On Monday’s regular Board of Supervisors meeting District Four Supervisor Mala Brooks said the minutes from the previous meeting on Nov. 4, were inaccurate.
Brooks said the minutes showed her making a motion to repair Longswitch Road and use IMS as the engineer, and Mcgee seconded the motion, but that didn’t happen, she said because the attorney said the board couldn’t do it with use tax and a second engineer.
“I rescinded that motion and made a motion to hire IMS and McGee seconded it,” Brook said. “If you can’t understand it, you may want to go on Facebook, because the audio is very clear.”
After Brooks made corrections to the minutes she asked Bernardine Holmes, the Deputy Clerk acting as Chancery Clerk on Behalf of Marilyn Hansell why she hadn’t placed some items she’d requested on the agenda.
Holmes said Brooks requested the items after the timeframe for getting them on the agenda, and the board president said not to add them.
“I did add Eddie Brown Jr. to the agenda,” Holmes said. “As you requested in the hall the other day.”
When Brooks heard that McGee wouldn’t allow her items on the agenda she turned to the board’s attorney Willie Griffin to clarify if McGee had the right to stop her from adding items to the agenda.
Griffin said if the board president fails to place an item on the agenda, then you need to bring the item to the meeting and make a motion to add it to the agenda.
“If you want to add something to the agenda Ms. Brooks, call the board president and say I want this on the agenda,” Griffin said. “You will know in advance if he says yay or nay, and if he fails to place it on the agenda, then you can be prepared at the beginning of the meeting to make a motion to add it to the agenda.”
Brooks said O.K. to Griffin and then addressed McGee and Holmes.
For the next board meeting in December to Mr. President and Ms. Chancery Clerk,” Brooks said. “I would like to add Longswitch Road on the agenda along with the county engineer and Mr. Eddie Brown to the agenda, so I’m putting it out there verbally to you for the first meeting in December, thank you.”
McGee said Eddie Brown was on the agenda today requesting the use of the convention center, but he was banned from using the convention center at the last board meeting for damages and vandalization of a church group's meeting rooms.
McGee said he was excited to talk to Brown about those activities and events.
“Brown was standing in the boardroom earlier but I don’t know why he left, maybe he got warned off or something, if he were to come in and basically have a conversation, have some dialogue, because my main concern is right now we have to refund money to the church because their setup was vandalized under our watch,” McGee said. “We have to refund $700 and hopefully he would have come in and we had a conversation and he'd have made restitution to them, and apologized to them, not us.”
Brooks said she had spoken to some members of the church and they said they didn’t make a request to be refunded, they said McGee insisted they be refunded.
McGee asked Brooks if she thought they shouldn’t be refunded.
“Oh, I'm just going by what you said to us, again, I'm just saying you told us that they made requests when they did not make requests,” Brooks said. “They said you insisted that they get their money back, So, that's how they got their money back, tell the truth, shame the devil, and stop embellishing.”
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