# November 12 2026 Budget & Finance (2027 Budget)

Faulkner County, Arkansas Budget & Finance Committee meeting on November 12, 2026, focused on reviewing 2027 court-related budgets. The committee noted that budgets include a $500 increase in health-insurance matching per employee, workers’ compensation and some building-insurance increases, with no cost-of-living adjustment currently included. Members said the overall budget was difficult to balance and that they did not expect to approve a complete budget at this meeting. The committee approved multiple individual court and grant budgets, including several motions to batch-approve budgets; it also amended one budget to reduce other professional services by $500 and approved reverting the Drug Court budget to its 2026 appropriation pending further review of a significant part-time salary change.

Grant revenue assumptions and constrained criminal-justice funding were recurring topics. The committee projected revenues of $60,000 for fund 3528, $80,000 for fund 3533, and $175,000 for fund 3550; it also received a correction that fund 3505 had a $46,000 carryover and $30,000 projected revenue. On a motion, members removed a $31,000 county-match appropriation from fund 3096 after the prosecutor described increased state support for drug-task-force costs. The committee also approved a drug-control prosecutor budget that included a vehicle line item, with no purchase amount or vendor identified. Some budgets were tabled or left for follow-up because of unclear revenue, zeroed-out expense lines, and funding agreements still being worked out with municipalities; no vendor selections or contract awards were identified.

**Jurisdictions:** sled
**Industries:** Public Safety
**Topics:** Grants & Funding
**Published:** November 12, 2026

### Sources
- [November 12 2026 Budget & Finance (2027 Budget)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z41Qd0gL3Wg) - Faulkner County Arkansas