September Meeting Minutes

MAC BURDETTE
MT. PLEASANT TOWN ADMINISTRATOR
SPEAKER, CREEKSIDE (CPCP) HOMEOWNERS BOARD MEETING
September, 2009

Mac Burdette, Mt. Pleasant Town Administrator, was the speaker at the Creekside (CPCP) Homeowners Board Meeting in September. He gave us a very informative and reassuring talk on Emergency Preparedness prior to a hurricane as well as actions that “will” and “should be” taken in the aftermath of a hurricane, both by the Town of Mt. Pleasant and its residents, respectively. Mr. Burdette reminded us that Hurricane Hugo was the first costly hurricane and first major disaster in decades and that much planning had been done since it hit our shores and devastated our community September, 1989. He outlined the extensive plans that the Town of Mt. Pleasant has taken since that time to organize and better prepare before and after a hurricane. He cited the resiliency of the people after Hugo and how that alleviated both the emotional and physical impact. He said that without that, the recovery would have even taken longer. The clean-up of debris took 6 months and it stretched for 4 miles, was 60 feet high along a stretch of land where I-26 was being built.

In reading past minutes and records of the Creekside Homeowners Association after Hugo, we were reminded that there had been a $200 per lot special assessment for removal of debris, etc. from common property areas. We lost more than 1000 trees (mostly pine) in our parks. The cost of the tree cutting, tree trimming, cutting logs, piling debris, stump grinding, loading , hauling and clean-up was about $33,000.

Listed below are bullet points from Mac Burdette’s talk.