[1:04] I was boarded me to order. It's not a clock. Devotion? I got it. Joe would bury your heads, please. Father, be with us today as we come here to take care of our county's business. Help our access to be pleasing not only to you, but to those we serve as well. Thank you for your many blessings, Lord. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen.

[1:27] and stand for the plea.

[1:35] Ladies of America and to the republic for which it ends,

[1:39] one nation with

[1:43] liberty and justice.

[1:51] Number four, I remember to attend them.

[1:53] Mr. Thomas, do you have anything?

[1:55] I don't.

[1:56] Mr. Teller.

[1:57] No, sir.

[1:58] Teller.

[1:59] Mr. Ross, it's not here.

[2:01] Mr. Bozar?

[2:02] No.

[2:03] Mr. Fuller?

[2:04] No.

[2:05] Mr. Eldrick?

[2:06] No.

[2:08] Mr. McDonald?

[2:09] I do. I need to amend to add the referenced exhibit that weren't originally included in Civic clerk.

[2:18] That'll be attached to the order adopting alterations of voting precinct boundaries if it gets approved.

[2:24] But yeah, the exhibits weren't available at the time, so they just need to be added.

[2:32] You know what else, Mr. O'Neill?

[2:35] You know what else?

[2:43] All of the things I say and I.

[2:45] All right, I'm sorry.

[2:48] In the end I'm going to sit.

[2:49] I get emotional.

[2:50] I'm reaching emotional with Mr. Commerce.

[2:52] Second by Mr. Mozart.

[2:54] All in favor, by say aye.

[2:56] Aye.

[2:57] All opposed, aye is aye.

[2:58] It's motion carries.

[3:00] Sir?

[3:01] Notice we do not have public comments on the agenda without animals.

[3:05] We'd be certain that no one has any.

[3:08] OK.

[3:09] You have some after the budget presentation,

[3:11] but we don't have general public comments.

[3:14] OK.

[3:16] that could be the question's after the budget.

[3:22] Department he is, Mr.

[3:25] Minivan.

[3:27] What'd you say now Mr.

[3:28] Timow?

[3:29] No he's good.

[3:30] Mr. Glass out.

[3:32] Come

[3:32] over.

[3:33] I think I always know here.

[3:35] Oh, there's, well, in case,

[3:36] in case of any questions.

[3:38] We're here to talk about Precinct

[3:39] Chains, the Hegel Hills.

[3:41] Yeah, you had an

[3:41] alteration on a both and Precinct's

[3:43] boundary.

[3:43] both in place locations for Jackson County to see.

[3:46] We were made aware of this while back, even though they said

[3:48] they were in the center, we never got out of it.

[3:50] I don't know if anybody else got it or not, we didn't get it.

[3:52] But we were aware of the business was happening.

[3:55] And I reached out to Eric back with GIS several months ago

[3:58] about this, about changing the boundaries.

[4:01] And that's something Ken has to do at the super bottom.

[4:04] But this particular precinct is 2,916 people

[4:08] that actually vote there.

[4:09] So we reached out to the pastor of the church that used to be Liberty and Simley God is now

[4:15] Oakcrest Church Liberty Campus.

[4:20] I spoke with the pastor personally and he says he didn't have any problem.

[4:24] She is the facility.

[4:25] We had already talked with him prior when Michael Washington's father was pastor, but I did

[4:30] reach out to him again and he has no problem with it.

[4:33] I called him again on Friday to tell him that we would like to have a contract in place

[4:38] as soon as possible so that we can't be put in the same position again. He has no problem with

[4:43] that either. So I have the counter-crank ready. I think David's going to take it to him on

[4:47] Wednesday and let them look at it. I don't know if you had any questions for us, no, but he didn't

[4:51] seem to have any issues with it. So it looks like we're good at going out. So the other church was just

[4:57] an aptitude spot where there was no parking, but we really didn't have a choice when the

[5:08] to the new facilities, got plenty of parking

[5:11] and the facility inside is play big for us

[5:13] to set up with no problem, so.

[5:15] I thought we were going to go with this

[5:16] and let's can't get something else.

[5:21] Not associated with that, but I think we need to follow up

[5:25] with every voting place to be sure there is a contract

[5:29] in place and that contract must say include legal

[5:36] in communication so that this can never happen again if we get a notice that someone is not

[5:43] going to renew a contract with us or let us use their facility anymore then they must

[5:50] include legal in that.

[5:53] I've got the contract that that's legal actually so all that should be there but if they want

[6:00] to check it again before we have the sign that's fine but I've got ready to look at

[6:05] I did tell him to make sure they reviewed it.

[6:07] They had any questions for us, no ahead of time.

[6:10] So it's best in the same contract we have

[6:12] with all the other pursuers that's in place now.

[6:15] But where do we end it up?

[6:18] Part possibly we possibly ended up

[6:20] without a contract for this one, that time.

[6:23] Well, we did.

[6:23] We had one ready, but for some reason

[6:25] we had to change the boundaries for it.

[6:28] And I don't know what happened in between the time

[6:30] when we talked about it till now,

[6:32] but I guess that's the side of the point

[6:34] We're in position where we're now. We were blessed to let them let us use it because if they had it failed to tell us no, it'd just be up the creek because the other church told us we couldn't use it anymore.

[6:45] And that's exactly what reason why we need these contracts in place.

[6:49] And I did tell the contract stipulates that if he decides he does more it's to use it anymore. He has to give us ample notice in terms of the contract.

[6:57] All I'm saying is legal should be included in that communication so that we have a fail

[7:03] safe in case something like this happens again and a week or two before an election someone

[7:10] says nope you're not going to use this facility.

[7:12] Well, when we get the contract back it'll go to legal.

[7:16] I'll just keep a copy, but legal action has a contract.

[7:20] But they didn't.

[7:21] That's my point.

[7:23] In the contract, where it says who to provide notice to, legal needs to be included on

[7:32] there, not just they need to provide notice to the commission, but that they need to provide

[7:37] notice to legal that they want to cancel the contract.

[7:39] But the contract that we have came from legal, so I'm assuming they put it in there, but I'll

[7:42] double check.

[7:44] I didn't write it somewhere else, the attorneys wrote it.

[7:48] That's fine.

[7:49] and what Mr. Taylor was asking is why we didn't have a contract with the

[7:53] original church, not the new church. We know why we don't have it.

[7:56] Because the balance never got changed. We can't just move it without changing the

[8:01] balance. That's not the question. He was saying why don't we have a contract with

[8:05] the church that told us we can't use their facility anymore? Because they

[8:08] wouldn't sign with. Right. There's your answer, Mr. Taylor. They really didn't want

[8:13] to start with, but we didn't have a choice. When the Hickory Hills closed up we

[8:16] We had to go quick and that was the only place we could find with it in the boundaries.

[8:22] Let me add some color to it as well.

[8:24] Before the last couple of years we didn't have a single contract with any of the precincts

[8:31] with any of the polling locations and so that's we've been working pretty hard on that for

[8:35] the last two years and trying to get contracts with every single one of them just to prevent

[8:40] this type of situation.

[8:41] We've got quite a few signs and their own record would like one or two that still hadn't

[8:47] inside yet, but we're real close and we've made a lot of headway in the last couple of

[8:52] years with it.

[8:53] And just so you know, we had a contract ready for this Liberty Church, but we couldn't get

[8:58] a contract with them until we got the battery changed.

[9:02] And let me ask you this while we're talking about precincts and issues, are we going to

[9:07] have an issue with that methodist church here in front of

[9:10] of the upper states here in the upper Missouri. Same issue we

[9:13] have before. Okay.

[9:16] We do have a contract. We do have a

[9:21] contract. It's one he rewrote.

[9:26] Okay. That guy rewrote the

[9:29] contract and the board attorney's office decided to go with it.

[9:33] But it's not the same as the other contract. And it's already

[9:36] expired. It was only for one year. It expired. It was only for one year. Okay. Well, that's

[9:44] what he put in there. So we need to redo it. Can we get on that? So we don't have any

[9:48] use because that's another 2000 plus. Well, he stipulates how much he gets paid. It's

[9:54] not like the rest of which I didn't think was fair. But again, we're in a bad position.

[10:00] we don't have anything, we can't worry about it.

[10:04] Ray just got to find us, place to go.

[10:05] I'm working on that promise today.

[10:09] But that's where we accept.

[10:11] OK.

[10:11] In a moment, where's the question?

[10:13] No, you're in a motion.

[10:15] Oh, yeah, I'll know that the law didn't change.

[10:17] And F.C. voting starts Monday morning at the Colt House.

[10:20] And it's called a final F.C. vote.

[10:24] We are in the process right now of testing equipment

[10:28] to go to the Colt House.

[10:38] Thank you.

[10:39] Thank you.

[10:40] Thank you.

[10:41] Thank you.

[10:42] Thank you.

[10:43] Thank you.

[10:44] Mr. Bulltron, as first I want to have a resolution awarding the budget and selected alternatives

[10:49] to the org on construction for the center of excellence phase 3 project.

[10:55] This is the one we're doing with Bird Johnson.

[10:57] Thank you.

[10:57] I'll make that motion.

[10:58] Thank you.

[10:58] Second by Mr. Bowsar, all in favor of Mr. N.I., all opposed.

[11:04] I's have it, motion carries.

[11:06] And the second one is a resolution authorizing the Board President to execute contract for

[11:10] the Center of Excellence phase three with four kind of construction.

[11:14] This is the contract piece of it.

[11:17] Mr. Taylor, second by Mr. Compos, all in favor of Mr. N.I., all opposed, I's have motion carries.

[11:36] I think there were eight bids, I believe, and Matthew can speak to it if you want to know

[11:41] more, but it was very competitive.

[11:43] Yeah, yeah.

[11:44] There was at least eight, maybe ten, and yeah, they were all pretty closely grouped.

[11:51] this was obviously the lowest one but there were another three or four that were in the between like 30 million to 32 million range

[12:03] and then there was another group in the like 32 to 34 million dollar range so yeah it was a good number of bits.

[12:14] Okay. That contract is with us.

[12:16] Yeah, because of the bond schedule, we had to award the bid today and then sign the contracts

[12:26] actually on September 23rd is when that's, but we needed to get it approved today.

[12:32] So the contractor's still in the process of putting their bonds together for the project

[12:39] but they'll all be ready to go and should be starting.

[12:43] and the notice received should be on October 1st.

[12:46] Cooper, that's a great achievement.

[12:52] Go ahead, Mr. Ford, and head up.

[12:53] You got ready for the budget?

[12:54] Yes, you know, got it.

[12:55] It's good, you know, 27th place, the presentation.

[12:58] All right, and the budget.

[12:59] Presentation for you today.

[13:01] This is for fiscal year 2027.

[13:04] Winch runs from October 1st, 26th to September 30th of next year.

[13:10] Let's see. Let's get right into it. So the first line here shows the operating

[13:16] budget for fiscal year 2027. As you can see, our operating budget is about $206 million

[13:25] which is up from previous years and that's primarily due to a lot of solid waste equipment and our

[13:34] contract increase out there. We'll kind of get into that a little bit later. Also giving some

[13:40] money to the Port of Pascagula this year to the tune of about a million dollars. The growth

[13:46] and the mill value that goes to MGCCC. Some budgeted road projects. A lot of capital projects will

[13:54] cover an increase in the ADC medical contract to the tune of about $400,000 and a 3% across the board

[14:04] employee raise. It is to be noted that the county will maintain about a $68 million

[14:12] fund balance in the general fund which equates to about 220 days of cash on hand.

[14:19] So you kind of, you know, when we talk about the hospital, we talk about how many days of

[14:23] cash on hand that they have. And so for us, 68 million is about 220 days. Would we like

[14:31] to see it be 270 days or 9 months cash on hand probably but this is a very healthy

[14:37] fund balance and probably more fund balanced than most counties in the state

[14:44] Mississippi have. And that was our budgeted expenditures. This is the revenues that

[14:54] that we have this year, and it's based on the avalorum taxes that we receive.

[15:00] To the tune of about $113.3 billion in avalorum taxes, which is about a $7 million increase

[15:10] from last year. And one of the reasons why we, you see the increase is we had a fee-in-loo

[15:16] agreement that rolled off the books coming into this year. So the fee-in-loo agreement

[15:22] that we had with Mississippi Power rolled off, it rolled on to the regular tax rolls. The

[15:28] feet and Lou peace goes away and it shows up in our in our avalorum taxes now at the

[15:36] reduced amount. The millage breakdown had to move around a little bit this year because

[15:41] of that. And even though you may see a reduction in the millage associated with say the road

[15:50] department or the airport, it's essentially the same or similar funds that go to them.

[15:57] but you see the millage breakdown on the left, airport went from 0.8, 4 to 0.66.

[16:03] The port authority, this is where we gave a half a mill to the port authority this year,

[16:08] which is about $1.1 million real-praisal maintenance mill is still there, library.

[16:15] Like I said, the millage amount went from 1.48 to 1.38, but it's actually the same amount of money that's going to them.

[16:23] and then MGCCC by law, we have to keep their millies the same, so they're actually going

[16:29] to receive a good bit more funds this year to the junior college, community college, road

[16:34] and bridge fund, 9.36 to 8.81, and the general fund went from 33.26 to 33.59, so the total

[16:44] millies rate for the county is 50.36 mills, which remains unchanged again this year, so no

[16:52] tax increase in the general fund. The value of a meal went up, like I said,

[16:59] primarily because of the fee and loot that rolled off is enough to buy about

[17:04] six percent.

[17:06] So then you see kind of the breakdown of how the budget is

[17:11] broke down between the general fund, road and bridge, community college, airport

[17:16] what reappraisal in library, so those are just some general numbers there.

[17:22] Road Department budget this year, $46.3 million, up a little bit from last year.

[17:33] So you see the road and the seawall represents about $35.9 million and the bridge and

[17:39] covered represents $10.4.

[17:42] this is a little bit further breakdown road department projects budgeted six

[17:48] million dollars for paving which includes the cities and the county in

[17:52] corporate area some of the noted projects the these are federal and state

[17:59] funded projects but have county match all four value and Jim Ramsay Road

[18:04] intersection improvements there highway 613 614 and roundabout to the budget

[18:11] to this year and also the BITIC-7's Main Street Intersection improvements there.

[18:18] Other major road projects, Greenfield Road improvements, Shore Drive Bridge, and Bay Avenue

[18:25] Bridge in Mals Point, which is kind of a carryover from last year.

[18:31] We'd also plan to finish the Roy Cumbus Bridge this year in this budget year, right?

[18:40] So that one still has about nine and a half million dollars left to complete that.

[18:46] That money is being provided by state and federal funds and the county's got about $900,000

[18:52] in that project.

[18:55] Also some other projects that are funded through the state that will happen this year.

[19:01] their old Biloxee road widening, Constitution road bridge, and also the Chico road overlay

[19:07] in Pasagula.

[19:12] The Sheriff's Department and ADC budget, so that budget this year is up

[19:17] to $30.1 million up from last year. And most of that is represented at the ADC. We're

[19:26] working on the HBAC improvements out there, which started in this current fiscal year,

[19:33] but we'll roll over into next year, we budgeted $2.5 million extra for that project this year,

[19:40] which we did not budget had budgeted in last year's budget. And also, there was a pretty significant

[19:47] change to the medical contract at the ADC that they had to add some additional staff there

[19:53] into the scene of about $400,000. These are the vehicles and some of the notable items in the budget.

[20:01] This year for the Sheriff's Department, 12 new patrol cars, 10 marked and 2 unmarked ballistic

[20:08] vests.

[20:10] Like I said, the medical contract increased to vehicles for the ADC, replacing the washer

[20:18] and dryer units out there, and the 2.5 million for the HVAC children replacement project, and

[20:25] then one unmarked vehicle for the MET team.

[20:27] So, those are the notable items for the Sheriff's Department of Budget.

[20:33] We have a lot of capital projects that we budgeted this year, and you'll see those as

[20:39] we go through.

[20:40] Some of them are all over projects that didn't get final completed last year that we had

[20:45] to roll into this year's budget, but for this year we budgeted $1.5 million for renovations

[20:51] at the Shamrock building in Yoshi to get that building back up to speed, it desperately

[20:58] needs a roof replacement. The elevator in there is almost inoperable, needs replaced,

[21:06] HVAC equipment is very, very old and antiquated, and then the windows need to be replaced as they

[21:13] don't have a seal on them anymore and are in bad shape and leaking. It's $1.5 million there,

[21:21] There are also some minor improvements to maintenance department buildings at the shop

[21:27] and storage shed and then several roof repaired or replacements, health department, $600,000,

[21:35] the old courthouse, $300,000, exceptional school, $400,000, and the GoShade library, $300,000.

[21:43] So a lot of roof projects this year and we'll continue to see that.

[21:47] That's an ongoing cost that the county has to bear to keep our buildings in good shape.

[21:53] Yes, sir.

[21:53] Chairman.

[21:54] Building.

[21:55] Do you see long-term us keeping and using that building?

[22:00] I think so.

[22:01] We've got a plan to, we've got to do a lot of improvements to the building we bought that

[22:07] doctors plaza in past the building.

[22:10] And as part of that, we've got to do some major repairs to HVAC and C.

[22:17] ceiling and roof and it's a pretty complicated project that we'll have to do out there.

[22:22] And so the thinking on this one is to get the shamrock building back up to speed where

[22:27] it's usable again, maybe temporarily moved south Mississippi, middle health into the shamrock

[22:34] building while we can make the major repairs at the doctor's plaza and then move them back

[22:40] there.

[22:41] Long term at shamrock we thought about moving child protective services, Department of

[22:47] and services out there. That's still a kind of a maybe thing. We need to do some talking

[22:53] with the state about that and make sure that's a good move for everyone. But yes, there

[22:59] will be a long term. We see a long term use for it.

[23:02] Okay. Good. Thanks.

[23:07] Recreation projects, lots of recreation projects. And like I said, some of these are rolled

[23:11] over from last year. So the St. Martin Complex, baseball field renovations, LED lighting

[23:18] out there. Van Cleve complex redoing the tennis complex out there that's been

[23:24] banshaped for a while to baseball field renovations out there. Kayette Park this

[23:31] year, we budgeted for football in a soccer field out there and working with

[23:36] the road department on that project to help us control the cost and get some of

[23:41] that work going pretty quickly. Blum Combust the arena is final out the

[23:47] herring arena, 500,000 there, two baseball-filled renovations. West Jackson County, this is on the

[23:55] Moyne Boulevard, the Pickleball Courts out there in the parking lot. That's a roll over from last

[24:01] year that we had to re-budget for this year. And also the Goche soccer complex, the Pickleball

[24:08] Courts there will be going on this year and some LED lighting for the fields out there. And then

[24:15] and also Joseph Street Park in Mals Point, 400,000s, which was budgeted from last year,

[24:22] restrooms, splash pad, fencing, and just some general improvements at Joseph Street.

[24:28] This year we also had budgeted part of a new maintenance facility building at Wisper

[24:33] and Pines Golf Course, this much-needed project out there to cover our equipment and the actual

[24:42] price is closer to $3 million. Well, we budgeted about half of it this year, so we plan

[24:48] to go to the construction midway through the year, and then next year we'll have to budget

[24:53] for the final amount on that project. We have two tidal ends projects that we expect

[24:58] to do this year. One in Web Landing, and this is the new parking area over there where

[25:03] we acquired the property. We do have some tidal ends money, but we have to match that to

[25:08] the unit was almost 300,000 and also some improvements

[25:11] at the Highway 63 boat launch in Malskoyne for new paving

[25:16] in that area.

[25:18] A lot of equipment and vehicles this year,

[25:21] so this is just a summary of maybe not all of them,

[25:25] but most of the vehicles and equipment that we've

[25:27] budgeted for, the road department, bush hogs, pickup trucks,

[25:31] hydraulic excavator, recreation and golf course,

[25:34] some skid steer, a couple pickup trucks, some moors and some equipment for the golf

[25:41] course, some tour of equipment. The fire department had some vehicles and some

[25:47] drones. Community Center had two vehicles, maintenance department, three

[25:52] vehicles, solid waste. This is where we had the biggest piece of it. So we had to

[25:57] provide two new grapple trucks this year to replace some older ones that we

[26:01] We had, that's half a million dollars, a pickup truck, some cameras, bulldozer, excavator,

[26:08] mini excavator, and other accessories for the equipment.

[26:13] And then also $150,000 for new cameras in the county services complex area.

[26:18] And these kind of came to light that we needed to upgrade our camera systems after some of

[26:24] the incidents that we had in the last year around this building.

[26:28] So that's what that's about, safety concerns, and then, you know, are dredging and dredging

[26:36] and drainage program that we do every year.

[26:40] We budgeted another $1.2 million to do in engineering work and permitting work for future projects.

[26:48] And you can see the listed projects that we have there.

[26:51] We have a numerous amount of projects that are in the design and permitting stage.

[26:59] You can see those, Katherine Roberts and Dutch Bayou, Gryerson Street, Drainage Improvements,

[27:04] Road Bayou, Drainage Improvements, Crabbling Bayou, Mouth, Maintenance, Dredge, McPhila Road,

[27:10] Drainage Improvements, Goche South Bayou, Dredge Community Avenue, New Drainage Outlet, Goche Bayou,

[27:17] Dredge Number 2, and Brickyard Bayou, McKinnis Bayou, Tributaries.

[27:21] those are all projects that were in the permitting and design phase of the ones

[27:26] with the star behind them are actually included in our Gob Mesa budget and so

[27:33] if we're able to get the permits on those then we'll be able to go to

[27:37] construction on those this year. That was the Catherine Roberts and Dutch

[27:41] Bayou, Bryerson Street, Roads Bayou and also the mouth of Grabbling Bayou. We have

[27:50] three projects that are currently under construction too that are part of the

[27:53] 13.2 million dollars. Go Shay South Buy You Dread which is a C-cliff Buy You

[27:59] Area, O-Fort Buy You tributaries and West Jackson County number three

[28:04] Dread which is a number of areas in the West Jackson County area. Then also

[28:12] bidding in 27 Davis Buy You Dreads this is the area near the Gulf Coast

[28:16] research lab area where they recently finished their boat launch also in the St. Martin

[28:24] area and also around Octavia where we have our boat launch there and then the big one

[28:30] is the Coastwide Beach and Dune ecosystem restoration project and this is the one that we've partnered

[28:36] with the Corps of Engineers about a 20 to 21 million dollar project to improve the beaches

[28:41] is primarily on front beach and ocean springs,

[28:45] but also an area on east beach and ocean springs,

[28:49] basically doubling the size of the beach

[28:51] and building dunes in there to protect from erosion

[28:55] in the future.

[28:56] So those are the big projects that we have

[28:59] for Gomeza this year.

[29:02] So that's pretty much the summary

[29:04] of all the budget items that we have this year.

[29:08] I think, like I said, we've got a healthy,

[29:10] fun balance, and we'd like to continue to grow that,

[29:14] slow and steady, but also do a lot of major projects

[29:18] that we need to get done in County.

[29:21] And so I think we went through a good long process this year

[29:25] and got a lot of input from everyone.

[29:28] And so I think we're in good shape.

[29:31] Okay, this by your catcher and that's in the permit stage is how it should happen soon.

[29:38] We certainly hope so, you know, that one is one of the ones that had this aquatic vegetation

[29:43] or the underwater grass on it.

[29:46] And since we've gotten funding to build a mitigation, I say mitigation bank or a bank there that

[29:53] would allow us to get permitting to actually do those projects.

[29:57] And so we're working on the location.

[30:00] We can do the mitigation piece of it. And then once we kind of get that permitted through the court, then we should be able to jump on those projects and get them out. I remember Matthew, and he was trying to try to hit that along on our being last but with me. We had. I think that's a good idea because you know a lot of people that just by you have been waiting on this for years. And we've been working on that. There's probably eight years that we've been working on now. So yeah. And I see real five years in the last phase. That's tragic. That's you know.

[30:29] a good deal on that one. Thank you. I noticed we included the port authority in the

[30:37] millage. Have we heard back from them accepting what we suggested to their budget?

[30:45] They have approved a budget to send over to us and that would be before we go out and

[30:51] our next meeting, next Monday, if they did approve a budget which included half a mill from

[30:57] accounting to the board.

[31:02] Did they accept the other changes that we suggested to their

[31:07] budget? It's my understanding that they just maybe you know more but I think that they

[31:12] did. I think it was a split vote. I know that but yeah I think they accepted it. We have,

[31:18] I think they want to be here discussing stuff with the next board meeting. Okay. I will see

[31:24] were they landed? Okay. Do you have public comments on here in questions if

[31:31] anybody got? In questions, public comments, questions about the budget.

[31:40] Let me

[31:40] ask a general question. I've noticed I think in the news that some of our

[31:45] municipalities are talking about tax increase. That's my understanding that

[31:53] that Gose has voted to do a tax increase or a millage increase.

[31:59] And I do not know.

[32:00] I think Ocean Springs stayed flat.

[32:03] And I have not heard about Maul's point of passability yet.

[32:07] Right.

[32:07] Thank you.

[32:08] But I noticed very early on about a $50 million

[32:14] increase over five years.

[32:18] And that's from ad volume taxes, I assume, most of it.

[32:22] And it's keeping up with our needs, and I'm sure you probably have to suggest several

[32:32] cuts to keep it that way and keep a good fun balance.

[32:35] But looks me like you and Josh are doing a fabulous job of doing that budget and we appreciate

[32:41] you all.

[32:41] Yeah.

[32:42] Looks good.

[32:43] You're doing a good job.

[32:44] Thank you.

[32:45] It's definitely tightening up with inflation.

[32:47] I mean, so it was a lot tighter this year than, so it's been a long, good one.

[32:57] You see the $7,000,000 increase in Abelorm, but at the same time, there was a $6,000,000

[33:02] reduction in revenue because the end-loop agreement expired.

[33:06] So because of that, right, and the inflationary increases, we can't control, right,

[33:17] it's

[33:17] and I'm sure every all your ministers and municipalities and counties are filled on that.

[33:21] Right.

[33:22] Just the like insurance and the general operating side of the county.

[33:29] What would you say are our increases were on those various things?

[33:36] If you just look at the salary increases, I mean you're talking to million dollars or more,

[33:42] just to get the employees up in the free percent.

[33:44] What I always try to do is I try to compare how much growth we had versus how much more

[33:50] expenses we had every year.

[33:51] So, you know, say like if we're at a 2% growth pattern and we have 1.7% increase in the

[34:01] expenses, you know, I mean, it's pretty much a lot.

[34:05] Well, I mean, the ADC, the half a million there in the medical contract, plus the 3% million

[34:12] And I mean, I'm sure Joe can tell you the road budget is to saying everything's costing

[34:17] more fuel proxies that are up.

[34:19] And, you know, we got some new constructions that really owe so much of us depends on

[34:27] the industrial base.

[34:29] Yep.

[34:30] What's that percentage now, Brown, as far as advalorem goes, what percentage comes from the industry

[34:37] what percentage comes from the industry pays more than the other side, and it's more than 50%.

[34:47] I mean, that's a big difference in us and municipalities if we do have any industrial,

[34:52] but we don't need sales tax, right?

[34:53] So their budgets are kind of driven differently.

[34:59] Any more questions?

[35:02] Okay, we'll go to C.

[35:04] The authorizing the approval of the adopted county budget fiscal year 2627, can I get a motion?

[35:12] Sure, motion by Mr. Compass, second by Mr. Taylor, all in favor of my said aye.

[35:18] All opposed, aye is havin' the motion carries.

[35:23] the other set and leave it a county, add, add, add, align, taxes, fiscal year, 26, 27, include road districts,

[35:33] schools district, and all other tax districts of Jackson County.

[35:36] Can I get a motion?

[35:38] Motion by Mr. Bozor.

[35:40] I accept.

[35:42] I'll take that seat.

[35:43] Aye.

[35:44] Aye.

[35:44] All opposed?

[35:46] Aye.

[35:46] You have it?

[35:46] Motion carries.

[35:48] Okay.

[35:49] April, April, you have anything?

[35:53] Anything else?

[35:54] We go to motion now.

[35:55] Can I get a motion to go into closed session?

[35:58] Show me.

[35:59] Motion by Mr. Compass.

[36:01] Last second.

[36:02] Second.

[36:03] I'll be paid by saying aye.

[36:05] Aye.

[36:08] Aye.

[36:09] Motion carries.

[36:11] Go into closed session.

[36:12] Thank you.

Jackson County Board of Supervisors: Special Meeting 9/14/26

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