Lawmakers question air base closure board

Posted on March 24, 2008 
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Mrytle Beach Sun News
By Zane Wilson
3/14/08

COLUMBIA, SC -Horry County’s lawmakers said they wonder why they are still appointing people to the Myrtle Beach Air Base Redevelopment Authority 15 years after the base closed.

The legislative delegation gathered Wednesday at a breakfast meeting in a capital city hotel to deal with appointments to boards and to dole out recreation funds.

One of the appointments was to the base redevelopment board. The base closed March 31, 1993.

Rep. Thad Viers, R-Myrtle Beach, said the board overseeing the closure of the Charleston Naval Base dissolved long ago.

The Navy base closed two years after Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, and its closure authority shut down about five years later.

Pat Howle, chief executive officer of Horry Electric Co-op, was at the delegation meeting because the electric co-ops paid for the breakfast. He is a member of the base redevelopment authority.

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