Mississippi Transportation Commission ratifies $125.7 million in payments, approves routine contracts and holds one janitorial contract for follow-up
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Summary
At its January meeting the Mississippi Transportation Commission ratified $125,681,090.06 in accounts payable, approved payroll dockets and multiple contract amendments and supplemental agreements, and voted to hold Agenda Item 33 (a DeSoto County janitorial contract) for further vendor outreach.
The Mississippi Transportation Commission on Jan. 14 moved through a long consent-style agenda, ratifying $125,681,090.06 in accounts payable and approving payroll dockets and a series of supplemental agreements, while voting to hold one contract for additional review.
Commission staff presented the accounts-payable package and asked the commission to ratify payments covering Dec. 17, Dec. 23, Dec. 30, Jan. 7 and Jan. 14. The commission recorded approval of those payments as presented. The payroll docket for Dec. 16–Dec. 31, 2025, and Jan. 1–Jan. 15, 2026, was also approved; staff said the payroll total is not to exceed $10,000,000 plus statutory withholdings and authorized deductions.
The body approved or authorized a range of routine contract actions across multiple divisions, including: - Supplemental agreement adding 75 working days to a Gulf Breeze Construction Inc. contract for work in the City of Gautier (revision from 590 to 665 working days) with no additional cost; - A subsurface utility engineering work assignment for the I‑20/I‑55 freight corridor with a not-to-exceed amount of $289,900.93; - A geotechnical supplemental agreement with Thompson Engineering not to exceed $76,336.20 (revising the contract total to $317,776.43); - Multimodal investment supplemental agreements to add runway lighting and resurfacing project reimbursements and a reduction to pavement-survey imagery services that reduced that contract by $242,224.04 to a revised total of $5,801,802.50.
Several other routine procurement and service agreements were approved or ratified, including highway sweeping and facility service agreements with stated maximums and possible one-year extensions. Staff indicated most supplemental agreements added contract time (to account for weather and clearing overruns) and did not increase contract costs.
Commissioners paused agreement on Item 33, a janitorial and maintenance contract for the DeSoto County Welcome Center. One commissioner asked whether previous vendors had been notified about the procurement and requested that the item be held until the next meeting so staff could confirm outreach; the commission voted to hold the item for further information.
Before adjourning into a short break, the commission also authorized the executive director to execute a correction quitclaim deed to Pleasant Hill Investments LLC to correct a legal description error from a 2024 recording.
The commission announced a planned executive session to discuss a personnel matter and recessed for five minutes. The meeting resumed agenda processing after the break.
