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Jonesboro City Council votes against street adoption

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The Jonesboro City Council has voted against adopting Dayton Avenue as part of a deal in the Old Fairground Bankruptcy case.  Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin says the road of a “cut-through” from Red Wolf Boulevard to Fair Park Boulevard.  Perrin asked the Jonesboro City Council to delay the decision to adopt the roadway so he could meet with neighboring businesses and receive financial assistance to bring the road up to city standards. Perrin said he received negative responses from businesses concerning the issue.  City officials also projected it would cost the city over $223,000 to bring the street up to city standards.

An attorney handling the bankruptcy case for the Old Fairgrounds suggest the city adopt the road after he told the council of some interested parties who would build in the area.  The parties would build only if the city adopted the road.  Jonesboro has an ordinance which does not allow the adoption of a road until it is brought up to city standards.  Carol Caldwell represented the people who own the road and asked for the council to make a decision on whether or not they wanted the road.  The City Council voted against the proposal.  Aldermen Dr. Charles Coleman and Mitch Johnson abstained from the vote.  The Craighead County Fair Association, who owns the land, owes more than $9.6 million to various creditors. 

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.