Today In A Nutshell

Will Jefferson County employees get paid?

Note: We finished this late so we didn't send it out in a newsletter so we wouldn't wake everyone up.

You may have heard already but Governor Sarah Sanders signed SB182 into law Monday “to require a local government to continue to operate under the annual appropriation ordinance for the previous year until a new appropriation ordinance is adopted; and to declare an emergency.”

This new law was created because Jefferson County employees haven't been paid in weeks because the Quorum Court cannot pass a budget.

Now what happens?