Supervisors approve restaurants for Gluckstadt

GLUCKSTADT — Two new restaurants and a convenience store will be coming to the Calhoun Station Parkway here, after the Madison County Board of Supervisors approved site plans for the businesses during their Aug. 2 meeting.

The new restaurants include a Fresh Market Cafe and a Bumpers Drive-In. The board also approved a Chevron convenience store for the Calhoun Station Parkway.

Gluckstadt Mayor Pro Temp Lisa Williams said that while Gluckstadt is welcoming of new developments, the city has not yet had a chance to put the proper mechanisms in place to control growth in the city.

“The citizens of Gluckstadt that supported an incorporation were very adamant and have been very adamant and vocal on more service stations and convenience stores and liquor stores and fast food restaurants not being desired in their community and in their city,” Williams said.

The city, Williams noted, has appointed members of a new Gluckstadt planning and zoning commission to establish guidelines for future development but the city does not have the proper documents and regulations in place.

“The planning and zoning commission has been appointed, and they will hold a first official meeting in the next few weeks,” Williams said. “The city welcomes development as any community would, the right kind of development, and the city mayor and board understand that the board of supervisors is still that legal authority to approve or not approve requests for development. Until the city has the departments and personnel in place to make those decisions on behalf of the community, then we have what we have.”

In other matters at the board’s Aug. 2 meeting, supervisors:

• Approved reappointing Doug Jones and Ed Garner to the Madison County Economic Development Authority (MCEDA) Board of Directors;

• Approved the appointment of Gram Hopkins to the Lake Lorman Utility District Board of Directors;

• Voted to classify one county emergency management vehicle as surplus property and then voted to donate it to the Farmhaven Volunteer Fire Protection District;

• Approved reappointing Dorothy Blackmon and Robert Bilbrew to the Farmhaven Volunteer Fire Protection District; 

• Approved an Interlocal Cooperation Agreement between Madison County, the City of Ridgeland, and the City of Madison to provide a residential household hazardous waste disposal opportunity on Nov. 13, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Madison Central High School in Madison;

• Approved a Memorandum of Understanding between the Mississippi Association of Supervisors and the Madison County Board of Supervisors to provide Madison County with information and assistance regarding the federal funds available under the American Recovery Plan as the County prepares to appropriate the funds;

• Approved an Interlocal Cooperation Agreement between Madison County and the City of Madison regarding the funding of certain street improvements located in the City of Madison up to a maximum amount of $185,000. The streets and roads that are subject to this project are Belle Rose Circle, Audrey Lane, Lansbury Way and Perry Williams Road;

• Approved a resolution requesting that the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration issue $5 million in general obligation bonds, as approved in Senate Bill 2971, to pay for costs associated with making improvements to Bozeman Road, beginning at the intersection of Highway 463, and proceeding North;

• Scheduled Sept. 7, 2021, at 9 a.m., as the date for the public hearing regarding the adoption of the FY 2022 budget. The hearing will be held in the Board Room in the Administrative Office in Canton;

• Approved the appointment of Harold Beebe to the Madison County Nursing Home Board of Directors; and,

• Approved the site plan for the Magnolia Speech School, which is relocating to Madison County on Bozeman Road.

The Madison County Board of Supervisors will meet again Monday, Aug. 16, 2021, at 5 p.m. in the Administrative Building in Canton.