2026 Open Documents

All documents presented at City Council Meetings.

Section 2. City Council Meetings:
City Council meetings are always open to the public. [AC.A. 14-43-502 (b)(2)(A)]
The City Council shall conduct regular business meetings at 5:00pm at Osceola City Hall on the third Monday each month. The City Council by majority vote may reschedule or cancel such meeting as it deems necessary on a meeting by meeting basis. [AC.A. 14-43-502 (b)(2)(A)]

Special or emergency meetings of the City Council may be called by the Mayor or any three (3) council members by signed submittal of time and place of the scheduled meeting and its agenda to the Mayor or Mayor's Office, in a timely manner to fully comply with the two-hour notification requirement [AC.A. 25-19- 106(6)(2)] for all media and for the same notification of all elected city officials. Notification shall be deemed given when those to be notified have been contacted or when an attempt to contact them has been made by the proper time, by every means of instant communications they have been submitted for
notification purposes. All means of communication for notification purposes within a timely reason should be attempted regardless.
Regular and special city council meetings will be recorded and made available on the City of Osceola official web page.
Copies of any meeting recording shall be provided, in its entirety, to anyone requesting them via the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.

Section 3. Agenda (Excerpt)
Preparation of the Agenda packet for each regular City Council meeting should be completed and the Agenda published on the City's website before 4pm on Friday before the Monday City Council meeting. A paper copy shall be ready for pick up at the front office of OMLP for each Council Member and City Attorney by 3pm on the Friday before the Monday City Council Meeting. An electronic copy must be emailed out to all Elected officials by the End of Day Friday. This schedule may change for rescheduled meetings and does not apply to special meetings.
The agenda packet shall include an agenda, unapproved minutes from previous meetings, department reports, department expense reports, credit card reports for each city credit card including the total amount spent the previous month and balance owed, gas card reports including the total amount spent the previous month and balance owed, a report of each city bank account including the beginning balance and ending balance, city treasurers' report, OMLP department financials including but not limited to: balance sheet, profit and loss statement, vendor list, checks written, bills paid, charge-off list, and any ordinances or resolutions up for consideration.