# Jay Winbourne Jay Winbourne is a member of the [[Conway Planning Commission]] as of the April 21, 2025 PC meeting at which the Commission voted unanimously to recommend the Project Stratus annexation (ANN-0325-0046, ANN-0325-0047) and rezone (REZ-0425-0052) to City Council ([[Conway Planning Commission Reports April and May 2025]]). One year later — on **May 18, 2026** — Winbourne filed his own Arkansas FOIA with the City of Conway (Request FOIA-2026-118) for "All Records Related to ForgeLight Ventures, LLC and the Proposed Lollie Road Data Center Project." Joshua Dunlap's parallel [[2026-05 City of Conway Produces Project Stratus Records|FOIA-2026-126]] was filed the next day; both requests appear to have been bundled by the City into the FOIA-2026-129 "all documents" production link. ## Role and affiliations - Conway Planning Commission member (April 21, 2025 roster). - Address: 2950 Franklin Circle, Conway, AR 72034. - Personal contact: `[email protected]`; (501) 358-8892. ## Appearances in the corpus - **April 21, 2025** — listed on the Conway Planning Commission roster ([[Conway Planning Commission Reports April and May 2025]]). Voted unanimously with all other commissioners to recommend the three Project Stratus items. - **May 18, 2026** — filed Arkansas FOIA Request FOIA-2026-118 via the City of Conway JustFOIA portal: "All Records Related to ForgeLight Ventures, LLC and the Proposed Lollie Road Data Center Project." Due date 2026-05-21. The JustFOIA portal confirmation (`City of Conway Arkansas - Records Request FOIA-2026-118 Confirmation.pdf`) appears in the City's 2026-05-26 production to [[Joshua Dunlap]] under [[2026-05 City of Conway Produces Project Stratus Records|FOIA-2026-126]] — evidently because the City consolidated both requests under the FOIA-2026-129 "all documents" link. ## Notes Winbourne's May 2026 FOIA is a corpus-notable institutional development. The chain of events is: 1. **April 21, 2025**: Winbourne and nine other commissioners vote to recommend the Project Stratus annexation/rezone to Council based on the staff presentation. The April 21 record shows one public speaker in opposition ([[Alan Rice]] for his son [[Jeremy Rice]]). 2. **April 22, 2025**: Council adopts O-25-37, O-25-38, O-25-39 8-0. 3. **April 2026**: Staff issues the public-facing [[April 2026 FAQ Project Stratus|Project Stratus FAQ]], crystallizing constituent awareness. 4. **April–May 2026**: A wave of constituent opposition emails arrives at Council (see [[Project Stratus Public-Comment Correspondence Record]]; 97 of 204 unique emails demand the May 12, 2026 Council agenda add the project). 5. **May 12, 2026**: Council declines to add the project to the agenda. 6. **May 18, 2026**: Winbourne files his own FOIA on all records related to Forgelight Ventures and the Lollie Road project. Possible interpretations of Winbourne's filing — adjudicated by neither the production nor this wiki: - **Routine constituent due diligence.** A PC member, as a private citizen, requesting records on a public project he voted on, is procedurally available to him as it is to any citizen. - **Post-vote informational concern.** The intervening year's developments (the FAQ, the constituent opposition, the agenda-inclusion refusal) may have prompted him to seek records he did not have in April 2025. - **Independent investigative interest.** Winbourne may have a substantive reason — professional, civic, or personal — to want a more comprehensive record of the project's development. The wiki does not attribute motive without textual anchor. The filing is the documented fact; the motive is open. The fact that the Conway Planning Commission member who voted to recommend a project, one year later, files his own Arkansas FOIA seeking "all records" on it, is itself a structural observation about the information asymmetry between Planning Commission decision-making and the underlying project documentation. The PC voted on staff presentations; the FOIA request goes after the records behind the staff presentations.