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4The board voted to create a committee to oversee the operations and services of the city’s new information technology department. Dillard and Fields were appointed as members.

4Gray expressed a level of personal anxiety about recent crime in the city.

“I am concerned about black-on-black crime,” he said. “I am going to ask my sisters and brothers to stop the crime on each other.

“I am begging you to stop the crime in our community.”

4The board voted to authorize Nix to contact the Mississippi Department of Archives and History about possible grant funds that could be used to repair the stage at Margaret Martin Performing Arts Center.