Ed Hargett with Correctional Management Services spoke about his company's services that could be provided should Attala County get a regional correctional facility during the Attala County Board of Supervisors Monday meeting.
Attala County is on the list with other counties to be approved for a facility by the State Legislature.
“We have worked with nine of the regional jails” in the state, he said. The company is currently working with Carroll County and their facility.
Hargett said they work through every phase from lobbying for the jail to training employees to setting up program for the inmates.
Hargett said Attala County’s chances of getting a jail this time around in the Legislature are as good as anybody’s.
Attala County Emergency Management Director Danny Townsend reported that all daycares and both public and private schools have received weather radios.
He also mentioned that all county and city fire stations have been given approximately 150 smoke detectors for installation through a Department of Homeland Security program.
The board approved the following:
– A letter of support for Greenlee Elementary School. They are trying to obtain a health grant on the national level.
– Claims Docket
– Sheriff William Lee’s first quarter budget for the current fiscal year
– Tax Collector Kempe Hodges’ first quarter budget for the current fiscal year
– Payments to Gardner engineering for $12,985.33 and $81,613.45
– Payment of $6,615 to Digital Filing Solutions for annual maintenance
– Payment of $12,800 to Callahan & Son Painting
– Letter of engagement to Watkins, Ward and Stafford for finance statements
– Lease agreement on a grater for District 1
– Destruction of old vehicle tags
– Justice Court Clerk to travel to Choctaw Nov. 13-14 for annual training
– Board attorney Scott Pickle to find a prosecutor for Justice Court
– Estate tax relief for Jesse Greenlee, whose house burned.
– Payment to Jordan Funeral Home and Winters Funeral Home for services used with deceased bodies that were not claimed after being pronounced by the coroner.
– School bus turnaround for Shannon McMullen
– Sixteenth Section hunting and fishing leases for Hollis Cotton Jr., James Fancher, Old Twelve Hunting Club and Steven Tiller.
– Reject bids for duct work on the Attala County Coliseum.
– Tax commission one mil application
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