February 5, 2010 RSS feed / Government / Neighborhood

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Columbia City Council meets February 3

By John Temple Ligon
Roll call Columbia City Council convened at 9 am in City Hall on Wednesday, February 3. Council member Daniel Rickenmann was absent, but all others were in attendance: Kirkman Finlay III, Tameika Isaac Devine, E. W. More...

Candidates debate TIF (Tax Increment Financing) at Hyatt Park Neighborhood Association meeting

By Josh Cruse

As Election Day, April 6, moves closer, the Hyatt Park Neighborhood Association invited the mayoral candidates to their February 2 meeting for a debate. A hot topic issue was the TIF (Tax Increment Financing) proposal. More...

Richland County Council meeting

Storm Water Ordinance • Smoking Ban • First Responders
By Mike Cox

Chair Paul Livingston, Vice Chair Damon Jeter, Joyce Dickerson, Val Hutchinson, Norman Jackson, Gwendolyn Kennedy, Bill Malinowski, Jim Manning, Greg Pearce, Kit Smith and Kelvin Washington were present at the Richland County County meeting February More...

Columbia Council of Neighborhoods

Tax Increment Financing

According to Wikipedia TIF is a tool to use future gains in taxes to finance current improvements (which theoretically will create the conditions for those future gains). When a public project such as a road, More...

West Columbia City Council honors city employees

By Anita Baker

Call to Order Mayor Bobby E. Horton called the regularly scheduled meeting of the West Columbia City Council to order at 6:05 pm Tuesday, February 2, 2010. All members of Council, except Council Member Boyd J. Jones, were present: Mayor Bobby E. More...


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