Kirksville Daily Express
The Adair County Commission has added a quarter-cent sales tax proposal onto the April 6 ballot, which, if approved, would fund repairs of the courthouse.
Mark Shahan, the presiding county commissioner, said they had an assessment done last year to get the scope of what fixes are needed.
“We’ve identified plumbing problems, electrical needs upgraded, HVAC, the building’s leaking water from the outside to the inside through the sandstone, the roof needs replaced and the gutters need work,” Shahan said. “So it’s a substantial sum. With this engineering group, we did that assessment and determined it was more than what we can handle here, so we need to ask voters for a sales tax to help us get this work done now.”