Legislative Joint Auditing Committee co-chairs Rep. Robin Lundstrum, R-Elm Springs, and Sen. Jim Petty, R-Van Buren, conduct the committee’s meeting on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. (Photo by Tess Vrbin/Arkansas Advocate)
Dozens of Arkansas municipalities will continue to go without certain monthly allotments of state funds because they haven’t yet filed required audits of their water and sewer systems.
After a two-hour debate Friday, Arkansas lawmakers on the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee rejected a proposal to expunge a July vote to withhold “turnback funds” from 43 cities and towns whose 2022 water and sewer audits were outstanding at the time…