Garbage trucks face numerous potential fire hazards that can endanger people and become incredibly costly as well. Municipal Association Loss Control Manager Bethany Pendley talks about how cities can handle this hazard, including preventive maintenance, cleaning, and training for what to do when a sanitation truck fire occurs.

Learn more: https://www.masc.sc/uptown/07-2023/dont-let-trash-trucks-become-burn-barrels

Municipal Association of SC Field Services Managers Charlie Barrineau and Naomi Reed discuss the issues involved in managing agendas for public meetings. They cover setting the agenda, properly distributing agendas, circumstances for adding agenda items and executive sessions.

Learn more: https://www.masc.sc/uptown/12-2023/who-can-set-or-change-agenda

Chief Operating Officer Jake Broom talks with Charles Parker, project director from The Retail Coach, a consulting firm the Municipal Association has partnered with for retail recruitment training. They discuss retail development trends, ways cities can market themselves and address policy considerations for retail, as well as success stories around South Carolina and the nation.

Read Parker’s recent article in Uptown: https://www.masc.sc/uptown/07-2024/role-city-leadership-retail-recruitment

Municipal Association Executive Director Todd Glover and Chief Operating Officer Jake Broom talk about the Association’s Small Cities Summit, a one-day session taking place in Columbia on August 22 and addressing the specific needs and challenges of smaller cities and towns. This year’s summit will feature an “Agency Hall” where attendees can meet representatives from a variety of state agencies.

Learn more: https://www.masc.sc/event/small-cities-summit

At the Municipal Association’s 2024 Annual Meeting, Executive Director Todd Glover and Legislative and Public Policy Advocate Joannie Nickel give an update on the 2023-24 legislative session. They discuss primary elections, the 2024 state budget, bills that passed and did not pass, and issues that could arise in the 2025 session.

Association Executive Director Todd Glover talks about the value of visionary leadership, the need to build up future generations of municipal leaders, as well as the successes and the ongoing need for the Association’s civility in local government initiative.

Outgoing Municipal Association President Barbara Jo Blain, mayor of the City of Conway, discusses the legislative advocacy successes of the past year, the ongoing need for hate crimes ordinances, and the need to replace conflict with collaboration at the local level.

Goose Creek Mayor Greg Habib, newly elected president of the Municipal Association of SC, talks about local government leadership, transformational projects in Goose Creek, the need for civility in the public sphere, and the need to develop and nurture managerial talent in municipal government.

As mayor of the host city of Greenville, Mayor Knox White welcomes attendees to the Annual Meeting. White and Anderson Mayor Terence Roberts discuss municipal leadership and projects in their cities.

Municipal Association General Counsel Eric Shytle gives an overview of public meeting executive session issues, including the purpose of executive session under the SC Freedom of Information Act, how to properly enter into and conduct an executive session, and the consequences of misusing executive session.