What has been a concept brewing in the minds of community leaders in recent years has just been given octane fuel with the passage of a resolution by the Pine Bluff City Council providing $2 million for the development of a portion of the Delta Rhythm & Bayous Cultural District in downtown.
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.
Pine Bluff City Council members approved a revision to a resolution that defines how $2 million appropriated for a new cultural district downtown would be sourced.
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.