# City of Little Rock Willowbend Resolution The [[City of Little Rock]] Board of Directors' draft resolution authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute the Special Warranty Deed conveying [[Little Rock Port Authority]] land to [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]], under Ark. Code Ann. § 14-54-302. ## What's inside - Resolution title: *"A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE SPECIAL WARRANTY DEED CONVEYING REAL PROPERTY OWNED BY THE LITTLE ROCK PORT AUTHORITY, AN INSTRUMENTALITY OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, LOCATED TO THE WEST OF ZEUBER ROAD AND TO THE EAST OF HARPER ROAD AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED HEREIN; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."* - Body: WHEREAS recitals (5); Section 1 (deed-execution authorization); Section 2 (Purchase Agreement ratification); Section 3 (severability); Section 4 (repealer). - Signature block for City Clerk Allison Seagar (sic — "Allison Segars" on the executed deed), Mayor Frank Scott, Jr., and City Attorney Thomas M. Carpenter. ## Key takeaways - **The resolution is an unexecuted draft template.** *"RESOLUTION NUMBER ______"* — no number is filled in. The Purchase Agreement date is left blank: *"the Port Authority has entered into a certain Real Estate Purchase and Sale Agreement on __________."* No adoption date is recorded. The signature lines are blank. The legal description in Section 1 is empty: *"Section 1. That the Mayor and City Clerk are hereby authorized to execute, in a form approved by the City Attorney, any and all deeds and conveyance documents required in order to convey to the Purchaser, or its assigns, that real property located in Pulaski County, Arkansas that is more fully described as follows: "* — followed by an empty space. - **This is a draft template, not the as-adopted record.** The deed (2025-06-24) cites the City's prior approval as a precondition to the conveyance, and the deed itself was executed by Mayor [[Frank Scott Jr]] and City Clerk Allison Segars — so a properly adopted City resolution must exist. The produced document is the template from the City Clerk's or City Attorney's file system, not the executed version that authorized the deed. - **The executed version is [[City Resolution 16671]]** — Resolution No. 16,671, adopted 2025-04-29, delivered by [[Bryan Day]] in a third reply on 2026-05-26 after he offered in his afternoon clarifying note to retrieve it from City records. The executed version supplies the missing pieces this draft left blank: resolution number, adoption date, legal description in Section 1, and the executed signatures. See [[City Resolution 16671]] for the operative analysis. - **The statutory hook.** *"before the City can alienate any interest in property, as demonstrated by the execution of conveyance documents by the Mayor and City Clerk, it is required by Ark. Code Ann. Section 14-54-302 that the City Board of Directors adopt the resolution authorizing such action."* This explains why a separate City resolution is necessary even though the Port Authority Board has already approved the disposition. - **Property described — by reference to landmarks.** The title locates the property *"to the west of Zeuber Road and to the east of Harper Road"* — narrowing the site to the strip between those two roads at the south end of the Port footprint. - **Ratification of the Port-side Purchase Agreement.** Section 2: *"The City Board of Directors hereby ratifies the execution by the Port Authority of the Purchase Agreement and all amendments thereto."* ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Frank Scott Jr]] — Mayor (signature line). - Allison Seagar — City Clerk (signature line; rendered as "Allison Segars" on the executed deed — most likely a stenographic variant in the template). - Thomas M. Carpenter — City Attorney; the resolution is to be approved as to legal form by him. - [[City of Little Rock]] — adopting body. - [[Little Rock Port Authority]] — owning instrumentality. - [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] — purchaser counterparty. ## Concepts invoked - Ark. Code Ann. § 14-54-302 — the statutory requirement that the City Board of Directors adopt a resolution authorizing the alienation of any interest in property before the Mayor and City Clerk can execute conveyance documents. ## Events documented - The City Board's authorization of the deed execution is a documented but as-yet-unanchored event (the executed resolution is referenced by the deed but its text and adoption date are not in this production). ## Cross-references - [[Willowbend Capital Warranty Deed]] — the deed the resolution authorized. - [[Port Authority Land-Sale Resolution]] — the Port-side counterpart, fully executed. - [Little Rock resolution and MOU](../../../web%20archive/2026-05-22/www.littlerock.gov/willowbend-capital-mou.md) — the 2025-04-29 City resolution approving the MOU (a separate City Board action from the deed-authorizing resolution this draft contemplates). ## Open questions / follow-ups - **The executed resolution — RESOLVED.** Bryan Day produced the executed Resolution No. 16,671 on 2026-05-26 evening (same FOIA thread, third reply); see [[City Resolution 16671]]. The earlier ambiguity is closed. - **Why was the template produced first rather than the executed version?** Most likely a curation artifact in the Port's file system — the draft template was filed alongside the deed package because the Port Authority used the template as its working reference, and the executed signed copy lived at the City Clerk's office (which is what Day retrieved later in the day). The corpus need not resolve this further; the practical custody is now clear (City Clerk holds the executed instrument; Port had only the draft).