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Adam Beam covers the City of Columbia for The State newspaper. Here, he blogs about local government. Reach him at (803) 386-7038 or abeam@thestate.com
Tag Archives: Steve Gantt
100 million gallons is nothing to Lake Murray
I was interviewing City Manager Steve Gantt yesterday for a story that is scheduled to run over the weekend. We were talking about the city’s water and sewer system. The city has two sources of water, the Columbia Canal via the Broad River and Lake Murray. The city can pump as much water as it [...]
Where did the money come from?
I didn’t get into this in today’s story, but the city’s decision to give $250,000 to the controversial Main Street Homeless Center was nothing short of budget magic. Magic in the sense that the city found the money to do it at all. As recently as last week, City Manager Steve Gantt had told council [...]
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No furloughs
City Manager Steve Gantt told city department leaders this morning that there would be no furloughs in next year’s budget. Gantt is supposed to send out an email this afternoon to all city employees telling them the news. At one time, next year’s budget included 48 hours of furloughs. But City Council members were adamant [...]
Steve Gantt’s contract
City Council members have approved a contract for City Manager Steve Gantt through May 29. Wait a minute, I thought you reported that Gantt would be city manager through the end of the year? I did, and he will. City Council just can’t tell him that. As I posted previously, Gantt is taking advantage of [...]
Mayor Benjamin’s first act