September 24, 2024 - The Shelby County Commissioners granted the Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center (SCCAC) with almost $13,000 in capital credits during the September 11, 2024 meeting, and moved forward in allowing the Sheriff's Department to seek bids on another new vehicle.
The commissioners considered the payment of Capital Credits in the amount of $12,815.27. Judge Allison Harbison stated the county received the check on the week before the meeting and the income needed to be recognized.
Commissioner Stevie Smith moved to recognize the income, and Commissioner Tom Bellmyer seconded his motion. The motion carried.
This was followed by discussion of expending the capital credits for Fiscal Year 2024.
“In the past, there's only certain things we can spend this money on, and about the only two, one really is the [Children’s] Advocacy Center is what we've been doing in the past, we don't actually have an economic development organization or anything. So there's only certain things that we can use it for,” said Judge Harbison.
For several years now, the county has given the sum to the SCCAC and representatives of that organization were there for the meeting.
“I'll say it over and over again, it's always important that we show community support to our grant funders. We’re heavily grant funded by the state federal grants, and so it's important that they see this is a community owned organization. So, they want to know that the community we have buy-in from the community and that we're supported by the community. So, it's not just helpful dollars but it's you being a backer and a supporter of what we do at the Advocacy Center,” said Denise Merriman, SCCAC Executive Director.
Commissioner Bellmyer moved to expend the capital credits to the SCCAC, and the motion was seconded by Commissioner Stevie Smith. The motion carried.
The commissioners were presented with another request for a vehicle by the Sheriff's Department, a 2025 Ford F-150 truck, and their request included the use of Senate Bill 22 grant funds.
“After we added it all up, we're going to have some money left and in speaking with the Sheriff's Department, [Chief] Chad [Hooper], and also the Sheriff-Elect [Gerald Corbell] it was going to be hard to spend that much money by the end of the month, so we thought we could just get another vehicle, that that would be a good way to expend the bulk of that money,” said Judge Harbison.
Commissioner Roscoe McSwain made a motion to move forward in seeking bids to be due before the September 18 meeting and the motion was seconded by Commissioner Bellmyer. The motion carried.
The commissioners considered an interlocal agreement with the City of Tenaha and Commissioner Precinct 4 so that the commissioner could assist the city with some overgrown brush.
“We discussed it last week, and we came to the realization that we no longer had an interlocal agreement with the city of Tenaha. So, our county attorney set down and drafted up a fairly straightforward interlocal agreement so that we could go forward and if we get that signed, I'll get the city of Tenaha to sign it, and then I can get it turned back in and hopefully it will be good to go,” said Commissioner Bellmyer.
Commissioner Bellmyer moved to approve the interlocal agreement as the county attorney presented it, and the motion was seconded by Commissioner Stevie Smith.
Commissioner Smith was seeking to approve an easement on County Road 3801 that would allow him to apply some gravel for a school bus turnaround.
“This is where I was needing to put a load of gravel to build a school bus turn around, Mr. Price has been working on it and have something prepared,” said Smith. “I still need to get the landowner to sign it, and he's already agreed to.”
Smith moved to approve the agreement pending signature by the landowner, and Commissioner Bellmyer seconded his motion. It carried.
During the commissioner’s court reports portion of the agenda, Commissioner Bellmyer stated the interlocal agreement with Timpson is set to expire and he wanted to get it on the agenda for the next week’s meeting.
Commissioner McSwain thanked Commissioners Bellmyer and Lout for allowing two trucks each from their precincts to help with work being done on roads over the two weeks previous to the meeting.
County Road 1464, Commissioner McSwain said, is around two-and-a-half miles long which has been oil paved and according to McSwain the cost to apply that distance was $86,300. CR 1490 at a cost of $55,000 was a mile-and-six-tenths connecting FM 1645 and “Arcadia Farm Road.” 14 loads of material were applied to CR 1440 to tie in a segment and help a lot of people.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:49am.
Agenda items approved during the meeting include: 1. Minutes of the following meetings. August 7, 2024 Budget Workshop; August 7, 2024 Special Meeting; August 14, 2024 Regular Meeting; August 21, 2024 Special Meeting; and August 28, 2024 Special Meeting. 2. Weekly expenses. 3. Payroll. 4. Payment of Capital Credits in the amount of $12,815.27. 5. Expend the Capital Credits for the FY 2024. 6. Sheriff’s Department to request bids for one (1) 2025 Ford F-150 truck to be paid from SB 22 Grant Funds. 7. Interlocal agreement between Shelby County Commissioner Pct 4 and the City of Tenaha. 8. Easement on CR 3801. 9. Adjourn.
