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Parks and Recreation Advisory Board
December 4, 2023
5:30 PM
Hybrid Meeting
City Hall Room 111
113 W Mountain Street
Fayetteville, AR
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Members: Will Dockery (Chair) - exp 24, Andrew Brink - exp 23, Julie Chambers - exp 23, Joel
Freund - exp 23, Hugh Kincaid - exp 25, Stephen Sheely - exp 25, Yarri Davis - exp 24, Doug
Walsh - exp 24, Sarah Downing – exp 25
City Staff: Alison Jumper, Parks, Natural Resources, and Cultural Affairs Director; Lee Farmer,
Recreation Superintendent; Ted Jack, Park Planning Superintendent; Elizabeth Milton, Sr.
Admin.
1. Call to Order – 5:36 p.m.
2. Roll Call – Dockery, Brink, Chambers, Freund, Kincaid, Sheely, Walsh, Downing
3. Approval of Minutes, November – Freund made motion for approval, seconded by
Walsh, approved by all. Motion 8-0-0
4. Botanical Garden Society of the Ozarks Update: Joel Freund – New director to start
December 18.
5. Friend of Parks Subcommittee Report: Steve Sheely – December meeting set for 5th of
month. Agenda items are to discuss adding board members, fundraising strategy, online
presence, spring kick-off event, and to relay the news of the recently awarded Underwood
Fab Five grant.
6. Arts Council – Downing to report the opening of Fayetteville’s first community art wall and
only legal art wall currently in the state, Wilson park Hub art installation near completion,
and projection of art onto the newly-completed City parking deck.
7. Project, Construction and HMR Update; Ted Jack, Park Planning Superintendent –
Jack to give project updates on Lights of the Ozarks work by Parks Maintenance, Hub
Building at Wilson Park, Gulley Park playground, Underwood public meeting, Walker Park
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phase I, Saddle Up at Kessler Mountain, and Combs Park. Jack also presented HMR
statistics for November.
8. Announcements –
December 6 Underwood Park Public Meeting – Holcomb Elementary
December 9 White Elephant 5K/1Mile –Square Gardens
Next Meeting Date January 8
9. Attachments
1. PRAB November Meeting Minutes
2. HMR Report
10. Adjourn – 6:03 p.m.
11. Submitted by – Elizabeth Milton, Sr. Admin. PRAB minutes provide the basic discussions
and motions of the PRAB meeting. For more info, please refer to the PRAB meeting video
provided on the City’s website.