City faced with subdivision it doesn’t want - Local / Metro - TheState.com

Adam Beam

Council is scheduled to vote on the request tonight at 7. But annexing the property, located off S.C. 277, would require the city to spend $400,000 to fix the area’s private water system, plus an additional $375,000 a year to maintain it. And Police Chief Randy Scott said the expected 542 police calls from the neighborhood every year — more than one per day — would require him to hire four more police officers and spend $290,000 to equip them and $196,000 a year to pay them."