CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER BUSINESS CONTRACTS TUESDAY

By Erin France/OF THE COMMERCIAL STAFF

Tuesday night’s City Council meeting includes four resolutions empowering Mayor Carl A. Redus Jr. to execute business agreements on behalf of the city.

Three of the resolutions are agreements with businesses.

One authorizes Redus to enter into a lease with Ford Motor Credit Company to obtain a vehicle for the Pine Bluff Fire and Emergency Services Department.

This would procure a 2009 Ford F-150 for 60 months for $21,849, and is already included in the 2009 budget.

An emergency clause is included in the measure to enact it immediately, instead of waiting the normal 30 days for the legislation to become active.

Another resolution allows Redus and other city leaders to execute two short-term loans with 4.75 percent interest with Pine Bluff National Bank. One, for more than $240,000, will purchase equipment for the city’s Street Department. The other, for $78,470, is slated to update the elevators in the Civic Center.

A resolution also authorizes Redus to contract with Corporate Express/Staples Inc., for one year for the city’s office supplies. No dollar amount is included in the measure.

A fourth resolution allows the mayor and city clerk to sell property at 1007 E. 10th Street to Eva Watson for $95,000.

Other action items include:

  • Hear the second reading for ordinances adopting a procedure change in the Pine Bluff Police Department’s manual, updating the city’s flood damage code and flood maps, closing a section of East 13th Avenue, and rezoning the 5th Avenue Historic District to HD-1 Zone.

  • Vote on a resolution declaring certain structures in the city limits a nuisance and ordering their abatement.

  • Vote on two budget adjustment requests; one pays Jefferson County Election Commission $57,648.66 from undesignated funds for the city’s portion of the Nov. 4 and Nov. 25 elections, and another provides an account to record a Stamp Out Smoking Grant.

  • Hear for the first time a resolution renaming a portion of 19th Ave. between Lee and Taft streets to Logan Lane.

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