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MacBride, who has been the public face of the group since Fort Mill resident Teri Ackerman left the position in August, will join the Tega Cay Finance Committee in January.
"It would be a conflict of interest," she said.
MacBride was appointed to the position in a unanimous vote at the Dec. 20 city council meeting.
City Manager Grant Duffield thanked MacBride for stepping forward with an application to the committee after no one else in the city - other than the current committee members - seemed to want the job.
Both Steve Martin and Tim Bakker were reappointed to the three-member committee.
"I wanted to try to do something positive," MacBride said. "I want to maybe bring a different perspective to [the] Finance [Committee]."
A critic of the city's likely deal with Wal-Mart to build a 203,000-square-foot supercenter to anchor the proposed Stonecrest subdivision, MacBride has derided the council's willingness to work with developer Bryan Tuttle's company to put a big box store along Hwy. 160 West.
Citing a poll her group conducted showing a majority of respondents opposed to a Wal-Mart, she has accused the council of ignoring the majority of its constituents. The poll recorded responses from more than 800 Tega Cay residents and showed more than 60 percent opposed the Wal-Mart.
Despite her new role as a city advisor, MacBride said she is not abandoning her position against the presence of the retailer. Rather, she plans to take a less visible role with Us Against the WAL. She also said now is the time for members of the group living in Fort Mill to get active.
"It will be in their backyard," she said. "I'm not even going to see it. I don't shop at Wal-Mart."
Besides resigning because of the conflict of interest, MacBride said, for months the same small group of dedicated people has been showing up at meetings and leading the fight.
After all that, "I'm tired," she explained.