Thanks to the Mississippi legislature, it is Christmas in April for cities, counties, schools, and state agencies across Mississippi after it passed SB# 2189 this week.
Posted below are a list of appropriations for Jackson, Jackson metro area counties and cities, universities, and state agencies. Read and weep. Governor Reeves has not signed the bill and can strike projects with his line-item veto.
Jackson Projects
$13 million: LeFleur's Bluff improvements
$750,000 for road & infrastructure improvements in NW Jackson
$500,000 (County): sewer & drainage improvements in Presidential Hills
$400,000 for improvements at Westside Community Center
$750,000 for Parham Bridges Park (CCID)
$350,000: Mississippi Symphony Orchestra for purchase & replacement of musical instruments in schools
$5 million: Mississippi Children's Museum
$650,000: Mississippi Museum of Art projects & exhibits
$500,000: Jackson airport infrastructure repair
$4 million: assist Jackson in paying matching funds for federal highway grants for Woodrow Wilson, Medgar Evers Boulevard, and McDowell Road
$200,000: Repaving Hanging Moss from Northside Dr. to Nakoma Dr.
$250,000: Upgrades to Pete Brown Golf Facility
$70,000: Sykes Park
$100,000 (County): install security cameras for Norwood, Woodlea, Valley North, Lakeover, Northhgate
Jackson Metro Area Municipal & County Appropriations
Canton: $600,000 for real time crime center
Clinton/Raymond/Bolton Regional Wastewater Authority: $2 million for treatment facility at Big Black River
Gluckstadt: $75,000 for drones
Madison County: $1 million for Gluckstadt Road improvements, $1 million for same to Weisenberger Road,
Hinds County: $2.5 million for road improvements
Brandon; $750,000 for road Improvements
Florence: $300,000 for new water well
Rankin County Animal Shelter: $25,000
Ridgeland: $1.25 million for Lake Harbor project, $750,000 for cost of new water, sewer & stormwater infrastructure
Pelahatchie: $500,000 for wastewater infrastructure
Crystal Springs: $300,000 for amphitheater
Rez Fire Protection District: $300,000 for training facility
$1.5 million: Innovate Mississippi paying costs of loans and grants
Flowood: $750,000 for road improvements
Flora: $350,000 for road improvements
Madison: $1.3 million for utility relocation & sidewalks for historic district
Pearl: $800,000 for city hall renovations, $350,000 for Hwy 80 lighting
State Projects
$4.5 million: Trailways Bus Station (CCID Court & holding facility)
$6.5 million: Wright & Ferguson Building
$4 million: Worker's Comp Building
$1 million: MS School for Math & Science
$6 million: MS Schools for Deaf & Blind dorms.
$8 million : Department of Mental Health
$10 million: MDAH for Civil War Visitor Center at Vicksburg National Military Park
Universities ($75 million)
$2 million: general facility repairs & upgrades at IHL Education & Research Center
$10 million:new School of Accountancy Building at Ole Miss
$7 million: MVSU dorms
$11.5 million: Repair & renovation of Old Pohl Gym at the W
$20 million: New south campus mechanical plant at MSU
$10 million: dorm upgrades & new dining facility at JSU
$1.3 million: Renovations of Poultry Science Center at Alcorn State
$6.5 million: Upgrades for Whitney Complex/Wellness Center at Alcorn State
$5 million: Ole Miss Autism & Development Care
$5 million: MSU Autism & Development Care
32 comments:
You really need to work on your prompting skills. Your AI slop images are terrible!
13 million for a park in Jackson?? You got to be kidding me! Ok then I want the same thing for my area.
Lot of pork! Republicans like to waste many like democrats do! I’ll just stop voting! Both parties suck
It's only pork when THEY do it. /not s
Great, everyone can see the crime at CMU and Canton aldermen happen in real time.
Will Horhn bid out for the streets? He hasn't bid out for streets that the 1%
committee gave the city money months ago.
$18 million for LeFleur's Bluff and the Children's Museum, and only $500k for the airport??! Seems back-asswards to me. And, why do both universities need Autism & Development Care funding?
"$500,000: Jackson airport infrastructure repair"
Translation: Funding for another trip to the Paris Air Show.
If the frigging legislature has this much extra money to give away, then lower state taxes and let these local jurisdictions fund these projects, especially money going to Jackistan. The mayor is showing his long time influence on the legislature, i.e. he knows where the skeletons are buried.
Airport gets plenty of their own money directy from the FAA which spends billions keeping unprofitable airports afloat.
I thought it was pretty good Fish. Who would have thought the Nerds would become the Bullies?
As of December 2025, there are approximately 1,237,068 working adults in MS. Divide that $253 million between them and each gets a $205 Refund check.
This is how they chisel the massess, otherwise called "the skim".
They had money for this but not child care.
10 million to JSU. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money.
Hopefully, with the money being given to the airport, they can fix and clean uo their disgusting elevators and correct the pay issues for parking, where you can actually get a receipt.
Most pathetic airport in the nation.
Republican are no better than democrats. That’s why I don’t vote
Significant money will probably flow to the airport if the State gets control. You don’t give a bunch of clowns mega bucks to squander.
That money will pad a lot of salaries and more expensive perks.
They will take care of those items as soon as they return from the Paris Airshow.
Without question, once the airport litigation is resolved correctly to uphold the 2016 legislation that reformulates the airport authority board, federal and state money will flow into the airport and surrounding properties. Until that happens, forget it.
and then there is line item veto.. y'all don't forget that part.
We are issuing debt to buy musical instruments? You have to be kidding. Can't wait to see what he strikes.
Those of you whining about LeFleur's Bluff getting so much obviously can’t appreciate the fact we have ONE state park in the entire Jackson area and it desperately needs to be expanded. People love to say there’s “nothing to do” here and that is true because we have LITTLE recreation. Expand the park! More trails and more boardwalks! Make this a more fun place to live! If you haven’t ever been outside of Jackson (yet you’re still griping) most cities have lots of parks and rec to enjoy.
All y'all that are salty in the comments need to hire better lobbyists! You can get some gubment money too, it might just cost you $250,000 a year for many years to eventually get it ;)
I fear everyone is overlooking the fact that MVSU is somehow still in existence and they want to spend SEVEN MILLION dollars MORE on an absolutely destitute institution in motherfucking Itta Bena. That place is a total shitshow and hasn’t churned out a decent graduate since Jerry Rice. As a matter of fact, most of the HBCUs in America are a total joke that are money pits passed off as “colleges” that you and I foot the bill for. Infuriating.
1:43 On Tuesday city council agenda
Horhn and his police chief want them to approve 12 weeks of catering for
Jackson Police dept. training academy.
5:49 police dept. gets a budget.
Then the people who use it should pay for it
How many working age adults aren’t working?
The Fannie Cook Natural Area will be open soon.
https://wildlifemiss.org/fannye-cook-natural-area/
Fish, you left off a couple of biggies - $150 million for I55 from Madison to Gluckstadt. And $100 million for UMMC to build the cancer center.
If you are going to include the Workers Comp building of the W&F burial center (better renamed the David Blount darkhole, after he insisted the state buy it and then be required to spend millions on it to maintain its 'historic' nature, which of course is not historic, but I digress) you have to consider the Cancer Center as an investment in Jackson.
True dat
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