TYLERTOWN — Maintenance supplies continue to be an issue for Walthall County.
Purchasing clerk Hannah Bourgeois told supervisors Nov. 23 that she had called area rock and asphalt suppliers to urge them to submit bids for selling products to the county.
The county has had difficulty getting various grades of rock through the year, and sometimes can’t get hot mix or cold mix asphalt on demand.
Bourgeois said her counterpart in Pike County told her that Pike doesn’t solicit bids for those products anymore, and instead uses state contract prices.
A number of area businesses, including Dickerson & Bowen in McComb and Warren and Warren Asphalt Paving in Columbia, are on the state contract list. However, Bourgeois said the county has been unable to get some rock and asphalt supplies from some of those same suppliers.
“There’s no guarantee we can get what we need, even on state contract,” she said.
In other business, the board:
• Advertised for bids on financing $195,000 for a truck for District 2.
• Approved selling a pothole patcher from District 4.
• Approved $150 per year for a Zoom online conferencing account for chancery court, under oder from Judge Debbra Halford.
• Learned from Sheriff Kyle Breland that Bruce DeLaughter has been hired as a new investigator.
• Noted a new Ford Explorer had been delivered to the sheriff’s department, and learned the department might be able to obtain another from Courtesy Ford in Hattiesburg.
Breland said he is also looking for a car for DeLaughter which should not need a police package because it would rarely be used on patrol or in pursuits.
• Approved leasing a new copier for the reappraisal office for $110 per month.
• Learned repairs to the courthouse elevator are waiting on a control board to be delivered and installed.
• Approved boosting the pay of a clerk at the county health department from $8.91 per hour to $10.56.
• Reappointed Dr. Keith Speed to the Southeastern Air Ambulance District.
