By Louie Graves
News-Leader staff
In its brief meeting for June, Monday, the Howard County Quorum Court approved an ordinance to join the Red River Intermodal Authority.
The organization exists to work for funding to make the Red River navigable to commercial and barge traffic all the way to Index outside of Texarkana.
Several southwest Arkansas counties including Little River, Lafayette, Hempstead and Miller are members.
The authority extended an invitation to Howard and Sevier Counties to join for economic growth.
County Judge Brent Pinkerton said he had conferred with County Attorney Aaron Brasel and that the ordinance “looked good.”
County JPs unanimously approved the ordinance to join.
Also approved unanimously was an ordinance to reimburse the County Clerk’s office for expenditures related to the Preferential Primary Election in March.
All JPs were in attendance as were the county’s constitutional officers.
