City Council to meet twice on long agenda

FAYETTEVILLE — The City Council will meet twice this week to accommodate a large agenda.

The first meeting will be 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Another meeting will be at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Both will be held online on Zoom.

The Tuesday meeting will cover consent items and unfinished business. Consent items are noncontroversial items such as buying gravel or retaining wall blocks. Mayor Lioneld Jordan will read the items consecutively, and the council will vote on them in one motion.

Unfinished business items are those discussed at previous meetings that remained for Tuesday’s meeting. Items will include a contract for a public-private partnership to build a new parking deck on Dickson Street, rezoning about 112 acres at the Marinoni family farm on Wedington Avenue and Fayetteville Police Department policies relating to juvenile interactions.

Staff will ask the council to send a set of proposed regulations for short-term rentals such as Airbnb to the council’s ordinance review committee, rather than hold a vote.

Council members-elect D’Andre Jones, Matthew Petty, Sarah Bunch and Holly Hertzberg also will take their oaths of office Tuesday. Jordan will announce council committee appointments, and council members will select a vice mayor to serve for the year.

Thursday’s new business items include raises for city employees, a rezoning and annexation request for land southeast of Zion Road and Julie Lane and a rezoning request for Fayetteville Public Schools on about 23 acres northeast of Catalpa Drive and Rupple Road.

The two-meeting approach is intended to avoid going late into the night, according to a city news release.

Registration is required for members of the public to speak on an item. Zoom meeting links are provided on the meeting calendar of the city’s website at http://fayetteville-ar.gov/publicmeetings . Comments also can be submitted beforehand at http://bit.ly/faycityclerk or by emailing cityclerk@fayetteville-ar.gov .

Meetings can be viewed live at the city’s YouTube page at http://youtube.com/ cityoffayettevillear or on the city’s website at http://fayetteville-ar.gov/meetinginfo . On TV, tune into Channel 216 with Cox or Channel 99 on AT&T U-verse.