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Quorum Court approves budget amendments and land purchase, tables assessor’s server request
Summary
Marion County’s Quorum Court approved multiple budget amendments including workers’ compensation and body armor purchases, authorized pursuing a land purchase for the road department, and tabled a request to replace the assessor’s server while staff obtains further quotes.
The Quorum Court of Marion County, Arkansas approved several routine budget amendments and a property acquisition and tabled a request for an assessor office server replacement after the requester said she would seek further price review.
On a budget amendment relating to the county’s annual operating budget and payroll premiums, members approved transfers to cover an audited workers’ compensation shortfall for 2025 after staff explained the audit indicated the county owed additional premiums. The motion was moved, seconded and approved by voice vote.
Chair then introduced an assessor’s office server replacement request (identified in the meeting as Tanya’s item). Tanya told the court the assessor last replaced a server in 2020–21 and that the office still relies on an older system; she said a vendor quote was about $43,000 and that the county is moving applications to cloud services for future needs. Tanya asked the court to allow her time to seek additional pricing and have IT staff review the vendor quote; the court voted to table the appropriation so staff could pursue negotiation and due diligence.
The court also approved an appropriation to purchase body armor for county operations after a motion and second; no further discussion was recorded.
Finally, the court authorized appropriating county general funds to purchase real property for use by the Marion County Road Department. A court member described two adjoining tracts (17.9 acres below the quarry and 10.9 acres above), said sellers initially asked $18,000 per acre but later sought about $8,000 per acre, and described operational benefits for gravel production and relocating the department. The transcript includes a quoted offer of "$51.48" per acre as read in the session; that figure appears inconsistent with the earlier per-acre figures and was not clarified in the record. The court approved moving forward with the land purchase by voice vote.
All actions recorded in the transcript were completed by voice votes with 'aye' responses; the record does not contain roll-call tallies or ordinance numbers for the items.
The court adjourned after concluding the items on its agenda.
