WINNSBORO – Concerned over the efficiency of the Town’s aging vehicle fleet, Town Manager Jason Taylor invited Matt Plyler, area sales manager for Enterprise Fleet Management, to analyze the Town’s fleet and make suggestions for management and cost savings. Plyler said an analysis was run only on 50 of the Town’s 75 or so vehicles […]
Blythewood council pushes back against attendance law
May 18, 2023 By
BLYTHEWOOD – At the Blythewood Town Council’s budget workshop Friday morning, council members discussed for the second time an attendance policy for council members. During the initial discussion on March 27, Councilman Rich McKenrick and Mayor Bryan Franklin called out Councilman Sloan Griffin for allegedly not communicating about his two absences during his deployment to […]
BTC eyes referendum for town council districts
May 18, 2023 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The last agenda item at Friday morning’s 4-hour town council meeting called for council members to discuss the possibility of creating election districts for the council and/or adding two additional council seats, which would bring the total number of council members from 5 to 7. “Blythewood is at the point now where we’re […]
Winnsboro residents share ideas for growth
May 11, 2023 By
WINNSBORO – About 75 residents attended the second Winnsboro town government town hall type meeting to talk about ways to revitalize the town by harnessing new opportunities and new funding coming Winnsboro’s way. Mayor John McMeekin, Mayor Pro Tem Demetrius Chatman, Town Manager Jason Taylor and Representative Annie McDaniel drove the discussion and fielded citizen’s […]
Bids being sought for Vet’s Memorial
May 11, 2023 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Longtime Blythewood public servant Malcolm Gordge, representing the Blythewood Historical Society & Museum, came before town council April 24 requesting that council release the $40,000 the town had budgeted for the BHS&M to use toward the design and construction of a proposed veterans combat memorial. Councilmen Donald Brock and Rich McKenrick questioned this […]
Williamson withdraws resignation
May 11, 2023 By
BLYTHEWOOD – In an email to The Voice Tuesday morning, Town Administrator Carroll Williamson said he had decided to withdraw his letter of resignation as the Town’s administrator. “[On May 8], I informed Town Council members that I was withdrawing my resignation letter as Town Administrator. They will discuss this during Friday’s town council meeting,” […]
MPA files motion to dismiss Blythewood’s counterclaim
May 11, 2023 By
BLYTHEWOOD – According to recently filed court documents, Town leaders are using litigation to punish their former marketing firm for requesting public records through the FOIA. MPA Strategies has asked a circuit judge to grant summary judgment to dismiss eight causes of action, including fraud, civil conspiracy, negligence/gross negligence, and another misconduct. The causes of […]
Public shut out of water treatment plant report
May 11, 2023 By
WINNSBORO – On Tuesday night, May 9, the Fairfield Joint Water and Sewer System (FJWSS) commission voted during a special called meeting to go into executive session to receive “legal advice concerning a draft wastewater plant alternatives analysis.” According to The Voice’s media attorney, the executive session may not have met the requirements of the […]
State proposes tightening animal law
May 4, 2023 By
WINNSBORO – Proposed revisions to state animal cruelty laws would shift cost of care of seized animals onto defendants charged in abuse or negligence cases. S.C. House Bill 3682 passed third reading on March 29. The Senate held first reading March 30, and referred the legislation to the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources, […]
Blythewood Council’s ‘ethics opinion’ on Brock not issued by SC Ethics Commission
May 4, 2023 By
BLYTHEWOOD – After The Voice questioned whether an ethics opinion received by town council from its outside attorneys during a March 27 executive session was a valid ethics opinion, Meghan Walker Dayson, Executive Director of the S.C. Ethics Commission, confirmed in an emailed response to The Voice that “only the Ethics Commission can determine if […]
