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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Arkansas Politics Beebe provides emergency $40,000 to pay court assistants

Posted by Max Brantley on Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:12 AM

Gov. Mike Beebe will announce this afternoon that he's found money to meet the January payroll for trial court assistants.

This presumably will avert furloughs planned in January for the 125 employees. Shades of the Forestry Commission. The assistants' salaries have been paid by special money from a fund supplied by court fees. For reasons not yet clear, the fund has been declining and hasn't been sufficent to meet payrolls. Beebe provided emergency money earlier and the courts also imposed some cost-cutting measures. The governor will release $40,000 from his emergency fund, as he did earlier, to meet the January payroll.

The legislature will meet in February and will work on a longer term solution.

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It's sad that these court employees cannot count on the state to properly fund their jobs.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Arkansas Politics Beebe provides emergency $40,000 to pay court assistants

Posted by Max Brantley on Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:12 AM

Speaking of...

Gov. Mike Beebe has named Robert "Bunny" Adcock, a Conway banker, to the University of Central Arkanas Board of Trustees. /more/

An unexpected rise in state revenue will enable an increase in state spending in the final two months of this fiscal year, which ends June 30, Gov. Mike Beebe has announced. /more/

Nobody's declaring victory yet, but there are enormous implications in the finding reported today that something may be finally arresting the rise in health care spending. /more/

The faculty Senate of the University of Central Arkansas yesterday adopted a resolution urging Scott Roussel to resign from the UCA Board of Trustees. /more/

I never really expected Gov. Mike Beebe, who cut his teeth golfing with the lobby in the Senate, to be a supporter of the Sheffield Nelson-backed initiative to raise the pitifully low severance tax on natural gas. /more/

Robert Araiza, the financial officer who was in the middle of the long-running controversy over financial shortfalls at the Arkansas Forestry Commission, has taken state retirement. /more/

Gov. Mike Beebe's office sent out a round of pardons today and they fit the pattern of his tenure — only six granted among 59 applications and then only for relatively minor offenses. /more/

I'm off the web grid this morning outside Johnson City, Texas with only an iPhone for blogging. /more/

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