Where do they stand on the issues?
The Town of James Island is having an election on Tuesday, November 7th.
The Mayor and all four seats on Council are up.
I am not running, and there are three candidates to serve as Mayor: Brook Lyon, Gresham Meggett, and Josh Stokes.
There are seven candidates for the four seats on Council: Dan Boles, Lewis Dodson, Jeff Hayes, Cynthia Mignano, Troy Mullinax, Zinnie Quinn, and Warren Sloane.
Where do the candidates stand on the issues?
What are the issues?
I want explore some of the issues that I think face the Town and find out the position of each candidate for Council.
Should the Town of James Island begin collecting a property tax?
The Town of James Island (all four incarnations) has never collected property tax.
The Town currently has a millage of 17.9, but we provide a 100% property tax credit, so there is no property tax collected by the Town on residences, rental properties, business property, vehicles, like cars, or personal property like boats.
If you look at your property tax bill, there is a Town of James Island line and a millage, but the net amount collected is zero. There are plenty of other lines on the bill, such as Charleston County, Charleston County schools, the James Island Public Service District and more. So, residents of the Town play plenty of property tax--just no additional property tax to the Town.
Where does each candidate stand?
Should the Town begin collecting property tax?
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