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[snorts] Hey, good afternoon and welcome
to our first meeting in March.

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Our invocation will be led by myself and
respects the flag bey.

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Father, we come before you today to ask
for your blessing on our city, our

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council, and our entire workforce. We
ask that you give this body the

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discernment and wisdom to make sound
decisions. We ask that you keep all our

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teammates safe and workformed. We ask
all these things in your name. Amen.

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» Amen.
I pledge algiance to the flag of the

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United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands. One nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.

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Before

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we start our meeting, we have a
proclamation and I'm going to ask Wayne

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Lind to come up as he as he makes his
way. This has become a

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Wayne tell us the details but I think
it's a multi this has been going on for

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several years right now and we normally
do a proclamation to kind of kick this

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off to um our university which is very
important um to all of us in our city.

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So the proclamation reads, "Whereas
Anderson University is a highly

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selective comprehensive university
offering bachelor bachelor's, masters,

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and doctoral degrees on campus and
online with a well-deserved reputation

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as one of the best private institutions
in the south. And whereas at the heart

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of the education program is a
uncompromising commitment to prepare

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students with both a breath and depth of
knowledge they need not only to be

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successful in a career of their choice
but to be successful in all realms of

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life in family community work and faith.
And whereas Amis University's annual a

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day takes place on March 31st of 2026.
Whereas a day is a fundraising effort

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that provides the support necessary to
foster the academic achievements of AU

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students, further the professional
development of AU's worldclass

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facilities, [snorts]
and accelerate AU's growing campus

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programs and initiatives. And whereas
Aday is an opportunity for people

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everywhere to come together in support
of Anderson University. And whereas

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during a a day we will celebrate all
things that make Anderson special and

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Trojans across the globe will
participate in remembering the past,

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celebrating the present and impacting
the future. And whereas the city of

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Anderson wishes Anderson University a
successful a day and desires their

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alumni, friends and citizens of our city
will support the cause by joining the

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festivities, thereby strengthening the
bonds of our community. Now therefore,

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our Terrence v. Roberts along my fellow
city council members do proclaim March

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the 31st of 2026 at Anderson University
payday in the city of Anderson and

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encourage the community to share their
support of AU on social media where

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they're black and gold and demonstrate
that this community is true to AU. Sign

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this ninth day of March 2026.
Mr. Late

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» two words. But first, let me just say
we're excited about this year's A Day.

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Um, and on behalf of President Whitaker,
our board of trust, and nearly 4700

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students, I just want to thank you for
your support. Last year, we were able to

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raise a little over $800,000
with this initiative. So, we're hopeful

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this year that we'll be up there as
well. We've been on the upward trend for

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every year. Janna Shirley, my colleague,
is here and she has provided great

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leadership for that program over the
last several years. So, again, we're

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excited. We're excited about our men's
basketball team right now. Uh they just

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won the South Atlantic Conference record
season and tournament and we're hosting

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[clears throat] the NCAA Division 2 in
the South region starting this weekend.

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» Thank you.
[applause]

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» [clears throat]

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» So the minutes of our last meeting in
February, February 23rd were

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distributed. Are there any corrections
or additions to those minutes? Not hear

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any. Do I have a motion to approve?
Approve. Have a first by Dr. Thompson

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» second
>> second by Mr. Harbin.

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All those in favor say I.
>> I.

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» Opposed.
Those minutes pass unanimously.

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» We have one item of old business and
that is to request to request

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consideration of reappointment of
municipal court judges. Miss Mchuan.

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» Mayor and council. This item is general
approval for the consideration of

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reappointment of municipal judges. The
city municipal court judges were

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previously appointed two-year terms
beginning January the 1st, 2024 and

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ending December 31st, 2025.
City code section 582 specifies that

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municipal judges shall be appointed by
the council for a term not less than two

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years
no more than four years.

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The reappointment considerations for
Chief Judge Josh Allen, Judge Carolyn

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Galloway, Judge Robert King, Judge
Richard Thompson for a term of January

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1st, 2026 to December 31st, 2027. Mayor,
I yield back to council for their

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consideration.
>> Thank you. Um, any questions, comments,

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» Mr. Mayor? I make a motion that we
approve um two-year contracts for Judge

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Allen, Judge Galloway, Judge King, and
Judge Thompson.

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» Second first by Miss Harbin, second by
Mr. John Roberts.

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Any discussion?
>> I would like to say it's a shame and

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it's part of why unfortunately it's a
shame we won't be able to also nominate

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Judge Curtis Eaton. We thank you for his
service.

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Definitely
>> for sure. Great comment. [clears throat]

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Anything else?
All those in favor say I. I. Opposed.

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» That passes unanimously.
We have a couple items of new business.

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And the first item is request
consideration [clears throat] of a

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contract for the installation of
approximately 500 linear feet of 6

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in water line on East Church Street,
Manning Street, and approximately 241

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linear feet of an 8 in water line on
Joseph Street. Mr.

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The city's electric city utilities
division and the water distribution

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department operates approximately 374
miles of water distribution lines

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ranging from 3/4 in to 30 in in diameter
and serves 17,000 customers inside and

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outside of the city. The water
distribution primary function is to

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provide drinking water and water use for
for use of fire suppression. In that

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regard, the request involves improvement
to the water lines that will enhance

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availability of hydrant water flow for
fire suppression while also replace the

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water lines. A map is included in your
packet. I'll turn over Scott Banks, our

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utility director, to describe the
project as you view here on your map and

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the consideration of the bids and
contract. Mr. Banks,

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» thank you. Good evening, uh, C. This
project is uh has three uh portions to

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it. U the the currently we have two
hydrants on Manning Street do

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[clears throat] not meet fire flow
requirements and therefore can only be

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used for flushing. Uh so a portion of
this project will extend a 6-in water

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line approximately 475 ft down East
Church Street and tie into the line on

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Manning Street to increase that flow of
that hydrant at that intersection. And

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additionally, the existing 6 in on
Manning Street will be extended

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approximately 25 ft to the existing
hydrant near the intersection of Manning

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and East Market Street. And then
thirdly, we currently have a a on street

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the 4 in dead end before reaching
Tribble Street. So there's a a segment

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that where we'll install approximately
250 ft of 6-in line at the intersection

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of Trible and Joseph Streets and then
tie it to the existing 4 in on Joseph

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Street. Uh we had seven contractors that
uh submitted bids. The low bid was Davis

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Plumbing and Sewage LLC of Iowa, South
Carolina at [clears throat] $141,171.

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Um we um
are planning to fund this from the water

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utility funds and therefore staff
recommends approval of a contract with

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Davis Plumbing and Sewage LLC in the
amount of 141,170

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plus a 10% contingency of $14,11710
for a total of 1 $155,28810.

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» Thank you, sir. comments, questions.

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» Mr. Roberts,
>> um the low flow height, is that a result

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of some degradation over time or
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Uh it the line is not large enough to
support the minimum flow that that we we

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strive for for fire protection.
>> So, it never was correct sufficient.

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» And then I get the dead end line. That's
never a good idea.

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» Yes, sir. Um, it looks like we have a
favorable bid.

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Um, we have experience with Davis
Plumbing.

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» Yes, sir.
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Unless there are any other comments, I
move that we move forward the water line

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improvements.
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» First by Mayor Pro Tim, second by Mr.
Newton.

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Any further discussion? All those in
favor say I.

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» Opposed. It passes unanimously.
Our

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second item is request consideration
of a resolution of a clean water state

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revolving fund loan for the Rocky River
and generosity creek wastewater

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treatment plants improvement project.
This one queuing.

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» As part of Electric City Utilities, the
wastewater treatment department operates

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two plants that are permitted for a flow
of 9.5 million gallons a day at the

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Rocky River and 10 million gallons a day
at generosity creek wastewater treatment

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plant. As part of the our continuing
assessment and capital improvement plans

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for the plants, the city and this item
before you is seeking an application for

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funding from the clean water state
revolving fund loan program for a Rocky

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River and generosity creek wastewater
treatment plant improvement project.

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The project includes a replacement of a
floating anorobic digtor lid at the

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Rocky River wastewater treatment plant
and upgrading the SCADA system to a more

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robust and versatile software system at
both the wastewater treatment plants.

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These improvements will replace agent
infrastructure and improve our

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operations.
The state revolving fund has approved a

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lowinterest loan in amount of $2.19
million for the Rocky River and

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generosity creek project. The estimated
annual debt service payments would be

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approximately 136,000
715 based on 2.3% for 20 years uh paid

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quarterly to the state treasures office.
Uh we recently funded a waterline

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project similar means with SRF funding.
That was the East Market Street and

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Wellington Mill project at a 2.3%
interest rate as well. That was a $3.34

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million debt service. Uh the debt
service would be paid from the sewer

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fund. M administration recommends
approval of resolution 2605 for the

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application to the SRF funding as the
next step.

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» Thank you, sir. We've seen the scope of
the project. Um, are any additional

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questions or comments?
>> I think we saw this several months ago.

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» We did. That's the lid that we had to
remove, re-engineer the structural

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component of it, and instead of twisting
up, it'll go straight up like it'll ride

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straight up. Um, similar to the rest of
them. And then of course our SCADA

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system is our uh computer control system
for both plants that from time to time

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needs to be upgraded and will allow uh
more monitoring and control systems to

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be implemented throughout the the
treatment plants.

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» Thanks, Mayor. I'll make the motion to
approve the resolution.

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» Yep. First by Mr. Newton, second by Dr.
Thompson. Further discussion, Mr.

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Harvey.
>> Mr. Mchuan. So the capacity for both

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plants is just under 20 million. What
where are we at on a capacity standpoint

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real quick? Yeah, it so when you look at
daily flow, I mean we we can have a

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minimum daily flow of of 4 million
gallons a day and you could have um a a

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period that's you know a high daily flow
up to 7 to eight. Um, however, what they

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look at when they look at the the
permitted flow is allocated capacity to

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that and sometimes things come on line
for each plant and sometimes they're

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removed. We've gone through the process
of removing some recently that the

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project just never because we serve uh
the countywide

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and then also we serve um homeland parks
sewer district. So sometimes a something

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perspective thing might come online,
they reserve capacity and then you look

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at it five years later realize it's not
going to take place. So we've been

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removing some of those. So right now
we're still in good shape with that. We

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haven't hit the the threshold that
requires you to upgrade the capacity of

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the plants. What we're looking at now of
both plants is that aging infrastructure

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as far as what needs to be replaced
mechanically. And so there's several

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projects that we have upcoming that
we're engineering right now. We're doing

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a peer master per uh preliminary
engineering report for both

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[clears throat] plants that will have a
recommend recommendation of those items.

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But we also know some of our weak points
that need redundancy uh that we have in

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our capital improvement plan going
forward. So we haven't reached that that

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capacity threshold yet, but our um
certainly we have the ability there to

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expand at both plants. Uh they were well
designed and and functioned well as far

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as and have have great expansion
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» you know. I like to keep them asking
through the years um you know you read

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about other communities that don't have
capacity and have reached and can't add

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anything else. Someone a long time ago
who built these saw the growth potential

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for our area and we've always had plenty
of of capacity and it seems like our

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area is growing fast. So that's good to
know.

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» Yeah. Another thing too is uh industrial
customers. So we have uh it's public now

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that Duke Energy is looking at putting a
and they're moving ahead with their

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plans to to put a plant here a uh gener
electric generation plant here and that

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plant itself would discharge a large
amount of waste water looks like to the

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generosity plant. Um still engineering
that because it could potentially go to

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Rocky River. We do have the capacity for
that and and can take that and look

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forward to uh being a them being a
customer. Um and that would that would

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be good for us in way of revenue.
However, we'll continue to look at as

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big things come online like that our
capacity and what needs to be upgraded.

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» Thank you. Good point. Any other
questions, comments? Mr. Roberts,

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» let me tag on to Mr. Harbin. Uh do these
improvements allow any efficiencies that

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we can claw back or reclaim some of the
allocated flows?

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» Yeah. or or is this just an an
improvement that

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» Well, it was a these were this was a
mechanical failure of the lid. So, I

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mean, we this was an improvement of a
mechanical failure, right? And we this

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is just happens to be a larger project
than pumps going down and so forth that

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we're constantly replacing here and
there um as these plants run 24/7. So,

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this is more of a mechanical failure
that we will recapture back that process

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because right now it's offline. Um, and
we've been able to work do a work around

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it. And so the skater though does grab
efficiency to it. It does as far as the

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flow, the management of your flow, the
management of the chemicals, the

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treatment process and so forth. And so
as we add that in, we'll have some

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efficiency gain there
>> that will allow us to reclaim some

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allocated um flows or
>> Yeah, Mr. information you want to add on

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it's cheaper to to reclaim some that the
capacity

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» as our chief engineers will out there
Scott you have something

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» yes I I don't know that it would
reclaiming flows uh because the flow is

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is is what's coming to us but what it
will the projects that we're going to be

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recommending in the future what they
will do [snorts] is allow us to operate

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more efficiently because we'll be
putting in more electrically efficient

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pumps also the processes that we would
be going to would reduce chemical use

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there would be more of a biological
nutrient removal process that that that

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uh uh would be more u
bacterological and not not having to add

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chemicals. So, and I will add unique to
our plants um not completely unique but

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we [clears throat] do have large basins
for holding the storm water when we have

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a a quick um downpour and you have a lot
of infiltration that may come to the

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plant. So, you have a high inflow to the
plant. we have the ability to split that

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off into the basins, hold that water and
then let it trickle back in the system

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when floods reduce and that's very
helpful. Um otherwise, you know, you

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would you'd be spending a lot on the uh
capacity side that you really don't need

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all the time, but just during high flow
rain events. And so, but another goal of

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course is to reduce the infiltration
into the system period and which we've

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been rellining sewer pipes throughout
our system and doing that. So, Yeah. And

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and that's one of the things that that
will um slow the requirement from dees

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to add capacity is continuing to improve
on our collection system and reduce the

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» [clears throat]
>> ioni that's coming to us cuz

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unfortunately when that water that if
it's it's mainly rain water but we still

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have to treat it. So we're it cost us
chemicals and power. Uh whereas if we if

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it's not coming to the plant then it's
that's not costing us and it allows us

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to operate more um uh consistently when
we get rid of the items. Good good

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conversation. Anything else guys? First
and a second. All those in favor say I.

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» Opposed. That passes unanimously on the
vote.

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Our third item, and we will not have an
executive session on this item, but our

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third item is request a resolution
authorizing a project to be considered

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for participation in a special tax
assessment for rehabilitated historical

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properties.
Historic properties. Mr. Mchuan,

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» thank you. I'll turn over our plan
development director, Maurice McKenzie,

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to go over the item.
>> Okay. Thank you. Back in November, you

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adopted guidelines by ordinance that
promotes the preservation and

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redevelopment of historic properties by
granting a special tax assessment to

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qualifying rehabilitated historic
properties in the city. And this was

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made possible because the state of South
Carolina enacted Bailey bill several

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years ago, which allows local
governments to freeze the

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pre-rehabilitated assessed value of
properties that may participate in a

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program for a predetermined number of
years. And when we do receive an

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application to participate in this
program, there is a process. And the

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first step in the process is to come to
you with a resolution to authorize a

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project to be considered for
participation in the program. Uh once

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you adopt the resolution, it then goes
to the board of architectural review and

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they will confirm that the project meets
the design investment requirements and

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that's called the preliminary
certification. So that would be the next

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step following this. Once the work is
complete on the rehabilitation of the

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dwellings or the buildings, the final
certification will be granted by the

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board of architectural review if the
completed work meets all the approved

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standards and the expenditures were met
in accordance with the approved plan.

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Now, we're coming to you tonight because
there has been an application submitted

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to us and the applicant is ST Real
Estate Holdings and the properties that

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we are looking at are 215, 217, and 219
South Main Street. They are a budding

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buildings. They're at the corner of
South Main and Church Street. The fair

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market value of those buildings is
$254,400.

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and they're proposing an estimated
project cost of $2 million into these

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buildings. So, we are recommending
approval of a resolution

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authorizing this project to be
considered for participation in the

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special tax assessment for rehabilitated
historic properties. And after you

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consider this and approve it tonight, it
will then go before the board of

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architectural review for their review
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and that is scheduled for March 18th.
>> Thank you. Um, any questions or comments

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on the proposal?

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» Miss Har. So, I'm not sure who exactly
ST Real Estate Holdings is, but I

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appreciate their u interest in
rehabilitating the um buildings for the

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general public. That's the old Big
John's and the building next to Big

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John's and that have been vacant for
quite a number of years. Uh, and and

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it's always exciting to see old
buildings continue their integrity and

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the the history of Anderson and someone
willing to invest and to keep that

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flavor and just reuse it for a uh for
another building versus knocking it

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down. And so with that, mayor, I'd make
a uh motion that this be referred. Uh

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this we would um this resolution
authorizing the project [clears throat]

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to be considered for participation in
the specialy property tax assessment for

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rehabilitated historic properties.
Have a first by Miss Farman, second by

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Mr. John Roberts. Any further
discussion, comments?

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» It's exciting. I hope see more come on
down the road.

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» Yep. I mean, it's in the central
business district, [clears throat] um, a

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historic district. And so, um, I echo
that. It's it would be [snorts] good to

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have it come back in, uh, in a historic
way in that in that regards.

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» Everybody members
see

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» a first and a second. All those in favor
say I. I. Opposed. That resolution

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passes unanimously.
Mor, I do have one thing.

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[clears throat]
>> Uh, we do have the Cater's Lake ribbon

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cutting. Um, it's, uh, looking forward
to that is Tuesday, March the 17th at

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10:00 a.m. And we jo we we ask that, uh,
you join us as we celebrate the

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completion of the Cater Lake
improvements and the continued

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investment in Anderson's parks and
public spaces. We look forward to that

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event. It's going to be a great event,
especially good time. It looks like it's

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going to be sunny that day to be opening
up a new park, especially uh one that

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has the the pretty aesthetics it does
with a pond um this time of year in

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spring. So, thank you, Mayor.
>> Good. Everything's blooming. Good deal.

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Entertain a motion to adjourn.
>> So, move.

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» First by Mr. Newton, second by Mr.
Roberts. May pro Tim. All those in favor

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say I. Opposed.
We send her.