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Howard County, Arkansas · run 2026-10-09T01:38:40.043Z

Does the tree add up?

60/60 ✓
Budgets are self-auditing: every total should equal the sum of its parts — accountants call that cross-footing. Line items must sum to category totals, categories to departments, departments to funds, funds to the ordinance's own grand total of $11,985,488 — to the dollar, no rounding. This page is the arithmetic receipt for the whole money trail. Any line that cannot be checked yet says so on its own citation page.
Cross-foots ✓
Checked lineStatedSum of partsResultDetail
County General $3,579,401 $3,579,401 ✓ exact 27 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Judge $125,337 $125,337 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Clerk $256,563 $256,563 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Circuit Clerk $261,790 $261,790 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Treasurer $144,438 $144,438 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Collector $324,577 $324,577 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Assessor $465,788 $465,788 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Equalization Board $1,857 $1,857 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Quorum Court $41,649 $41,649 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Courthouse Maintenance $228,381 $228,381 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Elections $108,498 $108,498 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Grants in Aid (General) $9,500 $9,500 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Health $61,389 $61,389 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Sheriff $1,019,571 $1,019,571 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Circuit Court $20,000 $20,000 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Circuit Court Judge $23,188 $23,188 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Juvenile Court $6,083 $6,083 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Juvenile Intake Officer $21,693 $21,693 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Prosecuting Attorney $45,540 $45,540 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Coroner $15,125 $15,125 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Deputy Prosecuting Atty $30,000 $30,000 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
OES $42,134 $42,134 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Howard Co. Fire Chief Assn. $250 $250 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Veterans Office $16,680 $16,680 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Extension Office $87,742 $87,742 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Airport (Co. General) $2,838 $2,838 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
District Court $205,060 $205,060 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Doctor's Office Buildings $90,840 $90,840 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Health Building $58,137 $58,137 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Senior Citizen Building $16,333 $16,333 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Road $3,476,112 $3,476,112 ✓ exact 5 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Additional Motor Fuel Tax $226,148 $226,148 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Treasurer's Auto Fund $21,533 $21,533 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Collector's Auto Fund $570,739 $570,739 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Circuit Court Auto Fund $10,281 $10,281 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Assessor's PTR Cost Fund $32,731 $32,731 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Co. Clerk's Cost Fund $15,080 $15,080 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Co. Recorders Cost Fund $63,614 $63,614 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Library $241,657 $241,657 ✓ exact 5 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Sanitation $679,214 $679,214 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Child Support Fee Acct. $4,995 $4,995 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Jail $1,462,734 $1,462,734 ✓ exact 5 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Sheriff's Reserve $8,558 $8,558 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
911 $272,176 $272,176 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Victim Witness $78,048 $78,048 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Defense of Indigents $12,781 $12,781 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Criminal Justice $72,236 $72,236 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Cir Clerk Comm Fee Fund $793 $793 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Law Library $53,032 $53,032 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Assessor's Late Assessment Fee $2,479 $2,479 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Search & Rescue $5,449 $5,449 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Airport Grant $1,950 $1,950 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Special Drug Court Fund $38,210 $38,210 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Ordinance grand total $11,985,488 $11,985,488 ✓ exact 32 top-level funds sum to the ordinance's stated total exactly.
Activity log hash chain — — ✓ exact Chain verified: 130 entries, head 716fd1d6dfbacce6…
Votes: no unlogged writes — — ✓ exact 35 store votes all present in the chain
Votes: final values match chain — — ✓ exact every store value equals its last chain event
Votes: chain↔store orphans explained — — ✓ exact no chain votes missing from the store (corrections accounted for)
Submissions: no unlogged writes — — ✓ exact 0 submissions all chained
Signatures: no unlogged writes — — ✓ exact 0 public signatures all chained