# City of Conway FOIA-2026-126 Cover and No-Response Letter The production-process records for FOIA-2026-126: the Mayor's Office cover letter (`LET_RESPONSE_2026-129.pdf`) bundling the response with the broader FOIA-2026-129 "all documents" production link, the City Clerk Office's separate no-records letter for Item 4 (Conway Corporation utility records), and the FOIA-2026-118 confirmation that surfaced in the bundle. These records document the **partial-withholding posture and the multi-track FOIA processing** the City used for Project Stratus records. ## What's inside - `LET_RESPONSE_2026-129.pdf` — 2-page letter from the Office of the Mayor, City of Conway, dated **May 20th, 2026**. Re: "Proposed Conway Data Center | Project Stratus | Forgelight Ventures." Body: "This is in response to your request made pursuant to the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act (A.C.A. § 25-19-101 et seq.), seeking access to … 'All documents related to the proposed Conway Data Center | Project Stratus | Forgelight Ventures'." Provides a JustFOIA public shareable link for "Request Number: FOIA-2026-129." Signed "Thank you, City of Conway, JustFOIA." Contact: [email protected]. - `FOIA 2026-126_No Response - City Clerk Office.pdf` — 1-page letter from the Office of the City Clerk/Treasurer, dated **May 20th, 2026**. Re: "2026-126 FOIA Request." Body: reproduces Item 4 of the original request (all Conway Corporation records for electric/water/wastewater/broadband) and states: "In response to your request, **the City of Conway City Clerk's Office is not the custodian of Conway Corporation records**." Signed "City of Conway / JustFOIA." - `City of Conway Arkansas - Records Request FOIA-2026-118 Confirmation.pdf` — JustFOIA portal confirmation for an earlier related Request FOIA-2026-118, filed **May 18, 2026 by Jay Winbourne** (`[email protected]`, 2950 Franklin Circle, Conway 72034). Request scope: "All Records Related to ForgeLight Ventures, LLC and the Proposed Lollie Road Data Center Project." Due date 2026-05-21. **Significance: Jay Winbourne is a member of the [[Conway Planning Commission]] (April 21, 2025 PC roster) who voted unanimously to recommend the Project Stratus annexation/rezone to City Council. His May 18 2026 FOIA on "all records" on the project is a notable institutional development** — a sitting PC member, one day before Joshua Dunlap's parallel FOIA-2026-126, submitting his own records request on the project he voted to recommend a year earlier. ## Key takeaways - **The Mayor's Office cover letter explicitly equates "Project Stratus | Forgelight Ventures."** Letter's Re: line is "Proposed Conway Data Center | Project Stratus | Forgelight Ventures" — the first **Tier-1 city-source explicit identification of the codename mapping**. Closes any doubt about the Project Stratus codename mapping in the wiki. - **The City consolidated my FOIA-2026-126 response into the FOIA-2026-129 "all documents" link.** Joshua's 2026-05-19 request was filed as FOIA-2026-126 with six specific request items; the City's response is to point Joshua to **FOIA-2026-129's open public link**, which appears to be a broader "all documents related to the proposed Conway Data Center" request filed by a different requester. This means: (1) the City did not respond to Joshua's six-item structure directly; (2) Joshua received whatever was in FOIA-2026-129's bucket; (3) any item-by-item gaps in the production are difficult to map back to the original six items. This is **a procedurally unusual response posture** that should be raised in the Gmail reply. - **The City Clerk Office disclaims custodianship of Conway Corporation records.** Per the no-records letter: "the City of Conway City Clerk's Office is not the custodian of Conway Corporation records." This is a procedurally correct disclaimer — Conway Corporation is a separate municipally-owned utility with its own custodianship (see [[2026-05 Conway Corporation Interim FOIA Response]]) — but it means **all utility-system records for Project Stratus remain entirely with Conway Corporation, not the City.** Conway Corporation's promised rolling production (per its 2026-05-22 interim response on Items 1 and 4(c)) is the only remaining channel for those records. - **FOIA-2026-118 was [[Jay Winbourne]]'s own FOIA, filed one day before [[Joshua Dunlap]]'s.** Winbourne — a sitting Conway Planning Commission member who voted to recommend Project Stratus to Council on April 21, 2025 — filed a "All Records Related to ForgeLight Ventures, LLC and the Proposed Lollie Road Data Center Project" request on May 18, 2026 (due 2026-05-21). The City evidently bundled both his FOIA-2026-118 and Joshua's FOIA-2026-126 into the FOIA-2026-129 "all documents" link as a single rolling production. **A sitting PC member filing his own records request on the project he voted to recommend is a corpus-notable institutional development** — it implies Winbourne came to want access to records he himself authorized on the merits a year earlier. Possible interpretations include constituent-driven curiosity, post-vote concern about the project's evolution (the spring 2026 public-opposition cluster), or independent investigative interest. Not adjudicated; flagged. - **JustFOIA portal as the canonical response venue.** Both letters are signed "City of Conway / JustFOIA" — the City processes FOIA responses through the JustFOIA cloud portal. The original portal URL (in the Gmail completion notice from `[email protected]` 2026-05-26 21:32 UTC) is the canonical retrieval link. - **Sender: Office of the Mayor (not the Office of the City Clerk).** The substantive cover letter for the production is from the Mayor's Office, not the Clerk. The Clerk handles only the Conway-Corp disclaimer for Item 4. The Mayor's Office handles the substantive document delivery. **This is a noteworthy organizational arrangement** — typically City Clerks handle FOIA responses; Conway's routing through the Mayor's Office on the substantive piece suggests Mayor's Office control over the Project Stratus narrative. - **Joshua's mailing address is now in the public FOIA file.** The no-records letter contains Joshua's filing address (11806 Highway 60, Plainview, AR 72857) and confirms his FOIA request. This is incidental to the response but worth noting. ## People and orgs mentioned - Office of the Mayor, City of Conway (signer of the FOIA-2026-129 cover letter). - Office of the City Clerk / Treasurer, City of Conway (signer of the no-records letter; [[Denise Hurd]]). - [[Joshua Dunlap]] — requester. - [email protected] — the JustFOIA portal address. - [email protected] — the contact address provided. ## Concepts invoked - Ark. Code § 25-19-101 et seq. — Arkansas FOIA. - Ark. Code § 25-19-105(f)(3) — per-record withholding log (implicitly invoked by the four PLACEHOLDER PDFs in the production but not addressed in the cover letter). - The JustFOIA portal as a third-party FOIA-management vendor. - Conway Corporation as a separately-incorporated municipally-owned utility (its own FOIA custodian; not within City Clerk's records-custody scope for the City's purposes). ## Events documented - [[2026-05 City of Conway Produces Project Stratus Records]] — this production. ## Cross-references - [[2026-05 Conway Corporation Interim FOIA Response]] — the Conway Corporation-side response to Item 4. - [[The Conway Data Center Project]] — the project-level synthesis. - [[Project Stratus Public-Comment Correspondence Record]] — note that some public-comment .msg files reference filing their own FOIAs ("FOIA-2026-129" candidate filers). ## Open questions / follow-ups - **What was FOIA-2026-129, and who filed it?** The reply asks the City to identify what FOIA-2026-129 was — a request from a journalist, another resident, or an organized public-records project — and confirm whether the FOIA-2026-129 "all documents" production includes everything that would have been responsive to Joshua's six-item FOIA-2026-126. - **FOIA-2026-118 — clarified.** Was a parallel request from [[Jay Winbourne]] dated May 18, 2026. See above. Whether the City should have produced a separate FOIA-2026-126 response (rather than bundling everything into FOIA-2026-129) remains an open procedural question. - **The four PLACEHOLDER PDFs.** Per the production-level overview and the [[Rezone Ordinance O-25-39 and REZ-0425-0052]] page, the production includes `PLACEHOLDER.{Property Owners, Survey, Certificates of Mailing or Petitions, Publication}_v1.pdf` — file-cards where documents are expected but not produced. The City has not provided the § 25-19-105(f)(3) withholding log these placeholders effectively trigger. The reply asks for the per-record log. - **No AEDC, Governor's Office, Entergy correspondence in the production despite Item 5.** The cover letter doesn't address why; the reply asks. - **The Mayor's Office is the substantive signatory, not the City Clerk.** Whether this is standard Conway FOIA practice or specific to Project Stratus is not documented.