NATCHEZ, Miss. – Adams County supervisors on Monday approved funding an air-travel study as they and Natchez officials try to get commercial passenger service for the local airport.
Natchez-Adams County Airport Director Richard Nelson said the study would provide information on where local travelers go and how air service would fit their needs.
“This study will show the best service area and what air service is best for the Natchez airport,” he said.
He noted he and other Natchez-Adams County officials have been talking in recent months with passenger airlines about serving the airport. Breeze and Boutique are among the prospective airlines.
The airport has not had regularly scheduled commercial passenger service since the mid-1990s, according to the airport’s historical records.
Nelson said he’s talked with Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson about the city joining the county in paying the expenses of the air-service study, which has an initial cost of $12,500.
“This is the first step and, hopefully, the study will provide the Natchez-Adams County Airport with the valuable information on how the airport needs to proceed to pursue air-service development for the airport,” he said.
He also said the study could also open the way for federal grants to help the airport bring a commercial airline to Natchez-Adams County.
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Adams County supervisors are seeking bids from companies that can pick up the remains of trees broken by the ice storm that hit the area in February causing widespread damage. Those interested in getting the storm debris-removal job have until June 30 to submit proposals.
Adams County can be reimbursed by the federal government for the costs associated with this storm cleanup project. It was was among 31 Mississippi counties deemed eligible last month for federal disaster-recovery funds.
The county board has contracted ER Assist Inc. of Arkansas to help document what the winter calamity did and to help navigate the process for seeking state and federal funds to pay for the storm cleanup and repairs.
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The Mississippi Ethics Commission has dismissed a real-estate website’s complaint that Adams County officials are making it too difficult to get tax assessment records.
A representative of Zillow – which provides information about properties for buyers and sellers nationwide – early this year filed the complaint. She alleged Adams County Tax Assessor Larry Hughes’ office unlawfully rebuffed a request for an electronic copy of the 2020 tax assessment files of all parcels of land in Adams County.
In dismissing Zillow’s complaint in May, the Mississippi Ethics Commission said such tax-assessment information is considered public record, but the county can charge a fee for providing the data as requested by Zillow. The Adams County Board of Supervisors on Monday set the fee at $1,000, which the commission has determined is reasonable.
The Ethics Commission administers the enforcement of Mississippi’s public records laws.
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