Sep 18 2008
Atlantic Beach Government May Shut Down
ATLANTIC BEACH, S.C. — A potential compromise to solve a financial crisis in Atlantic Beach means the town may not have to close by the end of the week.
Town Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday to consider a deal that would sell some of the town’s land for $120,000 and have North Myrtle Beach take over its policing, interim Town Manager Charles Williams told The Sun News of Myrtle Beach.
The Council refused to approve a proposal to sell the land this week, which prompted Williams to say that without more money, Atlantic Beach would have to lay off the town’s five police officers and two clerks until property tax collection began again at the end of the year.
But a day after the vote, Williams heard at least one council member might be willing to change her vote if North Myrtle Beach hires the five Atlantic Beach officers and agrees to police the city for at least a one-year trial.
It’s not news to me that the place is hinging on financial collapse. That’s what happens when a town is inhabited by ignorant, uneducated, slum scum living in a welfare entitlement culture. Raising taxes isn’t even an option because there is no income there to tax. North Myrtle Beach ought to just annex the place and dissolve it’s current government, but would they honestly even want that headache?
