# 2026-04 Mayor Office Declines Flock Reconsideration Agenda Request On April 27, 2026, the Conway Mayor's Office — through its `[email protected]` mailbox — formally declined a citizen-submitted Agenda Submission Request asking the City Council to publicly reconsider the January 14, 2025 approval of the Flock Safety contract. The decline is the **Mayor's-Office institutional posture statement** on whether the Flock procurement is open to public reconsideration: it is not. ## The request On April 21, 2026 11:45 AM, "Brick Harvey" (Rick Harvey, `[email protected]`) submitted to the Council Agenda mailbox an Agenda Submission Request titled *"Public Review and Reconsideration of the January 14, 2025 Approval of the Flock Safety Contract for the Conway Police Department."* Harvey's substantive ask: > *"I am requesting that this matter be placed on the next available City Council agenda for public discussion and reconsideration. Specifically, I am requesting that the Council publicly address the basis for the approval, the waiver of competitive bidding, the absence of meaningful recorded discussion in the meeting minutes, the diligence performed before the vote, and the release of the relevant contract and policy materials."* ## The Mayor's Office response On April 27, 2026 11:22 AM (six days later), the Council Agenda mailbox replied: > *"Mr. Harvey, Our apologies for the delayed response in getting back to you. Your Council request was received for placement on the April 28 agenda. There were no attachments included. **However, the City Council heard this item on January 14, 2025, and it will not be included on the upcoming agenda.** If you have any questions or concerns regarding the flock cameras, please feel free to reach out to the Conway Police Department."* ## Significance - **The January 14, 2025 vote is the Mayor's-Office posture on the procurement.** Procedurally, an Agenda Submission Request asks the Mayor's Office to place an item on a Council agenda; only the Mayor (and Council members via Council rules) can do so. The April 27 response declines on the ground that *"the City Council heard this item on January 14, 2025"* — the original 8-0 vote is treated as dispositive. - **Substantive questions are redirected to the Police Department.** *"If you have any questions or concerns regarding the flock cameras, please feel free to reach out to the Conway Police Department."* The Mayor's Office does not itself answer the five substantive questions Harvey raised (bid-waiver basis, no recorded discussion, due diligence, contract / policy disclosure). The redirect is to the operating department. - **Three days later (April 30, 2026), Castleberry forwarded Lt. Burningham's request for Flock-supplied talking points to the broader Mayor's-Office team via Chief Harris** ([[Flock Talking Points to Mayor's Office April 2026]]). The decline-to-reconsider and the contemporaneous vendor-talking-points solicitation are not directly linked in the email record but cluster in the same week. - **The decline did not stop subsequent citizen activity.** Less than a week later, on May 4, 2026, multiple citizens (Eberle, Sowards, Baker, others) emailed Mayor Castleberry directly asking that the Flock contract be placed on the May 12 Council agenda ([[Spring 2026 Citizen FOIA and Reconsideration Wave]]). ## Sources - [[Spring 2026 Citizen FOIA and Reconsideration Wave]] — `Agenda Submission Request – Public Review and Reconsideration of January 14, 2025 Flock Safety Approval.msg` (and the `(1)` variant). ## Cross-references - [[Spring 2026 Citizen FOIA and Reconsideration Wave]] — the broader spring 2026 oversight wave. - [[Flock Talking Points to Mayor's Office April 2026]] — the contemporaneous vendor-talking-points solicitation chain. - [[2026-04 Council Questions Flock Information Security]] — the related April 2026 Council-questioning event. - [[Ordinance O-25-09 — LPR Bid Waiver and Asset Forfeiture Appropriation]] — the original ordinance the decline-to-reconsider cites as dispositive.