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“Don’t cut your nose off to spite your face” was a quote I often heard growing up.
I fear we have done just that in Berkeley County when long serving John Scarborough was forced to resign as Economic Development Director. Mr. Scarborough is a Berkeley County native with a phenomenal 17-year track record, bringing over $8 billion – yes, billion – of investment and over 40,000 related jobs to our county. You simply don’t generate that kind of success without creating trust between those considering investment and the county government.
I fear we have done just that in Berkeley County when long serving John Scarborough was forced to resign as Economic Development Director. Mr. Scarborough is a Berkeley County native with a phenomenal 17-year track record, bringing over $8 billion – yes, billion – of investment and over 40,000 related jobs to our county. You simply don’t generate that kind of success without creating trust between those considering investment and the county government.
What will make for an interesting budget conference committee came with disturbing news to the Senate Finance Committee that the Board of Economic Advisors (BEA) had reduced revenue estimates by $90 million for this budget year after they had passed their budget just last week.
The Senate Finance Committee called an emergency meeting to deal with this crisis.
The Senate Finance Committee called an emergency meeting to deal with this crisis.