Tupelo city leaders tackle road repair
Tupelo city council members are trying to make sure Tupelo s roads are smooth.
Posted: Mar 9, 2021 10:08 AM
Updated: Mar 9, 2021 2:49 PM
Posted By: Alexis Jones
TUPELO, Miss (WTVA) - Mayor Jason Shelton said it will take over $4 million to fix a majority of the roads and potholes throughout the city.
Shelton said $1.8 million from the Major Thoroughfare Program will go toward repairing roads. He and other leaders want an additional $800,000 this year from the Online Sales Tax.
Shelton said there are many roads that need some work. City council members listed 60 so far and that doesn’t include major roads in Tupelo.
TUPELO â¢Â Mayor Jason Shelton is criticizing a candidate seeking to replace him for supporting a sales tax increase to pay for a new county jail.
In comments posted to social media, Shelton accused Lee County supervisor and Republican mayoral candidate Todd Jordan of wanting âto raise your taxes and put every business in Tupelo/Lee County at a competitive disadvantage to businesses in neighboring counties.â
The five-member Lee County Board of Supervisors, of which Jordan is a first-term member, wants legislative permission to call a referendum asking local voters to approve a countywide sales tax increase to pay for a new county jail.
Tupelo voters say yes to Major Thoroughfare Phase VII
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Posted: Feb 2, 2021 9:08 PM
Posted By: Emily Leonard
TUPELO, Miss (WTVA) The votes are in, and the City of Tupelo will renew its Major Thoroughfare Program.
Voters decided 1132 to 132 to renew the program; however, absentee ballots are still being counted.
That s almost 90 percent of voters.
The election was for the seventh phase of Tupelo s Major Thoroughfare Program
The seventh phase includes many projects to include the widening of Eason Boulevard and Jackson Street.
The approval also includes agreeing to pay another 10 mil tax levy.
City leaders said the tax isn t new, it will simply continue for five more years as it has done for the past 30 years.
The voting machine at the Ward 1 voting precinct awaits the vote of Amanda Angle at the Tupelo Furniture Market Tuesday. More than 90% of those who voted in Tuesdayâs elected did so in favor of continuing the Major Thoroughfare Program.
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