LEGISLATIVE TANGENTS
New website, new listserv, new County Compliance Guide
More and faster options for research, bill tracking and communication
content we will be adding to our website, the new county judge’s list- serv we will soon be rolling out, our new County Compliance Guide and our preparation for the coming legislative session.
T If you haven’t looked lately, please take a look at our new website at
www.arcounties.org. You will notice a new, fresh style that is more us- er-friendly and will contain more content than our old site. You can still find all of the old information on our site but we will be adding new content very soon. Some of the content will be publicly available and some will be for our members only. County officials and their approved employees should go to our site and register. Once your registration has been approved you will be able to access the new content coming soon. Tis new content will consist of legislation information and lobbying tools provided by
Capsearch.com as well as the Arkansas Code Annotated and attorney general opinions. We are excited about these additions to our site and hope to make our site a one-stop-shopping experience as to your county information needs.
Along with our new website and site content we are happy to an- nounce plans to roll out a new listserv for county judges. For those of you who are not familiar with the term a “listserv” is an electronic mailing list software application, consisting of a set of email addresses for a group in which the sender can send one email and it will reach a variety of people. Tis product greatly facilitates communication within large groups of individuals. Currently the Circuit Clerks, County Clerks, County Collectors and County Treasurers all have listservs and use them to great effect. We expect this product will work just as well for our County Judges.
Although we have been focusing on electronic media here at your Association we haven’t forgotten that some folks (including your author) like the ability to look at hard copy in the form of a book. To that end we have updated the Arkansas County Compliance Guide that was formerly put out by the Arkansas Legislative Joint Auditing Committee, Division of Legislative Audit. Te last update of the Compliance Guide was performed in 1998
so, as you might expect, that information was a little dated. We had tried, off and on over the years, to update the Guide; however, the publisher had always quoted a price that was more than we felt most
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he last two months since our last edition of County Lines have been busy ones here at your Association. I would like to take this opportunity to bring you up to speed on our progress as regards our new website, the
JEFF SIKES AAC Legislative Director
“By the time we meet for our retreat we expect our final package will be somewhere in the neighborhood of about 20 bills. Tat’s down about 20 bills from 2008 but we anticipate a tougher than usual legislative session so 20 bills is probably about right.”
counties could afford. Tis year we were happy to be able to strike a deal that has allowed us to perform a significant update of the Guide and offer it to our members for $60 per copy. At that price we would hope that each of the county and district officials would budget for a least one copy per office. If you want a copy you may visit our website and order one or call us here at (501) 372-7550 to place your order.
Finally, we are working diligently towards the coming legislative
session. Currently our member associations have submitted drafts of proposals for about 20 different pieces of legislation. Your AAC Legislative Committee along with the AAC Board of Directors will be holding a legislative retreat this Oct. 25-26 to finalize the AAC Legislative Package. Our process is to: first, solicit proposals from our member associa- tions and, second, to submit those proposals to the Legislative Com- mittee (consisting of two members from each of our member associa- tions) for vetting and, third, the vetted proposals will be submitted to the full AAC Board of Directors for their approval and adoption into the AAC Legislative Package. By the time we meet for our retreat we expect our final package will
be somewhere in the neighborhood of about 20 bills. Tat’s down about 20 bills from 2008 but we anticipate a tougher than usual legis- lative session so 20 bills is probably about right – as we used to say in Little River County!
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