# Denise Hurd Denise Hurd is the elected City Clerk / Treasurer of the City of Conway, Arkansas — the records custodian and chief financial officer for the City. She performed roll call at the [[2025-04 Conway City Council Approves Project Stratus MOU|April 1, 2025 Special Council Meeting]] and the [[2025-04 Conway City Council Adopts O-25-37 O-25-38 and O-25-39|April 22, 2025 regular meeting]], attested to all three Project Stratus ordinances (O-25-37, O-25-38, O-25-39), and signed the May 20, 2026 City Clerk's Office "no-records" letter declining custodianship of Conway Corporation utility records in FOIA-2026-126. ## Role and affiliations - **Elected City Clerk / Treasurer of the City of Conway** — combined position responsible for City records custody (FOIA-relevant) and City finance. - Office of the City Clerk/Treasurer at 1111 Main Street, Conway, AR 72032 (501.513.3501). - Email: `[email protected]`. ## Appearances in the corpus - **April 1, 2025** — roll call and attestation at the Special Council Meeting ([[Project Stratus MOU and April 1 Special Council Meeting]]). - **April 22, 2025** — roll call at the regular Council meeting; attested to O-25-37, O-25-38, and O-25-39 after the votes. - **April 28, 2025** — certified the three ordinances for recording. - **May 20, 2026** — signed the City Clerk's Office "no-records" letter ([[City of Conway FOIA-2026-126 Cover and No-Response Letter]]), declining custodianship of [[Conway Corporation]] records (Item 4 of FOIA-2026-126). - **August 5, 2025** — recipient of the "Rezone Contact Info" compilation from Planning staff ([[Conway Internal Staff Teams Chats on Project Stratus]]). ## Notes The City Clerk's "no-records" letter is a procedurally correct invocation of records-custody scope — [[Conway Corporation]] is a separately-incorporated municipally-owned utility with its own custodianship. Conway Corporation's 2026-05-22 [[2026-05 Conway Corporation Interim FOIA Response|interim response]] is the operative response for utility records; that custodian's promised rolling production has not yet been delivered. Hurd's role as the records custodian for the City of Conway proper (as distinct from Conway Corporation) means her office is the channel for any future FOIA requests on City-side Project Stratus records. Her custodial responsibility includes the Planning Department records, the council minutes and agendas, the mayoral-office records, and the rezone/annexation case files — the documents in the FOIA-2026-126 production. The "alongside the Mayor's Office" routing of the FOIA-2026-126 substantive production through the Mayor's Office (per [[Bart Castleberry]]'s Office cover letter), rather than through the Clerk's Office, is an unusual organizational arrangement. The Clerk's Office handled only the Item 4 disclaimer; the Mayor's Office handled the substantive production delivery.