Administrative and legal business occupied the commission's agenda before it recessed into executive session.

S1 (Ally) reported approval of accounts payable in the amount of $21,444,459.19 for payment periods Nov. 5 and Nov. 12, 2025. The commission also approved a payroll docket for the Nov. 1–15, 2025 period not to exceed $5,000,000 plus statutory withholdings and authorized ratification of commissioners' and the executive director's salaries and expenses for those periods. Staff requested authority to requisition funds from the Lawrie proceeds fund administered by the Department of Finance and Administration for Lawrie projects and presented an auditing services contract with the state auditor and DMSS advisors for up to $25,000 through June 30, 2026.

Other administrative approvals included authorizing janitorial service agreements for the Macomb headquarters and the Gulf Coast Regional Complex (with stated annual caps), terminating a rental agreement effective 12/31/2025, and requesting authority to extend agency contracts pending DFA approval.

In legal business, S9 (Judy) presented contract transfer requests caused by asset purchases (WSP USA acquiring certain contracts previously held by Wood Environment and CONSOR North America acquiring CONSOR Engineers LLC contracts) and an item authorizing the office of the attorney general to commence legal proceedings against Pull Apart of Jackson LLC to remove encroachments from the right‑of‑way on I‑55 South in Hinds County. S9 asked to add a personnel matter to the request for executive session to discuss settlement of a workers' compensation matter and a personnel matter as permitted by section 25‑41‑7 of the Mississippi Code. Commissioners had no objection; S4 moved and S3 (Commissioner Busby) seconded the motion to go into executive session, which carried. The meeting recessed briefly before the executive session.