CARROLLTON — The decision on whether to add $7,650 to the construction project at the old records room of the courthouse will wait until the Carroll County Board of Supervisors’ meeting next Monday.
The architect had asked for the additional funds, but the supervisors seemed to need more information about the project and whether the items they were requested to pay for should have been in the original bid.
“If you can ask for money and get money, you’ll do it,” Supervisor Rickie Corley said.
Board Clerk Stanley “Sugar” Mullins told the board he would ask someone to come and explain the charges on Monday.
Also Monday:
• Supervisor Terry Herbert asked board permission to authorize several drainage improvement projects in his district, including cleaning out a ditch along the railroad track behind Mary Street. “It has been blocked through the years with all kinds of things,” he said.
The board gave Herbert permission for the projects.
• Cal Franklin of Arrow Disposal Service Inc. encouraged supervisors to re-bid trash pick-up. “Several counties have re-bid and gotten better prices,” he said.
Franklin told the board his company will be ready to bid on the service whenever the contracts are up and hopes to be the low bidder.
• After agreeing for Marvin Coward to purchase a backhoe for Beat 3, and finance $20,000, the financing contract was given to Trustmark Bank, low bidder at 2.87 percent interest for 48 months.
• Emergency 911 Director Gayle Beard asked supervisors to approve a $1 surcharge on Voice over Internet calls to E911. There is already a $1 surcharge on cell phones and house phones for 911 service.
nHerbert gave an update on the nature trail project that is to be put across the ditch at the Carroll County Recreation Park.
“We need to start on the bridge as soon as possible so we can get finished by June, as the grant requires,” Herbert said. “If we get started, they will surely let us extend the completion date.”
The walking trail for Vaiden is awaiting railroad right-of-way. “They have not let us know anything. That may be grounds for extension of the grant,” Herbert said.
• Circuit Clerk Durward Stanton brought a contract from Stennis Institute for Government at Mississippi State University. The institute will complete a redistricting map for Carroll County at a cost of $3000 to the county, Stanton said.
