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Mayor and Counci l

The City of Sumter is governed under the Council-Manager form of government. In fact, Sumter has the dis-

tinction of being the first to adopt this form of government in the United States.

The Mayor is elected at-large with six Council members from individual wards. The Council’s only employee is the City Manager who serves at Council’s pleasure and administers the day-to-day responsibilities of the

City.

City Council meetings are held the first and third Tuesday of each month (except the first Tuesday in July). The first meeting of each month, the meetings are held at 1 PM, while the second meeting is held at 5:30 PM in

Council Chambers on the 4th Floor of the Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main Street (enter thru the back parking lot, Water Department entrance, and take elevator to 4th floor).

City Council hosts a public comment period at each third Tuesday meeting. While all public are invited to

attend each meeting, only City residents or those who have a financial stake in a property within the City lim-its may comment.

For more information please call (803) 436-2578 or https://www.sumtersc.gov/council.

202 N Salem Avenue Sumter SC 29150

H S N A M I S S I O N C o m b a t d e t e r i o r a t i o n o f r e s i d e n t i a l p r o p e r t i e s .

A s s i s t r e a l t o r s i n m a r k e t i n g a v a i l a b l e p r o p e r t i e s . E n c o u r a g e e n f o r c e m e n t o f o r d i n a n c e s w i t h r e s p e c t t o m a i n t e n a n c e o f p r o p e r t y a n d z o n i n g .

S h o w c a s e P a t r i o t H a l l , S u m t e r C o u n t y M u s e u m , M e m o r i a l P a r k , a n d o t h e r n e i g h b o r h o o d r e s o u r c e s .

S u p p o r t t h e o n g o i n g r e v i t a l i z a t i o n o f D o w n t o w n S u m t e r . Get to know neighbors in business and social settings.

STEVE CORLEY Ward 4

scorley@sumtersc.gov

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A d a m s W o o d F u r n i t u r e

A f f i c h e A d v e r t i s i n g & P h o t o g r a p h y S e r v i c e s B r o a d s t o n e M a n o r A n t i q u e s

F o o d L i o n H e i d i B u r k e t t , E R A W i l d e r R e a l t o r

M o s q u i t o H u n t e r s Sumter County Gal lery of Art

Eric Reisenauer, President Cleo Klopfleisch, Vice President

Annette Doyle, Treasurer Sally Osborne, Secretary

Paula Epperson, Membership Lynda Parker, Social Chair

Katie Gibson Stephen Winn

Mark Partin

Sylv ia Lawler , longtime resident of the Heart of Sumter Neighborhood, passed away on January 1st after a struggle with cancer. For more than 25 years, Sylvia and Jim were active in the neighborhood asso-ciation, serving as treasurer and membership chair-man, for most of those years. Even if you did not know Sylvia personally, you knew her as the one who took your membership money! She will be missed by her many friends, her neighbors on Harby Avenue and the Heart of Sumter Neighborhood Association Board.

Mark Partin has been a Sumter resident since 1992. He was born in Sumter but grew up in Conway, SC. He and his wife Gayla moved to the Heart of Sumter neighborhood in 2018. Mark is the Organizational Improvement Director for the City of Sumter. He currently serves on the boards of Tandem Health and the YMCA in Sumter. Mark and Gayla enjoy walking around the Heart of Sumter neighborhood tak-ing in the beautiful architecture and meeting all their wonderful neigh-

bors. Mark and Gayla have a daughter Jenna, son-in-law Mat-thew, and granddaughter Addie, who also live in the Heart of Sumter.

D o w n t o w n S u m t e r M a s t e r P l a n F i n a l O p e n H o u s e

Monday, June 3 , 2019 - 6 :00pm to 8:00pm Thank you for your feedback so far. Join us for a presentation of recommendations,

based upon the public's feedback on how to develop downtown Sumter.

It is my great honor to serve as the new President of the Heart of Sumter

Neighborhood Association Board. Your neighborhood association is coming off a great 2018 and we have an exciting 2019 in store. The purpose of the HSNA is to enhance the quality of life in our area and work to strengthen community ties throughout Sumter. Here are just a few of the events and projects that we worked on this past year. We continue to foster our close relationship with Willow Drive Elementary School. Our members provide cookies and other treats for the monthly staff meetings and we continue our annual tradition of donating educational items at Christmas time. We also partner with the Council of Garden Clubs of Sumter to keep the school grounds looking sharp. The HSNA Board understands that the Association accomplishes the most when it partners with other groups and organizations and helps support activi-ties. Our partners this past year included the Sumter County Cultural Commis-sion, the Sumter Gallery of Art, the Sumter Artists Guild, the Council of Garden Clubs and the Sumter County Library among others. Together we were able to bring to our neighborhood the June Soire e with the Charleston Civic Orchestra, both the Spring Garden and the Holiday home tours, award-winning artists and top-quality arts shows, and the Forrest Ray 5K. In March we worked with the Cultural Commission to bring color and fun to Patriot Hall with the Yarn Explosion event. Probably our biggest event is the Annual Art in the Park festival we hold every fall in the very heart of the Heart of Sumter, Memorial Park. Thanks to the support of our community sponsors and the tremendous response of all the visitors who came from both far and near, this event is bigger and better every year. Not only does this event bring a world-class art festival to out neighborhood but because of your generos-ity we are able to provide financial help to nonprofit community organizations who truly make our neigh-borhood better. In the next several weeks and months, you will see more activity from the HSNA. Please let us know your ideas for how your neighborhood association can make the Heart of Sumter the very best part of Sumter.

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Eric Reisenauer

“Se c o n d W e d n e s d a y o f t h e m o n t h ”

Special thanks go to Mary Gene White, Debbie Jackson, Malley Jennings and Annette Doyle who have faithfully supplied goodies

to the Willow Drive teachers once a month this year for their staff meetings. They will also be treated to a pulled pork luncheon on the last day of classes. We love our Willow Drive School!

Interested in sharing your yummy treats … emai l SumterHSNA@gmail .com.

Katie Gibson is a Sumter native who moved into the Heart of Sumter neighborhood about five years ago. She is currently the Clinical Program Manager for the Sumter and Claren-don offices of Sexual Trauma Ser-vices of the Midlands, our local rape crisis center, and runs her own pri-vate practice. In her free time she serves on the board of our Local Young Processionals group, watercolors, reads and spends time with her dog while doing home improvement projects.