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9/26/07 Update: Added an Horry County PRIDE link and Quick Reference Menus

10/19/07 Update: Added a South Strand Republican Club link.

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This GIAC page provides links that you can use to find a considerable amount of information on Horry County and South Carolina government, South Carolina newspapers, and related web sites. You may want to put this page in your "favorites" or "bookmarks" in order to easily refer to it later.

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A Citizens Lobby for Infrastructure and Natural Resources Horry County PRIDE
Little River Community Coalition Community Coalition of Little River
South Carolina Information: Voting District/Precinct Numbers by Street

SC Voter Registration

Property/Taxes, Flood Plains, Registry of Deeds, Aerial Map . . Horry County Property Data
General Horry County Information such as Council Agendas, Minutes Horry County government
Horry County School Information Horry County Schools
State Legislative Information/Bills South Carolina State Legislative Information.
Property tax references on approaches & data on other states S.C. House Property Tax Committee Notebook
California 1978 Proposition 13, etc. California Property Tax Cap Experience
South Carolina Statutes South Carolina Code
South Carolina Constitution South Carolina Constitution 9/2/05
"Home Rule" for South Carolina Local Governments Home Rule 8/25/05

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For Timely Financial Disclosurers, Call (1-803-253-4192)

S. C. State Ethics Commission 6/5/06
SC for Responsible Government South Carolinians for Responsible Government
South Carolina News South Carolina Google News
S.C. Hotline SC Hotline: Politics and Newspapers
     The Sun News      The Sun News
     M.B. Herald      M.B. Herald
     Horry Independent      Horry Independent
Annual Property Tax Cap Info Property Tax Cap Experience
Horry County Democrats Horry County Democrats
Horry County Republicans Horry County Republicans

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Click http://www.horrycounty.org/gateway/main.html to reach the Horry County Web site location that provides property information such as tax history, last county appraised property value for assessment (not fair market value as designated, at this writing), the registry of deeds, an interactive (center point of view, zoom in/ zoom out) composite aerial photograph of Horry County with flood plain information and zoning, and an interactive mapping based application locating school districts, council districts, precincts, etc. based on address, parcel id or street intersection.

For Horry County government information, click  Horry County government .  Be aware that it takes about three months for county ordinances to be codified and put on this site. So you may not be seeing the latest.

For the agenda on County Council meetings, after clicking  Horry County government, click the County Council link and then select the agenda for the date.   it is available on the site by 12:00 noon the Friday before a meeting (usually scheduled the second and third Tuesday each month). 

For the minutes on County Council meetings, follow a similar procedure after clicking  Horry County government  Note 2001 and 2002 archived minute link at the bottom of those for 2003. These are not posted until after they are approved at the succeeding County Council meeting.

For the agenda on Planning Commission meetings, after clicking  Horry County government, click Departments, on the new screen, pull down the menu by clicking the down arrow immediately to the right of the words "select department" and scrolling down till the word "Planning" appears.  Click on "Planning."  On the new screen, scroll down to the menu and click the desired date alongside "Agenda" in blue text.  Wait for Acrobat Reader to load the agenda text.

"The Planning Commission agenda is hard to read when it comes up on the Planning web page. The first thing I would suggest doing is clicking on the break out of frames button on the left side of the page located under the Horry County symbol. This will eliminate the index and make the page full screen. After this, when you open the agenda it will be sized at 44% ( this should show up on the lowest toolbar at the top of the page on the left hand side). If you increase the size to 100% it should be readable. Also, if you prefer to print the page the font size should be readable on the printed page."  -- Guidance as furnished by James Bischof Senior Planner.

To get contact information on Planning Commission members on the county site, click "Directory," "Boards and Commissions" and then "Planning Commission."  More detailed contact information may also be reached from this GIAC site (valid as of January 1, 2003) by clicking Effective Action  here or on the menu on the right and navigating to the third section of that page, "2003 Incumbent Contact Information."

For state information, click  South Carolina State Legislative Information. To get information on a particular bill once you are on the site, click Legislation, the top item on the menu on the left and when a new screen appears, type the top item under "Search Legislation by: that is "Bill, Act or Rat number."  Then in the blank rectangle to the right of "Enter Numbers," of the new screen that appears, type the bill number.

For state laws, click South Carolina Code,

For state political information including links to newspapers state-wide, click www.schotline.com

For information on an organization that is currently (2/7/05) promoting the "Put Parents in Charge" program, click South Carolinians for Responsible Government.

For information on California's experience with their 1978 Proposition 13 that put a cap on annual property tax increases and reassessed only when a property changed hands, click Property Tax Cap Experience.  For a discussion more directly applicable to us including the status of current South Carolina legislation in the legislature and in the courts, click Tax Caps & Fees to reach the corresponding page on this GIAC site.

Click http://www.horrydemocrats.org/ to view the Horry County Democratic Party web site.

Click http://www.horrycountyrepublicanparty.com/  to view the Horry County Republican Party web site.

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