Accountability, Ethics, & Transparency in Government
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...
Like February’s Budget Committee meeting, the February Quorum Court meeting was quick, with very little discussion, except for a funding change for Sheriff’s Reserve radio equipment. JPs passed a 2021 cleanup Ordinance and a...
At the February 8 Budget & Finance Committee meeting JPs quickly, with no discussion, passed a 2021 cleanup Ordinance and a $2000 Ordinance for internet in the Assessor’s office in the 2021 Budget, plus...
An 11-member Quorum Court quickly dispatched four housekeeping/clean-up Ordinances at the December 21 meeting, while paying extra attention to adjustments made to County millage listings. Other than the millage listings, JPs asked very few...
County General revenue is up 15.45% year-to-date over 2020, County Treasurer Scott Sanson told the Budget & Finance Committee at its November 9 meeting. Sanson’s monthly financial report took up more than half the...
At their October 19 meeting, JPs gave County employees a new 2-week paid parental leave benefit as well as pay hikes for deputy clerks and $3,000 “premium pay” bonuses from federal COVID relief funds....
JPs at the September 14 Budget & Finance Committee meeting approved $4,545 from the Animal Welfare Control fund for the Friends of the Faulkner County Animal Shelter, as well as the monthly appropriations ordinance....
JPs easily approved routine appropriations, a code of County Ordinances, a salary surveys process, and a “marriage resolution,” but shut out parental leave and County raise requests at the August 17 Quorum Court meeting....
