Representatives from the Arkansas Black Mayors Association and Pine Bluff Mayor Shirley Washington were taken to task over persistent flooding problems and whether Pine Bluff could lose federal funding if the city decides to pursue completion of watershed projects on its own.
A special called Pine Bluff City Council meeting failed to establish a quorum Thursday, leaving city officials unable to agree to receiving federal funds through the Arkansas Black Mayors Association for a watershed project.
LITTLE ROCK A joint venture between EJES Inc. of Dallas and FTN Associates of Little Rock will lead the engineering of nine watershed projects in Pine Bluff.