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October 3, 2008
PRESORT STANDARDUS POSTAGE PAIDCHARLESTON SCPERMIT NO 437
Inside The Island Connection...
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hen the local weather station reers to “astronomically high tides”, they aren’t just saying “Tese tides are sohigh, they’re astronomical!” Tey’re actually reerringto the sun and moon’s inuence on our tides.I you were to picture the earth as a little blue ball with gravity-restrained water covering it, you would see the water moving acrossthe ball in two lumps that are opposite each other. One lump is causedby the gravitational pull o the moon, while the other lump, which isa little smaller, is caused by the solid earth being pulled toward themoon more than the water, so the water is really staying where it is;the earth is just urther away because it’s pulled by gravity.Since the earth rotates relative to the moon in one lunar day (24hours and 48 minutes), the high tides occur about every 12 hours and24 minutes. Te global tidal lag is around 12 minutes, which is why we have tides at diferent times each day. Tere are many diferentreasons or tidal lag, one o which being that it takes a regular wave30 hours to go halway around our globe, which is considerably lessthan the 12 and a hal hours between each tidal pull o the moon.Te regular waves already going on and the waves created by tidalpull create a bunch o colliding resonance in the water, making thetides vary every time.So, we have our tides, give or take every 12 hours and 24 minutes,and i the moon stayed a regular distance rom the earth, then thetides would be about the same height every time. However, the moondoes not stay only one distance rom the earth. It actually varies indistance by 31,000 miles every month! Te sun also moves back andorth rom the earth by a distance o three million miles. It’s closestto the earth around January 2 and urthest around July 2. Te reasonis because all o the planets move in an elliptical or oval pattern, notin perect circles. Tereore, the sun and moon are closer to the earthat some times and urther at others.In the case o the recent“astronomical high tides” onSeabrook and Kiawah Islands,the moon happened to be atit’s closest to the earth at thesame time that a quasi-tropicalstorm moved in of our coast,causing a small storm surge.Te water would normally havebeen a little higher becauseo that, but with the recentlarge amounts o rainall andthe closeness o the moon,the tide has become, well,astronomical!
This walkway, which starts just behind the “wildlife” sign next to the bridge on the Kiawah IslandParkway, usually leads down a sandy path to a great spot for observing the island wildlife. However, theastronomically high tides have brought the water levels to just below the road.
Astronomical terms to know:Syzygy – when the moon iseither new or ull Apogee – when the moon isarthest rom the earthPerigee – when the moon isclosest to the earthPerihelion – when the earth isclosest to the sun Aphelion – when the earth isurthest rom the sun
Monday, October 6
Kiawah Island Ways and MeansCommittee meeting
8:00amKiawah Island Municipal Center’s 2ndFloor Conerence Room
Tuesday, October 7
Kiawah Island Town CouncilMeeting
2:00pm - 4:00pmown Hall Council Chambers
City of Charleston Board of Zoning Appeals
(call to conrm)5:15pm75 Calhoun St., downtown Charleston
City of Charleston Council meeting
5:00pm80 Broad St., downtown Charleston
Charleston County Zoning PublicHearings
6:00pmSecond foor – Lonnie Hamilton IIIPublic Service Building, N. Charleston
Charleston County Council meeting
7:00pmSecond foor – Lonnie Hamilton IIIPublic Service Building, N. Charleston
Wednesday, October 8
Kiawah Island Planning Commission
3:00pm - 5:00pmown Hall Council Chambers
Seabrook Island Planning Commission
All Planning Commission meetings willbe held at 2:30pm at the own Hallunless noted otherwise on the ownbulletin board.
Thursday, October 9
Kiawah Island Arts Council
3:00pm - 5:00pmown Hall - 2nd Floor Conerence Room
Monday, October 13
St. Johns Fire District Commissionmeeting
7:00pmSt. Johns Commission Building3327 Maybank Highway, John’s Island
Tuesday, October 14
Kiawah Island EnvironmentalCommittee
3:00pm - 5:00pmown Hall - 2nd Floor Conerence Room
Wednesday, October 15
City of Charleston Planning Commission
5:00pm75 Calhoun St., downtown Charleston
Monday, October 20
Kiawah Island Board of Zoning Appeals
4:00pm - 5:00pmown Hall Council Chambers
Tuesday, October 21
Kiawah Island Public Safety Committee Meeting
3:00pm – 5:00pmown Hall – 2nd Floor Conerence Rm
City of Charleston Board of Zoning Appeals
(call to conrm)5:15pm75 Calhoun St., downtown Charleston
Charleston County Council meeting
7:00pmSecond foor – Lonnie Hamilton IIIPublic Service Building, N. Charleston
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Civic Calendar
Kiawah Island Town Hall
21 Beachwalker DriveKiawah Island, SC 29455Phone: 768-9166Fax: 768-4764Email:asimmons@kiawahisland.org
Seabrook Island Town Hall
2001 Seabrook Island RoadSeabrook Island, SC 29455Phone: 768-9121Fax: 768-9830Email:lmanning@townoseabrookisland.org
Johns Island Council
Meetings are held at the Berkeley Electric Co-op located at 3351Maybank Hwy, John’s Island.Chairman Chris Cannon: 343-5113
Charleston County Council
4045 Bridge View Drive, NorthCharleston(843) 958-4700
City of Charleston
75 Calhoun St.(843) 724-3745
Seabrook Town Council – September 23, 2008
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As Mayor McNulty was out o town on atour o the Rhine, Mayor Pro-em JohnDuBois led this month’s meeting.
Financials
Councilman DuBois noted that theown’s year-to-date revenues are$742,298.61 compared to last year’sgure o $696,623.83. otal year-to-date expenditures are $343,296.94compared to $297,326.80 last year.Excess o revenues over expenditures are$399,001.67, compared to last year at$399,297.03.
Lowcountry Bounty Festival
Alberta Savonuzzi was present to requestthe use o the Seabrook EquestrianCenter’s let and right elds or theupcoming Lowcountry Bounty Festival,a celebration o lie in the Lowcountry which will take place rom October11 – 12. Te Council granted the useo the eld or the dates o October8 – 14, with the site to be restored onOctober 14. o nd out more aboutthe Lowcountry Bounty Festival, theproceeds o which go to the OutreachLearning Center programs or inner city youth and amilies, please visit http:// www.connectinghands.org.
2008 Christmas Party
Councilman Dubois announced that thisyear’s Christmas Party will be held onDecember 11 rom 12 noon – 2:00pmat Seabrook own Hall. Te party willagain be catered by Hamby Catering andattendees are asked to bring one new,unwrapped toy or oys or ots.
Annual audit
own Administrator Pierce reported thatthe own received bids o their annualaudit rom three companies. Requestsor bids were sent to ve, one respondedstating that they would not like to bid,and out o the nal three, Glaser Duncan was the substantially lowest bidder.“We’ll have to coordinate with the Utility Commission, but the Mayor has lookedat their bid and agreed that they are thebest,” said Pierce. Joe Hall o the Utility Commission noted that the commissionhad not yet voted on the choice o auditor, but would get back with Councilon their decision the ollowing day.Council voted to approve Glaser Duncanas this year’s own auditors unanimously.
What’s up in Charleston
Katie Chapman o the CharlestonVisitors Bureau (CVB) reported that theCVB, along with its partners, is givingaway a Charleston destination wedding weekend. Four creative couples have beendeclared nalists or a wedding valued atover $80,000. It’s now up to the worldto decide who will walk down the aisleon April 4, 2009 in Charleston. o voteor your avorite couple and to learn moreabout the Charleston Wedding Giveaway,visit www.CharlestonWeddingGiveaway.com. Chapman also reported thatas o the week o September 15, just12 cities advanced to Round wo o ravel + Leisure’s battle or America’sFavorite City and Charleston is amongthem! Visitors to www.travelandleisure.com/ac/2008/game can vote or theiravorite cities every week. Te winner will be announced on October 15. Also, Charleston will be highlightedon CNN on the weekend o October3 – 5 as a terric option or a weekendgetaway. Finally, the CVB is targetingnational and regional markets. New regional marketing strategies includethe OneanktoCharleston.com website,as well as upcoming media/meetingplanner events in Columbia, Charlotte,Greenville and Atlanta this all.
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n September 19, the Seabrook Island Property Owners Association (SIPOA) held aspecial meeting o the board to discuss theirlong range planning committee’s proposalo assigning a task orce to look into thepros and cons o merging the Seabrook Island Club with the Property Owners Association. According to Seabrook Island Club president Ed Williams, thistask orce is needed as a matter o duediligence, since neither board wants toconsider the idea beore all the acts arein, but even the suggestion o a possiblemerger has gotten many Seabrook Islandresidents up in arms.“Much o the controversy has beenbecause a lot o the people don’t have allthe acts,” said Williams. “And that’s what we’re trying to do, gather acts.” Ever sincethe acceptance o Island One, a reerendum which requires all new property ownersater 2004 to become members o theClub while grandathering in the pre-2004non-club members o the Island, islandershave been wondering whether or not they will eventually be required to become apart o the Club, whether they want to ornot. “When we decided to move to thisarea, we looked at Kiawah, but loved thecommunity on Seabrook,” said residentSherry Pollard. “It elt good here. We wentto the Club and visited, but we decidednot to join because it wasn’t really one o our needs. We’ve been hearing rumorsabout a merger since 2002. A community is a place where people respect each other.Let us have our own choices. Legislationdoesn’t make a community. What are thecompelling reasons or a merger? Why can’t we just be?”SIPOA board member Gerry Kingattempted to assuage that ear during themeeting by pointing out that “protectingthe grandathered group is sacrosanct”. “Ivoted against even considering a merger,”said King. “And I maintained that viewuntil I read the results o the most recentsurvey, which showed the islanders’interest in pursuing a review and I’d bederelict i I did not pay attention to it.” He went on to point out that the POA board“would not be serving you [the Seabrook Islanders] i we did not do a study”.Te survey, which was given by longrange planning committee chairman FredRistow as the reason both boards wishedto consider the merger, was called intoquestion by resident Jim Buckley, whoremarked that there was a large, unspokengroup on the island that had to beconsidered beore reerencing the survey as a reason to consider the merger. “Teredoesn’t seem to be such a strong signalo interest [in a merger],” said Buckley.“Te number o interested parties is muchsmaller, more like 25% than the 50% thatthe board is saying.” Ristow respondedlater by stating that there was a signicantenough number o people who respondedto the survey with interest, either or oragainst the merger, or the POA to considerlooking into perorming a research study.Te SIPOA board was also quick topoint out that this meeting was not abouta merger, they simply wanted to gatheracts. “Right now, we don’t have enoughacts to even consider a merger,” saidSIPOA director Sam Reed. “We need togather as much inormation as we canbeorehand so we can make an intelligentdecision. It might turn out that the mergeris a bad idea, but without gathering all theacts, we would not be able to make a airdecision.”King agreed, stating that “Right now, when we look at the idea o consolidation, we only see the lipstick. We couldn’ttell you i it was on a pig or a puppy. Ieel that the task orce will see this as aninsurmountable idea, but we’re operatingin the dark right now and I would like toget the acts beore anything else.”“It doesn’t matter i we’re club membersor not,” said resident Jim ilson. “Tis isnot an ‘us or them’ situation, we’re tryingto establish a community. We live in abeautiul place with unpleasant situations. We as a country are in a nancial situationthat won’t be solved next week or nextyear. Te real estate market is a disasteror the next two or three years. We needto take car o our problems now.”Te meeting concluded with theboard’s decision to assign a group toestablish a research agenda that the task orce should look into, should one beappointed. Director Reed appointed boardmember Jodie urner, who in turn elected Jim Buckley, Fred Ristow and Gerry Kingto serve on the research committee withhim. One o the most important needsor the task orce should one be approved,noted Sam Reed, was that it be composedo non-partisan experts who could look atthe possibility o a merger rom economic,legal, nancial, etc. standpoints so that inthe end, the property owners and boardmembers could see each category and howit would be aected by a merger.
Te next meeting of the Seabrook POAwill be held at the Seabrook Community Center on Monday, October 20 at 11am.
Not quite on the verge of merging
At its September 13, 2008 meeting, COVAR (Council o Villa Associations andRegimes) introduced Karen Colie o Marshland Communities, who gave an educationalpresentation or volunteer association/regime ocers. President Gantz reported onCOVAR participation in the July 9 Community Relations Committee and the August7 Strategic Planning meeting. Te results o the 2008 SIPOA/SIC joint survey areposted on the SIPOA website. Je Bostock o the Horizon Plan Committee reportedthat construction is proceeding on time and within budget. Gary Quigley, member o the SIPOA Nominating Committee, requested those villa owners interested in servingas SIPOA Board members to contact him to increase villa representation. Te nextCOVAR meeting is on Dec 13, 2008
Quarterly COVAR meeting minutes are posted on www.sipoa.org. For more informationon COVAR, Contact Carroll Gantz, 768-3780, or siCOVAR@bellsouth.net
COVAR meeting report -September 13, 2008
Provided by Carroll Gantz
Egregious errors …
Kiawah Code Red still in place
Due to an ambiguous write-up in the last Kiawahown Council report in the September 19 editiono the Island Connection, we would like to clariy that the own o Kiawah Island Code Red systemis still in place, it will just not be upgrading toa localized alert system which would inormresidents o short term severe storm threats, food warnings and tornadic activity. “Te KiawahIsland Code Red is still in ull and positiveeect,” assures Councilman Orban. Te KiawahCouncil simply elt that there were enough warnings through television, weather radios, theinternet and the national weather service, that theextra service would be just that; excessive. Testa at the Island Connection apologizes or any conusion this may have caused.
Tank goodness or the Kiawah staf!
Te Island Connection would also like to thank the Kiawah Island own sta or all the hard work they put into the Kiawah Clean Up day on September 12. We were remiss in not mentioning theirassistance in this annual volunteer clean-up o the island in our last issue and want them to know thatthey are greatly appreciated, not only by the paper, but by island residents, the own and all the foraand auna that make up the beautiul environment in which we live.
Code Enforcement Ofcers Rusty Lameo & Juan Martin were very helpful in the Town cleanup.
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