Full meeting transcript - January 28, 2025

» reading this that's not good no next month i'm trying to do it on the beginning of my meeting good evening ladies and gentlemen glad to have everybody out tonight let's go ahead and call the meeting to order january 28 2025 kershaw county council meeting we're going to get on to the agenda first item we have is an invocation by councilman sammy tucker jr thank you will we all stand please let us bow our heads and open our hearts uh god father almighty we come to you as humbly as we know how asking for your mercy and your grace we thank you now for life health and strength we thank you for this day and the many blessings that you have stored upon us we ask now father that you cover our hearts and our minds as we deliberate the business of the people up here let us always be aware and alert a

» nd passionate about what the people are saying and trying to deliver to us bless our men and women that are continuing to fight for our freedoms and liberties that we're so blessed to have in this country give us travel mercy to our destinations as we depart this place but never from your presence we ask now for good hearts our minds and clear heads in jesus name we amen amen amen amen amen i pledge allegiance 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 mr tucker that brings us to adoption of the agenda item four gentlemen do we have a motion make a motion we accept the agenda as presented mr tucker is there a second second mr kato thank you any discussion seeing none we'll ca

» ll it for a vote all in favor raise your hand miss hannah it's unanimous for the record that brings us to item number five on the agenda public comments mr dubose we have many lines skip let me do some math here real quick or we have 10 public speakers all right we've got 10 speakers i'll let you uh compute the time so that we can put it up on the screen just a reminder that this is not a time for q a with council it's time for council to hear from the public uh directly and generally and uh in conformance with the guidelines already been published mr bose who's the first is that three minutes each three minutes each okay you got that mr bose who's the first speaker paulie hock aod miss hock i also told you that i was not material affected by the new aod zoning lastly i told you that my nei

» ghbors my neighborhood and my quality of life are things i care about deeply i then asked for the cost benefit analysis for the articulated 22 million dollar airport improvement project that i could only conclude was a way to get federal and state grants these grants would benefit a very few people in kershaw county and have serious financial and quality of life consequences for property owners ordering the airport i have not asked hard questions purely operational financial and regulation data on january 19th again on january 24th again on january 27th i have received nothing but silence so i give up it's my conclusion that you decided to hire a contractor and incur expenses without any cost benefit analysis and you have no intention to share operational revenue or expense data that would

» justify the incurred and future expenses for a historic amenity landlocked private plane and private pilot airport so i quit as of yesterday there's a federal moratorium on grants the 1.8 billion dollar surplus and the state has vanished i would have thought you would have willingly provided information to justify at least the 1.9 million dollar runway lighting rehabilitation project especially in light of your openly stated mission i was wrong thank you for your time and attention thank you miss hawk mr dubose tom webb the third litter mr webb i'm glad to see that some people have stood up for themselves concerning the airport situation and and gotten results i think yesterday was holocaust remembrance day it's a time when government turned against its people the jews in germany and they p

» assed some laws and it made it hard to be a jew they passed some more laws but the jews were law-abiding people they figured that they would just abide the laws and everything would be all right but the laws kept changing until jews themselves were outlawed locked up in camps and you you know the rest of the story but it came really close to happening here it really did i think because when hillary was running against trump the first time she spoke glowingly of fun camps for men she figured men would be the ones who would resist and she was going to put them in camps concentration camps so we came really close to seeing something dreadful happen here i think anyway government sometimes screws up and it seems to be the nature of the beast and i think you've done it with your litter ordinance

» there's some things that have been outlawed that people naturally would have out in the boondocks and unincorporated areas of the county like glassware and crockery and cardboard and cans it's illegal to have those now you can get fine 250 dollars but it also gives us certain things it grants us to have a betting on private properties kind of unusual thing to have in an ordinance but it goes on to say there's some other things that that they're giving us they're giving us rights for instance for a yard cleanup litter so i'm turning it in today and turning some in it's just my statement because if you can give me my rights you can take them away and i object so i'm turning it in you can't give me rights i already have i was born with them so thank you very much mr webb thank you mr debose ne

» xt speaker is lynn conto aod and the equine community miss conto my name is lynn conto i live at 1265 sanders creek road and i'm here to talk about the aod i want to thank you for considering different amendments to the aod one of which i hope will be removing the horse and other equine production fishing hunting trapping and game preserve from permitted not permitted to conditional use this was a wise decision but permitted would be wiser and i appreciate the thoughts of in implementing conditional terms to support activities for agriculture i want to praise you for considering to permit pasture grazing in zones b1 and b2 i want to thank you for allowing conditional use for equestrian facilities in zone b1 and b2 but i'm still concerned for my equestrian property owner friends who have pro

» perties in zone a such as houses barns paddocks pastures and pools this will drastically impact their property use and value this affects more than just the value affects our image in camden south carolina i'm imploring you to consider conditional terms for zone a or grandfather these farms as part of a safe equine facility and not being misused and reconditioned for something else i request that the grandfather clause be included with any sale of the property for future equine owners and if you are unable to unable to agree with this option please contact these owners and consider compensating them with a fair market value based on the equine property appraisal conducted by an appraiser familiar with the equine area prior to our discussion of the airport airport overlay i believe that sepa

» rating rangeland grazing from pasture grazing may solve some of our other issues because we don't have rangeland grazing in that area pasture grazing could be conditional these two items technically really aren't the same are lumped in one area i would also like a written guarantee in the future from the county that they will not impact the kennels of the camden hunt the camden hunt club house the camden hunter barn and all private barns hobby farms personal barns along red fox road and dicey creek road that are part of hunt country this will ensure the confidence of the equine community in our from our county council the farmland protection policy act of 18 of 1981 requires evaluation of farmland conversion to non-agricultural use the farmland can be prime farmland unique farmland are very

» beneficial to to local importance and in this case that would apply finally i must reiterate the need for an equine overlay for kershaw county and the city of camden i would encourage you to consider suggesting a joint task force to protect the valuable attractions of kershaw county i thank you for your time thank you mr dubose next speaker is mike burcott aod or burkett sorry burcott okay mr burcott hi i'm like burcott i'm at 1325 sanders creek road uh my opinion is that the aod is about 20 to 30 years too late to put these controls in place it has not yet been proven that the money invested in the airport will provide a rate of return that will benefit the citizens of camden or kershaw county much less the residents who live in vicinity of the airport who have their life savings invested

» in their forever homes and will be impacted by these too late land use controls if this were a city or county pool like any other amenity as as as the airport was described last week during an open q a and a pool required heavy investment of limited funds and resources the county would be would shutter that pool in a heartbeat there is no long-term plan for this airport why should we invest in it if the airport is not self-sustaining and there is no long-term business plan for the airport beyond periodic upkeep why should homeowners farm owners and families around the airport and those surrounding properties be gravely impacted by an amenity the talking point the airport brings seven million dollars in revenue is using data that is about eight years old and is woefully out of date to be use

» d as justification for such a large capital investment of public funds and impacts the people of camden and kershaw county who work and play in this airport overlay district i recommend a couple courses of action the county investigate the divestiture of the airport and move to close it if it is that an unsafe of a condition only make improvements to one runway and make it a single strip runway therefore therefore reducing costs finally i recommend the table i recommend the council table all the questions involving the aod and repeal kershaw county ordinance 116 tac 2024 until it is considered whether the airport is assessed for its long-term impact or benefit to the residents of camden and kershaw county as a whole and not is just a convenient amenity for relatively select few airport user

» s i know you can press forward with the aod but it's not a matter of it's not a matter of if you can the question is should you thank you very much thank you mr burcott mr dubose linda canitzer aod what was the last name cancer cancer miss cancer yes ma'am go ahead chairman connell council members oh my gosh how could we ever imagine that things could get so messed up and people could become so upset as big government has created by involvement in kershaw county issues specifically the airport overlay plan and threats to the equine property owners i'm not blaming you guys if some of the proposed plans were to take effect first who would be responsible for its enforcement the kershaw county gestapo animal control agents needed to patrol the areas in question looking in barns and paddocks and

» pastures and talking to neighbors about how many horses occupy those properties and how long those horses have been there what's next guess what not far from here we have burrows emus llamas goats what's next on the list are they going to have a directory what is and wasn't isn't allowed and then we'd have to go and check them all out how long they've been there secondly what qualifies as a horse occupying a property many have lived 20 or 30 years on a farm died and were buried there there may be hundreds of horses buried within the airport overlay area y'all remember roy rogers his last trigger when it died he actually took it to a taxidermist and had it stuffed so they could put it in the roy rogers museum hey maybe some of our property owners their last horse just take it to a taxidermis

» t put it back on the property does that qualify third who's going to be responsible for explaining to the local feed suppliers tack room vets and others that kershaw county's equine population has decreased along with their revenues because of this government intrusion on our local economy ridiculous you say absolutely let's get this right thank you thank you miss cancer mr dubose robin fuchs what was the last name i didn't hear it fuchs miss fuchs please well my name is dr robin fuchs i'm a new uh family medicine provider in the community and i to be completely forthright um while living at 147 hunt trace here in camden am new to learning about this airport overlay thing i don't have a lot of suggestions because again i'm new to it however i will say that my whole reasoning for bringing my

» practice here to camden was because of the horses i moved here to my fabulous farm to learn more about the hunt to learn more about the steeplechase that we have here to learn more about the rich community of horses where i can feel a part and not only feel a part of the horse community but feel a part of the medical community as well i feel as providing such an important thing as primary care as a part of the community that we have here how are we taking away not just my love of something that i do to take to get away from my medicine being my horses but other people's as well i think that we can bring this down don't get me wrong to dollars and dimes but so much of this is the love that people have here i mean i'm sorry isn't the airfield called the ernest woodward airfield and wasn't he

» an equestrian i maybe i read wrong i'm not sure um but i also believe you brought about the springdale race course am i wrong about that too um so we have somebody here who brought about this airfield and the race course and it all boils down to having this passion for horses that's what this town is built upon that's why i moved here that's why my husband who's also a physician moved here please feel free to look us up i am thrilled to be here but if the horses go i may too and i would hate to do that not just to the community to my patients but to the medical facilities here at large i really do love it here i've been here only six months and i found myself falling in love with this community day in and day out i am surprised by the strength here especially around the horses please i beg

» of you while i may not have a bunch of suggestions here don't take this away i think that you've heard many of great suggestions from my counterparts here please listen i really do implore you thank you dr fuchs welcome to the area mr dubose next speaker is chris renfro county staff mr renfro good afternoon most of y'all know me this is uh probably one of the hardest talks i've ever had to do i don't like talking negative i think we have a lot of negative in this county but i do want to give my side of a story um don't even know where to start but you know again i wish i'd come up here and talk about good things because lord knows we all hear a lot of negative in 2020 my family and i started the burdensome task of opening a campground here in kershaw county this is supposed to be an excitin

» g and rewarding especially considering that our campgrounds busy uh county council helped us change two ordinances that was detrimental to new campgrounds and we met a a lot of great people along the way but all that's done is quite the opposite during the construction phase i've had numerous encounters with staff that were not what any citizen of this county should have to experience for starters the wrongful accusations from people of this county staff accusing my family of frivolous issues during construction only made things harder some of the things that caused was extra dhack inspections extra storm water inspections and clearly the county tried their best to throw the book at us to keep us what i presume from opening so during the construction phase we also had a building official wh

» o i feel broke the law trespassing on my 20 acres when he went past my front door to the back side of my personal property to do as he pleased if you fast forward i was hoping most of this was behind us because we're open uh but i recently went to the planning office to get an unrelated permit on october 30th and that's where i made a complaint because i didn't want that building official to come back to my property very next morning 10 30 i get an email that an employee drove by and there's all kind of violations on my personal property and or business property i've tried working with the county for three months to come up with a reasonable solution i don't think we've came up with one yet the county is asking that my family's fork out over 30 40 000 to fix an issue which has never been an

» issue the side of that property has been a dirt pile for 20 years is loose dirt on top of loose dirt the notice of violation that was sent to me quotes the sediment control runoff act well what they failed to mention two sentences above the quotes that they gave me of what i'm in violation of it does clearly state that agriculture properties are exempt from these stormwater runoff requirements when i asked that question the staff i was told that we never assume that a property is agriculture well my property is called the renfro ranch and the renfro ranch campground on the other side i don't think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out i'm agriculture and i get an email saying we're simply helping you get in compliance i think that's quite the opposite i feel like i've been targeted um i

» have numerous emails here uh with me if you would like to see them uh but uh they they show where the county has tried to do everything it could to shut my project down mr renfro they sent several agents after me 10 seconds yeah i like to give people extra time to wrap up if they got you uh the director of this department called me a don't tread on me wackadoo the director of this department also said i have an erroneous disregard for regulation the director of this department also quoted that i am a liar and i should apologize to his staff for jerking them around for three months please tell me again how this is not targeting a citizen for their own personal vendetta thank you thank you mr renfro mr dubose who's next next speaker is melissa rice mr renfro i want to copy that email airport

» overlay district in hunt country miss rice do we have miss rice you echo the prior comments i suspected there's many like-minded folks in the crowd mr chair she needs to come to mike because the people that this one second the people that are listening cannot hear what she's saying mr jones certainly i understand that so if you're not waving your comment request come on up and speak in the mic please i'm melissa rice i reside you have to lift it up a little bit for you i have to reside i reside at 704 red fox road i'm the huntsman for the camden hunt i have also at one point managed the camden hunter barn across the street and at all this time we have peacefully coexisted with the airport without any problems with the horses or the airport or the district and i second and echo the previous

» comments thank you miss rice mr dubose next speaker is greg yards out of respect i will not attempt to pronounce the last name it's just not we'll let mr greg share his name yes mr greg what's your name we're a shock greshock yes yes sir go ahead my name is greg greshock and i live on red fox road um airport and horse farms coexisted for over 50 years i'm sure during that time there were modifications done to the airport without restrictions being applied on the horse farms so why why is it now and why number one from what i understand one of the worries is horses attract birds and birds are dangerous to the airplanes while birds can be dangerous to the airplanes study done by ffa which you can read on their website states and i quote specific to u.s wildlife wildlife strikes with civilian

» and military aircraft have killed 76 people and destroyed 126 aircraft from 1988 to 2023 end of quote as you can see whoever came up with this silly reasoning for restriction uh didn't really know what what they were talking about there are more people that die in car accidents 962 in south carolina in 2024 cars colliding with deer 39 000 claims horse horse arms horse farms are not the threat to the airplanes number two aod draft imposes restrictions for groups of over 50 on public assembly uses such concerts or large events particularly in safety critical zones like a and b1 our campden hunt club house which it's in zone c and its activities would fall under conditional use five which restricts indoor use intensity to 15 or fewer people per acre and outdoor gatherings to 50 or fewer people

» per acre how does it make sense when you look on the other side of the airport right off the highway one and right there we have a military academy that backs up directly to the airport and has at any given day 267 students plus 39 professors and support staff at one and at one of the previous meetings gentlemen stated regarding relocating irish festival which will be held at the airport grounds or near it is it correct because if it is that's a lot of people how is that safer than group of riders that gets once a week for a few hours at the time between november and march and building 300 homes right across from the airport that's 1200 plus people in close quarters and possible church would roughly sit 800 plus people in in a school in zone a not to mention already existing neighborhoods a

» nd businesses they could look at southern lending approach in its b1 and b2 zones that are hundreds of homes from broad street all the way to kirkwood which brings me to another point restrictions on rebuilding our barns if 50 destroyed in zones b1 and b2 please tell me why are the neighborhoods in lending approaches won't be able to rebuild their garages or homes if they get destroyed by natural disaster number three if we don't keep our horses on our farms for a year we are not allowed to bring our horses back this one doesn't make sense for many reasons and one of them is very simple what if my horse dies and takes me over a year to find another one what dan we cannot to me it sounds like third party has an interest in our properties they want to slowly choke us up we kind of we cannot g

» ather in groups we cannot rebuild our barns and we cannot bring horses back if they're gone for a year looks to me like a slow land grab for mr gresham divisions and development mr gresham if i could if you could wrap it up please yes thank you sir what i'm trying to say it feels like a lot of proposed regulation imposed on horn horse farms have and had nothing to do with airport modification and its safety of the aircraft one good example i can give you is midway airport in chicago look it up if you ever fly into the midway airport you literally landing in the middle of the city neighborhood and then only divided between homes and airport is a busy street filled with hundreds of moving vehicles and here we are in small camp and worried about horse farms do you see how ridiculous that sound

» s at the end i'm asking council members to consider removing restrictions on our our farms and protect history of horse community in camden since camden was bailed on it thank you thank you sir mr bose i think this is uh speaker number nine oh this is the final speaker number 10 go ahead correct uh craig thompson aod mr thompson good evening my name is craig thompson i'm the pastor at malvern hill baptist church in east camden i want to thank you all for the time you've put into this issue many have spoken here tonight already about the aod's impact on the equine community and all of east camden so i'll restrict my comments to malvern hill we at malvern hill are interested in all that happens in our community because we desire to see a healthy and flourish in kershaw county and east camden

» further we are interested in this particular meeting and these recommendations because they impact us acutely as a church body malvern hill is one of if not the largest churches in our county we've experienced growth and as a result we need to create space especially for our children's ministry and our growing ministry to those with special needs in the initial form of the proposal presented to planning and zoning or the planning is only commission regarding the airport district malvern hill would have been prohibited from building on our property in the future i'm grateful for the amendments to the ordinance that should allow our nearly 100 year old church to continue to serve our growing community into the future and i ask you as members of council to support these amendments so that our

» church which has existed in east camden nearly as long as the airport has can continue to thrive i come before you to make certain that this information is public to make sure that the community is fully aware of how these decisions would impact our 94-year-old church and the lives it impacts and to request county council to support the amendments proposed by plant by the planning and zoning commission these adjustments to the airport overlay district proposal should enable the airport to continue to fulfill its purpose while allowing malvern hill along with many of these other folks that have spoken to do the same the airport is an important resource in our community but it isn't the only resource malvern hill and the nearly 600 people who attend our church each month should be valued as m

» uch as the airport and i trust council will make the right decision tonight to show they value both resources equally thank you thank you mr thompson gentlemen that concludes public comments the next item on our agenda is item number 6a library community health worker update uh do we have a motion make the motion that we have uh public presentation for the library community is there a second second all in favor it's unanimous miss hannah yes ma'am uh miss excuse me director schofield who do you have with you oh thank you emma wibler we're gonna mostly be talking about all the good work that she's been doing uh can you bring the mic down to us a little sure how's that thank you thank you that is a difference so a bit of a vibe change uh we're here to talk about something that i'm very excite

» d about and uh proud of and i also think that it's something you might not know that much um the library social work program has been in existence since 22 i came and uh presented on it long ago we've still been there doing that good work uh but i think it's very important now to talk about uh some of the new changes emma being primary among them she's joined us for about six months doing amazing work feels like she's been here much longer you might not be aware um of the work that we're doing trying to help those who are the most vulnerable in our community um i'm proud of that particularly because i know as a human being when i see someone who's suffering which we often do much too often in this community my immediate thought is what kind of help can they get who's able to help them are t

» hey just out here on their own what's their situation uh with the social work program that we've been doing at the library we've become deeply entrenched in that work so by virtue of the library being involved in this i think you should know the county is also involved in this which gives me a sense of comfort knowing that while they're not resources out there for everyone there are certainly people who are actively involved and trying um as hard as they can to make sure that the people who need help are getting it to the best of their ability and meeting them where they are and being effective and efficient and collaborating so i'm going to tell you a little bit about what emma does as our community health worker um and then also why i think the library is well positioned for this so first

» of all um this is not unprecedented uh libraries helping people who need it the most is not something that we thought of it's something that's been going on for probably a dozen years now usually in larger cities but the usc center for rural and primary health care was the initial funder of this they've been helping us for about four years now the county stepped up and helped some with this uh this year this current budget year uh the uh the idea with this is that it tapers off slowly they're giving us support as they have for about seven other counties in the state with the idea that public libraries are very well positioned to improve the health of their communities um we do that in different ways what emma does as a community health worker one of the most important things is that she wor

» ks with people individually um she's offering people who are facing evictions whatever options are available to them working them through that people who are suffering from medical conditions where their bills are astronomical uh prescription drugs which as we all know can be extremely expensive working with people who are taking care of family members and are overly burdened with that and not sure uh what they can do and how they can accommodate that working with people who cannot afford food so there's a myriad of issues that we know are out there there are resources that are out there matching those to the individuals helping them out is a large part of what she's done and continues to do so in the first um she started seeing people in october over the first three months she's helped ove

» r 50 people she's going to talk in a little bit about some of the cases that she's seen um i think a library is particularly well positioned for this type of things because first of all we are a friendly place and one of the most important things about our library is that our mission is compassion and it's it's really not i support this wholeheartedly but i have to give credit to my staff even before we had the social work program everyone is greeted with dignity everyone is greeted with respect the staff that i have on board help people to the best of their ability before we had someone like emma on board there were often things that were left unanswered creates a great deal of stress no one wants to see people suffer so having someone on staff like emma who can sit down with someone see w

» here they are try to make as best a fit as possible and work with them if they need it on an ongoing basis to create a sense of self-sufficiency and also support with them it's a great thing for our staff um i broaden that to say it's a great thing for the community to have something like that um so libraries are not bureaucratic places we're friendly we're open to the public there's not a stigma when you go into the library and seek help um word of mouth has gotten out there people who are already library patrons are using us other people have heard about it and then also we're not in competition with other people people who are providing services in this community we work together i think emma is an amazing collaborator an amazing networker we are not proprietary in the type of work that

» we do we really do have a sense of a broader mission our goal is to uh help make the resources that we have which are not unending and don't meet the need but to make them as efficient as possible to that end we have collaborated a lot emma has infiltrated every group that she can in kershaw county impact live well the housing partnerships she's working very closely with people from united way and other groups new things are happening great things are happening i think we're in a position um where there's a lot of positive movement where we're looking for solutions uh and so to that end i think in your in your packet you saw the letter of support uh just to show that we're not isolated mara jones some of you are familiar with maura you might know her um we couldn't forge her signature i sai

» d emma you got to get that one he's gonna know um charlotte rankin from the medical clinic donnie cipoli uh judge random these are all people that refer people to us us and are supportive of the work i think that speaks to the idea that we're not we're not in competition we don't want to be in competition we want to be effective and efficient and work together collaboratively emma's been forming new groups with other case managers trying to come up with solutions to some of the issues that we're seeing in this county one of the things that she's done uh sort of her training when she came on board was to go in deep with a resource directory that we had already created that was in your packet as well um and i'll point out the uh the website that we have up here this is a new website for the r

» esources that we offer with the community health worker the resource guide is now online so if you noticed it in your packet there's about 60 different agencies uh each of which emma's reached out to to find out specifically what they do um many of whom we we work with very closely so it's a very exhaustive resource directory that didn't exist before now that it's online it can be updated uh in the moment and also it's available to our partners who we learned rely on it a lot of people have it up in their offices and make notes and use it and then also uh for the general public as well there's also food calendars uh that you'll see on the website that emma's put together those are divided into three different regions camden elgin and lugoff and also the north central area there are places w

» here you can find food almost every day whether that's a food pantry or food for the soul or other soup kitchens so laying that out and mapping that out has been a very nice way to make it easily accessible that's what we're trying to do to make it easy and accessible and why libraries that's what libraries do libraries have always been places that put together information where people go for knowledge they're not using us anymore to find out what the capital of idaho is but uh if it were simple to navigate these types of resources if it was simple to just go somewhere and find out all the nuances that you need when you're dealing with really high prescription costs and you don't have insurance and you might be living in your car this can be a very overwhelming process so i think emma does

» an amazing job of giving people the support they need for this sometimes complex guidance i will turn it over to emma at this point um and let her talk a little bit i think also i want to preface the 50 or so clients that she's seen so far mirror closely the types of issues that we're dealing with in the county as a whole so i think what i said to her is like you're really doing folks a favor so don't be too nervous because it's good information we need to know uh what types of things we're facing so i just wanted to break down some of the things that are shown in this infographic that's in your packet which um describes in a little more detail some of the issues that i see on a day-to-day when working one-on-one with clients um so first off with health and insurance as you can see as it's

» 46 almost half of the clients which is based off that 52 number have faced an issue whether it's um with insurance coverage or something with their medical care um and this kind of comes down to even just understanding medicaid medicare the insurance marketplace um if they're uninsured or underinsured where they can go to get affordable care free care sliding scale care or applying for free medications as amy said they can be extremely expensive for folks so i can help them find the direction they need to go and how to start some of those processes i think it's really important also to think about the support systems many of us are very lucky and privileged to have a strong support system to lean on but unfortunately that is not the case for everyone one of my most prevalent clients she los

» t her vision due to a medical condition from there she lost her job because she was not able to work without her site and if she tried to make ends meet things spiraled out of control and she eventually was evicted from not being able to pay her rent so for myself being very lucky to have a support system if i were in a situation like that where i couldn't work i have family to depend on um to help me financially if that were to come to the case many people do not have that privilege and that can be a result of what separates us from someone on the street who is really struggling is only not having that support system um so looking into housing people deal with eviction struggling to find affordable housing or they're already homeless they're living on the street they're living in their car

» one of my clients that is living in his car unfortunately housing is not a problem we can solve overnight um as much as i wish i could snap my fingers and have a place to put him it just doesn't work like that so not being able to solve those issues doesn't mean we aren't still providing services where i'm able to give him ongoing support offer some hope for him and check in regularly with him every few days and you can tell that it really helps them to know they're not going through one of the most challenging times in their life completely alone and they have someone to depend on and someone to lean on and help them guide guide them through the situation that they're in as for food insecurity i can apply clients for snap benefits and help connect them to the food distributions in the area

» our county does a phenomenal job with food distributions there's tons of organizations and churches that provide food to um community members as amy said about the food calendars there's tons all over the place and that just helps it be clearer for those who are looking for food to pick a day wherever they're at in the area and be able to find somewhere that they can go to get a meal as for that it kind of comes into the transportation barriers of if someone is homebound or they do not have accessible transportation if they're not able to get to the grocery or get to some of these transportations they do not have access to that food i see people who struggle with getting to the doctor's office getting to the grocery or even getting to work every day that they just do not have transportation

» us being in a rural area we're just not set up for public transportation luckily we have the van service which is an amazing amazing service and i want to thank you for supporting it because it is so invaluable for our community i send people there all the time however without there are limitations to it it books up very very quickly it's not able to be used for someone who needs it more frequently like getting to work and also they have to schedule out very far in advance to make sure that it doesn't book up if they have a doctor's appointment pop up on short notice they might not be able to use that service another big part of my position is kind of researching and digging into opportunities and options we may not know of initially for clients i have a client who is homeless and was just

» diagnosed with cancer so we've been looking into options for transportation for him to be able to get to these appointments and we found after some research that the american cancer society can help with transportation to and from cancer related appointments so sometimes it's a matter of just kind of digging for some unconventional options we might not use every day and lastly for financial hardship of course this kind of intertwines with a lot of the other issues i'm able to refer clients and help them navigate different financial organizations like christian community ministries care and watery community actions they're all really great organizations that can provide a lot of help however with them there's also limitations sometimes they have limited funds to be able to give out for peopl

» e and there are certain qualifications to be able to get assistance that not everyone fits into so as for that for affordable clothing furniture i'm also able to direct clients in the right direction to find different thrift stores and through the habitat for humanity to get supplies i have vouchers for certain places and we always have essential products and hygiene supplies on hand for our clients who need them so overall it's really important for me to be able to address these challenges holistically and recognize that they're all interconnected whether it's housing health food transportation and having financial stability they're all essential for someone to be successful for me it's not only about being able to provide the support of offering physical resources to someone but also the

» emotional support just knowing that someone is in their corner checking in with them every few days helping them guide them through the process providing them resources and encouragement giving them a new perspective on the situation that they're in is really important to help them regain that stability and gain that self-sufficiency to help them to build a better future thank you mr chairman so just in quick closing i i do want everyone i hope everyone feels a sense of appreciation that the library and then that means the county is enmeshed in these issues that are so important to us what i'm particularly excited about is the momentum in this that we can work together one of the reasons i love and have since i moved here in 2008 i was impressed with the level of caring and compassion that

» we have um we might be uh you know financially secure with a lot of things but there is so much uh passion and uh and compassion in this county uh among different groups that that want to deeply uh deeply help and so i think i'm very fortunate and grateful to be a part of that and i'm looking forward to creating new solutions question or comment maybe i just want to say we're very fortunate to have you amy appreciate all you do and i really mean it and welcome i think we've met uh prior to this i uh mara horton jones and i very rarely discuss any politics because she can't realize i'm right most of the time but i'm gonna tell you something she absolutely thinks this is a great program i think it's a great program i thank you for what you're doing and you've got the support of a lot of folks

» a lot of folks mr chairman yeah any other communication from council yeah i just wanted to say i'd like to invite uh you emma you know when we do finance committee there's a portion of our finance committee where we have outside agencies come in talk about their funding needs i think it'd be a really good opportunity i know you've probably met some of those people but to sort of hear kind of the nuances of how they work one of the things i see you do is kind of help one of the things that's always difficult is when you have multiple agencies that have overlapping missions there's really not the one cog and it seems like you could serve that kind of role so it may be helpful i just want to extend that invitation if you get with uh lauren reader or miss hannah they'll be able to get you the m

» eetings that we'll be discussing those particular entities and i just think it could be helpful for you and those entities go ahead yes sir mr tucker thank you hello miss amy how are you doing good good um miss emma i've heard nothing but just great things and accomplishments in your uh short term here which is about six months almost and i would say welcome first great work second um it's good to be young and full energy and smart and bright i used to be there one day but i've lost that i'm getting old and i am wiser but um not as much energy uh with that uh there is a program with the santee lynch's cog on the veterans ride that should help you help you some on transportation and i would like to also just get you with myself and a director and see if there's other means we can do with tra

» nsportation because we struggle real bad in the rural region with transportation so um we're i think you're knocking it out of the park on your other um collaborations and i greatly appreciate that and that lady you standing next to is full of a lot of uh information and um wisdom uh just follow her lead and continue to uh keep that passion and drive because the library is a place where um it's a safe haven for somewhere they go and so you can make those connections and what's good to hear is that you're making them one-on-one because everybody's not open with their problems a lot of people are very private because they're prideful um and we all got certain pride that we carry uh with that being said you're able to um you know break that down so i thank you guys for what you do and you'll b

» e proud of me and i need you to do a favor for me miss amy um i went up uh about two weeks ago uh and i my little library card thing fell off my keychain oh okay you lost your library card yes ma'am but but i was a responsible council member and went back and renewed it and that young man that helped me was nothing but a blessing smiles mannerism um just kind um i i can't remember his name so i'm not going to make up a name but those are the type people that you employ because of who you are and we greatly appreciate that and so for my colleagues that's sitting up here because they're all young they need library cards absolutely thank you mr tucker any further comments i'd like to offer congratulations it was a very nice presentation the work you do i can tell it's from your heart and you u

» m you've given it your all so um thanks for being a part of kershaw county and amy thanks for being here tonight thank you mr brazil ladies thank you very much for your presentation appreciate it all right gentlemen that takes us to item number six b law enforcement officers memorial is there a motion i make a motion that we have this public presentation on the law enforcement memorial mr shoemaker second mr cato i heard mr cato sheriff bone come on up please let's go ahead and take a vote while he's walking up all in favor nobody tells you no sheriff right it's unanimous miss hannah that passes sheriff go ahead this is going to be pretty much a follow-up from our last uh meeting back in uh we had police memorial day may of last year uh we talked about starting a memorial here in kershaw co

» unty first time has ever been done so what we've done is we've uh point out here this is officer robert latta he's the first officer killed in a line of duty in kershaw county history this was last week when we had our snow day back on the 22nd uh that marked the 106th anniversary of when he was killed in a line of duty 106 years and we still don't have a monument here in our county uh we can't speak for the people before us who had the opportunity we can only speak for us now and we want to go forward with this for the people who's who's paid that ultimate sacrifice for the city that's what we're looking looking forward to do and i know we had good council support when we uh presented it last time and we met some of the family members uh going forward we picked a uh we picked our board mem

» bers we have some of those in here today mr jenny potter's in here stand up for us if you please recognize them sheriff yes and then we've got uh david tomley's not here but he's a retired captain well first of all miss potter she is the uh she's the widow of one of our officers that was killed in the line of duty just take for granted everybody knows who you are but i'm gonna go ahead and let everybody know uh david tomley he's a retired kershaw county sheriff's office captain harold brown the legend himself a retired elgin police chief uh danny templar who's that he's sitting right in front of us here uh that's our county administrator daniel roberts he's with uh he's with our kershaw county delegation uh dolly patton i think i saw her come here she's here with us from the art center of k

» ershaw county benji jackson from our kershaw county sheriff's foundation he's at the rear uh with kathy zobo also from the uh sheriff's foundation if you'll notice we didn't put any politicians on this uh this list that's why my name's not up there nobody up here needs anybody's votes and everybody up here has any motivation outside of doing what's right for these uh these fallen officers that we're uh we want to build this monument for and that was that was by purpose and there's no current sheriff's office members on our board either we've done that for a reason to keep this thing non-political and focused on the purpose of doing the right thing for our uh for our fallen officers when we got the group together we looked through several different monuments to try to get an idea of what we

» wanted to use and the group fell in love with the lexington's monument they built it in 2012. once they told us that this was the inspiration this is what they wanted to do here in kershaw county they liked everything about it we reached out to lexington uh chief green over at lexington police department he met with uh my chief deputy rock coleman and uh we all met together one day we walked out to the site we looked at everything took measurements and uh he talked us through their whole process of what they've done and uh some of the things they wish they hadn't done so he kind of told us what not to do on our project but we took good notes from him he shared with us graciously and uh put us on the right path we got with a designer at brown memorial and they come up with this design based

» on we're going to build it at the front of the sheriff's office because we own the property there and that's the best place to build it it can be seen from the road so he come out and looked at the landscape and decided that instead of a you know straight walls to go with a rounded type wall and also shared with him that uh you know unlike the other people who are going to be in the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the county we wanted to put more focus on the names so we got our names on the top the badges on the bottom from all the agencies in the in the county uh picture on the left is going to be daytime of course it's going to be like a black granite the center is going to be a blue granite around the center picture on the right is going to be a night time pictur

» e of it there's going to be like a blue light that'll be inside there at night time we also plan on during police week we're going to have lights outside lights outside uh illuminating it in blue during that week so you can see that from the road when you pass by the sheriff's office it's going to be right beside our flagpole this is looking down on the memorial what it's going to look like you'll see a little pointy thing on here but at the very top that's going to be the wall you know looking straight down you've got two benches one on each side and in the center the circle piece you've got a kershaw county seal wanted in the center we don't want anything upright it's going to block the view of the wall but our centerpiece was going to be the county seal on the ground now i got doing a lo

» t of research on it i found out that these aren't free they don't give them away somehow we got to find the money to put it together uh the project cost is about a quarter of a million dollars total about 250 000 we hope to raise more than that because there's going to be maintenance and upkeep involved with uh anything we're trying to keep as low maintenance as possible and we plan on doing as much of the maintenance we can but you know a bunch of police officers we're not the smartest around so i don't know what we're going to be capable of doing ourselves now you'll see the way we got it lined up the a sponsorship the diamond sponsorship it's going to be the two benches you see at the very front of the monument there uh those two benches uh for a sponsor donation of 25 000 for each one o

» f those i'm hoping kershaw county is going to have one of those benches there then you'll see the second one is going to be on the ground around the seal the top uh the top donor spots uh 10 000 each just to be eight spots the silver there'll be 16 spots immediately around that and you'll get to the bronze spot for a hundred dollar donations uh it'll be down and there'll be a certain number of lettering that can happen and this is something you could put uh if you've had a law enforcement officer that's retired or somebody you want to put in memory of a parent or something or if you want to put your name on there if you want to put uh you want to put your business name on there as long as you're bringing the money i don't care what you put on there as long as it ain't profanity or anti-poli

» ce stuff then you know we're uh looking for funding and again we didn't want anything that's gonna you know we wanted people's names to be out there as part of the monument but nothing to take away from the officers names on the monument so for the uh donations sponsorships you will have the opportunity to have your name on this monument that we hope is going to be there for a long time and and be seen by a lot of people we'll have our uh may 15th police officer memorial day ceremony there every year on that date if you want to put it on your calendar it's not going to be ready this may we know that we're shooting for next year of 2026 may 15th to do our unveiling and hopefully have it up by then here's the names of all of our officers that's uh it's going to be on the wall you know again s

» tarting from the top you've got uh camden police officer robert latta january 22nd 1919 we got a south carolina uh state constable jesse fletcher bateman july 17th 1919 same year and our first kershaw county sheriff's office deputy theodore ted turner whose wife is here with us today mr turner if you can stand up for us and what she just definitely does not look her age uh but this she's she's the widow of mr uh ted turner was the first kershaw county uh sheriff's deputy to to be killed in line of duty uh we've got our next one is uh kershaw county deputy sheriff captain james eugene pat or benji i think you're the only family member that we we have confirmed so far from uh this deputy and we've got our deputy sheriff ernest christian chris potter the third we have his beautiful wife here t

» oday she's our committee member then we go down to uh we had a trooper merrill godbold academy police officer eddie kato we had trooper uh jonathan nash and then we had uh our next or our final kershaw county deputy sheriff rob evans who his wife beth is here with us today so we got the uh our committee and our family members and we know they're all definitely in support of it i know county council without even asking i know you guys are all in support of it they made the ultimate sacrifice for kershaw county the least we can do is give them a proper monument so that's what we're shooting for and uh as if right now i think all of you have some flyers up there anybody who wants information can go to kershaw sheriff.com our website we have some pull-down menus for the monument that you can go

» in and we're still trying to work out how to pay online with uh tracking everything and not having to pay a three or four percent or whatever fee to it so for now we've got uh you can either mail or come by the sheriff's office with a check we have a form you can fill out what how you want your name put on the monument that's the way we're going to handle that until we can come up with the electronic means that's all i have thank you very much for the presentation chair council members mr tucker thank you sheriff i this is a subject that i think people don't uh ever want to be discussing but um what is the um the growth of that monument for the future not that i want to add to it but yeah well and i mean you're stating the obvious we all know it's just it's inevitable and we hope this is go

» ing to be here for a long time and that's the kind of things we when you put the badge on sammy you've done it before yourself as a trooper so um we know there's there's probably going to be more names in the future but there will be room for it um in the future and there'll be other uh ways we can build on to the monument as far as putting uh like an awning over the top if we want to try to weatherproof it or you know anything else but this is like the uh this is the base of what we want to create we'll go right in front of the sheriff's office and we'll have parking spaces that we'll clear out for the uh memorial each year line up some chairs this will be a good location and best place for it well i want to say thank you for standing behind your word you you said that this is something th

» at was dear and near to your heart that you wanted to do and um it's coming to fruition and i appreciate all the work and time that you and your staff has put into this and um i know that i'll be contributing personally and um if i can get my other two colleagues uh on the finance committee to we only got two benches now so i gotta fight over which two of them oh we were doing bricks yeah i i definitely know everybody on council supports this sheriff i have a comment i want to make thank you mr tucker you done yes sir thank you okay mr jones please thank you mr chair um thank you so much for what you're doing here i was i knew some of these folks who have passed on and gave them the ultimate sacrifice and uh i uh before i retired when we were doing the transfer of the jail from the old jail

» to the new jail there you there was a book it was a um a book that everybody signed to get their uh citation book i've got chris potter's signature i've got back to 1951 the sheriff who was i picked that book out of that trash can i kept it in my house but it doesn't belong to me it belongs to you folks but i didn't want to take it somewhere where we get lost in the back room because this book has got signatures of all the except the one all these fallen officers and other folks who have served throughout this county through years but as i said that was something when i took it i never intended to keep it because it doesn't belong to jimmy jones belongs to people kershaw county and i'd like to present that to you i don't want any i'm not only pictures giving it to you anything i just want t

» o give it to you one day this week want to see you with the promise if you will standing there that you will make that book a part some way i know this man right down here a vice chair volunteered to build a to build a uh case for it so i would like to ask you if you could if you could consider that i'll be glad to give it to you this coming week absolutely thank you make sure it's displayed thank you mr jones any other council members have comments mr kato sheriff i i just want to tell you i'm very proud of the work y'all done and i want to i want to thank the committee the committee members that serve on this committee i know it takes time away from their families and and their daily responsibilities to meet and take their time out of their daily schedule and i just want to thank them for

» doing this as a retiree um you know it it really hits home when you see names of fallen officers even if you go over to the police memorial over at the state house or wherever you go it just touches you it's kind of like a a military wall of honor it it touches you because you know the sacrifice that they gave and the sacrifice that their families have gave through the years so i just want to thank you i think it's beautiful i i don't think you could have done any better job and i look look forward to supporting this well thank you thank you mr kato any other comments mr chair i just i just want to echo councilman tucker's comments that when we get in the finance committee sheriff will certainly address this and i i'm certain we'll be coming back with uh recommendation to assist um i just a

» ppreciate the work you've done and again it's good to see you miss potter chief brown ms brown it's good to see you guys thank you so much thank you mr shoemake any other comments chief brown is a legend yeah we already knew that chairman mr yes mr brazil if i may um to all the family members that are here in the audience tonight god bless you and um we hope to memorialize your family and we hope that this brings you peace and hope in your situation each one of your situations different so i just want to say god bless you and um sheriff bone is always nice to have you here tonight excellent job honoring these fallen heroes thank you thank you any further comments i'll just uh comment that i think this is a very worthy project i support it uh sheriff i've already pledged and i expect you to

» be hitting me up soon uh to donate and i believe it's tax deductible we'll have the attorney confirm that but i think it's a tax deductible if you need any other motivation it's tax deductible i believe as a donation to a government entity and so we should be hitting up businesses individuals everybody to make it happen it's not only a tribute to those who have passed away some of you have actually borne the risk of going out and putting yourself uh you know interacting with criminals or folks who might want to do you harm some of us have jobs where my kids are certain i'm going to come home pretty much every night um so it's an honor to those who've passed away but it's also a vicarious honor to those who live on after them we just did a resolution as you recall for miss potter she was up

» here pretty recently with a room full of family supporting her and so it's recognition and honor for her and miss turner who i'm sure has had a huge impact in the community after the passing of her loved one and uh benji um as well you know and so i think it's worthy on many levels and it shows what kershaw county is made of if there's no further comments thank you very much for the presentation share all right gentlemen that takes us to item 6c i'll seek a motion that we have this approved for public presentation the motion will also include suspension of rule 2 under appendix 2 that we have more than two public presentations per meeting mr chair i'd make the motion that we allow this public presentation and suspend the rules so this public presentation can go forward thank you for the mot

» ion second i yield to the vice chair second the motion mr brazil's got the second all right no discussion we'll call it for a vote all in favor miss hannah it's unanimous for the record yes sir we have uh mr adams yes mr scott adams for stair light technologies limited yes sir please thank you mr chairman uh good evening mr chairman and uh members of council my name is scott adams i am the corporate secretary and general counsel for stir light technologies inc which is located in the county's heritage business park uh with me tonight uh back here is uh mr uh gehinineth shindy who has recently relocated here and assumed the role of plant manager uh for our kershaw county fiber optic plant which we call our palmetto plant and our palmetto plant and our palmetto plant is not only stir light's

» principal u.s manufacturing site but it is also our north american headquarters as well many companies call kershaw county their home but not all of them in fact very few of them can say they are a north american headquarters our highly engineering engineered fiber optic cable products and there's one that will probably yeah this is what we make uh over there and there are some samples that we've given uh that can be distributed to you these are shipped throughout north america and even the world as we like to say stir light is in america for america in fact the cable samples that you will see say made in kershaw county south carolina usa needless to say we're proud to say that kershaw county is our home as we conclude another year of operations we want to again say thank you to council for

» your investment and support of our operations your county team from jeff burgess who having worked in economic development for many years i can say he's truly a world-class economic development professional to his staff page clack to the permitting and zoning professionals the county administrator in his office the fire department certainly the sheriff's department and all others with whom we work on a daily and weekly basis are nothing short of outstanding and to you and them we give our utmost thanks and appreciation when stir light came to kershaw county not that many years ago we promised to create 120 new full-time jobs with full benefits by 2026 we have met and we have far exceeded that goal our financial investment commitments including for the philo which we were to achieve by 2026

» and 2028 have already been exceeded this is the result of our dedicated county kurt our dedicated kershaw county employees and their families we will tell and i will tell anyone anywhere that an investment in kershaw county is an investment in fine education facilities skilled employees great infrastructure safety a world-class fire and sheriff's team and dedicated and supportive county officials and staff and i have done that on in the past year i could jump out of my seat and carry you around the room that that is exactly what we're seeking kershaw county sorry to interrupt you but amen that's okay and if i and i and our team can help you with recruiting businesses please call on me call on us we'd be more than happy uh to do that uh jeff burgess knows that and i'll make this offer to you

» it's a 24 7 we will go anywhere we will help do whatever we can to grow our economic base in kershaw county um in the past year talk about economic development our employees have purchased new construction and existing houses in kershaw county they've leased apartments they've purchased cars the lugov car dealership is probably getting doing very well because of our employees uh they shop daily at kershaw county businesses they eat in our restaurants they buy gas in our gas stations in fact our delivery trucks fuel at the kershaw county gas stations and our national and international visitors stay in kershaw county hotels sterlight hires local contractors wherever possible whenever possible in furtherance of our purchasing philosophy which is shopping kershaw county first and then we go to

» the midlands we go to south carolina we look at the southeastern u.s and then we go nationally and then internationally but we always try to source kershaw county first again sterlight is not only in america for america but we're in kershaw county for america we're for south carolina and for north america as an update to what mr shinde and we are doing at our facility you may be aware that congress has authorized the expenditure of 42.4 billion dollars that's billion with a b to connect over 25 million american households businesses and schools with high-speed internet south carolina has been allocated more than 550 million dollars from this program with disbursements anticipated to commence sometime this year at sterlight our goal is to bring as much of that federal and state spend to kers

» haw county to keep our facility running 24 hours a day making fiber optic cable for america with kershaw county employees fiber optic cable there it is you have a little sample over here if you like thank you in order to qualify to participate in this massive multi-billion dollar broadband program our products had to be certified as build america buy america compliant which means the tiniest component to the construction and completion of the finished product has to be made in america and this was a a not an easy task for us or for others in our industry but we are proud to say tonight that all sterlites products made in lugaf made in kershaw county meet the rigid by america requirements required to participate not only in the broadband program but in all federal infrastructure projects in

» conclusion on behalf of mr shindy and all sterlites north american headquarters team and our employees all over the country and the world we thank you and the citizens of kershaw county for your investment and support we appreciate your service we appreciate your commitment to our county and to you and to all of our fellow kershaw county citizens our best wishes for a prosperous and happy 2025 thank you thank you mr has been appreciate that any comments questions i'm sorry what was that mr jones that's what i gave you that's that's what that's what he gave us jimmy they yeah they just handed it around up here jimmy you've got one at your desk it's not a cat toy but what but uh but what it is is the fiber optic it's it starts with fiber optic cable uh or fiber optics which is the little stra

» nds of glass uh they have kind of the circumference of a hair uh you'll see many of those in there and uh we we bind those together we buffer them we put them in those little plastic tubes uh which is why that's called loose tube we then take the loose tube and we put a water blocking tape in there because it goes in the ground it keeps the moisture out we put a steel protective around there because you know rats and squirrels and things like to eat at it there is uh some of our cable has a gel in it um and uh and then it's uh it has a layer of a protective layer as well as a membrane in the middle that protects it from breaking and that's for us that's what that is okay mr chair if i may thank you for being a good sir thank you for being a good partner with kershaw county certainly thank y

» ou all so much we appreciate that any other comments yes i i have a question thank you for having such a successful business here locally give that back sammy and um and providing good jobs for our citizens my question though is when these get cut because everybody don't dial 8-1-1 before they go to digging and cutting how hard is that to splice back um and how do you do that you probably don't splice that back and what we do is we sell it to true vista we sell it to charter we sell it to uh frontier uh verizon you know those types of businesses that have their own install crews and uh it is designed the cable fiber optic cable business is designed is that you can splice cable from one manufacturer to another uh and you just do it by matching up the colors uh on there as we had a group toda

» y of the of high school students um that uh came from the kershaw county high school from uh and the camden military academy with the chamber and uh we were telling them that uh fiber cabling jobs was that junior leadership my daughter and i both got briefs on fiber today she's engineering leadership all that's well they were there they spent time and it's a it's a great opportunity for us to uh to share with them about manufacturing but we were telling them that splicing jobs are six-figure jobs and there is a huge demand for splicers and these are jobs of the future they're going to be around for many years to come mr chairman if i can too mr tucker i want to i want to tell um mr burgess thank you for just continuing to produce but you're sitting beside a legend there and and i don't want

» to screw his name up because you know he's got two last names it's hard to remember but nelson we appreciate you buddy um we appreciate everything you do from the higher levels because one thing i can say you might have left kershaw county but kershaw county's never left you you've always thought about us and continue to help us bring business here i didn't know i didn't know nelson was in the audience sammy he's out there yes i know you missed me we had some good time thank you mr tucker any other comments i'd like to say i think this is great it's um it actually says made in kershaw county south carolina usa on it and that that's cool i appreciate you representing but i did have one question it appears to be a social security number on it is that yours no these are these are industry mark

» ings the the federal government the fcc has markings that there's no social security i'm only joking with you it's just awfully close to mine thank you mr brazil seeing no other comments i just want to say thank you mr adams and mr shindy thank you so much for being here this is a wave of economic development success hearing that you're reaching your goals and supplying outstanding jobs in kershaw county we recently had announcement from laser form with a 16 million dollar investment luck companies and luckstone just announced 25 million dollar investment we've got another project on the agenda tonight to talk about and so we just support you we encourage you and i'm not going to take you up as a false promise on introducing me to any of your friend uh companies or subsidiaries or anyone el

» se that might want to come to kershaw county and do business or if you want to expand we want to help you do that and try to keep the jobs local it's one of the best ways as you know to have an impact in the community the roi is big you keep the jobs local there's a multiplier effect in the economy and we want to see you successful and so we have a product here in kershaw county that's going across the nation to make sure people have the internet and data they need in residential homes and commercial properties it's just inspiring i'm going to go have to watch the video again tonight so i can take that little sound bite that's that's my anthem now that you had earlier it was really good thank you sir mr chairman before they leave mr burges can you get that on a better recording for us so we

» can actually put it on true vistas re rewinding screen or whatever it is yeah on the loop yeah we'll appreciate that well we'd be more i'd be more than happy to come back or you could do a do a professional presentation but we have also expressed to uh to mr burgess that we would like for you when you're available to come visit our plant we'd like nothing better than to give you a tour we know you can't come together for quorum reasons but if one or two of you would like to come uh we'd love to have you just kind of show you what we do firsthand um you know you invested in this and uh we want to you know you need to know what it is you invested in we'll come out we can have up to three unless we tell the media announce it publicly then we can all come it's up to you if you want we can accom

» modate all heck we had 30 we had 35 students today so if we can herd those cats we can deal with you thank you sir appreciate you very much thank you mr chairman all right gentlemen that takes us to item number seven a on the agenda approval of the minutes do i have a motion i'll make a motion we approve the minutes mr kato is there a second mr thomas second yeah any discussion on the minutes just want to tell miss hannah thank you thank you mr tucker i'll be abstaining mr jones abstaining all right no further discussion let's take it to a vote raise your hand if you're in favor all are in favor except for miss jones mr jones abstaining hannah thank you uh item 8a for discussion only i place this on the agenda election commission compensation i'll make a motion that we have discussion on th

» is is there a second second mr tucker has a second i'll go ahead um i'm looking for a recommendation from staff and welcome any discussion from my fellow council members regarding how we might adjust the compensation for election commission members has been a long time since they've adjusted it um as elections require more i'll say policing and efforts to make sure that the election elections are conducted appropriately under the law and fairly and that every vote is protected uh i've found that commission members are spending more and more time having to address these issues and then this would also apply to some of the policies that they vote on and having uh poll workers go out and work for i don't know is it seven dollars or 7.25 that they're doing right now um and we might need to adju

» st that as well and so i'm looking for a recommendation from staff to be given by next meeting mr templar if you can place that on the agenda for us on how we should adjust that what would be fair i think it's 125 or something right now maybe we go up to 175 or 200 or whatever would be fair for that and then look at how we uh handle poll workers i know that they work longer hours than they're scheduled and uh sometimes i think mr tucker or others might be able to speak to this they're compensated differently during primaries which is an essential vote versus general elections which is an essential vote and so in my mind it's kind of the same work it should be the same pay uh any other comments from council on that you have a second mr tucker thank you mr chair so um i've already spoken with

» the county administrator on this and he's actually met with the director over voters registration and uh some of the concerns that uh what was going on is when the state passed the law and took away what we call absentee voting and we went to early voting uh so it's two weeks before the election we're we're paying our um whole workers like 75 bucks for the day and they're still working 11 and 12 hours so i just did that on my phone that's six dollars and 81 cents an hour there's none of y'all sitting out in this audience or listening on that tv screen is going to work below the minimum wage not going to happen captain you can say what you want to say but i won't believe you so um we have to fix that the administrator is aware of it he's already as i said had conversations with the director

» over there and they're working on a plan because it should not be less paid um because laws change and require you to stay at the same time um approximately um and you get less compensation so i think mr temple will um come back with some recommendations for this council and but i just want to give you a little background where this is coming from and so um that's all i have to say on this thank you mr tucker before we give the floor to someone else i'll just mention there's been actual election cycles where i'll get a call and uh people just weren't really committed don't show up you have people who aren't particularly motivated to get out and work the poll that day and if you don't have the right staffing it becomes a really big problem uh for voter intimidation voter suppression all kind

» s of issues come up you have to be able to to enforce the rules and make sure that the vote's protected in essential ways any other comments from councilman mr chair just very briefly would it be possible when we have the that presentation to have the voting director it occurs to me that we have a new director and we haven't had a chance to kind of meet her formally so i think that might kill two birds with one stone allow us to actually if we have questions about that process maybe have her come with sure we can have mr templar extend that invitation a lot of folks have talked to her offline privately but i think it'd be good to have her come and uh be welcome in this forum and as you can tell this is an uh a forum in which you know we've got the clerk of court here we had the sheriff part

» icipating earlier uh so many leaders from the county come in and participate and we'd love to meet her publicly as well mr chairman mr tucker let me let me be uh very uh mindful to all of us that we've got uh two special elections coming up um so the sooner the better that we can resolve this will help that way we don't fall back in this situation for the special election um our house seat 50 here in kershaw county which was held by mr will wheeler uh he resigned a couple weeks ago so right now that district which is my district that i represent and live in do not have a house seat over in the general assembly and no i'm not running for that seat y'all couldn't get rid of me that easy uh yeah uh with that being said though um and then we have a special election for the city of camden that's

» coming up for um senator graham who's our new senator uh seat in the city of camden so with that the county's responsible for holding those elections and um mr templar is aware of what we've got going on and i'm confident that we'll have a solution where we can uh move forward from that point on thank you mr tucker any other comments seeing none no votes required we can move on to the next agenda item that takes care of 8a next agenda item gentlemen is ordinances 9a first reading on a aod airport overlay district regarding the unified code kershaw county is there a motion mr chairman i have a motion i moved the county council amend the proposed text amendment in the form of the document i provided to my fellow council members entitled airport overlay district first reading amendments let's

» let's get it on the floor first and then we'll then we'll mend it yeah i make a motion we approve so you make a motion yes okay we've got a second for mr tucker uh any further discussion prior to any other motions seeing no further discussion prior to any other motions what is your motion again please restate it yes um so to amend the proposed text to get it on the table yeah well the motion is just approval as is in a second any discussion prior to that vote no discussion all right all in favor of uh approving uh prior to any other motions raise your hand right oh that would be okay okay we're on we're on the table with a second yeah go ahead so i have a i have a motion that we amend the proposed text amendment in the form of the document that i provided to my fellow council members titled

» airport overlay district first reading amendments it should be a packet staple that was laid laid out that everyone has and it goes through all the line-by-line amendments if i can get a second i can kind of go through all right we've got a first is there a second mr shoemake has a second yeah i've still got the floor mr tomlinson i'll go through um it's really too much to go through line by line but here's um i'll start so after hearing a lot of concerns from the public um i've contacted staff and legal and asked them to work on a revision to the aod this has been quite a prop process um really wholesome process that staff and legal has overtaken um to really address the concerns that the public has put out the numerous amendments to the revised version it's too many to go through line by

» line if you kind of look at it you can see a bunch of red a bunch of stricken a bunch of writing that is all thanks to staff and their hard work and the public's input being incorporated into these amendments it is the goal of the of the amendments to recognize the historic and current lane use trends near the airport and to provide opportunity for the future development at east camden while protecting the airport from high density and encroachment of incompatible uses i want to summarize these amendments for everybody here in attendance and everybody listening the amendments clarify that the agricultural use sections of the table are restrictions on commercial agricultural activities and do not apply to property owners that have a personal horse on their property or to hobbyist activities

» like having having a chicken coop in their yard the conditional use occupancy density restrictions have been revised upwards so that future use of undeveloped property is viable while still controlling density toward high density uses near the airport and if you go through kind of the lines that were given in these amendments you can kind of see the stricken are you going to present each amendment for us to vote on this is going to be a wholesome approach and but we can kind of discuss going forward have a few more that i'd like to read before we kind of get into it hunting and fishing restrictions were a major concern that i've heard this version would not not restrict those uses other than to restrict hunters from shooting across airport property and directly at a aircraft which is also a

» federal offense firing a firearm so that is already a federal offense just included that would be the only hunting and fishing restriction that my amendments propose number four with the use chart amendments adding clarity and flexibility to the agricultural uses there will be fewer non-conformities that result and for the ordinance it is my hope that the non-conformity concerns we have heard will be addressed by the proposed use chart amendments but i am still proposing an extension of the cessation of the use period from one year and this is a change from what is in this amendment that that i've made i didn't catch this error until after the draft was already done it's going to go from one year to three years so one year to three years for those of us otherwise allowed in the base zoning

» district but that become a non-conformity use by adoption of the aod so one to three years number five one of the most important aspects of the revised version i'm proposing is the amendment of the map boundaries of land use zone c on cross runway ends with zone c narrowing there will be more zone d property in east camden which is aimed at accommodating future development viability one of the planning commission suggested amendments was to allow for a specific use to high density occupancy within zone c but that might result in challenges for property owners and policy inconsistency for other property uses being density restricted in zone c instead of amending density for a single use type in zone c the alternative of amending zone c map boundary will preserve reasonable density restrictio

» ns throughout all of zone c but will also allow anticipated development and growth in east camden following both historic and current land use trends in that area if the promote if the proposed amendments meet the approval of my colleagues here on council the new version tonight will be on the next agenda packet in full so every single amendment that i have proposed if approved i would like to also have staff put an amended version on the planning commission website so the public can view it in all practical uses um i ask my colleagues that we you know this is this is this is not a perfect approach or a perfect complete amendment i'm sure there's still other work that we have to do this is addressed at eliminating a lot of concerns the map the overlay map i don't know if we have a copy that

» we can put up on the screen specifically of just the updated map it's in your packet here that we have and i believe it's also in our agenda packet um for public i think the original map is in the agenda package the original map is in the agenda packet is there any way that we can put the updated map on the screen or do we have the ability to do that have it it's not here gis huh it's not it's not in our it's not in the we should have asked for that earlier we've got a copy here it's not the updated it's not his updated um do we have a copy that we can get you do have a copy of the updated uh gerald gerald the latest copy is what you gave me correct sir i've got it yeah it says there's that that would yeah that would be helpful here i mean we can hold it up or i don't know if anybody be abl

» e to see that from the back um do we have we have a way to put this up maybe on an easel or something i hope so um yes because i am absolutely confused mr thompson is this the map that that this is the updated map that we have presented to scac um and we have not received a yay or an a from scac however negative there was no negative feedback at all um and this also helps um maverin hill from my understanding um be able to go through with their building of the update of the church without negatively affecting the aod or the airport and whole um but those are my amendments um and we can kind of go through more but i i moved that we we pass um and wholesome my approach and amendments to the aod um mr chairman mr shumick so uh the reason i seconded this is i've had a chance to read this and yo

» u know i know that mr tomlinson has been working tirelessly to make sure that the spirit of everything the planning commission wanted to do particularly with equine was incorporated in these amendments and so as he mentioned this is our first reading so these amendments will be available through the next two readings so we're not adopting the entire ordinance tonight this is just reading number one um i wanted to note too you mentioned the one to three year change that's not going to be for more for many folks it won't even be applicable at all just for those very few folks for which some time limitations applicable so for those almost everyone that came up and spoke understand that that time limitation is applicable to very few and you'll see that in the holistic coordinates a couple other

» quick points on this is you know this does preserve the equine you know this started as you know generic language from scat the south client association of counties that had by and large sort of a boulder plate approach most of the counties they're dealing with don't really have that issue with equine uh so it's just sort of things they put in most of that has been clawed back out of this almost all of it really has been clawed back as related to equine so this should address the the majority of not all the issues that were brought up related to the equine industry which we all support mightily up here um this also is important because an airport is critical to industry this is not about we don't have a tourism airport like colombia where we have a passenger terminal this is about you know

» making sure that industry that comes like the folks that just spoke they need to be able to come and they need to be able to bring folks and having an airport is critical to growth of industry any one of these industries that's coming in will tell you a county without an airport is going to struggle to bring industry and without industry we don't have a great path forward um there was also mention of the 22 million i just want to point out because i've heard that number of i've got a couple calls on that for those of you that see this 22 million number that 22 million number when you apply for these faa grants you sort of have to give a wish list of this was everything if we had an unlimited supply of money this is everything we would do and that total was about 22 million we have not spent

» 22 million dollars of county money at the airport we have spent almost a frat if you exclude grant money we've spent almost no county money at the airport the vast majority of county money that has been spent at the airport has been procured through grants but when you apply for these grants you have to tell the faa and justify the things you would like to see your airport do so there are approximately 22 million dollars worth of improvements that if given enough free money we would love to do out there and so that's a requirement for these faa grants so something got lost in translation there but that's what that 22 million number is about we didn't spend 22 million on the airport i would also like to point out in terms of those who may think this is unnecessary you know and we can put thi

» s in the agenda packet for next time just so folks can see it but you know we have a letter here from last week that came to this came to the county from the executive director of the aeronautics commission it talks about the fact that by 2027 the plan is to have a statutory law in place across the state that requires an airport overlay district in order for you to get any money at all from the state or fed feds from your airport so this is something we're trying to get ahead of because what this allows us to do even if we don't get it right in three readings we can adjust anything we pass we can change but if we wait until 2027 when it's required then we may be behind the gun and we may lose this funding so by taking a proactive approach this allows us to go in and say okay we've got an ai

» rport overlay we can adjust that if necessary after three readings this doesn't end the conversation if we haven't hit the mark that's okay we can go back and adjust and the beauty is we've got years to do that before it becomes a mandatory requirement i want to thank staff for the tireless work they've put into this uh particularly gerald blanchard who i know has been kind of taking lead on a lot of this so again i i know that this has been talked about a lot we still have two more readings but again councilman tomlinson has put a great deal of of work into this and i know he's vetted this through legal counsel so for those reasons i'm fully in support of this amendment tonight thank you mr shumick any further comments i'd like to make an amendment well yes he can what's your motion i'd li

» ke to make a motion to remove zones d e from the airport overlay district to make it a smaller district um it would it would give a kind of a holy cross well you gotta get a second don't you you do have to get a second so i'll second mr jones has a second okay thank you sir um so and i'd be happy to hear from staff as to reasons why we would want to keep or or not want to keep zones d and e a b1 and b2 and then c are your most critical zones that would actually protect the airport i've studied some of this this is a lot of information um i've had a hard time finding myself in support of of the airport overlay district because it's so much it wants i think probably i'm looking at this from from an opposite approach is councilman shoemate and everything he said made sense and in in his wise t

» o to be proactive but i'd like to start small and and work our way out so if if we can if we can buffer each runway um with maybe the minimum amount we can have better conversations with property owners um i think we can cool concerns with property owners being that we're dealing with a much smaller area currently the airport overlay district's about 17 000 acres i think if we remove d and e it will be less than 2500 acres just maybe even less than that i hadn't done the exact calculations but that will be my amendment you just plain e and d sir so we don't we don't have a it's not a good way to being that we don't have an electronic version hold it up e is this huge oval around the outside of the district d is a is a quarter section and so it's it's a massive amount of property that's mild

» ly restricted and i don't know that it that needs to be included or not so i pose that question to uh to everyone here anything further mr brazil mr jones you have a second yeah well i don't know if i want to get into my comments yet uh mr brazil thank first off mr thompson thank you i know you put a lot of work i know the flash committee has but we we don't agree tonight at all um i'm not going to vote on this at all and i'll tell you why i'm going to support the people who live out there and uh i don't understand a lot of i think things are moving very quickly if somebody else understands it better me i mean i'm sure i'm not smartest man up here but if i don't thoroughly understand something i haven't had a chance to really get down to and read it i'm not going to vote for it so i will be

» a no vote for that tonight i i'm gonna tell you i think we're doing too much too quick i think when you have a lady that comes up here mrs hawk she says i quit i give up i quit you know that's not what we're up here about we've missed the boat somewhere with the folks because the folks are upset we could be as right as right as day as night but by god if if if the people think something that we don't think that we and we we're right perception is reality i think we need to i think we need to table this i think we need to drop it i think we need to restart and communicate more with the folks uh you know my phone has been ringing off the hook and and so i'm this is how i this is what i've done for 19 years is that i pretty much always sided with the people on issues because i don't live out t

» here it's not gonna affect me one bit but it's gonna affect you that's your that's your livelihood that's your your most people's biggest investment is their home their land and i just wish and i'd like to ask this council let's let's just put this on the back burner for a minute and go back to the drawing board and let's make it a little bit more simplified and and not really there's an 81 year old lady who lives on red fox road she's been there since 1970 this will affect her tremendously and i know mr chairman you know who i'm talking about i think she's talking to you as well uh and maybe some of the rest of you up here but folks i'm asking y'all let's let's hear what these folks have said to us for the last few weeks and what they said to us with the phone calls i know all of y'all got

» ten phone calls up here nobody's anything wrong but i think it's too much government overreach i think it's absolutely uh throwing it in the face of the folks who who live there who will be affected by this so and mr browser for you to bring a uh another amendment i appreciate that i do but i'm not going to vote on anything that's going to be pro this overlay district at this point in time you know when you got a pastor that gets up here and he's he's forced to cut that force i mean he's compelled to be here twice to say guys come on hear what i'm saying listen to me i mean we we need to listen to the people i've been here 19 years i wouldn't have lasted that long if i hadn't listened to the people and and i'm asking y'all to please let's let's do that tonight give us some time let me under

» stand a little bit better let them understand it a little bit better and may support it may not but at this point in time i absolutely cannot will not support it mr johns with all due respect i think these amendments are listening to the people mr thomason mr jones you done yeah let me just say this too and this is no pun intended no due respect i just saw the amendments tonight um you know so it's quite a bit and also you gave a very detailed explanation but it's still i'm still just kind of confused and you know as i said i i i maybe i missed something somewhere but i just was a little bit confused i think each amendment should be read out individually and voted on individually so that that people know exactly what we're doing and the folks out here may know exactly what you're talking ab

» out but i don't and uh until i look at it a little bit more i have to always always had to read a little bit more and study a little bit more you know but anyway thank you mr chair thank you as a council but don't count on me for a vote mr tomlinson you're welcome mr broswell so your your amendment is to remove e and d in its entirety as in its entirety can i get a kind of a update from staff about or legal how that affects the airport the aod and what would be the kind of um negative or positive effects to removing those if you were to do that it would no longer be an aod because it is the least restrictive e being the least restrictive um to almost no restrictions but d has restrictions for you know like yeah an example would be a a large stadium or something like that and the likelihood

» of that going out there is is minimal but um other things that you simply would not want out there or be uh hazardous material dump sites or things like that so it's um the d and e are are the absolute least restrictive but the what they restrict out there are things that would not normally go there anyway yeah so the only thing not permitted that i see and d is a solid waste landfill so d um has conditional restrictions on certain uses that might be incompatible with safe airport operations like um mining operations that might otherwise be allowed i believe they're conditionally restricted that the operator would have to check with scac or faa to make sure that it is not offensive to those operations but it does have that minimal control within zone d uh because that area is in the um void

» s from the family or the iron cross um some of those uses could be established quite close to the airport um the for for instance the uh matter that was before planning commission the subdivision development out there dogwood acres is in zone d but it immediately butts the zone c um the that is uh zone general development that uh underlying parcel but there are a lot of uh rural parcels that perhaps support mining additionally um scac and faa both uh in their guidance state that if local jurisdiction has the ability to enact some land use controls over those areas that is their expectation for grants now they do defer to local government in y'all's land use decisions and what you enact but they do um encourage and expect um some level of land use control again uh if one were to establish an

» d this is hypothetical say a mining operation in hunt country that um and i understand a lot of that stuff is restricted privately restricted but a mining operation were to be established in zone d with a lot of dust and whatnot uh that could affect airport operations if it is not regulated within d and it's allowed use on the underlying base zoning district it would be allowed period um that d zone and that e zone again allow for some control and minimal control on those uses that are pretty much inherently compatible with airports but it does allow them to be considered on a case-by-case analysis and an applicant that wanted to they establish a mining use on an electric power plant again they could check with a stack and they might be approved for it depending on their location but again

» it it allows the county to exert a modicum of control and again um to mr shoemake's point if the state in 2027 says you've got to do this and their model regulations and the faa model regulations are set up with these concentric zones and these fan blades and areas between them that would be their expectation um so that's some of the kind of policy rationale through faa and scat guidance in that zone and again it is minimum minimally restricted within zone d mr tomlinson you still have the floor yeah um well kind of with that being said that that takes away the whole whole approach of the of the district itself there's no way i could support that men especially on first reading being killing the entire goal of us and staff working so hard to put this together in the public so i i would be h

» appy to look at other things on on second reading and i'm sure we need to fine tooth comb but i cannot support those amendments mr chair i'd like to make an amendment to mr brown's amendment all other council members get an opportunity to speak before we have a council member speak again any other comments mr tucker yes sir thank you um thank you mr chair i want to say i have a question two for you mr temple i want to say thank you to staff and thank you to the citizens that actually came out to uh speak with staff and council members on these issues because these amendments um came straight from that that councilman thomason has um proposed to us tonight and um and i think that's what needs to happen in our society more that we need to have conversation and compromise um as i told you befo

» re horses and planes has been existing before a lot of you were probably here including myself um i have parents and grandparents that was born and raised and have died here um with that being said um we've got two more bites at this apple um i'm gonna support mr thomason's amendment um tonight because i think it's a fair proposal and mr temple will you guys you and mr blanchard and staff will y'all be holding any more of the public meetings that y'all held in the past um within the next two to three weeks when we meet again yes sir so we had a uh a well-attended meeting in this room last thursday i think yes sir um i think that was started at 6 30 so um my commitment to those folks is after this first reading with the amendments we would have a lot more to chew on um so we would meet back

» here this thursday same time same place uh with updated information to uh you know further discuss and and i echo what you say the the feedback we heard from the folks in that room was it was incredibly helpful um you know there were um things that made us uh kind of take a step back and it wasn't it wasn't necessarily something we had thought about but in terms of just mere terminology from equine industry to the ability to label something commercial equine industry so um just some semantics in there a little bit so very helpful all of the meetings this will be the fourth if we have one uh well we will have it on thursday so um and i would be happy to meet even after that after the the second reading we'll continue that process to further take in um you know public comment to staff well th

» at's not something that we have to do but i'm greatly um appreciative of you guys doing that because that's how uh we learn of things that that we don't know about or may not be aware of and um and with that i um i will say that um you know the two more times that we have to read this in a public hearing i think it allows for everybody to have participation and say so um but don't just come with the problem um i always say if you got a problem you should have a couple solutions when you bring your problem and you're not going to always get what you want 100 people don't like the word compromise but i think it's a good word and it works out pretty well we learn to do it more in america we won't be in such bad shape that concludes my report thank you mr tucker mr kato i want to start first wi

» th a legal question um so does the second reading have a time limit do we have a a particular time period that the second reading has to fall in so county council um it's at their discretion any county council or city council the um timing and order of reading um if your question mr cato is does would second reading have to be sequential um not necessarily um if these amendments do not answer a lot of public concerns and there are a lot of uh continuing public concerns and council saw fit to defer at the next meeting for additional consideration that's certainly possible um so you can you could take you could read something skip a meeting skip a meeting um that would totally be at the discretion of the majority of council timing of all that the way i i the way i see this in first reading is

» this kind of like doing a book report you do a draft you go over your draft you make your corrections you have a proofread on your second and then you have your third and final draft um i think there's still a lot of a lot of work that needs to be done um i think that i appreciate mr tomlinson's amendments i think it's i think it's answered a lot of concerns of the people out there and i want to make sure that their life lifestyle does not change it does not affect them in any way i've said this before i'm a hundred percent for everything that they want as far as their the rights that they have now um i'm very pleased that i've seen that this has worked into the church's favor that was another main concern of mine but i do believe that there's a lot more work and staff has put a lot of work

» into this a lot of resources a lot of money i'm afraid if we just x this project now when we start over we've we've wasted a lot of money a lot of time and a lot of effort and then we'll have to go back and we'll have to start all over again in another year or two but with that being said i think that we need to take our time as much time as needed and as much time as we deem necessary before we go to the second reading to make sure that we have everything right and we have it right for the county for the overlay and we have it right for the mainly have it right for the citizens in this overlay district i'll support the first reading tonight but i want to encourage our staff to make sure that we take the amendments that passed tonight put them into action and do the best we can to make sure

» that we acknowledge each and every concern that is brought to us in this overlay and if it takes us six months before we have the second reading so be it but let's make sure we get it right but i can't agree with just xing the project all together thank you mr tucker any further comments um i'll comment if you have a motion i'll comment on i have a comment okay i'll go ahead and comment and then uh you'll be able to go a second time do you do that sir thank so um we're still on the brazil amendment uh after all this discussion we're still on the brazil amendment and uh i i just like to research stuff and make sure i know what i'm doing before i understand the implications of something removing zone dne mr brazil might be a great idea but i haven't been able to look at it or seek any scac um

» the south carolina aeronautics commission feedback on that map i do know that the map that we have tonight hasn't received a negative report or uh any negative connotation from scac after multiple requests and so that's a good thing um and so since i haven't been able to research it i wouldn't be able to support your amendment tonight it might make sense in the future if it comes back up and uh you know i've only been on council for a few months now and so this has been going on for quite some time and there's been discussions that have uh served as an undergirdle for a lot of what's happened tonight but i just have to be able to research things to make sure i'm making the right decision and um therefore i wouldn't be able to support that amendment tonight mr jones yes sir mr chairman i hav

» e a question for you if i may did you have a chance to research these amendments that we got tonight yes i've been asking questions uh quite hardly and trying to proactively reach out to find out what made sense or not you saw these before we got them tonight they were emailed out to i think all council members y'all know i don't do my email well i don't i mean well that's just i'm not going to do email okay okay uh but bottom line is my phone rings 24 hours a day i'll answer my phone and i'll text you and i just dropped facebook too by the way um can i go you still have the phone okay thank you i'd like to make an amendment to mr president member i'd like to make an amendment that we postpone this and that we try to get a better source of communication with the folks out there because i ju

» st think it's absolutely wrong for us to vote for this tonight and uh with with with the level of information that's been involved and i do have a question mr timber how many uh town hall meetings or openings did y'all have was it two you said or three this thursday would be four how many people showed up did y'all keep our list everybody signed coming in no we had one out at the airport was the first with uh representative from wk dixon i think that was back in yeah november we had another smaller group come in you know how many people it was here at uh a lot of the same folks that have have come to the all meetings i can't call names nine people i think it'd be good to maybe have people sign in when they come in just have a list of it and here's why i asked i'm sorry mr jones but here's w

» hat i mean by that mr jones if you've got a motion on the floor we gotta get a second before we talk about it anymore okay because i guess so mr jones has made a motion to postpone which i'll interpret as a motion to table um is there a second seeing this i'll second a motion to table thank you okay it's on the floor mr jones you got the first thank you yeah yes uh as i said i think i've already said it that why we need to to do this and then we can move forward with it later on but uh i i guess i just haven't heard anybody who's called me that's in favor of it you know i i know we talk about the people that that that feel good about it but i haven't seen them i haven't heard from all i've heard is the people out there saying they they didn't want this they felt like this is overreach it's

» it's big government coming in and uh so having said that thank you mr thank you mr president for a second this let me get on the floor i think that to remove this from the floor tonight would be the thing that the majority of people would want in kershaw county any further comment off of the vote mr chair on the third amendment because we got yeah so right now we're on the the jones motion uh to table all in favor of the jones motion to table raise your hand you've got mr brazel and mr jones in favor all opposed raise your hand thank you mr chairman you've got tomlinson kato connell tucker and shoemake in favor and mr jones and mr brazel um excuse me reverse that yes jones and brazel in favor all remaining council members opposed miss hannah for the record all right that brings us back to m

» r chairman i'll withdraw my motion my amendment my amendment okay mr mr brazel withdraws that brings us back to the tomlinson amendment any further discussion on the tomlinson amendment seeing no further discussion we'll call for the vote all in favor of the tomlinson amendment raise your hand that's shoemake tucker connell cato and tomlinson in favor all opposed mr brazel and mr jones opposed that amendment passes now we've got a vote on first reading of the ordinance as amended is there any further discussion as amended again i just want to reiterate what i said about the second reading this is the first reading this is what i consider to be a rough draft um with with these new amendments put in place that have been asked for by the community i want to i want to ask the staff and everybod

» y involved to take their time before we go to a second reading and make sure that we have something that everybody is in agreement with we we we need we need to wholeheartedly be able to vote for this without any reservation and make sure that the people of kershaw county is happy also please take our time before we go to a second reading may i say something mr jones thank you so much you know we spent so much time on uh i call it disney disneyland uh um future planning uh in the past when we should be working on a comprehensive land land use ordinance um getting back to to this guys never mind i'll hold that for later thank you mr chairman any further comment i'd like to thank um councilman kato for his comments i i'd like to think that there's a version that i'd be able to support um but

» we we're not there yet we are well not we i i am nowhere close because i've seen a room full of angry people and i need to see a room full of happy people so um i'll continue to be engaged and um try to find solutions for for everybody who lives in these zones i don't want anybody negatively impacted and i don't think anybody does so um i'll also thank uh councilman thomason for the amendments i know that you are trying to solve solve the problem that was created and um but hopefully we can move forward and do that in the future thank you thank you mr thank you mr brazil any further comment mr chairman any other council members i knew you're seeing none go ahead mr jones thank you so much for your kindness listen um i wasn't going to say but i'd like to does everybody up here understand wha

» t they're voting for tonight y'all seen these amendments y'all understand them y'all can explain to me tonight that you're voting on for first reading does every i'm just asking do y'all all understand what you're voting for tonight anyway i don't but uh i don't think all of us are going to do either we're just kind of moving the process on thank you all so much for your time and listening to me tonight thank you mr jones it's good to be back all i can say to mr jones um i do think next next meeting when we address this on second reading and it could be pushed back i think there's going to be a lot different tone and voice um speaking from the audience because i think a lot of these issues have been addressed in these amendments and it's going to take a while but the public is going to have

» plenty of time to go through these amendments to make sure that they fit a lot of time to interact with staff in case we need to make further amendments which i'm sure we will any further comments seeing none we'll call for the vote this is voting on the aod ordinance as amended first reading only all in favor raise your hand we've got shoemake tucker connell cato and tomlinson all opposed brazzle and jones opposed miss hannah it passes first reading thank you gentlemen that takes us to item number 9b on the agenda this is first reading uh of an ordinance approving form contracts regarding private hanger licenses at kershaw county airport um mr templar do you have any update for us or just a little background before we call for a motion uh just real briefly mr chairman members of council th

» is is to um just bring up to date and clean up some of the things we have out at the airport as it relates to individuals renting uh uh uh what would normally be a uh a ground lease hangar uh situation with a hanger that was built on county property and are occupied uh all currently occupied by individuals we're just setting the rates of a fair market value okay thank you for that background with that background is there a motion make a motion that we approve the uh recommended fees by our staff for our airport hangars all right second all right we've got a first and a second can we get a copy can we get a copy of those fees on the uh all right you've got that okay it's on the table mr secretary you had the first uh yeah so i would just like to uh thank staff for doing due diligence and i'l

» l just remind you mr gerald is ready to present or answer any questions he was hiding at the front i um definitely um yield to you sir all right no problem uh council thanks for the opportunity to present these uh what you have before you is the uh recommendation of the hangar rates or private two corporate hangars located at uh kershaw county airport as well as drafts of the contracts needed by administration uh to carry out managerial duties uh the four contracts that you have in your packet are going to be private hanger uh license agreements mr blanchard if you could talk into the mic so folks can hear you that's for the uh individual uh commercial license agreement which would be for any business uh commercial charter license agreement which is primarily our maintenance uh the gentlema

» n that is uh that rents uh hangar three community hangar three out there uh commercial business uh and our 30 year 30 year construction and license agreement for anyone who wishes to build at woodward field for the private corporate hanger hanger fee staff landed on a amenity based uh pricing model that it establishes costs based on the amenities that they have available to them in that hangar being electricity water sewer and office space hangars that have electricity only will be priced at 19 cents per square foot hangars that have amenities all amenities will be priced at 24 cents per square foot these rates are congruent with the 2024 community hangar and t hanger rates that are part of our budget proviso these rates are comparable to other airports in our area in south carolina for the

» community hangars uh housing the aviation maintenance technician uh we are requesting to continue what he has been working under which is a three percent of his gross revenue is what he pays for the community hangar three so that's kind of where we're at glad to answer any questions that you may have thank you for sharing that report any questions from council i don't have a question i have a statement any comments um thank you mr if i may mr tucker thank you um mr blanchard i want to say thank you um i know that's the reason why your hair is looking like mine is standing out on top because this has been a project that you've really put a lot into and um stayed up working on uh over the weekends and nights but uh i appreciate what you're recommending back to council tonight and i think it's

» more than fair because when i first looked at these numbers the finance committee they've lowered since then um and i think that comes to doing your comparables around uh the adjacent states and i meant counties and states because we went out of state on a couple um and talked to people who had a lot of airport experience on how um they're charging and their fees and stuff so as i said earlier thanks for your due diligence and um i think this is more than um fair uh to our citizens and our um patrons out there so um i look forward to giving this first knot and um answering any questions between now and second reading but thank you if i may mr tucker mr jones thank you mr hey mr plancher how you do sir uh how many airplanes do we house at the airport uh right now i believe as of last week wh

» en we actually brought in another aircraft i think we're up to 34. okay somebody and i don't know where i heard this number if you can help me out 105. no sir not at our airport we have 81 total aircraft um taxed in kershaw county um that might be where okay but then they don't house a plane here they just use this for okay that's what i need to know thank you so much sure yes sir any other questions or comments the council i would just like to comment on what mr jones was saying if i may miss jones and i think that's part of when we lowered our um rates um for um ten and a half down to four or six percent whatever it is four um a lot of folks of course registered the planes here but that doesn't mean they have to storm here or house them here no no no i i wouldn't yeah i wouldn't say anyth

» ing was done wrong i was just asking for the information no no i was just trying to if people are watching want to know why there's 81 registered we're collecting taxes on but only 30 something that's housing that's that's part of the reason would you agree mr plancher that's that would be correct yes sir thank you mr tucker any further questions or comments gentlemen i'll just comment that uh the airport's supposed to be an enterprise fund it's supposed to stand on its own and i think this is staff's best effort right now on first reading to help us keep that commitment of having the airport be an enterprise fund it's supposed to stand on its on its own generally and not be subsidized by other tax dollars within the county and that's an obligation that we have so i think this helps us take

» a step towards fulfilling that obligation there's work to be done yet still have research going on regarding the opportunity for economic development opportunities with um with hangers that can be built for people who invest a certain amount in kershaw county or maintain certain size planes in kershaw county all to bring jobs to the area and those are the comments that i had any further comments from council yeah for clarification um initially when we were discussing this the economic development piece would give me a conflict but at this point there is no economic development um agreement um when it comes to these lease rates so i'm free to vote unless john dubose tells me i'm wrong you're not wrong okay thank you sir just for clarification i think you're free to vote otherwise i think the

» large class exception applies um generally but that's just me i can't give you legal advice mr mr tucker i i just want to say too on the the vice chair's um comments we're handling that as a separate issue so that's i don't want you to think that that's just a bygone thought it's just not into what we're doing no i don't well i don't i don't want it to be quite frankly right and that's and that's what staff recommended as well yes all right gentlemen we're on 9b first reading i don't see any other comments we'll move it to a vote all in favor of passing on first reading raise your hand everyone except for mr jones is in favor all opposed mr jones opposed miss hannah for the record mr chair may i ask a question to you sure would you ask staff or whatever to do do a little survey throughout t

» he state with airports and found find out how many are they uh generate revenue to be to sustain themselves without any additional help i was told that there's not many that do how many are enterprise funds yeah yeah i don't i heard that's a that's a question you can directly ask of staff yourself i mean it doesn't have to come through me i'm just saying oh i'm just trying to show you a little respect yeah no you can you can in your council briefing you can ask staff to jump through and do whatever they need to and i do realize that but i would like to know how many are self-sufficient mr templar yes sir within the state of south county because i and the reason i say that is because i've been told that it's hard to be self-sufficient as an airport and you may have occasion county owned oh y

» es but we own this one sure i wanted to be an apple for an apple thank you thank you mr jones thank you all right that takes us to uh item nine c first reading and title only i'm not sure who will give us an update on this uh mr burgess or otherwise it's in title only and so there's not going to be much content to it it's an economic development matter do we have any general background mr templar before we move to vote um sorry uh mr uh chairman members of council this is just again in title only um to get the ball rolling for a uh fee in lieu for uh project creed okay and there'll be more information to come as they work through yes contractual arrangements and other things first reading of title only on 9c do we have a motion i'll make a motion we approve mr tomlinson with the motion is t

» here a second mr tucker has a second any discussion yeah what are we voting on i mean is it solar panels or what 9c first reading in title only it's project creed that's the information we've got in the packet okay because if it's solar panels i'm voting against it can we have a little better description as as to what to the to the public as to what we're voting on and and i see it's a fee in lieu is possibly the fee in lieu that we're looking at i mean can we get a little bit more more than just this thank you mr kato well typically procedurally on a first reading in title only there's no debate no substance i mean that being said um i believe uh mr burgess probably has some some detail of it he was ready to come up here yes atypical for details and that's uh but he's not mentioned to comp

» any if he tells us what the product is it's it's mr mr tucker um and i and i know how some of y'all feel about solar farms and this that and the other once again this is why we read things three times um if you're not comfortable voting in title only then don't vote for it um if you if it's the wrong thing that you voted for if you support tonight well don't vote for it when it comes back up on the agenda you don't need to you don't need to encourage me to do that so yeah it's it's not gonna pass tonight no matter what your vote is so let's let's don't put the company in jeopardy of uh swearing away our confidentiality because we want to make sure we don't vote on the solar farm that's not we're better than that mr tucker i understand where you're coming from i guess i just wanted a little

» bit more clarity to the people so they'd know when i voted what i was voting for and that it was a solar farm not necessarily all of the details and title only but i think it was very vague to start with i just wanted to make sure they understood that this was a a solar project and i got you and i got your concerns i i just you know because we don't get upset now we're uh only thing i am right now jim is sleepy um i ain't nowhere near upset um with with that being said um we start going down this slippery slope not only with this project others then we're going to have our economic development uh team and uh mr burgess where um we may not have that confidentiality in our future projects and that's a slope i do not want to enter gentlemen um if it's the industry i'm okay industrial jobs i'm

» okay if solar panels i'm not i got that and you'll have your opportunity to vote against it two or three times mr jones if you want to i think sammy's point is very valid um when somebody's whoever this is has spent a lot of money and probably 20 30 000 with an attorney and a lot of time with mr burgess and it's is very typical to keep it private until after maybe second reading so um that's what we've done for the last i know four years and and probably well beyond that um 19 years i know right so i've been doing it for a long time but kershaw county is a very business oriented and business friendly community and i want to make sure that we keep it that way as well thank you mr brazil any other comments i think none i'll support this on first reading i think we had a great message earlier

» from mr adams and mr shindy i believe with stir light reaching their goals and we want to communicate that kershaw county is open for business in its various forms i look forward to getting more information on second reading and uh and hope that the company can can formalize and solidify the things it might need to as we continue to work on this no further discussion we'll bring it to a vote all in favor raise your hand we've got mr shoemake mr tucker mr brazil connell and tomlinson in favor all opposed we've got mr cato and mr jones opposed miss hannah passes first reading in title only gentlemen that takes us to item number 10 a placed on the agenda by the county administrator employee relations committee do we have a motion make a motion that we uh take the recommendations from the count

» y administrator on the employee relations committee appointment is there a second i'll second second from mr shoemake mr templar thank you mr chair members council what you have before you is just the uh appointments of the uh what is we call now the employee relations committee but in uh in concept it is our grievance committee that we're required to have so uh this is going to reorder some of the the due dates on terms so this allows us to mix it up a little bit and and have people fall off in in different um so you can stagger you're right staggering and and so we can keep it going okay thank you mr templar any further comments or questions none thank you chairman uh is this a unilateral appointment you can do under our rules or do you need are you requesting a vote from us uh just just

» uh yeah just the the one vote which should um allow them to and i just i see before me a vacancy indicated do you intend to fill the vacancy tonight or is that no no not yet we have to select a person for that this individual just indicated that they would be retiring so they're still active but this is just kind of a placeholder for us okay and just to clarify mr dubose is it required that we vote on the staggered terms um i believe that commission is established uh by statute that might be codified and those terms might already be codified within your county code um i don't have it off the top of my head but i do think a vote on this would be prudent um again okay well i'll take i'll take i'll take advice and be we always have i mean take advice and be prudent um seeing no further discuss

» ion we'll move it to a vote as to the staggered terms all in favor it's unanimous in favor miss hannah passes thank you item 10b kershaw county council reappointment of vice chairman russell brazzle placed on the agenda by councilman tucker mr tucker do you have a motion thank you mr chair um i would like to take the uh time and the uh honor to um make a motion that we reappoint uh the vice chairman mr russell brazzle um to a two uh two-year term uh as our vice chair of uh sitting council thank you mr tucker do we have a second second mr shoemaker has a second mr tucker you got the floor uh thank you um vice chairman i'm gonna say this to you because we had this conversation back when you first took the position in september in the fall yeah in the fall it was during the fall um you have re

» ally really stepped up to the plate and you have really really uh done a very good job and we i'm not going to say i we appreciate you not that we ever doubted we we just knew that um the proof was in the pudding and that you uh would do a good job and we appreciate it and we want to say thank you for that short term and now we're going to give you a long term just look for you to just continue to do uh good work and um you know keep us straight and lead us down the right direction so i want to say congratulations and thank you for being willing to do it because that's something you have to have in your heart to do because it's extra work thank you mr tucker mr shoemake yeah uh echo everything uh councilman tucker just said sometimes we disagree but always we respect one another and uh i th

» ink you've been a model of that and uh i appreciate everything you've done both professionally and personally um for all of us so i look forward to having another two years with you as vice chair mr brazil thank you mr shoemake any further comment yes mr jones thank you mr brazil i'm i really mean this and i haven't said you've been one of the best vice chairs i've ever seen you you were better than me better mr tucker and my feelings are hurt jimmy no that's not the first time he's done it russell listen to me seriously you've been there you take our phone calls and i appreciate it uh and just uh the support you've given the community as well you're a good leader and uh i commend you on that and i'm very proud to serve with you as you being the vice chair of this county council so thank yo

» u thank you mr jones any further comments well i'd like to say thanks go ahead we haven't voted for yet we gotta vote for it any comments to sell yourself any further nope now's the time to get rid of me yeah listen i i support you and look forward to continue to work with you we'll call it for a vote all in favor you can vote for yourself i'm good if i have to vote for myself i don't need it miss hannah we've got everybody in favor except for mr brazil with a little bit of self-loathing well i always voted for myself okay thank you gentlemen that's 10b now we're going to go to council briefings item 11.

» mr cato you've got the floor for council briefings first please well i'll be briefed tonight we've been here long enough but first of all i want to thank the sheriff and the committee again for bringing their presentation on the the memorial um i think they're doing a great job with that and it looks it looks great from what i see and uh i want to thank everybody with the library also uh they do an outstanding job they have really been working hard to reach out to our rural communities and and i appreciate that lastly i just want to thank everybody for the dialogue tonight um you know i've said this before the decisions we make up here sometimes are very very difficult decisions and we cannot satisfy everybody and never will we ever satisfy everybody it's just not going to happen there's al

» ways going to be somebody that's dissatisfied with a decision that's made up here and um tonight was the first reading of a very difficult decision that kershaw county or a project i should say that kershaw county has entered into and we take it very seriously and um i look forward to us coming to a solution that's good that's going to satisfy at least 95 of the people uh here in kershaw county i wish you all a good night and safe travels home that ends my report thank you mr kato mr tomlinson thank you mr chairman um i'm going to be brief i appreciate everybody's hard work on on the aod i appreciate all the community's input um and please keep us vigilant on on on this process um and also as i mentioned in my comments um there's going to be a copy that you can um look at that's going to be

» on the planning commission website so please take the opportunity to go through and observe the amendments that were in my motion this evening and i'm sure there's going to be other ones um so don't be afraid as i'm we've figured out nobody's afraid to give their opinion which they should not be um but we appreciate everybody's hard work on this and i appreciate my colleagues up here um putting in the time and effort to get this done thank y'all so much thank you mr tomlinson mr jones thank you uh just a couple things that i've as members of the public talk to about this and i know mr tipper and i've talked about i know he's on it but uh as far as the jail when do you think you'll be bringing something to us and i know we've talked about in your i know you're i know you've got a plan but ye

» s sir so um we have the conceptual plans and the study is done it's just now a matter of coming to y'all and getting with the finance committee on funding so i've engaged some other uh some of our consultants our attorneys that we typically consult with over bonds and things of that nature and financing uh to explore our options so we're you know within we'll be coming soon within this budget year for sure oh yes absolutely and i know the strain that y'all are under i've been there done this and i when i've talked to you earlier i appreciate knowing that you're on top of it because i hadn't heard anything about it but thank you thank you mr jones mr shoemake yeah i don't have much uh you know sometimes government is messy sometimes it feels like you know it's too messy but at least we not f

» orget that it was a couple hundred years ago that i believe it was the south carolinian and congress beat someone with his cane so in a way we've we've gotten better so i appreciate the discourse and i think we'll get good places thank you for that rousing comment mr shoemake mr tucker this is what i have to follow um thank you mr chairman so um aod the uh airport overlay district um i want to just encourage as many of you that has been involved uh in the past to continue to have this dialogue and conversation and let's see where we're going to end up and how can we fine tune this and um take that with an open mind and open heart um to um have these conversations um i want to say to my colleagues and i think mr cato is still over there um i appreciate your vote and your understanding you an

» d mr jones i do not take your vote no matter which way you vote and how you feel for granted so i will always respect your vote and i understand your you're wanting to know of that knowledge because it's important that you so you can answer to your constituents and to the citizens of kershaw county so i i do understand that um and then i want to say and i don't have much information um we should have a project hopefully this spring or summer uh that's going to be coming up in the west watery area for transportation um on the u.s one corridor maybe or a white pond road we're working on that we actually have a cog meeting monday night and we'll be discussing this in our projects planning committee also in our executive committee so as we get more information um i will share with this body and

» um bring you back the good news so some opportunities there that's coming and i'm real real real real excited about it the other thing i want to say i had this conversation with a gentleman just yesterday um you don't get a lot of do-overs in life and what you do today sometimes will not have an effect whether it's good or bad and too many years down the road um i always try to do good because um what what we the decisions we make up here and the work that we do it's probably gonna i know it's gonna precede me and that other old fellow over there to my left we're gonna be long gone um when things come to uh fruition um because it takes time in government so i don't i'm saying this because i don't want no one to take what we do up here as being um half thought about or not considered that we

» 're not taking our job serious or we don't care um so far from the truth um i can't begin to explain it so uh keep in mind um we also are governed by laws um laws is going to affect us that's that's how we're governed in america and sometimes too much governments and and laws but that's the hand we're dealt with so please understand that and um i say to my colleagues what you do does make a difference and what we're doing today will matter tomorrow and the next day so that concludes my report thank you mr sucker vice chairman brazil thank you chairman um appreciate everybody's support uh as vice chairman i will do my best to fill in for for ben when he's on vacation like i said before i'm sure he'll he'll need a day off um i'm good i'm good either way that's right um i think tonight was a g

» ood example of how we can disagree and be cordial um obviously dealing with some pretty heated topics and um every everybody at this dais whether we agreed or disagreed um we were cordial and and i think that is the way we should do business here in kershaw county um i'd like to remind uh our administrator don't forget about me on the engineering piece do we have any information i'll let you brief us okay and um and that's it that's it for tonight it's been a long night thanks thank you mr brazil appreciate that i want to thank everybody on the bottle body for the professional discussion and discourse that we've had tonight there are definitely some disagreements but one of my main goals in serving on county council again was to uh to bring back and emphasize professionalism and in represen

» ting the folks of kershaw county honorably our neighbors and friends and so i'm very grateful for that none of us is an island we work by majority vote and so you have to find consensus to get things done in the county and we want to dutifully take care of the business of the county uh just recently i have to say i've never seen somebody so excited about a bathroom i went to uh dolly patton's ribbon cutting before the kershaw county fine arts center and i tell you what there's more hoopla over a bathroom than i've ever seen so there's a lot of state funds that were secured for converting the fine arts center restroom to being ada compliant and it's just a wonderful project it's a great improvement it's tough to make a historic building which is beautiful in itself comply with modern buildin

» g codes and make it ada compliant but they got it done had a great contractor and it was a good result so i'm thankful for that now in the community you'll have more folks with disabilities who will be able to easily more easily enjoy the arts i wanted to remind uh council members that after discussion at the end of last year we moved to council members uh leading by example and either saying the prayer themselves and pledge of allegiance or securing somebody from the community that they'd want to do we've just had district one and two and so we'll have district three next so just be aware if you want to reach out to a local pastor or a friend or someone to say the prayer and lead us in the pledge or you can you yourself can do it last thing i want to mention before we move on to the admini

» strators briefing was really encouraging my fellow council members to have an open mind when it comes to economic development in kershaw county i think there's a path forward for us to use philo revenue or a portion of it which is essentially new found money in kershaw county that doesn't come from the general uh fund tax base but using philo revenue or a portion thereof to work on economic development bonds partner up with particular uh developers who build these projects which would significantly reduce the cost of kershaw county sometimes it can be the county only puts in the land and maybe 30 percent of the cost of an overall structure that's 50 to 100 000 square feet i think with the central carolina expansion which there is a 20 million dollar expansion of central carolina that's goin

» g to occur those state funds have already been allocated we're working with central carolina to try to get that place filled in uh before it's even built and get the commitments in place for advanced training and certifications to make us a destination for people in south carolina but really throughout the east and this would be in automotive health care and various other sections um heating and cooling in the economy and so with that kind of thing happening i think it's important for us to look at economic development figure out as sterlight mentioned tonight he would tell any one of his friends and that's a wide net uh come do business in kershaw county bring the jobs here people have the reservations about particularly dense residential development but i haven't heard anybody that compla

» ins about high paying jobs coming to kershaw county we've got 10 000 plus people that leave every day and go and work somewhere else why not have high paying jobs in kershaw county people don't have to travel as much to keep families together you don't have to have brain drain where the young folks are working in other communities because they can't get a good job here so i see economic development is a huge solution for many of the issues that kershaw county faces and i just again encourage you all to have an open mind as we come up with some proposals to save money on how we or save ultimate cost on how we do those projects and then use philo revenue to uh to fund them and that concludes my report so we go to administrators briefing item number 12.

» mr templar what do you have for us thank you sir i have a couple of items um just first off which wanted to speak about the airport overlay district in that um i appreciate y'all's hard work on that i know that's a lot for y'all to unpack um you know i i live out there i live in one of the zones my mother lives in one of the zones so it's kind of cognitive dissonance to put this in and act this into my um my neighborhood but it is you know the airport's right there so i have probably not worked on anything this hard ever in the in the almost 10 years i've been in the administrative wing um because of the so many people i know out there individual texts emails meetings um will continue to have these meetings i understand clearly what the is out there the the uh the theory and spirit of what

» red fox road and dicey creek is to the uh the hunt country and the hunter barn so none of that is lost on me and i'm and i just um i'm grateful to be able to be the administrator in my community where i grew up so i can understand these things and um and really take and and make extra effort to make sure that this there's a preservation piece along with the airport as well as the uh equine community out there so it's it's been a tough process we've got a long way to go but um i feel absolutely confident that we can thread both of those needles so with that i'll move on to some updates uh woodward pre-construction is scheduled for monday february 3rd copeland and boyd young park bid renovations uh the opening is scheduled for thursday february 13th alliance has submitted some documentation f

» or the casey west parking and driveway connection to whitehead drive and lugoff we anticipate that that bid to go out on the street uh february 5th so february will be a busy month for projects um the mount pisgah playground equipment we anticipate delivery by the end of february early march and if anything changes with that mr cato will certainly let you know but uh kind of crossing our fingers so we can get that one knocked out um really looking forward to that i think that's going to be a neat amenity up there for that community so mr templar please recall for that area we've got a donor who will cover half the cost of a pickleball conversion whenever we can work it into the budget yes sir um moving on um mr brazzle you had asked about the uh pole barn component there and this is a an en

» deavor to where currently we are asking citizens or residents if they are going to build a pole barn that they supply some engineering documentation it was our goal to take that burden off of them and try to get as close as we could to a one-size-fits-all engineering document to relieve them of that financial burden in that step and put it back on the county so we can have a an inspection document to inspect these these pole barns to make sure that they're safe but keep costs low for those individuals installing them we have reached out to four engineering firms some are a little skittish about providing a one-size-fits-all documents so we're continuing to work with that and i'm going to continue to reach out to some of the larger firms to see if they can help us out with these these items

» so i'm still in work and i would like to have something solidified by within the next week or two to have somebody engaged to start working on that and i'm going to share a name and number with you that uh of someone who who does these all over the state and uh on the coast that might be a cheaper option okay that'd that'd be much appreciated um and uh just one more item on our wastewater treatment plant you know that was provided that was funded by the skip grant which is also going to be it's federal dollars but with the recent executive order freezing some some grants and things of that nature that will not fall within that realm so that's good news for us we can keep driving on with that project which is underway we're uh looking at value engineering some of it down to reduce costs a li

» ttle bit further we'll be cutting it very tight as it relates to contingencies and things of that nature but um we feel pretty confident that we can get that going and you know of course we're on the on the clock for that one as those federal dollars have to be spent so um that's my report sir thank you mr templar before we get to the legal report i just got a text and i have to contract congratulate my two little sweethearts alexis and annabelle on winning their basketball games tonight if there's any doubt how much we care about this work i missed two basketball games tonight and uh they apparently had great games so i have to look at the footage later thank you for indulging me mr dubose do we have any legal report no mr chair okay we've got an executive am i the only is it only my thing

» yeah i understand there's only one item okay well i'll go ahead uh in reference to the beating of the cane early i'll go ahead and withdraw that since it's already been kind of late we can address that later you want to have this placed on for the next meeting yeah that's fine we can do when we have another executive miss hannah would you please note the agenda for the next meeting all right so we've uh we have to amend the agenda technically okay we got a second we got two very very enthusiastic seconds we'll take mr brazzles no discussion on that one uh vote is to remove item 14a move to the next agenda all in favor it's unanimous so amended and that just leaves adjournment we are adjourned that's the first unanimous all night