To the letter, Seneca awaits response

After about 30 minutes, a Seneca City Council executive session broke up without the elected leaders acting on legal advice on the pending legal matter with the Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  The mayor and council went into that closed session with their city attorney, Bo Bowman.  Afterward, 101.7/WGOG NEWS gleaned a comment from City Administrator Scott Moulder, who serves as a city representative to the JRSA and who chairs the commission board.  And, about the possibility that Seneca could back down on its demands, he said, “It’s hard to withdraw something when you haven’t even received a response to it.  We continue patiently to wait for formal written responses to the demand letter….” That letter notifies the other Oconee municipal JRSA members that, in accord with the documents creating the political entity, Seneca expects the others to agree to a board re-alignment to better reflect that city’s standing for voting authority.  Last week Westminster City Council designated a Columbia-based law firm to represent its city in what’s seen as a threat of court action.