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Berkeley County committee approves intergovernmental agreement with Goose Creek for municipal road maintenance; council members flag funding and long‑term risk
Summary
The operations committee approved an intergovernmental agreement with the City of Goose Creek that lets the county accept municipal roads for maintenance if funding is available from the county’s 1¢ sales tax program; members debated funding conditionality, exit clauses and whether the county could be obligated to maintain future municipal roads.
Berkeley County’s Operations Committee approved an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with the City of Goose Creek that establishes how the county will maintain roads developed inside Goose Creek’s municipal boundaries, during the committee meeting on May 27, 2025.
The IGA treats roads built inside Goose Creek as municipal roads; the county will accept maintenance responsibility only if funding is available from the county’s 1¢ sales tax program. The agreement removes bonding as a permitted default for developers, requires infrastructure to be built to county…
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