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Irmo voters reject changing town government. Local leaders mostly shrug
Irmo voters took a pass on Tuesday when asked to change their town’s form of government. With all the votes counted, 2,378 town residents rejected a proposal to switch Irmo to a council-manager form of government, 53% of all votes cast. The vote sets back efforts by town leaders to streamline how Irmo operates , but the day after the election, they didn’t expect much to change. “That was just a change of label, so we’ll still operate as if we did have a council-manager form of government,” said Town Administrator Jim Crosland, who under existing ordinances operates as Irmo’s manager in all but name. “The residents won’t see anything change.” Irmo currently operates as a council form of government, vesting ultimate responsibility for running the town in its five-person town council. But in practice, the council has long delegated day-to-day responsibilities to a professional town administrator, who oversees town departments and prepares its budget. When Crosland became Irmo’s town administrator last year, he recommended the change to codify how the town already operates, he previously told The State. But any change in a town’s form of government requires a public vote, and voters who turned up Tuesday to cast
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Honoring our Veterans: PFC Ole S. Danielson
PFC Ole S. Danielson (1924 – 2001), father of Irmo Mayor Bill Danielson, served his country gallantly during World War II. Ole was inducted into the US Army in June 1943 (picture enclosed) after graduating from Rogers High School in Newport RI in June of 1942. He shipped across the Atlantic in January 1944 where he served in General Patton’s Third Army, 80thInfantry, 319th Regiment, E Company. Ole fought through France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany then on to Czechoslovakia and Austria until his return to the states in December 1945.
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Highest paid public employees in Irmo. Search the lists for town, fire district
If you live in Irmo, your tax dollars are paying for not one but two public service entities. These are the top-paid positions both in the town of Irmo and the surrounding Irmo Fire District. The South Carolina Freedom of Information Act allows compensation for employees with earnings equaling $50,000 or more annually to be released. But in response to a request from The State, Irmo released a list of salaries for 45 town positions (although not names) down to a $9,750-a-year administrative assistant. Town Administrator Jim Crosland is the highest paid town employee, pulling in $139,247.55 a year since he was hired in July of last year after leaving the city manager position in nearby Cayce. The next highest paid, unsurprisingly, is Deputy Administrator Nicholle Burroughs, who makes $126,917 since she moved over from the top administrative post up the road in Chapin . Police Chief Bobby Dale, at $109,430.88, and finance director Lisa Hancock, at $100,850.10, round out the town employees making six figures. The next four highest paid employees are all in the Irmo Police Department. Assistant Police Chief John Hendricks ($89,756); Special operations Lt. Trent Williams $85,535.84; Patrol Lt. Andrea Grinstead ($84,687.20); and Investigations Sgt. Kelly