Afew years ago, Adams County supervisors set out to shine a little sun at the Natchez-Adams County Port.

Last week rays of that sunshine hit the mark as the county approved the port’s budget for the next fiscal year that begins Sunday.

The county-owned port facility had largely been left to its own devices without much scrutiny for a number of years.

County supervisors first sought the attention of the port commissioners. When those requested seemed to fall flat, supervisors discovered that they could effectively appoint themselves to the commission. They began attending port commission meetings and asking questions.

Eventually new port commissioners — seemingly more attentive to the supervisors’ plea for information and efficiency were appointed.

Over the last two weeks the logic and experience of port operations gained by supervisors and county administrator Joe Murray paid off when the county officials began questioning the port’s planned budget.

Despite projecting enormous revenue losses due to a large customer’s business cutbacks the port was astonishingly planning pay raises for employees after giving those same employees 5-percent pay raises last year and 10-percent raises the year prior.

Fortunately, after being questioned the port changed its plans for the current fiscal year.

Supervisors should continue to spread sunshine around the various dark corners of county government. In doing so, they can press the port — and all other county operations — to work hard at being the best at what they can be, but also to be among the most efficient as well.