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Rankin County board approves two landowner payments for road projects
Summary
The Rankin County board voted to add two items to the agenda and approved a counteroffer related to the Gunner Road extension and a payment to Thomas Mark Vincent for a Florence Fire Parkway parcel; the transcript contains inconsistent figures for the Gunner Road payment.
The Rankin County board voted to approve a landowner counteroffer tied to the Gunner Road extension project and to authorize payment to Thomas Mark Vincent for a Florence Fire Parkway parcel after adding both items to the agenda and approving them by voice vote.
The additions were offered during the meeting’s “additional business” portion. A speaker identified in the record as Jay moved to add two items to the agenda; Scott seconded the motion and members approved it by voice vote. The first added item asked the board to approve a landowner counteroffer for parcel number 94 on the Gunner Road extension project and to authorize payment; the second asked the board to accept a closing statement and authorize payment to Thomas Mark Vincent for property related to the Florence Fire Parkway project.
County discussion on the Gunner Road item in the transcript included a staff presentation of the motion to approve a landowner counteroffer “in the amount of $1,350” for parcel 94 and a separate reference to a “total compensation offer and payment of $30,000.” The transcript also contains a conflicting statement that the landowner counteroffer is “for an additional $1,351,350 dollars.” Because the record includes inconsistent figures, the transcript does not establish a single, clear dollar amount for the Gunner Road payment.
For the Florence Fire Parkway parcel, the record identifies a fair-market-value figure of $1,400 and shows the board voted to authorize payment to Thomas Mark Vincent for that parcel. The motions for both items were approved by voice vote; the meeting record records “Aye” and “Motion carries” for each but does not record a roll-call tally or named yes/no votes.
Remarks in the transcript note that no formal action is taken in executive session; the two items were added to the open agenda, moved, seconded, and then approved in open session. The board recessed at the close of the segment and set a recess date referenced in the record as February 27.
The board did not provide additional detail in the transcript about funding sources for the payments, any conditions attached to the authorizations, or whether the Gunner Road payment amount would be adjusted in later paperwork. Those details were not specified in the meeting record.
