The Pine Bluff Street Department will be cutting 10 vacant positions, freeing up more than $450,000, as well as returning about $399,000 to its budget from matching a Federal Transit Authority Grant for the Transit Department.
The chairman of Pine Bluff's Public Works Committee, Ivan Whitfield, made an immediate and successful motion to reinstate the Clean and Beautiful budget for 2022 during Tuesday's city budget hearings.
An investigation into unfair and racially motivated treatment of employees in the Pine Bluff Street Department concluded that no such practices had taken place.