An ordinance calling for a change to how the City of Kosciusko deals with transient vendors was tabled by the Board of Aldermen last week.
The ordinance change puts a heavy focus on limiting transient auto dealers. Changes included limiting the amount of vehicles that can be on a lot and forcing any transient vendor to have an Attala County address.
A transient vendor is any person or organization that engages in temporary business in one locality or in traveling from place to place selling goods, wares or merchandise.
“The problem with this is that we have no way to track if they are even paying taxes to the city,” aldermen-at-large Tim Kyle said. “So more than likely these out of town car dealers are hurting our local businesses and probably not paying taxes to the City of Kosciusko.”
The aldermen choose to table the action after discussion arose about how many vehicles a transient auto dealer would be able to have on site at one time.
According to city attorney George Dorrill, a similar ordinance was recently passed in the City of Philadelphia.
In other action the aldermen approved repairs to Hugh Ellard Park. A bid of $3,530 was approved form Crosby and Son Excavation for dirt work on the baseball and softball fields at the park.
Other action taken by the aldermen:
• approving a six-year tax abatement application with Watkins, Ward and Stafford for approximately $50,000 worth of repairs to the Duncan CPA building;
• approved a bid of $7,252.32 from Sun South LLC out of Carthage for a new John Deer Gator for the parks department;
• approved an agreement with Worrell Electrical for contracted electrical work for the city at a rate of $250 per week for inspections and $77 hourly rate.
• approved a payment of $97,683.67 to Delta Constructors and a payment of $3,323.04 to Gardner Engineering for work at the wastewater lagoon.
The next scheduled meeting of the Kosciusko Board of Aldermen will be Nov. 15 at 5:30 p.m.
