# Quorum Court Organizational Ordinance 25-I-01 Item **25-I-01** (January 2025) — *"AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE RULES & PROCEDURES OF THE 2025-2026 PULASKI COUNTY QUORUM COURT,"* sponsored by Justices Massey, Curry, Elliott, Keith, McCoy, Stowers, and Young-Baker. The Clerk produced it as the procedural rulebook governing how the 2026-05-26 moratorium vote was conducted. It is the **Tier-1 anchor for the two-thirds emergency-ordinance threshold** the vote turned on. ## Key provisions - **Article 11(c) — Emergency Ordinance:** *"The passage of an emergency measure shall require two-thirds (2/3) majority of the membership. An emergency measure is effective immediately upon approval by the county judge."* Two-thirds of the 15-member Quorum Court is **10 votes** — the threshold the moratorium (an emergency ordinance) failed to reach (see [[Pulaski County Clerk Statement on the Corrected Moratorium Vote]]). - **Article 2(g) — Quorum:** eight (8) members constitute a quorum. - **Article 15 — Voting:** roll-call votes are required for passage of every ordinance, amendment, resolution, and emergency clause; votes are recorded district 1→15, alternating order on successive calls; a member must be present and in their assigned seat to be counted. This is the procedure the [[Certified Quorum Court Voting Worksheets 2026-05-26|voting worksheets]] implement. - **Article 9 — Adopting an ordinance in less than three days:** the suspension-of-the-rules mechanism (2/3 of membership) used to take up a late item like 26-I-37. - **Article 16(j)-(l) — Filing deadlines and late items:** late-filed items require a 2/3 suspension of the rules to be introduced — the procedural basis for the moratorium's late-item path documented in the [[May 2026 Quorum Court Agenda Packet]]. - Signature block names **Adam Fogleman** as County Attorney (January 2025) — the predecessor to [[Hamilton Kemp]], who held the office by May 2026 (a personnel change, noted for the record). ## Significance - Supplies the **Tier-1 procedural authority** the [[2026-05 Pulaski County Quorum Court Vote on Data Center Moratorium|event page]] previously cited only to the state statute (A.C.A. § 14-14-908); the county's own organizational ordinance operationalizes the same two-thirds rule. - Confirms the emergency-ordinance and suspension-of-rules mechanics that made the moratorium a single-meeting, 10-vote proposition rather than a simple-majority one. ## Cross-references - [[Arkansas Quorum Court Ordinance Procedure]] — the concept page this ordinance anchors. - [[Data Center Moratorium Ordinance 26-I-37A and the Grandfather Amendment]] — the emergency ordinance subject to Article 11(c). - [[Certified Quorum Court Voting Worksheets 2026-05-26]] — the Article 15 roll-call worksheets.