Accountability, Ethics, & Transparency in Government
Most of the 30-minute Quorum Court meeting on July 19 was taken up with reports about Library and County Extension Service activities in addition to normal monthly reports from the Sheriff and County Treasurer...
The Budget & Finance Committee rebuffed an ordinance authorizing salary hikes for County elected officials but passed an Assessor’s office pay raise as well as monthly appropriations at its July 12 meeting, after JPs...
JPs approved a second, much larger batch of about $8 million in ARP spending plus about $225,000 * in employee raises at the June 21 Quorum Court meeting. County Treasurer Scott Sanson reported the...
Many, if not most, Quorum Court committee meetings are a series of unanimous votes, and June’s committee meetings were mostly the same. However, at the June 14 Budget & Finance Committee meeting, one JP...
Faulkner County JP Randy Higgins (R, Dist. 2) recently updated the local Lions Club with some new details about Faulkner County’s proposed animal shelter — details that have yet to be shared with the...
Careening from the previous week’s almost-four-hours-long committee meetings to perhaps one of the shortest Quorum Court meetings on record, JPs at the May 17 Quorum Court meeting passed five Ordinances and adjourned in about...
JPs moved quickly through five Ordinances dealing with raises and spent half their time discussing sound issues in the courtroom/meeting room at the Budget & Finance Committee meeting on May 10. April Treasurer Report...
The final meeting of four back-to-back committee meetings on May 10 — the Personnel Committee — lasted almost two hours, finally adjourning close to 10 pm, as JPs considered six Ordinances for pay raises...
