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Votes at a glance: Berkeley County Commission actions, March 20, 2025
Summary
Summary of motions and votes taken by the Berkeley County Commission on March 20, 2025, including agenda changes, exonerations, personnel actions, contract awards, reorganization measures and the adoption of the FY2025-26 budget.
At its March 20 meeting the Berkeley County Commission recorded the following formal actions (motions carried unless noted):
- Approval of a modified agenda removing items 5 and 6 from the consent agenda. Motion carried by voice vote.
- Approval of the consent agenda (items not individually read). Motion carried by voice vote.
- Assessor actions: three taxpayer-error personal-property exonerations totaling $365.10; 14 office-error personal-property exonerations totaling $3,217.50; and two real-estate exonerations totaling $95,379.95. Motions to approve each exoneration group carried by voice vote.
- Personnel and status changes presented (new hires and pay-rate corrections) were reported and entered into the record.
- Engineering items (bond release and bond-reduction requests) were included in the agenda materials and presented to the commission as part of the consent process.
- Approval of the planning/engineering/building-inspections reorganization (move Steve Aberegg to code official, promote Debbie Watts, create a deputy director role). Motion carried.
- Approval of the emergency-management reorganization: move two emergency-management employees under Emergency Communications and shift county-paid salary portions to the 9-1-1 fee to free funding for firefighter hires. Motion carried.
- Award of contract for Judicial Center security/reflection film to Jack of All Tents for the full grant amount of $16,875. Motion carried.
- Approval of assignment of the PILOT (payment-in-lieu-of-taxes) agreement for 301 Winchester Avenue LLC (interwoven mills redevelopment) to permit a lender stepping into the borrower’s position in foreclosure to retain PILOT status. Motion carried.
- Adoption of the fiscal year 2025-26 budget: $54,396,403 total; levy rate unchanged at 13.39 mills. Motion carried.
- Approval of State Budget Revision No. 7 to realize $474,446 in past-due and reimbursement funds and allocations: $319,221 to state grants account; $141,526 to contingency; $11,592 to sheriff’s law enforcement; $2,107 to central garage. Motion carried.
All actions listed above were recorded on the meeting record and supported by motions and seconding statements as shown in the transcript. Specific roll-call tallies were not read into the record for most items; votes were recorded by voice as "ayes."
