Accountability, Ethics, & Transparency in Government
The Courts & Public Safety Committee held its second meeting this month on June 13. On the agenda were discussions of the much-anticipated “data center” ordinance as well as a noise ordinance submitted by...
Faulkner County Judge Allen Dodson unveiled his vision for spending the County’s remaining unencumbered COVID relief funds at Tuesday night’s otherwise-routine Quorum Court meeting. Unfortunately, audio on the livestream is hampered by some sort...
For the fourth month in a row, the Quorum Court’s Infrastructure Committee laid out, but the Budget Committee met for five minutes on April 11 while the Courts & Public Safety Committee held an...
With our “new” Quorum Court and County Judge in place for 2023-2024, the County is starting to look again at some long-standing issues. We checked in recently with JP Maree Coats (R, Dist. 2),...
It took JPs almost three hours to work their way through easy choices and some not-so-easy Ordinances at the last Quorum Court meeting of the 2021-2022 term on December 20. The outgoing Court eventually...
A familiar scene played out at the October QC meeting as fiscally conservative JPs again argued for a comprehensive approach to spending the County’s ARP funds — in this case, funding for nonprofits spurred...
Even though the agenda didn’t reflect it, much of the hour-plus Courts & Public Safety Committee meeting on September 13 centered on approving certain ARP funding requests. As has been the case in the...
Faulkner County’s Quorum Court zipped through its agenda with near-unanimous votes and very little discussion on seven Ordinances and four Resolutions presented at the August 16 meeting. With only a scattering of remarks, JPs...
