Thirty county officials, including a Dillon County official, graduated recently from Levels I and II of the Institute of Government for County Officials during the 44th Annual Conference of the South Carolina Association of Counties (SCAC).
Dillon County Council Chairman Archie Scott graduated from Level II.
The SCAC — in cooperation with the Institute for Public Service and Policy Research, University of South Carolina, and the Strom Thurmond Institute, Clemson University — holds the Institute of Government for County Officials three times per year.
The Institute of Government provides county officials the opportunity to enhance their skills and abilities to function more effectively.
County officials must complete 27 hours of instruction, including 18 hours of required topics and 9 hours of elective topics, to graduate from Level I.
They must complete 18 hours of instruction to graduate from Level II.
The SCAC, chartered on June 22, 1967, is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization whose membership includes all 46 counties in South Carolina.
Governed by a 29-member board of directors elected each year by county officials at the association’s annual conference, the SCAC is the only state organization representing county governments in the state.