Category Archives: News

The Pavement Management System is an inventory of the functionally classified, non-state maintained, principal arterial, minor arterial, and collector roadways in the Jackson Urbanized Area. Each year, on a 3 year cyclical basis, District staff complete a reassessment of the pavement conditions for Hinds, Madison, and Rankin Counties by completing roadway condition surveys for each roadway in each of the respective counties.… Read more.

Earlier this summer, a new federal workforce law was enacted. The new law, entitled the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), replaces the Workforce Investment Act and reauthorizes federal workforce and training programs. The law received bi-partisan support in both the House and Senate and passed both with large majorities.… Read more.

Mr. James E. Stirgus, Jr.  Chairman of the District’s Mississippi Small Business Assistance Loan (MSBALP) Review Board, announced the approval of a loan to Fast Fill #4, LLC for $250,000 of a $750,000 project under the Mississippi Small Business Assistance Loan Fund (MSBALP).… Read more.

CMPDD is currently under contract to complete a tax study for both the Jackson and Ridgeland sides of County Line Road.  This study will examine property proposed as part of a Business Improvement District (BID) for County Line Road.  Business owners along County Line Road are interested in creating a BID, much like the one established in Downtown Jackson.… Read more.

Preparation is now underway to develop an update to the 2035 Jackson Urbanized Area Transportation Plan adopted by the Jackson Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) in March 2011.  As the MPO, the District is responsible, along with the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), for conducting a federally-mandated Transportation Planning Process for the Jackson Metropolitan Area.… Read more.

The District was selected by the Simpson County Development Foundation to prepare a Health Care Zone Master Plan for Simpson County. The County’s Health Care Zone will encompass two five-mile radials around Magee General Hospital and Simpson General Hospital in Mendenhall.… Read more.

CMPDD’s Area Agency on Aging will host a Community Health Fair and Scam Jam on May 28 from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at the MS Agriculture Museum’s  Forestry  Auditorium,  1150 Lakeland Drive in Jackson.  Be confi- dent about your health and protect you identity.  … Read more.

CMPDD prepared and submitted a CDBG Economic Development application in the amount of $570,000 to the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) on behalf of  the City of Hazlehurst. Hazlehurst requested financial assistance from MDA to construct sewer system extensions and im- provements to support the relocation of Hardy Wilson Me- morial Hospital to Copiah County.    … Read more.

A draft for the 2015-2019 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) has been prepared by the MPO and is available on the MPO web- site www.cmpdd.org for a 45-day public review and comment period. A public hearing notice has also been published on the MPO website listing the times and locations of several public involvement activities.… Read more.

CMPDD serves as the Metropoli- tan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Jackson Urbanized Area.  An MPO is a federally mandated planning body responsible for transportation planning activities  in  urbanized  areas  and  also for developing and maintaining multiple planning documents, including a Trans- portation Improvement Program (TIP).… Read more.