The Winston County Journal

The Board of Aldermen in the December 5 meeting discussed several projects with a focus on the upcoming ribbon cutting for the E-911 center.

Mayor Daniel "Moe" Yarbrough, Board of Aldermen, other city officials, Winston County officials, state officials and other dignitaries will celebrate the opening of the new E-911 center in Louisville on Dec. 14 at 3 p.m. with a ribbon cutting.

The new E-911 building houses the 911 operations along with several offices of the Louisville Police Department. Around $125,000 was spent on the new building construction with the Mississippi Development Authority awarding a $75,000 grant to the project and Winston County investing $25,000 in the new center. The city covered the additional costs of construction. Along with the E-911 Open House the city will also be recognized for being Storm Ready certified. The public is invited to the slate of events.

In other board business, the aldermen:

€ Discussed with Sade Turnipseed from the Young Publisher's Network the extent of the group's projects and involvement with local youth. Turnipseed noted the group had four book projects on the back burner, a "Talk of the Town" video project and "a how to say No to drugs" proposal. The city officials applauded the group's efforts with the local youth but noted due to local ordinances the city could not donate the projects.

€ Approved the docket of claims for $131,626.15.

€ Approved Spradling Engineering proposal for 2007 to handle Community Development Block Grant projects.

€ Approved an ordinance to have no drilling or mining on city property that would disrupt any production facilities on that property. The city had recently sold the lease property where the Roseburg Facility exists back to Georgia Pacific so that they could transfer it to Roseburg but the city could not sell the mineral rights to the land due to state law. The city leaders in order to aid the transfer and not harm Roseburg facility the city agreed not to do any drilling or mining while the plant continues to operate on the property.

€ Approved the receipt of $16,100 Homeland Security grant to the Louisville Police

Department. Approved a $186 donation from Fred's Dollar Store to the Louisville Fire Department.

€ Discussed several problematic properties for the city engineer to examine for uncleanness.

€ Discussed enforcement of certain issues with Jake's Recycling.

€ Fire Chief Mike Stevenson noted the addition of a new brush fire truck to the Louisville Fire Department.

€ Entered into executive session for a personnel matter.

The next Louisville Board of Aldermen meeting is scheduled for Jan. 2, 2007 after the regularly scheduled meeting of the month was rescheduled due to the holidays.