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Forrest City Mayor

Gordon McCoy

Mayor Gordon McCoy is in his first term as mayor of Forrest City, AR.  He graduated from Tuskegee University in Alabama with a bachelor's degree in economics. He is also a graduate of the Arkansas Military Academy and has completed training from a number of Arkansas Banking Schools.  He has 23 years of military service and currently holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

McCoy is a 1982 graduate of Forrest City High School.

He is the Chief Finance Officer for Camp Robinson. He completed active duty in Iraq in 2005 and received the Bronze Star and Combat Infantryman Badge for his service in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Prior to becoming mayor, he served as Assistant Vice president of the First National Bank of Eastern Arkansas. McCoy is past president of the Forrest City School Board. He gave up his school board membership due to his call to active duty in Iraq. He is also a member of the Kiwanis Club and serves on the boards of the Boys and Girls Club and the St. Francis County Community Foundation. In 2005, he was appointed by Gov. Mike Huckabee to the Arkansas Motor Vehicle Commission.

 

Some of the powers and duties of mayor generally include(14-43-504):
(a) The mayor of the city shall be its chief executive officer and conservator of its peace. It shall be his special duty to cause the ordinances and regulations of the city to be faithfully and constantly obeyed. (b) The mayor shall: (1) Supervise the conduct of all the officers of the city, examine the grounds of all reasonable complaints made against them, and cause all their violations of duty or other neglect to be properly punished or reported to the proper tribunal for correction; (2) Have and exercise the power conferred on sheriffs, within the city limits, to suppress disorder and keep the peace; and (3) Perform such other duties compatible with the nature of his office as the city council may from time to time require. (c) (Repealed). (d) The mayor shall, at the second regular meeting of the council in each year, and at such other times as he shall deem expedient, report to the council the municipal affairs of the city and recommend such measures to it as to him may seem advisable.