The towns of Blackville(opens in a new tab), Gray Court(opens in a new tab), Hollywood(opens in a new tab), Pendleton(opens in a new tab), Santee(opens in a new tab), Summerville(opens in a new tab) and cities of Greer(opens in a new tab), Inman(opens in a new tab), Lake City(opens in a new tab), Union(opens in a new tab), Wellford(opens in a new tab) have been recognized for the Municipal Elected Officials Institute of Government's 2019 Honor Roll. The Honor Roll recognizes annually the city councils that can count all members of their sitting council as graduates of the Municipal Association's MEO Institute.
Alfred Mae Drakeford(opens in a new tab), mayor of the City of Camden(opens in a new tab), was recently appointed to serve as the chair of the National League of Cities Small Cities Council(opens in a new tab). This council is open to those municipal officials who represent NLC member cities that have populations of no more than 50,000 residents.
The South Carolina Municipal Insurance Trust and the South Carolina Municipal Insurance Risk Financing Fund boards of directors recognized members that reduced their total costs and kept employees safe while delivering better public services. The 2018 Risk Management Services award(opens in a new tab) winners were Town of Fort Lawn, City of Walhalla(opens in a new tab) and City of Greenwood (opens in a new tab)(SCMIRF members) and Town of McClellanville(opens in a new tab), City of Union(opens in a new tab) and City of Conway(opens in a new tab) (SCMIT members).