Supervisors address full agenda during May 2 meeting

The Kemper County Board of Supervisors took care of routine business during their May 2 reg­ular meeting of the board.

After dealing with several items, including declaring an emergency for the replacement of four bridges (reported in last week’s Messenger), the board then went through the three-page agenda.

At the conclusion of the meet­ing the board declared a work session for this past Monday, where they reportedly discussed employee salaries and economic development. Since that was a work session and not an official meeting, no binding votes could be taken.

The next meeting of the board is set for this coming Monday at 10 a.m. in the Barney Brown meeting.

In other action the Kemper County Board of Supervisors:

— Approved the Agenda with changes. (Vote 5-0; All votes unanimous unless otherwise noted.)

— Approved current and end of month claims for April 2022.

— Approved board minutes for month of April, 2022.

— Approved Easement and Construction agreement be­tween the Mississippi Transporta­tion Commission and the Kemper County Board of Supervisors re­garding BR-042-01 (001/100573-30100 to replace bridges #13.4 and 13.9 SR 397 between High­way 16 and Winston County Line.

— Approved payment to Tri-State Consulting Services, Ic. for added extra layers to website in the amount of $1,000.

— Approved paying invoices from Engineering Plus for the Barney Brown Community Cen­ter, Kemper County Road Inven­tory, Providing financial services, Ruby Ranking Farmer’s Market, Firetower Road, Old DeKalb-Scooba Road Kemper County 4-year Road Plan 2002 Program at work; Former Dollar Store Prop­erty (courthouse annex).

— Approved payment to Wag­goner Engineering, Inc. for Kem­per Crossing Infrastructure in the amount of $7,836.06.

— Approved adding 1.3 miles of the Mt. Pleasant Road for lev­eling to 4-year road plan at esti­mated cost of $32,600.

— Approved payment for the purchase of Sansom Equipment Company for Knuckleboom Brush Hawg -Model in the amount of $158,992.

— Approved meal log for Kem­per-Neshoba Regional Correc­tional Facility for the month of April.

— Approved all expenses in­curred for Sheriff’s Department for the month of April.

— Approved quotes for five tankless Natural Gas water heaters and labor for the correc­tion facility.

— Approved payment to Be­linda Stewart Architects for Courthouse Portico and Cornice Band Restoration int he amount of $290.02.

— Approved overtime to be paid to Kemper County Circuit Court deputies Margaret Jackson and Totsseta Hearns for any work that carries past regular hours for the upcoming primary election and possible run-off.

— Approved closing of all county offices including the courthouse on Monday, May 30 in observance of Memorial Day.

— Gave approval for county coroner Terry Bostick to attend Mississippi Coroner Association 2022 Summer Conference on June 28-July1 in Biloxi for confer­ence fee, lodging and milage.

— Gave approval for Peggy Fairchild and Heidi Kellogg to at­tend 2022/2-23 Educational wor­ship for Mississippi Tax Collector Education and Certification Pro­gram to be held on May 23-27 in Flowood, including meals, lodg­ing and travel.

— Approved transfer from two accounts to pay bond payments per approved budget for total payment of $471,000.

— Recessed until 10 a.m on May 16.