McComb city officials are looking to Pike County for help on multiple infrastructure maintenance projects.
City Administrator David Myers noted during a Tuesday night work session that he would ask selectmen to approve an interlocal agreement with the Pike County Board of Supervisors to do “whatever this board wants done.”
“In having discussions with the attorney, ... he is of the opinion based on law that we need to enter into an interlocal agreement with the Pike County Board of Supervisors,” he said. “McComb is inside Pike County, so I am of the opinion that they should be able to do work anywhere inside the city of McComb.
“Each supervisor district covers a portion of the city of McComb at one point or another and it is my opinion we should get more services from them.”
Myers said he spoke with city board attorney Marcus Williams, who said the only way the city could ask for help from the county would be with the agreement.
Mayor Quordiniah Lockley said state law allows a county to do whatever it wants within a city as long as the actions are recorded in the minutes of the supervisors’ board meetings.
“When I was CA and even lately, I gave the state law to Supervisor (Tazwell) Bowsky that clearly states the county board can do anything within the city limits of any municipality within the county,” Lockley said. “Therefore, an interlocal agreement is not totally necessary,” he said. “It sounds like we are reinventing the wheel when all we have to do is go down and ask.”
The board agreed to move foward with the interlocal agreement, asking Williams to speak with supervisors’ attorney Wayne Dowdy and come up with the paperwork as a way to solidify an agreement.
