Littering and creating a website are among the issues being considered by the Leflore County Board of Supervisors.
The board, meeting on Monday, heard from its attorney, Joyce Chiles, who said she was still waiting for an opinion from the state Attorney General’s Office about the legality of giving hazard pay to county workers, so the supervisors tabled the topic until the opinion is available.
Meanwhile, workers are having to spend time, and therefore money, picking up excessive amounts of roadside trash, said Board President Robert Collins. He called the litter “one hell of a problem.” County workers have to pick up litter when mowing beside roads, said Collins, who represents District 5.
District 1 Supervisor Sam Abraham suggested prosecution of those dropping litter from vehicles might act as a deterrent and noted that the county has an enforcement officer.
“You (could) prosecute a couple of them,” said Abraham. This might be especially effective “if you got to get them on the road cleaning up the place” Abraham said.
Another point of discussion for the board was the creation of a county website.
Ulysses Kelly, an independent contractor, offered some prices and services for the board to consider.
Primarily, he recommended the use of a hired content management company instead of an outside website creator. This would allow the county and each of its departments the opportunity to edit the site as they see necessary and without any further cost.
This would also allow the data from all county branches to be in one centralized location and give complete control to the departments.
“The main element of having a website is to find a vendor that can provide a content management system,” Kelly said. “What a content management system is, they will allow you to come up with a custom design, and in that custom design it will be completely editable by any member in the county.”
One system, Edlio, would cost $9,075 a year, and another, Campus Suite, would cost $4,999 a year. As well, there would be a content designer fee of $4,100 for Kelly, with a $1,500 yearly fee for maintenance. Kelly also works as the technology director for the Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School District.
Reginald Moore, vice president of the board and supervisor from District 2, requested Kelly come back with a separate estimate of how much the site would be without the content management system, but acknowledged the importance for Leflore County to have its own website.
“I would like to see a breakdown of all the site hosting numbers, and we have another discussion about it,” Moore said. “We do need a website. It is 2020, and we are not online at all.”
• Contact Adam Bakst at 581-7233 or abakst@gwcommonwealth.com.
