James Island neighborhood council approves weekly bridal study at Pinkney Park; discusses vac truck procurement and condemnation lawsuit

At a James Island Neighborhood Council meeting, members voted 4-0 to open Pinkney Park for a weekly bridal study and heard updates on public safety and public-works equipment trials, council co-chair Bill Lyon said during the meeting update.

The vote to open Pinkney Park for a weekly bridal study was unanimous, and council members also approved three new appointments to the neighborhood council: Maggie Little, Sandrin Camparo and Wendy Teal. Dan Boles, who gave the town-council update, said the three were “unanimously appointed.”

The meeting included a patrol update from the Island Sheriff’s Patrol. “They've been chasing a lot of dirt bikes around lately,” Sean James told the council, describing off-road vehicles moving between neighborhoods and easements.

Public-works staff demonstrated a vacuum truck on the island and told the council a company would return with a smaller model that staff said would not require a commercial driver’s license to operate. Council members reported the town is “shopping and looking at procuring our own vac truck” for stormwater-related work; no procurement motion or vote was recorded at the meeting.

Boles said the council met in executive session to discuss an ongoing legal matter: the town is being sued over the condemned Dills Bluff property behind the Dollar General store. “We met in executive session to discuss the town being sued, you know, with the Dills Bluff property that we condemned,” he said. No further public action or vote related to the lawsuit was reported during the meeting.

Lyon and others noted a flagpole display on Folly Road, built with longtime volunteer effort by Troy, and said a commemoration for that display took place the same day. The council also reviewed financial reports and recorded no particular issues.

Dan Boles encouraged residents to attend town-council meetings and public comment periods. “I really wish more people would come and talk to us in the beginning,” he said, noting public comment at recent meetings had been limited.

No motions beyond the Pinkney Park approval and the appointments were recorded in the meeting transcript, and no motions listed a mover or seconder by name in the publicly available update.

Votes at a glance: Pinkney Park — approved 4-0 to permit a weekly bridal study; Appointments — Maggie Little, Sandrin Camparo and Wendy Teal — unanimously appointed.

The council did not set a date for any final procurement vote on the vac truck during the portion of the meeting covered in the update.