preparation of plans and Please send letter and resumé to: Municipal specifications for public works projects, assists in pro - population of 33,858. The hired professional will • Unusual weight gain or loss Management Consultant Search, UT- MTAS, 120 The Key to Your Child’s Mental Health. jecting a broad plan of public works improvement and work under the direction of the Engineering Projects • Drug or alcohol use Manager and the Public Works Director, and will be Conference Center; Knoxville, TN 37996-4105 or administers and coordinates all city capital improve - s parents, it’s difficult to watch a specializing in the care of children and ment projects with all other city departments, utilities responsible for reviewing subdivision submittals, email to: [email protected]. Position and outside contracts. The Street Department Director generating documents for City authorities, and open until filled. child going through tough times. adolescents. He serves as the Medical gives technical engineering and architectural advice to working with other engineers for the design and The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title How long should you muddle Director at Pinnacle Point Behavioral Where to go for help heads of various city departments as directed by the construction of small capital improvement projects. VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution through on your own, supporting HealthCare System, Little Rock’s premier Mayor, and performs and coordinates the investigation, Requirements: Bachelor’s degree from an accred - A in the provision of its education your child as best you can? At what point provider of outpatient and inpatient mental development, design and construction of a variety of ited college or university with major study in civil, and employment programs and services. does concerning behavior cross the line into health services for children and teenagers. environmental or transportation engineering, con - engineering projects and supervises the operation and scary behavior? Most kids, he says, will do fine with maintenance of all street department equipment and struction management or a related field; two to stock of material used in the operation of the depart - three years of experience in professional civil engi - Questions bring more questions: “If I outpatient treatment. erapy and perhaps ment. A bachelor ’s degree in Civil Engineering from an neering work, preferably in the area of design take my child for mental health help, will he medication will get them back on track. accredited college and/or 5 yrs. of increasingly respon - and/or construction of streets and roadways; pos - be on drugs for the rest of his life? Will she “e key,” he says, “is early intervention.” sible experience in engineering work, 2 yrs. of which session of an Engineer-In-Training (EIT) certificate be doomed to carry a label throughout her Pointing out that most parents wouldn’t must have been in a manager/supervisory capacity is (preferred); and all education requirements must be 7 school years? Where will it end? hesitate to seek treatment for a child’s 0
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