Accountability, Ethics, & Transparency in Government
Annual Faulkner County Budget Information
The Faulkner County Quorum Court’s August meeting was more about announcements and information than two Ordinances that passed unanimously with no discussion during the 25-minute meeting. COVID Returns Citing a need to make the...
The December 14 special Quorum Court meeting that was originally set to discuss the proposed 12% “COLA” wage hike resulted in JPs passing Faulkner County’s 2022 Budget, but not before major changes were approved....
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...
Does anyone remember the August and September Personnel Committee meetings? You know, the ones where JP John Pickett (D, Dist. 11), chair of the Budget & Finance Committee, unilaterally blocked raise requests for the...
Although it was an extremely short 7-minute meeting, the August 10 Personnel Committee meeting(s) have drawn much scrutiny, after Committee Chair JP Tyler Pearson (D, Dist. 7) adjourned and then reconvened the meeting for...
The Budget & Finance Committee heard positive revenue news and began looking at some $24,000,000 in federal COVID-19 relief funds at its 10-minute meeting held immediately before the Personnel Committee on May 11. Several...
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 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...
