At least one board member of the Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau will be renominated for another term when the Warren County Board of Supervisors meets Monday.

Following an informal meeting of supervisors Thursday, interim District 2 Supervisor Larry Prentiss confirmed he will renominate Bobby Doyle for a second term.

&#8220He does want to be reappointed, so it’s no issue,” Prentiss said.

The VCVB was established by state law in 1972 and has 11 volunteer board members who help chart tourism in Vicksburg and Warren County and oversee the paid staff of offices on Clay Street at Old Highway 27 and on Washington Street at Clay.

The City of Vicksburg and Warren County each appoint five board members, and one seat alternates. Operations are funded by a 1 percent sales tax collected on local hotel rooms that raises about $850,000 annually.

Doyle is one of two county-appointed VCVB board members whose terms expired July 1 without official renomination. The same law that created VCVB also stipulates that board members serve until they or a replacement is nominated for a new term.

The other county appointee, Jessica Williams, was appointed by District 3 Supervisor Charles Selmon. Selmon expected to make a decision on whether to renominate her Monday.

Informally, supervisors allot appointments one-each to county board members. An unspoken rule is the others will endorse the selection each supervisor makes. Vicksburg officials select board members by vote of the Mayor and Aldermen.

The discussion of reappointment comes amid tumult on the VCVB board. An Oct. 24 meeting ended with four board members walking out, disagreeing over a host of issues including the executive directorship of the board.

Selmon said he was holding off on a decision to renominate Williams due to an atmosphere on the board he termed &#8220political.”

&#8220Any time a board starts getting political, it’s not good. Right now, it is a political board,” Selmon said.

District 4 Supervisor Carl Flanders then pressed Selmon to consider the opinions of all board members when supervisors make their selections. Selmon had a quick reply.

&#8220I don’t think anyone has a problem with board appointments except for you,” he said. &#8220If you have a problem with them, just vote against it. Real simple.”

Additionally, County Administrator John Smith told supervisors he was leaning against serving on a citizen committee to look into the feasibility of having Compass Facilities Management, which contracts with Vicksburg to manage the Vicksburg Convention Center and Vicksburg Auditorium, assume operations of VCVB. Smith said he was asked by the Alliance Tourism Council, which heard a resolution to that effect by some local tourism business owners at its meeting Oct. 27.

Supervisors asked Smith of the nature of the committee, with all of them advising against his participation if he had any misgivings.

&#8220It’s a review committee to justify why Compass needs to be selected,” Smith said.

In other business, supervisors heard from Raymond Joyner of the Natural Resources Conservation Service about seven emergency watershed sites approved for federal matching funds.

Sites include Dillon Ridge Road near Rawhide Road, Dana Road near Deerfield subdivision and Walnut Circle off Nailor Road.

The board plans to approve the projects Monday and the county’s 15 percent funding match plus engineering costs. Supervisors agreed to pay that total, $134,356, out of the gaming fund.