by Associated Press Published: February 15,2013
Tags: damage, desturction, disaster recovery, education, emergency, funding, natural disaster, public education, public school, tornado, Weather
HATTIESBURG — Members of the Hattiesburg Public School District board of trustees met yesterday to discuss emergency funding for the damage caused to Hattiesburg schools by Sunday’s EF4 tornado. The Hattiesburg American reports the tornado damaged 25 of the district’s 27 buses, wrecked the high school baseball field and caused substantial structural damage to other [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 12,2013
Tags: bench, case, city government, court, financing, funding, infrastructure, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, municipal, municipality, state government
STARKVILLE — The Mississippi Supreme Court has thrown out a lawsuit challenging how the city of Starkville is paying for infrastructure improvements. The Supreme Court sided with the city which had contended local resident William McGovern waited too long to appeal a chancellor’s ruling in favor of Starkville’s municipal facility construction plan. Chancellor Jim Davidson [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 11,2013
Tags: bill, cultural retailing, funding, incentive, legislation, legislative, outlet mall, retail, retailer, retailing, state government, tax
PEARL — The state Senate has passed a bill to add “cultural retail” attractions to the definition of a tourism project so an outlet mall being built in Pearl will qualify for about $22 million in sales tax incentive funds. State Sen. Dean Kirby, R-Pearl, tells The Clarion-Ledger the state will get a lot more [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 11,2013
Tags: budget, city government, convention, funding, hospitality, hotel, lodging, meeting, motel, municipal, municipality, Museum, music, restaurant, tax, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor
TUPELO — Tourism tax receipts in Tupelo hit at least $300,000 benchmark in three of the first four months in the current fiscal year, the Tupelo Convention and Visitors Bureau says. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports tax revenue rose almost 4 percent for the fiscal year. November’s revenue was $311,809 — a record for [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 6,2013
Tags: appropriation, bill, city governmkent, funding, lawmaker, legislation, legislative, legislator, local government, municipal, municipality, Sales Tax, state government, tax, taxpayer
JACKSON — A Mississippi House committee has given municipal officials what they’ve wanted for more than 20 years — a chance at passage of a local options sales tax. The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday approved a bill for a 1 percent local sales tax as a way to build parks, improve water systems [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 29,2013
Tags: agency, appropriation, audit, auditing, auditor, education, elementary school, funding, high school, junior high school, lawmaker, legislation, legislative, legislator, Legislature, public education, public school, school, school ffunding, secondary education, state government
JACKSON — Mississippi Auditor Stacey Pickering is calling on lawmakers to write new, stricter rules on computing how much state money goes to local schools. The Republican told the House Appropriations Committee he can’t approve the Mississippi Adequate Education Program formula, as required by law, because his office has found unreliable numbers on attendance, students [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 25,2013
Tags: appropriation, board of aldermen, city government, community development, culture, depot, funding, grant, Heritage, historic, history, municipal, municipality, railroad, railway, train, transportation, travel
NATCHEZ — The Natchez Board of Aldermen has approved allocating $125,000 out of the city’s capital improvements fund to match grant funds it hopes to receive from the state to renovate the former railroad depot. The Natchez Democrat reports the vote of approval came at the request of community development director James Johnston. Johnston said [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 24,2013
Tags: bond, city council, city government, councilman, funding, infrastructure, issue, municipal, pave, pavement, paving, roadbuilder, roadbuilding, roads, street
JACKSON — Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. says he will use funds from a bond issue to pay for a $10 million street paving project in the Capital City. Johnson tells The Clarion-Ledger the city council would have to sign off on the proposal. The city has devoted huge sums of money to fixing streets. Jackson [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 23,2013
Tags: appropriation, bill, build, building, construction, funding, health, health care, higher education, hospital, law, lawmaker, legislation, legislative, Legislature, public health, public university
JACKSON — Lawmakers are moving toward borrowing money to allow the University of Mississippi to construct a new medical school building. The House Appropriations Committee voted unanimously for House Bill 610, which would issue $31 million in bonds for a new five-story building on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus in Jackson. Officials said [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 17,2013
Tags: city, employee benefits, funding, health insurance, municipal, municipality, pension, rank, retire, retiree, retirement, shortfall, study, survey
JACKSON — Sixty-one key cities across America, including Jackson, have emerged from the Great Recession with a gap of more than $217 billion between what they had promised their workers in pensions and retiree health care and what they had saved to pay that bill, according to a report released by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The [...] [...]
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