The Wilkes County Board of Commissioners adopted a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax 2011 Intergovernmental Agreement which provides for the calling of a sales tax referendum on the November 2, 2010, ballot and addresses the specified uses of the proposed tax.

The formal resolution calling for the referendum is expected to be approved at a called meeting of the Commissioners on July 22 at 2 p.m.

In attendance at the regular July meeting of the Commissioners were Divenski Lee, Ed Geddings, Chairman Sam Moore, and John Howard. Commissioner Jerry Stover was absent because his wife was in an Athens hospital recovering from surgery. Also present at the meeting were County Administrator David Tyler, County Attorney Charles LeGette, and a number of visitors.

Chairman Moore reported that courthouse renovations were proceeding as planned and that the roofs are about 90 percent complete. Most of the windows, he said, have been installed with the exception of the west side of the building and some of the odd-sized windows. The steps on the east side of the building are almost complete as well.

“Everything is moving along well,” Moore said.

The commissioners made a number of routine appointments to various county boards and authorities including the following:

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 Harris Blackmon, Dr. Bill Robinson, and Jerry Stover were reappointed to the Wilkes County Airport Commission.

 Marie Drinkard was appointed to continue serving on the board of the Department of Family and Children Services.

 Debbie Lindsey was reappointed to the Mary Willis Library board.

 Horace Jordan, Cindy Bounds, Annie Williams, and Bertha Sims were reappointed to the Senior Center Advisory Board contingent on concurrence by the City of Washington.

In other business:

 Tyler reported that Local Option Sales Tax in the amount of $58,406.89 had been received for the month of April and that $89,857.08 in Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax had also been received.

 Moore announced that a regional meeting was scheduled to be held in Evans on July 14 for the purpose of discussing a regional sales tax to be used for road improvements.

 EMS Director Blake Thompson reported that his department had been busy during the month.

The next regular meeting of the Wilkes County Board of Commissioners will be held on Thursday, August 12, at 2 p.m. with a work session beginning one hour earlier in the chairman’s office.