Board attorney resigns

Tacey Clark Locke, attorney for the Marshall County Board of Supervisors, tendered her resignation last week. She will continue to serve the board until the end of May and finish any litigation she is working on for the county.

Locke, who recently married and moved her office to Corinth, said leaving is something she thought long and hard about, but she looks forward to spending her weekends with family and travelling, which had been severely curtailed since she took the board attorney position with Marshall County.

“I spent a lot of my Sundays preparing for the board meetings on Monday and Tuesdays which took me away from my wonderful husband and child,” she said.

Locke said she asked to leave two months ago but the board did not accept her resignation.

“I love Marshall County and most of the supervisors and people I’ve worked with over there have been wonderful to me,” she said. “They have been with me through my ups and downs and are like family to me. I debated it a long time with much, much regret.”

“I do work for other boards and handle litigation matters with school boards and other matters,” she said. “My clientele has been faithful.”

Locke said her decision to leave had nothing to do with politics and was strictly for personal reasons including her marriage and move to Iuka to live.

“I can’t express enough my thanks for the wonderful opportunity this board has given me,” she told supervisors at the April 2 meeting in announcing her resignation.

Supervisors Willie Flemon and George Zinn III voted not to accept Locke’s resignation, while the others voted to accept it.

“From the time I’ve been on the board, I’ve observed the service Ms. Tacey provided, which is nothing short of good or perfect,” Zinn said. “She went the extra mile and had the best interest of the county at heart. I’m totally opposed to her going.”

Zinn said the board has been pressured to hire an attorney who resides in the county.

“I feel her service outweighed the fact she’s not a resident of the county,” he said.

renewed the county’s health insurance plan with Craft and Wynne Insurance Agency. The county is seeing a 7 percent savings on insurance premiums in the new contract or saving about $6,806 a month.
approved an advertisement of county resources with Supervisors magazine.
authorized bids for hotmix, asphalt and equipment.
discussed purchase of three storage sheds to be used to keep toys at three Head Start centers.

Supervisor Keith Taylor pressed for the board to find the $3,000 to purchase the 8’ X 8’ storage sheds for the playgrounds at Byhalia, Holly Springs and Mt. Pleasant. The legislature approved local and private legislation for the expenditure, he said.

But the rest of the board argued that there is no money in the budget for it and is having a hard time finding money for several other good and reasonable requests including the Marshall County birthday celebration on September 8.

“I want to wait and give the zoning board a $60 raise,” he said. “If we can’t do for one, we don’t do for another.”

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