Board of Supervisors meet Tues.

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July 4, 2009

Anonymous Picayune Item Sat Jul 04, 2009, 05:42 PM CDT

POPLARVILLE — The Pearl River County Board of Supervisors meets at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the its boardroom at the old county courthouse

Included on the agenda are:

Consider requests for proposals for primary appraisal services, for legal services and for a review of appraisal services.

Consider sheriff’s business:

— Personnel.

— Investigator for Picayune Housing Authority detail.

— Inventory list of unmarked vehicles.

— Check to Ecolab.

— Sign Domestic Violence grant.

— Interlocal agreement for disparate grant.

Consider Planning and Development matters:

— Parcel split and creation of private road J & F Lane.

— Releasing irrevocable letters of credit for Deerfield at Wildwood to Stuart Co.

Consider Building Division business:

— Reimbursement of permit fee.

— Duplexes requiring commercial contractors.

Consider naming private driveway J & F Dr.

Consider Emergency Management business:

— Appointing North Central VFD new board of commissioners.

— Advertise Phase I and Phase II generators

Consider Tax Assessor/Collector business:

— Personnel.

— Real and personal property rolls due.

Consider Road Dept. personnel/

Candice Sanders of Wellness Works.

CDBG request for cash and invoices-Jay Van Co.

Scott Favre invoices #5,

Victim assistance coordinator compensation.

Picayune school leases.

Advertise for asphalt bids.

Land and water Conservation site response.

Minutes of the June meetings.

Memo-budget request due back July 20.

Monthly meeting reports from Nicholson VFD, Region XIII Commission for Mental Health, Pear River County SPCA.

Consider going into executive session on litigation.

Consider travel:

— Justice Court clerk to judicial college in Oxford, July 14-15.

— Payroll to PERS employer training in Hattiesburg, July 16.

— Dispatchers to APCO state rectification class in Ellisville, July 23-24.

— Chief deputy to Command College in Oxford, July 26-31.

— Investigator to Burglary/Robbery Investigations in Biloxi, Aug. 5-6.

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