Cape Girardeau County Commission to talk deed issues with SB40 board

The Cape Girardeau County Commission will hear a request in regard to property deeds from the Cape County Board for Developmentally Disabled at 10 a.m. Thursday. The board, formerly known as the SB40 board, sent the commission a letter Tuesday requesting the commission take no action on accepting or recording deeds submitted to them on behalf of Cape Girardeau Sheltered Workshop, Inc., which does business as VIP Industries Inc., until the board could address the commission. There is currently a question of ownership of two properties that house VIP Industries, a not-for-profit that provides jobs and housing for people with developmental disabilities. At Thursday's meeting the commission had originally approved a motion to have the meeting during a special evening session sometime in early August. Commissioner Jay Purcell said he talked to the board for the developmentally disabled after the meeting and members told him they did not want to wait until August to resolve the issue. Purcell said following his conversation with the board, he placed the meeting on the agenda for Thursday.