Jackson Jambalaya

BTW, on Sept. 10th, they voted to lower the tax raise from $4.3M to about $2.5M, but considering that vote was illegal...we'll have to see what they do about the math on Sept. 26th.

Chalk another one up for Mary! You go girl!

Thank you Mayor for keeping those crooks (supes)honest, well maybe not honest but less dishonest !!

Does anyone think we'll get a different result? What can county residents tell them that they don't already know? This is like a bad call on the field being reviewed only to be confirmed. The ironic thing about this mess is that most of the large landowners in the county who will be paying more for pickup of trash they never generate live in Karl's and Paul's districts. Those are the people who need to get wise, not the residents of Madison and Ridgeland. Bill Billingsley

Running for supervisor, Gerald Steen's push card claimed that he "would continue to say NO to tax increases.

Let's hope Steen has an opponent when he runs for re-election.

Promises made, promises broken. The voters will remember.

Steen is a RINO. The metro area is littered with them.

Bill Billingsley, you rock..... So many love to hear themselves talk and/or pat theirselves on the back but you..... consistent and see through all this crap, and most do not even have a clue....... Its always hail Mary and down everyone else.... thanks for always seeing through all and being the one with out the ego!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is high time that the folks in the county started paying their fair share.

Check out Gerald Steen’s campaign website at: http://geraldsteensupervisor.com/about/
It contains jewels like:

In policymaking, experience matters. As an experienced public servant and citizen, Steen believes:
• Government should be managed with business principles
• Higher taxes are not an option

AND

“[I]t is my belief, that more taxes will not provide those solutions to the place we all call home.”

I live in Madison county and know that they have already laid off some/most of the road crew. Madison and Ridgeland have pretty good streets but the roads in the county are awful in many areas. They mismanged the budget and now we have to pay for it. I think at the very least they should give up their county cars,phones and other perks.Bad managers do not need to be rewarded.

In addition to getting rid of the Butler Snow economic development consultants, and Gerald Steen's campaign manager, Heath Hall, Madison County needs to:

1. cut in half the county vehicles that employees are driving to and from work. Does anyone even know how many vehicles the county has? Why is county administrator, comptroller, information manager, human resources, etc., driving cars home? Arthur Johnston, the Chancery Clerk, doesn't drive a county vehicle home! Why does everyone else?

2. Stop the appeal of the Landfill decision and get Hamer off the payroll. One lawyer is enough.

3. Look at what every employee is doing each day to provide service to the citizens of Madison County and determine which may not be essential.

4. Look at privatizing... get out of the garbage business. And sell the garbage trucks and get rid of the associated debt payments!

5. Looks like the PID bailout may be illegal... So, why worry about making those payments? How much and how long will these payments be made?

6. Stop giving TIFs for every development project that comes along. Every TIF must be evaluated on the basis of what's in it for the citizens and tax payers. Not just giving a windfall to a developer. If a TIF is approved, escrow the tax increment from day one; don't get used to spending it before the bond debt payments start arriving. i.e., the County loved spending the increased taxes when Ambrosino built the two buildings on Parkway South, but now years later the TIF bonds have been issued and tax increment (increase) has to go toward the bond service payments. So, there is a budget hole! OUCH!

The Madison County Board of Supervisors has not demonstrated that they are capable of managing another dime taken from the pockets of the tax payers. So, manage what you have and make better decisions, and work to gain the respect of the tax payers!

Focus on providing service to the citizens of Madison County; not what's in it for me!

It may be "Hail Mary" all of the time, but tell me who does more for their citizens than she does. Also everyone knows Gerald Steen is a liar and will always be. All that crap when he was running saying he wanted to get everyone to join together for the good of all. Bull.

Seems as if we have a several self serving RINO's representing us in Madison Co. Cut the spending, and stop instinctively raising our taxes to cover your owen mis-management!!

Thought you would be interested, KF. Madison County Journal article (the good paper, not the Gannett one), PID defaults cost taxpayers $2.7M,

http://onlinemadison.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=25533

Bill; did you mean to misspell your own name in your kudos post?

Where is Gene Mcgee in all this?? Selling insurance to those who do business with the city of Ridgeland--Check and see how much Sethi bought after he got a Tif around his property on old canton road--Mcgee is tooo scared to take a stand--

REMATCH. This one will make a WWF cage match look like a walk in the park. The Fabulous Five may want to reconsider raising taxes at all after this hearing. They may want to consider new careers like pumping gas, babysitting, squeezing melons or the undertaking business. I cannot wait.