PRIORITY OR GOAL | ASSIGNEE | STATUS |
|---|---|---|
| Safety | ||
| Priority 1: General Safety | ||
| -Public Safety Committee -Isle of Palms Police Department -Isle of Palms Fire & Rescue | Complete. Consistent effort. Police Department and City Public Information Officers have been working together to push time sensitive notifications through Sunnie text alerts. Currently Sunnie reaches 1,300 contacts and Facebook reaches 13,000 followers, regularily gaining over 100k views per week. |
| -Public Safety Committee -Isle of Palms Police Department | Complete. There was a state law ammendment in 2025. The Police Department made an effort to educate the residents about operating rules and began enforcement with warnings initially. |
| Public Safety Committee | Analysis is complete in several key areas. We have budgeted to replace the 41st Ave digital speed limit sign. |
| -Public Safety Committee -Isle of Palms Police Department -Environmental Advisory Committee | Trapping is ongoing. Police Department works with volunteers to distribute brochures and kits developed by the IOP Control Coalition in 2017. Animal Control officers hand these out with a focus on areas with reported sighting. We continue to engage professional trappers. |
| Priority 2: Beach Safety | ||
| -Public Safety Committee -Isle of Palms Police Department | Ongoing. The City's shift in parking management to a third party has allowed the Police Department to increase their presence in more pressing areas. |
| -Public Safety Committee -Isle of Palms Police Department -Isle of Palms Police Department | Complete. Beach visitors are consistently made aware by notice boards. |
| Public Safety Committee | Ongoing. The Police Department has created and distributed flyers surrounding ebike safety. Our state legislator has introduced a bill at the state level that will help improve the safety of ebikes. Police Department has increased patrol in areas that have been problematic, such as the Rec Center. |
| Public Safety Committee | Settled - not legally possible. State open carry law prohibits communities from bann ing fire arms from public places of assembly such as the beach. The city can only ban firearms at events with set areas that have controlled access into and out of the festival area. City council would then have to do a resolution for each event each year to designate it as an area where firearms were prohibited. Currently the city does not operate these events in a manner that would authorize them to take the action to prohibit firearms at the events. |
| Ongoing effort. Our Beach Service Officers check the beach nightly during the beach season and they tag items each night for the Public Works department to pick up. That is then called over to PW to let them know that there are items to be retrieved. | |
| Priority 3: Pedestrian Safety | ||
| Public Safety Committee | Underway. The City has embarked on a mobility study together with the Charleston, Berkely, Dorchester Council of Governments (CBDCOG). Aditionally the City requests funding every year from the Charleston County Transportation Sales Tax program to enhance pedestrian safety. |
| Priority 4: Bike Safety | ||
| Public Safety Committee | Underway. The City has embarked on a mobility study together with the CBDCOG. We have a project underway to replace and improve the Waterway Blvd multi use path. |
| Priority 5: Public Safety | ||
| Public Safety Committee
| Underway. The City currently has a compensation and incentives study being done by Evergreen. Both Fire Department and Police Department chiefs are working on making positions more attractive by selling the unqiue nature of working for the City of Isle of Palms, such as water rescue. |
| Priority 6: Supplementation & Growth | ||
| -Isle of Palms Police Department -Isle of Palms Fire & Rescue | An ongoing and constant effort. |
| Priority 7: Tools & Equipment | ||
| Public Safety Committee
| An ongoing and constant effort. the Police Department and Fire Department constantly evaluate specialized equipment such as fire boats. The Police Department purchased a paddy waggon to mass transport threats, added a K9 unit, and may add tools such as a drone that is housed on top of the public safety building. The drone would be flown remotely by various staff members, allowing live streaming in the case of emergency to remote staff, a 24/7 capability. |
PRIORITY OR GOAL | ASSIGNEE | STATUS |
|---|---|---|
| Quality of Life | ||
| Priority 8: Recreation & Social | ||
| Public Services and Facilities Committee | We’ve added furniture (chairs and ottomans) to the lobby, added charging stations to the lobby and tables in the hallway to provide updated spaces for homework or work from home opportunities. Added different style picnic tables to the outside spaces, added Pollywood dining set to the front entrance and additional bleachers for athletics & spectators. Added Adirondak chairs to dog park for an event, they were such a hit we decided to keep them in the dog park. |
| -Public Services and Facilities Committee -Isle of Palms Recreation Center -Environmental Advisory Committee | Programming additions include youth lacrosse clinics, adult volleyball, mahjong lessons & tournaments, expanded the speaker’s series focusing on environmental & natural habitats, financial health & planning, and health & wellness resources. Free programs such as beach yoga and informative sea strolls. New Events such as Art & Cars in the park and Coffee & Canines. Youth Reading Classes, Around Latin America (cultural youth class), Flower Power (adult arts & crafts/ flower arranging/social), Puzzle Competitions (social), fitness workshops to include Foam Rolling (how to release pressure points), Bone strength and Movement (stimulate bones & build more tissue/ in conjunction with the osteoporosis speaker series). |
| -Public Services and Facilities Committee -Isle of Palms Recreation Center | Ongoing. Currently sending photos and PSA’s to local papers and advertising on online calendars, utilize Facebook and Instagram for advertisement purposes, registration periods, upcoming classes, participants and residents love seeing photos and that typically gets the most attention. As for two-way communication, we need to continue to work on. We publish an Activity Guide 3 times per year and is delivered to schools and local businesses, online copy is available on the city website, and we use the City Calendar for events. |
| Priority 9: Noise & Light Mitigation | ||
| -Public Safety Committee -Isle of Palms Police Department -Environmental Advisory Committee | Ongoing. There is a noise ordinance ammendment forwarded by the public safety committee and a lighting ordinance from the EAC to be considered by council in the first quarter of 2026. |
| Priority 10: Short Term Rentals (“STRs”) | ||
| -Planning Commission -Isle of Palms Police Department | Ongoing. The City has dedicated staff to monitor and has implemented rentalscape software to help identify short term rental activity. |
| Priority 11: Communication | ||
| All City Departments | |
PRIORITY OR GOAL | ASSIGNEE | STATUS |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental | ||
| Priority 12: Leadership | ||
| Environmental Advisory Committee | Underway. The City has budgeted for and is creating a job description for a full time resilience officer. |
| -Environmental Advisory Committee
| Ongoing. City staff constantly enforce stormwater drainage plan requirements, dumping prohibitions, tree removal, beach protection regulations. |
| Environmental Advisory Committee | Underway. A Good Neighbor brochure is underway and planning a resilience exposition for the community in May 2026. |
| -Planning Commission -Environmental Advisory Committee | Ongoing. The City has embarked on resiliency projects including flood barrier on the back side of the lowest parts of the island, such as the Waterway Blvd multi use path, and continues to plan and implement resiliency projects identified in the sea level rise adaptaion and drainage plans. |
| Environmental Advisory Committee | Ongoing. In 2025 the City installed solar panels on the public works facility to signify to the public in a highly visible location the importance of green energy. Public facilities community has had discussions with Dominion Energy about potential future locations for EV charging. |
| -Environmental Advisory Committee -Public Relations | |
| -City Administration -Public Relations | |
| Priority 13: Beach Restoration & Preservation | ||
| - Beach Preservation Ad Hoc Committee -Environmental Advisory Committee | Complete. This is being done bianually. |
| -City Administration -Environmental Advisory Committee -Beach Preservation Ad Hoc Committee | Complete. The City is preparing for a major restoration in 2026 and we continue to monitor for potential projects. |
| -City Administration -Environmental Advisory Committee | Complete. |
| -City Administration | |
| Priority 14: Flooding/Storm Resiliency | ||
| Public Services and Facilities Committee | |
| Public Services and Facilities Committee | |
| Public Services and Facilities Committee | |
| Priority 15: Building and Eco-Corridor | ||
| -Environmental Advisory Committee -Beach Preservation Ad Hoc Committee | |
| Environmental Advisory Committee
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| Environmental Advisory Committee -Planning Commission | |
| Priority 16: Litter | ||
| -City Administration -Environmental Advisory Committee | |
| Public Services and Facilities Committee
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| -Environmental Advisory Committee -Public Services and Facilities Committee | |
| -City Administration -Environmental Advisory Committee -Public Relations | |
PRIORITY OR GOAL | ASSIGNEE | STATUS |
|---|---|---|
| Seasonal Impacts: Parking and Traffic | ||
| Priority: Parking | ||
| Public Safety Committee | |
| Public Safety Committee | |
| Public Safety Committee | |
| Public Safety Committee | |
| -Public Safety Committee -Administration -Parking Management | |
| Priority: Traffic | ||
| -Public Safety Committee -Isle of Palms Police Department | |
| -Public Safety Committee -Isle of Palms Police Department | |
| Planning Commission | |
| -Public Safety Committee -Parking Management | |