# Conway City Council
The legislative body of the [[City of Conway]], Arkansas — eight aldermen serving four wards (two positions per ward) plus the [[Mayor's Office (Conway)|Mayor]] as chair. The council appears in this investigation primarily as the **scope expansion Joshua requested in his bounced 2026-04-22 21:00 clarification reply** to [[Drake Vickers]] — see [[2026-05 Bounce-Scope Diagnostic]].
## Current members (2026)
Per (primary public record, [Conway City Council roster](../../web%20archive/2026-05-18/conwayarkansas.gov/government.md)):
| Ward / Position | Name | City email |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Position 1 | Andy Hawkins | `
[email protected]` |
| 1, Position 2 | David Grimes | `
[email protected]` |
| 2, Position 1 | Drew Spurgers | `
[email protected]` |
| 2, Position 2 | Shelley Mehl | `
[email protected]` |
| 3, Position 1 | Mark Ledbetter | `
[email protected]` |
| 3, Position 2 | Spencer Hawks | `
[email protected]` |
| 4, Position 1 | Theodore Jones Jr. | `
[email protected]` |
| 4, Position 2 | Shelia Isby | `
[email protected]` |
## Roles in this corpus
- **Approved the Flock procurement by ordinance, 8-0.** On January 14, 2025 the Council passed [[Ordinance O-25-09 — LPR Bid Waiver and Asset Forfeiture Appropriation|Ordinance O-25-09]] unanimously — Aye: Hawkins, Ledbetter, Jones, Grimes, Spurgers, Hawks, Isby, Mehl. The ordinance waived competitive bidding on a sole-source theory, authorized the $180,000 Flock purchase, and appropriated $180,000 from the asset-forfeiture fund. See [[January 14 2025 Conway City Council Meeting]] and [[2025-01 Conway City Council Authorizes Flock Purchase (Ordinance O-25-09)]].
- **The header-scan absence in Conway PD's production remains.** The [[2026-05 Bounce-Scope Diagnostic]] header scan over all 389 `.msg` files in `PD-2026-354` returned **zero** Council member addresses in `From:` / `To:` / `Cc:` / `Bcc:` — the Department's email production does not surface council-member Flock-related correspondence. The supplemental FOIA filed to the City Clerk asked for Clerk-held council-member correspondence; the Clerk's [[2026-05 Conway City Clerk FOIA-2026-125 Response|`FOIA-2026-125` response]] returned "no records" for that item.
## Notes
- The Council acted on the Flock procurement only by ordinance — there is no produced record of a deliberative discussion, only the motion, second, and roll-call vote ([[January 14 2025 Conway City Council Meeting]]).
- Council-member Flock-related correspondence on members' own City accounts (e.g., `
[email protected]` and the other seven addresses listed above) remains unaddressed by any filed FOIA as of this ingest. The Clerk's office determined it does not hold such correspondence; that determination is custodial, not City-wide.