By Ray King
With only four items on the agenda, the Pine Bluff City Council on Monday presented a resolution honoring a former resident and a former classmate of Council Member LaTisha Brunson.
Brunson talked to Deltaplex News about the resolution.
Members of the family joined Mayor Vivian Flowers and members of the council on stage as copies of the resolution were presented to her mother and others.
In council business, an ordinance revising travel policies for city officials, officers and others was read for a second time and will be up for a final vote at the first meeting in September.
An ordinance rezoning the west side of the 2900 block of Ohio Street from residential single family to residential multi-family was read for the first time. That proposal was on the agenda for the Pine Bluff Planning Commission in May, but the commission failed to reach a majority vote either for or against the measure.
New St. Hurricane Baptist Church, which owns the property appealed to the City Council which in July voted in favor of the rezoning.
Also approved was a resolution amending the 2025 budget and moving $13,000 from building maintenance to cover electric and gas bills.
