County Council discusses ways to pay for roads [Video]

Members of the Greenville County Council are discussing ways to move forward with paying for road improvements after a proposed 1% sales tax referendum failed to pass on Election Day. A day after the ballot question was tabulated, council members began sharing their own ideas on how to pay for the infrastructure.Council member Ennis Fant said that at the next council meeting, he will introduce a measure to repeal the $25 road maintenance fee on all cars registered in the county.”This forces everybody that’s for the penny and against the penny to sit down at the table and come up with a viable, meaningful, substantive solution to fixing the roads in Greenville County,” Fant said. “It is not fair, nor is it practical to think that only people who live in Greenville County with a car registered in Greenville County should bear the entire burden.”Fant said the fee generated around …