CARROLLTON — Carroll Sheriff Jerry Carver told the Board of Supervisors on Monday that his department’s headquarters needs renovation.
“We have been in need of repairs at our office for several years,” Carver said. “We need cracks filled, painting, the floor and ceiling need repair. It is in mighty bad shape.”
He told the board that the estimate he has gotten for the materials is $6,175 and that he can use inmate labor to do the job.
The department will need to be moved during the work. Carver said he could possibly use a trailer at the Emergency Operations Center to set up next to the office in Carrollton. Repairs will take 10 to 14 days, he said.
Carver said the county has received insurance payments for a deputy car that was damaged when it was accidentally hit by a Vaiden fire truck. He said he has found a car from the Greenwood Police Department that had hail damage but was serviceable for $3,500.
The board voted unanimously to make budget changes to reflect insurance money received and to allow the renovations and car purchase.
Carver told the board he has been told that a $25,000 Homeland Security grant to purchase new radios will be received soon.
In other business, the board:
• Accepted a bid for $6,000 for a 1995 CH6 Mack tractor truck for Beat 5 from Roy Briscoe.
• Approved reimbursement for supervisors and Board Clerk Sugar Mullins to attend the 2015 mid-winter conference of supervisors Jan. 12-14.
• Approved reimbursement for travel for Nan Deen to attend an Affordable Care Act seminar in Tupelo on Dec. 5 and for Circuit Clerk Durward Stanton to attend a mandatory judicial conference.
• Amended the fire levy budget for repairs to a Beat 5 fire truck damaged in an accident in Vaiden, and insurance proceeds of $8,488.
• Approved dividing a one-mill levy of $12,000 to each beat road fund.
• Approved a 16th Section easement between Carroll County School Board of Education and James K. Stanrod Jr. “It’s an established roadway that somebody’s been using for access all along,” Board Attorney Kevin Horan said.
• Opened bids on a used excavator for Beat 1. Beat 1 Supervisor Terry Herbert said he wants to take the bids under advisement until next Monday and in the meantime try out each piece of equipment.
• Opened bids on surplus equipment – for Beat 1 a 2001 Linkbelt Excavator and D6D Cat dozer for $4,250 from Mid Delta Equipment. Beat 2 Supervisor Honey Ashmore said he will take these bids under advisement until Monday’s meeting.
• Accepted a bid of $2,300 from Bruce Branch for a 1987 Chevy dump truck.
• Approved a county holiday in addition to state holidays of Dec. 24 and 25. The board agreed to close Dec. 26. The extra day is substituted from April 28, the Confederate Memorial Day holiday. County offices will also close Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving, and Jan. 1 and 2 for New Year’s Day.
• Discussed the county’s ambulance contract with MedStat, which is due to be signed this month.
• Discussed problems with phone company cables getting cut when roads are graded.
“They have to bury them deep enough to not interfere with road maintenance,” Mullins said. “We can’t call every time we grade a road.”
