In a called meeting Tuesday night, the Wilkes County Board of Education agreed to join in the petition to the Judge of the Superior Court to set a temporary tax digest while a number of appraisals are under appeal.

The resolution passed Tuesday night says that the Board of Education will join the Wilkes County Board of Commissioners and the City of Tignall in asking the Judge of the Superior Court of Wilkes County "to approve and set forth" a court order for a temporary tax digest.

The portion of the digest under appeal will be based on 85 percent of the 2007 digest, the resolution proposed.

The resolution said that the Board of Education would keep its 2007 millage rate of 16.75 percent for the purpose of collecting taxes on the temporary digest.

For motor vehicles, mobile homes, and timber tax, the resolution asks that the temporary digest be considered a permanent digest for the remainder of the 2008 calendar year, to be readjusted once a 2008 permanent digest is adopted in 2009.

The resolution also asks that the temporary digest will be considered temporary for real estate for the remainder of the 2008 calendar year and readjusted once a 2008 permanent digest is adopted next year.

Saying that it could be well after the first of the year before a tax digest is adopted, Chairman Ricky Callaway said he had expected that the millage rate would not have changed if the digest didn't change much once everything settled out. The board approved the resolution unanimously.