Warren County supervisors agenda items

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Meeting Monday, Warren County supervisors:

• Viewed a report showing $10,452.83 has been collected from cases amounting to $662,215 in outstanding justice court fines, representing 1.5 percent of all cases turned over to the county’s hired debt collections agency, Natchez-based Receivable Solutions Specialists Inc. in the past year. The cases date to 1984 and only involve traffic violations, County Administrator John Smith said.

The firm is also collecting past-due surcharges on garbage pickup. About 2.2 percent of the 1,411 residential and commercial garbage accounts turned over have been collected. The county has identified 285 recurring customers whose payments for garbage pickup can’t be tracked, Smith said. Most are customers of Waste Management, and will be sent letters notifying them of their status and how much they owe.

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• Agreed to allow Bassfield-based M.G. Dyess Inc. to pay $60,000 toward repairing damaged sections of Glass Road.

The firm was subcontracted to perform work for the Midcontinent Express natural gas transmission pipeline, significant portions of which were completed through south Vicksburg and Warren County in 2009. Company officials told supervisors they operated a supply headquarters along the south Warren County road for only five months and damage was the cumulative effect of three gas pipeline companies using heavy equipment on the road in a two-year span.

Supervisors had asked Midcontinent Express for at least the $300,000 right of way bond to cover repairs along seven county roads, including Glass.

• Heard a report from Tax Assessor Richard Holland on International Paper’s recent application for free warehousing on about $3 million in materials the company says it will ship outside the state.

If granted, such an exemption for the company’s Vicksburg mill would translate into $16,000 in lost tax revenue. Supervisors approved $25 million in Gulf Opportunity Zone bonds to pay for improvements at the local plant, the third installment of Katrina-inspired bond series for the company locally.