Council District 4 Updates Councilman Ron Brinson May 25, 2020 Resurfacing of Dorchester Road…. between Club Course/Netherby and Wescott Boulevard will soon begin. S.C. Department of Transportation planners confirmed that this contract has been awarded and the work is...
District 4 Updates
Regular schedules for garbage and trash pickups this week --- and these curbside collections will return to regular schedules next week. (Meaning, trash and yard debris pickups are now on regular weekly schedules.) The pools in the Aquatics Center are being filled. And last Friday, City Council approved the final change orders. This facility will be ready for occupancy and then operations in early...
COVID 19 And Our Community We are now challenged in unprecedented ways. An insidious viral monster threatens each of us and our families, bringing upset to the rhythm of our daily lives. But we all now realize this is not merely an “upset”; COVID 19 is unprecedented, historic and, yes, a very dangerous reality. We are mandated to understand we are in this together. North Charleston’s...
Councilman Ron Brinson District 4 Updates February 14, 2020 Krispy Kreme - Ladson Road ….”soft-opening” next week. Fully open “around February 24.” Watch for the signs, “Hot and Ready!” Re-Paving Projects on Patriot Boulevard and Wescott Boulevard have been delayed. We were able to arrange for night-hour...
Councilman Ron Brinson District 4 Updates January 17, 2020 TRAFFIC SIGNALS - PATRIOT BOULEVARD Our City’s Public Works team has been working with traffic planners to calibrate the new signal lights on Patriot Boulevard, at the entrances to McKewn and Coosaw Preserve. The target for operation is Tuesday, January 21. The initial sequencing, both in the morning and afternoon, will be...
COUNCILMAN RON BRINSON District 4 Updates- January 4, 2020 Happy New Year Year ! The Lights At Coosaw Preserve and McKewn Those new – and long-awaited- traffic signals on Patriot Boulevard are operational. North Charleston police officers will be on hand to help with the tweaking as the school year resumes. Traffic planners tell us the goal is to have these signals properly synched within a...
District 4 Voter Turnout -- Municipal Elections We promoted voter participation for the November 5 municipal elections - and you responded! The number of votes cast in our District nearly DOUBLED over the 2015 election. It was up nearly 50 per cent in District 9. By far, these were the two leading trends of the 2019 election and an important signal of attentive citizenship. Nearly 500 voters cast...
A REMINDER: Coffee and Donuts Drop-In with Councilman Skipper and Me Saturday morning, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Wescott Ball Parks 9006 Dorchester Road Just informal “visiting”….and "some" sweet fun….. Mr. Skipper will bring Dunkin Donuts – from his District. I will provide Hot and Ready Krispy Kreme – In anticipation of KK’s Ladson Road store opening soon in our District...
Repaving- Re-Striping- Signal Lights At a special meeting last Thursday, the Finance Committee approved a $1.71 million project for repaving city streets in District 4 and District 9. City Council later voted unanimously in favor of this work to resurface and restripe major roadways which now have traffic counts exceeding 2035 projections. The District 4 streets include Patriot Boulevard and Wescott...
Councilman Ron Brinson District 4 Updates September 24, 2019 Look for re-paving machines beginning this week on sections of Wescott Boulevard, Patriot Boulevard and city sections of Windsor Hill Boulevard, at Indigo Palms. This work will repair these roadways. Funding is provided by our city and the...