Ferriday considering annexation of properties – Mississippi’s Best Community Newspaper

FERRIDAY, La. —The City of Ferriday is contemplating whether or not or to not increase its metropolis limits close to Ridgecrest.

City of Ferriday lawyer Philip Letard requested the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to kind a committee to think about annexing properties round Ferriday throughout a Tuesday assembly.

This committee would assist the board resolve whether or not or to not annex and the place to annex.

“I’m not in a position to make selections. That’s not my job. I would really like the board to kind a committee to assist me with this annexation,” Letard stated. “We’ve acquired items of land that we wish to annex. I need the board to assist me make the choice of what to supply to the board typically relating to what elements we wish to annex, how a lot it’s going to price and do we actually wish to do that.”

Ritchie Montgomery, an actor with 182 movie credit to his identify, lives in Natchez however he and his household personal property between Ferriday and Ridgecrest on Maple Bend Circle east of the brand new Trinity Medical Heart.

Montgomery spoke to the board Tuesday and stated he would really like for the city to annex his household’s land.

“I feel all of us would benefit from the annexation of our properties there to assist with utilities and taxes,” Montgomery stated.

Letard added, “We all know that we’re going to get people who find themselves towards this. There’s going to be individuals with in depth property they usually’re not going to wish to pay taxes and never going to wish to be part of our metropolis, however Ritchie’s individuals wish to be. They sit up for the chance. They’re adjoining to Ridgecrest and we don’t need them to be part of Ridgecrest. We would like them to be part of Ferriday. There are individuals on the market who do need this and sit up for being part of our neighborhood if we will work out how to do that and the way we will afford to do it.”