Category: Budgets

Carryover Adds to Road Department’s Ever-Growing Surplus

When it comes to revenue, we’ve already talked about turnback funds and how Faulkner County’s Road Department stands to receive dramatically higher automatic turnback funds once Faulkner County’s phenomenal growth over the last ten...

Personnel Committee Quickly OKs Salary/Title Requests

At the first of two Personnel Committee meetings set for September, JPs ran through salary and title changes for four county offices in about a half-hour on Tuesday, September 8. The Committee eventually voted...

Vote YES on Faulkner County Tax Reallocation

On August 18, the Faulkner County Quorum Court passed Resolution 20-07 and Ordinance 20-22 that allows a proposed tax reallocation to be placed on the November ballot so the people can decide. This is...

High Emotion: August Quorum Court OKs Reallocation Vote

Emotion ran high at times during the lengthy discussion on the tax reallocation proposal for the November ballot sponsored by JP Steve Goode (R, Dist. 3) at the August 18 Quorum Court meeting. As...

Roads-Criminal Justice Tax Reallocation Goes to November Voters

At its August 18 meeting, the Quorum Court took a good two hours to consider both an Ordinance * and Resolution concerning the reallocation of the existing Roads-Criminal Justice half-cent sales tax they had...

Roads-Criminal Justice Tax Reallocation on the Table

The Quorum Court has two meetings set for today: One is at 3:30 pm dealing with the Equalization Board appointment. The next meeting, at 4pm, is a special called meeting to discuss reallocation of...

Budget Committee Hears “Not Bad” News on County Revenue

The May Budget & Finance Committee meeting was held after the April Quorum Court meeting on May 12. All Committee members were present or attended online. (There was no Budget & Finance Committee meeting...

Court OKs 2019 Carryover, Election Pay Hike, COVID-19 Pay Measures

In about an hour, JPs at the March 17 Quorum Court meeting had approved the 2019 Carryover Ordinance, Election Commissioners Pay Ordinance, and the special COVID-19 Employee Pay Ordinance. After he had questioned whether...