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• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • One section
County official clarifies tax increase BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
IUKA — Residents are asking questions one week after supervisors voted to increase Tishomingo County taxes. First District Supervisor Brandon Grissom said he has heard from people countywide who are upset with the recent vote that will raise the county’s ad valorem tax 3.75
mills from 93.25 to 97 mills. “I hate a tax increase as much as anyone does ... I can promise that,” Grissom said. “Unfortunately, after budgets were cut 10 percent, which is all the state will allow in the last six months of a term, we still couldn’t make up the shortfall in revenue.” Grissom said the almost $11 million county budget was short
$900,000 due to cuts made in funds normally received each year from TVA and the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The county was receiving $360,000 from MDC for housing state prisoners, but the program was halted earlier this year. TVA funds, which fluctuate each year, also changed. The agency change the distribution of the funds
to later in the year after the county’s fiscal year ends. “The schools were also shorted $160,000. The entire amount fell on the county to come up with,” he said. “According to state law, it is the county’s responsibility to fund a shortfall with the schools. They actually have the authority to borPlease see GRISSOM | 2
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Narcotics unit makes multiple drug arrests Staff Report
A Corinth man appears to be headed back to jail. The Alcorn Narcotics Unit arrested Jeffery Moore, 22, of 1613 Childs Street, on September 10 at a local fast food restaurant. Officers with the unit found Moore to be in possession cocaine and ice only three weeks after being released from the Tan #6348
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