Governments have to abide by budgets, or get ready to be in serious trouble or bankrupt.
Pope County s governing body is making sure day after day that will not happen for the near future. Nearly half of the county s 58 budgets were approved before the Quorum Court s regular meeting last Thursday at the Pope County Courthouse. But they didn t get approved without some discussion. Crow went on to say that recent newspaper stories about Russellville receiving extra funds from DWI arrests was a good way to bring in revenue for a department. Winters told Crow that as long as he is sheriff, We will never come up with much money on tickets, because that is not our job to make revenue off tickets.