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Votes at a glance: Jones County Board restates five items and suspends employee pending investigation
Summary
After legal counsel advised that earlier votes lacked a valid majority, the Jones County Board of Tax Assessors restated five items and approved a suspension of employee Kim Adams with pay through Dec. 5, pending an investigation.
At the meeting the Jones County Board of Tax Assessors restated five items after legal counsel advised that earlier hand-raise votes had been recorded when only two members had raised hands and therefore might not meet majority requirements for a total authorized board of three to five members.
The board subsequently took the following actions by hand vote (individual named vote tallies were not recorded in the transcript):
1) Approved the day’s agenda (motion carried by hand raise; mover not specified in the transcript).
2) Approved the minutes from the Nov. 7, 2024, regular and executive sessions (motion carried by hand raise; mover not specified).
3) Approved an update to the Board of Tax Assessors policies and procedures manual to impose a 2-minute limit for each taxpayer to address the board (motion carried by hand raise).
4) Approved four VA homestead exemptions (details of the properties not specified on the record).
5) Approved entering executive session to address personnel matters and later approved returning to regular session (executive session details were not disclosed on the record).
6) Approved a motion to suspend employee Kim Adams with pay through Dec. 5, 2024, pending further investigation; the motion directed staff to arrange a Nov. 19 meeting to retrieve personal items and required Adams to surrender county keys and identification. Member Sherilyn offered the suspension motion; the transcript does not record a named second for that motion or individual roll-call tallies.
The board’s legal counsel and other participants emphasized that a valid vote depends on a majority of the full board (discussed on record as a total board membership between three and five), prompting the board to re-run those five items so that three members could vote. The transcript records motions and carriage by hand raise but does not include explicit tallies by member name or recorded roll-call votes.
Ending: The board adjourned after restating and re-voting the items. The suspension of Kim Adams remains in effect through Dec. 5 pending investigation; the board set a Nov. 19 retrieval meeting and asked Adams to appear at the Dec. 5 regular meeting for possible further action.
