NATCHEZ — A property owner on Eagle’s Nest Road is going to get his or her land cleaned, whether he or she wants it or not.

The Adams County Board of Supervisors voted Monday to clean up the site of 48 Eagle’s Nest Road, which neighbors said has become an eyesore and a hazard.

“We have a situation on Eagle’s Nest Road with a mobile home that has been destroyed,” said Nicole Williams, a resident of the area. “It is an eyesore in our neighborhood, and we would like something to be done.”

“The family (of the owner) came in and removed the tin from the outside of it, and debris is blowing into neighbors’ yards.”

Board Attorney Scott Slover said that the county has been unable to contact the property owner.

In situations such as this, the county can clean the property and place the bill on the property tax rolls, Slover said.

The supervisors also voted to place one of two trailers the county recently accepted from Natchez Regional Medical Center at the Providence Playground so a group of local volunteers can use it for an after-school tutoring program.

“I feel like the building will be OK down there,” Supervisor Mike Lazarus said. “(The volunteers) said, ‘If you get us a building down here we will brick it in.’”

Supervisor President Darryl Grennell said the county has not yet found a use for the second trailer, but he would like to see it used for support groups such as Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous.

The supervisors now own the two trailers after the hospital declared they were no longer needed and wanted to take the structures off its inventory. They were previously physician’s offices and a hyperbaric facility.

In other news:

4The supervisors voted to allow the county road department to help the City of Natchez repair the No. 8 hole at Duncan Park, which is threatened by erosion. The county has equipment the city lacks that can be used to correct the problem, Lazarus said.

Grennell instructed Road Manager Robbie Dollar to keep an itemized accounting of the work so the county could reimburse the road department from the general fund for the costs.

This has to be done for non-road work performed by the road department because the department is funded by a special tax millage, Grennell said.

4The supervisors voted to provide fertilizer and fire ant abatement chemicals to a city-county beautification project on John R. Junkin Drive and Liberty Road.

Supervisor David Carter, who is spearheading the beautification project in his capacity as Adams County Extension Service Director, made the motion with one caveat, that the city has to commit to participating in it as well before county funds will be expended.

“We wouldn’t do our part unless they did their’s first,” he said.

4The supervisors voted to place Michael Winn Sr. in the recently vacated District 5 slot on the Natchez-Adams County Port Commission.