With Mayor Pat O’Neil, Sullivan’s Island is thriving!
Flood prevention/stormwater management
- Grant-funded stormwater system replacement and upgrades (underway)
* Station 28.5 basin
* Station 31 basin
- Grant-funded and engineering (underway)
* Station 16
* Stations 18-19
* Station 25
- Osceola and Station 9.5: Outfall and drainage improvements (bids underway)
- Purchase of a vac trailer and stormwater pump, plus 1,000 feet of discharge hose to bring relief to flooded areas
Financial management and transparency
- Maintained an excellent Moody’s credit rating of Aa1
- Initiated Capital Budget and 5-Year Capital Improvement Plan
- Created online Transparency Center for user-friendly public access to capital and operating budgets, with real-time capabilities of adding project and financial reporting vel
- Developed an online budget book that details all aspects of the budgeting process
Construction Projects, Town-funded
- Fire Station reconstruction and Storage & Maintenance Building
- Stith Park Master Plan and park stormwater engineering (contracted and underway)
- Cove Inlet Bridge stabilization and access Project
- Old Town Hall interior demo & asbestos remediation (2024)
- Battery Thompson parking lot renovations to replace pothole-riddled area with smooth pervious surface
Grant-funded Projects (Completed)
- Stormwater Master Plan
- Resiliency and Sea-level Rise Adaptation Plan
- Historic Resources Survey
- Historic Design Guidelines
- Historic document scanning project for CofC Digital Library
- Protected Land Nature Trail Phase 2
- Greenbelt Grant-funded Boardwalk construction/rehab
*Stations 18, 19, 26.5, 27, and SIES
IT and Security Enhancements
- SLED Cyber Security Grant
- New IT provider, including weekly onsite personnel
- New cloud-based phone system, including fiber optic access and remote access of staff desktop phones in emergencies
- Update of emergency operations for all town functions