# Approved Minutes of the May 26 2026 Fifth Regular Meeting Pulaski County released this DOCX as the May 26, 2026 Fifth Regular Meeting minutes and separately stated that the minutes were approved June 23. The document supplies the cleanest Tier-1 account of the corrected 26-I-37 vote, including every Quorum Court member's position and an explicit correction footnote. ## What's inside - `5th Regular Meeting minutes.docx` — narrative minutes of the Pulaski County Quorum Court's May 26, 2026 Fifth Regular Meeting. ## Key takeaways - The minutes state: *"The motion to adopt the item as amended failed by a roll call vote."* - Corrected tally: *"Vote to adopt the item as amended: 9-4-2 Present *"*. - Ayes: [[Julie Blackwood]], [[Natalie Capps]], [[Rebekah L. Davis]], [[Paul Elliott]], [[Kathy Lewison]], [[Donna Massey]], [[Staci Medlock]], [[Steven Person]], and [[Phil Stowers]]. - Nays: [[Dianne Curry]], [[Curtis A. Keith]], [[Aaron Robinson]], and [[Patricia Young-Baker]]. - Present: [[Luke McCoy]] and [[Tina Ward]]. - The correction footnote states: *"The vote on this item was inadvertently originally called as 10-4-1 Present and was later verified to be 9-4-2 Present."* ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Barry Hyde]] — called the meeting to order, recessed/reconvened it, and answered questions. - [[Terri Hollingsworth]] — Circuit/County Clerk; read the Agenda Committee reports and Proposed Amendment 1. - [[Hamilton Kemp]] — County Attorney; answered questions on 26-I-37. - [[Justin Blagg]] — Quorum Court Coordinator/Parliamentarian; answered procedural questions. - [[Pulaski County Quorum Court Directory]] — all fifteen members' attendance and recorded positions. - Jay Chesshir — identified in the minutes as Greater Little Rock Chamber executive director; presented on the proposed AVAIO data center. - Ventrell Thompson — Entergy Arkansas Vice President of Customer Service; presented and answered questions. - Tad Bohannon — Central Arkansas Water CEO; presented and answered questions. - [[John P. Bethel]] — Entergy Arkansas Director of Public Affairs and former APSC executive director; presented and answered questions. - [[Tom Nesel]] — AVAIO project manager; presented and answered questions. Civilian public commenters' names and private identifiers are omitted from this compilation because they are unnecessary to the vote finding. ## Concepts invoked - [[High-Intensity Digital Infrastructure Use (HIDIU)]] - [[Arkansas Quorum Court Ordinance Procedure]] ## Events documented - [[2026-05 Pulaski County Quorum Court Vote on Data Center Moratorium]] ## Cross-references - [[Pulaski County Clerk Statement on the Corrected Moratorium Vote]] - [[Quorum Court Correspondence and the Roll-Call-Error Notices (2026)]] - [[Certified Quorum Court Voting Worksheets 2026-05-26]] - [[T004 - Did the Pulaski County Data-Center Moratorium Pass]] ## Open questions / follow-ups The DOCX itself contains no visible certification signature, seal, or notation of the June 23 approval. The county's Gmail statement establishes approval; obtain the June 23 approved minutes or certified minute-book copy only if document-internal authentication is required.