Full meeting transcript - August 27, 2024

» e e e Maybe for y heard [Music] this o' want to call want to call this meeting to order Pastor Clark would you come up please and give the invocation and yeah right there sir right by the microphone and also if you would lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance let us pray together dear Lord we thank you for this day for this marvelous occasion now to gather as the community to discern and to decide upon issues affecting our community bless these who lead us bless these citizens who have come with their interest let your spirit abide in this place oh God and when it is all done receive the glory we ask it and pray it in your name amen amen plge ALG to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all

» thank you so much Pastor okay if we could now we'll go we'll go ahead and uh move to adopt the agenda I'd make a motion to adopt the agenda is there a second I'll second any discussion do we have Mr Templar I there was a piece of the agenda did we want to talk about that now or uh if you would like some clarification on yeah I think there's uh Mr Templar I think wanted to clarify the item 10 new business um and I'll kind of turn it over to him if I could CH Mr chairman when did y'all have this conversation I talked to him I was going to make a motion that we move the new business item to discussion only but I think Mr Templer wants to clarify what it is he's asking on that agenda item go ahead Mr Templer thank you U so my original um decision was to put this under new business for an antici

» pation for a potential vote but after some meetings that uh staff and I have had uh between yesterday and today um with our Engineers as it relates to Pecan Orchard um I would feel more comfortable with uh leaving this item here but understanding there's no vote um and I would take this these these funding questions to the finance committee to better have a conversation with those individuals to um discuss the the funding mechanism for this and and if there are any potential other options they may have or any questions they may have about the the mechanics and the workings of pulling money from our emergency um reserves okay so basically what you're asking uh in your did you make an amendment Mr I didn't make an amendment I'm fine keeping it the way it is I just for purposes of public comme

» nts I wanted folks to know that we probably wouldn't be taking a vote we probably wouldn't be taking yeah well in other words we would not be taking a vote it's listed under new business which allows us to take a vote I was going to move to put it under discussion basically what you're saying is that you weren't ready to take a vote correct I think that you we weren't going to take a vote right the council I my motion was going to be to put it under new business because no vote was going to be but my understanding is but I understand what you said to me you said that we were not going take a vote tonight right so you must have talked to everybody and and decided this before we came in here no councilman Jones I've talked to different folks like we always do and I explain to them my understa

» nding is this didn't need a vote tonight and I just wanted to make it clear that the item on the agenda didn't need a vote tonight so we going to do it under discussion is that what you're say that that is correct that this would be a discussion item that's correct okay and that's not an amendment Mr Jones uh he's just saying that that's what what's going to happen so he didn't make an amendment I just want to make that clear do you want to amend the agend to put under discussion we can just to make it clear sure i' make a motion to amend uh to put item 10 uh P ored funding and add it as a discussion item as opposed to new business is there a second on the amendment I'll make a second is that where you want it to land sir I'm okay with that okay thank you Russell yes sir so uh all in favor

» of the amendment raise your hand let record show that brazel Tucker she may Kato and Jones vote in favor so it is the agenda is amended and that is put under discussion PE and or to discussion now to adopt the agenda all in favor adoption of the agenda as uh amended unanimous okay I think so I made the motion you made okay Mr deos Mr deos have a quick question under the order now the agenda has been adopted under the order of business the adoption of the agenda it says under the order of business of the agenda the uh agenda may be varied if required by the chairperson correct correct okay so the agenda has been adopted correct correct then I'm going to make a U order of the chair that we take the peak and Orchard funding and discuss it before we move any further so if you if you would gentl

» emen we'll go from discussion to before right before public comments so to be clear we're moving uh pean Orchard funding from new business to uh like a 4B yes 4B that'd be good all right now having said that I got one other thing first off let me say welcome chairman elect conell see you back there glad to have you with us tonight look forward to serving with you again now as the uh Vice chair acting as chair for this meeting unless anyone objects well first of let me just say this I have been through uh I'm getting surgery next week back surgeon I've been through a bundle of tests today and I am going to unless anyone objects I'm going to ask councilman brazle Tech to chair this meeting tonight unless anyone objects I think we need to take a vote in order to do that yes Mr Jones Mr deos we

» need to take a vote on that or just if anyone objects um as I understand y'all are calling for a point of order but deferring to me um on that point of order yeah I think the uh most proper method would be to take a vote to appoint an acting chair for this meeting um now that the point of order has been raised yeah I believe that would be the appropriate mechanism very good so we going do it by vote Yes sir all right I make a motion that uh councilman Vice excuse me councilman Russell brazle act as chair presiding over this meeting tonight in my place as as uh Vice chair is there a second I'll second is any discussion I'm I'm happy to do if that's what you'd like sir if no one objects we we'll go take a vote no discussion all in favor wonderful come here on the way Sir Mr acting chair may I

» say something yes sir go ahead the reason I did that is because we have people from The pean Orchard here and I do not want to keep them here for the whole meeting to wait for us to get through our other business and that was the sole purpose of what I did okay thank you yep we so we can go and have the discussion uh welcome everyone from Kershaw County it's a pleasure to have you here tonight um prior to public comments we will have a discussion regarding the pecan Orchard uh and and the the road works and the the water issues that that they've had in their neighborhood um this has been placed on the agenda by County Administrator Danny Templar so so do we need to take a motion to put this on the floor no it's already the agenda's already been adopted so I'll turn it over to you sir thank

» you sir members of council um as you know this this is uh just kind of the tip of the iceberg as it relates to storm water and the issues we have throughout the county um but I think this is the most if I had to prioritize all of our issues I would certainly put PK and Orchard at the top um initially I had my my approach to this was to um use a portion of a small portion of our emergency reserves as I tie this uh this latest issue with pean Orchard to the uh recent weather issues we've had so I think there's a corollary there between this this latest surge of storm water over there and in the recent weather therefore the uh it would be an appropriate use of our emergency reserves as it relates to um a disaster or something of that nature I also wanted to as we look at Pin Orchard my goal wa

» s to initially tap a portion of this the anticipated project cost to do the groundwork uh that would be surveying and topography and hydrology and just understanding uh the where water would flow over there where it needs to flow um the survey is is crucial because there's a 66t RightWay over there these are dirt roads and as we maintain dirt roads everywhere in the county they tend to drift a little bit in terms of um they move left to right so it we have utilities over there it's just a very busy RightWay wanted to make sure that we were working in the county right away not on private property understanding the kind of the pallet if you will of what we have to work with over there so um I was prepared to ask Council to move forward with allowing me to do that but as I stated earlier um I'

» m no longer going to ask for that I want this to go before the the finance committee to better understand um my reasoning for using those particular funds and um it just discuss and the approach to this the this project here um this is not going to be a cheap project um this is this is going to require a lot of uh expertise and and Professional Services and and quite frankly the county doesn't have the ability to go in with our current staff and and do a project of of this size so um the meetings we staff uh had yesterday the meetings we had today has has allowed me to understand just the how large of a scope of project this is as it relates to getting these ditches reestablished um as everyone knows this is a dirt road uh subdivision with no retention pond so that presents its own unique c

» hallenges um so we had a community meeting out there last week at the request of Mr Brazzle I thought that went well um so that initial rush to action has been tempered with uh a lot of information that has come to my attention uh from Engineers from from the residents out there and my goal is to make sure we get this done correctly I want to um do our part in solving any kind of uh insufficient ditching or or insufficient uh Pathways for storm water to the their points of um termination out there so all that to say is um it's going to be better for this to go before the finance committee and then also look at in the in the coming months to understand that we have a larger storm water issue in the county as a whole and I think um this needs to be looked at in in in a much broader scope uh b

» ecause this is again we have 300 miles of dirt road and almost every one of those have some sort of drainage issue and that's not even counting the uh probably 80 or 90 miles of Pavo we have in subdivisions that can be problematic as well so what I will be doing in the coming weeks is setting up a workshop for storm water for Council to attend I will have staff there I'll have our experts there uh from contracted services that work with us in storm water to help y all better understand the scope of this issue that we're dealing with um this is a long-term or seeking a long-term solution and approach to storm water in Kershaw County um a holistic approach from are what we have now in terms of ordinances and rules and regulations through Planning and Zoning for new subdivisions and developmen

» ts coming in um as well as funding potentially funding some of these um storm water issues that we have inherited from I would say they're kind of Legacy problems from times where pre Kershaw County regulation and ordinance so um the pcan Orchard is a fine example of that and so it presents unique challenges and I I I just I know there's from my experience here in administration there are other pecan Orchard like problems out there not quite to that scale or scope but they vary in complexity and in size so um that is unless anyone has any questions that is where I'm at on pan Orchard I wanted this to stay on the agenda um I I wanted to have this on the agenda rather to make sure that we are taking up action in a timely manner for those folks out there um this is something I want to see thro

» ugh um as quick as possible but I want to deliver a as as quality of a project uh and solution out there as I can um so administrator Templar Could you um could you breath the public on on the meeting that we had today at 2:00 or would you like me to do that i' be glad to if if if you want or if you want to is this paper pertaining to the P Orchard yes sir do you have this document if you don't I have it I'll be happy to do it I'll go ahead okay so on Tuesday August 27th 2024 at 2:15 p.m.

» the following met at the government center Administration and the conference room to discuss suggestions and plans on how to improve D drainage problems in the pan Orchard subdivision uh individuals present were Danny Templar County Administrator Gerald Blanchard Deputy County Administrator Dan canny from Public Works uh he's the director of Public Works Jonathan Hughes associate engineer of roads and storm order myself Russell Brazzle Danny Kato and Hannah parlor and she was kind enough to take these minutes for us during this meeting myself councilman Russell Brazzle suggested um phase one having the property surveyed by a local surveyor so that we can find the the the stakes in the front yards and locate property lines versus roadways um that will give us a clear view of where the road c

» ould or should be as well as ditches uh locate lines through the 811 um any any phone or Internet lines uh water and have all of those identified so that you know nothing was torn up with a with a trackco while we were in there digging ditches out I had suggested the use of employees of Public Works to maintain the project and restore the ditches and fixing the roads um so basically Public Works had had a large concern of pulling the entire staff of seven to maintain this project for 6 weeks and it would leave everything else in Kershaw County undone according to Dan canny so we we talked about things and kicked around different ideas and trying to hire different people and whether or not to send it to bid to find a uh contractor that could help or if we could hire extra people and do it in

» house and and all of that is still up in the air for discussion the County Administrator recommended the following uh to First hire an engineer to come with the plan of rest structure complete the survey of the subdivision as we had previously discussed and talk more about the plan with the finance committee before moving forward uh for for bids or moving forward as an in-house project and and there may be a hybrid solution but at the end of the day we look for a solution um we don't want to kick this thing down the road and keep kicking it down the road but we we want to gain support of our entire Council I'm not going to be bashful and say that that I don't want everyone's support in in finding the solution for the the drainage issues in pan Orchard I spent my Sunday morning uh driving th

» rough the subdivision and taking a personal assessment took about 25 and 30 minutes and we are committed to a solution um ladies and gentlemen you also find a survey we have the original surve survey attached here I think it's 49 or 50 lots and we have one with a topographical overlay with GIS so there are things that we can fix we can fix the drainage from the roads we can't fix the Topography of your lot so with that being said we're looking forward to solutions that that move the water through the ditches as best as possible we understand there aquifers on the property it was a working PE pecan Orchard at one point in time uh those problems we we probably can't fix but we probably can move the water through the ditches and make sure pipes are sized correctly and that sort of thing so thi

» s this is definitely a Hot Topic it's gotten everyone's attention and at this point I would like to send it formally to the finance committee for financial review and uh with with a abundance of GRA at itude for their service to to Kershaw County they meet a lot more than we do they they come in actually on Friday afternoons and crunch numbers so um I'd like to formally do that now and we can take a vote to forward this to the finance committee pending more discussion I just have a couple of questions sir for clarification if I could yes sir one I I really appreciate you taking your Sunday morning I think it was yes sir and riding through every single road with I think you had a friend of yours from dehe with you no no know it was my buddy Reed okay so him and his kids him and his girls we

» okay weide I think Russell wrote every single Road over there you know where I had some concern Mr temper is that the $150,000 is there was there was no documentation supporting that it was just $150,000 and then there was it was just there was it was nothing there I could not have voted on $150,000 without some kind of supporting documentation I think as to the my question is to what does it involve you did a very good job and explain that just now however there was nothing in the agenda packet for me to support voting for The 150,000 and if I could um ask the previous request that was sent to the finance committee for $832,000 excuse $823,000 to and of course I would like to hear from the finance chair if he wants to comment on it but uh that was brought to the finance committee today bef

» ore our meeting would you like for me to comment on it sure uh it wasn't the day before you meeting it was actually at Monday uh we met the finance committee myself and Mr Thomasson and Mr Shu U make on um the pcan AL uh orich and also some other matters uh staff threw some numbers out at us that uh we thought needed to go back and be revised and as uh the administrator has stated uh there was a lot of things due diligence that we didn't do that the finance committee asked the administration to do and so um none of that was accepted it was uh discussed and um asked for more information on meeting with people who have more experience with storm water uh the experts on engineering and survey and um that's where it's at so we didn't take any action or do anything we listened had conversation g

» ave back our feedback and then we asked them uh to fulfill our requests so that's how that meeting went Mr Jones and i' I'd also like to say I never went into that meeting with any intent of requesting and that document with $800,000 was an internal working document for me just by my staff uh to allow me to understand kind of the the the scope of what we could potentially have out there so it I want to say it was a um a rough estimate but I I think it with our Engineers it was a a close estimate it it it could go north of that or south of that it just depends on the approach but there I never um intended to ask for any funds or release and um as a relates to the documentation for tonight Mr Jones I I was just intending at at either point where I get to that point to uh ask for that initial

» money for due diligence it's just a request to proceed and allow me to engage and and get quotes and uh the survey is going to be expensive and so is the engineering so um there was $150 $175,000 range of just because that's what I had anticipated it being so there there no no paperwork or anything because we had not engaged any services at that point well yeah and I feel sure that the uh finance committee if they didn't have the documentation you wouldn't consider it correct no it was never brought up for uh consideration and nor was it requested by Administration um you know it was part of a discussion but you know these numbers were not hard numbers as far as what we all needed from the finance committee which was more more professional assistance help guidance whatever you want to call

» it and so that's what we charge the administration back with what I'd like to see is that we I think we do have easements out there yes sir yes and we also have ditches and some some of us have no ditches which we have to control the flow of the water the best we can I realize DEC has a have you been in touch with deck at all no sir not deck I do do yes sir apologize Mr chair yes sir is everybody I'm sorry I was actually I said I I was looking at the pictures from the rain as I said I was just I was conflicted conflicted with the numbers with 832 and 150 and what I'll say to to everybody in here and finance committee as well we need to make sure we got transparency yes sir thank you yeah absolutely um any further discussion I just want to say uh Mr U brazzo is that um when the finance commi

» ttee uh makes decisions and have something to bring forward um we will make sure that everybody's included and of course all of our meetings to open to all of us in here and the public there are um you know a advertis in the paper in the proper places they are posted on the website in a timely manner to meet the guidelines uh that we have to by state law and so therefore you're welcome to come up and sit and hear anything we're talking about there's there's no secrets here it's just about trying to do the right thing and figure out how to do that and I've said it over and over up here uh I'm seriously and and and and the team is looking and trying to come up with a fix with a plan as hard as we can and I know others are up here too um but I can't wave a magic wand Mr tuer I ask you a questi

» on yes sir would you support taking minutes to the finance committee no because we don't take a vote you can come up if you like and listen we we we don't vote you you have not seen a vote come out of the finance committee I just think it'd be good if we had minutes oh come sit come sit and join us and then you can take minutes my opinion sir don't get upset Oh by no means I can tell but anyway man I'm too tired to get upset you don't know how tired I am well listen let me just say this I think it'd be a good thing if we took minutes thank you you're welcome any any further discussion gentlemen all right so at this time because this is a discussion item only we we do not need to take a vote but I would like to refer uh the request for aund was it $150,000 for the initial survey and Engineer

» ing for the pecan Orchard to the finance committee and I would like to to have it back sir for a vote Mr chair we will we will get on that and we will let you know if the dates in the public when we're going to meet I know it won't be until after Labor Day because we're coming up on Labor Day weekend so it won't happen this week as soon as we can dial in our schedules with staff we'll let you know what that date and time is and location that sounds good look forward to it thank you sir yes sir thank you for your leadership Russell yes sir thank you sir councilman braz before we move forward I it's just a bit matter of housekeeping I just wanted to announce for those that might be wondering uh the councilman Tomlinson is not with us today because he's having some not feeling very well but ob

» viously he would be here if he could but that's why he's not here in ding I just want to make sure folks knew he didn't just miss the meeting I just thought he'd probably want people to know that he is under the weather he hope hope he gets better soon um moving on to public comments um how many how many do we have have signed up tonight sir we have six signed up to speak so by my math that's five minutes piece Five Minutes piece perfect um councilman shate would you mind reading the yeah public comment guidelines happy to public comment guidelines are as follows this is an opportunity for members of the public to share information with Council by speaking at the council meeting it is not however a time for debate or questions and answers from Council is the time for Council to receive inpu

» t uh in short public comments uh during public comments Council will listen to the public but not comment on the public comments individuals requesting to speak must sign up with their name topic and phone number which has been done offensive and inappropriate comments will not be tolerated if a group would like to speak we ask that one uh spokesman is selected from the group it's five minutes per person uh with a Max of 30 minutes as Mr debose just mentioned we're going to have five minutes a piece given the number and public comments a to council as an agenda item shall continue uninterrupted to be live streamed by Audio and video Until the public comment agenda item is finished and concluded and these rules may be altered by a single vote of council thank you sir um moving into public co

» mments could we have our first speaker please first speaker is Rose Jackson subject is pan Orchard thank you Miss Jackson welcome hi thank you I am Rose Jackson I'm currently the owner of 419 Blackberry place which has been the um discussion of many meetings and social media post post of late and I wanted to clarify some information related to that lot and also clarify some history related to the dirt roads being taken into um maintenance by Kershaw County I originally approached Kershaw County Council back in the late 90s and asked them to take our roads into maintenance and it had nothing to do with drainage at that time we were having some drainage issues but the issue was we had one neighbor that had scraped those roads but had had discontinued that and um my husband's grandmother lived

» down the road and 911 had told us due to the G of the roads she was no longer going to be able to be transported by ambulance so that was really what drove me to try to get the roads in to County maintenance also at that time I went before the CTC and obtained the forms necessary to get the roads paved in PEI and Orchard but we had to get over 50% of the residents to agree to the paving and I could not a achiev that because a number of our neighbors didn't want the roads paved so subsequent to that um my husband and I at the time divorc uh I'm sorry I acquired that lot 419 Blackberry place which was adjacent to my home 417 Blackberry place when the do decided to update the rest area we didn't realize how close that rest area was to us until we had built our house so I acquired that property

» as a buffer between my house and that rest area because we had a number of small kids in our family and we just wanted that protection Zone if you will well subsequent to that point we sold that house to the bearings um as part of our divorce settlement and we offer both Corin and Michael buing and um Miss saon Grooms on the other side of that lot we told them if we ever sold the lot it we would give them right of first refusal so I did that Miss Grooms had told me previously she had no interest in the lot she had more than she could take care of so I sent a text message over to Corin buing approximately a week to 10 days before we were going to list that lot for sale because I'm buying a new home so I said we're going to list this lot for sale are you interested we agreed to give you WR a

» first refusal she said what is the price I told her the price the list price and she said I'm not sure we can afford that and I have the text messages that I will provide to y'all from that point in time when we told her we were going to list it in about a week she questioned the comps related to the price that we had and she said we can't afford that coincidental to the time when we posted that lot for sale she renewed this fight with Kershaw County and as a result of the posting she has made on social media in that pecan Orchard group and some of the erroneous things she has said such as the low point is on 419 Blackberry place that is not true the low Point exists between those two lots on 417 and 419 those ditches were never designed to have a retainage pond on 419 Blackberry place the

» county has never approached me to buy that lot nor have I given approval for y'all to use it as a retention pond so what has happened as a result of all of this miscommunication and she has repeatedly stated Corin Beering has stated on social media that Kershaw County has represented to her that the runoff is going to go through my lot so subsequent to that meeting that was held in the pean orchard at 417 Blackberry place I had an executed contract to sell that lot and the the buyers backed out of that contract so I have personal damages now due to erroneous information that continues to be posted on social media sites it continues to be talked about and I'm very upset because if if it weren't for my efforts the county would have never have maintained those lots so because they can't afford

» the lot they have waged this social media War to somehow discount that lot and if they can't have it they don't want anyone else to so I am very upset and I want the county to deal with that thank all and I've got these copies if you would like them well we we don't try to wedge oursel between any personal matters and we like to keep uh the content of of our discussion General so um well the Count's being blamed for this so I think y'all are involved because she keeps saying and she's named Mr Templar she's named others as saying we were told that that lot could never be built on we were told that that lot would never Park and the county has not said any of that to us and it doesn't exist in any documentation okay I think our time is up we we will be happy to work with you in any form or fa

» shion to um resolve those issues okay thank you thank you if you could leave your contact information with okay thank you very much leave next speaker please Diane Robinson the subject is water e subject is what Mr deos water e as in the river okay gotta sorry Mrs Mrs Robinson yes welcome thank you thank you for being here tonight good afternoon evening you want to say um I've been here since I was born C could you pull the microphone a little bit it's a little hard to hear if you just pull it down just a little bit I've been here since I was born and um I won't tell you how long that's been 16 years um I was glad to see that y'all had the IBT thing on on the agenda so I thought well I'd bring up the the fact of the quality of the water I had emailed a couple of y'all last year and nothing

» nothing has been done it's the algae that is in our Cove we're in a very shallow Cove uh we're in the Sha area if y'all know where that is on the lake but anyway um I had approached or emailed Duke Energy back in 2011 about this stuff that was growing they actually sent somebody there and they verified that it was linga the very it's it's very um it stinks and it looks bad and that's why I I made pictures uh and and put them in on your desk um but anyway I'm hoping that with with your going to North Carolina water and and uh pursuing this thing of uh lowering the water that comes through water re because with the IBT and they're diverting our watery watery River to yadin River I think it is um that means we get less and that means you'll have more shallow areas and with that Yow area you're

» going to get the algae and um and nobody seems to know what to do with it but you know I'd like for y'all to just get a a barge and just scrape it and put it on a barge and try to find some place to put it that's basically all I needed to say thank you um my district is the lake the entire Lake in Kershaw County I'd be happy to talk to you about that and I'd be happy to work with you and Duke Duke power to help solve these issues if you could just leave your your your contact I'll be happy to reach out to you thank you all right next speaker please next speaker is nii Miles pan Orchard okay Miss miles welcome okay can you hear me yes ma'am um my name is NI miles and I know that the pan Orchard was brought up two weeks ago I was not able to come because my daughter had her first dance class

» but I want to start off by saying that I have seen more County employees in the pean orchard this last month than I have in the 5 years that we have lived in the neighborhood even when I have emailed for months asking the county to come out and dig my overflowing ditch in the rain um this is the most I've ever seen so I really do appreciate the response um I wish it would have been sooner but I do appreciate the response we are getting now I hope it continues until we have the issue in the pecan Orchard completely fixed in 2019 my husband who was 26 and I 24 P purchased what we thought was our dream home we were ready to start a family and when we saw the pecan Orchard property we thought it was the perfect place to raise a child in 2020 we found out we were expecting and we knew we would d

» o whatever we could to provide a life for our daughter our over the years the dream property has not been the dream we thought it would be because of the County's unmaintained ditches it has actually caused many issues for my family for example um do you guys know what three-year-olds love to do they love to play outside and when it rains my kid loves to put on her rain boots and stomp in her muddy puddles but in the pecan Orchard this is not an option my daughter cannot go out and play in the rain and stomp in puddles because the rain has already run through our neighbor's yards over unmaintained County ditches and into our yard the water draining into our yard had sewage in it and my daughter if my daughter plays in it she will get sick because the county hasn't maintained these ditches m

» y daughter can't do one of her favorite things which is play in the rain another example in April my husband and I set up a play area for our daughter we along with our neighborhood friends spent the day moving her playground equipment laying down landscape paper building a border around the playground and covering the area with bags and bags of mulch little did we know that in a few short months our hard work would quite literally be washed away because of these unmaintained ditches the wa if the water is doing this to my child's playground what do you think it's going to do to my home I understand the county is trying to come up with a solution for the drainage issues and I understand that you have all come and talk to us with your ideas for these plans but nothing has been set in stone a

» nd nothing has been approved when you vote to approve the budget to repair the pecan Orchard please think about the people who have invested thousands and thousands of dollars into these homes think about the money we the property owners have poured into the repairs because of the drainage issues please think about my sweet girl that doesn't deserve to play in septic water that flows through her y yard nor does anyone else please think about the thousands of dollars we pour into taxes each year the county is responsible for this drainage issue and the county needs to handle it before it causes unrepairable damage to the county members it may seem like this is not a big deal but you please remember these are our homes we live here we raise our families here and we pay taxes here we deserve t

» o have a safe and maintained environment for our families and ourselves the last thing I'd like to say is that I hope you don't get tired of hearing about the pecan Orchard the people that live here are very stubborn and I promise you we will not stop advocating for our homes until something is done to fix it thank you thank you ma'am appreciate that very much and uh it the words are not falling on deaf ears um our our fourth speaker please Michael burring pecan Orchard welcome Michael hey I'm uh fix this Michael burring um resident in pan Orchard um obviously it's a Hot Topic we're all talking about this so I'm not going to take up a lot of time um it's as simple as this for me is I know it's been a discussion for a long time with council with Administration um and I appreciate everything

» that that everyone's contributed so far Russell I know you you've been out there Jimmy you've been out there we've all looked at this together and had a lot of discussions about it so thank you guys for that uh thank you admin for for getting folks out there to do some preliminary work getting things cleaned up um I just basically want to read this to you as responsible stewards of County resources kersel County will deliver efficient effective and safe Public Services while remaining accountable to our residents that's pretty clear cut and dry guys um I don't feel like anything's being done efficiently at all it's not being done effectively or at least hasn't been in the past half a decade um and I understand these are inherited issues you still own them I I'm sorry for that but you do you

» have a responsibility to fix them thank you thank you Michael well noted and um you and I had a very positive conversation today and I appreciated that we will continue to work together until we find the solution um our fifth speaker please Corin burring welcome Corin P Orchard I actually have a few documents to would you like like to pass those out ma'am I think that's enough what are we passing out um just documents that I was going to reference so that way you'd have them in front of you as we have had done many times before as we have had done many times before Mr Tucker well you didn't take Miss Jackson on that's why I'm asking so if you're going to take people's stuff take it all and be and be consistent about what you do Mr Jones M Mr that's why I'm asking take a deep breath no I'm g

» oing to breathe on you in a minute Miss Jackson as well please we we'd be more than happy to have she had anything to pass out Lord have mercy we take them all all right walk us through this please um before I start I just wanted to address two people directly Mr brazle um I know that last week's meeting didn't quite go the way that either of us would have liked at one point but the way that you've handled the situation shows your true character and I I know you've been told that I was bad mouthing you um I made one post which was deleted immediately after you reached out and I questioned the intentions of those who said otherwise um and Mr Blanchard I don't know if you're still here but I just wanted you to know that we do see your hard work and we appreciate he wasn't here I don't know if

» he is now um everything and we look forward to finding a resolution now to why I'm here at the last council meeting Mr rasell called for a meeting to be held on site with the neighbors of pecan Orchard this meeting was held on my front yard on the 21st and while I didn't take a headcount I was told there were somewhere between 50 and 60 residents in attendance during this meeting we were informed by County Administration that no plan have been put to paper and that there was no budgetary number for any portion of this but that wasn't entirely true I received a small portion of my foyer request and one document shows that there is at very least some semblance of a plan this document was edited by a Kershaw County administrative employee who works in the register of deeds on August 6th and 7t

» h of this year it shows where you plan to remove establish trees and bushes and build up the intersection in one area it also appears to show the direction of water flow and last but not least it notes that there is no easement for the outfall of a huge drainage pipe that was installed down my property line in 2020 it notes it as owner maintained and well this is news to us because we were told that there wasn't easement how has this happened the water from this pipe flows out with tremendous force and its path isn't straight as you can see from the pictures that I have shared with all of you it takes a sharp turn to the left which forces water into my fence and down a portion of in a portion of it flows directly into my backyard damage to the fence in the backside of our property is bad en

» ough but we also must consider the septic water that flows into these dishes the water flows directly down Blackberry Place goes under the road and down the pipe straight into my backyard my backyard is where my three boys who are all here tonight play where we spend times with friends and family and our dogs I know most of you if not all of you have children we used to live next to a couple of your children you can't tell me that you would be okay with this this is a public health issue an issue that I've been trying to get resolved since since 2019 I know that many of my neighbors have been going at this for much longer at what point do we start to hold people accountable as you can see in the emails I provided you with I never received a response from County Administration when I asked w

» hat qualified them to determine water flow as there was no hyd Hydro engineer on site furthermore on August 10th 2021 um I was advised to get an attorney instead of being worked with to find a real solution to the issue this last email on the thread is from the same day where I asked how to get in contact with the administrator at the time and how to get in contact with him because we were clearly not getting anywhere never received a response at the time I'm not sure if the administrative office is trying to call our Bluff or if they think this will fizzle out and be a thing of the past let me assure you that we are not going anywhere and we will continue to show up and be loud until something is done council members I took the time over the weekend excuse me to collect the tax records for

» all the properties in pcan Orchard since 2019 the county has collected $518,000 plus doar the mission statement calls for you to be responsible stewards of County resources and you will deliver efficient effective and safe Public Services while remaining accountable to your residents we are not living in a safe environment and that has to change now thank you ma'am I appreciate your time and I appreciate your uh cordial delivery um look looking at the uh pictures that you've provided about it I definitely see some shortcomings in some uh of the outflow of pipe and uh it's pretty clear that the pipe's too short and probably too small so those are all things that Engineers will tell us how to fix appropriately and uh we will move forward with the plan do we have one more speaker correct Mr To

» m Webb subject is litter Mr Webb welcome thank you I have one question before you start did you bring me a can oh shucks got you some cardboard sir okay I'm still going to contend with you over your litter ordinance I don't like itance makes itable offense to own cardboard while broken down cardboard where is the litter problem with cardboard it's nowhere it's govern reach certainly not Republican small government to make people out in the boond Dos own no cardboard your cardboard ordinance comes to Bear against my First Amendment right first amendment doesn't give us rights there are god-given and unalienable and government is to protect them unalienable you have them whether you want them not and government can't destroy these rights but government can suppress unalienable rights and that

» 's what your litter ordinances do the way the litter ordinance harms my first amendment comes against my free free expression free speech freedom of the press and the right to redress my vment I do these things with cardboard I use cardboard for my sign you take away my cardboard and you make it difficult for me to communicate is that what you want so I'm turning in one piece of cardboard to avoid the $250 fine but I got some more cardboard that I'll uh that I'll make a statement about I think you should go back to mcmaster's litter ordinance it's it's more sensible so an example of my redressing the government with cardboard would be U this sign so I was on the street today with us for a little bit uh it's been three years ago yesterday that um we lost about a dozen men at the gate to the

» Airfield in Afghanistan when the withdrawal was occurring suicide bomb and Camala Cala had a lot to do with it and Biden uh I don't know exactly where it all went but it's our government backed away from billions of dollars worth of equipment they left it there in Afghanistan billions of dollars and it's in the hands of the Taliban and China so was it a mistake did somebody just goof up and make a mistake poor old Biden no some he's just a puppet somebody's pulling the strings so somebody didn't just make a mistake this was very purposeful don't you think billions of dollars worth of equipment in the hands of the Taliban in China I think so it smells so I'm turning in one piece of cardboard to avoid the $250 fine and I'll turn in this one another time thank you very much good to see you Mr

» Webb thank you for coming all right if that ends public comments is that everyone sir correct we will move on to public presentations we have a plus one award recipients uh here placed on our agenda by County Administrator Danny Templar Mr uh brazle before we get started can we get Mrs Jackson's information pass stop please absolutely Miss Jackson would you like to give that to our administrator ma'am and and thank you all thank you all for being here it's it's certainly our our duty and our privilege to to sit before you and listen to these issues and work through them together thank you sir all right moving along public present ations uh take it away administrator Templar thank you sir members of council um I'm happy to uh make this presentation tonight this is something I I wanted to do

» for a long time this this entire initiative here to really challenge County Employees to um come in do the best of their job and find one thing extra to do every day um thought that that would be some an initiative to kind of change the culture here but what I've quickly found out is that culture has been instilled and been a part of this organization for a long time and this is merely a a mechanism to highlight a lot of the good things that go on we have our detractors out there we always will but what I'm going to do is make sure that I celebrate what our employees do the good things um sometime you know we we are fallible we make mistakes um we don't get everything right every time but just every plus one re ient every plus one nominee has gotten it right they have gone above and beyond

» so I am beyond happy to talk about this at a County council meeting you have no idea what plus one is is a uh again it's a it's an initiative to encourage every County employee to perform their duties in the most professional and helpful manner plus do one thing in the course of their day extra our goal is to improve the Public's experience with Kershaw County government challenge County Employees to perform at a higher level every day and improve the County government relationship with the public our objective is to deliver a higher emphasis on customer service and departments servicing the public as well as those departments that service the County Employees internally such as it and um HR so the way this works is this is pure nomin a a uh a nomination uh platform that you're nominated by

» your peers so it's not a supervisor it's just where if somebody sees someone doing something and goes above and beyond in their daily course of Duties um they take this little card here and they just write a little handwritten note describing what they saw that exemplary behavior and I'm also happy to say that we're getting a lot of these from the public as well so that that lets me know that we're on track so in this particular instance as as well as we go along they are submitted are uh um employee Relations Committee looks at these these cards they nominate the best one each month that monthly winner if you will or that monthly notable employee gets put in a pool for the biannual award and then they are selected out this these winners were selected out of that by annual pool so um we hav

» e two EMTs and two firefighters that were selected for this award the biannual award we we presented this at the uh the employee luncheon the other week so just going to read you what these individuals did and how they went Above and Beyond on March 12th kersha County fire service and kersha County EMS were dispatched to respond to an address on beaverdam road for a medical call regarding a fall while unseen Lieutenant T Raven and firefighter C Baxley along with paramedic D Alvarez and EMT J Holland assisted the patient and were able to provide him with some food while on teen they noted that the patient had minimal furnishings and uh and no refrigerator so the patient was had limited Mobility due to a prior medical history and our Cas Kel County fire service Personnel in conjunction with E

» MS took it upon themselves to put together some money to pay for a hot meal as well as purchasing some non- perishable food items Highway One Cafe and cassid upon hearing about the situation donated lunch to the patient U allowing for all the money to be collected to be used on non- perishable items this afternoon or that particular afternoon they were Del they were able to deliver a meal to him as well as the items that that they had um taken up the com the collection for they also completed a home fire safety visit and installed smoke alarms for this resident so they were out there for just one issue but they went above and beyond and showed that human element that you will see a lot in our First Responders um they didn't have to do that came out of their own pocket and just showed this i

» ncredible amount of humanity for this individual that had had limited circumstances limited abilities and so if I could get those individuals to come up here and could you say their names again yes I don't think he said he did when he read the when he read the thing Lieutenant T Raven firefighter C Baxley paramedic D Alvarez and EMT J Holland are they here yes yes I don't think they want to know their [Applause] names uh sir if I can do a could we yeah could we invite him in you guys want to walk down yeah let's do that Ben Ben canel canel come on up here come on but Ben won't be long just come on you already pushed me out one time all right pop those zooms on guys zoom out [Applause] rough hey thank you guys congratulations that's that's really awesome and ladies yes thank you and if I can

» too I I think all of us know that councilman Jones thank you Danny temper was a public servant as well in law enforcement absolutely and as well as Mr Tucker and Mr Jones I was the best I I'd like to say this leaders lead in the fashion that administrator Templar just exhibited by shining the light on the employees that went above and beyond and not on himself and that that's how a leader builds a team and encourages a team so thank you for being that leader sir thank you and I'll just close out with this is the awards that these individuals will get so it's something they can display proudly on their desk and um it's kind of memorialize what they did and kind of and have all the other employees kind of come by and say well that's a plus one winner yeah it encourages others to do to do the

» same and AES to give that extra plus one up here sir can we vote on each other us six seven when you probably don't you probably don't want to take that vote no but thank y'all for allowing me to Showcase these individuals absolutely absolutely why wouldn't we thank you all right approval of minutes do I have a motion I will move that we approve the minutes second second all right we've got a first from councilman shate a second from Mr Tucker councilman Tucker any discussion thank you Miss Hannah as always the gentlemen and uh we can take a votee all those in favor it's unanimous councilman Jones councilman Kato myself councilman shate councilman Tucker all right moving on to ordinances a second reading an ordinance authorizing the amendment and reinstatement of restrictive covenants affec

» ting designated Wetlands tributaries and related buffer areas located upon the property within the industrial park in Kershaw County formerly known as Governor's Hill West Business Park pursuant to the requirements of the Department of the army permit number Sac 2006-03 871 do I have a motion to put this on the floor I'll make that motion Council you make we have a second second councilman Tucker do we have any discussion any discussion councilman shate nope all right I think I think we've been through this um kind of a mind um Nuance just delineating wetlands in uh in in the old Governor's Hill so all those in favor councilman Jones councilman Kato councilman shate councilman Tucker and myself unanimous all right uh Item B County ordinance review placed on the agenda by councilman Sammy Tu

» cker Jr do have a motion to put this on the floor make a motion that we uh put this ordinance on the floor so we can have a review and a discussion and whatever else yall deem necessary all right we hear a second I'll second all right second by councilman shate discussion Mr Tucker sir thank you Mr brazle uh very much so I'm going to lean on Mr deos as well um and uh this is making sure that we're following our own ordinance and um making sure that we understand um our pathway moving forward and um Mr deos uh was the um motion and second and vote taken today to place Mr brazo as uh chair of a meeting tonight in accordance with our ordinance yes and I think it was uh exacting to what Robert's Rules was have yes sir and so um with that I would just ask that um we make sure that um we're alway

» s going by what we wrote or what we adopted as as a council um moving forward so um we won't get any uh run any block blockage orad uh roadblocks or obstacles is what I'm trying to say and Mr Jones you brought up an interesting point um early in this discussion so I don't not sure how my colleagues feel but um you said you're getting ready to have surgery and um I personally would not have would not like to take this vote every time we meet on who's chairing the meeting so my question to you before I put a motion on the table is um are you okay staying in the vice chair position or do we need to appoint a new one at this time I would like to EXC excuse me I would like to appoint a new one at this time okay excuse my voice well if it's in order I would like to make a motion that we appoint R

» ussell brazo as our vice chair moving forward throughout the year I second that means a lot Sammy thank you sir we should take a yes the discussion right well any any discussion I was trying to Fast Track it listen I think it's it's welld deserved and I think that obviously um you know we have a new chair coming in and Mr Jones I want to say um you know the work you've done running the meetings both sometimes temporarily and then after the resignation of our of a chairwoman uh always kept us on time I mean did exactly what I think a chairman does so my hats off to you sir I think you did an excellent job running these meetings I want you to know that thank you and had you wanted to stay I would fully support that I know that so I I I have no doubt in my mind with all of you up here apprecia

» te it yeah i' I'd like to say thank thank you uh each and every one of you for believing in me uh it it's an opportunity for me to grow within this Council um I care dearly about my hometown and my home county and um I know over the past four years I've I've grown a lot in uh the ability to to show leadership and I I do appreciate everyone's uh support in this thank you so much you're quite welcome Russell I just want to say I'm very proud of you and I appreciate you taking this on and I know that you have worked well with chairman canell I will thank you sir he's bigger than you he is bigger than me he's giving me a look too Mr brazle yes sir this is your time this is your trial run now you got four months four months well I'm going to do my best no promises thank you you're welcome I just

» want to say thank you Jimmy um I appreciate your time that you spent as Vice chair you run the meetings efficiently um we didn't ever have any 5H hour meetings when you was running a meeting so I really appreciate that Russell congratulations well reserved sir look forward to working with you as well um don't take it lightly I don't I know you'll do a great job yeah thank you sir may I say one last thing um I appreciate y'all giving me the opportunity I really didn't want the vice chair when I took the vice chair but we did I did and I'm going to say this to you even though I work with him six years on County Council I'm not surprised at what he does he comes here but I'm looking forward to Chairman canel sitting up here too we got all our seats full we're ready to move forward and uh you p

» lan on being here when chairman 9:16 you mean September yes well there's there's no doubt in my mind that that it takes a a gracious man to to say those words uh political rivalries and battles are tough there's no doubt put your name on that paper and and and you run for a a position position you you're really sticking your name out there for uh anything to be said or done and you know talked ugly about and so everybody up here is has been through that and um I'm very proud of councilman Jones and I dearly look forward to Chairman conell coming on board and steering the ship so let's move forward thank you all all in favor oh I'm so sorry continue sir I want to tell councilman Jones Thank thank you as well um I thought you did an amazing job um I'm going to use your words back on you we di

» dn't always agree um but I thought you ran a good meeting and that you tried to keep us all inclusive and um that meant a lot to me so thank you for your hard work and thank you for stepping up when the time was needed congratulations Mr brow thank you Mr Tucker means a lot yes now we take a vote Yes if everyone is done all those in favor thank you all very kind of you thank [Applause] [Music] you all right councilman Tucker decided to surprise me tonight I did not see that coming moving to uh item number nine resolutions a resolution by Kershaw County Council opposing Charlotte's water proposal interbase and transfer modification request and I'm in full support of this uh we'll we'll take a motion and get on the floor and then we'll discuss it do I have a motion to put this on the floor I'

» ll make a motion we put this on the floor councilman Kato second second second councilman shate discussion councilman Kato would you like to go first or no I just turn this over uh Danny temper put this on the agenda um I think he can probably explain this a lot better than than I can but I I'm I'm wholeheartedly behind you 100% on this yeah I am too thank you I I'll turn it up our administrator please thank you um so this this came across from a a neighboring municipality and and um this is not just merely Following the Leader or following the crowd of being you um you opposing this move here this is to what I consider just these community's Downstream of this Basin being impacted negatively by this move of diverting water up in in Charlotte um and reducing our water lake watery you heard

» uh earlier in the um public comments the that the low water there has created some some issues with algae and things of that nature but and that and this is look this would reduce our lake level by at least three feet so um this is just doing what is what is important and supporting our our natural resource here and being locked up with doing the right thing with the neighboring counties and municipalities by opposing this move here so I I wanted to get this in front of y'all to get your support so we can send this to the appropriate place to let them know that we are opposed to this move also the city of Camden has has done something similar I wholeheartedly agree um would would anybody else like to I just have a i a question before so Mr Templar and I know Mr Tucker you this is the Cog ha

» s had some role in this as well but what where just for the public edification and bluntly my own what ultimately who will be the ultimate decider of this who ultimately because obviously we're this is a resolution we're telling them we oppose it but there's going to be some entity core of engineers who's ultimately going to make this decision and Grant or deny their request so there is um entities from my understanding multiple that that this is currently open in in it's the public comment period if you will as as Mo things are most things are to to understand the um the impacts and in from neighboring counties or or municipalities Downstream so I think it's an aggregate of of entities um so to to point at one particular one I I don't know if there is one Council M you got some knowledge o

» n this don't you yes I'm not quite sure who's going to pull the strings but if it's going to be like it was last time uh it'll be pulled in court yeah that's kind of what that's kind of what I was ultimately where it's going to end up at um because we're going to have to defend our share of the Watershed from Charlotte who's growing Leaps and Bounds and want to control and take and the young lady Miss Diane Robinson that stood up here she's absolutely right the less that flow is and then the more chances you're going to have of algae and things growing into those Co so um and then you know su's below us and claron is below them it affects all them and I'm happy to know that um the city of Camden has done their letter I just signed the letter for the Cog um absolutely um not agreeing to this

» we're wholeheartedly in our uh director of the Cog is on top of this with um some of our experts uh with the Cog just keep an eye on uh how this is going but I can't tell you who I actually pull the lever and say yeah orate but I can tell you we're prepared to fight legally to make sure that we don't decrease in our um gallons per day up there because we've already given back more than our fair share same help me I'm sorry go ahead oh I just one one last what I was going to say councilman Jones is you know and this I guess just to you Mr deos and Mr Temple obviously you know we may not be the entity that gets to decide whether or not Charlotte gets more water but to where I was going was where um Council M Tucker went to is we would be an affected party I would suspect withstanding in a lit

» igation so should that the moment come I'd like that for this County to keep a breast of that because it would be my recommendation that we join that lawsuit as a party uh cuz we would be grieved and I would think Mr deos me I think you and I would have the same analysis right I mean we have to show that we're injury in fact and I think we could absolutely show that in this case and and also the town of Elgen I don't know where they stand on their letter I think they've already did theirs um but they're they're in that um displacement as well um it affects everybody Downstream and the sad part about it another state another state is deciding what we're going to look like for the future because without water you don't grow Sammy what is the minimum that I know they can't drain the lake but w

» hat is the minimum they have to leave in our Lake uh I don't know that right off hand because I don't have that paperwork and stuff with me but I can tell you what Charlotte is asking for is not doable for survival for us it's not I agree I agree cannot happen period so in my campaign promise with the lake being in in my district is district one representative always said that I would support support clean water and our resources so if it takes a trip with the delegation the state get delegation and a group of us from the county uh to Charlotte to meet with folks to to solve this issue I'm all in happy to happy to put wheels in motion and um meet with folks and resolve this because we we will not be uh abused I can promise you there's nobody in Charlotte that's going to abuse anybody in Ker

» shaw County from a watershed perspective um it seems like it seems like being at the bottom of the funnel we always get too much water or too little and um if if it becomes too little it will become a major problem and we will address it so with that being said um any other comments discussion we vote to support the resolution unanimous councilman Jones councilman Kato councilman Brazil councilman shate and councilman Tucker thank you um Mr brow I appreciate the support from all our colleagues absolutely thank you sir um we've taken care of item 10 new business we've have some appointments it looks like councilman brazle if I just want to be if I'm clear here it looks like they're just we're just reading names into the record um yes cuz I miss Hannah can I I don't know if Miss Hanah you're

» the right person to ask us to but I saw the it looks like we have one member that is requesting not to be reappointed in the October term has Mr immens have made any communication to your knowledge about reappointment okay I I I sent him a message so so uh just for purposes of public transparency Mr imens was an appointee uh to the Planning Commission this year and he was finishing someone's expired term so he's only very recently been appointed uh than a year yeah colonel ikenberg was uh left the commission so technically his term expires in October so I've reached out to him members of council and asked if he's interested in being reappointed if he is it would be my intention to nominate him for reappointment given that he has only served a year uh obviously if he doesn't then we'll certa

» inly need to look at that and this is obviously with everything we have going on a very important commission so be your call on that yeah and so but I I think I just wanted to make clear so we're not so the purpose of this agenda item is just to put in the record who has applied not to call for vote on okay thank you thank you Mr good we we do have an application um jida Douglas um we we have an application here in a very very impressive resume has anybody been in contact with I I have not I just saw this today that's first time I've seen this okay so I would suggest we uh table this until we we can make contact and um make appr an appropriate motion to appoint to uh to say AB board there's two vacancies after we read these names into the records right Miss Hannah that's if Mr emons wants t

» hat includes Mr emens okay okay that's what I want to make clear okay so if things are unclear do we do we want to table or we want to read no no I have no problem table and out from Mr emons what is intent and then let's find a replacement for the chairwoman Miss Fiona and see can we get that this board fill back up this board does a lot of good work very important and it needs to be filled as quickly with good people now to be clear the chair Position will be elected by the by that body that's correct yeah we don't elect the chair for that so the Planning Commission will table this for for the time being until we can have further conversation pushing forward yeah and then we will we will bring this back up after we uh we've had the and then we all are search for another by uh person to se

» rve okay okay good good let's try to have it done by our second no late our second meeting next month we need to vote the table not table just push it Forward move it forward I think you the power chair just to because there's no vote right no no vote taken yeah okay okay we're okay uh moving to uh item 12 council member briefings almost as always St to my left if that's okay councilman Jones that's sometimes sometimes I like go last but I want to go first this time okay yes sir okay first again congratulations Mr PR Vice chair think you're going to do a great job and again congratulations to our chairman out there Ben canel I look forward to serving with him for the next two years and three or four months whatever and uh guys I appreciate Mr temper the pecan Orchard being something of impo

» rtance to you guys I really do and uh actually I do want to say this I am going to be uh I know I don't have to talk about my medical but I am I've got a back issue that I'm going be be getting a surgery on next week so I'm G if I'm not at the following meeting because I'm going to be walking that same day after three hours of being on the operating table uh Mr temper I'd like to make sure at at least got a I can phone call in yes or whatever you need I appreciate it I don't want my face on if I'm laying down the but anyway uh just want to make that clear but did y'all see uh um what's our Auditor's name Dennis arlot you see him in the hospital bed when he's getting sworn in I'm not going to be in the hospital bed getting sworn anyway thank you guys very much I appreciate looking forward to

» moving forward thank you councilman Jones if that's all Council M I got just a few things uh um first I want to talk about a something took place up at the mount pisga Resource Center um there's a blessing box that's been placed up there and I wanted to to announce that out um during the public for here tonight and um if any of you's ever seen a blessing box it's a box that has a clear front door to it it has non- perishable food items inside of it and different stuff for people that are in hard times or or homeless or whatever case may be so there was a blessing box placed up at Mount Pisa and I wanted to thank the people of the mount pisga Resource Center those folks um there have really put a lot of hard work into that Center and into this project I also want to thank Roy's Wood Products

» um they they helped us out with the the building of this box and the Box really looks nice so I really want to thank them for that too but uh if you're in need um or if you know someone in need there's some there's some stuff in that box um that'll maybe bless you throughout that day or whenever you need it um remember our sports teams we kicked off the sports season with the High School season uh this past week keep them in your prayers for their safety and uh try and get out and support one of our local high school or middle school or even our wck teams get out and see these young young uh people play and support them it really means a lot to to them and uh it gives them something to do rather than get in trouble so reach out and uh try and support these teams I'd also like to say a littl

» e something about the plus one you know I I appreciate Mr temper what you've done with that that is outstanding it gives us a chance you know we never get very much credit for any of the good you do it's always the negative that you hear and it's always how we should have done something different or done something uh better or you know how we how we could improve ourselves but we never we never really get credit for the good things we do and I I applaud you for doing that for the employees of Kershaw County there's a lot of employees in this County that do excellent jobs and uh I applaud you for that uh Mr Jones again thank you for your leadership as Vice chair and just to know our prayers are with you during this surgery I know you've had a hard time and I know you going through a hard tim

» e right now but our prayers are with you okay that's all I got tonight thank you sir um councilman shate yeah just a couple of brief things again congratulations Vice chairman uh thank you welld deserved and as I said before councilman Jones obviously here in our prayers and thank you for running some great meetings um again congratulations to firefighter Baxley Lieutenant Ren paramedic Alvarez and EMT Holland that's really really awesome uh and just my hats off to you this exactly what represents this County what makes this County great so I know they had to step out but congratulations to that um obviously schools all the way full back in session so if you're wondering if school's in session G on Highway 12 about 7:30 in the morning 3:00 in the afternoon you will be quickly reminded um yo

» u know again safety to all the teachers one of whom is is my wife um and you know all the kids going to school the drivers as having two teenage drivers in the house I know that stresses every parent out as they stare on Life 360 and kids are blasting I'm feeling 22 or whatever kids are listening to these days probably not that cuz song's 10 years old um moving on to sports as Mr KO mentioned uh luga Elgen had a 3534 squeaker victory over Lower Richland uh pretty amazing and congrats to the football team a special shout out to Camden cheerleader unrelated Emma cotton who is a wonderful young lady and uh my son is lucky enough to be her boyfriend and congratulations to her senior year of cheer um related at the time that's right we have uh a great charity in Elgen for those of you who have n

» ot done any work with it called blanketing families and they've done a lot with the county they set up a community park they have a uh giveaway tomorrow a uh you where they give meals and things like that at Elgen Town Hall tomorrow at noon they do it almost every month sometimes more and I just again a shout out to those ladies with blanketing families because they do a tremendous amount of charity work there in Elgen and through Kershaw County so if you know a family in need or if you are our family in need tomorrow noon Elgen Town Hall uh they will be doing a food giveaway and uh that is all that I have thank you thank you councilman sheate councilman Tucker yes sir Mr braz thank you so very much once again congratulations uh Vice chair um Mr Jones I'm going to say to you uh because I kn

» ow um Only the Good Lord moves and does things for us in a miraculous way uh I know you'll have good hands on you because you'll have his hand through mankind but I really wish you a successful and speedy recovery and um I know your head's hard as a rock but please try to do what the doctor asked you to do um so you can walking that day okay I I'm I'm just saying the older we get the more stubborn we get I ain't far behind me but um but we we wish you well we really do um also want to uh say m k you only bragging on those non Central nights cuz beat the T out of somebody Friday I don't know who it was but 56 to oh Great Falls yeah I heard y'all look real good and uh that's good to hear for the all the schools uh as we're getting into football season so I'm with you let's try to get out and

» support the schools and and the communities and things and um have a little fun and get to see some of your uh neighboring folks or folks you may not live near but uh Kershaw County Citizens um and you can Fellowship some uh the other thing I want to say is um happy labor day we got Labor Day coming up this weekend please be safe uh it's another dangerous travel time for us um enjoy the long weekend that's coming up to the County employees and to all that jobs may do the same for you and um we hope to see you here in about another two weeks and we'll be back at it and the finance committee will get together we will get a time with staff we will announce it and I just can't say enough for the pcan or uh pcan Orchard folks you are invited if you want to come um that's probably not going to be

» the only topic on the agenda but um we don't stay 11 12 hours either so um you're welcome that's all I can say thank you Mr Vice chair thank you councilman Tucker um thank you for the kind words thank you for the surprise that was very kind of you um quite welcome I want to thank all my colleagues for the opportunity um you know in year four things changed between year one and year four and if you'd have came in here oh I'd say about three years ago you would have seen councilman Jones and I probably edit over something he and I he and I both uh a bit hard-headed and aggressive at times but I want to say Jimmy Jones has become a good friend of mine I appreciate everything that that you did in the interim and um getting us to this point and I appreciate you uh let me assist chairman conell l

» ooking forward to having Big Ben back set next to him for two years until he left us for the state house and now he's going to come back with a lot of positive relationships and uh a lot of good for the county so I look forward to everybody working together and thank you all for for this opportunity um I am sure I'm forgetting something but without further ado administr Templar your briefing sir thank you sir um just want to read something really quick because it was mentioned tonight um Kershaw County Mission as responsible stewards of County resources Kershaw County will deliver efficient effective and safe Public Services while remaining accountable to our residents um these are not buzzwords this is something I lead by this is something that holds me accountable um this is something I t

» ry to have this organization live up to every day every project with every customer that comes in every interaction um every phone call every email are we perfect no do we strive to do better absolutely we always will um we have an amazing group of men and women that work here for this organization and I just can't speak enough about them um things don't happen overnight projects are sometimes Larger than Life there's questions of funding there's questions of approach there's questions of what makes this problem go away um those aren't always easy questions to answer so um pan Orchard is a priority of mine um I told those people I delivered a a not a promise but I let them know that we have some responsibility out there and we're going to live up to that just as this mission statement says

» so we will live by that and we that that will be our guide so just want to throw that out there real quick one more quick item uh Planning and Zoning really proud of this because I feel like Planning and Zoning has been making some changes down there um to really going back to our mission statement to really embody that and and embrace that so today uh they had a lunch and learn with um the South Carolina manufactured housing Institute they probably had 30 or 40 people down there at uh Economic Development they were have able to have some really solid discussion um some education on both sides of the table they it was very well received very well attended I think every share was full and um so there will be some more updates from that because the individual that is over the uh that manufact

» ured housing Institute for South Carolina was just absolutely pleased with the outcome said this was the only County Kershaw County was the only County that is doing anything like this with this type of thing for the manufactured housing industry they were able to have a communication that was um very positive as to where they the our staff our Planning and Zoning staff and the manufactured housing authority were able to get on the same sheet of music that could potentially cut up to $88,000 off of the setup of a manufactured home um wow up to so and you know if it not every that could be impactful for somebody that is um choosing to live in that particular type of setting maybe they have a lot of land maybe they just choice but that could be the difference in um maybe the type of home they

» get a couple more Acres who knows so I am extremely pleased with that report there's a little more to uh some of some of this feedback that will come back from these individuals but again they were just very pleased um and and and we've been doing this this is something we've been wanting to do to increase communication and Foster relationships with our local Builders and developers so they understand what what the expectations of Kershaw County planning and zoning department is um we've made strides down there to really again Foster these these opportunities to work with our local Builders and and you know our our national Builders we we we we can't pick and choose our customers but whoever comes in that door whether you're building a deck for yourself or you're developing 30 Acres um we w

» ant to provide the same amount of service we want it to be consistent and again living up to these principles of our kersha County Mission so just wanted to share those two items with you that's all I have and um again thank you so much for allowing me to uh brag on our plus one people thank you if I may just briefly um when it comes to department heads and Leadership attitude is everything and these sort of lunch and learns and um get togethers gives us an opportunity to break down barriers in in talk as as friends and humans and I appreciate these things and I'm glad that they're happening we need to be business friendly here in Kershaw County uh we need to be responsible as as to how we move forward in development we we all have have had these conversations but thank you for doing this a

» nd I I credit Joey down there and Sam they just they do an amazing job and um they are hungry for these opportunities to get better so that's wonderful thank you so much thank you Joey thank you Sam all right attorney's briefings I've got nothing other than what I promised to be a very short executive session huh all right promise a very short executive session but have nothing for Open Session promises promises I'd like to invite the chair like to go in with us if that's it is legal he's shaking his head no so we're going to leave him out okay so you're welcome sir that's our first disagreement [Laughter] but not noted as U as a very gracious off good kind humble gesture the kind of man I am absolutely and we appreciate that um all right all those in favor of going into the executive sessi

» on motion first oh motion put on for please make a motion that we go to Executive session for legal advice from our County attorney I'll second all right all those in favor here we go all right e e e right coming back out of executive session um we received legal advice let's come back out so we can record okay make a motion to come out executive session second all right all those in favor councilman Kato brazle shate Tucker yes sir um we received uh legal advice pending a threatening claim covered by attorney client privilege no votes will be taken so we are out of executive session um do I have a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn Mr Vice chair second second all right adjourn have a good night