Jackson aldermen set code hearing, accept bid

A public hearing was set, and several city projects received approval Monday night at Jackson Board of Aldermen regular meeting.

• A public hearing will be held at 6 p.m. May 21 regarding a request from residents of Broadridge Subdivision to change Chapter 65 of the Code of Ordinances relating to the removal of certain residential uses from the professional office district category.
• Board members approved the certified election results of the April 3 municipal election.
• The board accepted the $61,000 bid of Greg Abbott Equipment Sales in Jackson for a compact excavator.
• For the north substation grading and site preparation project, the board approved increasing expenditures by $9,300 to MidSouth Utility Consultants of Bartlett, Tennessee, for engineering services, and also approved a decrease in $10,000 in the contract amount to Clark & Sons Excavating of Jackson.
• Preparations continue for the scheduled June production of �All Nite Skate,� a film by Jackson native Nick Murphy of Spoon Pictures, with the board approving use of loudspeakers at the Niclous Herman Leist Memorial Band Shell in City Park between 2 and 11 p.m. June 10 and 11.
• The area including the city cemetery, 525 and 503 S. Hope St. in Jackson, will be rezoned from single-family residential and general commercial districts to central business district, which, building superintendent Janet Sanders said, would keep the central business district contiguous, among other considerations.
• Newly-elected incumbent aldermen Joe Bob Baker, Larry Cunningham, Phil Penzel and Dave Reiminger were sworn in.

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