The Town of Carrollton was awarded grant funding to alleviate erosion on three streets in town.
At last Monday’s meeting of the Carrollton Board of Aldermen, Mayor Pam Lee informed the board that the town had been awarded funding from the Natural Resource Conservation Service to fix erosion issues on three streets in town. The federal funds are Emergency Watershed Protection program of the United States Department of Agriculture, and the town is required to make a 20 percent match to be paid invoice-by-invoice as the project progresses.
To repair the continuing erosion of the street just east of College Street on Peavy Street will cost the down $5,000. Repairs to road erosion in the curve of Hafner Street will cost the town $10,000, and repairs to Lexington Street erosion will cost the city $11,129.
A fourth project has been funded inside the Town of Carrollton, but the grant was awarded to Carroll County not the town. However Beat 2 Supervisor Terry Brown asked the town if it would split the matching money with him to repair Barnes Street. The cost to the town would be $25,270.
All four projects will cost the town $51,399. The town will use capital outlay funds to pay for the town’s required match.
“The plan is not to have to borrow the money, but pay for it out right,” said Town Clerk Linda McGregor.
The board discussed speaking with Peoples Bank about opening a line of credit to pay off each project as it occurs and then replace it with budgeted funds.
In other town business:
• Lee reported that she and Water Operator Galen Shumaker met with Mike Ware, a representative of Mississippi Department of Transportation about the drainage problem in front of the Masonic Lodge, just north of town hall on Lexington Street. Ware said drainage box was not part of the MDOT work area and could not fix the problem. Lee said Shumaker told her he could repair the drainage problems and would present a price to the board at a later date.
• MDOT will be replacing the Big Sand Creek Bridge will begin in summer 2021 and be completed by 2022, Lee reported.
• McGregor informed the board that the town’s request to increase water rates had been submitted to the Mississippi Public Service Commission.
