# Bryan Day Bryan Day is the Executive Director of the Little Rock Port Authority (Port of Little Rock). ## Role and affiliations Executive Director, [[Little Rock Port Authority]] — 10600 Industrial Harbor Drive, Little Rock. ## Appearances in the corpus - **[[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority No-Records Response]]** — on 2026-05-22 replied to the data-center FOIA request on AVAIO / Project Leo, stating the Port Authority *"had nothing to do with the AVAIO project,"* holds no responsive records, and that the project *"was worked by the LR Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission."* - **[[Port Authority Land-Sale Resolution]]** — signed the 2025-04-29 Port Authority Board resolution as Recording Secretary, authorizing himself (as Executive Director) to sell up to 400 acres to [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] for economic-development purposes. - **[[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority Produces Project Boar Records]]** — on 2026-05-26 produced five Tier-1 documents on the Project Boar conveyance (deed, closing statement, Port resolution, draft City resolution, survey) and invoked § 25-19-105(b)(9)(A) over additional records. The production confirms the Port's full involvement in Project Boar — distinct from its non-involvement in AVAIO. Day sent a clarifying follow-up the same afternoon walking back the (b)(9)(A) language as boilerplate and stating "I have nothing else in my possession related to Google, Project Boar or Willowbend" — converting the posture from exemption-protected to no-additional-records. ## Notes ### Two admissions worth anchoring verbatim Day's 2026-05-26 morning cover note documents two patterns that are corpus-relevant beyond the records he produced: > *"I did not sign an NDA for this particular project; the chamber did on our behalf."* This identifies the [[Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce]] as the NDA-of-record holder on Project Boar, and (with the Port resolution's "in conjunction with [the] Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce" recital) makes the Chamber's project file the corpus's highest-value uncovered Tier-1 source. > *"Also, just for the record, I send very few emails or text message related to ongoing economic development projects to protect the integrity of the process."* A candid description of a deliberate documentary-minimization policy applied to Port economic-development work. It constrains what a Port-side FOIA can recover by-policy, not by-accident. ### A third admission, added the same afternoon: the exemption language was boilerplate In his 2026-05-26 13:09 CDT clarifying reply (message 19e657aaa0d5bd75), Day characterized the morning's § 25-19-105(b)(9)(A) / SJR 16 / Act 685 language as the language he "typically" includes when responding to FOI requests: > *"I typically share the language about items protected by statute when I respond to FOI's. The bottom line is that I have nothing else in my possession related to Google, Project Boar or Willowbend. And just to be clear with you, there is nothing in my files related to Google other than what I have shared with you. I do not have any copies of an NDA related to this project."* This is itself a corpus-relevant pattern: Day's standard FOIA-response practice attaches a boilerplate exemption invocation regardless of whether the underlying basis is records-exist-but-exempt or no-records. The Port's operative position on this request is now the no-records statement, not the exemption invocation; the (f)(3) withholding-log question is moot. ### On Project Leo vs Project Boar Day's 2026-05-22 AVAIO disclaimer is consistent with the 2026-05-26 Project Boar production: AVAIO / Project Leo is a Pulaski County campus at 145th Street, not on Port property; Project Boar is at the Port itself, and the Port produced its records on it. The corpus established the Port's involvement in Project Boar through the 2025-04-29 MOU and the 2025-06-24 conveyance — see [[The Port of Little Rock Data Center]] and [[Willowbend Capital Warranty Deed]]. Per news reporting (*Data Center Dynamics* relaying the *Arkansas Democrat-Gazette*), Day declined to comment on Project Boar citing a non-disclosure agreement — the 2026-05-26 production resolves that ambiguity by clarifying that the Chamber, not Day or the Port, holds the NDA.