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Van Buren County, Arkansas · run 2026-10-09T01:38:45.477Z

Does the tree add up?

65/65 ✓
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 $17,527,558.74 — 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 $6,950,106.75 $6,950,106.75 ✓ exact 33 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Judge's Office $102,502.22 $102,502.22 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Clerk's Office $228,468.67 $228,468.67 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Circuit Clerk's Office $383,174.22 $383,174.22 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Treasurer's Office $149,172.26 $149,172.26 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Collector's Office $285,463.26 $285,463.26 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Assessor/Appraiser Office $457,930.2 $457,930.2 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Equalization Board $293,188.54 $293,188.54 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Van Buren Quorum Court $52,821.84 $52,821.84 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Courthouse $19,430.55 $19,430.55 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Election Commission $80,423.21 $80,423.21 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Community Center $7,371.5 $7,371.5 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Courthouse Annex $46,117.85 $46,117.85 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Voter Registration $96,324.42 $96,324.42 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
North Courthouse Annex $75,552.95 $75,552.95 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Maintenance Dept $147,858.72 $147,858.72 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
VBC Health Department $33,696.21 $33,696.21 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Sheriff's Office $1,614,673.45 $1,614,673.45 ✓ exact 5 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Circuit Court/-Div 5-Foster $53,880 $53,880 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Circuit Court-Div 1 $28,100.9 $28,100.9 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
District Court $187,339.04 $187,339.04 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Corp of Engineers $162,124.5 $162,124.5 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
School Resource Officers SRO $124,141.84 $124,141.84 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Juvenile Court-Div 2-Braswell $113,342.97 $113,342.97 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Deputy Prosecutor's Office $133,587.36 $133,587.36 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Public Defender's Office $57,103.12 $57,103.12 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Detention Center $1,324,713.4 $1,324,713.4 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Coroner $30,946.68 $30,946.68 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Prosecutors Drug Task Force $81,145 $81,145 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Arkansas Dept of Emergency Mgt $47,074.98 $47,074.98 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Volunteer Fire Departments $122,878.63 $122,878.63 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Veteran's Service Office $18,926.5 $18,926.5 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Van Buren County Agent's Office $33,500 $33,500 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Various County Projects $357,131.76 $357,131.76 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Employee Insurance Fund $1,132,200 $1,132,200 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Road $4,566,598.35 $4,566,598.35 ✓ exact 5 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Additional Fuel Tax $213,129.28 $213,129.28 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Treasurer's Automation Fund $52,000 $52,000 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Collectors Automation Fund $93,807.08 $93,807.08 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Circuit Court Automation Fund $66,622.5 $66,622.5 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
District Court Automation Fund $39,740 $39,740 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Assessor's Property Tax Relief Fund $36,617.92 $36,617.92 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
County Clerk's Cost Fund $5,000 $5,000 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Recorder's Cost Fund $77,390 $77,390 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Library $531,394.97 $531,394.97 ✓ exact 5 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Solid Waste Management $623,721.26 $623,721.26 ✓ exact 4 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Child Support Fund $14,355 $14,355 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Jail Maintenance Fund $161,550 $161,550 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Boating Safety Fund $11,430 $11,430 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
911 System $756,041.65 $756,041.65 ✓ exact 3 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Emergency Vehicle Fund $12,600 $12,600 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Prosecutor's Victim/Witness Fund $26,607.16 $26,607.16 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Circuit Court Commissioner Fee Fund $12,060 $12,060 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Assessor's Late Fee Act $2,500 $2,500 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Hospital Maintenance $429,300 $429,300 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
VFD/Res-Q Sales Tax $1,700,000 $1,700,000 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Equitable Sharing Account $427.59 $427.59 ✓ exact 1 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Law Library $12,359.23 $12,359.23 ✓ exact 2 children sum to the parent total exactly.
Ordinance grand total $17,527,558.74 $17,527,558.74 ✓ exact 25 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