Mississippi Transportation Commission reviews contracts, property conveyances, rail and IT funding; moves into executive session on workers' compensation

The Mississippi Transportation Commission on June 26 reviewed and discussed a broad set of administrative, capital and procurement items, including engineering work assignments, property conveyances, supplemental local public agency agreements, rail multimodal project funding and information-technology procurements. The commission later approved a motion to hold an executive session to consider two workers' compensation settlement matters.

Among the items presented to the commission:

- A work assignment under MDOT’s hydraulic engineering services master contract with Gresham Smith to provide Phase A bridge hydraulic design for four bridges in Monroe County (Kalpena Creek, Shoaf Creek, Tom Bigby River and a relief structure on Mississippi Highway 6). The amount of the work assignment was listed as not to exceed $400,686.62.

- Authorization to pass condemnation orders on listed parcels (status and parcel details presented; right-of-way acquisitions for those projects were expected to take about three to six months, according to staff).

- Two quick-claim deeds to convey uneconomic remnant parcels along Mississippi Highway 63 in George County: a 20.0-acre remnant to Stone Investment Company, Inc. for $44,706.20 and a 13.8-acre remnant to James Cochran for $30,847.30.

- Concurrence with a local public agency (LPA) supplemental agreement with Chris Albritton Construction Company and Stone County School District to construct 4,800 linear feet of road around a new high school, 1,200 linear feet of sidewalk and…