Less than a month after canceling a jail commissary contract when an employee was charged with embezzlement, Pike County supervisors received two bids Thursday to provide the service — one from the former contractor.
Trinity Services Group, the former provider whose employee was indicted, offered to provide the service for 40 percent, or for 13 percent with no personnel provided at the jail.
Brothers Correctional Services of Prairieville, La., offered to do it for a 25 percent commission.
Supervisors canceled Trinity’s contract in late January when an employee was indicted for embezzlement.
Supervisors took the bids under advisement.
In other business, the board:
• Agreed to adopt a resolution honoring Ethel M. Jackson for her 100th birthday.
• Authorized Southwest Mississippi Narcotics Enforcement Unit to auction several seized items April 1, including six vehicles and five laptop computers. SMNEU will advertise the auction in the Enterprise-Journal March 9, 16 and 23.
• Approved a drug court contract with Jesse Greer for $75 per day, and approved travel advances of $855 to Greer and $955 to drug court employee Pam Weber to attend five-day Basic Tactical Medical Instructor Training at Artesia, N.M., in March.
• Approved travel for E-911 coordinator Ricky Ivey to attend five-day training at Nashville this month.
• Approved a request from the town of Osyka to deliver asphalt to the water treatment plant, but denied a request to install speed bumps on Liberty Street East since it’s a federal through-route.
