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county courthouse. Last Februry, they appointed a 10-member committee to st sites, then they put a straw vote on an election ballot to guage voters feelings.
; consensus was that a new courthouse was needed, and recently the committee sted locating a future courthouse somewhere north of Interstate 10, and build-complex large enough to accomodate all county courts and offices, relieve overcrowding of the courthosue in the meantime, supervisors reacti-the Public Improvement Corporation to float low-interest bonds to purchase a 30-square-foot-building off Hwy. 90 west of Dunbar.
incery Court and Justice Court are now housed in the facility, along with Civil se, the State Fire Marshal, the Food Pantry, and Rep. Gene Taylor’s office, jther still elusive site is where a badly needed Juvenile Detention Facility might ated. Architects recently looked at tearing down the old jail attached to the pre-listoric courthouse in downtown Bay St. Louis, and gave cost estimates of $1.4 n to house 14 juveniles. Four other sites might be considered, jriff Ronnie Peterson has also asked supervisors to consider moving his vehicle ;enance activities from the north side of the jail, and enclosing it to house more ip’-s for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. The additional re-3 imated at up to $125 a day for each prisoner, would be used to offset costs of itmg the juvenile facility.
elements have also been made with property owners in the vicinity of the prop-new county marina on Pleasure Street in Bayou Caddy, e $1.1 million first-phase of construction will be financed mainly with Tidelands s, and calls for building a boat launch, 144 private boat slips, four commercial piers and restrooms, and a Harbor Master’s building. Site preparation and png is awaiting approval by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, ins for a county Livestock Arena are on hold, but supervisors are working to come ith a business plan that will shake loose $655,000 in state fund for construction, previous board purchased an 80-acre site off the Kiln-DeLisle Road for $200,000 it has been cleared.
urismt adult education and future industrial growth have also been addressed jpervisors.
ipervisors appropriated $20,000 to help fund the first-ever evening adult educa-classes in Hancock County, and the first series of classes drew over 300 icipants.
ith supervisors’ backing, the state legislature also approved legilation to levy a percent tax on hotels, motels and break and breakfast establishments in the *Vhe proceeds are being used to fund a Tourism Development Bureau and an ;u . e director that will work year-round to promote Hancock County’s tourist actions.
'he legislature also passed another bill that tacks on $5 to eachy misdemeanor of-se in the two cities and the county. Proceeds from the tax will go toward paying options of the Justice court system and $2 will help fund costs of a juvenile detention ility.
fust recently, the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce and the National Con-vacy asked supervisors to think about establishing a wetlands mitigation bank newhere in the vast buffer zone surrounding the Stennis Space Center, similar to e already establishe in Jackson Countyu.
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