Town Council Meeting 3-14-2023

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[0:00] um in the front we support and we encourage public comment public comment
[0:05] is a privilege not a right um so I'm covering bodies are not
[0:09] required to have public comment on the agenda but under our town ordinance it's
[0:14] allowed subject to very reasonable rules adopted by Council and I'm going to read
[0:18] just a few of these that are pertinent um
[0:21] to the entire segment so you speak three minutes regardless of whether the person
[0:27] is speaking on their behalf or as an agent for others meeting attendees may
[0:32] not donate transfer yield or if all or any portion of their speaking time to
[0:36] another person all public comments are be conducted from the podium and
[0:40] directed to this Council as a whole and not to any member thereof all speaker
[0:45] shall be mindful and respectful of those participating in or present at the
[0:50] meeting they shall be expected to be civil in their language and child
[0:53] refrain from comments or behavior that involves disorderly speech reaction and
[0:57] calling personal attacks threats abstain or indecent remarks or disrupted actions
[1:02] you shall confine your comments to the jurisdiction of this
[1:06] um Council and this is not a period where you promote advertise Awards
[1:11] businesses Services Goods or candidates for public office anyone that violates
[1:16] these rules will be ruled out of order and this is pursuant to our section 2.49
[1:21] of the town code
[1:56] let me just finish the very first thing as you may not donate transfer yield or
[2:01] giving any time you were present and we would honor we would love to hear your
[2:05] public comment but you have to get it if Mr hogling is that he's up here one time
[2:10] and you're not going to be able to give yourself the way it works no I'm sorry
[2:14] it's not the way it works
[2:22] you serve the public we don't serve you so let me let me have my comment a POA
[2:52] [Music]
[2:59] we have reasonable rules of protocol if you do not like our rules you can go out
[3:05] and call your attorney and file another lawsuit against us
[3:10] but I am sorry okay go ahead I'll finish go ahead thank you and then I will let
[3:15] you talk okay
[3:19] and we would love for her to come up but what I've seen is really when she speaks
[3:24] it's very respectful and she puts out the issues of the day she is here she
[3:29] cannot yield or transfer her time to you if she does then you're speaking for her
[3:35] and you're not going to be able to speak your public comment those are our rules
[3:39] okay so okay ready all right so um read yours first sir um
[3:47] the power of attorney that has been presented by Miss Greely is not in
[3:51] accordance with the southbound uniform um Power attorney act it's not properly
[3:56] witnessed notarized neither does it have the language that is required on Section
[4:01] 62-8-120 so we do not have to um acknowledge this but even if we did
[4:08] Mr Hogan you personally whether it is donated by somebody else whatever you
[4:14] are limited to three minutes now when you want your three minutes to start
[4:17] we'll start it but you will not get six you'll get three I I'm I'm gonna you're
[4:21] not gonna be allowed to violate her power returning you're not going to be
[4:25] allowed to do that and I'm going to make my three-minute comment and if you don't
[4:28] want to hear my comment or my comment from us really you could certainly leave
[4:33] the room yourself I'm not going to leave the room this this is not your house
[4:36] it's our house you serve us you serve the citizens we don't serve you I think
[4:42] you all are confused about who serves who you see a notary on this yeah you
[4:46] know what that we're claiming that's a legal document you want to argue that
[4:50] and if you want us to get that all notarized and all that other stuff
[4:55] this is a business meeting which where we allow public comment I would suggest
[5:01] you reading your public comment if you think it's more important because you're
[5:05] going to read three minutes I'm going to get up I'm going to get up I'm going to
[5:07] read this one and I'm gonna get up read mine and then you're gonna yes
[5:11] I'm sorry that's the way it's going to work I had one question yes sir
[5:15] um are you a citizen of London because you indicated that just a second ago you
[5:20] talked about all this is the citizens house but are you a citizen of Bluffton
[5:23] uh it's it's citizens it doesn't make any difference
[5:29] okay I just wanted yeah it doesn't make any difference there's a lot of lawyers
[5:34] and developers and buildings
[5:57] yes sir okay so so um our new Republican Club will
[6:02] ask the top hard questions to current officials to fully answer example Perry
[6:06] passing itself though well you can pull out a foia in the law or not we don't
[6:11] want lawyer and political answers or Wars no answer taxpayers elect officials
[6:15] based on a very simple reason and guiding principle they agree to comply
[6:19] to their campaign promises and agree to approve spend and guard our tax money
[6:23] like their own family money not continue to vote for illegal tax use and water
[6:27] violations with no transparency please pay attention to silica and show me
[6:31] respect like I do you this is not funny money or a game of Monopoly our tax
[6:36] money is hard earned real money I look forward to seeing more people
[6:41] attend all our Council meetings to speak or clap for others who support and share
[6:46] the facts fcwatchdog.com
[6:54] also demanding retrials on many cases and we were ruled against the rule of
[6:59] law like soap is 53. will you please stop interrupting me
[7:05] start the clock all over that's it start the clock all over the established start
[7:11] to talk although how dare you you sit there and disrespect me and then because
[7:16] you're not paying attention to me I'm going to address the the audience of the
[7:20] citizens who you work for I do you need to really wake up you know and accept
[7:27] reality that you you are a public servant this is not your town you're not
[7:32] running the show you're just up there to do what we're asking him out of order
[7:36] are you ending his public comments I'm gonna wait until you start the clock all
[7:39] over again are you in his public comment time
[7:44] like who's next to him start the clause
[7:58] those days are over myself and you're not going to get away and abusing and
[8:03] treat people including your own town employees for someone who's insistent on
[8:07] everyone following their Quorum and rules you certainly are not abiding my
[8:11] eyes I'm sorry you're not a lawyer Council and for the citizens
[8:19] a rule and a code is not Trump
[8:25] public comment over how can you trust Terry finger he might be the most
[8:29] dishonest kids
[8:38] my three minutes
[8:42] two minutes that's where you start back on the ground supposed to be back at two
[8:45] minutes you're wasting your time put me back at two minutes
[8:49] well and I'm going to stay right here right here 17 seconds
[8:54] uh do you respect me or like I respected you did I interrupt you while you were
[8:59] speaking yes I interrupted you you sure did and you really we have been in two
[9:04] lawsuits sir and you have lost both of them so if you think the third one your
[9:09] lawsuits are going to be retried your lawsuits were frivolous and had no
[9:13] standing wall you're the losses you're cooking you even hired a Murdoch lawyer
[9:18] did you ever heard of Murdock that's her lawyer she hired a lawyer to sue me for
[9:23] a frivolous no law case and she knows it and she
[9:27] knows she's in trouble you're a big trouble oh you're a victory trust me
[9:32] when I tell you you're a big brother you're going to be able to meet 50
[9:34] million I'm not gonna owe you 50 million you don't really think you're going to
[9:37] collect 50 million for me do you you don't really believe that you cannot
[9:40] believe that that be that out of touch of reality so I'm going to wait till my
[9:44] two minutes give me two minutes so I can finish this
[9:47] beach actually give me three minutes I want my I want the clock started over
[9:50] give me three minutes
[9:58] 11.
[10:19] public comment is over Communications from your Council
[10:24] um
[10:27] no I'm sorry I'm not I'm not true you're gonna you're gonna respect me and let me
[10:32] finish my space the public comment period is over you can have a seat or we
[10:35] can have the chief please ask me there's going to be a big problem no I'm
[10:41] not going to stop because everybody in this mayor has addressed you and told
[10:44] you that public comment is over here at this point in time I'm sorry you're out
[10:49] of order Chief will you please escort him to us
[10:52] no not leave no I'm not leaving no I'm not leaving
[10:57] you can just sit right over here I'm going to make my speech no I'm not gonna
[11:01] do it
[11:03] okay
[11:06] no that's not happening yeah yeah
[11:12] you don't have a choice should we move on to formal or concept
[11:18] five minutes
[11:28] thank you very much