Mayor Frank Scott Jr. - Democratic Mayors

Mayor Frank Scott Jr. highlighted COVID-19 response, job growth and quality of life improvements in Little Rock during his annual State of the City Address in March.

“We’ve experienced historic job growth during a pandemic with nearly 4,000 new jobs — hear that again, 4,000 — since I took office,” Mayor Scott said.

One of the Mayor’s primary goals for the year is to pass his proposed “Rebuild the Rock” one-penny sales tax initiative.

“Our sales tax is appropriate, transparent, and a timely response to a pandemic that knocked us down but didn’t take us out,” he said.

The tax would be dedicated towards infrastructure improvements, an affordable housing fund, a more robust economic development program, public safety efforts, improved early childhood education for infants and toddlers, and more.

Mayor Scott also announced he is asking the Little Rock Board of Directors to pass an ordinance to create a Health and Wellness Commission that will launch this year.

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