Members of the Little Rock Board of Directors at a meeting today are scheduled to take up a measure that would require new police officers and firefighters to reside within Pulaski County as a condition of employment.
Virgil L. Miller Jr., the newly appointed representative for Ward 1 on the Little Rock Board of Directors, told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that he plans to run for a full four-year term of his own in the November 2022 election.
Members of the Little Rock Board of Directors on Tuesday heard from the eight finalists who seek to fill the remainder of the term of the late City Director Erma Hendrix, who represented Ward 1 on the board for more than a decade before her death Sept. 8 at age 91.
Little Rock officials are poised to redraw the boundaries of the city board's seven wards within the next couple of months based on new population data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
In an executive session during Tuesday's meeting, the Little Rock Board of Directors narrowed to eight its list of applicants to fill the Ward 1 vacancy.