# 2025-12 Fayetteville Mayor Signs Axon ALPR Trial Agreement On 2025-12-04, Mayor [[Molly Rawn]] signed the Axon General Field Trial Agreement, authorizing the Fayetteville Police Department to activate the Axon Fleet 3 automatic-license-plate-recognition function across its patrol fleet. The signature completed a process begun in mid-November 2025: [[Axon Enterprise, Inc.]] sent the agreement to Capt. [[Michele Miller]] on 2025-11-18; FPD routed it through a City Staff Review; Deputy Chief [[Tad Scott]] authored the recommending staff memo (2025-11-20); Chief [[Mike Reynolds]] was submitter of record on the Staff Review Form (2025-11-24). Because the trial carried no cost, the Mayor's signature — not a City Council vote — was the authorization. The Mayor's office relayed the signed agreement back to FPD the same morning. ## Sources - [[Axon Field Trial Agreement and City Authorization]] — the staff memo, Staff Review Form, and the executed agreement bearing "Customer: Molly Rawn, Title: Mayor," dated 2025-12-04 (`Operations Admin - ALPR.pdf`). ## Significance This is the authorizing act for the [[Axon Fleet 3 ALPR Trial]]. It is the documentary core of the [[ALPR Trial-to-Procurement Pipeline]] pattern: a surveillance capability switched on agency-wide through a $0 agreement and a single executive signature, with the Staff Review Form recording the item as not budgeted and zero direct cost — outside the appropriation and competitive-procurement scrutiny a purchase would have required.