Mitchell Wayne Bobrowski News Today

Little Rock City Manager Bruce Moore informed the mayor and city board members in a memo Tuesday that the city will not move forward with the proposed purchase of a municipal employees property on West 32nd Street.

Two appraisals commissioned by the city of Little Rock that examined property owned by a city employee put its market value at $85,000 and $65,000, according to internal records -- well below the $460,000 the city was prepared to pay until recently to purchase the property.

Little Rock City Manager Bruce Moore on Thursday said he is removing a resolution from the city boards agenda that would authorize the purchase of property owned by a city employee in order to create a homeless shelter and micro-home village at the site.

Little Rock City Manager Bruce Moore has delayed city board consideration of a draft measure authorizing the purchase of property currently owned by a city employee that officials want to use as the site of a planned homeless shelter and micro-home village.