On the agenda

Meeting Monday, the Warren County Board of Supervisors:

* Awarded administrative services contracts and OK’d advertising construction bids for the E.W. Haining Road bridge replacement project to Gouras Urban Planning Consultants Inc.

To be financed by about $10 million in Katrina-related disaster grant funds, the work involved installing a new bridge to replace the current entrance to the Port of Vicksburg. Improvements to the intersection leading up to the bridge are also planned.

In another construction award, the board OK’d the bid of Vicksburg-based DirtWorks Inc. for the Natural Resources Conservation Project along LeTourneau Road. The offer was for $976,086.25. The work will address erosion near the roadway caused by Mississippi River flooding in the spring.

* Reported more activity in its effort to update its garbage disposal database.

In the past week, letters were sent to a portion of clients in the county’s system of tracking compliance with state-mandated rubbish disposal laws. If no response is received within 10 days, according to the letters, the recipient residences and businesses are likely to be the first whose cases will be turned over to a collections agency.

Three proposals for debt collection services for garbage fees and fines due to justice court are under review. A decision is expected by the board’s Jan. 5 meeting.

In nonmunicipal Warren County, individuals must contract with a garbage hauler for sanitation services. Of the six permitted haulers, three are private and three are corporate.

Mounting nonpayments have forced the transfer of more than $58,000 from the general fund to the garbage fund to cover shortfalls. Most often cited by officials as the cause of the imbalance are residents who move without notifying the county or their chosen garbage service.

* Approved a $20,000 check to the Warren County Parks and Recreation Commission.

The payment is an advance on the department’s quarterly allocation to cover operating expenses after revenue for November and December was reported to county supervisors to be down by $12,000. Bids for new golf carts are being taken by commissioners.

* Authorized the execution of a contract with Rayborn & Associates LLC as the administrator for the HOME program, for first-time homebuyers.

* Approved payment of $300 to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality for the Anderson Tully Access Road block grant.

* Approved the rescinding of an order from Warren County Youth Court and County Court Judge Johnny Price appointing Marcie Southerland as Special Youth Court Judge and James Penley as Alternate Special Youth Court Judge.

* Approved the hiring of Alex Sims in the Information Technology Department.

* Took under advisement bids for asphalt, concrete, wash gravel, polyethylene pipe, riprap and limestone products.