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Clark County · separate government · 2026

Arkadelphia Public Schools (+ Gurdon)

◐ Partial

The total is sourced, but the detail beneath it has not been ingested yet.

Source
Arkadelphia School District No. 1 — audit, year ended June 30, 2024 (Arkansas Legislative Audit)
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
actual — Layer two: what was actually spent, from audit and treasurer reports.
Checked
Not independently checkable yet — no complete set of sub-lines exists in the corpus to sum against.
Docket
Issue #2 — School district budgets & millage breakdown (in progress)
Retrieved
2026-07-18 — Downloaded and hashed. Bond and construction notes read (Notes 5–6); full money trail not yet ingested.

Note on this line

School millage IS the largest line on most residents' tax bills, and it is now sourced: Arkadelphia district 47.65 mills (25.0 M&O + 2.0 other M&O + 17.65 bond + 3.0 other bond), Gurdon 43.0. Both districts' FY2024 audits and the Arkadelphia district's bond official statements are in the document library. The 17.65 bond mills were voted at the 2015 school election; they repay $35.05M in 2021 and 2022 bonds (a refinancing of 2015 middle- and elementary-school bonds, plus a new elementary school finished in 2024), with $43.3M in principal and interest left at mid-2024, through May 2047. The 3.0 newer bond mills were voted November 18, 2025 for a separate $37.17M new-high-school bond, about $60 a year on a $100,000 home. District budget detail is the remaining gap.

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 #2). 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.