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James Island council votes to end PSD cost‑sharing; reallocates funds to town projects
Summary
Councilman Dan Bowles told the neighborhood council the town voted 4‑1 to authorize the mayor to terminate cost‑sharing agreements with the Public Service District; council also approved park access for Cub Scout Pack 50 and held several other routine votes.
Councilman Dan Bowles said the James Island Town Council voted 4‑1 to authorize the mayor to terminate the town's cost‑sharing agreements with the Public Service District (PSD), a change he said will shift roughly $1.3 million a year from the PSD subsidy into town projects and services.
The vote came after a public hearing and extended public comment on the agreements, Bowles told the James Island Neighborhood Council on Monday. “We voted this year not to do that,” Bowles said, referring to continued payments to the PSD.
The change, Bowles said, means the town will no longer pay the subsidy that had been provided from local option sales tax revenue. “By and large, everything that we do is funded by the local option sales tax,” he said, and he estimated the…
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