# Sandra Blount Executive Assistant to Arkansas Treasurer John Thurston. Email [email protected], phone 501-682-3817. Signature: > Sandra J. Blount > Executive Assistant to the Treasurer > Office of the Treasurer of State > Phone: 501.682.3817 > [email protected] > 500 Woodlane, Suite 220 > Little Rock, AR 72201 > > www.artreasury.gov Blount's documented role parallels Wendy Spadoni's role at the Auditor's office: Executive Assistant handling scheduling, calendar management, and meeting room logistics. The 500 Woodlane Suite 220 address is the Treasury's State Capitol conference room location. ## The 4/15/2025 Berman-Thurston Capitol meeting scheduling Blount emailed Berman on 4/2/2025 11:32 AM: > Good morning, Mr. Berman. > > I understand you will be in the Little Rock area on Tuesday, April 15th, and would like to meet with Treasurer Thurston. Would you be available at 11:30am on that day? Please let me know and I will add the meeting to the calendar. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly. > > Have a great rest of your day! The "I understand you will be in the Little Rock area" framing suggests Blount learned of Berman's planned visit through a third party rather than via direct DCI outreach. The Auditor's office (Spadoni) was orchestrating the Capitol tour and is the plausible information source. Berman accepted at 11:37 AM: "Thank you very much Sandra. That time would be great. Please thank the Treasurer for making time for myself and my colleague Brad Young. We look forward to meeting you on Tuesday April 15th at 11:30. Many thank again for all your assistance." Blount confirmed at 11:42 AM: > We will see you two gentlemen on the 15th. The meeting will be held in our conference room at the State Capitol, suite 220. The Berman-Thurston Capitol meeting is therefore independently confirmed at 11:30 AM on 4/15/2025 in the Treasurer's State Capitol conference room Suite 220, with Brad Young attending alongside Berman ("two gentlemen"). The meeting venue (Treasury Suite 220) is different from the Auditor's office Room 230 where most other Capitol tour meetings occurred. The wiki's prior documentation of the meeting via Spadoni's pre-trip schedule and Milligan's Outlook calendar entry now has independent Treasurer's-office confirmation. ## The 5/28/2025 Berman meeting follow-up forwarding Blount forwarded the "Meeting with Lawrence Berman" email thread to Amanda O'Neal on 5/28/2025 1:59 PM with attached .msg file. The forwarding indicates O'Neal is positioned to handle follow-up correspondence or post-meeting coordination on the Berman engagement, though O'Neal's specific role is not documented in this batch. ## Cross-references [[treasury-foia-r1-7-7-25]] source page [[john-thurston]] the Treasurer Blount serves as Executive Assistant for [[lawrence-berman]] DCI sales lead; Blount's primary external scheduling correspondent [[brad-young]] DCI Southeast Regional Executive Director; attended the 4/15/2025 meeting with Berman per Blount's "two gentlemen" confirmation [[amanda-oneal]] Treasury staff Blount forwarded post-meeting correspondence to [[wendy-spadoni]] Auditor's-office Executive Assistant; Blount's structural counterpart at the parallel office [[auditor-multi-official-capitol-tour]] the Capitol tour the 4/15/2025 Thurston meeting was part of ## Treasury R2 Sub-batch 3 (Communications binders): the procedural-correction context The Sub-batch 3 Ja-Po binder cross-confirms Blount's 4/14/2025 venue confirmation to Berman and adds the procedural-correction context that produced the "I apologize for any confusion" framing. Thurston's 4/12/2025 7:05 AM Saturday email to Milligan and Brady had pushed back on Milligan's 4/11/2025 framing of the meeting as taking place "in my office located in room 230 of the State Capitol" (Auditor's office Suite 230). Thurston's correction asserted: "At no time was I lead to believe this meeting involved the Auditor or that it was to take place in the Auditor's office. I spoke to Mr. Berman directly. I scheduled him to meet with the Treasurer and staff in our offices." See [[john-thurston]] for the full procedural-correction text. Blount's 4/14/2025 venue-confirmation cover note ("I apologize for any confusion") closes the loop on Thurston's procedural correction. The meeting occurred at Treasury Suite 220 conference room, not Auditor Suite 230. ## The July 2025 Israeli Consulate Houston invitation forwarding Hudson Petersen (Director of Political Affairs, Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest U.S.) emailed Blount 7/30/2025 1:06 PM extending an invitation to Treasurer Thurston to visit Israel in December 2025: > Was great speaking to you earlier. On behalf of Consul General of Israel to the Southwest United States Livia Link Raviv, we are extending an invitation (attached) for Treasurer John Thurston to visit Israel in December for an official visit catered to State Treasurers. Additional information on the visit can be found in the attached invitation, which comes from the Consulate, American Israel Friendship League, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Association of State Treasurers. > Ja-Po binder, Hudson Petersen to Sandra Blount, 7/30/2025 1:06 PM Blount's role as Thurston's external-relations correspondence intake on Israel-related invitations is documented across both DCI/Berman engagement (April 2025 Capitol meeting scheduling) and direct Israeli-government outreach (Consulate Houston December 2025 invitation). The co-extended invitation from "the Consulate, American Israel Friendship League, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Association of State Treasurers" documents Israeli-government, US-Israel friendship organization, and state-treasurers-association coordination on inviting state Treasurers to Israel. [[hudson-petersen]] Israeli Consulate Houston Director of Political Affairs who extended the invitation