Edgefield County council approves budget line transfers, server and vehicle purchases; historic‑property review authority moved to archives on first reading

Edgefield County Council approved a package of administrative and budget actions at its March 4, 2025, meeting, including transfers of existing funds to address county building maintenance and equipment needs, and gave first reading to an ordinance moving administration of a historic‑property rehabilitation tax program to the county archives.

Council voted unanimously to transfer $250,000 of interest earnings from a county fund to pay maintenance and repairs in buildings that will be vacated when the sheriff’s and magistrate’s offices move to the new law enforcement center. The council discussion, led by the county administrator, listed likely repairs: adding a required rear exit at the annex (per the county’s insurer), replacing an upstairs HVAC unit, repairing a sinking…