County Council voted unanimously at its May 12 meeting to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with South Carolina Department of Transportation to resurface roads throughout the county.

There are a total of 104 roads to be resurfaced, equaling about 45 miles and costing about $8.9 million.

That would include all project areas to be funded via the tax, including roads,” Broach said. “The agreement approved last night simply formalizes SCDOT’s involvement as administrators, makes it clear that SCDOT funds aren’t paying for these projects (even though state roads are on the list) and gets the process started to begin road resurfacing.”

By state law, the sales tax will last four years, from May 1, 2015 to April 30, 2019. The sales tax increase will raise about $28 million.

The other projects for this sales tax increase are dredging to an approved 27 feet for the Georgetown port, which will cost approximately $6 million to be added to state and federal funds in the works, totalling $33 million; dredging and spoil site preparation for Murrells Inlet, costing about $10.3 million; an Andrews fire/police complex, costing about $1.5 million; and fire substations throughout the county, costing about $1.5 million.

More can be read about this project here:

http://www.southstrandnews.com/article/20150515/GTT06/150519916/1126/SSN