SPRINGDALE -- Work release inmates will be replaced with janitors to work in the City Administration Building, a move prompted by alleged misbehavior.

"We're going to hire employees to take over that role of maintenance and janitorial services," Mayor Doug Sprouse said after Tuesday's City Council meeting.

The City Council voted approved spending $26,820 to hire janitors to work in the building at 201 Spring St., for the rest of the year. Arkansas Department of Corrections inmates housed at Northwest Arkansas Work Release Center in Springdale had been doing the work for more than 15 years, Melissa Reeves, public relations director for the city, said last week.

"We're looking to redistribute them to work somewhere else, possibly in another building," Reeves said. "It's part of an overall strategy to increase security in the administration building."

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