Where’s the Plan for Our $25 M in ARP Funds?
Faulkner Co. has almost $25 million in American Rescue Plan / federal COVID relief funds coming in. After March 15, the County received requests from 17 entities for how to spend all of that...
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Looking at the Numbers: ARP Requests
Take a look at the entire collection of requests Faulkner County has received for American Rescue Plan funds and you’ll see the enormity of the task facing the Quorum Court. How will JPs go...
Committee Requests 2022 Budget With 12% County Pay Hike
Faulkner County’s public 2022 Budget deliberations took off right away with a proposal for a 12% across-the-board salary hike for employees described as a COLA raise that Committee members eventually agreed on with a...
November’s Personnel Committee: Budget Process and Confusion
As has often been the case lately, JPs were having two conversations at once at the November 9 meeting of the Personnel Committee: one about the process and one about the issues at hand....
Faulkner County is Awash in Money
Within the last several months the citizens of Faulkner County have been the beneficiaries of some $40 million in federal funds. Our cities and school districts have also received additional dollars as a result...
Personnel/Salary Requests Tabled; Committee Selects EQ Board Member
At its May 11 meeting, the Personnel Committee quickly selected one of two applicants for the Equalization Board and then tabled the remaining agenda item because Committee member JP John Pickett (D, Dist. 11)...
Tax Reallocation Opponents Grossly Outspent Supporters
Opponents of last fall’s proposed tax reallocation grossly outspent supporters — 11 times over, in fact, even though they defeated the measure by only a slight margin at the ballot box on November 3....
Vilonia Mayor Preston Scroggin Paid for Defeat of Tax Reallocation
Vilonia Mayor Democrat Preston Scroggin paid for most of the campaign that successfully defeated the proposed reallocation of the Faulkner County Roads-Criminal Justice sales tax on November 3 last fall. A large donation from...
