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Charleston, SC Meeting Minutes January 12, 2004 CITY HALL INAUGURAL MEETING The first meeting of the City Council of Charleston was held this date convening at 12:10 p.m. on the steps of City Hall. A notice of this meeting appeared in The Post and Courier on January 9, 10 and 11, 2004 and in The Chronicle on January 7, 2004. The Honorable Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Mayor, called the meeting to order. Mayor Riley was joined on the steps of the first floor by The Most Reverend Robert J. Baker, S.T.D., Bishop of Charleston, Catholic Diocese; Rabbi Anthony Holz, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue; Rev. Alma Dungee; D'Jaris Whipper-Lewis, members of City Council; and Clerk of Council Vanessa Turner-Maybank. Chairs had been set up on Broad Street for approximately 800 people. In addition to those who were seated, a number of people stood. At the Mayor's invitation everyone stood for the invocation offered by Bishop Baker. Following the invocation the Mayor asked everyone to remain standing for the presentation of the colors by the City of Charleston Police Department Color Guard and the singing of The National Anthem by Ms. Whipper-Lewis. The Mayor thanked Bishop Baker, the City of Charleston Police Department Color Guard and Ms. Whipper-Lewis for participating in the ceremony. He also expressed his appreciation to the Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School Unichorus and its director, Ms. Ann Cheek. Mayor Riley welcomed everyone and noted the presence of a number of dignitaries and special guests attending this meeting. He asked the following attendees to stand to be recognized: US House Representative District 1 Henry Brown, US House Representative District 6 James Clyburn, US District Judge Patrick Michael Duffy, SC Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal, SC State House Representative Floyd Breeland, SC State House Representative Robert Brown, State House Representative Harry B. (Chip) Limehouse, State House Representative Jim Merrill, State Representative Wallace Scarborough, South Carolina Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom, President of The Citadel Major General John Grinalds, (USMC, Ret), President of the Medical University of South Carolina Ray Greenberg, MD, President of Charleston Southern University Jairy Hunter, Chair of Charleston County Council Barrett Lawrimore, Commanding Officer Charleston Weapons Station Captain Robert M. Zalaskus. The Mayor also noted the presence of several former members of City Council and County Council. The Mayor then recognized David Rivers, the new member elect of the City of Charleston Commissioners of Public Works (CPW). He commented that Mr. Rivers was the first African American to be elected to a position Citywide in the City of Charleston. An extended round of applause followed the introductions. Mayor Riley then called on the Clerk of Council to call the roll. The following responded to the roll call: The Honorable Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Mayor-elect, Councilmember-elect Henry B. Fishburne, Jr., Esq., Councilmember Debra Morinelli, Councilmember-elect James Lewis, Jr., Councilmember-elect Jimmy S. Gallant, III, Councilmember Wendell G. Gilliard, Councilmember-elect Louis Waring, Councilmember Yvonne D. Evans, Councilmember-elect Paul E. Tinkler, Councilmember Larry D. Shirley, Councilmember-elect Anne Frances Bleecker, and Councilmember G. Robert George --- 12. The Clerk of Council next announced the receipt of the following returns of the Commissioners of Election: CERTIFICATE AS TO THE RESULT OF THE MUNICIPAL GENERAL ELECTION HELD NOVEMBER 4, 2003 and The COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC WORKS (CPW) ELECTION RUNOFF HELD NOVEMBER 18, 2003 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON CITY OF CHARLESTON The members of the City of Charleston Municipal Election Commission, State of South Carolina, make and declare the following return of votes cast in the Municipal General Election held November 4, 2003, to elect the office of Mayor, Council Members for Districts 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 and one seat on the Commissioner of Public Works (CPW) and the results of the runoff held on November 18, 2003 for the seat on CPW. MAYOR Jimmy Bailey 6,451 Kwadjo Campbell 1,725 Tom Doyle 212 Marc Knapp 270 Joe Riley, Jr. 11,572 DISTRICT 1 Robert K. Browning 369 Henry B. Fishburne, Jr. 1,975 DISTRICT 3 James Lewis, Jr. 614 DISTRICT 5 Jimmy S. Gallant, III 1,031 DISTRICT 7 Willard J. Sheppard 422 Louis (Lou) Waring 715 DISTRICT 9 Shawn Keller 411 Paul E. Tinkler 1,387 DISTRICT 11 Jane Barr 944 Anne Frances Bleecker 1,144 COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS (CPW) Ben Bryson 5,205 Benjamin Byrd 2,152 Alma Dungee 3,501 David E. Rivers 4,401 RESULTS OF CPW RUNOFF ELECTION Ben Bryson 787 David Rivers 1,958 Certified by: Municipal Election Commission Nancy Youngblood, Chair Carolyn Johnson, Commissioner Dr. John Thomas, Commissioner The Mayor then invited his wife and sons to join him on the dais to administer the oath to him. Mayor Riley took the oath of office as administered in the first part by Joseph P. Riley, III and in the second part by W. Bratton Riley. Mrs. Joseph P. (Charlotte D.) Riley, Jr. held the family Bible. Mayor Riley delivered his inaugural address, which follows: INAUGURAL ADDRESS MAYOR JOSEPH P. RILEY, JR. CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2004 My Dear and Fellow Citizens of Charleston: th Today I proudly begin my 29 year of service to you as your mayor. It is not possible for me to adequately thank you for giving me this very special opportunity for public service to be your mayor and the mayor of this extraordinary City during times of great challenge and special opportunities for achievement. But I assure you that I know that today and these next four years is not about a job of four-year terms or an unusual tenure of service. Rather this is a responsibility, Mayor, City Council and citizens together, that is day-by-day, decision-by-decision, seeking great community achievement. I pledge to you that each day’s work and every decision will be made as if the future of our community and the quality of our citizens’ lives depends on it and in fact it does. This will not be a time -- even after 28 years -- this will not be a time to coast or ease up, slow down or let up, or reduce our energy, our passion, or shorten our vision. In fact, no city can ever do that. Rather day-by- day, moment-by-moment, issue-by-issue, decision-by-decision, we will work to excel. For it is the search for the truth and the commitment to excel that produce great and substantial community achievement and these are not terms just to abide in inaugural speeches. Rather, it must be our consuming civic ethic to search for truth, to seek to excel in all that we do together in this communit y each and every day. We must start with and for our children. Our children cannot vote. They don’t easily speak powerfully for themselves and don’t form special interest groups. But they are our greatest responsibility. We must together create an ethic of excellence in public education in our community. The operation of our schools is not the responsibility of municipal government but quality education of our children must be the concern of every citizen. Last year this community came together to save the summer for children who would have lost the opportunity for essential and remedial instruction. We rediscovered the village’s capacity to come to the aid of its children. We will soon be starting a permanent tutoring initiative to allow volunteers to use their skills and interests to work one on one with our children that need academic assistance and we are going to expand our commitment to being mentors for our children. Our goal is for Charleston to become the national model for mentoring; that is, volunteers giving our children additional caring adults and role models in their lives. I challenge every citizen, every business organization, every civic group, every neighborhood, every church, synagogue and mosque to seek to find an additional way to become involved in the lives and well being of our communities’ children. And we must all commit to work with our new Superintendent, Dr. Goodloe and help her improve the quality of every one of our schools. Last year we successfully started the First Day of School Celebration bringing thousands of parents with their children to the first day of school. We will build on that initiative and many others. Our goal should also be for Charleston to be a model of civic engagement in public education for it, in fact, takes a village to raise and educate a child and every member of our village who is able should seek to be so engaged. For most of the Lowcountry’s existence up until now growth and its consumption of undeveloped land continued somewhat on its own without substantial community direction. The pace was slow; its results seemed rather obvious and reasonable. But times have changed dramatically. We are in a period of extraordinary growth and it is our duty and responsibility, as a community to have the emotional and intellectual energy to together decide what our community should look like 50 years from now and beyond. That is not going to happen automatically. We need a major community paradigm shift. When we had slow if not anemic growth we took what came along. If we continue to do that now with our powerful pace of growth, we will have lost control. A lot of community participation and work has gone into the concept of developing urban growth boundaries, that is, community decisions about where urban and suburban growth will occur and what regions will remain rural – green spaces.
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