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Chancery Clerk Donald Gray (right) borrows a pocketknife from District 4 Supervisor Eddie Harris for a bid opening on Jan. 2. The meeting marked the start of a new term.
COFFEEVILLE – Yalobusha County Supervisors reappointed Cayce Washington as board president as they tackled a lengthy list of obligatory appointments during the first meeting of the year on Jan. 2. Washington has served as board president for two terms, or eight years.
“If you want me to, I will. If y’all want to do something different, I am good with that too,” Washington told board members before the unanimous vote.
Karl Grubb was reappointed as county engineer and flood plain coordinator. Crow Martin, PLLC, was rehired as the board attorney. Vicky Vance was reappointed purchase clerk and Sheila Schmitz was reappointed garbage clerk. Newly elected Chancery Clerk
Donald Gray was appointed as inventory clerk and comptroller, positions formerly held by his predecessor. EMA Director Stewart Spence and EMA Deputy Director Jarred Logan were both reappointed as fire coordinator for the county.
Next on the agenda was the presentation of the uncollected balances for real property taxes, personal property taxes, public utility taxes and mobile home taxes. Newly elected Tax Assessor/Collector Michael Walton explained that documenting the unpaid balance is a formality as the duty to collect the taxes shifts to him from his predecessor, Linda Shufield, when the term started on January 2.
“It is a little bit over three million (dollars),” Walton told supervisors. “Linda had already sent out bills for them.”
The taxes are due in February and the majority of the funds will be collected as property taxes are paid in January.
Other items on the agenda included:
• Approved travel for Walton to attend training on the Mississippi Automated Registration Vehicle Information Network (Marvin). The training is sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Revenue and will be held in Clinton in February.
• Authorized attorney Shannon Crow to advertise for bids for hay-cutting on county-owned property located adjacent to the Ajinomoto food plant north of Oakland on Hwy. 51.
• Accepted the resignation of District 3 Election Commissioner Tammy Tedford.
• Discussed a date for the annual jail inspection, a statutory requirement.
• Accepted the filing from Justice Court for fines settled in December. The civil fines collected in Water Valley were $1,625 and criminal fines collected were $2,231.78. In Coffeeville, the civil fines collected were $6,629.25 and criminal fines were $17,339.45.
• Appointed Suzette Shields ware to servd as the District Four hospital board member. Ware’s term started on Dec. 15.
