Red Cross and Brothers Keepers requested funds from Jackson County Commission.
First responders and sheriff’s deputies will get a one-time ‘premium pay’ from American Rescue Plan funds.
Jackson County Commission approved $1 million dollars from the American Rescue Plan funds for the City of Ripley’s wastewater plant construction project.
Mike Randolf, Chief Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, was in Columbus Tuesday promoting the intervention program as an alternative to sentencing some drug offenders to prison.
The Jackson County Commission approved a budget for 2022-23, which is about $265,000 higher than the current fiscal year.
The budget includes pay raises for full-time county employees.
In the March 9 Jackson County Commission meeting, Sheriff Ross Mellinger and 911 Director Montana Boggess asked for clarification of the process for finalizing and voting on the 2022-2023 budget.