Board meeting - again? Will it be legal?

The Board of Supervisors will have a “Special Meeting” this Monday night, November 23, 2015 beginning at 5:00 p.m.  Let’s hope the meeting is quick as it should be – we’ll want to get to the Lions Club Sight Banquet on time for a great steak dinner and the official Tunica kick off to the holiday season.

It appears that only one item will lawfully be considered – closing for the Thanksgiving Holidays!  Another item is listed on the agenda “Executive Session.”  However, by not disclosing anything more than that, this could be an illegal topic for the meeting.  We are informed that there are some strict laws governing executive sessions.  To stop illegal executive sessions the citizens might have to take the battle to Jackson, Mississippi and the Mississippi Ethics Commission.  Let’s hope not but we all know how the Board ignores the law.

Rumor is that after the elections, the current Supervisors now want to start settling some of the litigation caused by their illegal acts.  Let us be clear – illegal acts are illegal.  Settling these matters with taxpayers’ money will NOT end this issue.  Any supervisor that voted in favor of illegal budgets and illegal taxes, and in favor of cutting off funding to the Schools and Town should be held personally accountable for their actions.  There is at least $400,000 of bond money available on those Supervisors bonds.  If they have personal assets over their $100,000 bond, those too can be used to repay the citizens for their illegal and intentional acts.  Folks, admitting you are wrong now will not fix your problems!

Let’s all go to the meeting and demand some true accountability.  Are these Supervisors finally ready to admit that their policies and plans failed? 

Maybe the Executive Session is about the audit that seems as though it cannot be performed.  Who really knows?