Ward 5 Jackson City Council Vice President Vernon Hartley during a council meeting at City Hall, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025, in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
A half hour into Jackson’s final budget meeting Wednesday, Councilmember Vernon Hartley wanted to know if — out of the hundreds of millions of dollars the city council was poised to pass in the annual budget — the city could allocate $2.5 million to blight control equipment.
