Lamar County residents are being asked to mobilize April 28 for the third annual Day Out Against Litter to pick up garbage along streets and highways.
Last year, more than 200 volunteers collected 350 bags of garbage to overtake the first year’s production. Volunteers came from Oak Grove (77 people), Sumrall (50), Purvis (30) and Lumberton (87).
District 2 Supervisor Warren Byrd gave Lumberton residents special praise after last year’s event.
“I am tickled pink and (Lumberton residents) know because I’ve been nagging them with text messages and phone calls,” he said. “I am very proud; I had a lot of support and I had a lot of good county people there. … We had more kids than we’ve ever had. We had teams and we had churches.”
The Board of Supervisors is trying to enlist sponsors so that volunteers will be able to have a hamburger lunch after the litter pickup.
In other action last Thursday, the board:
- Heard a request from Missy Gipson of the Purvis Women’s Club for $649, the amount needed to pay the difference for two alternating banners for downtown streets. The City of Purvis allocated $1,000 for the banners.
- Heard an update on the Lamar County Solar Energy Facility from Mississippi Power Company Area Manager Rob Robinson.
- status change: Curtis Collins, Hopper from Temporary/Full-Time to Full-Time effective March 12, no change in pay.
- quit without notice: Richard Moore, Sanitation Temporary/Full-Time Hopper effective March 5.
- status change: Scott Hicks, from Sanitation Driver to Hopper/Fill-in Driver effective March 12, no change in pay.
- rate change: Kaitlyn Haynes, Dispatcher from $11.35 per hour to $12.35 per hour for State EMS, Fire, and Law Enforcement Certification effective March 12.
- new hire: Aili Obandja, Circuit Court Paralegal for Public Defender effective March 12 at $10 per hour.
- court order: Terminating William B. Ferrell as Guardian Ad Litem County Court effective March 31.
- court order: Appointing Kristin M. McGee as Guardian Ad Litem County Court beginning April 1 and ending Dec. 31 at $750 per month.
- court order: Terminating William B. Ferrell as Public Defender County Court effective April 30.
- court order: Appointing David F. Myers as Public Defender County Court beginning May 1 and ending Dec. 31 at $750 per month.
- new hire: Leonard Smith, Sanitation Temporary/Full-Time Hopper effective March 19 at $10.50 per hour.
- approved paying lawful expenses for Joseph Waits and Jason Cuevas to attend the County Administrator/Comptroller Spring Educational Workshop April 17-18 in Jackson.
- received and entered Proof of Publication of advertisement for TPO Recover for Lumberton Public Library.
- approved paying lawful expenses for Wayne Hale, Chance Curry and Danny Edwards to attend the Summer Convention and Training in Gulfport June 4-9.
- approved paying lawful expenses of Dispatchers Lisa McDonald and Breanne Neary to attend the APCO 2018 Annual Chapter Conference, May 13-16 in Hattiesburg.
- approved advertising county resources in the amount of $6,249.66 with Sumrall Girls Softball League, to be paid from fund 015, District 5 Parks and Recreation.
- approved advertising county resources in the amount of $5,000 with Purvis Youth Sports, to be paid from fund 012, District 2 Parks and Recreation.
- approved paying lawful expenses for Tara Coggins to attend the AFMM Spring conference, to be held in Natchez May 22-24.
- approved 3-year lease from ComSouth on the 57 GPS units currently in use. By going into a lease, the department will save about $6 per unit; annual savings about of $3,151.20. The new quarterly payments will be $3,415.45.
- approved paying $100 fee for the cost of a two-year polygraph examiner license for Investigator Jack Rayner.
- approved paying Sheriff Office credit card expense incurred in February for transport of subject from Forsyth County, Georgia.
- approved paying lawful expenses of Deputies Jeremy Bailey, Fred Clark and Brian Patterson to attend the Tactical Patrol Officers Training May 9-10 in Columbia.
- approval for board president to sign the addendum to Non-Compensated Special Contract Investigator Contract with The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.
- rate change: Andrew Pylant, Beaver Lake effective March 26 from $20.50 per hour to $20.75 per hour for completion of the 48 Hours Fire Department Safety Officer 1521 Course.
- rate change: Jarred Atkins, Southwest effective March 26 from $18.25 per hour to $18.50 per hour for completion of the 48 Hours Fire Department Safety Officer 1521 Course.
- approved Board President Joe Bounds to sign the Oak Grove Fire Protection, Northeast Lamar VFD and Lamar County BOS fire protection contract concerning Tatum Camp Road.
- approved of the asset deletion list as submitted and disposed of as indicated on the inventory deletion form.
- approved the asset transfer list as submitted.
- approved selling 2010 Ford Taurus (forfeiture vehicle).
- approved adding two forfeited vehicles to inventory and insurance: 2013 Chevy Avalanche, valued at $21,000 and 2012 Chrysler 200, valued at $6,600.
- approved changes in Assessments and Homestead as submitted by the Tax Collector/Assessor.
- approved Tax Sale Cancellations as submitted by the Tax Collector/Assessor.
- approved a Development Permit for the Hattiesburg Chinese Christian Church to develop a new worship building to be located off of Oak Grove Road in District 1.
- approved 4-1 taking the filing of the Heatherwood Subdivision Phase II plat, for filing purposes only, under advisement because of road status. This development is located off of Hwy. 589 in District 5 and consists of four lots. District 2 Supervisor Warren Byrd voted against the motion for taking under advisement.
- approved filing the Wilkerson Subdivision plat, for filing purposes only. This development is located off of Nobles Road in District 4 and consists of five lots.
- announce the Mississippi Rating Bureau has advised the county of the following Fire Class Protection Rating improvements to: Town of Sumrall from a Class 8 to a Class 7; City of Lumberton from a Class 8 to a Class 7; Oloh Fire Protection District from a Class 8 to a Class 7; Central Lamar Fire Protection District from a Class 8 to a Class 7 and Northeast Fire Protection District from a Class 7 to a Class 6.
- approved accepting the lone bid from Malone Roofing in the amount of $24,250 for the roofing project for Lumberton Public Library.
- approval to transfer $1,595.25 from District 3 Parks and Recreation to County Wide Road for work performed by the Road Department.
- approval to declare as surplus real property located at 10 Veterans Memorial Drive, Sumrall and to sell at auction. The property is the former Movie Star building.
- gave 30 days’ notice in the review of the ingress and egress of buses at the private school located at 6752 U.S. Hwy. 98. If the driveway is not repaired, the county plans to fine the school.
- approved accepting/extending Ernest Cameron Road in District 3 for County maintenance. Supervisors Steve Lampton of District 1 and Byrd to inspect road and report.
The next board meeting will be at 9 a.m. April 2 at the William J. “Pete” Gamble III Chancery Court Building.
