# Brett Carroll Brett Carroll is the **Chief Executive Officer of [[Conway Corporation]]** — Conway's municipally-owned electric, water, wastewater, and broadband utility. Carroll addressed the April 1, 2025 Special City Council Meeting on the grey-water reuse component of the Project Stratus MOU, and was on Jamie Gates's pre-MOU coordination list. The 2026-05-29 [[2026-05 Conway Corporation Produces Project Stratus Records|Conway Corporation production]] confirms his title (CEO) and shows him accepting the earliest dated Project Stratus meeting in the corpus. ## Role and affiliations - **Chief Executive Officer, Conway Corporation** — title confirmed by the executed [[Conway Corporation Project Stratus NDAs|Black & Veatch Confidentiality Agreement]], whose Conway Corporation notice block reads "Attn: **Bret Carroll, CEO**, 650 Locust St., Conway, AR 72034." - Distinct from [[Chris Odom]] (Conway Corporation's Regulatory and Risk Management Director, who handled the 2026-05-22 [[2026-05 Conway Corporation Interim FOIA Response|interim FOIA response]]) and from [[Brett McDaniel]] (a separate Conway Corporation staffer who shares the first name). ## Appearances in the corpus - **2024-06-21** — accepted the calendar invite "Project Stratus Discussion" (from Carroll to [[Brad Lacy]]) — the **earliest dated Project Stratus artifact in the corpus**, per the [[Project Stratus Utilities Meetings and Site Visit|Conway Corporation utilities records]]. Places the project's confidential coordination in mid-2024, nine-plus months before the public MOU. - **2025-05-05** — the executed [[Conway Corporation Project Stratus NDAs|Conway Corporation ↔ Black & Veatch Confidentiality Agreement]] names "Bret Carroll, CEO" as Conway Corporation's notice recipient — the first corpus confirmation of his title. - **April 1, 2025** — addressed City Council ([[Project Stratus MOU and April 1 Special Council Meeting]]): "Brett Carroll, of Conway Corporation addressed the Council stating that grey water use in this type of project has been done in other places, but not in Arkansas to his knowledge." - **2025-04-01 (per Gates's memo)** — referenced by Jamie Gates as the staff who reviewed the MOU's Conway Corp provisions. Per the [[Project Stratus Next Steps and Sequence]] memo: "I talked to Bret Carroll this morning and we looked at the most recent version of the MOU. He said that he was comfortable with the sections covering Conway Corp/local utilities." - **April 22, 2025** — addressed Council on the unrelated O-25-34 White Bluff and Independence Steam Electric Stations co-ownership agreement (separate Conway Corp matter on the same agenda). ## Notes The name appears as "Brett Carroll" in the April 1 Council minutes and as "Bret Carroll" in Gates's April 1 memo and the executed Black & Veatch NDA ("Bret Carroll, CEO"). The primary records on the utility side (his own email, the executed agreement) render it **"Bret Carroll"** (one "t"); the wiki keeps the page at "Brett Carroll" (the established canonical link, as used in the formal Council minutes) and carries "Bret Carroll" as an alias. Carroll's role at the April 1 meeting was to confirm Conway Corporation's institutional review of the MOU. His "this has been done in other places, but not in Arkansas to his knowledge" comment on grey-water cooling is the corpus's earliest first-person utility-side acknowledgment that the Tupelo Bayou treated-effluent cooling design for Project Stratus is novel for Arkansas — consistent with the MOU's contemplation of new Conway Corporation infrastructure construction (pump station, pipeline, blowdown line) and the substantial ADEQ and Army Corps permitting effort that would entail.