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County Transportation Committee unaware of roads removed from county system

web posted May 4, 2007
COUNTY – It appears that a vote by the Edgefield County Council may be rescinded after the quarterly meeting of the Edgefield County Transportation Committee on Thursday evening. At the January 2 County Council meeting Building and Planning Director Howard Gibson presented a plan, said to be from the Transportation Committee, to scale back maintenance of certain county dirt roads and a few to be maintained only “as needed”. What took place was a list being submitted by Mr. Gibson that actually took eleven roads out of the county road system improperly.

County Administrator John Pettigrew referred to calls from citizens wondering how their roads were dropped from the county maintenance system and the Transportation Committee and Chairman Sam Crouch said they did not make any recommendation to the county council for removing roads from the county system.

Edgefield County Council vice-chairman Willie Bright, also in attendance at the meeting, said that his recollection was the approval was only to limit the number of times a road that is rarely used and or has no homestead on the road be scraped and maintained. Bright also questioned the number of roads that were placed on the list, “I don’t think there were that many roads,” on the list presented.

A three-page list of roads was provided by Administrator Pettigrew with one page containing eleven roads that were reclassified as “driveways”, and removed from the county maintenance system. On the list was Gene Drive, Inez Circle, Wade Road, Trisha Court, Jerry Drive, Par Drive, 10 Bland Baptist, Beagle Club Road, Collins Township, Autumn Road, and Dairy Road.

Councilman Bright informed the Transportation Committee that there were state laws that had to be followed in order to remove a county road from the system.

Transportation Chairman Crouch asked Administrator Pettigrew what could be done to rectify the situation and he and Councilman Bright suggested a vote of the committee to re-establish the roads and their maintenance and that the request be forwarded on to the County Council for approval, basically rescinding their January vote.

Where the roads contained on the list came from was unknown to the committee, who said they never saw a list. Councilman Bright said he did not see a list of roads to be removed at the time of the county council’s vote either.

The matter will be addressed by the County Council at their June 5 meeting.

  

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