BLYTHEWOOD – After suggesting last month that the Town of Blythewood might want to consider taking advantage of advance refunding to refinance its $5.5 million bond issued in 2010 by the Blythewood Facilities Corporation (BFC), attorney Ray Jones of Parker Poe, returned to a Council workshop last week to advise the Town to hold off […]
Blythewood Town Council
November 30, 2017 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Stepping down after four years helping guide the Town, Councilman Tom Utroska was bid farewell by the Mayor, his fellow Council members and many friends who attended the meeting. Next, Blythewood Magistrate Josef Robinson swore in Councilman Larry Griffin for a second term, assisted by his wife Leanora and their grandson, Jordan Frazier. […]
Editorial: The picket man will be missed
November 30, 2017 By
Tom Utroska was about as reluctant a candidate as you will find when he ran for Blythewood Town Council in 2012. But that’s not to say he was a political wall flower. Or that he was shy. Like many in the town in 2010, Utroska was choosing sides about how the town was being run, […]
Town selling Doko shell building to developer
November 30, 2017 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Failing after a year and a half to sell the Doko Depot shell building across from Town Hall as a restaurant, Council passed first reading Monday evening to authorize the sale of the building to a developer, Wheeler and Wheeler, LLC of Columbia for $325,000. About five years ago, Town Council borrowed $900,000 from […]
Parker Poe suggests refinancing $5.5 M bond
November 30, 2017 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Attorney Ray Jones of Parker Poe, the Town’s bond consultant for the $5.5 million bond issued by the Blythewood Facilities Corporation in 2010, told Council Monday evening that it might want to take advantage of an opportunity to refinance that bond under advance refunding which, he said, is a financing technique that allows […]
Council Rethinks Poe Hire
September 15, 2016 By
Hospital Negotiations Land in County’s Lap WINNSBORO (Sept. 15, 2016) – During Monday’s County Council meeting, County Administrator Jason Taylor called members’ attention to a request for action to engage the services of Parker Poe Consulting, LLC for assistance with legal matters relating to Fairfield Memorial Hospital. The issue had been sent forward to Council by […]
Blythewood Town Council Awards Contracts at Special Meeting
July 19, 2012 By
In a special called meeting at Town Hall Monday, Blythewood Town Council voted to award bids for three contracts. Land Plan Group South was lowest bidder ($5,500) of three companies vying to rewrite the town’s Tree and Landscape Ordinance. The other two bidders were Sustainable Site ($9,500) and HBG Engineering ($9,700.) RABCO, a company owned […]
