VAIDEN — Carroll County Tax Assessor/Collector Wilton Neal updated the Board of Supervisors on Monday on the state’s new vehicle registration system.
The Mississippi Automated Registration Vehicle Information Network (MARVIN) will begin in October. It will link the Department of Revenue with county offices, allowing real-time online searches when someone applies for a car tag and alert clerks to additional fees or fines.
Carroll County has a problem with delinquent garbage fees and puts a hold on tag purchases by those who owe money.
Neal assured the board that “MARVIN will let you know if there is a tag hold.”
All equipment will be purchased by the state and replaces the current system.
The board approved reimbursement for employees Tammy Inmon and Tosha King to attend training on the new system. All county staff will come to Carrollton on May 22 to get familiar with the system.
Also Monday, supervisors appointed Buddy Fancher for a five-year term to the Yazoo Mississippi Delta Joint Water Management District Board of Commissioners.
Beat 4 Supervisor Claude Fluker said that he would like for all future appointees to come and meet with the board “so we can get to know them.”
Fluker said that he knew nothing about Fancher. Other board members know Fancher as the son of former Greenwood Mayor Louis Fancher.
Beat 1’s Jim Neill said he agreed with Fluker. After the appointment, the supervisors voted that all future nominees should meet with the board.
In other business, the board:
• Spent time in executive session discussing Sheriff’s Department personnel. No action was taken.
• Approved paying Mac McNeer Construction $66,435.50 out of the bridge fund for pipe repair on McCarley Road.
• Approved an order for federally funded inspection of bridges in the county.
• Tabled a decision on proposed raises for court reporters until the next meeting.
• Agreed to give public notice of the temporary rerouting of traffic on a portion of County Road 172 during road repairs.
• Approved the removal of three trucks from the Carroll-Montgomery Regional Correctional Facility inventory. The vehicles will be sold at auction and proceeds will be put into the officers safety fund.
