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COMMUNITYJOURNALS.COM meetings. The county provides $451,223 per year to its operations, while the city provides $599,098 plus $480,000 in contributed management services and $260,021 in hospitality tax money for trolleys. City council approved spending $1 million to neighborhood investment, which White said will go toward improved planning and infrastructure, including neighborhood and commercial corridors, facade improvements, sidewalks, and traffic light controls. White said the city manager will be asked to make a plan proposal to the council in the near future, and the investment could help with an existing plan to improve the Wade Hampton Boulevard corridor.
“In our normal budget, we’ve boosted funding for all the neighborhood projects for about the third year in a row, which is about $1 million for sidewalks, road repaving, trails, and things like that. So it’s supplemental to that,” White said. The council also approved $1.4 million as a local match to federal funds garnered for the Greenville Transit Authority facility. White said after the allocations, there is still money left in the reserves in case of emergencies. “The reason we’re doing all of this is a response to growth and to better manage growth in the city,” White said. The city will take a final vote on the surplus allocations on Nov. 12.
By federal government definition, affordable housing is housing that takes no more than 30 percent of a household’s income. Will Crooks/Greenville Journal
Greenville City Council postpones search for city manager ARIEL GILREATH | STAFF
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Greenville won’t have a new city manager until after the holidays, city council decided Monday morning. Mayor Knox White said the city has major announcements coming soon regarding affordable housing, transit, and neighborhood planning. “We decided at the end of the day, we’d rather stay the course and continue where we are,” White said. “It’s very disruptive to have a new city manager come in.” White said the city will ask Nancy Whitworth to stay on as interim city manager until the search is complete. The search for a new city manager started after John Castile, Greenville’s city manager for eight years, announced he was stepping down in the spring. His last day was Aug. 31. Jill Silverboard, deputy city manager in Clearwater, Florida, and Bryan C. Woods, assistant city manager
in New Braunfels, Texas, were the two finalists left for the position after Charlotte Assistant City Manager Debra Campbell withdrew her name from the running to take the city manager job in Asheville. “We certainly had some fine candidates,” White said. “(But) in light of these priorities and others, we decided the best action was to stay the course, and we may resume the search process after the New Year.”
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