Multiple shouting matches erupted Tuesday night when the Jefferson County Quorum Court once again failed to pass a 2025 budget.
During a budget and finance committee session which preceded the regular meeting of the county’s legislative body, a budget that had been created by some members of the Quorum Court was tabled before it could be introduced.
That left only the budget proposed by County Judge Gerald Robinson, which was voted down, leaving county employees still without paychecks and the count unable to pay its bills.
Justice of the Peace Reginald Adams, who is normally pretty quiet during Quorum Court meetings, was just one those who was unhappy.
In talking about the budget he proposed, Robinson said he had revised the original proposal in an effort to compromise with the JP’s and explained some of those compromises.
Veteran Circuit Court Judge and former State Legislator Earnest Brown Jr., was one of the several judges who attended the meeting and said the outcome was not one he hoped for.
