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Berkeley County approves consent agenda, multiple hiring recommendations and tax corrections
Summary
The commission approved the consent agenda including hiring recommendations from the sheriff and directors, nine office-error personal-property exonerations ($2,542.22), five commercial exonerations totaling $374,030.62, and a real-estate exoneration of $2,777.86 to clear county records.
The Berkeley County Commission approved its consent agenda and several personnel and tax-correction items at the January session.
Assessor Larry Hess presented nine personal-property exonerations due to office error totaling $2,542.22; the commission approved those exonerations by voice vote. Hess also explained a bill-of-sale oversight involving Triumph Property Group LP that left five commercial personal-property tax tickets (tax years 2021–2025) on the books for a total of $374,030.62; staff said the amounts were paper charges that had not been collected and requested the entries be cleared. The commission approved the five exonerations to correct county records.
Additionally, the commission approved a real-estate exoneration for Inwood Retail Venture to correct parcel coding, totaling $2,777.86. Earlier in the meeting, the commission received multiple hiring recommendations from Sheriff Rob Blair and department directors for deputy sheriffs, a corrections control officer and telecommunicators with stated salaries and effective January 2026 dates; those appointments were accepted as part of routine personnel approvals.
All votes on consent and exoneration items were recorded by voice; no roll-call tallies were provided in the public transcript.
