The Baxter County Quorum Court Tuesday night agreed to put an additional $50,000 into the operating budget of the Baxter County Detention Center to help cover
The Baxter County Quorum Court will hold its regular August meeting Tuesday evening at 6 in the second-floor courtroom of the Baxter County Courthouse. Some of
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The Baxter County Quorum Court will meet for its June meeting Tuesday night. The meeting is scheduled for 6 in the second-floor courtroom of the county courthouse.
Some of the items on the agenda include the second reading of an ordinance adopting revisions and additions to the Baxter County personnel policy manual and the first reading of an ordinance allowing TWAL, Inc., to apply for a private club permit from the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Division.
The Quorum Court is also scheduled to consider a resolution authorizing Baxter County Judge Mickey Pendergrass to purchase a portable closed circuit crushing plant for $715,000. The resolution would also authorize the judge to sign a 12-month loan of $315,000 with Arvest to help cover the purchase of the machinery.
The Baxter County Quorum Court has raised the county’s minimum expense threshold to inventory items.
Previously, any item purchased by the county costing $1,000 or more required that item be catalogued and maintained in inventory. Now, only items costing $5,000 or more must be tracked through the county’s inventory process.
State law requires that counties set a minimum price point to track purchased items and equipment, but does not set a specific dollar amount, County Judge Mickey Pendergrass said. The $1,000-threshold is believed to have been established by the Quorum Court back in 2002.
Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery told Quorum Court members that two decades’ worth of inflation meant many routine items like computers and lightbars for patrol vehicles now exceed the $1,000 cost point and must be tracked through the inventory.