We have made some progress towards reuniting the Town. Just this week, we returned 160 homes to the Town. But this is less than 10 percent of the total. Woodland Shores, Riverland Terrace, Secessionville, Sol Legare, Grimball, Laurel Park, and Dogwood Park still remain in unincorporated Charleston County.
The Town is working with Senator Thurmond and Representative McCoy to change annexation law to bring all of those citizens back. At the Senate Subcommittee meeting on February 19, Trent Kernodle appeared to criticize the bill. In response to questioning by Senator Thurmond, he could come up with no specific problems with the bill.
Who sent Trent Kernodle to block the effort to reunite the Town? James Island PSD Commissioner Carter McMillan asked at the JIPSD Commission meeting last Monday. Who sent Trent Kernodle to Columbia to sabotage our effort to reunite the people of James Island? Commission Chair David Engelman said that he did. Commissioner June Waring thanked Engelman for sending Kernodle.
The rest of the Commissioners agreed to ask Trent Kernodle to the next Commission meeting, however, their current plan is to discuss all of this in executive session. What Trent Kernodle said in public testimony is not something that can be discussed in secret. The voters of James Island need to know why David Engelman and Trent Kernodle are sabotaging the Town's efforts in Columbia.
Comissioners Engelman, Welch, Hollingsworth, and Brown-Crouch are all up for election in November. I know that Commissioner Brown-Crouch and Commissioner McMillan support reuniting the Town. Chairman Engelman decided to send Kernodle to sabatoge our efforts without even asking for a vote of the Commissioners. Where do Commissioners Welch and Hollingsworth stand?
Please encourage all of the Commissioners to help reunite the Town.
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