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Votes at a glance: Olive Branch Board actions, March 18, 2025
Summary
Summary of formal votes taken by the Olive Branch Board of Aldermen during the March 18, 2025 meeting, including consent agenda approvals, utility decision for Cascades Town Center and denial of a Crompler Place project‑text amendment.
The Olive Branch Board of Aldermen took the following recorded votes at its March 18, 2025 meeting (selected items and outcomes):
- Consent agenda (items 1–17): Approved (motion carried; roll call not stated in detail). The consent agenda included routine planning and administrative items.
- Planning: Cascades Town Center — Vote to approve Option 1 (overhead electrical loop with underground laterals): Motion by Alderman Ricky Dickerson; second by Alderman Henderson. Outcome: approved (7–0).
- Planning: Crompler Place project‑text amendment and associated preliminary development plan (proposal to allow 110 rental units and a 3‑story mixed‑use building): Motion to deny by Alderman Collins; seconded by Alderman Wallace. Outcome: denied (7–0).
- Planning/Code enforcement: Set public hearing date for a zoning matter for May 2025: Approved as consent/planning item.
- Code enforcement: Declared conditions on several properties to be a menace to public health and directed staff or contract labor to clean nonspecified properties; two properties shown in presentation were removed from the list after cleanup. Outcome: motion carried.
- Contracts and construction actions: Approved an amendment to Civil Link LLC contract for Gwynne Farms pump station removal (add $16,500 to expand design services); approved task order with Neil Schafer Inc. ($12,478) for East Area Project 2 environmental work; approved change order No. 1 with NSCOR LLC (add $8,291.58 and extend completion 60 days) for South area water/sewer project. All motions carried as presented.
- Executive session: The board voted to enter executive session to discuss multiple personnel matters across city departments. The motion to enter executive session carried.
Where available, specific vote counts were recorded in the meeting minutes or roll call; items described above were adopted or denied according to the outcomes listed in the public record for this meeting.
