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GVW group sets referendum date for Aug. 26
6/26/2008 12:14 AM   3 comment(s) on this story E-mail this story to a friend



By APRIL BAILEY

Staff writer

If approval is granted by the U.S. Justice Department, the Graniteville-Vaucluse-Warrenville Incorporation referendum will be held in exactly two months.

The three commissioners for the GVW incorporation met Wednesday to discuss the upcoming referendum, which will decide whether the proposed city will actually come to be. The purpose of the meeting was to set an election date, approve the ballot format and elect a chairperson for the committee.

The commissioners who presided over the meeting, Alice Kirkland, Vicki McCarthy and Gordon Leopard, voted and chose an Aug. 26 election date. The committee has not yet received approval from the Justice Department to hold the election; however Kirkland has said they expect to get a decision soon.

According to Kirkland, the commissioners were each appointed to help oversee the incorporation election and to make sure it was held in accordance to the law by the South Carolina Secretary of State. During its first item of business, Leopard and McCarthy elected Kirkland as the committee's chairperson. Members also approved a ballot for the election. In his discussion of the ballot format, attorney Jim Holly, who represents the GVW committee, said the questions chosen for the ballot were pretty standard to those used for incorporation notices in the state.

Holly said that if the referendum is in favor of the incorporation, there will be another election held to choose a mayor and city council members. Commissioners also chose their next meeting date - Monday, July 7 - which will be held to select election managers to work the precinct places on election day. Commissioners approved existing County polling places as the locations were voters will cast their ballots. Kirkland also said commissioners are seeking possible names for the proposed municipality.

Those who wish to submit names should send them to:

GVW Commissioners

P.O. Box 526

Graniteville, S.C. 29829

The ballot will include six questions where voters will:

-Vote in favor or in opposition to the incorporation.

-Choose between two names for the proposed municipality.

-Choose a: Mayor-council, Council or council-manager form of government.

-Choose either a non-partisan or partisan form of election to elect a mayor and city council members.

-Choose either two or four year terms of office for city and council members.

Voters will also be asked how city council members should be elected, with choices that include:

-Members being elected from a municipality-at-large

-Council members being elected by residents of his or her district

-A system where some council members are elected by the municipality at large and others by residents in districts where they reside

-A system where all council members will be required to be residents of particular districts, but elected by the municipality-at-large.

-A system where some council members will be required to be residents of particular districts, and some residents of any districts; however all council members will be elected by members at large.

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  3 comment(s) on this story

Doing well??? :  8/7/2008

How often do you drive around your community? Take a ride around the area and tell me it still looks the way it did at its peak in the '70s. This area has been in decline since Graniteville Company was forced to sell in the 1980's. Now outside developers have bought previously unavailable land for mass sell to out of the area buyers. And - they are selling. All those homes and ours will continue to benefit Aiken and North Augusta. Why should everyone but us benefit from our tax dollars?

Graniteville resident

Six Questions on Ballet :  7/6/2008

If you are voting NO, there is only ONE question. We've been a few towns doing really well, without paying for developers government.

Betsy Heider

Thank goodness :  6/26/2008

I'm just glad that you people are going to finally vote and get this thing over with. I'm sick of reading about it in the paper, letters to the editor and talkback. Incorporate or not, just get on with it!

Leslie
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