BROOKHAVEN — Lincoln County Engineer Ryan Holmes had a brief update for the board of supervisors Monday morning during a regularly scheduled docket meeting. Holmes gave an update on a bridge inspection, the Lincoln County Courthouse HVAC project and answered a question about boring permits. 

The Auburn Road bridge project in District 4 is nearly finished. Holmes said the final inspection was the last hurdle before the bridge closed signs could be taken down by Mississippi Department of Transportation. Supervisors voted to approve payment for one of the last bills on the project. 

The final inspection of the bridge will be next Thursday. 

District 3 Supervisor John David Hart asked Holmes about charging for boring permits by companies. Copiah County charges $250 for boring permits. Holmes said they definitely could look into it. Hart said the permit fee would make up for the time and effort to approve them. 

“Permits are often being drawn by google earth but you need to look at it with them,” Holmes said. “The fee doesn’t cover the costs in some cases.”

District 2 Supervisor Keith Lewis echoed Holmes’s suggestion that supervisors look at the site with whichever company is boring. 

“We don’t know what we are looking at until we get out there,” Lewis said. 

Holmes said all of the HVAC equipment needed for the Lincoln County Courthouse renovations have come in. Demolition will be the first step in the project to replace the units and they hope to start the first week of December. 

“It could take six weeks to get everything on the bottom level up and running and then they will go to the top,” Holmes said. “They will probably need to barricade a good deal of space for the dumpsters. It is progress. We will keep y’all aware of the plans.”