With the approval of both the building and budget committees, the full Baxter County Quorum Court will consider the purchase of a building located at 2 Seventh Street on the southside of the courthouse square during Tuesday evenings regular monthly meeting.
As KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot news reported earlier, Baxter County Judge Mickey Pendergrass said the owner of the building, Kent Graham, has offered the property to the county for $135,000. The structure is connected to the County Assessors Office, with the two sharing a common roof.
Judge Pendergrass said the vacant building the county is seeking to purchase is assessed at $273,900. He said the immediate plans are to utilize the site for storage of records now housed at the former Arkansas State University-Mountain Home campus now owned by the county and what was once the First Baptist Church.
The quorum court will be asked to transfer $135,000 plus closing costs from the hospital lease fund line item into the county general line item for the building purchase.
In other business, the quorum court will consider an ordinance approving a new full-time employee with the prosecuting attorneys office. Updated information provided Tuesday morning indicates the new position was approved by both the budget and personnel committees. Prosecuting Attorney David Ethredge asked the committees to modify a part-time hot check coordinator position into a full-time victim/witness coordinator slot. The position would be funded for the remainder of the year from funds transferred form the animal control budget. Beginning in 2019, the position would be funded from the prosecuting attorney’s salaries full-time budget.
The court will also be asked to appropriate $970,000 from revenue generated from the special one cent sales tax for the expansion of the Baxter County Detention Center.
The meeting will be held in the second floor courtroom of the Baxter County Courthouse.
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