Busy week for Supes
WEEKEND EDITION,
April 9-10, 2022
During Monday's meeting for the Clay County Board of Supervisors, the board made a number of actions.
One of which was authorizing the Golden Triangle Planning and Development District to prepare and submit a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) application for the ADA grant funds for the Clay County Courthouse.
Another action was to authorize to declare the loss revenue standard allowance presumption of $ 10,000,000 under the Final Rule and Overview as the amount of the reduction in its general revenue due to the COVID- 19 public health emergency, and thence shall utilize $ 3,700,000.00 of its Funds to provide government services in the best interest of its citizens.
Another notable action was to transfer $ 1.5 million from the ARPA bank account to the general county operating account to be received into five special funds by the districts in the amount of $ 500,000 to be used for road maintenance and capital improvements.
Other actions from Monday's meeting include the following:
• Approved Claims Docket for payment
• Approved payment to the County Flood Plain Coordinator Randy Jones
• Authorized the purchase of three 32-inch com
West Point Clay County Emergency Management Agency Director Torrey Williams (right) gives his department’s monthly report to the Clay County Board of Supervisors during Thursday’s meeting. (Photo by Cal Brown, DTL)
puter monitors for the justice court at $279.99 each
• Authorize Randy Jones to travel to travel to Biloxi from May 2 to May 4
• Authorize advertising resources in the MS Association of Supervisors Magazine, summer edition program, for $ 500, promoting Clay County
• Authorize Resolution honoring Wesley Bell celebrating his 100th Birthday
• Authorize to send a Resolution to the TRVWMD for the cleanout of BellCreek nine and a half foot to put pipe in Moon Heard Road
• Authorize to advertise to
receive proposals for architectural professional services for the necessary ADA improvements to the Courthouse
During the monthly department reports period of Thursday's agenda, West Point Clay County Emergency Management Agency Director Torrey Williams told the Supes that there are about 80 homes and farms total that were damaged during March's storms.
“We were blessed again last week, and of course did not have anything for this week,” Williams said
in regards to tornadoes.
In other subjects in Williams' monthly report, the EMA had 3,161 computer- aided dispatches, 5,630 phone calls, 16,990 radio transmissions, and 12 new or readdressed structures in the month of March.
In regards to COVID numbers, Williams said that those are still declining.
“We haven't had as many COVID 9- 1- 1 calls than we have previously been getting,” said Williams. “They're still there, but it hasn't been as many as two months ago.”
Later on in the meeting, Chancery Clerk Amy Berry
made a departmental report while primarily going over the funding. This past month, Berry told the Supes that the county has received a lot of money into the treasury.
In the cash summary report, the county took in $ 778,000 into the general fund and paid out $ 604,000, marking an ending cash balance of $ 2,186,386 as of March.
For the treasury as a whole, receipts for March report that $ 5 million was taken in and $ 1.6 million was paid out, resulting in an ending cash balance of $ 11,766,382.59 of all funding combined.
The sanitation fund had an ending cash balance of $ 145,517.
As of the end of March, the county's American Reinvestment Fund is still at $ 1.8 million, and the board anticipates receiving the other distribution from the federal government in July to make it $ 6.7 million.
Berry also pointed out revenues – the board's total budgeted revenues for the general fund is $ 7.3 million with year- to- date being $ 5.9 million.
Berry told the board that the justice court collections are coming along.
The budget for justice court collections were $ 220,000, and to date, they received $ 135,000.
With that data trended out, looking at the money the justice court has collected each month and averaging it out, the total projected collections by the end of the year should be around $ 330,000.
Berry also gave the Supes a cash in bank report highlighting the board's road fund and bridge fund in light of Monday's motion to transfer $ 1.5 million from the ARPA bank account to the general county operating account to be received into five special funds by the districts in the amount of $ 500,000 to be used for road maintenance and capital improvements.
The Clay County Board of Supervisors will meet again on Thursday, April 28 at 9 a. m. at the Clay County Courthouse.