The Jonesboro City Council’s Finance Committee has approved the first draft of the 2016 budget. The proposed budget for next year for the City of Jonesboro is projected to be just over 57-million dollars. That is three million dollars less than the 2015 budget. 36-million-dollars is projected for the general fund, 4.7 million for streets, 6 million for capital improvements and just under nine million for all other needs. City official say 71-percent of the revenue that comes in to the city of Jonesboro is through sales tax and state aid, and just over 60 percent of the expenditures come in the form of personnel. The Jonesboro City Council is expected to approve the budget in January.
Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.