The question still goes unanswered. April 11, 2017

Why was the softball complex contract awarded to Senator Files & Lee Webb? It certainly was not awarded for their contractual & financial accomplishments!

By the same token, the F.S. City government is equally guilty in this charade. Incompetency notwithstanding, but what entity would be foolish enough to drop $2 million or more into the hands of the two aforementioned politicians, absent any oversight and still funding when the project was on its death bed, i.e. the collusion between the FS city government & the WAPDD, which amounts to outright public theft.
What is the relationship between CEO WAPDD Sasha Grist (what qualifies her as CEO), the city government of Ft. Smith & Frontier MPO’s Dianne Morrison?

In view of the city’s miserable financial record, that is if they are not outright lying, streets & sewers, pensions, the Civic Center, taxpayer’s money being spent for downtown enterprises, the nascent Marshal’s Museum, ad infinitum something is really smelly, particularly the Softball Complex deal which gives an absolute appearance of either a payoff, a quid pro quo, cronyism, malfeasance, misfeasance, etc. None of which are admirable traits, coupling this with their outright refusal to come clean and illuminate the citizens as to why this contract was delivered to Files & Webb.

Money is flowing much too loosely not only in the city but in these NGO’s, wholly funded by taxpayers and run by self-serving government incompetents.

Joe McCutchen

P.S. Trails taking precedence over the aforementioned failures.