# Pulaski County — Data-Center Moratorium Record Set (#26-439) (production overview) The documentary core of Pulaski County's data-center-moratorium fight, produced through the county's NextRequest portal (request **#26-439**) on **2026-07-07**. Where the earlier [[county-pulaski/data-center-moratorium-2026-05-29/_overview|#26-341 production]] captured the failed May 26 vote, this set captures the **whole apparatus around it**: the vote records and the Parliamentarian's own account of the miscount; the full slate of competing draft ordinances (moratorium and permanent framework); the County Attorney's preemption objection; the Justices' internal email; the mass citizen-petition record; and the benefit-vs-caution advocacy (a Chamber revenue projection and an attorney's caution letter). It is also the agenda material behind the [[2026-07 Pulaski County Quorum Court Scheduled Re-Vote on the Refiled Moratorium|July 14 re-vote]]. ## Provenance Delivered through the **Pulaski County Government NextRequest portal** (`pulaskicountygovernment.nextrequest.com/requests/26-439`) as a single zip on 2026-07-07 (Document-Released [correspondence thread](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/19f3e033331f4807)). The bundle held 63 entries; **one — a driver's-license image the portal echoed back as a "Requester upload" — was excluded as PII** and never entered the repository. The remaining 62 files are stored, unmodified, in `raw/county-pulaski/data-center-moratorium-26-439-2026-07-07/`. **Duplication and re-productions (by SHA-256).** The bundle was heavily duplicated. A checksum pass (`_phase0_workdir/inventory_2026-07-07_26-439.md`) found **five within-bundle duplicate sets** (7 redundant `(1)/(2)/(3)` copies, e.g. `0295_001.pdf` ×3 and `Data Center Revenues - Google Only.pdf` ×3) and **three files byte-identical to records already ingested from #26-341** — the [[Pulaski County Clerk Statement on the Corrected Moratorium Vote|05.28.26 Clerk statement]], the [[May 2026 Quorum Court Agenda Packet|May FQC packet]], and AG Opinion 2023-060 (`0308_001`). One canonical of each of the **52 remaining documents** was extracted; the duplicates and re-productions were **not** re-ingested and get no new page. (Note: `(1)`-suffixed files are *not* automatically duplicates — the three `26-I-45` variants and the two `A RESOLUTION REGARDING HIDI` PDFs are distinct drafts by SHA, and `26-I-37 Moratorium.docx` differs from the earlier ingested 26-I-37A.) **Extraction.** The 13 `.docx` and 11 text-layer PDFs extracted directly (`dump_docx.py` / `dump_pdf.py`); the 28 image-only PDFs were OCR'd at 300 DPI in page-range chunks (`_phase0_workdir/ocr_batch_2026-07-07.py`, 534 pages) — the scanned `0XXX_001.pdf` exhibits, `Letter to Quorum Court.pdf`, and the handwritten vote sheets. The FOIA correspondence lives in Gmail (thread above), not in `raw/`. ## What's inside Organized into the following source pages: - [[Quorum Court Roll Call and Vote Sheets on the Moratorium (2026-05-26)]] — the master roll call and 13 per-item vote worksheets (`Roll Call.pdf`, `Vote Sheets.pdf`; handwritten marks not machine-legible). - [[Quorum Court Correspondence and the Roll-Call-Error Notices (2026)]] — the Justices' email record, **centered on Parliamentarian [[Justin Blagg]]'s 2026-05-28 roll-call-error notice** (`0384_001.pdf`), plus drafting, scheduling, petition, and advocacy emails (`0338`–`0343`, `0374`–`0384`). - [[County Attorney's June 2026 Preemption Memo on the Moratorium]] — [[Hamilton Kemp]]'s 2026-06-08 memo that a moratorium is preempted (`0331_001.pdf`). - [[Quorum Court Committee Reports on the Data-Center Measures]] — the Agenda Committee's May 26 recommendations (`Committee Reports.pdf`). - [[Draft Data-Center Moratorium Ordinances (26-I-37 45 45A 52 Temporary)]] — the competing moratorium drafts and the county's comparison memo (`26-I-37`, `26-I-45`/`45A`, `26-I-52`, `26-I- temporary`, `Amendment 1- 26-I-45`, `Executive Summary-Document Comparison`, and rendered PDFs). - [[Draft Data-Center Regulatory Framework — HIDIU, CUP, and Related Resolutions]] — the permanent-framework drafts (`26-I-HIDIU`, `26-I-CUP`, `26-I-RATEPAYER PROTECTION`, `26-I-Advance Notice…`, `26-I-Regional Infrastructure Impact Corridor`, and rendered PDFs). - [[Data Center Revenues — Google Only (County Analysis)]] — the Chamber's property-tax revenue projection for Project Boar (`Data Center Revenues - Google Only.pdf`). - [[Letter to Quorum Court]] — [[Richard H. Mays]]'s 2026-07-06 caution letter enclosing the Virginia JLARC study (`Letter to Quorum Court (1).pdf`). **Additional exhibits (in `extracted/`, characterized but not given standalone pages):** - **Bulk meeting-and-petition compilations** — the six large scans `0283_001` (55 pp.), `0295`–`0299` (50–64 pp. each; ≈340 pp. total) are mixed compilations of Quorum Court materials: Agenda Committee agendas (e.g., the May 12 agenda opening `0283_001`) and, predominantly, the **mass citizen-petition record** — individual *"Petition to Quorum Court"* submissions (via Jotform, e.g. `0297_001`) urging the court to *"RECALL the Data Center measures from the Planning Department"* and *"ENACT A MORATORIUM."* Individual petitioner names and signatures are **not reproduced in the wiki** (private citizens). - **Reference materials the county assembled** — `hill-county-lawsuit.pdf` (a data-center-moratorium lawsuit, used as comparative context) and `data centers community guide to managing growth RMI.pdf` (a Rocky Mountain Institute guide, also forwarded to the court at `0340_001.pdf`). - **Re-produced records** (byte-identical to #26-341, cited to their existing pages): [[Pulaski County Clerk Statement on the Corrected Moratorium Vote]], [[May 2026 Quorum Court Agenda Packet]], and AG Opinion 2023-060 within [[County Attorney Memo and AG Opinion 2023-060 on the Moratorium]]. ## Central findings - **The miscount is now in the Parliamentarian's own words.** [[Justin Blagg]]'s 2026-05-28 notice records that [[Luke McCoy]] *"voted 'Present' but was recorded in error as having voted 'AYE'"* — moving the announced 10–4–1 to the corrected **9–4–2**, short of the ten-vote (two-thirds) emergency threshold under A.C.A. § 14-14-908(e). This is the legible companion to the not-machine-legible handwritten worksheets and **substantially closes the residual gap** at [[T004 - Did the Pulaski County Data-Center Moratorium Pass]] (which it corroborates). - **The County Attorney's line is regulate-yes, suspend-no.** [[Hamilton Kemp]]'s June 8 memo: *"While the Quorum Court can regulate data centers... what it cannot do is suspend the activity altogether. State law permits it, and state law preempts county law"* — the constraint every moratorium draft is written against. - **"Ratepayer subsidization" enters county land-use text.** The draft Ratepayer-Protection ordinance would bar approval absent an affirmative finding of no *"material subsidization of required electric infrastructure by existing ratepayers"* — the corpus's central [[Generating Arkansas Jobs Act (GAJA) rider|who-pays]] question, in a county instrument. - **Both camps are on the record.** The [[Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce|Chamber]]'s $4.5M–$22.5M revenue projection and utility "Data Center Facts" resource sit against [[Richard H. Mays]]'s JLARC caution letter and ≈340 pages of citizen petitions for a moratorium. ## People and orgs - [[Justin Blagg]] (Parliamentarian; roll-call-error notice, ordinance drafting), [[Hamilton Kemp]] (June preemption memo), [[Luke McCoy]] (the miscounted "Present" vote), [[Curtis A. Keith]] (Agenda Committee chair), [[Dianne Curry]] (26-I-52), [[Patricia Young-Baker]] (Amendment 1 to 26-I-45), [[Rebekah L. Davis]] / [[Tina Ward]] / [[Julie Blackwood]] (moratorium sponsors), [[Barry Hyde]], [[Terri Hollingsworth]], [[Wendell Griffen]]. *(new person page)* [[Richard H. Mays]] (caution-letter author). - [[Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce]] (revenue projection), [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] / [[Little Rock Port Authority]] (Project Boar), [[City of Little Rock]], [[Entergy Arkansas]], [[Google LLC]]. ## Concepts - *(new)* [[High-Intensity Digital Infrastructure Use (HIDIU)]] and [[Conditional Use Permit (CUP)]] — the drafted regulatory category and its permitting mechanism. - [[Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023 (Act 851) and 2024 Amendments]], [[AG Opinion 2023-060 and County Authority Over Data Centers]], [[Arkansas Quorum Court Ordinance Procedure]], [[Pulaski County Zoning and Land-Use Authority]]. ## Events - *(new)* [[2026-07 Pulaski County Produces Quorum Court Moratorium Record Set]] — this production's delivery event. - *(new)* [[2026-07 Pulaski County Quorum Court Scheduled Re-Vote on the Refiled Moratorium]] — the July 14 anchor (scheduled; no post-vote record yet). - [[2026-05 Pulaski County Quorum Court Vote on Data Center Moratorium]], [[2026-06 Quorum Court Postpones the Refiled Data-Center Moratorium]] — the events this set upgrades to Tier-1. ## Cross-references - [[county-pulaski/data-center-moratorium-2026-05-29/_overview|#26-341 production]] — the prior moratorium production this set re-produces in part and extends. - [[T004 - Did the Pulaski County Data-Center Moratorium Pass]] — the tension this set bears on. - [[Pulaski County's Attempt to Regulate Data Centers]] — the synthesis page (unmodified this ingest). ## Open questions / follow-ups - **T004 residual-gap closure.** `0384_001.pdf` supplies, in legible text, the corrected 9–4–2 aggregate and the decisive McCoy AYE→Present correction the #26-341 worksheets could not. **T004's "Residual gap" paragraph has been updated (2026-07-07) to record this closure**; its `status` stays `resolved` (this corroborates the prior finding). The full per-JP breakdown of all fifteen members remains only in the handwritten worksheets. - **Which draft is the July 14 vehicle** — the record holds multiple live moratorium drafts with inconsistent HIDIU thresholds; the merged/chosen version is not established. - **"County Attorney – Adam Fogleman"** appears in the 26-I-52 approval block where the corpus elsewhere names [[Hamilton Kemp]]; his role is not established here. - **Synthesis pass (deferred).** The Chamber revenue case, the Kemp preemption memo, and the Ratepayer-Protection draft bear on [[Pulaski County's Attempt to Regulate Data Centers]] and the county's [[Generating Arkansas Jobs Act (GAJA) rider|cost-allocation]] posture; integrating them is a later synthesis step, not part of this ingest.