What to know when voting on the Jonesboro Property Maintenance Code

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published April 22, 2016 at 8:19 AM CDT

Jonesboro’s property maintenance code is up for a vote next month. Early voting is scheduled to start May third and election day is May 10^th.

Officials are concerned the ballot language may be confusing to voters. Jonesboro City Attorney Carol Duncan says citizens need to know they are voting on the repeal of the code.

"I think both sides are concerned about this. Those who are for the code and against the code are concerned about the language. You need to really read the language carefully. If you are voting FOR, you are voting for the repeal of the code, which means it would go away. If you are voting AGAINST, you are voting to keep the code in place."

Also, citizens will vote on the alderman’s race in Ward 6. The seat became open when Tim McCall resigned in January.

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Johnathan Reaves

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.

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