Warren County appears ready to act on a vote earlier this year to demolish the old justice court and a neighboring building on Adams Street whether preservationists and Vicksburg officials like it or not.

Fresh off hearing a request to the city Board of Architectural Review to extend the time to refurbish buildings at 1015-19 Adams St. was tabled, Board President Bill Lauderdale pledged on Monday not to show up at the city board’s meeting Aug. 4 to talk more about the issue.

“I noticed back to (city attorney) Nancy Thomas that we’re in session that day and that I could not appear before the city board to discuss our plan for the old houses,” he said.

Between items during a budget meeting Monday, Lauderdale and District 5 Supervisor Richard George spoke nearly at the same time about the county’s intent to raze the structures, mainly to create more parking for courthouse business.

“We don’t have a plan for rehabilitation, we have a plan for demolition,” George said.

City and county boards meet on the first Monday morning of each month. They begin just one hour apart, with the county’s at 9 a.m. and the city’s at 10 a.m. The county’s meeting on Aug. 4 is expected to be followed by a public hearing to air formal objections to values placed on recently approved land rolls for 2015 property tax purposes. The hearing usually takes place on the first Monday in August.

Built in the 1870s as a house, the brick, yellow-trimmed former courthouse at 1019 Adams St. was once a law office of John Prewitt before he became a circuit judge. The county bought the building in 1984 to be home to its three justice court districts. The judges were moved to 921 Farmer St. in 2002, and the building became a storage bin.

The smaller house was built in the 1890s and was home to Verhine & Verhine law firm from 1991 to 2012, according to city directories.

Both structures are in the city’s historic preservation district, where the review board enforces ordinances governing construction, alteration and demolition. In April, the panel denied the county’s request to demolish the buildings and took the county to task for not maintaining them. In 2004 and 2005, the panel had issued three 180-day stays of demolition as it waited for a plan of action by the county to renovate, sell, lease or raze the buildings.

Mayor George Flaggs Jr. said Friday he wanted to meet with the county on the topic, though he expressed frustration the county was not following city codes like other building owners in the district are expected to do.