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Flowood board approves consent agenda, hires, grants and awards backhoe bid
Summary
At meetings Jan. 3 and Jan. 17, the Flowood Board of Aldermen approved consent-agenda items, personnel hires across departments, accepted a Homeland Security grant (up to $13,500) for rescue equipment, authorized a $50,000 payment to the Flowood Chamber, and awarded a rubber-tire backhoe bid to Puckett Machinery while rejecting mini‑excavator bids and authorizing advertising for a new mini‑excavator purchase.
The Flowood Board of Aldermen handled routine municipal business across meetings on Jan. 3 and Jan. 17, 2017, approving consent-agenda items, multiple personnel hires, grant acceptance, a Chamber payment and a public-works procurement.
On Jan. 3 the board approved a consent agenda that included claims dockets for the city, the Refuge Golf Course and Flowood RJC Park, a resolution recognizing Municipal Government Week (Jan. 15–21, 2017), authorization to surplus a fire inventory item, and authorization to execute a 2017 OSHA/NFPA physicals agreement between the Flowood Fire Department and the University of Mississippi Medical Center. The board also approved sale of a firearm to retiree Tommy (TC) Myers.
Personnel hires recorded in the minutes included Russell Robertson (Private 2 Step 1) and Britt Thomas (Private 2 Step 2) for the fire department, and D’Moriaun Hicks as Laborer 2 Step 1 in the street division. On Jan. 17 the board approved hiring Jason Lindsey as Patrolman Step 5 for the police department. All personnel recommendations passed unanimously as recorded.
The Jan. 17 consent agenda included acceptance of a Mississippi Department of Public Safety/Homeland Security grant to purchase a trailer and rescue victim recovery device for 100 percent of the purchase price up to $13,500, and approval of payment of $50,000 to the Flowood Chamber for remaining budgeted promotion and advertising funds. The board also approved a memorandum of understanding with the Central Mississippi Human Trafficking Task Force and authorized travel for city officials to attend the Municipal League convention in Biloxi in July.
Public Works Director Garry Miller recommended awarding the bid for a rubber-tire backhoe to Puckett Machinery as the lowest and best bid and recommended rejecting bids for a mini-excavator; the board approved awarding the backhoe bid and rejecting the mini-excavator bids. Separately the board authorized advertising for the purchase of a mini-excavator. The board also approved the preliminary plat for Latter Rayne Part 5.
Appointments recorded in the minutes included Clayton Hodge Jr. and Bobbie Kersh as City of Flowood election commissioners. Several items were handled by unanimous votes; the minutes do not record dissenting votes, conditions on approvals, or detailed implementation timelines for the grants and purchases.
