After winning re-election, Orangeburg Mayor Michael Butler says he wants to continue the improvements started in his first term.
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“Everywhere we look, something is being developed around here,” Butler said. The city is anticipating more development in the future.
Butler was re-elected in September to a second four-year term.
After garnering 1,055 votes, or 64 percent, to Paul Miller’s 601, or 36 percent, Butler said the citizens of Orangeburg made their voices heard.
“It felt great to win the re-election,” Butler said. “It just encourages me to continue to work harder to move the city forward.”
When he won his first election in 2013, Butler became Orangeburg’s first African-American mayor. He said he was almost in a state of shock at the time.
Butler wasn’t sure he knew what he got himself into then, but now he feels more confident with the experience he gained during his first term.
Since that first election win, Butler has graduated from the Municipal Association of South Carolina’s Municipal Elected Officials Institute of Government and has gone through three storms that impacted the city.
He has faith that the city will continue its work on projects included in the Capital Projects Sales Tax list.
“We have strategically established our priorities for the future,” he said.
Butler noted the city’s major projects have included providing $600,000 toward the improvement of city-owned streets, $100,000 for city sidewalks, $100,000 for the city and county library, $400,000 for Mirmow Field improvements and $3 million for improving Railroad Corner.
He said before the end of his second term, he hopes to see Railroad Corner developed and blooming as a major section of Orangeburg.
In addition, Butler said he would like to see the downtown corridor developed in the same fashion as Aiken’s or Rock Hill’s.
“They usually compare Orangeburg to Aiken and Rock Hill,” he said. “I hope to see us as productive as Aiken.”
This would include entertainment options, recreation and housing opportunities.
“I hope to see that kind of development,” the mayor said.
Butler wants Orangeburg to have its own housing authority and bring back a homeless shelter.
He plans to push for some areas to be labeled as historic districts and even for a street to be named after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Butler said he wants to continue to foster the relationship with the county as well because he feels the two entities have grown to have a better work relationship during his time in office.
Most importantly, he said he just wants to see the city come together.
“I hope to see the racial divide eliminated,” Butler said. “I hope to see all of us join together as a city and just be together.”
He said he will not let the voters down, adding that he asks those who didn’t vote for him to trust that he will work for them as well.
Also during the September election, incumbent Richard Stroman was re-elected with 388 votes, or 69 percent, to Jim Johnson’s 171.
Jerry Hannah won the District 3 seat with 163 votes, or 48 percent, against incumbent Charles “Buddy” Barnwell, who received 136 votes. Gene Gartman Jr. received 38 votes, or 11 percent.
L. Zimmerman Keitt was automatically re-elected since no one filed to run against her.