[0:15] Good morning.
Thank you for
[0:19] adjusting your schedules to attend this
um called meeting of the Marlboro County
[0:23] Council.
At this time, we will ask
[0:27] Vice Chairman Lawson to lead us in our
invocation followed by the Pledge of
[0:31] Allegiance.
[0:36] » Good morning, Heavenly Father. Thank you
for this day.
[0:39] We thank you for the opportunity to just
to see this another day. And Father, as
[0:44] we come together this morning as council
members and community, we ask that would
[0:48] you guide us in our decision-making,
guide us in what we do or say. We pray,
[0:53] Father, that the decision made will be
the ones that will benefit our community
[0:57] and our county. Bless us in a special
way. And Father, we give you thanks for
[1:01] all these great things. Amen.
>> Amen.
[1:07] I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
[1:12] and to the republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible, with
[1:18] liberty and justice for all.
[1:27] Before we move forward, I will entertain
a motion to amend our agenda to include
[1:31] an executive session matter to discuss
contractual matters related to our geo
[1:35] bond and to our leased vehicle
purchases.
[1:40] It was moved and properly seconded that
we amend the agenda to include an
[1:43] executive session to discuss contractual
matters related to our geo bond and to
[1:47] our leased vehicles. Any discussions?
All in favor, let it be known by raising
[1:51] your right hand.
Motion is approved unanimously.
[1:58] Our first
order of business is our ordinance
[2:02] number 877, an ordinance authorizing the
execution for the sale of all parcels of
[2:07] property located in the Marble County
Industrial Park, first reading title
[2:12] only. Ms. Upchurch.
[2:17] » Good morning.
>> Morning.
[2:19] » What we bring to you is that we would be
looking at selling a partial of our land
[2:23] that we have in in the industrial park
as for it enhancing our um
[2:30] manufacturing business.
Further information would come at our
[2:34] second reading.
[2:37] » You've heard Ms. Upchurch in regards to
this
[2:40] particular ordinance. Any discussions?
>> Mr. Chairman, I know there's a whole lot
[2:44] of talk about data center. This has
nothing to do with a data center.
[2:50] » And thank you for pointing out it's
manufacturing.
[2:56] » Mr. Chairman, I'd make a motion we
approve ordinance 877.
[3:01] » Second.
>> It's moved and properly seconded that we
[3:03] approve ordinance number 877, first
reading title only. Any discussions?
[3:09] All in favor, let it be known by raising
your right hand.
[3:13] Motion is approved unanimously.
Next item for business, ordinance number
[3:17] 883, an ordinance adopting a 4-month
moratorium on the acceptance of
[3:22] application for solar
um farm use to provide for an immediate
[3:26] effective date and to provide for an
extension of 90 days here to
[3:30] by further resolution of council, first
reading title only.
[3:37] » There has been raised some concerns in
our community regarding solar and solar
[3:41] farm use. We would like to um propose a
4-month moratorium as to be able to
[3:48] explore more information regarding solar
farms and um figure out exactly how we
[3:54] need to proceed for our county.
>> Any discussions?
[3:58] » And Mr. With that, that means that we
will be developing using that as an
[4:03] avenue to develop our solar ordinance.
Is that right?
[4:06] » That's correct.
>> And hopefully we'll be more in
[4:10] compliance and have more safeguards with
that.
[4:12] » Right. We'll be able to provide the
citizens with more information regarding
[4:17] the solar farms as to ourselves and be
able to proceed uh accordingly with any
[4:21] laws for for our the state and our
county.
[4:25] » Thank you.
>> I think it'll be a grand opportunity for
[4:27] us to really improve our land use and
ordinance related to solar farms and any
[4:33] other businesses that's going to come to
Marlboro County. Any other further
[4:37] discussions?
I'll entertain a motion.
[4:40] » Motion.
>> Second.
[4:42] » It's been moved and properly seconded
that we approve ordinance number 883.
[4:45] Any further discussions? All in favor,
let it be known by raising your right
[4:48] hand.
Motion is approved unanimously.
[4:52] Next item, acceptance of bid, Lindsay
Park fencing. Mr. Parker.
[4:58] » Yes. Uh you received in an email a
communication,
[5:03] and I've
included the attachment of the
[5:06] evaluations for the Lindsay Park
fencing project with a summary of the
[5:11] evaluations of the proposal.
County held a mandatory pre-proposal
[5:16] conference on August 5th at 10:00 a.m.
After advertising the request for
[5:22] proposals on Skibo and the county's
website, an addendum was sent uh to
[5:27] those in attendance at the pre-proposal
conference. The addendum
[5:32] included replacing fencing at fields one
and two, which are the oldest fields.
[5:37] They're probably about 40 years old. And
uh painting uh the fencing on fields
[5:43] three, four, and five. With the
addendum, the county supplies all the
[5:47] paint as well. The funding for this
project is from the land and water
[5:52] conservation grant. Uh the criteria for
the request for proposals on this uh
[5:57] project were based on cost, experience,
and capacity to complete the project
[6:01] timely. Based on um the evaluation of
the committee, the staff recommendation
[6:08] is to award a contract for fields one
and two to Stone Castle Fencing at
[6:13] Adam's Corner for a cost of 37,300,
and a contract on fields three, four,
[6:19] and five to Stone uh Castle uh Fencing
for a cost of 11,480.
[6:28] » Guys, you've heard Mr. Parks and the
recommendation from
[6:33] his department. Any further discussions
in regards to the Lindsay Park fencing?
[6:37] » Mr. Park, I just want to be clear. Will
the fence part be fenced in all around?
[6:42] Give me a
>> We're We're talking about the ball
[6:43] fields.
>> Um ball
[6:45] » The five ball fields, yeah.
>> Five ball fields.
[6:48] Be fenced in all around.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Um
[6:52] fencing uh
replaced on fields one and two, and then
[6:56] painted on fields three, four, and five.
>> If you've gone out to Lindsay Park,
[7:02] you've seen that we've done a lot of
improvements, a lot of um
[7:05] um
Lindsay Park gets good use, and I think
[7:08] this will be a good um addition to
ensure safety and to ensure that our
[7:13] ball fields are in compliance when we
continue to expand our recreational
[7:17] sports. Any further discussions? I will
entertain a motion for approval.
[7:21] » So moved, Mr. Chairman, to accept staff
recommendation lobby.
[7:24] » Thank you.
Can I get a second?
[7:26] » Second.
>> It's moved and properly seconded that we
[7:28] accept staff recommendation. Um any
further discussions? All in favor will
[7:32] let it be known by raising your right
hand.
[7:35] Motion is approved unanimously.
At this time, we will entertain a motion
[7:41] for executive session to discuss
contractual matters related to our geo
[7:44] bond and our leased vehicles.
>> So moved.
[7:48] » Second.
>> It's moved and properly second. All in
[7:50] favor let it be known by raising your
right hand. Motion is approved
[7:53] unanimously. Council is now in executive
session.
[11:34] » Mhm.
[15:24] » Mhm.
[23:04] » Mhm.
[27:51] » Will we entertain a motion to come out
of the executive session and reconvene
[27:54] in regular session?
[27:58] I'm moving to properly second that we
come out of executive session to
[28:01] reconvene in regular session. Any
discussions? All in favor, let it be
[28:06] known by raising your right hand.
Motion is approved unanimously.
[28:11] No votes or action were taken in
executive session.
[28:15] Councilman Holden?
>> Yes, uh
[28:18] this is a
grant we had for Lindsay Park. Seems we
[28:21] saw some issues with it regarding the
grant and I think the uh engineers and
[28:26] there's something that we're looking
into and I think that uh
[28:30] we're going to have to possibly move
that project that was going to be at
[28:34] Lindsay Park to another location and I
would like to see the
[28:38] uh C. W. Law Park in McCall.
I think it's the next biggest park in
[28:43] the county. I would like for that site
to be considered. Uh we've just gotten
[28:49] uh several months ago a 130,000 grant
dollar grant from the Love Foundation to
[28:55] put lights on two of the fields,
buy some bleachers, and other
[29:00] equipment. And
my motion would be that that's McColl
[29:03] C.W. Love Park be considered if we move
it to another site.
[29:09] » Mr. uh
Oldham, just for clarification, I like
[29:15] what you're saying, but I do think we
need to give some other consideration. I
[29:19] think we just need to just move to
vote to relocate the play- playground
[29:24] equipment, but give us some time to also
evaluate all the options that may be
[29:28] before us.
I I just think that we need to make sure
[29:32] that we not just one location, but it
may be several locations. So, I'm
[29:37] thinking just hearing the information,
it might be good for us to just look at
[29:42] making sure that we authorize this staff
to relocate the playground equipment
[29:48] from Lindsey Park to another location,
but are we just going to consider one
[29:52] location?
>> That's at the discretion of the the
[29:55] council.
>> Council, right.
[29:57] » Two things. We have a motion
initially. Do we get a second on that
[30:03] initial motion?
>> Second.
[30:06] » So, we've moved and properly seconded.
Now, your discussion, Ms. Lawson.
[30:09] » Thank you, and I jumped the gun. So,
forgive me.
[30:13] I just think that we maybe we need to
consider more than just one park.
[30:18] I I think we need to consider more than
just one park. Hopefully, with the type
[30:23] information that we're receiving,
I want to be fair to the other parks in
[30:27] community in the communities, too. As we
have
[30:31] Clio, we have Brightsville,
and we have McColl.
[30:36] Would that be fair to all the other
communities while this considering what
[30:41] we're going to do.
>> Well, you know, in retrospect, we
[30:45] were first initiated this
project. Lena Pope Pope was
[30:50] considered cuz it was highly used park.
>> Right.
[30:53] » And now with this
this has arrived, like Mr. Oldham said,
[30:58] C.W. Lovett Park is the second largest
park
[31:01] in the county. Also, that
budget already been allocated for the
[31:06] upgrading for the lights and everything.
I understand his
[31:11] his point and I think that would be a
good
[31:14] to
put at C.W. Lovett Park. And then we can
[31:17] evaluate down the road and see with
Geobond with the other parks that what
[31:22] would they need and what they would
access. We know that C.W. Lovett Park is
[31:25] a highly used park. It's right on the
line where a lot of people can use that
[31:29] park and and it's 8 miles away. Um with
Benna Park, Brightview Park,
[31:35] um
it is a they are good parks in Clayton
[31:39] and and and um Brightview, but also we
can just look at go back in Geobond and
[31:44] do an evaluation and see what we can
use. We need to continue to move forward
[31:49] with this with the project. We got a
contract already online. They're ready
[31:53] to they're ready to go to work. There's
no need for us to wait. And uh and see
[32:00] Put yeah, put a little piece here, a
little piece there. We'll put everything
[32:02] on one site. And then we can come back
to Benna Park, uh Brightview Park and
[32:06] see what they what they park would need.
>> Mr. Mr. Park, yeah, excuse me. Following
[32:12] up with that.
>> [clears throat]
[32:13] » This grant under CDBG, it that 328 was
for all the playground equipment. We
[32:20] We wouldn't want to be dividing it up
into pieces, putting one piece of
[32:23] equipment here. I mean, that would
defeat the whole purpose then, you know.
[32:26] » Exactly.
>> I agree. So
[32:31] » vote today on where it's going. We can
do that in September. All we need to do
[32:35] today is vote that it needs to be moved.
So, that's all we need to do.
[32:39] » So, let's do this right here. That
motion initially has
[32:43] » a stipulation on it.
>> So, Mr. Odom, restate your motion giving
[32:49] staff the authority to move the
equipment to a different location that
[32:54] would be determined in our September
regular meeting.
[32:58] Okay?
>> [clears throat]
[33:00] » To rephrase Excuse me.
To rephrase my motion, uh
[33:04] we want to move the
to another site that will be determined
[33:08] in our September meeting and we'll take
it under discussion and advisement over
[33:13] the next month till we have our next
meeting. But, my motion is to move it to
[33:18] another site that we determine council.
>> Second.
[33:21] » It's been moved and properly seconded
that we follow staff recommendation to
[33:25] move the existing
CDBG
[33:30] playground equipment to another location
that will be determined in our regular
[33:34] September meeting. Any further
discussions?
[33:36] All in favor, let it be known by raising
your right hand.
[33:39] Motion is approved unanimously.
We've been out of accepting a motion for
[33:44] adjournment.
>> Motion.
[33:45] » Second.
>> Moved and properly seconded. All in
[33:47] favor, let it be known by raising your
right hand. Motion is adjourned.