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, Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom, President of 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. This is an important community decision because it is one way of preserving our environment 50 or 250 years from now. Without urban growth boundaries eventually our creeks and watersheds will be ruined for we will have overburdened our coastal environment and lost the natural nature and beauty of the Lowcountry. We must not let that happen. It is increasingly clear that we have the responsibility of coming together as a region to help plan our future. If each city or county in a metropolitan area acts independently of each other, then 50 and 100 years from now those that live here will be paying the price. We must come together, cities and counties, and try to develop a unified vision of how we allow for economic growth and expansion but together preserve the physical beauty and healthy environment of this region. If we don’t do this and if we don’t stick to our community planning decisions, will we be giving future generations the ills of uncontrolled growth, dangerous highways, traffic congestion, reduction of air quality, unremarkable once scenic highways, and more? And, we must increase our commitment to the physical beauty of and quality of life in our suburban neighborhoods. Charleston has led the nation in historic preservation and in urban revitalization. We must do the same in careful planning of our suburban expansion as well as in the enhancement of our fine older suburban neighborhoods. We will work hard with our older suburban shopping centers to have them made more handsome parts of the public realm. We will work to make our suburban

highways safer, more handsome, cleaner and more tidy, for they are the entrances to our suburban neighborhoods. We will work to better connect our neighborhoods to each other, enhance pedestrian amenities and establish more parks and playgrounds. And we will seek in new developments to make sure design excellence occurs. A good example of that is the proposed West Ashley Circle that will create a pedestrianly accessible suburban neighborhood center where two highways intersect rather than the old way of doing things with a cloverleaf and the attendant eyesores and the elimination of pedestrian access that followed. And we cannot have livable suburbs or a successful urban area without public transportation. And public transportation in this C and in every city in America costs money. There is no free lunch. Highways cost money, bridges cost money, interstates cost money and public transportation costs money as well. The Half-Cent Sales Tax Referendum was not only to keep public transportation but also to give us a better system. With it we would have express buses to places of high employment. Consider the number of parking spaces that would no longer be needed, the traffic congestion that would be reduced, the improvement in air quality, with citizens relaxing riding a bus reading their newspaper rather than fighting the traffic and for a place to park. And we will have smaller buses operating in suburban areas where no service now exists. And how can anyone deny the fact that many of our citizens, in fact 20,000 households in Charleston County do not have automobiles and can only successfully live in our community with public transportation. They need public transportation to get to work, to get to the hospital, to visit the doctor, to go to church, to shop, to participate in our community. I congratulate th County Council for calling on Governor Sanford to set an election for April 6 and this City urges the Governor as well. We must all pledge to work as hard as we can for the success of this referendum so that Charleston does not become the only metropolitan area in America without a bus system and even worse a community where citizens lose their jobs, their health, and lose their hope and some lose their lives because we have let them down by taking their system of public transportation away. Of course, this referendum is essential as well to allow us to immediately begin improving our highways and intersections that are unsafe and congested as well as providing over $230 million to allow our community to acquire green space to preserve and protect it forever. We also must pledge to work with our great County Council to develop a system of purchase development rights, for there must be many different mechanisms of creating green space. Public parks and playgrounds are one -- conservation easements another. But purchase of development rights is a very wise option as well. We must act now so we can give to future generations the physical beauty that we have come to know as the Lowcountry. As we work to give our children the best education and to give them a place of beauty and environmental quality in the future, we must also work tirelessly to make sure that our economy gives them good jobs to keep them right here in their hometown. We have created the Digital Corridor, which has brought companies from around our country and allowed information technology companies here to expand. And working very hard with the Medical University of South Carolina we will make Charleston a biotech center, building on the Medical University’s research power and the fact that the beauty and livability of Charleston is increasingly attracting creative people to our community.

As we work to expand our economy, it is important that we do not forget that we still have miles to go in terms of equal opportunity in economic achievement. I pledge to renew and enhance our efforts for minority and women business growth and expansion in our community. We must open more doors, help create more connections, facilitate more opportunities for competition and involvement. We have worked to create the Urban League, minority business programs and so much more but our work in this important arena is far from finished. Our history books have many blank pages because the history of Africans coming to our country and the life and work of African Americans here has never been fully written. The search for truth and excellence requires that we all understand that we know from whence we came and how our fellow citizens lived. The International African American Museum that will be built at the corner of Concord and Calhoun Streets will give to this community and to our country the opportunity to put words on those blank pages and begin to more fully write that part of our history -- and give voice to African Americans from generations ago who had reason to believe they would be forgotten This museum will connect with other institutions and historic places in our community and will give Charleston the best opportunity in America to allow all of us – persons of African descent, European or Asian descent – to begin to learn that part of our history so long untold and repressed. And this year we will open the Slave Mart Museum on Chalmers Street. We are very proud that this summer a new institution will begin in Charleston – the Charleston School of Law. Located on Mary Street in an historic building, this law school will give citizens of South Carolina and from other parts of our country the opportunity to receive a legal education in one of America’s most historic and beautiful cities. We will be working with the law school to allow them construct a new building also in this neighborhood as well. We will also be working to bring a new culinary college to our as well. Charleston, now known internationally not only for its beauty and quality of life but for its fine restaurants, is a natural place for a new culinary school that will complement the splendid educational and training courses at Trident Tech. We are very proud of our excellent municipal services. Under the leadership of Chief Greenberg our Police Department continues to excel in courage, skill and capacity. It is tough work and often controversial but Chief Greenberg, the best police chief in America, not only has my support and the community support but our commitment to work with him to increasingly make our City a safer place. He has a fine heart and a strong will. It is so important that we spend our energy supporting our Police Department and our neighborhoods and their citizens in their efforts to make Charleston safer and that all law abiding people stand up to the criminals who seek to diminish our peace and security. Our Fire Department led by Chief Thomas is the best at what they do in America as well. And the City is so well served by an outstanding and dedicated City staff and Boards and Commissions of hardworking community-spirited people. It is an honor to be able to work with them. We together worked to provide the best quality basic services and are very proud that the City’s tax rate is now lower than it has been in over 30 years and our surplus and bond rating are the highest in the City’s history. I pledge not only to maintain this but to increase our efficiencies as we will be engaged in performance initiatives that will build on our excellence in government achievement and special

focus on customer service to make sure that we serve our citizens and those who seek our services as well efficiently and politely as any city anywhere. My pledge to you is that this will be as it should be -- a busy time. We will be restoring our beautiful and historic City Hall. It will require us to be away for almost two years but it is our duty and obligation to give this nationally prominent building its 125-year restoration. We will also be restoring the Dock Street Theatre – another treasure in this historic City. And we should work with Spoleto Festival and our School Board to see to the restoration of Memminger Auditorium, a fine performance venue and one with a proud history. We will be building new fire stations, parks and playgrounds and more. We will continue to increase public access to the water’s edge. Every addi tional opportunity we give our citizens to have the inspirational beauty of walking or jogging along our beautiful watercourses is of course a great responsibility. Our goal is to do that better than any city anywhere has ever done. Our Livability Court has achieved national recognition and we will soon to be at 100 neighborhood councils to make sure that every aspect of neighborhood life – from calming traffic, to peace and order and cleanliness, is the best that it can be. We will be busy with major drainage initiatives as the City continues its commitment to its Master Drainage Plan with major projects in several sections of our City and our redevelopment activities in Upper King and Meeting Streets, the Upper Peninsula or Neck area as well as the continued robust development on Daniel Island. We are proud of our achievements in affordable housing, the beauty of their design as well as the number of affordable homes and apartments we have provided for our citizens, but our goal must be to do much more. This is about justice, about a community making sure that we are always a place of diversity, that now and in the years to come, this beautiful and extraordinary City will continue to have affordable places for citizens to live. A city is best when people of all colors and all incomes and all experiences share the city with each other. Our agenda includes the continuation of our first-time home buyer initiative, our $10 million affordable housing bond issue, and a host of initiatives by the City and with the non-profit and for-profit private sector to keep Charleston as a national leader in providing affordable housing for its citizens. We look forward to crossing the new and hard won Cooper River Bridge in a year and a half and then removing the existing bridges and re-knitting neighborhoods on the Eastside creating new opportunities for housing, green space and community uses. Our City, as great cities are, is a teacher and this year the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, a national program to help mayors of American cities be better stewards of their city’s built environment, will be moving to Charleston. And now we begin a new term of office together. A benefit of the extraordinary tenure that you have given me is that we now know. We know what we can achieve together. We know how to do it and we know that we can. Together we have built America’s most beautiful affordable housing, created the finest shelter for the homeless in our land, created the most vibrant downtown in our country, the world’s most comprehensive arts festival, the most beautiful new waterfront park in America, world-class aquarium and children’s museum, kept our Judicial Center downtown and beautifully so, made our City safer, fiscally stronger, restored historic buildings, and created restored world-class parks in Marion Square and our new West Ashley Park, made our elections non-partisan, and so much more.

The fact is we know that when we set our minds and hearts to it, there is nothing that we cannot accomplish. And so emboldened with the knowledge of what we can achieve together and with our commitment to the civic ethic of seeking truth and demanding excellence, we resolve to increasingly make our City the best place in America to live, work and raise our children. And as we begin this new, four-year journey together I again paraphrase the words of a great and fallen leader, “With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the City we love, asking His help and His blessings, but knowing always that here on earth His work must truly be our own.” The Mayor then administered the oaths of office to the six re-elected Councilmembers, who repeated the oath in unison. After being introduced by the Mayor, each of the re-elected Councilmembers briefly addressed the citizens. On motion of Councilmember Bleecker, seconded by Councilmember Waring, City Council voted to give first reading to a bill to establish the Rules of Order. The following bill received first reading: AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR AFFIRMING THE RULES OF ORDER AND PROCEDURE AT MEETINGS FOR THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND THE PROCEDURES FOR THE ENACTMENT OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS, AND TO AMEND SECTION 2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CHARLESTON TO PROVIDE THAT THE ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO THE PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES BE DELETED IN ITS ENTIRETY FROM SECTION 2-28 AND ADDED IN ITS ENTIREY AS A NEW SECTION, TO BE NUMBERED 2-48. Council was in receipt of the Mayor's recommendations for Mayor Pro tem and Standing Committee appointments. The following appointments were made: 2004 STANDING COMMITTEES Mayor Pro Tem Anne Frances Bleecker Ways and Means Chair Louis L. Waring Vice Chair Larry Shirley Community Development Chair James Lewis, Jr. Vice Chair Jimmy S. Gallant, III Henry B. Fishburne, Jr. Paul E. Tinkler Kwadjo Campbell Human Resources Chair Anne Frances Bleecker Vice Chair Paul E. Tinkler Louis L. Waring Wendell G. Gilliard Yvonne D. Evans Business License Chair Kwadjo Campbell Vice Chair G. Robert George Louis L. Waring Paul E. Tinkler

Larry Shirley Public Safety Chair Yvonne D. Evans Vice Chair Jimmy S. Gallant, III Henry B. Fishburne, Jr. G. Robert George Public Works and Utilities Chair Paul E. Tinkler Vice Chair Deb Morinelli Jimmy S. Gallant, III Larry Shirley Real Estate Chair Yvonne D. Evans Vice Chair Louis L. Waring Henry B. Fishburne, Jr. Jimmy S. Gallant, III Recreation Chair Jimmy S. Gallant, III Vice Chair Paul E. Tinkler Deb Morinelli James Lewis, Jr. Larry Shirley Small Claims Chair G. Robert George Vice Chair Yvonne D. Evans Paul E. Tinkler Deb Morinelli Kwadjo Campbell Special Facilities Chair Larry Shirley Vice Chair James Lewis, Jr. Kwadjo Campbell Anne Frances Bleecker Henry B. Fishburne, Jr. Wendell G. Gilliard Traffic & Transportation Chair Deb Morinelli Vice Chair Anne Frances Bleecker Wendell G. Gilliard Yvonne D. Evans Water Supply Chair Louis L. Waring Vice Chair Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Audit Committee Chair Wendell G. Gilliard Vice Chair Henry B. Fishburne, Jr. The Committee on Ways and Means and the Audit Committee include all Councilmembers and the Mayor. Mayor Riley called on Rabbi Holz to offer a prayer. Following the prayer, the Mayor asked everyone to refer to the words printed on the back of their program and join Ms. Whipper-Lewis in the singing of “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing”. Reverend Dungee then gave the benediction.

Mayor Riley invited everyone to a reception in Washington Square immediately following the conclusion of this meeting. The Mayor recognized the Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School Unichorus who performed a postlude of “When the Saints Go Marching In”. There being no further business the meeting adjourned at 1:30 p.m. Vanessa Turner-Maybank Clerk of Council