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Video by Attila Pergel from Pixabay
The Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District (HISID) located in Northwest Arkansas is governed by five elected board of commissioners (BOC), whose oath of office binds them to uphold Federal, State and Local laws, which includes Arkansas Open Meeting Laws.
HISID meetings are streamed Live on HISID's YouTube channel and cataloged for future views / reference on their channel.
Public records of these meetings are kept along with approved minutes, financial statements, budgets, audits; all of this information is housed at the District office and on HISID's government website page.
HISID meetings are streamed Live on HISID's YouTube channel and cataloged for future views / reference on their channel.
Public records of these meetings are kept along with approved minutes, financial statements, budgets, audits; all of this information is housed at the District office and on HISID's government website page.
The public may submit an FOIA request for any document of any item referred in a meeting and all government records. The information can be provided as paper form copies or electronic returns.
By design, this type of transparency is a good thing for information and crediting information.
What is astonishing?
What is astonishing?
These types of government meetings are open to the public and all of this factual information is available to view.
Why are discussions greater in social media groups where further diversion from the factual information is creating more and more discord and even delays in addressing what are immediate problems within the community, town and city?
Communication technology moves society backwards.
Communication technology moves society backwards.
The Fire Department has a new Fire Chief Randy Ates, who presented some straight forward truths regarding the condition of the fire department at the Feb. 27, 2023 HISID meeting.
The community has been in trouble with this lack of placing the Fire Department operations above recreational amenities.
For some it came as a surprise, some acted surprised but, the former Fire Chief Chris Ledeker made a Fire Presentation to the BOC in a public meeting on March 15, 2021 with the same information and now two years later, it is an even greater problem.
The community's Health and Safety is at risk. The risk can no longer be swept under the carpet. It took a letter from ISO to bring the topic to the forefront in social media conversations.
Along with the ISO letter and Chief Ates' report at the HISID meeting, Water came back to the forefront of the conversation. Fire hydrant water flow reports have not been submitted for several years.
The District has $1.4M worth of water problems to fix, which includes two wells, #4 & #5.
These two wells are the mainland source for potable water.
The District has $1.4M worth of water problems to fix, which includes two wells, #4 & #5.
These two wells are the mainland source for potable water.
Grants that the District keeps stating are being submitted have actually not been submitted or if they have then the answers to several FOIA requests are incorrect.
The District states that ESI prepares the grants yet, CNj upon submitting several FOIA requests has received these answers:
- There is No current contract with ESI
- There are No paid billing statements from ESI
- There are No paid invoices from ESI
There will be no further information available until the next
HISID BOC regular meeting scheduled for March 27, 2023 at 9.m.
HISID BOC regular meeting scheduled for March 27, 2023 at 9.m.
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