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The Oxford Board of Aldermen held its regular meeting on July 7, 2026, at 5:00 PM in the City Hall Courtroom. Mayor Pro-Tem Jason Bailey presided in the absence of Mayor Robyn Tannehill. All aldermen were present. The board unanimously adopted the agenda with additions and approved all items on the regular agenda.
The board unanimously approved the consent calendar, which included:
The board entered executive session to discuss personnel issues. The following actions were taken with unanimous votes:
No is not. Okay. All right. Call to order the meeting for the mayor and the board of Alderman for July 7th, 2026. We have several items, three additional items on the agenda that we would like to put on, which is three B seven request permission for the three employees from the Oxford Police Department to attend the MASRO conference on July twelfth or the seventeenth, twenty twenty-six in Biloxi, Mississippi at the estimated cost of thirteen hundred fifty-five dollars and twenty cents. Request a final plat amendment for case number thirty-two eighty-seven. Plat amendment for Creekwood subdivision line thirteen request by Andy Calicutt. We're properly located at ten thirteen Hawland Drive being further identified as PPIN eighteen eight thirty-seven. Second. All in favor? Thank you. Uh quick mayor's report. Uh the mayor is uh not here, but she is uh at the bar convention. Uh so I am serving as mayor for this meeting. Um she did not leave a report, but I will report that uh we've she's had a busy two weeks uh this last two weeks first uh had uh legislator hosted the legislatures at the show county fair, several uh employees from the city of Oxford joined down there. We hold held a luncheon for our Lieutenant Governor and for our uh speaker of the House, Jason White. Uh well attended. It's a fun time, uh, but it is something that we do to stay in the good graces of our legislators. So yeah, I thought it was a very good uh two lunches and a very good event. Uh several aldermen and the mayor went down to MML where our mayor successfully uh campaign for the vice president of MML and she was elected that, so we're really proud of her. Uh we hope we'll have a special gift for her next uh next meeting for that. So uh would be a lot of fun. Um Fourth July weekend was a success. Wonderful fireworks. The weather held off and uh we were just proud of our parade and proud of everything that that was going on and uh for the weather cooperated with it. So with that uh we'll move on to the regular agenda or the agenda. Uh two A is request to approve the minutes of the regular board of Altuman meeting on June 16th, 2026. So all in favor? Thank you. Uh request permission to approve accounts for all city departments. Last normal accounts. So all in favor? Any opposed, thank you. Uh request approval of emergency fund purchase that were made in response to winter storm fern, which occurred on January 23rd through the 26th, 2026. We still are having a handful of invoices to come through. I think we had a couple this time. This is uh hopefully dwindling down, and we'll be able to uh remove this soon. Perfect. So move second. All in favor? All right. Thank you. Uh May 2026 budget report. Sure.