Accountability, Ethics, & Transparency in Government
October’s Personnel and Budget Committee meetings were a mixed bag of failed Joint Resolutions to raise salaries of numerous County employees again, amid successful votes to amend the County Personnel manual and handle routine...
After a marathon meeting last night, the Faulkner County Quorum Court authorized a Resolution to spend the County’s $10 million in unrestricted ARP funds for an animal shelter and new jail, plus funding for...
Nothing it seems…. Nine months into the year and the Infrastructure and Roads Committee didn’t meet again. Faulkner County announced Quorum Court Committee meetings for this week, and as usual there was no meeting...
Most of the Courts & Public Safety Committee’s meeting on September 12 was spent on updates about two important County issues, the proposed animal shelter and a long-awaited jail expansion project: Animal Shelter Chair...
Faulkner County’s Quorum Court Committees are kicking into gear for the 2024 budget cycle, with about $300,000 in proposed salary hikes on September agendas. There’s also a proposal for an election to allow the...
While various rural areas around Arkansas seem to have been invaded by cryptomining sites that are criticized for their massive power consumption, you may not have noticed the other side of the coin. Two...
It was only five years ago that Conway feared a major flood event with the potential to submerge the south and west part of town. The Arkansas River was flooding and eventually caused $3...
The cryptomining noise issue continues to be top-of-mind not only for Faulkner County residents dealing with the unrelenting high-pitched whine from nearby unwelcome cryptomining sites, but now also for local Quorum Courts, attorneys, and...
