Last night at the Board of Supervisors' Meeting, I found one item that I actually agreed with that came out of Cedric Burnett's mouth.
Burnett asked Board President, James Dunn, to turn the BOS's Meeting over to Vice President Sonny Nickson when the BOS are discussing the Cypress Creek development. As it turns out, last night we found out that James Dunn is the developer of Cypress Creek.
We will be keeping a close watch on this project.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
Update on Tunica National Expenses and a Request of the Board of Supervisors
What we know as of today is that Tunica County has sent $335,105.38 to Tunica County Public Projects for the operation of Tunica National.
As we understand it, there are 2 extra monthly allotments of $39,583.33 within this total to tie TCPP over the winter months. These 2 additional payments were paid with the Dec 2012 claims. There should be no allotments paid to TCPP in Aug or Sep 2013.
It looks to me like we are on our way to spending $1.3M for Tunica National. We have no idea what is coming into Tunica National because TCPP thinks this is not any of our business. What we do know is that any monies TCPP is collecting are not going into the Tunica County General Fund.
Hmmm, so what do we have here? We have a Board of Supervisors who are attempting to make the Battle Arena more profitable by investing in upgrades and we have another facility that APPEARS to be draining our limited resources.
Supervisors, what are you going to do about this? This Committee is doing our part by continuing to send Freedom of Information letters to TCPP every month. How about a little help from the Board of Supervisors.
As we understand it, there are 2 extra monthly allotments of $39,583.33 within this total to tie TCPP over the winter months. These 2 additional payments were paid with the Dec 2012 claims. There should be no allotments paid to TCPP in Aug or Sep 2013.
It looks to me like we are on our way to spending $1.3M for Tunica National. We have no idea what is coming into Tunica National because TCPP thinks this is not any of our business. What we do know is that any monies TCPP is collecting are not going into the Tunica County General Fund.
Hmmm, so what do we have here? We have a Board of Supervisors who are attempting to make the Battle Arena more profitable by investing in upgrades and we have another facility that APPEARS to be draining our limited resources.
Supervisors, what are you going to do about this? This Committee is doing our part by continuing to send Freedom of Information letters to TCPP every month. How about a little help from the Board of Supervisors.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Tunica National Update
So far, Tunica County has spent $227,818.43 on Tunica National. This does not include expenses outside of the appropriations for Nov and Dec 2012. We have requested this information and should have it in hand by the end of Jan 2013 and will post the same on this blog.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Sheriff, this just isn't right...
I’ve just returned from the first 2013 Board of Supervisors’ Meeting. There was a lot on the agenda.
One item added to the agenda was a $150,000 request from the Sheriff for communication devices that apparently are 15 years old and not repairable. So, how come the Sheriff cannot find $150,000 in his $7M dollar budget for this equipment? Why didn’t he know this last summer when he submitted his budget? This is one concern.
The Board of Supervisors elected to table this item until the 15 Jan 2013 meeting. This didn’t seem to be acceptable to the Sheriff. He apparently wanted a decision now and since this was not the will of the Board, the Sheriff brought up other decisions previously made by the Supervisors for things such as improvements to the Battle Arena. After the Board President tried to move on to the next subject, the Sheriff continued with what he wanted to talk about and thus controlled the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting. Personally, I’m offended because I would have been escorted out of the meeting if I had behaved in such a manner. This is the second concern.
Next, a gentleman from the Sheriff’s Liaison Committee used the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary to “scare” the Board and the audience into approving the Sheriff’s request. The intimation was that we could be facing the same situation here in Tunica County if the Sheriff’s request was denied.
Maybe no one else will say it, so, I will. The tragedy at Sandy Hook occurred because the shooter’s mother did not lock up her guns and her irresponsibility cost her life, her son’s life and the lives of 26 others. There can be other viable discussions about assault guns, how many bullets in a clip, etc. but the bottom line is this: If you have children in your house lock up your friggin’ guns.
One item added to the agenda was a $150,000 request from the Sheriff for communication devices that apparently are 15 years old and not repairable. So, how come the Sheriff cannot find $150,000 in his $7M dollar budget for this equipment? Why didn’t he know this last summer when he submitted his budget? This is one concern.
The Board of Supervisors elected to table this item until the 15 Jan 2013 meeting. This didn’t seem to be acceptable to the Sheriff. He apparently wanted a decision now and since this was not the will of the Board, the Sheriff brought up other decisions previously made by the Supervisors for things such as improvements to the Battle Arena. After the Board President tried to move on to the next subject, the Sheriff continued with what he wanted to talk about and thus controlled the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting. Personally, I’m offended because I would have been escorted out of the meeting if I had behaved in such a manner. This is the second concern.
Next, a gentleman from the Sheriff’s Liaison Committee used the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary to “scare” the Board and the audience into approving the Sheriff’s request. The intimation was that we could be facing the same situation here in Tunica County if the Sheriff’s request was denied.
Maybe no one else will say it, so, I will. The tragedy at Sandy Hook occurred because the shooter’s mother did not lock up her guns and her irresponsibility cost her life, her son’s life and the lives of 26 others. There can be other viable discussions about assault guns, how many bullets in a clip, etc. but the bottom line is this: If you have children in your house lock up your friggin’ guns.
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