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Mar 1, 2021 11:35 PM
NATCHEZ, Miss. – Adams County supervisors and their chief administrator said they can’t afford to give pay raises to county employees after a financial review shows various expenditures are quickly eating up incoming revenues.
“We don’t have anything to work with,” said county Administrator Angie King, who noted county departments have been spending too much money not knowing whether it’s in the budget. “They ate it up.”
“There are a lot of negative numbers in our budget. We should never have that,” King told the county board Monday.
She also noted costly spikes in county-provided health insurance for employees are taking large chunks of the budget.
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Mar 1, 2021 11:36 PM
NATCHEZ, Miss. – County supervisors have agreed to pay public defense attorneys for their recent work amid a squabble between Adams County’s two circuit judges about who they should appoint to represent indigent clients.
At Monday’s meeting of the county board, Judges Lillie Blackmon Sanders and Debra Blackwell displayed their disagreements in full view of the supervisors.
“It’s my courtroom, and I’m not going to let Judge Sanders or anyone else force me to appoint someone I don’t want to appoint,” Blackwell told the supervisors.
Sanders – as Adams County’s longest-serving Circuit Court judge holds seniority status, but the anti-nepotism law doesn’t allow her to appoint daughter Aisha Sanders and sister Lydia Blackmon as county public defense lawyers.
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Feb 2, 2021 4:48 AM
NATCHEZ, Miss. – Adams County supervisors are deciding whether to give pay raises to county road department employees that are quitting “left and right” because of low salaries, depleting the county’s ability to maintain roads and provide other essential services.
“If we get much smaller, you are all going to be hollering,” Supervisor Kevin Wilson told his colleagues Monday. “If we don’t have a road department, we’re not going to have any roads.”
Board President Angela Hutchins said calculations will be made on how much the pay raises will cost the county so supervisors can make a decision later this month.