OFFER TO RECEIVE BIDS FOR
LEASE OF SIXTEENTH
SECTION LAND
The undersigned will receive sealed bids until 2:00 o’clock p.m., Tuesday, July 3, 2012, for the following hunting leases for a period of five (5) years, beginning September 1, 2012 and ending August 31, 2017.
1.    SECTION SIXTEEN,
TOWNSHIP 8, RANGE 3
WEST
That portion of Sixteenth
Section, Township 8, Range 3
West, containing
approximately 604.0 acres,
currently leased to Cox Ferry
Conservation GRP, LLC
2.    SECTION SIXTEEN,
TOWNSHIP 10, RANGE 1
EAST
That portion of Sixteenth
Section, Township 10, Range
1 East, containing
approximately 131.0 acres,
currently leased to James A.
Davis
3.    SECTION SIXTEEN,
TOWNSHIP 10, RANGE 1
WEST
That portion of Sixteenth
Section, Township 10, Range
1 West, containing
approximately 159.0 acres,
currently leased to Mike &
Frank Johnson
4.    SECTION SIXTEEN,
TOWNSHIP 10, RANGE 5
WEST
That portion of Sixteenth
Section, Township 10, Range
5 West,containing
approximately 490.0 acres,
currently leased to Forestaire
Plantation, A Mississippi
General Partnership
5.    SECTION SIXTEEN,
TOWNSHIP 11, RANGE 1
WEST
That portion of Sixteenth
Section, Township 11, Range
1 West,containing
approximately 465.7 acres,
currently leased to David
Berry, III
6.    SECTION SIXTEEN,
TOWNSHIP 11, RANGE 2
EAST
That portion of Sixteenth
Section, Township 11, Range
2 East,containing
approximately 595.0 acres,
currently leased to Dr. Walter
Burnett
7.    SECTION SIXTEEN,
TOWNSHIP 11, RANGE 4
WEST
That portion of Sixteenth
Section, Township 11, Range
4 West,containing
approximately 640.0 acres,
currently leased to U.S. Fish
& Wildlife Service
8.    SECTION SIXTEEN,
TOWNSHIP 11, RANGE 5
WEST
That portion of Sixteenth
Section, Township 11, Range
5 West, containing
approximately 78.5 acres not
currently leased
9.    SECTION SIXTEEN,
TOWNSHIP 12, RANGE 1
EAST    
That portion of Sixteenth
Section, Township 12, Range
1 East containing
approximately 372.7 acres,
currently leased to Rusty
Odom
10.    SECTION SIXTEEN,
TOWNSHIP 12, RANGE 2
EAST
That portion of Sixteenth
Section, Township 12, Range
2 East, containing
approximately 397.10 acres,
currently leased to Pete
Pingrey/Peter Pingrey
11.    SECTION TWENTY-THREE,
TOWNSHIP 11, RANGE 2
WEST
That portion of Twenty-Three
Section, Township 11, Range
2 West, containing
approximately 160.0 acres,
currently leased to Rick
Williams
NOTE:    By order of the Board of
Education, advance
payment of lease and
certification of
Insurability will be             required on all leases,
due upon execution of
Contract. (within fifteen
days of awarding lease)
5% of bid amount will
be made payable in the
form of cashier’s check
or money order at the
time of bid.
(Refundable if bid not
successful)  A security
deposit in the amount
of 1 year’s tax will be
paid at the execution of
the Contract.  An $8.00
per acre minimum is
required for the bid to
be valid.
The County Board of Education reserves the right to execute timber deeds; oil, gas and mineral leases; and deed for rights of way serving power, gas, telephone lines and public roads.    
All leases will be subject to the laws of Mississippi regarding the use of timber upon Sixteenth Section lands.
Lessees will be required to indemnify and hold harmless Lessor from any and all damages, claims or rights of action of any kind or nature whatsoever arising out of any acts of Lessees, their agents, servants, employees, guests or invitees, in the exercise of the rights granted in said lease.  Lessee will also be required to procure general liability insurance in an amount to be determined by Lessor which will name Lessor as an insured under said policy or policies to protect Lessor from any and all damages or claims arising out of Lessees acts in the exercise of the rights granted under said lease.
Bid forms shall be secured from the Office of the County Superintendent of Education.  All bids are required to be submitted on such form.
Each bidder must satisfy the Board of Education as to his ability to comply with  the term of his bid.
The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive informalities.
By order of the Board of Education of Yazoo County, Mississippi, this 5 day of June, 2012.
YAZOO COUNTY BOARD OF
EDUCATION
By:  Larry Walls, President
By:  Rebecca Fisher
County Superintendent of
Education
No. 282    (June 9, 16, 23 & 23, 2012)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO
SELL SURPLUS PROPERTY
TAKE NOTICE that Yazoo County, Mississippi is offering for sale to
the highest bidder the following equipment: 5 Caterpillar motor graders,6 Case backhoes, 12 International dump trucks, and 2 Mack tractor trailer trucks.  Yazoo County shall sell each type of equipment in a single batch to the individual or entity who submits the highest sealed bid for such property.  All members of the public, as well as any interested businesses, are invited to submit bids for said property.  All such bids must be submitted under seal to the Chancery Clerk of Yazoo County, 211 East Broadway, Yazoo City, Mississippi, by no later than 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 28, 2012.  All bids which are submitted under seal by this deadline will be opened and considered by the Yazoo County Board of Supervisors on
2:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 28, 2012, in the Yazoo County Board of Supervisors Meeting Room located at 211 East Broadway, Yazoo City, Mississippi.  The County reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
Specifications for the property being offered for sale in this notice may be obtained from the office of the Yazoo County Administrator, 211 East Broadway, Yazoo City, Mississippi.
/s/ Quint Carver
Yazoo County
Chancery Clerk
No. 286 (June 13, 16 20 & 23, 2012)

NOTICE  TO BIDDERS
Notice is hereby given that the Yazoo County Board of Education will receive sealed bids until 2:00 o’clock p.m., June 22, 2012, in the office of the County Superintendent of Education and award June 26, 2012 for the following:
• PROPANE GAS. BIDS WILL BE FIRM FOR A TWELVE (12) MONTH PERIOD, EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2012 TO JUNE 30, 2013.
The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
This the 24th day of May, 2012.
Yazoo County Board of
Education
By: Larry Walls, President
By: Rebecca Fisher
County Superintendent of
Education
No. 293 ( June 16 and June 23, 2012)
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON BUDGET
A public hearing as required by law will be conducted by the Yazoo County School Board on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, prior to the Recessed Board Meeting.  The purpose of the hearing is to give the citizens of the Yazoo County School District an opportunity to comment on the expenditures and taxing plans of the district.  Items to be discussed are the District’s Budget, Special Education Funding, Preschool Funding as well as Federal Program Funding for Fiscal Year 2013.
The meeting will be held at the Courthouse Annex in the Boardroom of the Yazoo County Board of Supervisor’s Office.  The hearing will begin at 6:00 p.m.
No. 294 ( June 16 and June 23, 2012)

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF YAZOO COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
RAMSEY HOLDINGS, LLC                                                        PLAINTIFF
VS                                                                                                        
CIVIL ACTION FILE NO. 12-0076
ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE INTEREST IN THOSE LANDS SITUATED IN YAZOO
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI HEREINAFTER DESCRIBED                                                                                          
DEFENDANTS
SUMMONS
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE INTEREST IN THOSE LANDS SITUATED IN YAZOO COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
A parcel or tract of land containing 8.468 acres (368,855.85 sq. ft.), more or less, lying and being situated in the NE 1/4 and the NW 1/4 of Section 34, T12N-R2W, Yazoo County, Mississippi, and being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at the NW corner of the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4, Section 34, T12N-R2W, Yazoo County, Mississippi, said point also lying at the NW corner of Tract 2 of the Ramsey Holdings, LLC, property as described in Deed Book 309-A at Page 145 of the Records of the Office of the Chancery Clerk of said Yazoo County, at Yazoo City, Mississippi; run thence East along the Northerly boundary of said Tract 2 of said Ramsey Holdings, LLC property for a distance of 321.90 feet to an iron pin at the NE corner, thereof, said point also lying on the Westerly boundary of the Genevieve McBee Barbour Living Trust property as described in Deed Book 282-A at Page 688 of the Records of said Yazoo County, Mississippi; thence Along the Westerly boundary of said Genevieve McBee Barbour Living Trust property to iron pins at each of the following calls; South 13 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West for a distance of 109.50 feet; thence South 01 degrees 15 minutes 00 seconds East for a distance of 71.00 feet; thence South 23 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East for a distance of 39.20 feet; thence South 48 degrees 10 minutes 00 seconds East for a distance of 35.00 feet to the SW corner, thereof, said point also lying on the Easterly boundary of the above referenced Tract 2 of the Ramsey Holdings, LLC, property; thence Leaving the Westerly boundary of the said Genevieve McBee Barbour Living Trust property, run along the Easterly boundary of said Tract 2 of said Ramsey Holdings, LLC property, to iron pins at each of the following calls; South 17 degrees 43 minutes 00 seconds West for a distance of 366.72 feet; thence South 32 degrees 20 minutes 00 seconds West for a distance of 301.33 feet; thence South 58 degrees 16 minutes 00 seconds West for a distance of 67.50 feet; thence West for a distance of 10.04 feet, more or less, to the SW corner, thereof; thence Leaving the boundary of said Tract 2 of said Ramsey Holdings, LLC property, run South for a distance of 3.46 feet to an iron pin, said point lying 880.00 feet (13 1/3 chains) South of the NW corner of the NW ¼ of the NE ¼ of said Section 34, T12N-R2W, said point also being and lying at the NE corner of a certain “11 acre tract” described in Deed Book EM at Page 543 of the Records of said Yazoo County, Mississippi; thence West along the Northerly boundary of said “11 acre tract” for a distance of 105.81 feet to an iron pin lying on the Easterly Right-Of-Way of Mississippi Highway No. 49 East (State Project No. SP-0008-4(41)), as it existed in March, 2012; thence Leaving the Northerly boundary of said “11 acre tract”, run along the Easterly Right-Of-Way of said Mississippi Highway No. 49 East to points at each of the following calls; North 10 degrees 05 minutes 47 seconds West for a distance of 442.21 feet to a concrete monument, said point lying at Station 159+47.7 of said Mississippi Highway No. 49 East; thence North 79 degrees 54 minutes 13 seconds East for a distance of 10.00 feet to a iron pin, said point lying at said Station 159+47.7 of said Mississippi Highway No. 49 East; thence North 10 degrees 05 minutes 47 seconds West for a distance of 449.85 feet to an iron pin at the intersection of the Easterly Right-Of-Way of said U.S. Highway No. 49 East and the Northerly boundary of the NW ¼ of said Section 34, T12N-R2W, said point also lying at the NW corner of Tract 10 of the above referenced Ramsey Holdings, LLC property as described in Deed Book 309-A at Page 145 of the Records of said Yazoo County, Mississippi; thence Leaving the Easterly Right-Of-Way of said Mississippi Highway No. 49 East, run East along the Northerly boundary of said Tract 10 of said Ramsey Holdings, LLC property for a distance of 252.35 feet, more or less, to the POINT OF BEGINNING of the above described parcel or tract of land.
You have been made a Respondent in the hereinafter mentioned petition filed in this Court by Ramsey Holdings, LLC. Respondent(s) other than you in this action are, None.
You are summoned to appear and defend against said petition  at 1:30 O'Clock P. M. on the    23rd      day of August, 2012, in the Holmes County Courthouse, 1 Courthouse Square, Lexington, Mississippi 39095, and then and there to show cause, if any you can, why the Complaint To Confirm Title filed in this cause by Ramsey Holdings, LLC, and exhibited against you should not be allowed and approved and the relief demanded therein granted.
Issued under my hand and the seal of said Court, this 11th day of June, 2012.
(S E A L)
QUINT CARVER,
CLERK OF THE CHANCERY
COURT OF YAZOO COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
211 East Broadway
P. O. Box 68
Yazoo City, Mississippi 39194
By: April L. Adams
APRIL L. ADAMS                            
Deputy Clerk
No. 295 (June 16, 23, & 30, 2012)

NOTICE OF PROPOSED AD
VALOREM TAX EFFORT
YAZOO COUNTY SCHOOL
DISTRCT
The Yazoo County School District will hold a public hearing on its proposed school district budget for fiscal 2013 on June 26, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at the Courthouse Annex in the Boardroom of the Yazoo County Board of Supervisors office. At this meeting, a proposed ad valorem tax effort will be considered.
The Yazoo County School District is now operating with a projected total budget revenue of $17,146,585.38. Of that amount, 29 percent or $4,951,829.00 of such revenue is obtained through ad valorem taxes. For next fiscal year, the proposed budget has total projected revenue of $17,054,916.98. Of that amount, 29 percent or $5,008,354.00 is proposed to be financed through a total ad valorem tax levy.
For the next fiscal year, the proposed increase in ad valorem tax effort by the Yazoo County School District may result in an increase in the ad valorem tax millage rate. Ad valorem taxes are paid on homes, automobiles tags, business fixtures and equipment, and rental real property.
Any citizen of the Yazoo County School District is invited to attend this public hearing on the proposed ad valorem tax effort, and will be allowed to speak for a reasonable amount of time and offer tangible evidence before any vote is taken.
The school board of the school district, after the hearing has been held in accordance with the above procedures, may adopt an order requesting the levying of an ad valorem tax effort in dollars in excess of the certified tax rate. If such order is not adopted on the day of the public hearing, the scheduled date, time and place for consideration and adoption of the order shall be announced at the public hearing.
All hearings shall be open to the public. The school board of the school district shall permit all interested parties desiring to be heard an opportunity to present oral testimony within reasonable time limits and offer tangible evidence.
Each school board of a school district shall notify the taxing entity of the date, time and place of its public hearing. No school board of a school district my schedule its hearing at the same time as another overlapping school district in the same county.
No. 297 (June 16,  & June 23, 2012)