Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Communication director Lindsley Smith introduces three new members of Fayetteville City Council to new director of Senior Center


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For many more photos from Fayetteville Senior Center, including today's photos of youngsters from New School visiting with senior residents of Fayetteville, please see Senior Center set on Flickr.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Numerous controversial issues on tonight's city-council agenda

Mayor Lioneld Jordan

City Attorney Kit Williams

City Clerk Sondra Smith
Aldermen 
Ward 1 Position 1 – Adella Gray
Ward 1 Position 2 – Brenda Boudreaux
Ward 2 Position 1 – Mark Kinion
Ward 2 Position 2 – Matthew Petty
Ward 3 Position 1 – Justin Tennant
Ward 3 Position 2 – Robert Ferrell
Ward 4 Position 1 – Rhonda Adams
Ward 4 Position 2 – Sarah Lewis

Final Agenda
City of Fayetteville Arkansas
City Council Meeting
December 4, 2012

A meeting of the Fayetteville City Council will be held on December 4, 2012 at 6:00 PM in Room 219 of the City Administration Building located at 113 West Mountain Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas.


Call to Order

Roll Call

Pledge of Allegiance

Mayor’s Announcements, Proclamations and Recognitions:

City Council Meeting Presentations, Reports and Discussion Items:

Agenda Additions:

A.Consent:

1.Approval of the November 8 and November 20, 2012 City Council meeting minutes.

2.University of Arkansas Razorback Road Sidewalk Cost Share:  A resolution to approve a budget adjustment in the amount of $51,308.00 to recognize revenue from the University of Arkansas for its cost share for construction of a sidewalk along Razorback Road.


3.Hazardous Materials Incident Response Services Interlocal Cooperation Agreement:  A resolution providing notice pursuant to Article V of the Interlocal Cooperation Agreement for the Provision of Hazardous Materials Incident Response Services in Benton and Washington Counties of the intention of the City of Fayetteville to withdraw its participation in the agreement effective six (6) months from the date of written notification of the adoption of this resolution to the remaining participants.



4.Arkansas Firewise Grant:  A resolution authorizing acceptance of an Arkansas Firewise Grant in the amount of $500.00 from the Arkansas Forestry Commission for use by the Fire Department, and approving a budget adjustment.


5.Bid #12-75 Insituform Technologies, LLC:  A resolution to approve Bid #12-75 for a construction contract with Insituform Technologies, LLC for service lateral and sewer main cured in place lining in the amount of $330,000.00.

6.Operations and Management Plan for Razorback Regional Greenway:  A resolution to approve the Northwest Arkansas Razorback Greenway Operations and Management Plan for Razorback Greenway Trails within Fayetteville.


7.Bid #12-74 Vance Brothers, Inc.:  A resolution awarding Bid #12-74 and approving a contract with Vance Brothers, Inc. in the amount of $72,470.00 for asphalt micro-surfacing, and approving a ten percent (10%) project contingency.

8.City Depository Board:  A resolution designating members of the City Depository Board, as established by Arkansas Code §19-8-106.


9.2013 Community Access Television Contract:  A resolution approving a contract in the amount of $105,000.00 with Community Access Television, Inc. to provide public access services and operate the Fayetteville Public Access Television Channel throughout the 2013 year.


10.Regional Wayfinding Program:  A resolution to express the Fayetteville City Council’s intent to implement the Regional Wayfinding Program.


11.Wayfinding Program Implementation:  A resolution to approve the cooperative agreement between the City of Fayetteville and the Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission regarding Wayfinding Program Implementation at a potential cost of approximately $125,000.00.


12.Johnson Property Zoning Change:  A resolution agreeing to the change in zoning from commercial to residential for property located in Johnson that adjoins parcels in Fayetteville.


B.Unfinished Business:

1.2013 Annual Budget and Work Program:  A resolution adopting the 2013 Annual Budget and Work Program.  The motion to approve the budget failed.  Then a motion to reconsider was approved.  Then the resolution to approve the budget was tabled to the December 4, 2012 City Council meeting.


C.New Business:

1.ADM 12-4259 (UDC Amendment Subdivision Regulations in the Planning Area):  An ordinance to Amend §166.05 Required Infrastructure Improvements - Development in the Planning Area and to repeal §166.08 (I) of the Unified Development Code of Fayetteville.


2.Clear Creek Trail:  A resolution approving a request by the City of Fayetteville to modify the geographic extent and location of certain tree preservation areas pursuant to §167.04(L)(2), Tree Preservation and Protection, Unified Development Code of the Code of Fayetteville, to construct a section of Clear Creek Trail.


3.Grant Thornton Annual Audit Services:  A resolution to approve a contract with Grant Thornton, LLP in the amount of $82,500.00 to audit the financial statements of the City.



4.City of West Fork Wastewater Service:  A resolution expressing the intent of the City of Fayetteville to provide wholesale wastewater service to the City of West Fork.


5.Entertainment District Parking Deck Site Selection:  A resolution to select the site of the Entertainment District Parking Deck.


6.RZN 12-4252 (Center Street Rezoning for Eco New):  An ordinance rezoning that property described in rezoning petition RZN 12-4252, for approximately 2.75 acres, located along West Center Street, near Duncan Avenue and the northwest corner of Hill Avenue and Treadwell Street, from RMF-40, Residential Multi-Family, 40 units per acre to DG, Downtown General.


7.Repeal §31.46 Freezing Elected City Officials’ Compensation: An ordinance to repeal §31.46 Freezing Elected City Officials’ Compensation if in Excess of $80,000.00.


D.City Council Agenda Session Presentations:

1.Parking Deck Presentation - The Parking Deck Team (including both staff and consultants)

E.City Council Tour:

F.Announcements:

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

City Council agenda and links to backup material for 20 Nov 2012 meeting

Mayor Lioneld Jordan

City Attorney Kit Williams

City Clerk Sondra Smith
Aldermen 
Ward 1 Position 1 – Adella Gray
Ward 1 Position 2 – Brenda Boudreaux
Ward 2 Position 1 – Mark Kinion
Ward 2 Position 2 – Matthew Petty
Ward 3 Position 1 – Justin Tennant
Ward 3 Position 2 – Robert Ferrell
Ward 4 Position 1 – Rhonda Adams
Ward 4 Position 2 – Sarah Lewis

Final Agenda
City of Fayetteville Arkansas
City Council Meeting
November 20, 2012

A meeting of the Fayetteville City Council will be held on November 20, 2012 at 6:00 PM in Room 219 of the City Administration Building located at 113 West Mountain Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas.


Call to Order

Roll Call

Pledge of Allegiance

Mayor’s Announcements, Proclamations and Recognitions:

City Council Meeting Presentations, Reports and Discussion Items:

1.3rd Quarter Financial Report 2012

2.Urban Tree Canopy Assessment Results - Presented by Ian Hanou with Plan-It Geo

Agenda Additions:

A.Consent:

1.Approval of the November 8, 2012 City Council meeting minutes.

2.Bid #12-19 Peterbilt:  A resolution awarding Bid #12-19 and authorizing the purchase of two (2) auto arm refuse trucks from Peterbilt of Fort Smith in the total amount of $517,086.00, for use by the Solid Waste Division, and approving a budget adjustment.


3.Bid #12-73 North Point Ford:  A resolution awarding Bid #12-73 and authorizing the purchase of one (1) Ford F-250 truck with deerskin animal control body from North Point Ford of North Little Rock in the total amount of $49,856.00 for use by the Animal Services Division, and approving a budget adjustment.


4.Riggs Cat:  A resolution authorizing the purchase of one (1) Caterpillar bulldozer from Riggs Cat, pursuant to a state procurement contract, in the amount of $105,422.00 for use by the Transportation Division, and approving a budget adjustment.


5.Internal Revenue Services (IRS) Task Force:  A resolution approving a budget adjustment in the amount of $30,100.00 to recognize revenue and expenses related to City participation in the local Internal Revenue Services (IRS) Task Force for fiscal year 2012-2013.


6.Arkansas State Police Asset Forfeiture Fund:  A resolution authorizing acceptance of a grant in the amount of $34,664.00 from the Arkansas State Police Asset Forfeiture Fund for the purchase of an undercover drug enforcement vehicle and a covert audio/video recorder, and approving a budget adjustment.


7.Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. Amendment No. 4:  A resolution approving supplemental Agreement No. 4 to the contract with Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. in the amount of $768,033.41 for engineering services for the Fayetteville Expressway Development Corridor Project, and approving a budget adjustment.


8.Garver, LLC:  A resolution approving a professional engineering services agreement with Garver, LLC for on-call engineering and surveying services in the amount of $25,000.00 and engineering design services for the Greenland sewer rehabilitation project in the amount of $100,087.00, and approving a project contingency of $10,000.00.


9.City of Greenland Wastewater Service Agreement:  A resolution approving an extension of the agreement between the City of Fayetteville and the City of Greenland regarding the provision of wastewater collection services in the City of Greenland.


10.RJN Group, Inc. Amendment No. 1:  A resolution approving Amendment No. 1 to the engineering services agreement with RJN Group, Inc. in the amount of $160,957.58 to update the wastewater collection system model and master plan.


B.Unfinished Business:  None

C.New Business:

1.Bid #12-68 Emery Sapp & Sons, Inc.:  A resolution awarding Bid #12-68 and approving a contract with Emery Sapp & Sons, Inc. in the amount of $6,303,828.48 for the construction of the Fulbright Expressway/Highway 71B Flyover, approving a project contingency of $315,191.42, and approving a budget adjustment.


2.SourceGas Arkansas, Inc.:  An ordinance waiving the requirements of formal competitive bidding for approving a cost-share agreement with Sourcegas Arkansas, Inc. in the amount of $94,577.00 for the relocation of gas mains and facilities necessary for the Fulbright Expressway/Highway 71-B Flyover Project and for all future payments to or contracts with Sourcegas Arkansas, Inc. for the relocation costs for natural gas utility mains and appurtenances necessitated by road reconstruction or widening projects within Sourcegas Arkansas, Inc.’s area of service, approving a project contingency of $18,915.00 for the Flyover Project, and approving a budget adjustment.


3.VAC 12-4219 (2514 New School Pl./The New School):  An ordinance approving VAC 12-4219 submitted by Jorgensen and Associates for property located at 2514 New School Place to vacate portions of existing easements and right-of-way.


4.VAC 12-4231 (Alley Between W. Cleveland St. and W. Douglas St./University of Arkansas):  An ordinance approving VAC 12-4231 submitted by Allen Jay Young for property located between West Cleveland Street and West Douglas Street to vacate an alley, a total of 0.25 acres.


5.2013 Annual Budget and Work Program:  A resolution adopting the 2013 Annual Budget and Work Program.


6.CH2M Hill Engineers, Inc.:  A resolution approving contract Amendment No. 3 with CH2M Hill Engineers, Inc. in the amount of $7,224,875.00 for operation, maintenance, management and engineering services for city wastewater treatment facilities and systems in 2013 subject to approval of the 2013 annual city budget and work program, and approving a $70,000.00 contract contingency.


7.South Garland Boulevard Associates, LP:  An ordinance waiving the requirements of formal competitive bidding and approving a cost-share agreement with South Garland Boulevard Associates, LP in the approximate amount of $98,949.00 for the upgrading of an eight-inch water main to a twelve-inch water main along Indian Trail from Razorback Road to Rose Avenue and the construction of a twelve-inch water main from Rose Avenue to Stadium Drive.


D.City Council Agenda Session Presentations:

E.City Council Tour:

F.Announcements:

Adjournment:

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Old business on Nov. 8, 2012 council agenda: Concerned neighbors of the proposed development could buy the property and preserve the urban nature area to avoid this or an even more intrusive project from destroying the habitat forever

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Beautiful forest, savannah, highland prairie and perched wetland habitat
Geologist Richard Russell finds sandstone dominating surface
Huge detention pond on east side of project site could be a huge rain garden
Perched wetland on otherwise high, dry mountain tops recharge groundwater and reduce siltation and flooding in the Illinois River watershed 
AHD  dredged and rerouted Lynn Creek, which runs north along western edge of land proposed for more housing, making protection of riparian zone and steep hillside more important if project is approved. 

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Tonight's city council agenda plus link to live view on Internet or Government Channel 216 on Cox Cable in NWA and Channel 99 plus on ATT U-verse

Mayor Lioneld Jordan

City Attorney Kit Williams

City Clerk Sondra Smith
Aldermen 
Ward 1 Position 1 – Adella Gray
Ward 1 Position 2 – Brenda Boudreaux
Ward 2 Position 1 – Mark Kinion
Ward 2 Position 2 – Matthew Petty
Ward 3 Position 1 – Justin Tennant
Ward 3 Position 2 – Robert Ferrell
Ward 4 Position 1 – Rhonda Adams
Ward 4 Position 2 – Sarah Lewis

Final Agenda
City of Fayetteville Arkansas
City Council Meeting
October 16, 2012

A meeting of the Fayetteville City Council will be held on October 16, 2012 at 6:00 PM in Room 219 of the City Administration Building located at 113 West Mountain Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas.


Call to Order

Roll Call

Pledge of Allegiance

Mayor’s Announcements, Proclamations and Recognitions:

City Council Meeting Presentations, Reports and Discussion Items:

1.America in Bloom Award - Cindi Cope

Agenda Additions:

A.Consent:

1.Approval of the October 2, 2012 City Council meeting minutes.

2.Bid #12-62 B&H Foto & Electronics Corp.:  A resolution awarding Bid #12-62 and authorizing the purchase of two (2) television studio camera systems from B&H Foto & Electronics Corp. of New York, New York in the amount of $75,578.00, plus applicable taxes.



3.Community Development Block Grant Program:  A resolution awarding bid and authorizing the purchase of 1500 energy efficiency/weatherization kits from ______________in the amount of ______________for use by the Community Development Block Grant Program.


4.Zara L. Thomas Revocable Trust Settlement:  A resolution approving a settlement agreement with Zara L. Thomas, Trustee of the Zara L. Thomas Revocable Trust U/D/T November 20, 1998 and of the Mary C. Thomas Revocable Trust U/D/T November 20, 1998, concerning condemnation litigation filed regarding the extension of Meadow Valley Trail (U of A Farm Trail).


5.Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department:  A resolution approving payment of $4,019,094.00 to the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department representing the City’s portion of construction costs related to improvements to State Highway 16, and approving a budget adjustment.


B.Unfinished Business:

1.RZN 12-4166 (South of Brookbury Crossing & East of Candlewood Developments/Riggins):  An ordinance rezoning that property described in rezoning petition RZN 12-4166, for approximately 20.99 acres, located to the south of Skillern Road from R-A, Residential Agricultural to RSF-0.5, One Half Single-Family Units Per Acre.  This ordinance was left on the First Reading at the August 21, 2012 City Council meeting and Tabled to the September 18, 2012 City Council meeting.  This ordinance was left on the First Reading at the September 18, 2012 City Council meeting and Tabled to the October 16, 2012 City Council meeting.



2.REO Holdings 1, LLC:  An ordinance waiving the requirements of formal competitive bidding and approving a cost-share agreement with REO Holdings 1, LLC in the amount of $31,712.00 for the construction of an eight-inch water main near Bridgewater Lane. This ordinance was left on the Third Reading at the October 2, 2012 City Council meeting and Tabled to the October 16, 2012 City Council meeting.


C.Public Hearing:

1.Dynasty Taxi:  A resolution granting a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to Dynasty Taxi Service, Inc. for the operation of a total of fifteen (15) to thirty (30) taxicabs in the City of Fayetteville.


D.New Business:

1.VAC 12-4221 (2111 Martin Luther King Blvd./Panda Express):  An ordinance approving VAC 12-4221 submitted by Lorel Hoffman for property located at 2111 Martin Luther King Boulevard to vacate a portion of a water and sewer easement, a total of 2,039 square feet.


2.Arkansas Forestry Commission Memorandum of Agreement:  An ordinance to waive formal competitive bidding and approve a Memorandum of Agreement between the Arkansas Forestry Commission and the City of Fayetteville to pay $20,000.00 and $24,995.00 respectively to Plan-It GEO to conduct a tree canopy analysis for Fayetteville.


3.2013 Residential Trash Rates:  An ordinance waiving the requirements of Fayetteville Code of Ordinances Section 50.40 (A)(4) for an automatic annual price adjustment of residential trash rates for fiscal year 2013.


4.Amend Chapter 33:  An ordinance amending Article XVI: City Council Street Committee of Chapter 33: Departments, Boards, Commission, and Authorities of the Code of Fayetteville to amend the Purposes, Powers and Duties of the City Council Street Committee.


5.Amend Standing City Council Committees:  A resolution to amend Rule E.1.a. Standing City Council Committees of the Rules of Order and Procedure of the Fayetteville City Council to clarify the advisory status of all committees.


E.City Council Tour:

1.October 15, 2012 at 4:30 pm - RZN 12-4166 (South of Brookbury Crossing & East of Candlewood Developments/Riggins)

2.October 23, 2012 at 4:30 pm - Wedington Drive Corridor

F.Announcements:

1.Reminder:  The regular scheduled City Council meeting of November 6, 2012 has been changed to November 8, 2012.  The City Council Rules of Order and Procedure state: The City Council shall meet in regular session on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 6:00 P.M.  When a holiday or general election occurs on any such Tuesday, the regular meeting shall be held on the following Thursday at the same hour unless otherwise provided for by motion.

Adjournment:

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Unexpected success dredging up old blog that had disappeared from public view


SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Requium for SouthPass?


It has been six long years since the City ignored the City Plan 2025 and was snookered into an another deal with developers on which the the citizens look like suckers, some of the same developers who were gifted with a $3.7 million TIF deal for a luxury hotel that morphed into a barren parking lot and who would be major campaign contributors to Dan Coody's reelection campaign. With only a City Council resolution authorizing him to negotiate, on September 7, 2004, former Mayor Dan Coody immediately signed a contract with SouthPass Development that had already been prepared and signed by John Nock. When the Council balked in November 2008, City Attorney Kit Williams told them that they had no choice but to approve the development and everything that Coody had promised. Subsequently, Coody waived some of the requirements for the developers, and the City went ahead to build infrastructure that was supposed to be a cost-share project with the developers.

All of the Planned Zoning District and permits for SouthPass were to expire on November 6, 2009, if the Phase One construction was not met. It wasn't. Neither did the developers deliver the required deeds for a 200-acre regional park and 10-acres with water tanks nor the $1 million for park development as required by the contract. All the City has gotten out of this deal has been a toxic landfill, hundreds of thousands of expense for new infrastructure, untold hours of staff time, and a well deserved repution for being a fool.

Thanks to documents released in response to a recent FOIA request, we now know even more. Two days before the permits expired, the developers requested a one-year extension until November 6, 2010. In response to the letter, the City asked for specific reasons for extending the PZD phasing deadlines and subsequent information regarding the timing of the release of the deeds required of the PZD conditions of approval. Since that time, the City has, on numerous occasions, deferred to the developers, property owners, bank representatives and/or attorneys representing the bank to allow additional time in order to negotiate the release of the deeds. It has become increasingly apparent that the lines of communication between the City and the development/ownership group have not been productive, as the City established four deadline commitments that have been extended or missed since these discussions began in November, 10 months ago.

On August 19, 2010, City Planning Director Jeremy Pate told the developers “that unless the deeds are delivered to the City of Fayetteville unencumbered, free and clear of any lien or mortgage and acceptable to the City of Fayetteville before Friday, August 27, at 12:00 pm local Fayetteville time, the request to extend the PZD approval for one year will be denied, to be effective on the same date and time.” That date has come and gone.

City Attorney Kit Williams got involved with a series of memos between John Nock and himself. It appears that the City is sitting on two sets of deeds -- one from the SouthPass developers and one from Chambers Bank pending a deed from SouthPass in lieu of foreclosure. Williams extended the deadline yet again until September 9, because he says Nock says he is trying to get other financing to save his project and cough up the additional $1 million required by the contract. If that doesn't happen, Williams says he will file the deeds from Chambers Bank, but the agreement between Williams and J. R. Meeks of Chambers Bank specifically exempting the bank from "assuming any obligations of SouthPass under any previous agreements and between the City and SouthPass." That is, the City should not count on the promised cost-share expenses and the $1 million it was supposed to get under the contract with SouthPass.

Maybe this will all be over next week, or maybe Williams will cut a new deal granting yet another extension to keep this albatross hanging around our necks for another six years. I think, as Kenny Rogers told me, you need to know when to fold'em and when to walk away. Let's cut our losses and be done with this whole mess.

22 comments:

  1. So John Nock thinks someone is going to loan SouthPass money? The stockholders and officers of the Limited Liability Corporation are not open for public inspection, but the development team that it presented and persuaded the city to get involved with this fiasco were represented to be John Nock, Richard Alexander, Rob Merry-Ship, Keith Roberts, Tim Cooper, Mitchell Massey, Morgan Hooker, Brandon Barber, Hank Broyles, and Hal Forsythe. Good luck.
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  2. Monroe Jesuser, Jr.September 4, 2010 4:17 PM
    Yes, please, absolutely. Sorry Connie Edmonston won't get her dream of increasing her ever-expanding empire with an absolutely horribly designed regional sports park that had too few fields and zip for parking. Nothing that any self-respecting tournament organizer would ever consider.

    It's time to cut another Coody albatross loose and continue to try to extricate the city from his shady deals and questionable "agreements".

    Will we ever stop seeing this stuff crawling out from underneath rocks?

    Hope springs eternal....

    Just my opinion. To which their own everyone has the right.
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  3. Why does Kit Williams keep messing with these deadbeats????? There is no advantage to the city to do southpuss.
    When you check the Sec of State website Southpuss is not in good standing, so WHY Kit????
    Coody keeps cropping up. Why do they get to keep the parking lot? We paid for it.
    Assholes.
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  4. You should read Skip Descant's article in the Sunday Northwest Arkansas Times if you want the real story instead of the poison on this blog.

    “It should have happened two years ago," Coody said Friday. Coody remains optimistic that the entire project his administration helped guide will become a reality. “If we get the 200 acres that we want, and the $1 million, and the 10-acre water tank site, that’s pretty much the icing and the cake,” Coody said. “We’ll be made whole if we get those three things.”

    If Lioneld gets less than that, then the failure is on his shoulders.
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  5. STC, I'm sure City of Fayetteville will get the 200 acres. Who in their right mind wants the deed to a once toxic dump? The bank is too smart to want that dump in their portfolio. The one million? Forget it. Williams, an ultimate incompetent, should have placed a lien on the project from the VERY beginning to assure the city would get it's one million. But when lips get stuck up asses then what is prudent and in the peoples best interests gets flushed.

    Why is Williams being allowed to run UNopposed this term? He's the biggest loser to grace your city hall in my lifetime. Just about any 3rd year law student would have better sense than to be had by these 3 time losers.

    Coody? Few folks are searching for the pay-off funds.

    Were there any justice remaining in Fayetteville, home of the law school, a grand jury should be all over this one like a bee on clover.

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  6. L, Dan Coody already took the deed to the toxic dump and released the landowners from all liability without getting anything in return.
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  7. It was all a pipe dream from the beginning. Where has the money from all the loans gone? Is anyone safe from this? How about the guy who runs cattle on it? Is even his 10-year lease for pasturing on the land really safe?
    The Coody era of city government is a blur of hypnosis and fantasy that brought many gullible people to their knees.
    Thanks to the few who spoke out against many of the boondogles of that period. Having been right isn't any real consolation to them. They will always grieve because they weren't listened to by the people in power.
    So few really seem to care about our city.
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061747/
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  8. Jonah's Little HelperSeptember 7, 2010 1:21 AM
    In case anyone is interested, below are links to some of the documents referenced in Jonah's post.

    08-19-10 Southpass PZD Final Expiration Letter.pdf

    Southpass_docs_08-27-2010.PDF
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  9. Methinks STC has her/his head in a dark place: that would be Coodyville, you know, right next to Bubbletown?
    Nevertheless, we have our own local--usually un-named when the rubber hits the road--version of sovereign wealth.
    I am afraid that some big people (connected with UA) are bound & determined to fund this thing into some version of their reality. And we'll be there, driving our kids to soccer practice, going to concerts, and eating at the HogRock Cafe, etc. [Not so sure about Connie's picture about folks buying er, workforce housing out there].
    And so it goes.
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  10. What's the number on the pension Coody will get EVERY YEAR FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE if he gets elected mayor or to city council again?
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  11. So some VIP Friends of the Sports Department will cough up green to make soccer fields and theme park and "housing" possible after all? In case anyone thinks this would be an environmental mistake, creating more driving miles, more roadway, destroying woods and wetlands, the city is, simultaneously, going to declare itself god's gift to climate stabilization, wild creatures and plants with a green certificate from the National Wildlife Federation. The first activity will alter and destroy air and water quality, habitat and potential. The NWF badge, on the other hand, requires doing absolutely nothing but crowing about how green we are. There's a point to blaming Coody but hasn't he been gone a while? Who's in charge of what's happening now?
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  12. Who's in charge-its a good question.

    We know that many of the major unelected forces behind the scenes are going though some serious rearrangements due to economic problems (developers, bankers, real estate players). Some have proven their incompetence and are out of the picture (we hope). The performance of others has cast serious doubts about their competence and yet they continue to receive special treatment that includes more taxpayer-funded incentives and pure give-aways.

    Southpass begins to take on the qualities of a bailout.
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  13. .


    "Coodyville, you know, right next to Bubbletown?"

    Joking aside and close to being predictive, didn't Coody have grandiose plans for a HUGE bubble over downtown Fayetteville complete with a mini transportation scheme for inside the bubble?

    Shirley, one of you HawgFans can remember and hopefully link it.
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  14. Anyone know if Mr. Nock has successfully been kicked to the curb @ the ol' liberry building?

    In other news: Swear I didn't see this in the paper paper. But from nwaonline.com here 'tis:
    [the beast goes on]

    FAYETTEVILLE — Developers John Nock and Richard Alexander must pay CDI Contractors $409,344.

    Washington County Circuit Court Judge Mary Ann Gunn made the final judgment in favor of the Little Rock-based contractor Tuesday. Also named in the lawsuit are East Square Development and East Square Development Co.

    The suit went through arbitration in 2009 and the arbitrator awarded CDI $379,345. The court added $30,000 to the final judgment for prejudgment interest, with an annual 6 percent interest rate until the total is paid.

    CDI was under contract to build the Renaissance Tower hotel at College Avenue and Mountain Street in Fayetteville. The hotel was never built and the company filed the lawsuit in May 2009 for breach of contract.

    Tuesday’s filing states “nothing concerning the pending litigation will negate the finality of the award.”
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  15. Thanks Little Helper...from the PDF :

    The City has agreed to hold these signed deeds and not file them prior to
    September9 , 2010. If SouthPassL LC obtainss ufficient funding to pay down
    Chambers'B ank debt on the SouthPasps roperty,w e will file the two SouthPass
    Deeds and Chambers Bank partial Mortgage Release (conveying those parcels) on
    or by September9 ,2010. If SouthPasLs LC cannotc ome up with the financing,
    Chambers Bank will file the Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure on the morning of
    September 10, and I will immediately thereafter file the Warranty Deed from
    Chambers Bank.


    Today is Sept 9. Any news from City Hall or Chambers?

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  16. Today is September 10. Did Nock deliver the deed or continue his pattern of dicking the city? Did the bank hand over a deed in lieu of foreclosue? Where is the MSM napping?
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  17. STC, Did you ever consider that you are the only one who wants this shit?
    Coody's done, put a fork in him.
    Nocketal are done, ditto.
    Massey's done, ditto.
    all these assholes are done.
    Good riddance.
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  18. Another city deadline ignored and past. When is Kit Williams going to sue these bastards who have once again screwed over our town?
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  19. Kit's record shows that he will only sue blind ladies with leaking sewer pipes.
    The deadline has been, er, extended, but money like Manna will miraculously appear and milk and honey will yet appear on the pastures of Southpit, along with the usual "seepage of unknown quantities of unknown substances." (the latter is a quote from ARDEQ per 2003 response to FOI request).
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  20. The developers made the Southpit contract void in 2009. So Kit W. isn't shillshallying for legal reasons. The reasons are political or social. (Anyone who's witnessed developers and city officials embracing like 1930's mafiosi will understand this.) The Jordan administration is not living by its own green credo. It should stop encouraging more driving and laying waste West Fayetteville (yes already, we know downtown is pretty and p.c.). Stop kowtowing to Edmonston, the UA Sports claque, the Chamber, or whoever's writing the script. If not, requiescat the lot.
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  21. Has Nock ever delivered on anything? Remember back in 2000 when that lady from Cleveland bought the Mountain Inn and Nock was supposed to get the financing so she could make it a Crowne Plaza? Remember the water park he was going to get financed? Remember the Renaissance Tower? Remember the Radisson going to be turned into a hip modern hotel? All those row houses and empty lots out by the Boys and Girls Club are his too. Now you can add SouthPass to the list. Geez, everything this guy touches turns to crud.
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  22. Actually we're lucky he does NOT deliver, as his ideas are always generic Bubble masquerading as New Urban (in fact, old suburban sprawl OR price-lifting gentrification) and they would end up costing the taxpayer one way or another as now, we see we are bailing him out indirectly.)
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