The Pope County Quorum Court on April 2025 approved an ordinance appropriating $250,000 from the surplus investment fund to the county EMS department.

Judge Bill Sparks moved the ordinance and Jamie Jackson seconded; the clerk read the ordinance title before a short discussion about capital projects and prior ARP spending. The court adopted the ordinance by roll call: 11 yes, 1 absent.

During discussion, justices noted multiple capital projects related to county facilities and equipment have previously drawn on American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds. A court member said viewing a one-page snapshot would clarify ARP allocations; the speaker noted the county used ARP funds for earlier capital items including the acquisition of jail land and a cooling-tower and parking-lot project that had been “nearly a half a million dollar project.” The clerk’s roll-call on the EMS appropriation recorded yes votes from Philip Haney, Jackie Hefflin, Jamie Jackson, Suzanne McCall, Margaret Motley, Wayne Scott, Doug Skelton, Bill Sparks, Blake Tarpley, Tim Wittenberg and Ronnie Wilbanks; Jordan Sowers was recorded as not present.

The ordinance’s title read that it was “an ordinance appropriating $250,000 from the surplus investment fund for the EMS department.” The court adopted the ordinance during new business and no amendments were recorded on the floor.