Mount Pleasant Magazine Jan/Feb 2015

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next two decades, DeMoura insists
that it won’t look much different
than it does now.
“You’ll come across the Ravenel
Bridge and see trees. That’s what
Mount Pleasant looked like yester-
day, that’s what it looks like today
and that’s what it will look like
tomorrow,” he said. “The fact that
this community is still as beautiful
as it is and the fact that people still
choose to want to live and invest
here is a success story. In five years,
there will be more people and
more buildings, but the character
will remain because of the plan-
ning efforts of this town.”
Planning has indeed been a high
priority for Mount Pleasant since
DeMoura took over for longtime
Town Administrator Mac Burdette in
October 2010. He immediately went
to work implementing the town’s
long-term plan, a comprehensive
vision of how the town should grow,
and established a five- to seven-year
strategic plan and an emergency plan,
so the town will be able to react to
emergencies such as hurricanes.
“Being strong financially al-
lows us to weather unexpected
ripples,” DeMoura commented,
pointing out that the town’s
bond rating was recently up-
graded to AAA. “Our finances
have never been stronger. If there
is a hurricane, we can spend the
money to respond. The people
are counting on us.”
DeMoura gave much of the
credit for the town’s continued
success to his predecessor.
“Mac Burdette was one of the
finest local government managers
in South Carolina,” he comment-
ed. “I feel lucky to have had the
opportunity to learn from him.”
In addition to long-term, strategic
and emergency plans, DeMoura and
the town’s elected officials have estab-
lished a Capital Improvement Plan,
depositing more than $3 million a
year into a fund that will help repave
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Mount Pleasant Director of Transportation Brad Morrison and
Town Administrator Eric DeMoura discuss upcoming projects.
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