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Quorum Court adopts sales-tax allocation change after debate over transfer-station revenue
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Summary
The Quorum Court approved an amendment to Marion County’s 1% countywide sales-and-use tax allocation, approving a proposal to move a 3% share tied to the transfer station into the road department. Court members disputed the expected annual revenue from that share during debate.
The Quorum Court of Marion County, Arkansas voted to amend the countywide 1% sales-and-use tax breakdown, approving an ordinance introduced as Cheyenne’s to reallocate a 3% share tied to the county transfer station to the road department.
The change was presented by the chair and moved and seconded; the court approved the ordinance by voice vote. During discussion, an official responsible for roads argued the transfer would provide additional funding for road work and said the transfer-station share had generated roughly "$73,000, 75,000 a year" (as read in the transcript). A fellow member pushed back, saying, “Actually, it’s about 51,” identifying a materially lower estimate in the record.
The road official described the transfer-station operations as having “done well for 2 years” and said moving the 3% share into the road department would allow continuity of funding for maintenance and gravel operations; the official also said that if urgent issues arose the department could return the funds to the transfer station and would treat the transfer station as an independent entity if necessary.
The court did not record a roll-call vote in the transcript; the ordinance was approved by voice. The transcript contains a discrepancy between the higher annual figure cited by the road official and the lower figure given by another member; the record does not resolve which number is the correct current annual average.
Looking ahead, the reallocation will change how the county’s 1% sales-and-use tax is distributed among county functions and could affect both transfer-station operations and road-maintenance budgeting. The court moved on to other agenda items following the vote.
