OT: Any Small Town Drama
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Family has land just west of Lexington that’s had a lot of issues with burglary/theft of items with copper components….dealing with local law was/is/has been a nightmare.
?? They didn’t bring a tank down the middle of the blvd….thats the only “military armor” that could’ve “blown” the house up. Ok ok ok, not just relegated to a tank. They didn’t bring a M1A1, or Bradley, or any other tracked projectile producing equipment
Washington County: pay attention to the Board of Supervisors meetings. They are always a shitshow. Let me see if I can sum it up….
There are 5 on the Board. 2 tend to vote together sensibly, but the other 3 appear to have some outside interests.
In 2020ish, these 3 decided to get rid of the long-time local engineer in favor of a group from Jackson (IMS). This was not very popular in the community for many reasons- local engineer did a good job. IMS engineer had previously worked for the city and had basically been run out of town. IMS got the contract and did very little with it— according to the President, 2 bridges were completed by 2024. Four years. Two bridges. This spring or summer, the state agency they are supposed to submit paperwork to for funding most of their projects reported the county would lose over a million dollars because no paperwork had been submitted- with no way to recoup.
Leader of the 3 (Brooks) went to the DNC national convention and tried to Zoom in for a meeting- it happened to be a day the internet was out in town. Board President had a vote for a new engineering form due to poor performance, voted previous engineer back in. Brooks comes back furious to next meeting— attempts to re-elect IMS back to position at each meeting since.
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Convention center is left a mess after a party okayed by BOS. Brooks says she was at said party, thought it was a nice event young people could go to that kept them off the street. Board argues it was trashed and beer was everywhere (and was implicitly prohibited by contract). Comes out sheriff’s son was named on the contract as organizer (sheriff is present at every meeting).
Same meeting, it comes out Brooks has wrecked her county issued vehicle and is in a loaner from county. President asks why she didn’t contact police immediately to report accident- Brooks states she did (she called someone off duty at time on his personal cell), then left the scene. President admonished her, tells her she has to turn in loaner and get her old car since it’s fixed. She tells him she likes this car better and will turn it in when she gets ready.
Most recent: Brooks makes a motion to pay IMS $680k. President reports he is not going to pay just yet because they are having trouble verifying the work. Invoices sent in are vague and many go back several years. No records of any kind at court house of work or plans. President is planning to send this on to State Auditor for help. Brooks asks why this wasn’t sent to everyone- President says he has and shows where he has CC’ed all supervisors. Multiple people explain process of submitting paperwork to state agency who is to pay engineer out of state funds and processes of keeping paperwork and invoiced at court house. IMS engineer gets up to speak and basically says he may be forced to sue if he isn’t paid. President stops him right there after the threat- IMS engineer nearly made to leave for continuing to argue when not called on. Brooks makes motion to pay IMS engineer without verifying work— it passes 3-2. Board President asks Brooks how this will be paid since it’s not budgeted for, she tells him that’s his problem. (He is still submitting to State Auditor due to protocol. I also don’t think the vote to pay IMS will fly.)
Every meeting is like this. It’s my favorite form of entertainment, honestly.
There are 5 on the Board. 2 tend to vote together sensibly, but the other 3 appear to have some outside interests.
In 2020ish, these 3 decided to get rid of the long-time local engineer in favor of a group from Jackson (IMS). This was not very popular in the community for many reasons- local engineer did a good job. IMS engineer had previously worked for the city and had basically been run out of town. IMS got the contract and did very little with it— according to the President, 2 bridges were completed by 2024. Four years. Two bridges. This spring or summer, the state agency they are supposed to submit paperwork to for funding most of their projects reported the county would lose over a million dollars because no paperwork had been submitted- with no way to recoup.
Leader of the 3 (Brooks) went to the DNC national convention and tried to Zoom in for a meeting- it happened to be a day the internet was out in town. Board President had a vote for a new engineering form due to poor performance, voted previous engineer back in. Brooks comes back furious to next meeting— attempts to re-elect IMS back to position at each meeting since.
Other notes:
Convention center is left a mess after a party okayed by BOS. Brooks says she was at said party, thought it was a nice event young people could go to that kept them off the street. Board argues it was trashed and beer was everywhere (and was implicitly prohibited by contract). Comes out sheriff’s son was named on the contract as organizer (sheriff is present at every meeting).
Same meeting, it comes out Brooks has wrecked her county issued vehicle and is in a loaner from county. President asks why she didn’t contact police immediately to report accident- Brooks states she did (she called someone off duty at time on his personal cell), then left the scene. President admonished her, tells her she has to turn in loaner and get her old car since it’s fixed. She tells him she likes this car better and will turn it in when she gets ready.
Most recent: Brooks makes a motion to pay IMS $680k. President reports he is not going to pay just yet because they are having trouble verifying the work. Invoices sent in are vague and many go back several years. No records of any kind at court house of work or plans. President is planning to send this on to State Auditor for help. Brooks asks why this wasn’t sent to everyone- President says he has and shows where he has CC’ed all supervisors. Multiple people explain process of submitting paperwork to state agency who is to pay engineer out of state funds and processes of keeping paperwork and invoiced at court house. IMS engineer gets up to speak and basically says he may be forced to sue if he isn’t paid. President stops him right there after the threat- IMS engineer nearly made to leave for continuing to argue when not called on. Brooks makes motion to pay IMS engineer without verifying work— it passes 3-2. Board President asks Brooks how this will be paid since it’s not budgeted for, she tells him that’s his problem. (He is still submitting to State Auditor due to protocol. I also don’t think the vote to pay IMS will fly.)
Every meeting is like this. It’s my favorite form of entertainment, honestly.
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Mississippi below I-20, with the exception of Laurel, the Coast, parts of the Hattiesburg Metro, and the river counties in the Southwest (Fayette, Adams, Wilkinson), is mostly a hellhole.
Rankin is where all the rednecks from said hellhole move to when they head to the big city.
It’s like a whole county full of people who stared their college careers at their nearest juco.
I sit on a BOS in MS. Theres nothing they can do to stop it, if the landowners lease the land to the company. Of course they're gonna welcome the ad valorem tax that comes with it. It helps the county and the schools just as much. But back to my point. There's not one thing they can do to stop it, if the landowners decide to lease their land to the solar company.
I know. I just like being mad about it.
It does look like more windmill construction is about to be halted for a little while anyway. They’ve determined that the footings for the windmills in Tunica county are so deep that they’ve penetrated the alluvial aquifer.
So they're putting solar and wind in the North Delta now? I'm not really pro/anti wind or solar in that I think it's fine for supplemental energy production and farmers/ranchers get a little coin in the process.... But you have to put it where it works well.
And Mississippi isn't really a good place for solar or wind. Especialy in the world's biggest flood plain. That feels like local gubment trying to grab federal gubment subsidies... If this was entirely privately funded, they'd put the turbines in eastern Wyoming and the solar panels in Southern California. The wind turbines are just down right stupid in that area.
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Don’t loop me in with these 17’ing people. Not only do they think Warrington is Mogadishu they act like you need a Sherpa to go to Pensacola. I don’t know where these people come from where a 30 minute drive to a quality restaurant seems like cross country trip.
They are the largest windmills in the world.
They built them in southern Tunica and northern Coahoma county.
I’m one of the first to defend capitalism and all it stands for but you do understand that it takes consumption to spur investment in technology and physical capital. Consumption pushes to find new ways to efficiently provide a good or service.
Yes, but for better or worse, we generally don’t have to incentivize consumption. The US’s average personal savings rate is less than 5%. And that’s even worse than it sounds because I believe that’s the percentage of disposable income saved.
Everybody in the us is basically relying on younger generations to support them when they get old while simultaneously not producing enough young people to even replace themselves, much less enough for them support them.
Rankin & Madison have their fair share of weird stories but saying Rankin is tit for tat with Hinds for crime & stupid **** is over exaggerating to a major degree.
Anywho, got 2 weird Madison drama stories I’ll share. One was recently were a sheriff office employee in the jail got caught with a massive amount of animal abuse. His home looks like a hoarders episode of ****, dead animals, and malnutrition animals. He’s is jail. His property is sandwhiches between a $1M+ property and a just under $1M property. https://www.wjtv.com/news/local-new...ion-employee-charged-with-animal-cruelty/amp/
The other is older but absolutely blows my mind. A mafia hitman from NYC lammed it in Madison and was selling herion & muscling in on strip clubs. Frankie Pasqua. https://mississippi.arrests.org/Arrests/Frank_Pasqua_23295838/
All those projects will be finished during the term of the next mayor and she just can't have his/her name on the plaque letting people know that this was finished under the next mayor.
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