NATCHEZ — The Natchez-Adams County Recreation Commission will meet with local officials this evening for the latest round of discussion about the proposed recreation project.

The meeting will be 5:30 p.m. at the Natchez Convention Center.

NACRC Chairman Tate Hobdy said the meeting will be to update the Adams County Board of Supervisors, the Natchez aldermen and the Natchez-Adams School Board about where the project stands.

“It has been a while since we did the presentation, and we have some new faces on the boards,” Hobdy said. “We want to update those folks and get them up to speed.”

The NACRC chair said the three stakeholder boards will be asked to appoint an ex officio member to the committee to help improve communication.

The meeting is also to get the three boards talking about recreation.

“The last part (of the meeting) is to facilitate them to have a conversation between the three of (the boards),” Hobdy said.

“At the end of the day, the three of them are to implement (the recreation plan).”

Board of supervisors’ President Darryl Grennell said it has been almost a year since all of the boards sat down collectively and talked about the issues, and that it is long overdue.

“The thing I am hoping (today) is that we will have some sense of direction in terms of what each body will do,” Grennell said. “We will know what (the plan) is, what role we will play in the development and the operation of the proposed recreational complex, we will know what steps we need to take as a board of supervisors in order to get that ball rolling.

NASD School Board President Wayne Barnett said talks of a recreation complex have been going on for years, and that tonight he is going to hear the commission’s recommendations.

“What we expect is to listen to see where we are on developing the recreation complex here in Adams County and what the school district is going to do, what the board of supervisors and city of Natchez is going to do,” he said.

Natchez Mayor Jake Middleton said he views this meeting as a re-kickoff of the project after a few quiet months.

“We want to get what everybody is thinking and feeling, and move this thing forward,” he said.

The conversation that needs to be had next is what will be done about financing, Middleton said.

“We need to look at how we are going to fund it,” he said.

“We have to say, ‘We put a million dollars a year into recreation — are we going to continue to do that?’”

Once a recreation plan is in place, it should be easy to project how much it will cost to operate based on similar recreation complexes in cities of similar sizes, Middleton said.

“It is almost like doing a budget — you don’t really know, you are just forecasting,” he said. “We have plenty of folks around here who have the recreation know-how who can figure out how much it will cost to operate it.”