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| Budget Meeting Deals With DOC |
| By thecitywire.com |
| Published: 01/19/2011 |
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It was a slow voting night at the first meeting of the Sebastian County Quorum Court for 2011, but that didn’t stop the court from passing two appropriation ordinances — one to amend the 2010 budget and another to allow for carryovers into the 2011 budget. The first appropriation ordinance stated that $7,740 from the general fund would be moved to compensate for the negative balance in last year’s budget regarding jurors. The second appropriation ordinance covered more ground with more than $2 million moved from the general fund to cover a variety of costs. Both measures passed unanimously. Among the most significant line item increases in the 2011 budget were buildings and improvements from a rural development grant ($128,800), Health Center expansion ($620,100), and emergency operations center construction costs ($439,098). Also, appropriations to the county road fund were $141,407, while the rural fire paging system commanded $170,976, and building and improvements to the Fort Smith Courthouse and other county facilities claimed $153,801. Another article from Tuesday night’s meeting was a review of the Consensus Report of the Arkansas Working Group on Sentencing and Corrections. According to the report, the state of Arkansas costs for housing prison inmates has grown from $45 million to $349 million per year in the last 20 years. If left unchecked by 2021, the total could be a burden of $1.1 billion on Arkansas taxpayers. Read More. |
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