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Money trail
Clark County · appropriation · 2026 · dept/fund 1802

Fire — county sales-tax pass-through

$45,921
✖ Dead end

No document for this exists in the corpus yet. Dead end means "not yet ingested and navigable" — never "hidden."

Source
Appropriation Ordinance 2025-21 — Annual Operating Budget for Calendar Year 2026
Source locator
Not yet pinned — the transcription predates storing the source PDF. Pinning every number to its page or locator is part of Docket #7.
Layer
appropriation — Layer one: what Quorum Court (11 justices of the peace) authorized to be spent. What was actually spent is layer two (audit and treasurer reports); which vendor got which check is layer three (check register).
Checked
Counted ✓ — this fund is part of the grand total that re-adds to the ordinance's stated figure exactly. Full report.
Share
0% of all county appropriations ($21,386,230)
Docket
Issue #4 — The complete fire funding map (in progress)
Retrieved
2026-07-18 — The money trail was hand-transcribed in July 2026 from OCR of the filed documents. Page-level references are being pinned against the stored PDFs (Docket #7).

Note on this line

The amount is sourced, but this is only the county's slice of fire funding. Rural Arkansas fire departments are typically funded primarily through fire protection districts' own millage and dues, plus city budgets — the county pass-through is a slice, not the whole picture. The full fire map (district budgets + dues + city FD + this line) does not yet exist in public, navigable form. That is Docket #4, and it is a prerequisite for framing any fire-funding question honestly.

how this line is traced

Reconstructed — and the trail stops here. To see who this money actually reached, someone has to pull records, minutes, or a check register (that's Docket #4). It often stays dark.

There's another way. If the county paid this line from a transparent, line-attributed account, it would publish its own itemized transactions — payee, amount, date — the moment each payment cleared. No request required; the dead end becomes a list. That's the idea behind receipts by rails, filed as a solution to the transparency question — read it and weigh in.