The head of the state s largest airport recently notified the Federal Aviation Administration of "potentially noncompliant activity" related to the disadvantaged business enterprise certification of The Design Group, a Little Rock public relations and marketing firm that previously served as an airport subcontractor.
After protracted discussions about procedure and two executive sessions in the same meeting, members of the Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission on Thursday seemed to put to rest a quarrel over the status of the panel s chairman by voting to reelect the current slate of officers.
Despite recent pay increases, the annual salaries of Little Rock s mayor and city manager trail those of the top executives at the Little Rock wastewater authority, the state s largest airport and the regional water utility.
Members of the Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission at a meeting on Thursday sparred over whether to enter an executive session to consider officer appointments after the recent addition of the panel s seventh member.