Board of Commissioners

Board of Commissioners. The Yazoo Mississippi Delta Joint Water Management District is an agency of the State of Mississippi created pursuant to the Joint Water Management Districts Law, Title 51, Chapter 8 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, as amended. The District is composed of seventeen member counties: Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, DeSoto, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Panola, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tunica, Washington, and Yazoo. The District is governed by a Board of Commissioners organized pursuant to the provisions of Section 51-8-21, Mississippi Code of 1972, as amended. The Board of Commissioners is made up of at least one representative from each member county, to be appointed by the Board of Supervisors of each such county; provided each member county shall be entitled to one representative for every $100,000,000, or fraction thereof in excess of $100,000,000, in total assessed valuation, based upon such valuation for the immediately preceding tax year. The District’s Board of Commissioners is vested with all powers afforded to it by the provisions of the Joint Water Management Districts Law, Title 51, Chapter 8 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, as amended, and those specific power enumerated in its Charter. The District employs an Executive Director who is in charge of the routine operation of the business of the District.