Agenda: On the agenda for tonight’s City Council meeting: The Public Hearing will commence with the first readings of new bills. These first 18-items of business all deal with City Annexation issues as “Joe and the Gang” try desperately to fill the $675,000 tax-revenue void left by James Island leaving the party. Mayor Riley proposes a land-grab in Johns Island following the Maybank Highway "expansion corridor" and the St. Andrews’ Parish (West of the Ashley). Also, many homes scattered along (mainly) Ashley River Road (Hwy. 61) and Wappoo Road will be zoned for business to drum up those tax-dollars and create unnecessary traffic on the “back-roads” and “cut-through” that we all use to navigate West of the Ashley in a reasonable period of time.
Why: If you don't go and voice your opinion the City Council will ban smoking in bars, restaurants and other public places throughout the city-effective in July.
Crime and Punishment: If busted smoking tobacco, you will face the same fines (up to $300) and jail time (30 days) as being busted with less than an ounce of marijuana in the state of South Carolina.
Here within is all normal Council and City business, and the Annexations and taxation Joe is mixing up continues in the Bills receiving their 2nd reading. (A bill only needs to be read twice with a majority voting for it to pass.) And then we get to #7-the ordinance to amend Ch.2 of the City Code to establish “rules of decorum for speakers at City Council meetings”.
Finally, the 8th ordinance on the agenda is the addition of a new Section 132 “establishing the regulations and requirements relating to smoking tobacco in public places or in simpler terms-the BAN ON SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES!
Here within is all normal Council and City business, and the Annexations and taxation Joe is mixing up continues in the Bills receiving their 2nd reading. (A bill only needs to be read twice with a majority voting for it to pass.) And then we get to #7-the ordinance to amend Ch.2 of the City Code to establish “rules of decorum for speakers at City Council meetings”.
Finally, the 8th ordinance on the agenda is the addition of a new Section 132 “establishing the regulations and requirements relating to smoking tobacco in public places or in simpler terms-the BAN ON SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES!
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