NATCHEZ — Members of the Adams County Board of Supervisors made suggestions Monday for changes they thought necessary to the proposed interlocal agreement that would combine the county and City of Natchez’s recreation efforts.

The Natchez Board of Aldermen agreed in principle last week to hand over the city’s recreation program to the Natchez-Adams County Recreation Commission, which is in talks with the YMCA for the further development of a plan.

The supervisors — who have taken a similar vote in the past — reviewed Monday the tentative agreement and offered their suggestions to tweak it. Many of the suggestions were practical in nature rather than the at-times heated discussions that have plagued the recreation effort for years.

Supervisor David Carter said the draft of the agreement before the supervisors needs to have a clause requiring an annual audit of the recreation commission, something board attorney Scott Slover said will be addressed.

Other supervisors suggested bookkeeping requirements needed to be spelled out.

Slover said he thought the county could give the recreation commission the discretion to determine how to do its own bookkeeping, provided it will be done under the state’s open bookkeeping laws and the county is kept aware of how things are being done.

Supervisor Mike Lazarus said he believed the YMCA might be able to do the bookkeeping for all of the operations it oversees if the arrangement works out.

The supervisors likewise asked about a clause in the document that said the county could issue a bond in support of recreation.

Slover said the agreement would not require the issuance of a bond for recreation, but would allow the board to do so if it determined a bond was needed to finance a project.

“I want to leave it in there because, whether you take out a bond or not, it is at our sole discretion,” he said. “This is strictly to reserve our rights.”

A similar concern was raised about a clause that would have the county commit up to $200,000 toward soccer fields. Slover said the clause allowed for that amount but did not require it.

“If we have $125,000 left over, we can use it to add softball fields or something like that,” Supervisor Mike Lazarus said.

The board did not take action to approve the interlocal agreement Monday, with members saying they needed more time to review it.

The board also voted to replace two members of the recreation commission — Leigh Ann Mason and Bubba Kaiser — who have resigned. Jimmy Ware and John Ward Junkin were appointed to fill the empty slots.