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Marion County amends 2025 budget to adjust elected-official pay, fund building repairs; parking-lot overlay approved
Summary
The Marion County Quorum Court approved amendments to the 2025 operating budget to modify compensation schedules for elected officials and to fund repairs to a courthouse annex damaged by flooding. The court also approved a transfer to repave a county complex parking lot; a small transfer request failed for lack of a second.
The Marion County Quorum Court on an evening in 2025 approved amendments to the county's 2025 annual operating budget that modify the compensation schedule for county elected officials and authorize repairs to county buildings damaged in a recent flood, members said.
The amendment to the 2025 annual operating budget and numbers and compensation ordinance (Ordinance 2024-61) was presented to modify the existing numbers-and-compensation schedule for the remainder of calendar year 2025, with the changes referencing Arkansas law ACA 14-14-1204 and a cost-of-living adjustment discussed during debate. "The sooner we do this for them, it helps their retirement," Speaker 2, a Marion County official, said in support of the amendment.
Why it matters: The change affects elected-official pay schedules and is tied to state statutory language cited during the…
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