renovating the Greenville Transit Center<\/a> and improving Wade Hampton Boulevard.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cThe city tax is imperative for us to be able to do the types of improvements that we\u2019ve been talking about and have identified as being necessary for this community for years,\u201d said Greenville City Councilmember Ken Gibson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Greenville residents are invited to review and provide feedback on the city\u2019s proposed project list at a public meeting scheduled for July 28. The drop-in style meeting will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Greenville Civic Design Center at 15 S. Main St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The project list must be finalized before City Council\u2019s final reading of the ordinance and cannot be changed once adopted.\u00a0The city is required to submit the penny tax referendum to the Greenville County Voter Registration and Election Board by Aug. 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Greenville County has also taken steps to put its own local sales tax referendum on the November ballot to fund road, green space and transportation initiatives. If both tax measures were to pass, qualifying purchases in the city of Greenville could potentially see a 2-cent-per-dollar sales tax.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Greenville Mayor Knox White and other city council members endorsed both the city\u2019s and the county\u2019s penny tax proposals at Monday night\u2019s meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope that over time as people begin to study this, they see what\u2019s in it, that they\u2019ll see that the two complement each other,\u201d White said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Additional agenda items<\/p>\n
City Council gave initial approval to appropriate $1 million in state funding for the Greenville Police Department\u2019s School Resource Officer Program.\u00a0
\nCity Council approved the first reading of an ordinance to appropriate $535,049 in opioid settlement funds to support the Greenville City Fire Department\u2019s Opioid Response Team.\u00a0
\nCity Council gave initial approval to appropriate $228,331 in state funding to purchase one brush loader for the city\u2019s public works solid waste division. The state grant was awarded through the fiscal year 2026 Solid Waste Hurricane Helene Grant program.\u00a0
\nCity Council approved the final reading of an ordinance to appropriate $55,211 to purchase ballistic vests for the Greenville Police Department.\u00a0
\nCity Council approved a resolution requesting the South Carolina Department of Transportation transfer ownership of two blocks of Jenkins Street to the city. This would help the Greenville Housing Fund complete a multi-family affordable housing development called the Huddle at Sterling.\u00a0
\nCity Council gave final approval for the abandonment of right-of-way along White Oak Road and Bradley Boulevard for the completion of street improvements as part of the Wade Hampton Boulevard Corridor Improvement Project.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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