Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Court Supports Seeking Prison

Nevada County Quorum Court members signed letters drafted by Walt Denton, of The Partnership.

The letters will be presented to the Arkansas Department of Corrections Board of Community Punishment as part of Prescott's proposal for the medium security facility. The proposal was presented to the DoC board June 18, in Pine Bluff.

Working with the Partnership is Teamwork Arkansas, part of the Entergy Corporation. Teamwork Arkansas is an economic development group supplying information and other services for areas seeking new businesses.

National Flood Insurance Program representative, Jason Donham will be presenting the court with information on requirements to join the program. Most Nevada County residences expect the river bottoms near the Little Missouri to be in a flood zone. Yet many areas qualify along most all the creeks and a large ribbon that follows the Reader Railroad. For those wondering about the flood zones, the Nevada County Conservation District has maps showing these areas in the county.

Questions will be posed to Donham about the affect N.F.I.P. will have on the cost of home owners insurance, cost to the county for permit issuances, building inspections and monitoring water levels.

County wide speed limits were tabled indefinitely due to negative feedback received on the subject from a few constituents. Judge James Roy Brown commented, "Every time you post one (speed limit) you open a can of worms..." After discussion, members voted to table the issue. The court appeared to agree the differences in portions of the counties graveled roads would make it dangerous to have a set speed that could end up higher than the speed that may be safe on these roads.