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Jackson City Council approves consent agenda, contracts and appropriations; hires outside counsel and staff
Summary
The council passed a broad consent agenda including contracts for lobbying services, IT renewals and appropriations to Jackson State University, approved legal retainers and a personnel appointment, and voted to enter executive session for legal matters without taking official action on return.
The Jackson City Council on Dec. 16 approved a broad consent agenda that included routine claims, contract renewals, IT purchases, and appropriations, and took up personnel and legal-retainer matters before adjourning following an executive session.
Clerk announcements established that matters on the consent agenda would be enacted in one motion unless pulled. The council approved the municipal claims docket, which the clerk read as totaling $6,000,948,997.52; the four largest claims identified by the CFO were payments to McInnis Electric ($579,745.48), Hemp Hill Construction Company ($524,705.03), Motorola Solutions ($484,059.48), and AJ Construction ($424,503.29) with associated fund sources noted. The vote sequence for large-claims approval recorded a 6–0–1 tally.
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