During their first meeting of 2019, on Monday, January 7, the Choctaw County Board of Supervisors discussed the Justice Court aging report.
The Justice Court is required by law to provide this report to the Board twice a year. The report showed that Choctaw County has $775K dollars in outstanding fines.
District 5 Supervisor Eric Chambers pointed out that this amount has been increasing at a steady rate from year to year. The Board voted 4-0, District 1 Supervisor Joey Stephenson abstaining, to send a letter to the Justice Court judges asking them to attend a board meeting and discuss ways to collect these outstanding fines.
Pafford Medical County Manager, Todd Mitchell, presented the Board with an AED defibrillator to be mounted in the Courthouse. Mitchell will provide training with the AED to employees at the Courthouse.
The Board voted unanimously to approve a request by Tax Assessor/Collector Lori Kerr to keep the homestead exemption rate at 10 percent rather than 15 percent for Taylor Benjamin Brunson and Joshua P. and Sarah M. Skidmore.
In other action, the Board:
• Voted 5-0 to reappoint Kasey Young as Board attorney.
• Voted 5-0 to approve an emergency proclamation dealing with a power outage at the Choctaw Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, on Friday, January 4.
• Voted 5-0 to approve a Memorandum of Understanding concerning BP funds which can be used for roads and bridges.
• Voted 5-0 to recognize the second year of the culvert bid by G & O at the same price as last year; and the Parker Sand and Gravel bid $8.75 per ton on road gravel at their yard in Columbus.
• Voted 5-0 to take under advisement the bid from Renasant as depository to see if a variable interest rate might be available.
