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The Town of Batesburg-Leesville Hospitality Tax Advisory Panel will be holding a meeting Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 6:30 pm at the Town Hall Complex at 120 West Church Street Suite B.  

Due to schedule water line maintenance, water customers along Windmill Road and Highway One may experience a loss of pressure or service outage during the morning hours of Sunday, August 4th. The outage may last up to four hours. If you experience a loss of pressure or complete outage, please boil your water before drinking for 48 hours or until Tuesday, August 6th. If you have any questions, please call Town Hall at 532-4601. Thank you. Only the area below will be impacted.

The Town will be recognizing National Night Out on Wednesday, August 7th from 6-8pm. The event will feature fire and police demonstrations, static vehicles and treats for the attendees. Lexington County Recreation and Aging will be hosting a Family Movie Night after National Night Out starting at 8pm. During the movie, the Dream Catchers will be selling concessions. All activities will take place behind the Senior Center at 227 Highland Ave. 

The Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority, has announced the creation of a Life Line route to begin serving Batesburg-Leesville in September. The Comet, as the bus services is known, will offer one-day a week service between Columbia and Batesburg-Leesville. The route is still being developed, and folks are asked to visit the link below for more information and to complete a survey that will help finalize the route.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MCPPZDG

Thanks for your help!

The Town of Batesburg-Leesville presents this year’s Water Quality Report for 2018. Our goal is and always has been, to provide to you a safe and dependable supply of drinking water. As noted in the report no violations were found. Readers can access the full report here. 

Water customers in the Harbour Watch area may find a copy of their water quality report here.

On Monday, June 10th at their regular monthly meeting, Town Council voted to award the following contracts:

• CDB Inc. to perform up to $30,000 in sidewalk repairs
• Palmetto Southern with funding up to $30,000 to install an automatic entry/exit gate system at the Water Treatment Plant 

Both contracts were awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after a competitive Request for Proposal process. 

Bids received for the Sidewalk Repair/Replacement RFP include:

Bids received for the Security Gate RFP include:

• Palmetto Southern Inc - $28,722.29

Council authorized expenditures up to $30,000 to include 20 radio controlled opening devices and driveway repairs/modifications. 

Join us on Thursday, June 20th for a vision session to help shape the Comet in Batesburg-Leesville. More info below. 

Garbage rates for customers will be increasing starting July 1st. The current rate will increase from $12.10 per month to $12.78. The increase is due to a contractual Consumer Price Index (CPI) increase and rising recycling costs. As of June, recycling costs have risen to $88.16 per ton from $54.02 last September.  

Batesburg-Leesville Town Council will be meeting on Thursday, May 30th at 6pm in Council Chambers to discuss and potentially take action on First Reading of an Ordinance adopting a budget for Fiscal Year 2019-2020. The combined budget totals $7,911,576 in both revenues and expenditures without a tax increase. The Town budget consists of a General Fund, Enterprise Fund (Water/Sewer), Hospitality Tax Fund, and Victims Assistance Fund. The budget, if adopted,would take effect July 1st. To review the full budget, please click here.  

The Batesburg-Leesville Police Department has received calls from citizens regarding a new scam. According to reports, callers, of unknown origin, claim to represent the BLPD and are seeking money from victims to avoid arrest or jail.

“The scammers are pretending to work for the Batesburg-Leesville Police Department,” said Chief W. Wallace Oswald. “The folks are calling citizens and advising them they have outstanding warrants and need to pay a fine or they will be arrested.”

If you receive a call like this, please do not give any of your personal information over the phone and do not give these scammers any money. Hang up immediately and call the police department to report the incident.

“It is sad that a few unscrupulous people try to take advantage of our good-hearted citizens for financial gain,” said Chief Oswald.    

If you have any questions regarding charges or warrants call the police department directly at 803-532-4408.