HIGHFILL, Ark. — Highfill Mayor Chris Holland said it would be a financial disaster for the Benton County city if the Northwest Arkansas National Airport were allowed to detach from the city.
In October, the city of Highfill sued the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority seeking to block it from filing a petition to detach from the city. The city also wants Benton County Circuit Judge Doug Schrantz to declare Act 769 of 2023 unconstitutional.
Act 769, which went into effect on Aug. 1, gave the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority the ability to detach the airport from the city by a two-thirds vote of its members. The board is made up of two members each from the five largest cities in northwest Arkansas — Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville and Siloam Springs — and two each from Benton and Washington counties.
To read more about this lawsuit, our content partner Arkansas Business has the full story here.
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