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The City of Fort Smith doesn t currently have any solid plans for a transitional workforce program, but talks with a local workforce developer have kept the idea on the table.
Miles Crawford, TRAC s New Business Development and New Markets specialist, said Friday he has sent out a proposal to keep his transitional workforce pilot program between the city and Go Ye Christian Workforce Services going. Go Ye is Crawford s former workforce agency set to close at the end of the year. Crawford s pilot program gave the city two transitional employees to work at the city landfill, one of whom was eventually hired full-time.
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The downtown player who proposed an alternate truck route has taken issue with the results of the downtown Fort Smith truck study, but those who executed the study say there s good reason for why they conducted it the way they did.
Central Business Improvement District Commissioner Phil White in an email Wednesday said he saw three main proposed truck routes from Halff Associates downtown Fort Smith truck study as options that are not options. He argued in his email that his proposed truck route, which cost the city roughly 10.6% of what it paid for the truck study and captivated city directors at the Tuesday night study session.