Representative Johnny Rye

Legislative Joint Auditing - Counties & Municipalities — Dec. 12, 2019 (21:50)

district club district yes sir well you know you have guidelines for everything that's out there and you have different brackets and different line items what i would do is i would go to a school and talk to someone that actually knows how to place these checks into each particular bracket and each particular line item and get that straight and go forward that's that's what i Yeah, we're tired of

Legislative Joint Auditing - Counties & Municipalities — Dec. 12, 2019 (21:43)

Sure it is. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Ma'am, is this the circuit clerk's office? No, it's the clerk's office.

Legislative Joint Auditing - Counties & Municipalities — Dec. 12, 2019 (6:20)

Mr. Chairman. Sir, this $2,500 that was loaned, how is that going to be paid back? Is he just going to pay that in one lump sum back to the city

Public Retirement & Social Security Programs (Joint Committee) — April 1, 2025 (1:08:36)

thing because this fee was out of line. It was too low, and it's still probably too low. But at the same time, this can occur, which is a good thing. And basically all we have to do is change the amount of money for the fee.

Public Retirement & Social Security Programs (Joint Committee) — April 1, 2025 (1:07:46)

Is that your question? Yeah. A little bit, Amy. It's a little confusing to

Public Retirement & Social Security Programs (Joint Committee) — April 1, 2025 (1:07:55)

me. what would this we know how much it's going to cost the system but actually I'm trying to figure out where it would actually come from as far as the money that actually has

Public Retirement & Social Security Programs (Joint Committee) — April 1, 2025 (1:07:32)

that come out of the general fund, or where would we be

Public Retirement & Social Security Programs (Joint Committee) — April 1, 2025 (1:07:14)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This fee, I mean, where does that fee

Public Retirement & Social Security Programs (Joint Committee) — April 1, 2025 (1:07:17)

come from? I mean, as far as the extra money that actually has to be paid out in this for that to go upward for our state troopers, I guess that would be. Can you give me kind of an answer on that? Would

Public Retirement & Social Security Programs (Joint Committee) — April 1, 2025 (56:52)

cost so that's not a very big fee at all is it I don't think so mm-hmm thank you sir all right representative Duke thank you mr. chair

Public Retirement & Social Security Programs (Joint Committee) — April 1, 2025 (56:31)

can can you say that again that report representative Warren how much time does it take for a person to generate that report for from an employee that that's going to vary from

Public Retirement & Social Security Programs (Joint Committee) — April 1, 2025 (56:01)

Okay, let me ask you all this, if you figure up the time frame that actually is spent to generate that report, I wonder how much time it actually takes to do that.

Public Retirement & Social Security Programs (Joint Committee) — April 1, 2025 (15:01)

chair let me ask this mark which i know we're probably in great shape with that situation but this will not have a negative impact on on the

Legislative Joint Auditing — Dec. 13, 2019 (1:30:25)

and i'll tell you something else you've got even a bigger problem because the folks that have actually raised children in those areas now you're talking about a lot of assistance from the federal government okay so i think we need to attack these things in the right manner and admit where we're and see what we can do to move in the right direction thank you

Legislative Joint Auditing — Dec. 13, 2019 (1:29:53)

And that's the problem. how can you hire people and how can you get incentives to bring people into a place that you're not properly educated so i mean i don't think you can really point a finger at this thing i think that you've got to adjust to it you're going to have to do the things that are right to get things rolling in the right direction and uh and and that's the problem because if you look at that map you'll see that's the delta where the problem is at and that's where the loss of jobs

Legislative Joint Auditing — Dec. 13, 2019 (1:29:20)

which is a powerhouse company in Arkansas and really in the world. But they could have added more. But the reason they could not add more people is because they were not equipped with education through the folks that they could hire. And this is a true fact. So you say, well, what can we do? Well, 40% of the kids that graduate from Arkansas schools can properly read.

Legislative Joint Auditing — Dec. 13, 2019 (1:28:48)

there and you say well who are we supposed to blame here are we supposed to bring blame a Jack and Craighead County no no no because what's happened is Jack's County has adjusted to the times. Now, if you came back and you said, well, what can we do to get this thing rolling in a better direction? Well, in Mississippi County, now you've got 500 new jobs at Nucor,

Legislative Joint Auditing — Dec. 13, 2019 (1:28:14)

you had 12 to 15 folks that were working there. That's not the case anymore. You have a 30,000-acre farm with five or six people working there. Now, as time has went on, these folks are moving out. okay I'll give you an example in Mark tree in Toronto places like that Blyville Osceola folks are moving out because there's no there there's really no jobs

Legislative Joint Auditing — Dec. 13, 2019 (1:27:43)

that are doing real good and that's been going on for 40 years now it's a sad thing that you know to really admit these type things going on but the farming industry in arkansas has shrunk as far as a job creation, okay? In other words, I'll give you an example. In 1969, you probably had, on a 1,200-acre farm,

Legislative Joint Auditing — Dec. 13, 2019 (1:27:23)

chairman if you look at the map all the way from top to bottom the biggest portion of the problem is in the delta area of arkansas okay now if you look at at craighead county and green county you'll see two counties