Public Hearing Set for Darlington's Water Rate Increase
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SOUTH OF PEARL B1 2A OPINION 4A OBITUARIES 2B PUZZLES 3B BOOKINGS 5B CLASSIFIEDS QUOTE ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.’ EDMUND BURKE Vol. 142, No. 29 NTWO SECTIONS e• 14 PAGwES s&PreESTAs BLISHsED 1874 75¢ JULY 27, 2016 Darlington, S.C. WWW.NEWSANDPRESS.NET Public hearing set for Darlington’s water rate increase may go up in City of Darlington” the 5% rate increase for outside of city Street inside and out – per mandate By Jana E. Pye Rates based on 6000 Editor mayor and city council members met limits. by S.C. DHEC; the other water tower [email protected] with city manager Howard Garland, The city has four wells, and a at Pine Street will need to b done in gallons per month Residents of the city of Darlington water and sewer director Fred wastewater treatment facility that is the next year or two. are invited to attend a public hearing Kinsaul, contractor David Brown of contracted for service and operation A new truck will need to be pur - Darlington (Current rate) regarding a water/sewer rate Davis & Brown, and consultant through licensed and certified engi - chased in the near future, too. Water: $20.10 Sewer: $23.40 increase at 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 2, Jannie Latham on Tuesday, May 31st neers at Davis & Brown. The general public can assist with Darlington $2 increase Water: $21.10 Sewer: $24.40 2016, at City Hall, 400 Pearl St., for a nearly 4-hour meeting to discuss The water and sewer department, keeping rates down by doing general Darl. Co. Water & Sewer Darlington. The proposal would the pending budget for the water and through Kinsaul, has trimmed costs maintenance, such as keeping man - Water: $31.50 Sewer: $46.07 increase the water rate by $1 per sewer fund, public works, water dis - considerably by finding a new vendor hole covers clean from debris, clear - Hartsville month and the sewer rate by $1 per tribution and maintenance. for chemicals. ing out ditches from large fallen Water: $31.33 Sewer: $36.14 month, or 1.5%, on October 1, 2016, The city now charges well below New costs would include setting limbs, not putting refuse in those neighboring municipalities, in the up a back up for documents and ditches. Inside the home and com - Florence and by 3% each year for the next five Water: $24.95 Sewer: $41.07 lowest 24% of rates state-wide. meter readings that can detect leaks mercial locations, citizens are years. The increase will help cover Lamar rising costs to provide quality water Proposed increases include a $2 a in a timely manner, saving homeown - encouraged to NOT flush things such Water: $30.83 Sewer: $30.83 and sewer services to residents. month and 3% rate increase for resi - ers in costs. as feminine products, paper towels, Timmonsville As reported in the June 8th issue dential inside the city limits for the Another upcoming cost will be to or flushable wipes, and not pour Water: $36.42 Sewer: $47.04 of the News and Press, “Water bills next five years, and $4 a month and paint the water tower at North Main grease down kitchen sink drains. Pride of Darlington: Southeastern Grain Company Marilee Jackson (right) and Roger Gore asked Darlington County Council to help residents of the Juleswood Drive Mobile Home Park PHOTO BY SAMANTHA LYLES County Council asked to assist Juleswood Drive residents noting that the residents have By Samantha Lyles Staff Writer received help from S.C. Legal [email protected] Aid. “The major problem is they Representatives of residents have nowhere to go, no way to displaced from a local mobile move the trailers... and most of Darlington Downtown Revitalization Association (DDRA) recog - wheat, soybeans, and corn for major livestock feed buyers like home park asked Darlington the trailers cannot be moved nized Southeastern Grain Company last week with the Pride of Smithfield Foods. Whaley says SGC can accommodate onsite storage County Council for assistance at because they are so old.” Darlington business award for the extensive rehabilitation work of 650,000 bushels in climate and moisture controlled bins, and council's July 18 regular meet - The mobile home park was, done at their 213 East Broad Street site. they are anticipating a bumper crop of corn to pass through their ing. Jackson said, poorly main - Manager Franklin Whaley said that prior to opening, the company facility this year. Community development tained, with no roads and worked for nearly a year to stabilize aged brick, replace broken win - Pictured here (right to left) at the award presentation are DDRA consultant Marilee Jackson and numerous abandoned and van - dows, install new flooring, roofing, and light fixtures, and shape up executive director Lisa Chalian Rock, SGC manager Franklin Rev. Roger Gore of the Family dalized trailers. Jackson and storage bins to get the site ready for operation. Now Darlington's Whaley, and Darlington Mayor Gloria Hines. Engagement Program related Gore presented council with a Southeastern Grain Company (SGC) site evaluates and purchases PHOTO BY SAMANTHA LYLES the story of Juleswood Drive proposal to rezone Juleswood Mobile Home Development, from commercial to residential, where eight families – mostly and to designate it as an “Area senior citizens or disabled per - in Need of Redevelopment” so sons – lived for over 30 years. the county could purchase the The Doodlebugs are back! These residents own their land or resell it to a developer. mobile homes, but not the land. This actions would also open When landowner Barbara up access to federal and state Stanley passed away, legal rep - financing or grant funding to Jenny Altman is bringing back her popular resentatives of her estate noti - help the current owners to fied Juleswood residents on either remain on the property, April 19 that they had 30 days receive fair market value for afterschool art program for children in Darlington to vacate the property and the sale of their homes, or remove their homes. receive rental assistance should By Jana E. Pye Editor “Many of them did not have they need to be re-homed in [email protected] the resources to move or the apartments. money to move, so they called Jenny Altman, owner of Artbug Studios us for assistance,” said Jackson, of Darlington, is half savvy business entre - COUNCIL ON 3A preneur and half fairy godmother of art. “My greatest joy is teaching people the skills they need to become artists,” says Golf Cart Laws in South Carolina Jenny. “And I’m so licensed drivers over 16 years of By Samantha Lyles excited to find a new Staff Writer age can drive a golf cart. It’s ille - batch of Doodlebugs to [email protected] gal for children or unlicensed teach!” Driving through your neigh - drivers to operate golf carts on As the owner of two borhood on a hot summer public roads – even those within smaller businesses evening, you may notice that their neighborhood. If you allow under the Artbug more and more of your neigh - a child to operate your golf cart, Studios, Doodlebugs bors and their kids are tootling you are criminally and civilly Children's Art Program and Vino's Palette around in golf carts. Sometimes liable for any accidents or evening classes for adults, Altman herself is they travel only within a subdivi - injuries that may result. an artist. But, it took many years for her to sion or community, but some realize this, and one art class at the College ambitious golf carters have been • Registration with the South of Charleston paved the way to the profes - seen cruising along four-lane Carolina Department of Motor sion that she loves. Vehicles is required if you intend “I really do love what I do,” says Altman. highways, untroubled by the Some of Jenny Altman’s original Doodlebug students...do you recognize them now? idea that they might be vulnera - to drive your cart on public ”I think it is extremely important to find ble to a high-speed collision, or roads. A golf cart permit costs your passion and to follow that. I think for a Hartsville, and other classes in Marion, and lege and took the risk of taking a class and possibly a costly traffic ticket if five dollars, and you must have lot of people it’s because of their hobby, Cheraw. She now teaches at the Darlington it became clear to me that art is a skill that spotted by law enforcement. If proof of ownership and liability they think that cannot be a career. I made a Country Club and has narrowed her focus is learned, just like math. Just like any - you or someone you know owns insurance. These permits last deal with myself that I didn’t have to do to closer to home now that she has a small thing else. You learn dimension, you learn or operates a golf cart on public five years, but must be renewed anything for more than five years. It was child. Inspired by the love her daughter has how to draw, you learn how to use colors streets, here are a few things you if you change your address. really the truth. Because I could not figure being around her mother’s studio, Altman and some people- very few, but there are need to know to stay safe and out what I wanted to do for the rest of my will introduce toddler and “Mommy and some that just miraculously born with it- within the law.