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Resident accuses council of using "rolling quorums"; other speakers praise beach renourishment
Summary
During non‑agenda public comment, Richard Bussey accused the council of using "rolling quorums" and limited public notice on a corridor master plan and said he will file an ethics complaint; another commenter praised the town's beach renourishment work. Council did not provide a substantive response during the meeting.
At the April 7 meeting’s public‑comment period, Richard Bussey of Indigo Run accused the Town Council of using "rolling quorums"—also called walking quorums—to avoid public scrutiny and said he planned to file an official complaint with the South Carolina ethics commission.
Bussey said a rolling quorum was being used while the town develops a corridor master plan and that residents have been shut out by meetings without agendas or notice. "If there's no agenda, no notice, no way for the public to participate, then by any reasonable standards, these are secret meetings," he told council. He said an official complaint would be filed the following day.
No formal council response to the allegation is recorded in the meeting transcript. In separate public comment, Peter Christian and other speakers praised the town’s beach renourishment work, thanking staff for coordination and expressing support for the project’s ecological and recreational benefits.
