JPs Declare Constable Positions Vacant, Adopt Changes in Budge

The members of the Ashley County Quorum Court, in their regular meeting on Tuesday, February 10, approved three changes in the budget for this year and declared vacancies in the position of constable in two townships.

Corliss McCain, the chairman of the budget committee, said that her committee had three recommendations with two of the three implemented by appropriation ordinances later in the meeting. The first was to appropriate $10,000 from the tax collector's automation fund for extra help to replace a worker who will be off for about eight weeks. The collector also proposes to pay the regular worker during that period.

The second change in the budget is to appropriate $1,175 to increase the salary of the Hamburg District Court clerk and assistant clerk. The raise of .23 cents per hour will make the salaries equal to those of Crossett court workers.

The budget committee also recommended that the current treasurer receive payment of $1,402 for vacation time she worked last year while the previous treasurer was off due to health reasons.

In addition to the appropriation ordinances, the county also approved a pair of resolutions declaring vacant the office of constable in White Township and Carter Township. The county judge said that John Burnside moved out of White Township, which is in the Fountain Hill area, and is no longer eligible to hold that office. No one ran for constable the Carter township which is the Hamburg area. Judge Holland said that he has people who want to be constable in both townships.

State statutes provide that all vacancies in elective township offices, which would apparently include the post of constable, will be filled by the governor.

The county judge said that Pine Bluff Sand and Gravel submitted the only bid for hot mix. The bid is for $107 per ton, or if one location has over 200 tons, $104 per ton, not including any applicable taxes.

For replacing culverts on Hanks Creek on Ashley Road 17, the county received bids of $50,803.20 from Hanson Pipe and Precast and for $83,326.40 from Drainage Pipe, LLC. The bid is to deliver, but not to install, 240 linear feet of 5'x5' precast reinforced concrete box culvert sections.

The county judge said that Ashley 17, also known as the Old Hamburg-Crossett Highway, will have to be closed while the work is underway, adding that he will give notice before closing the road.

The quorum court approved the reappointments of Patti Hamilton, Angie Lauhon and Imie Carpenter to the Ashley County Library Administrative Board. They will serve five year terms.

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JPs Declare Constable Positions Vacant, Adopt Changes in Budge