Lincoln County supervisors were busy in their Monday morning session, as they took on a variety of topics in their first May meeting.

     Lincoln County Civil Defense Director Clifford Galey expressed to the board his intention to form a joint committee from the city and the county on a weather warning system that could include cell phone or possibly home phone alerts.

     After discussion, the Rev. Jerry Wilson of District One and Jimmy Diamond of District Two were selected from the board for the committee. Galey plans on getting two members of the Brookhaven Board of Aldermen to complete the committee.

     Also Monday, in what has been a busy legislative system this spring in Jackson, Local System Bridge Program money was not approved by the Mississippi Legislature as part of their appropriations, which leaves Lincoln County without much-needed funding for roads and bridges. Jeff Dungan of Dungan engineering said that is a big problem.

     “That makes it difficult to work on projects without the funding,” Dungan said. “It puts us in a bind.”

     District Four Supervisor Eddie Brown expressed great concern about the lack of LSBP funding.

     “They need to fund the LSBP program,” he said. “It’s serious to this county and we really do need it. People don’t like the roads being closed, but if there’s no money to fix roads and bridges, there may be no other option.”

     Projects that did have funding are re-striping of 100 miles of roads in the county and repairs to the Mt. Zion Road bridge and three smaller bridges in District Five.

     In other business, Chancery Clerk Tilmon Bishop pointed out a problem justice court is having with a large number of paper files and a lack of room for them.

     “They need additional filing space,” said Bishop. “Justice court produces a lot of paper, and they’re required by law to keep them.”

     Supervisors approved $14,677 for four new sets of filing systems from Mississippi Filing Systems.

     “We already have part of it that we’ve had for years,” said Bishop. “The system will cut your filing space needs by a third.”

     Lincoln County Administrator David Fields said the county would have to piece together the funding.

     “We’ll really just have to find the money for it,” said Fields.

     The supervisors approved an emergency purchase from Sheriff Steve Rushing, who had to pay $6,334 to repair the air conditioning for the lower floor of the sheriff’s office.

     “It’s in the non-inmate area,” said the sheriff. “It houses the control area and booking office.”

     Rushing also notified the board of his intentions to attend Command College in July in Oxford at Ole Miss.

     The weeklong class is for sheriffs and police chiefs in the state and is being put on by the FBI.

     In other supervisor dealings Monday, they approved an invoice to reimburse the city of Brookhaven $451.48 for the county’s half of interstate lighting on Interstate 55.