CARROLLTON — The Carroll County Recreation Park is already scheduled for numerous tournaments during the next baseball season, park manager Carey Moore told supervisors Monday, and will bring in fans and teams from both Mississippi and surrounding states.
He added that the park may try to incorporate softball.
Moore said the park is working with Winona’s ballfields to handle overflows when either park has more games than it can handle.
Currently, the Carroll park has only three lighted fields, so it is handicapped in handling as many games as it could get.
“It could make more money,” Supervisor Terry Herbert said.
Supervisor Honey Ashmore agreed. “It makes sense to do it,” he said.
Moore told the board that lighting the other field could cost as much as $38,000, according to one estimate, but another electrician told him it could be done for about half that much if lights were put on back of another field’s lights. Supervisors asked Moore to get estimates.
George Johnson, who is on the park board, told supervisors that every penny raised by the park is accounted for and used in the park, and that board members want to continue to make improvements and additions. “We want to do tennis courts and work on a park in Vaiden,” he said.
Also Monday,
• The board voted to close county offices for the holidays on Dec. 23, 24 and 27 for Christmas, and Dec. 31 and Jan. 3 for New Year’s. The Dec. 23 holiday was substituted for Veterans Day, which was not taken.
• Circuit Clerk Durward Stanton told the board that qualifying dates for county offices, including supervisors, would run from Jan. 1 to March 1, 2011.
• Stanton also reported to the board that there will be a special election for Northern District transportation commissioner on Jan. 11. The county must have three polling places, and the election is likely to cost up to $10,000, he said.
“We hope to use the same people as last time, but it will probably cost us $50 a vote,” Stanton said.
• The board spent the rest of the meeting going over delinquent garbage fees.
