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The Boone County Commission is likely to decide this month whether to move an Operation Desert Storm memorial from public courthouse land to a private cemetery.

The memorial includes a small ichthus, sometimes called a "Jesus fish." The commission has wrestled with the issue since the Americans United for Separation of Church and State threatened in June 2014 to take legal action against governments that allow religious symbols on public property.

Boone County Joint Communications Director Scott Shelton resigned on  June 15, according to a news release issued by the Boone County Commission.

The City of Columbia website describes the Director of Boone County Joint Communications as responsible for supervising operation of the county-wide 911 emergency dispatch system.

One of the propositions on Tuesday's ballot is Proposition EPIC, or the Economy, Parks and Investing in Community Proposition. It's an eighth of a cent sales tax in Boone County that would begin Jan. 1, 2015 and would end in 2020.