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Oktibbeha County residents press supervisors on road maintenance and ask board to invest hospital-sale proceeds
Summary
Residents used the public-comment period to press the Board of Supervisors for action on county roads, drainage and tree removal; one speaker thanked the board for a hospital transaction and handed the board original petitions urging investment of sale proceeds into a fund.
Michelle Ford Jones opened the public-comment period by thanking the board for last year’s handling of a hospital transaction and said she has been collecting petitions she turned over to the board for the record. "I want to first begin by thanking this board again for what they did last year and put together the same with the hospital," she said, and handed originals of newly signed petitions to the board.
Victoria Robinson, a resident who identified herself as living on Bethesda Road (135 Dock Lane), told supervisors the ditches on her unpaved road are clogged with debris, limbs are falling into the roadway and a trench dug through private property funnels debris into her yard. "The ditches are full of debris and limbs are falling in the road," Robinson said. She also told the board county crews sometimes appear idle and asked for limb trimming, ditch cleaning and help to address repeated flooding and damage to vehicles.
County staff and supervisors acknowledged the location and the broader drainage problem, said the county has marked hazardous trees and described an ongoing tree-removal contract. County staff asked Robinson to provide a truck number and times to help staff investigate and pledged to send someone to inspect the site. A supervisor asked county engineers to prioritize the drainage concern; the board approved a motion to acknowledge citizen comments.
Why it matters: Residents described road and drainage problems that can cause flooding, vehicle damage and safety hazards. The complaints tie into multiple board agenda items — tree-removal contracts, drainage requests to a water district and upcoming engineering work — that will affect county maintenance budgets and schedules.
What’s next: Supervisors said staff would follow up with an inspection and further action; a later motion asked the county engineer to inspect Williams Road and return with a report to the board.
