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Fayetteville, AR 72701
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Resolution: 250-18
File Number: 2018-0764
CULTURAL ARTS CORRIDOR PROJECT:
A RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE CITY COUNCIL'S COMMITMENT AND INTENTION TO USE
WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO COMPLETE THE CULTURAL ARTS CORRIDOR PROJECT, AS
FINALLY APPROVED BY THE FAYETTEVILLE CITY COUNCIL, UP TO $21,685,000.00 AND TO
FUND WHATEVER IS NECESSARY FOR REPLACEMENT PARKING WITHIN REASONABLE .
PROXIMITY TO THE WALTON ARTS CENTER UP TO $10,000,000.00 IF THE ARTS CORRIDOR
IMPROVEMENT BONDS ARE APPROVED BY THE FAYETTEVILLE VOTERS AND TO MAKE JOB
TRAINING AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TOP PRIORITIES FOR ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT BONDS
WHEREAS, the City Council wants to assure Fayetteville voters that, if they approve Question 8 of the
Sales Tax Bond Ballot to fund the Cultural Arts Corridor Project, the City Council will use whatever
funds are determined to be necessary to construct what the City Council approves as the best design and
plan for the Cultural Arts Corridor up to $21,685,000.00 in bond funds; and
WHEREAS, the City Council further assures the Fayetteville voters that, if they approve Question 8
of the Sales Tax Bond Ballot to fund the Cultural Arts Corridor Project, the City Council will use whatever
funds are determined to be necessary to furnish or make available new public parking spaces in
reasonable proximity to the Walton Arts Center to replace all public parking spaces lost or removed
from the Walton Arts Center (a/k/a West Avenue) parking lot up to $10,000,000.00 in bond funds; and
WHEREAS, the City Council expresses its intention to make job training and workforce development
it highest priorities for bond funding if the Fayetteville voters approve Question 6 of the Sales Tax Bond
Ballot for Economic Development Project Bonds.
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Ordinance: 250-18
File Number: 2018-0764
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS:
Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby expresses its commitment and
intention to use Arts Corridor Improvement Bonds revenue if approved by the Fayetteville voters as
follows:
(A) To fund the construction of the City Council approved Cultural Arts Corridor Project up to
$21,685,000.00; and
(B) To fund the construction or otherwise make available to the public new public parking in
reasonable proximity to the Walton Arts Center to replace all public parking spaces lost or
removed from the Walton Arts Center parking lot in an amount of up to
$10,000,000.00; and
(C) To use any bond funds not needed to construct the Cultural Arts Corridor for replacement
parking or not needed for replacement parking for the Cultural Arts Corridor construction.
Section 2: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby expresses its commitment and
intention to use the Economic Development Project Bonds revenue, if approved by the Fayetteville voters,
with highest priorities given for job training and workforce development.
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City of Fayetteville, Arkansas
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File Number: 2018-0764
Agenda Date: 12/18/2018
In Control: City Council Meeting
Version: 1
CULTURAL ARTS CORRIDOR PROJECT:
113 West Mountain Street
Fayetteville, AR 72701
(479) 575-8323
Status: ATS Review
File Type: Resolution
A RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE CITY COUNCIL'S COMMITMENT AND INTENTION TO USE
WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO COMPLETE THE CULTURAL ARTS CORRIDOR PROJECT, AS
FINALLY APPROVED BY THE FAYETTEVILLE CITY COUNCIL, UP TO $21,685,000.00 AND TO
FUND WHATEVER IS NECESSARY FOR REPLACEMENT PARKING WITHIN REASONABLE
PROXIMITY TO THE WALTON ARTS CENTER UP TO $10,000,000.00 IF THE ARTS CORRIDOR
IMPROVEMENT BONDS ARE APPROVED BY THE FAYETTEVILLE VOTERS AND TO MAKE
JOB TRAINING AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TOP PRIORITIES FOR ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT BONDS
WHEREAS, the City Council wants to assure Fayetteville voters that, if they approve Question 8 of the Sales
Tax Bond Ballot to fund the Cultural Arts Corridor Project, the City Council will use whatever funds are
determined to be necessary to construct what the City Council approves as the best design and plan for the
Cultural Arts Corridor up to $21,685,000.00 in bond funds; and
WHEREAS, the City Council further assures the Fayetteville voters that, if they approve Question 8 of the
Sales Tax Bond Ballot to fund the Cultural Arts Corridor Project, the City Council will use whatever funds are
determined to be necessary to furnish or make available new public parking spaces in reasonable proximity to
the Walton Arts Center to replace all public parking spaces lost or removed from the Walton Arts Center
(a/k/a West Avenue) parking lot up to $10,000,000.00 in bond funds; and
WHEREAS, the City Council expresses its intention to make job training and workforce development it
highest priorities for bond funding if the Fayetteville voters approve Question 6 of the Sales Tax Bond Ballot for
Economic Development Project Bonds.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS:
Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby expresses its commitment and
intention to use Arts Corridor Improvement Bonds revenue if approved by the Fayetteville voters as follows:
(A) To fund the construction of the City Council approved Cultural Arts Corridor Project up to
$21,685,000.00; and
(B) To fund the construction or otherwise make available to the public new public parking in reasonable
proximity to the Walton Arts Center to replace all public parking spaces lost or removed from the
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Walton Arts Center parking lot in an amount of up to $10,000,000.00; and
(C) To use any bond funds not needed to construct the Cultural Arts Corridor for replacement parking
or not needed for replacement parking for the Cultural Arts Corridor construction.
Section 2: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby expresses its commitment and
intention to use the Economic Development Project Bonds revenue, if approved by the Fayetteville voters, with
highest priorities given for job training and workforce development.
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OFFICE OF THE
CITY ATTORNEY
DEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE
TO: Mayor Lioneld Jordan
City Council
CC: Don Marr, Chief of Staff
Paul Becker, Chief Financial Officer
FROM: Kit Williams, City Attorney �C
DATE: December 13, 2018
Kit Williams
City Attorney
Blake Pennington
Assistant City Attorney
Rhonda Lynch
Paralegal
RE: Proposed language to require replacement parking if all or most public parking
is removed from the Walton Arts Center parking lot
I have already provided you language for the Ballot wording that would ensure
that before substantial public parking was removed or lost from the Walton Arts Center
Lot (a/k/a West Avenue Lot), new net replacement public parking spaces in proximity
to the Walton Arts Center would be available for the public. After the second reading of
the ballot ordinance has been accomplished, a City Council Member needs to move to
amend the ordinance, section 4, Question 8 to what has been provided to you earlier and
will be provided to you at the meeting and attached to this memo. Once this amendment
is on the floor (before it is voted upon), any part of it is subject to further amendment if
desired by the City Council.
After your work session on the ballot, I believe you may decide to amend my
proposed language with either a further walking distance (more than 1 1/2times) or do an
actual distance in feet from some point which I still believe would be best understood by
the voters and agreeable to the Dickson Street merchants and the theaters if a main
entrance of the Walton Arts Center would be that measuring point. Please keep any
proposed change as simple, direct and clear as possible to keep this ballot language easily
understood by the voters.
As I have already informed you, we discovered two typos in question 8's ballot
language (Gregg Avenue lacked its second "g" and Cultural Arts Corridor was
misidentified as "center" rather than "corridor"). Regardless whether the City Council
decides to support any changes to the Ballot language to require replacement parking,
we need to amend this ordinance to fix those two typos.
Question Eight:
There is submitted to the qualified electors of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas (the "City"), the
question of the issuance of capital improvement bonds in principal amount not to exceed
$31,685,000 (the "Arts Corridor Improvement Bonds") pursuant to the Local Government Bond
Act (as defined in Question One) for the purpose of financing all or a portion of the costs of
acquisition, design, construction and equipping of certain Cultural Arts Corridor improvements,
within or near an area bordered by Dickson Street on the north, School Avenue on the east, Prairie
Street on the south, and Gregg Avenue on the west, and which may include street, sidewalk,
boardwalk, trail, pedestrian signal and control, bicycle facilities, curbing, guttering, drainage,
lighting and landscaping improvements, plaza, civic and performance space, art installations,
overlooks, stream restoration, pavilions, structure and other bui! 'r� s new and/or replacement
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parking facilities, and land and easement ac uisition or to the removal or lasso enty-five
5) or more pu is parking spaces from the Walton Arts Center Parking Lot, a/k/a West
ev.) Avenue Parking Lot, due to any development of or construction on such lot related to the
Cultural Arts Corridor, the City must ensure the availability of sufficient net new public
�j�to parking spaces to fully replace all public parking spaces removed, lost or likely to be removed
or lost within the near future from the Walton Arts Center Parking Lot and not planned to
be promptly replaced below, upon or above the current parking area. These replacement
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bliparking spaces must be within reasonable proximity to the Walton Arts Center which
include any public parking deck spaces at the City's School Avenue Parking Lot, the
ely owned West Avenue/Dickson Street (Depot) Parking Lot and any other parking
facility in which all replacement parking spaces are no further from the Walton Arts
's main public entrances than one and a half times the walking distance from the
current public parking space on the Walton Arts Center ParkingLot to the Walton
nter nearest main public entrance. the issuance of the Arts Corridor lmproveme'nr
is approve , e s arra ar mprovement Bonds shall be secured by a pledge of and lien
upon all of the receipts of a special citywide sales and use tax at the rate of one percent (1.00%)
levied pursuant to the Local Government Bond Act (the "Sales and Use Tax").
Vote on the question by placing an "X" in one of the squares following the question, either for or
against:
FOR the issuance of Arts Corridor Improvement Bonds in principal amount not to exceed
$31,685,000 .......................... • .. •.................................. ❑
AGAINST the issuance of Arts Corridor Improvement Bonds in principal amount not to exceed $31,685,000
.............-................................................. ❑
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There is submitted to the qualified electors of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas, the question of
the issuance of capital improvement bonds in principal amount not to exceed $3,170,000 (the "City
Facilities Improvement Bonds") pursuant to the Local Government Bond Act (as defined in
Question One) for the purpose of financing all or a portion of the costs of renovating and
refurbishing certain City buildings and grounds, which may include building envelope and roof
improvements, window replacement, insulation, lighting and HVAC system upgrades and certain
renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. If the issuance of the City Facilities
Improvement Bonds is approved, the City Facilities Improvement Bonds shall be secured by a
pledge of and lien upon all of the receipts of a special citywide sales and use tax at the rate of one
percent (1.00%) levied pursuant to the Local Government Bond Act (the "Sales and Use Tax").
Vote on the question by placing an "X" in one of the squares following the question, either for or
against:
FOR the issuance of City Facilities Improvement Bonds in principal amount not to exceed
$3,170,000...................................................................... ❑
AGAINST the issuance of City Facilities Improvement Bonds in principal amount not to exceed
$3,170,000.................................................................
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There is submitted to the qualified electors of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas (the "City"), the
question of the issuance of capital improvement bonds in principal amount not to exceed
$31,685,000 (the "Arts Corridor Improvement Bonds") pursuant to the Local Government Bond
Act (as defined in Question One) for the purpose of financing all or a portion of the costs of
acquisition, design, construction and equipping of certain Cultural Arts Corridor improvements,
within or near an area bordered by Dickson Street on the north, School Avenue on the east, Prairie
Street on the south, and Gregg Avenue on the west, and which may include street, sidewalk,
boardwalk, trail, pedestrian signal and control, bicycle facilities, curbing, guttering, drainage,
lighting and landscaping improvements, plaza, civic and performance space, art installations,
overlooks, stream restoration, pavilions, structure and other buildings, new and/or replacement
parking facilities, and land and easement acquisition. Prior to the removal or loss of twenty-five
(25) or more public parking spaces from the Walton Arts Center Parking Lot, a/k/a West Avenue
Parking Lot, due to any development of or construction on such lot related to the Cultural Arts
Corridor, the City must ensure the availability of sufficient net new public parking spaces to fully
replace all public parking spaces removed, lost or likely to be removed or lost within the near
future from the Walton Arts Center Parking Lot and not planned to be promptly replaced below,
upon or above the current parking area. These replacement public parking spaces must be within
reasonable proximity to the Walton Arts Center which would include any public parking deck
spaces at the City's School Avenue Parking Lot, the privately owned West Avenue/Dickson Street
(Depot) Parking Lot and any other parking lot or facility in which all replacement parking spaces
are no further from the Walton Arts Center's main public entrances than one and a half times the
walking distance from the farthest current public parking space on the Walton Arts Center Parking
Lot to the Walton Arts Center nearest main public entrance. If the issuance of the Arts Corridor
Improvement Bonds is approved, the Arts Corridor Improvement Bonds shall be secured by a
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pledge of and lien upon all of the receipts of a special citywide sales and use tax at the rate of one
percent (1.00%) levied pursuant to the Local Government Bond Act (the "Sales and Use Tax").
Vote on the question by placing an "X" in one of the squares following the question, either for or
against:
FOR the issuance of Arts Corridor Improvement Bonds in principal amount not to exceed
$31,685,000......................................................................❑
AGAINST the issuance of Arts Corridor Improvement Bonds in principal amount not to exceed
$31,685,000............................................................... ❑
Question Nine:
There is submitted to the qualified electors of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas, the question of
the issuance of capital improvement bonds in principal amount not to exceed $36,965,000 (the
"Police Facilities Improvement Bonds") pursuant to the Local Government Bond Act (as defined
in Question One) for the purpose of financing all or a portion of the costs of certain police station
design, construction and improvements, which may include land acquisition, and the acquisition
of police equipment. If the issuance of the Police Facilities Improvement Bonds is approved, the
Police Facilities Improvement Bands shall be secured by a pledge of and lien upon all of the
receipts of a special citywide sales and use tax at the rate of one percent (1.00%) levied pursuant
to the Local Government Bond Act (the "Sales and Use Tax").
Vote on the question by placing an "X" in one of the squares following the question, either for or
against:
FOR the issuance of Police Facilities Improvement Bonds in principal amount not to exceed
$36,965,000. .. - - . .............. ............_................................. ❑
AGAINST the issuance of Police Facilities Improvement Bonds in principal amount not to exceed
$36,965,000..................................................... ❑
Question Ten:
There is submitted to the qualified electors of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas, the question of
the issuance of capital improvement bonds in principal amount not to exceed $15,840,000 (the
"Firefighting Facilities Improvement Bonds") pursuant to the Local Government Bond Act (as
defined in Question One) for the purpose of financing all or a portion of the costs of certain fire
station design and construction, which may include land acquisition, and the acquisition of
firefighting vehicles and equipment. If the issuance of the Firefighting Facilities Improvement
Bonds is approved, the Firefighting Facilities Improvement Bonds shalt be secured by a pledge of
and lien upon all of the receipts of a special citywide sales and use tax at the rate of one percent
(1.00%) levied pursuant to the Local Government Bond Act (the "Sales and Use Tax").
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From: Mayor
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 3:49 PM
To: CityClerk
Subject: FW: Arts Corridor Parking
Please send to city council email list. Thanks
Patti
From: Diana Danforth <danforthdm@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 3:38 PM
To: Mayor <Mayor@fayetteville-ar.gov>
Subject: Arts Corridor Parking
Lioneld,
I understand that tonight the City Council will discuss the funding of improvements to the arts corridor in Fayetteville, specifically as
pertains to the current West Street parking lot and downtown parking.
I wanted to share a personal story that illustrates the importance of maintaining and increasing parking availability adjacent to the
Walton Arts Center (WAC). I have been a patron of the WAC since it opened and have appreciated the resource that it provides not
only to Fayetteville residents but also to residents in the greater northwest Arkansas region. On Saturday, Dec 15, 1 treated my
mother and sister to a 2:OOpm performance of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (SONA) at the WAC. They drove in from Lincoln
and followed me to find parking. We arrived at 1:30 at the corner of Dickson and West. As we approached the West street lot a "Lot
Full" sign was placed at the entrance. When we turned the corner I was allowed to enter into the parking garage on Spring but a "Lot
Full" sign was placed there after my car entered so my sister could not enter. She did not know where else to go as she was told to
"look for a numbered space on the street", and, of course, there were none of those. She parked in the Church of Christ parking lot
and walked with my 88 -year-old mother down the hill where my mother tripped on the uneven and potholed sidewalk and hurt her
leg. We made it to the performance on time but not without the parking problems casting a pall on the experience. I keep hearing
that people should be willing to walk 5-10 minutes to attend the performance. Which people? There was a theater full of older
people and on a Saturday afternoon there was little else to draw people to Dickson Street. Clearly there is inadequate parking now
and I am appalled that the prevailing sentiment seems to cater to needs of the 30 -somethings who are certainly not those who were
in attendance Saturday afternoon, nor for that matter, at any of the SONA performances.
Please share my concerns with the City Council members,
Respectfully yours,
Diana Danforth