{"id":2577,"date":"2024-07-25T07:54:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T14:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2024-07-25T07:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T14:54:22","slug":"the-mark-clark-extention-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/?p=2577","title":{"rendered":"The Mark Clark Extention Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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North Of Johns Island – Batik on Silk – Mary Edna Fraser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Y\u2019all this is a yes or no vote November and does not even mention more than half funds the Mark Clark expansion which is a boondoggle. Write the Charleston County Council and let them know this is dishonest for their constituents. Kobrowvsky and Wehrman voted against this hidden agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their emails are here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.charlestoncounty.org\/departments\/county-council\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MORNING NEWSBREAK\u00a0 | Charleston County Council\u00a0on Tuesday night voted 6-2 to ask voters in November to extend a transportation sales tax<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those voting for the measure were: Opposing the measure were council members Larry Kobrovsky of Sullivan\u2019s Island and Rob Wehrman of North Charleston. Henry Darby of North Charleston, who previously opposed the measure, was absent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ballot referendum<\/a> would extend a current half-cent tax approved in 2016. Renewal of the half-cent tax would fund the county\u2019s share of the $2.3 billion Mark Clark extension project plus more than $2 billion in other projects. Funding also would include borrowing of more than $600 million to pay interest costs on a $1.8 billion loan to pay its share of the road extension project from West Ashley across Johns Island to James Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas including James Island, John\u2019s Island, West Ashley, Mount Pleasant, North Charleston and the upper peninsula of Charleston are supposed to receive roadway improvements as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kobrovsky, who voted against the referendum, criticized the proposal, saying that more than half of the money would be used toward the Mark Clark expansion project, leaving little for the other projects listed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s going to be a legitimate referendum, people need to know when they vote for something that the projects listed will be built, but we know going into this that they\u2019re not going to be. They\u2019re just a wish list,\u201d Kobrovsky said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kobrovsky added that projects from the previous transportation sales tax referendum from 2016 haven\u2019t even started yet. The new tax would pay for millions of dollars of work that was supposed to be covered by the 2016 referendum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI strongly urge people to use fiscal sanity and reject it and make them come back and put something on the table that addresses our county needs in a way that makes fiscal sense and can be morally acceptable,\u201d Kobrovsky said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Y\u2019all this is a yes or no vote November and does not even mention more than half funds the Mark Clark expansion which is a boondoggle. Write the Charleston County Council and let them know this is dishonest for their constituents. Kobrowvsky and Wehrman voted against this hidden agenda. Their emails are here: https:\/\/www.charlestoncounty.org\/departments\/county-council\/index.php MORNING […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}