# 2024-12 Flock LPR Cameras Cut from 2025 Budget The Conway City Council, during its FY2025 city-budget deliberations, **cut the Flock LPR camera line item** from the 2025 budget. The decision was communicated to Chief Chris Harris on or before 2024-12-13; the cameras had been proposed as a city-budget appropriation, and the Council declined to fund them. ## Sources - [[Morning - Procurement Pivot Thread]] — Chief Harris's 2024-12-13 11:10 AM email to Brittney Hall: "The cameras were unexpectedly cut from the 2025 budget." ## Significance - The Council had visibility on the spend and made a deliberate decision to not appropriate. The record therefore does not support a characterization of the procurement as happening outside the Council's awareness: the item was presented, reviewed, and cut. - The decision did not stop the procurement. Chief Harris pivoted to asset-forfeiture funding within 24 hours; the contract was executed in December 2024 / early January 2025 under that alternative funding path. See [[2024-12 Harris Pivots to Asset Forfeiture]]. - The email is the corpus's verbatim anchor for the budget cut; without it the cut would rest on inference. ## Open - The Council's stated rationale for cutting the line item is not surfaced in the corpus. Tier-2 follow-up: pull the Conway City Council 2024 budget-deliberation minutes / work-session records.