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Center for Transportation Excellence
1030 15th Street NW
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Washington, DC 20005
Tel: (202) 349-1037
Fax: (202) 318-1429
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State-By-State Searchable Database

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Arkansas
Capital: Little Rock
Population: 2,692,090
Federal Transportation Spending: $475,614,000 (U.S. Census Bureau 2002)

General Ballot Measure Information

State Ballot Process
Arkansas offers the following state ballot measure procedures: initiative, referendum and recall. The state adopted the initiative process in 1910. Ballot measure sponsors must file signed petitions with the Secretary of State at least 4 months before the election.

State Election Site: http://www.accessarkansas.org/sbec/

County & City Information
Contact your county elections office for more information: http://www.state.ar.us/sbec/search_ec.html

Ballot measure information
http://www.iandrinstitute.org/Arkansas.htm

Additional ballot measure information
http://www.ballot.org/states/ar.html

Specific Ballot Measure Information

Initiative Year	Community/Region for initiative	Type Of Measure	Ballot Date	Result
2002	Little Rock	Financing question	11/5/2002	Failed two-to-one
Description
The Central Arkansas Transit Authority's (CATA) board of directors approved a resolution asking the Pulaski County Quorum Court to include a quarter-cent sales tax dedicated to public transit in a special or general election Dedicated funding for transit would free the authority from having to rely on the county and member cities to fund its $9.3 million budget. Little Rock is mulling over tax proposals from its Vision Little Rock goal-setting study that might end up as part of a countywide package that would include other taxes. Could net the authority $9 million to maintain bus routes, the planned River Rail streetcar system and future route extensions.

Outreach/Contact Information

Advocacy Groups

Arkansas Transit Association ( no website )
Ozone Action ( http://www.ozoneactiondays.org/ )

Rail Passenger Group

The Arkansas Association of Railroad Passengers ( http://www.trainweb.org/arkrail/ )

State DOT

http://www.ahtd.state.ar.us/

Transit Agencies & MPOs

Little Rock CAT ( http://www.cat.org/ )
Central Arkansas Transit Authority Streetcar Project ( http://www.cat.org/rrail/ )
Fort Smith Public Transit ( http://www.fsark.com/Transit/Index.html )
Razorback Transit-University of Arkansas ( http://www.uark.edu/depts/parking/ )
Pine Bluff Transit ( http://www.cityofpinebluff.com/pbtransit/ )

Media Information

Newspaper(s)
Little Rock Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ( http://www.ardemgaz.com ) Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Times ( http://www.nwarktimes.com/times/ ) Fort Smith Times Record ( http://www.swtimes.com/ ) Hot Springs Sentinel-Record ( http://www.hotsr.com ) Arkansas Business News ( http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/ )
Radio	Television
KUAR NPR - Little Rock ( http://www.ualr.edu/~kuar/ ) KABZ Talk - Little Rock ( http://www.1037thebuzz.com/ ) KABF Community Radio- Little Rock ( http://www.kabf.org/ )	KARK-NBC ( http://www.kark.com/ ) KATV-ABC ( http://www.katv.com/ ) KTHV-CBS ( http://www.kthv.com/ )

Other Resources

STPP State Page: http://www.transact.org/states/default.asp?state=arkansas

APTA State Page (Info. on transit agencies): http://www.apta.com/links/state_local/ar.cfm