City Hall To Close on Saturdays

Courtsey of WRBE
Saturday closings for Lucedale City Hall was one of many items on the first-of-the-month agenda for the Lucedale Board of Aldermen on Tuesday night.
City Clerk Kathy Johnson said that traffic flow on Saturdays was very low with less than four visitors on most Saturdays. She said a recent study preformed by Saturday employees showed that only the first Saturday of each month yielded more visitors, with 15 recorded on January 6th and on February 3rd, but other Saturdays in both months yielded as few as zero, with only three visitors recorded as the highest visitations on any Saturday past the first one of each month. March 31 has been set as the last Saturday Lucedale City Hall will remain open.
In other board action, several upcoming workshops and seminars were approved for police officers and firemen; and Mayor Dayton Whites reported that Phase I of a handicapped accessible nature trail would soon be completed at the Lucedale Greenway. He said the project would be completed at no cost to the city; The match required funds will be paid by the landtrust. Whites also said that the completed project would be ready the upcoming nature festival, scheduled in April.
Other agenda items for the Aldermen included payment for Senior Citizen Bus Insurance, the approval and acceptance of a 10-year lease between Craig Vincent and the City of Lucedale to be used for public parking, and the appointment of Fire Chief Matt Amick to be 2010 Census Coordinator.
Before adjourning, Johnson thanked the Aldermen and others for their hard work and assistances in meeting the recent March 1 Mississippi Development Authority Municipalities improvement Grant deadline.