Accountability, Ethics, & Transparency in Government
Details about the 2020 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...
Faulkner County’s Quorum Court approved four financial Ordinances and heard citizen concerns about the proposed Bill of Rights Ordinance, along with a Judge’s proclamation about the Coroner’s office, at its March 16 meeting. However,...
At a short but very confused meeting on March 9, the Budget & Finance Committee learned that the actual 2020 Budget carryover figure is $600,000 short of the amount projected during 2021 Budget deliberations....
The County Treasurer’s report took up about half of the 10-minute Budget & Finance Committee meeting on October 13. Within the next few minutes the Committee then handled the one Ordinance on its agenda...
Faulkner County has received a $62,807.50 grant to help pay for administering our November 2020 elections during COVID-19 — which means at least that much of the cost of the elections is not coming...
Faulkner County’s Courts & Public Safety Committee finalized its revision of existing animal control Ordinance 13-22, approved additional funding for the spay and neuter program, and delved into circuit court fines and fees at...
After holding no meetings in June or July, the Roads & Infrastructure Committee spent most of its August 11 meeting listening to a lot of seemingly disjointed details about Roads Department work from the...
The Budget & Finance Committee wants more detail on jail fines but otherwise, the August meeting was routine business as usual. Chair JP John Pickett (D, Dist. 11) opened the August 11 committee meeting...
