City Quick Connect Podcast from the Municipal Association of South Carolina

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City Quick Connect: 2024 Annual Meeting Preview 6/21/24 Jun 21, 2024

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Municipal Association Executive Director Todd Glover and Chief Operating Officer Jake Broom preview the 2024 Annual Meeting, taking place in Greenville July 17 – 21, with sessions focused on artificial intelligence, economic development, mental health resources, placemaking, workforce talent development, civic academies and civility in local government, among others. Learn more: https://www.masc.sc/2024-annual-meeting

From the Dome to Your Home 6/14/24 Jun 14, 2024

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Casey Fields and Joannie Nickel discuss the results of the June 11 primary elections, and what those elections will mean for the makeup of the General Assembly during its 2025 – 2026 legislative session.

From the Dome to Your Home 6/7/24 Jun 07, 2024

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Casey Fields and Erica Wright discuss the General Assembly’s first return to the State House after the end of the regular session. The preview legislators’ final actions on the state budget, primary elections on June 11 and Wright’s upcoming meetings in Washington, D.C., to meet with federal agencies on grant funding opportunities.

From the Dome to Your Home 5/31/24 May 31, 2024

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Casey Fields and Scott Slatton discuss various bills that did not pass during the regular legislative session, and what may become of the issues in the next session. These include the zero-millage bill, the statewide hate crimes bill — although a growing number of municipalities are passing local hate crimes ordinances — medical cannabis, short-term rental regulation bans, the municipal elections bill, annexation bills and bills on tort liability and liquor liability.

From the Dome to Your Home 5/24/24 May 24, 2024

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Casey Fields, Scott Slatton and Erica Wright discuss how the language from the military tax increment financing bill came to be amended onto another bill that is still alive in conference committee, and describe the late-session debate on the bill to restructure the state’s health agencies.

From the Dome to Your Home 5/17/24 Part 2 May 17, 2024

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Casey Fields, Scott Slatton and Joannie Nickel discuss the state budget ahead of it going to conference committee in June. They also discuss the property tax extension bill and the bill extending the SC Abandoned Buildings Revitalization Act tax credit.

From the Dome to Your Home 5/17/24 Part 1 May 17, 2024

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Casey Fields and Scott Slatton talk about bills that did not pass during the final week of the regular legislative session, such as the bill that would consolidate state health agencies and the municipal elections bill.

From the Dome to Your Home 5/10/24 May 09, 2024

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Casey Fields discusses the events of the final day of the General Assembly’s regular legislative session, including what bills are enrolled for ratification and what bills will go to conference committee and remain active in June.

From the Dome to Your Home 5/3/24 May 03, 2024

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Scott Slatton and Casey Fields discuss the legislative action on the municipal election bill, currently amended to set the election date for all cities and towns as either the first Tuesday of April, or the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, of odd years. They also discuss the bill to allow micro-distilleries to sell liquor on Sundays and the bill to extend the tax credits of the SC Abandoned Buildings Revitalization Act.

From the Dome to Your Home 4/26/24 Apr 26, 2024

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Casey Fields and Scott Slatton discuss budget provisos involving short-term rental regulation that the SC Senate had considered, the creation of a liquor liability study committee, as well as legislative action on the Abandoned Buildings Revitalization Act tax credit extension and the affordable housing property tax exemption bill.

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