Following Recent $122 Million Cut in State Support of Local Government, SCAC to Hold Press Conference

The President of the South Carolina Association of Counties (SCAC), joined by county officials from across the state, will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 25, outside the Governor’s Office on the first floor of the State House.

The House Ways and Means Committee recently voted to cut $122 million (42 percent) from the Local Government Fund (LGF), and county officials will explain how this action will adversely affect their counties and all other South Carolina counties.

The LGF, also known as Aid to Subdivisions, is used by county governments to fund basic services at the local level. Such a Draconian cut in the Local Government Fund will have a direct negative impact on the provision of local services and property taxes.

The SCAC, chartered on June 22, 1967, is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization whose membership includes all 46 counties in South Carolina. Governed by a 29-member board of directors selected each year by county officials at the association’s annual conference, the SCAC is the only state organization representing county governments in the state.