Florence City Council will vote Monday on an ordinance providing for this year’s municipal elections and discuss a funding request for last year’s S.C. Black Family Expo.
Passing such an ordinance is a routine occurrence in election years, said Florence Mayor Frank Willis, a Democrat, who plans to seek re-election.
Planning to run for two at-large council seats are incumbents Bobby Holland and Rick Woodard and Glynn Willis, chairman of the Florence County/Municipal Planning Commission. The candidates will face one another in the Republican primary in June.
Filing for the primaries will begin at noon March 17 and end at noon March 31.
The council also plans to make a decision on the S.C. Black Family Expo’s funding request, which has been deferred since October.
“We need to either vote for it or vote against it, but get it done one way or the other,” Willis said.
During the fall, the council approved the recommended distribution of $344,000 in estimated collections of the 2 percent state accommodations tax. The vote, following an amendment by councilman Ed Robinson, allows the council to further consider the $6,500 for the S.C. Black Family Expo, which requested $10,000.
Last month, Larry Smith and the Rev. Leo Woodberry asked the council about the funding they sought for the expo.
The council accepted Smith’s and Woodberry’s presentation as information, but took no action.
On Monday, the council also is expected to discuss the Civitan Club’s request to place U.S. flags in the city-maintained flag ring, at David McLeod Boulevard and Evans Street.
The council voted 6-1 last month to allow, pending a S.C. Transportation Department encroachment permit, the local Civitan Club to place flags at the flag ring for businesses that paid a fee. The club previously placed the flags in front of businesses that paid the fee.
No advertising would be allowed in the flag ring, Florence Public Works Director Drew Griffin said last month.
Councilman Bill Bradham cast the dissenting vote on the issue. Moving the flags from the businesses and to the flag ring wouldn’t achieve the same effect, he said at the time.
The council also is expected to vote Monday on second and final readings of a rezoning request for McLeod Regional Medical Center-owned properties on the 1000 blocks of Cox and Cheves streets and the 200 block of Kemp Street. The properties would be rezoned from a multifamily residential district to a commercial area.
In addition, the council is expected to vote on a request to annex residential property at 1619 Southwood Court, owned by Audrey Robinson.
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Published: February 09, 2008
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