Jackson based Southeast Engineering Group probed over Vicksburg Housing
A Jackson engineering firm receiving large checks for years from the Vicksburg Housing Authority will get no more money until housing commissioners determine what services, if any, have been provided.
Commission Chairman Jay Kilroy said Southeast Engineering Group has been unresponsive to requests to meet with commissioners and explain contracts it has handled for nearly a decade with the Good Shepherd Community Center for the VHA’s 10-week summer education program for children who live in public housing.
While Good Shepherd charges $17,146 each year to host and operate the program, Kilroy said Southeast Engineering has been paid nearly three times as much — approximately $37,000 annually — to write up the same four-page contract.
Southeast Engineering has also been paid approximately $3,800 per month to execute a contract for security services at Waltersville Estates with Coffie Enterprises — which charges $4,895 monthly for providing 24-hour gated security at the apartment complex.
And another $14,479 has been paid to the Jackson firm monthly for unspecified “modernization coordinator services,” said Kilroy.
Vicksburg Post
6/18/9
Magnolia Tribune
