KOSCIUSKO —
The proposed Kosciusko-Attala County Technology, Training and Jobs Center could be used for a correctional facility for the county, Attala County Board of Supervisors Tim Pinkard said on Monday.
The center is expected to house Holmes Community College, WIN Job Center and a business incubator in the former Milwaukee Electric Tool Building. More than $1 million has been awarded in grant funding to the project.
However, with the pressing need for a correctional facility, Pinkard said they have looked to the building as a possible solution.
“We don’t know if that’s for sure going to fly,” Pinkard said of using the former manufacturing site. “Hopefully, within a matter of days we will know something.”
The supervisors hired an architect for the jail in March in order to get better standards for state inmates. The inmates provide labor for different county programs.
“It’s finally come to a head and we are waiting on (prison’s rights attorney) Ron Welch,” Beat 2 Supervisor Charles Fancher said.
“We are the ones that has to worry about where it’s funded from,” Pinkard said. “We’ve got to make the decisions for the least impact on our taxpayers. That’s just the bottomline.”
There was much discussion about Holmes Community College presence in Attala County.
Currently, HCC holds classes in the Attala Education Building on Highway 12.
In the MET building plans, HCC would move into a portion of the building and provide more technical training.
However, the board of supervisors is under the impression after a meeting with HCC President Glenn Boyce that he would like a new facility that would provide technical training and at some point provide four-year degrees from Mississippi State University.
“Holmes is here and we need it bad and what can we do to enhance it,” Beat 4 Supervisor Kary Ellington said. “We asked him (Boyce) what would work best. ”
Kosciusko Attala County Development Corporation President Steve Zea said he thought Boyce’s vision was to bring more short-term technical training.
“We are doing a woeful job of educating Attala County,” Zea said. “We need the technical skills, truck driving and welding. The more we educate, the less criminals we will have.”
He added that he understood the need for a jail.
A new campus for HCC would give Boyce more “bang for his buck,” Fancher said.
“Holmes Community College will have a presence here,” Fancher said. “We are all committed to Holmes.”
The board asked for Zea and Steve Russell with North Central Planning And Development District to send paperwork to the Economic Development Authority for an extension on the project.
The supervisors said purchasing land from the City of Kosciusko on Highway 19 for the jail is no longer an option.
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