Accountability, Ethics, & Transparency in Government
Details about the 2019 Faulkner County budget
It’s been six years since Crystal Taylor first took office, defeating a 13-year incumbent Democrat for Faulkner County’s Circuit Clerk position. Since then, her ambition to effectively deploy her staff and taxpayer money along...
In about an hour, JPs at the March 17 Quorum Court meeting had approved the 2019 Carryover Ordinance, Election Commissioners Pay Ordinance, and the special COVID-19 Employee Pay Ordinance. After he had questioned whether...
During the 2018 budget deliberations, the 1-mill voluntary tax for the Soil Conservation District was abolished and replaced with a 1-mill voluntary tax for the Extension Service. But the Soil Conservation governing Board was...
At its final meeting for 2019, the Quorum Court approved Faulkner County’s 2020 budget, but only after newer JPs’ questions about the process and some funding items caused considerable debate while splitting the Court...
At September’s Budget Committee meeting, Chair JP John Pickett (D, Dist. 11) listed what he called fiscal needs for Faulkner County in 2020. However, acknowledging our county’s tight finances, some items seem to be...
The Faulkner County Quorum Court has set a voluntary meeting tonight at 6 pm at the Faulkner County Courthouse dealing with “Faulkner County Budgeting.” This is a voluntary training meeting for new JPs; however,...
We talk a lot about transparency in government, but seldom does an example of a lack of transparency present itself as loud and clear as the obfuscation surrounding funding for the 4% raise for...
Different budget priorities between the JPs resulted in more drama at December’s Quorum Court meeting. A telling exchange between Republican JP Steve Goode (District 3) and Budget Chair Democrat JP John Pickett (District 11)...
