The city board approved a roadmap for downtown development and will vote on putting a sales tax increase before voters on July 30.
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Little Rock mayor reflects on ‘a year of trials and triumphs’
While a tornado in March threw a wrench into some of Mayor Frank Scott Jr.’s plans for 2023, city officials announced and completed several projects.
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City sales tax increase up for discussion Tuesday with the board vote uncertain
Tuesday is decision day for a city sales tax. Does the mayor have five votes?
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Parking deck coming to Riverfront Park
Claudia Lauer, the Democrat-Gazette’s energetic City Hall reporter, ran to ground quickly and thoroughly yesterday the story behind a pop-up Facebook page lamenting a developing plan for the city and the Central Arkansas Library System to build a parking deck in Riverfront Park.
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About face from pension board
The Little Rock Police Pension Board, which held a press conference last week to propose a sales tax that would raise more money for the board than the initiative that will appear on the ballot Sept. 13, voted today to endorse the city sales tax.