For the first time since a sales tax was passed in 2017 for Go Forward Pine Bluff initiatives, the City Council took money from those reserves and spent it on a project of its own choosing.
A Ways & Means committee meeting on Wednesday to finalize the department-proposed budgets in Pine Bluff ended with a walkout and without a quorum to approve the budget with $120,328 in departmental adjustments.
The Pine Bluff City Council approved a resolution in support of funding $2 million to construct the Delta Rhythm & Bayous Cultural District downtown, an initiative headed by city tourism director Jimmy Cunningham Jr., the Pine Bluff-Jefferson County National Heritage Trails Task Force in partnership with the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission, and the Delta Rhythm & Bayous Alliance.
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The Delta Rhythm & Bayous Alliance will host its Catfish Blues and Soul Day featuring Blues legend Bobby Rush, an art exhibit and live music from the Port City Blues Band, the Platinum Hitz Band as well as Rush.