A community town hall meeting will be held Tuesday to explain the details of the upcoming ballot initiative to create a 1 percent local retail sales tax in Mathews County to benefit school capital needs. The meeting will be held in the Brooks Auditorium at the Thomas Hunter Education Center on Church Street, beginning at 6 p.m. According to the measure on the November ballot, the 1 percent tax, if enacted, would “expire upon repayment of all bonds or loans issued for the construction or renovation of schools, or, in the alternative, for capital projects not funded by bonds or loans, the tax shall expire no later than July 1, 2046, in order to provide funds for capital projects for the construction and renovation of Mathews Public Schools.” The tax is expected to generate approximately $1 million annually and would be restricted to paying for either new school construction or major school renovations. According to County Attorney Andrea Erard, it could also be used to pay down the schoo...