Lawmakers offer little hope oversight panel will be removed
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Jackson leaders want the Legislature to help pay for $400 million in federally mandated sewer repairs recently thrust upon the city.
But it doesn’t look like the assistance will come in the form city officials like Mayor Harvey Johnson want.
Northside lawmakers are split on whether to remove an oversight panel that would determine how Jackson could use the revenue generated by a local-option one-cent sales tax.






