TYLERTOWN — A new business is growing and fixing up the property it leases from the city.
Factory on Main, which completed a move from Columbia in the past several months, now employs 55 people in a facility on Ostrover Drive, near the high school.
“We’re hiring as many people as we can,” Tiffany Langlinais, company vice president for marketing, told aldermen Tuesday. “We plan to hire 200 people by the end of the year ... We want to put Mississippi-made back on the map, including in Tylertown,”
The company makes T-shirts, button-downs and other clothing items under several brand names.
Langlinais also asked for permission for the company to paint its building and landscape the property. She proposed white for the building, with a large American flag painted at one end.
“We want to show we’re a well-kept, America-proud firm,” she said.
Aldermen voted unanimously to allow the painting and landscaping. Another request to rename Ostrover Drive as Main Industrial Drive was taken under advisement.
In other business, board members hired Katrina Davis as a deputy city clerk.
Mayor Ed Hughes said current city clerk Becky Dyson would train Davis as her replacement if Dyson does not stay in the job when the new term of office for city officials begins in July.
Aldermen also voted to advertise for bids to purchase a new street sweeper to replace the 25-year-old machine now in use.
Dyson reported $162,183.03 in receipts for March, including $104,511.53 in the general fund, $9,325 in leases, $22,610.30 in sanitation and $26,736.20 in water.
The town paid out $312,541.07 from the general fund, $16,117.20 from sanitation, and $19,240.92 from water.
