Votes at a glance: Tunica County Board actions (Feb. 2025 meeting)

The Tunica County Board of Supervisors recorded the following formal actions and outcomes at its Feb. 2025 meeting. Where the transcript did not name movers or record roll‑call tallies, outcomes are reported as entered in the meeting record (voice votes noted as “Aye; motion carried”). If a specific numeric tally was recorded in the meeting, it is shown.

Votes at a glance

- Agenda amendments and approval: Board amended the agenda to add emergency services and an emergency proclamation travel item and to move executive‑session items to the regular agenda. Outcome: Approved (voice vote).

- Personnel and clinic actions • Accept resignation of Pamela Bernard, LPN (Tunica Medical Clinic), effective 02/07/2025. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item g5) • Authorize advertisement to fill full‑time LPN at Tunica Medical Clinic to replace Pamela Bernard. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item g6) • Transfer Shalita Martin, nurse practitioner, full time from Tunica Medical Clinic budget to Tunica Resorts Medical Clinic budget. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item g7) • Approve hire: Mitchell King, fire recruit, North Tunica Fire (full time) at $15 per hour, effective 02/19/2025. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item g8) • River Park Museum reclassifications (Jessica Oliver from information clerk to museum coordinator; Kedrana Thompson from museum assistant part time to full‑time information clerk). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item g9)

- Energy and equipment/financing (see separate article for details) • Approve Capital One 15‑year financing for the Johnson Controls Option 4 (includes aquatic center). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Old business Item 1) • Authorize equipment lease‑purchase resolution with Capital One. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item 1b) • Approve performance contract agreement with Johnson Controls. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item 1c)

- Property, demolition and tax assessor lien policy • Board order to allow the tax assessor’s office to place a lien on properties demolished by the Tunica County Road Department for assessment cost (per the approved formula). The record shows multiple motions and discussion; one supervisor announced an abstention and the clerk recorded the final result as "Motion carries. Got 4 0 1." Outcome: Approved (4 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain). (Item f? / discussion item as presented)

- Workforce, contracts and grants • Approve workforce expansion to accommodate the Department of Labor grant programs and partnership activities (authorization to proceed with program and space adjustments). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item f2) • Approve lease between Tunica County and Tunica County Community Development Coalition for a 1‑acre tract for a neighborhood park (validated and entered into minutes). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item f3) • Acknowledge award of capital project funds for a community Wi‑Fi grant with Aristotle for arena, recreation complex, river park and museum; approve installation of antennas (no cost to county). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item g2) • Approve contract with Atlas Community Studios for workforce grant funding resource roadmap and implementation strategy (fee included in the workforce grant). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item g3) • Authorize North Delta Planning & Development District to prepare and submit the regional authority strategic planning grant (transportation, workforce or broadband). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item g4)

- Procurement, inventory and payments • Inventory deletion for the Road Department. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item 10) • Payment to Sunbelt Fire for repairs to fire engine E4 in the amount shown in packet (invoice noted in packet). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item 11) • Approve payroll. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item 12)

- Travel and training approvals (selected) • Sheriff’s Office travel and appointment notices (presentation of appointment Kalia Davis as deputy, training registrations for Jessica Nixon, Deborah Ellington, and Lt. William Rooker). Outcome: Presented and approved where motioned (voice votes). (various travel notices) • Solid Waste: approve travel for Haley Burks and Joe Anderson Jr. to the 2025 Regional SWANA Spring Conference in Biloxi (April). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item reported by Solid Waste)

- Emergency and safety items • Approve emergency purchase to replace generator at Tunica Medical Clinic. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item reported by procurement) • Approve resolution supporting road crews as first responders (state association resolution). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (resolution presented in packet) • Approve emergency proclamation for winter storm February 2025 (forecasted freezing rain, sleet, snow, hazardous conditions and river elevations). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). (Item g13)

- Administrative and meeting procedure • Motion to enter a closed determination (closed‑session determination). Outcome: Approved (voice vote).

Notes on tallying: Where the transcript records only a voice “Aye” the article records outcome as approved; the meeting transcript included one explicit partial tally for the tax assessor lien item (recorded as 4‑0‑1). For other items the transcript shows unanimous voice votes but does not include roll‑call names or numeric tallies.

If readers need the precise docket wording or signed resolutions, those documents are maintained in the county clerk’s records and the county administrator’s office.