CHARLESTON COUNTY NEWS RELEASE

 

 

MEDIA CONTACT

Name: Jennie Davis, Charleston County Public Information Officer

Phone: 843.958.4012

Email: jdavis@charlestoncounty.org

Release Number: 2643

 

Date: December 30, 2005

 

 

Greenbelt Advisory Board Meets at 3:00 PM on Jan. 10 and Jan. 24

 

 

Charleston County’s Greenbelt Advisory Board for the Transportation (“Half-Cent”) Sales Tax will conduct meetings at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 10 and Tuesday, Jan 24. The meetings are open to the public.

 

The meetings will be held in County Council’s Committee Room on the second floor of the Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Service Building (4045 Bridge View Drive off Leeds Avenue in North Charleston).

 

Discussion topics for the upcoming meetings have not yet been determined. Steps taken at the Dec. 6 GAB meeting included approving a Conceptual Greenbelts Vision Map, adopting a definition of Urban and Rural Areas, and adopting a Statement of Intent for Allocation of Funds to the Urban and Rural Areas. GAB members did not make a decision regarding the specific allocation amounts, but will continue their deliberations at the upcoming meetings on Jan. 10 and Jan. 24.

 

The Greenbelt Advisory Board was created by Charleston County Council to make recommendations on transportation sales tax expenditures for greenbelt projects. For the 2006 fiscal year, $5.9 million has been budgeted for greenbelts.

 

Please call Cathy L. Ruff at (843) 202-7204 for more information about the upcoming meeting.

 

Visit the official Charleston County Transportation Sales Tax Web site at www.smallchangeforbigchange.org for up-to-date news and information, meeting notices, and to view minutes from advisory board meetings for both the greenbelts and transportation portions of the sales tax.