Oktibbeha supes approve pay raises for 6 road employees
Oktibbeha supervisors approved pay increases for six of the county’s 37 road employees with a 3-1 vote at Monday’s meeting after Road Manager Fred Hal Baggett made the suggestion based on job performances that he said deserved a raise.
Road department overtime dominates county budget talk
Expenses for the county road department are shaping up to be major considerations for supervisors as they begin the budgeting process for the approaching fiscal year.
City GPS trackers helping with efficiency
Long idling times for vehicles, joyriding and other misuses — a 2014 J5 Broaddus study of Global Positioning System (GPS) data from trackers mounted on Columbus city vehicles found these and other inefficiencies.
Oktibbeha considers GPS trackers for road equipment
Oktibbeha County punted a decision on placing Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers in road department vehicles to May after supervisors raised questions Monday about employees’ productivity and how such a tracking system would affect morale.
Supervisors shaking up Oktibbeha Co. road dept.
District 4 Supervisor Bricklee Miller called for a top-down study for the Oktibbeha County Road Department Monday after supervisors named County Administrator Emily Garrard as its interim leader and reduced its two grubbing and construction crews’ upcoming summer work hours.
Leaders approve speed curbing measures
County and city leaders are taking measures to increase safety and reduce speed on roads near churches and residential areas.
Summer county road projects completed
Construction season may not be over, but all of Lowndes County’s road improvement projects budgeted for this year wrapped up last week.
Thirty-three roads were either overlaid, chip-sealed or given double bituminous surface treatment during the summer months.
Lowndes Supervisors implement scheduled drug testing for road department
As a preemptive measure, the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors Monday voted to perform drug tests on all Road Department employees once a year and then employees will randomly be chosen for drug tests three subsequent times throughout the year.
Lowndes supes vote again to keep vehicles parked
Noting he earlier voted to prohibit non-road department Lowndes county employees from taking county vehicles home at night based on “erroneous information,” District 5 Supervisor Leroy Brooks Friday motioned five employees be allowed to take their vehicles home, if they “chose to do” so.