Mayor A.J. Holloway and the city’s financial advisers met with groups of City Councilmembers last week to issue warnings about the city’s finances.
The message: The city cannot continue spending money at its current rate while revenue continues to decline.
To read background on the city’s budget challenges, click here.
Mayor to seek re-consideration of measure involving donated house
Mayor A.J. Holloway has requested City Historical Administrator Bill Raymond to brief councilmembers on Tuesday about the impact of tabling a measure to spend $25,000 to re-locate a historic house that was donated the city.
Councilmembers last week voted to table the measure that would have re-located a turn-of-the-century home being donated to the city from Reynoir and Jackson streets to a city-owned site on the Rue Magnolia, adjacent to the Creole Cottage.
The council months ago had authorized Raymond to apply for a grant from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to restore the house.
Raymond has since received verbal approval of a $250,000 grant, but by tabling the issue, the city stands to lose the funding.
News and notes
Marlin’s marlin: Marlin Miller was back in Biloxi this weekend, carving a blue crab and sea turtle into the trunk of the tree that he has transformed into a 24-foot marlin. To see a video interview with Miller conducted Sunday morning, click here.
Camille luncheon: Bill Reed, director of the National Hurricane Center, has accepted an invitation to speak to a Biloxi luncheon to mark the 40th anniversary of Hurricane Camille. The luncheon will be Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, at the Biloxi Community Center on Howard Avenue. Details are pending.
