At the request of County Engineer Ron Cassada, the Sunflower County Board of Supervisors voted to enact a board order accepting the final assessment on Jeffcoat-Lehr Road, LSBP project 6721 by Dozier Construction, LLC.
They also decided on June 15 as the date to open bids for acceptance on the upcoming U.S. Highway 82 turning lane project.
They will advertise for bids on May 14 and 21 and use Central Auction House (Central Bidding) to facilitate the process. Contractors will be able to bid electronically as well as on paper.
In other business,
Sheriff James Haywood asked the county leaders not to pay a $1,647 invoice submitted by an outside agency for transporting a prisoner from Texas to the county jail.
“I have a problem because they went ahead and did it after we told them not to,” Haywood said.
Haywood said he has written proof that the company was told not to make the conveyance, but they followed through regardless.
Haywood said he sent his deputies to Texas to retrieve the prisoner, but the move had been made by the time the men arrived.
“They got there three hours too late, so I wasted money,” he said.
The sheriff said he plans to have a conversation with the company about absorbing some of the cost associated with the transport. The county leaders said they would follow his lead in the matter.
No action was taken and a request by the town of Doddsville to have the county donate a vehicle to use to distribute food and other items within the community was left open after the lawmakers determined that they did not have a vehicle available at the present time.
