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Council meeting for august 18th, 2026. We call it on time to end on

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time and we start at the way we do all of our meetings with an invocation tonight by

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mr anderson followed by the pledge of allegiance led by doctor dukes.

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I can get everyone in. Please stand.

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gracious heavenly father, thank you for the opportunity to come together tonight to work on the

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people's business. The father we ask for blessings that we, um we just don't

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deserve the father. We ask for blessings on our public safety, our all of our

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people that work for the county to try to serve the citizens. The father I ask for wisdom for

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the council. I ask for patience for the councilman from the people.

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all these things are asking your holy name amen. Amen.

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to the flag I pledge allegiance. To the flag.

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united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god,

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indivisible liberty and justice for all. Thank you.

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please be seated. Moving right along. We have public input before we

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get started. We have a lot of people signed up today.

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we want to hear from everybody that signed up. I'm sure y'all want to hear him

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too. He is a big crowd here. Um, just a few reminders.

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this is a professional venue. Uh, we want to hear from you. Uh, this is not a place for us

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to be going. And who are you calling names of things I s it's just like

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you would if you were stating your case or whatever. Your case is my rule.

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it's five minutes. We have this nice clock system here.

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I can help you with that, sir. Thank you. Pardon?

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okay. Thank you. I'll do the best I can.

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um, I guess that works two ways . Okay.

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thank you. I guess it works two ways we want to hear y'all.

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and I didn't know y'all wanted to hear us. Okay, good.

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so this clock system will keep us on track. It's only, uh, by rule, we got

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30 minutes to do this whole thing and by rule everybody gets five minutes.

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so green is go go go yellow is you got one minute left and red is your time is up.

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now if you're in the middle of a sentence finish your sentence by all means once upon

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a and then stop. We want to hear what happened but don't turn the page and

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start into another chapter okay I've seen it all. I've seen everything that y'all

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can do tonight and I just want to keep everybody on track because we got a lot of stuff

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to cover. So we'll start out with jennifer elvis on mobile vets.

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hi I'm. Making sure everybody can hear me.

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yes perfect. Hi my name is jennifer elvis and I thank you guys for having

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me today I recently started a rescue called by the beach animal rescue.

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I've been in rescue for about eight years. The reason why I started rescue

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is because of the purpose of helping dogs in the community to find safe and

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responsible loving homes. When I started this rescue I knew there would be some

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challenges. I knew there would be veterinary bills, foster homes,

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needed food supplies and countless hours of work. What I did not fully understand

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was just how many people would turn to one small rescue because they have nowhere else

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to go. Since putting my phone number and my address on my website

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and facebook page, I have had countless people come to my house with dogs they want to

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ensure surrender not to mention as I'm at work I've had people come and bring the ring

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doorbell and at my desk as an office manager of a medical office have to tell people that

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I cannot take the dog. I am not a brick and mortar it is my home and I put that to

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take donations so that people could leave things so I could get the rescue started.

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because of all this we have a huge problem. The problem is that people

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cannot afford to spay and neuter their dogs. They cannot afford to spay and

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neuter which also extends to an expected litters they call because they no longer can

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afford the pet because the dog has behavior problems and unfortunately some people just

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want someone else for the responsibility and they no longer want their dog.

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first we need to have more access to affordable spay and neuter.

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one of the biggest problems I see people generally cannot afford to fix their animals if

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we want fewer unwanted puppies and fewer dogs returning to our shelters, we need an affordable

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solution that can actually use. I would like to see the county work towards bringing a spay

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and neuter excuse me spay and neuter mobile clinic to homes that cannot afford to spay

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neuter dogs and maybe we could do it on a based on an income or maybe a highly discounted

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rate instead of waiting for someone to surrender six puppies we should be helping

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the person prevent the unwanted next litter prevention is less expensive less heartbreaking

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than dealing with the consequences. Second, we need stronger

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consequences for irresponsible breeding. Backyard breeders are

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contributing to the number of unwanted dogs in the community.

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people are breeding dogs without considering whether there are enough responsible

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homes available for these puppies. Then the puppies end up being

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surrendered, dumped, abandoned or turned over to shelters and rescues.

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I believe we need to look at stronger uh, fines enforcement for irresponsible repeat

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backyard breeders. Third, a banning a dog does not make the problem disappear.

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it simply transfers the responsibility to someone else. It transfers it to the shelters

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. It transfers the rescues in the taxpayers.

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I would like to see the county consider a stronger enforcement and penalties for those who

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abandon the animals or allow their dogs to run at large. There should be meaningful

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consequences for people who knowingly dump animals to the public or leave the animals in

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a situation where they suffer. Protect the public. Finally, I want to talk about

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the shelters and rescues. Our local shelter and rescue organizations are doing

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everything they can, but we cannot rescue our way out of an overpopulation problem.

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I want to be able to help the shelters myself, but I cannot even go to a shelter to help

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because people are coming to my door and calling my phone to take their own dogs.

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I want to be able to take dogs from the shelter that need placement but again I can't

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because people are surrendering their dogs. This is not about blaming

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people it's about creating better resources, better education and better

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accountability. I am asking the council to consider regular mobile spay

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and neuter clinics offering free and income based services ,meaningful penalties for

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animal abandonment and repeated dog at large violations. I started by the beach animal

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rescue because I believe every dog deserves a chance. But the answer cannot simply be

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asking rescues and shelters to take more dogs. We have to stop the cycle if we

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can prevent unwanted litters, hold irresponsible owners accountable, make veterinary

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care accessible and give a legitimate resources to the point of abandonment.

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we can reduce the number of dogs entering shelters in the first place.

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this means fewer dogs suffering less pressure on our shelters, less pressure on our rescues

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and most importantly a safer and more responsible community for both people and animals.

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I'm asking you to work with us and again and by the beach animal rescue jennifer elvis

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thank you. Thank you for coming out.

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>> okay I remind everybody this is public input. We want to hear from the

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public. It's not where we going back and forth and in negotiating

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and. All right let's go forward uh charles hooks on flock cameras.

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can you hear me? Yes, sir. Good evening.

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chairman. Members of county council. My name is charles hooks.

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I'm a lifelong resident of orange county. I'm here tonight because I have

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serious questions about orry county's use of flock safety automated license plate reader

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cameras. I want to be clear I am not opposed to law enforcement

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using technology to catch criminals if these cameras help locate stolen vehicles, find

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dangerous suspects or protect our deputies and citizens, that's a legitimate public

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safety purpose. My concern is oversight and accountability.

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these cameras can collect information about vehicles traveling throughout our

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community. That makes it extremely important that citizens know

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who can search that information ,why they can search it and who makes sure the system isn't

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being misused. I previously emailed members of this council asking

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questions about flock cameras, but I didn't receive even even one reply.

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so tonight I'm asking these questions publicly and asking that they be answered publicly

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who independently audits searches conducted through ori county's flock systems is

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every search recorded along with the identity of the person conducting that and the reason

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for the search who reviews these records for improper searches which outside agencies

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have access to ori county's flock system and the data how long is the vehicle information

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retained and if someone searches for a citizen's vehicle?

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I'll bear with me one second without a legitimate law enforcement reason who

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discovers it and what happens to that person? Most importantly is the agency

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using this surveillance system essentially responsible for policing itself or is there

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meaningful independent oversight? This isn't about being

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anti-police it's about a very simple principle if government has the ability to track the

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movements of the citizens, citizens have the right to know who is watching the watchers.

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I am asking this council to provide the public with the policies governor camera access

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,data sharing and retention as well as information about audits and safeguards against

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misuse. I'm also asking council can to center regular public report

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and showing how this system is being used and whether any improper searches have been

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discovered. Public safety in confrontation constitutional privacy do not

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have to be enemies. We can protect both. Thank you for your time and

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again I'm charles hooks, lifelong resident of orange county and appreciate your

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time. Mr hooks, thank you for coming out.

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I want to let you know something that mr hardy is going to take this up at our

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very next, uh, public safety meeting. These are great questions and

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it's a great thing you won't find a bigger supporter of, uh ,search and seizure and

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protection than this council here. And we're looking out for

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everybody in horry county. We'll take it up at our next that right, mr hardy?

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right. That'll be in october.

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>> all right thank you sir. >> go out.

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and next. We have three people that signed up for one of the

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ordinances that are here tonight. Um, normally public input is

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for the people that haven't had an otherwise an opportunity to be heard.

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uh, this ordinance has had three public hearings already. Um, but y'all are here and you

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signed up, so we want to hear from you. Um, when this thing comes up

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tonight for vote, there'll be debate and there'll be discussion on it like it

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normally is. What? Since you're here, let's hear

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from you. Uh, there was an email sent out earlier uh, answered all the

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questions that we got. We got like 80 emails. I think they were all about the

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same email but we got them we read them, we heard we responded.

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so we've sent an email out to y'all hopefully y'all got that and read that too.

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so we'll start off with um and curse on ordinance 73 dash 2026.

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thank you for hearing from us and thank you very much for that email today.

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and thank you, assistant administrator gilbert for sending it out on your behalf.

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um, it did clarify quite a bit for us and that was wonderful. Um, not having the flyover in

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the current project plan is great news for us. Um understanding the scope and

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the flow of traffic um was very important in that email as well.

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so we really appreciate that and we do have some concerns still remaining.

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um, one of the concerns mentioned in the email about noise um that that there would

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be no need for sound barriers because of there not being a flyover.

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we still think there will be tremendous noise impact to surfside beach club.

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um, and I'm sorry if I didn't say that's where we were from, but I knew you knew that since

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you sent us the email. Um, but it will still impact surfside beach club 17 bypass

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already gives us tremendous amount of noise and that increased traffic flow will

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certainly impact the homes along that that corridor. Um, the concerns we also have

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that brought us here were the maps and the public information about this ordinance that have

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been available on any websites that we could find. Um, the maps clearly are

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showing an impact to several homes in our community that may not be uh, depicted accurately

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,but it clearly looks like the road is going right through our homes.

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although your email did say it would not be impacting the east side of the bypass.

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so if that's the case we're very happy to hear that. But again the noise we still

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think will be an issue um infrastructure concerns I think everybody has these concerns.

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we know there's a lot of uh new police, new uh fire, new medical all being uh brought

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into play and that's great but I think that's managing the current um, population now and

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not the future population that all of this um this ordinance and the associated building

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will will bring to us. So we're really concerned about that as well.

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um flooding we talked and I know your email addressed environmental impacts and how

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the um all of the state county federal rules would be followed and I'm sure that's the case

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but we're very concerned about it. All of our water drains under

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17 bypass to the west um everything out of surfside beach club all of our retention

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ponds go out to the west. So any backup, any additional water or impact from the flow

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of that water will impact us and flood our community. Um, so we really are concerned

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about that um, and building in that area where it's already um a wetland in some areas you're

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taking up a lot of that space um, and the volume of water that would normally flow out.

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um. So I do think that those are our major concerns.

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you did address most of them in the email and I think that saved a lot of unnecessary

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comments tonight. So that was wonderful. I think going forward.

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we would. Really love. Accurate information posted um

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things that that really depict what the project plan is um understanding changes of the

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scope of work moving forward so that we know what really does impact us or not.

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I mean we know future and the future flow of of traffic is very important.

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you know, I think 31 extension is a great, great idea as long as it's managed properly and um

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and the traffic light in the in the uh traffic flow is managed appropriately and I I think

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you've addressed it and if that is accurate and if that's the way the scope continues um that

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that's fine but we do have those other concerns that I think are very important and if

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I missed anything I'm sure my my fellow homeowners that are up next we'll we'll let you

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know. Thank you for. Coming out.

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>> we appreciate you so much. Thanks for having us.

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>> all right. That was morse hartman. He's going to pick up where she

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left off I guess. Good evening. My name is marsh hartman.

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um, I'm a surfside beach resident. Um, we I have some concerns as

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well. Um, like when was this traffic study done?

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um, because it's getting worse and worse by the day. Um, today just getting out on

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17 bypass it's almost impossible to go from light to light.

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how is this going to impact the future of that traffic pattern ?

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um, is anybody done an accident survey? There are accidents basically

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deadly in that area in that corridor. And you know, it's another

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concern. Um, you know, 17 bypass is really the only north-south

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route um, in the whole area and we use that, you know, to get from north to south, which has

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been, you know, a problem on a consistent basis. Um, you know, traffic

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congestion has been crazy. Um, and if we create more lights on 17 bypass, how is

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that going to impact the traffic flow? Um, I'd like to get some sort

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of answers, um, on the traffic environment and and economic survey studies current um

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because basically to my understanding the density survey was established almost

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30 years ago and the email that I received today um, has anybody done it in the last ten

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years in the last five years? Um, because I'm sure that the the uh the density has changed

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quite since 30 years ago. Um so that's that's another question that I have.

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um, are there any renderings of what this is going to look like because at one point we

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thought there was going to be a flyover. Now today at 203 we got an

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email saying that that wasn't going to happen. Is there anything that we can

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see that can show us um that that has change and will change?

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um, is this current plan final ? Can it change will there be a

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flyover if if deemed necessary ? We don't know that we've really

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been left in the dark on this whole project. Um and you know when will this

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construction start? Is there any etas? Uh, and on the second question

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when will it end? How long will this project take to complete?

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that's about it. Thank you sir. Thank you for coming out and

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thank you.

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mr robert rossman. We'll close it up real.

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good afternoon. It's about two hours before. Our community came to this

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event. We received an updated flier. From uh.

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david gura. With respect to uh. A change that was being made or

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an idea that was about to be made. We live in surfside beach club.

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holiday homes development. Is proposing a deal with myrtle beach farm company.

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and burrows and. Chafe and its affiliate. To purchase some 760.

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acres of dense forest and open land in the pine ridge truck if zoning changes and horry county

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approves this arrangement for homes, development will break ground and to begin build in

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about 2029. The project will be larger.

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>> in mass. And population than the meridian complex.

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the melbourne park. Complex and surfside beach complex combined.

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in order for all this to happen, the dense forest and vegetation will be plowed under

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triggering a severe threat to our ecosystem exposing high levels of stored carbon dioxide

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,threatening water management from storm runoff and destroying our animal habitats

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,studies show. That 2000 homes would generate an increase in population

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of approximately 400 or 4000 800.

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>> to. 5000 new residents not to include approximately 640 to

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800 school age children. With that, there is a strong possibility that a new

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elementary school will be needed. In addition, there would be a

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need to hire and train 10 to 12 new police officers, increased myrtle beach fire and rescue

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and purchase additional equipment to facilitate the needs.

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now there was um my dialog included some information about a flyover but with respect to

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this new change that was just emailed to us about four hours ago, apparently that flyover

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arrangement has been derailed. I may be wrong. Let's hope so.

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we are suffering from overgrowth in our community and um and the issue only gets

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worse with with continued growth. So we're asking pretty much the

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council to take a look at the new opportunities that developers are having and maybe

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restrict some of the some of the new construction that might be going on.

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we all came here from different parts of the united states to live in tranquility and peace

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and we find right now that myrtle beach and the surfside area is rapidly being overgrown

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with population. Thank you for the time and I appreciate you fellas doing the

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due diligence that you were sworn to provide. Thank you.

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thank you for coming us. That is everyone that signed up.

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so we're going to close public input now this is normally the part of the meeting where

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there's a stampede for the door. Everybody leaves and uh y'all

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can stay you can leave whatever you want to do. I will tell you that this is

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going to be voted on and debated on. And mr gilchrist may be called

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to the podium to address a couple concerns. That's how we normally do

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business but y'all can stay or leave if you're going to leave, I'm going to stop for a minute

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because we won't be able to hear while y'all doing that okay.

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all right so are we going to stay that's well that's great you're welcome.

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we'll move on. Next up is the approval of the agenda contents.

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well hold on.

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mr gold. Yeah.

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>> I just.

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have a one over by welcome by. And they can stay or they. Don't like like an overpass

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official. And.

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>> I thought you get them over there. While all right.

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bro? >> yep.

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madam clerk. I thought you could. All right.

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next up is the approval of the agenda contents. Is there a motion?

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so move. >> thank you, mr howard.

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thank you, mr anderson. All in favor say I. Uh that.

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>> passes unanimously. Next up with the approval the minutes for the regular meeting

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from july 14th of this year. So move that. Thank you.

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all in favor? Aye passes. And next up is the consent

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agenda. Is there a motion so.

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>> moved. Second all in favor I. Uh and consent agenda passes

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and this is going to be a very very good part of the meeting tonight we're going to

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recognize the employees who have achieved over 30 years of service with.

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>> all. Three county governments. We'll recognize mr renee hardy

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. Hardwick.

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>> who's going to tell us who they. Are and.

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I already know who they are and it's two of really, really good ones.

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yes, yes. Thank you, mr chairman. Council I love doing this.

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it's one of my favorite things about my job. If I could ask lynn baker to

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join me. I just was not happy about being here.

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>> yeah I just I think she thought she was. Good at I can't tell she yeah,

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she thought she was getting out of this. Is her.

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but here we are. So just a little side note lynn was my dispatch partner 40

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years ago and we worked together and we've remained friends and now but I'm very

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proud of lynn and what she's accomplished. Um, I forgot my notes.

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um. >> I'm just going to talk while

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she's gone. All right, um, I apologize, uh, but I wrote in it because I

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wanted to say some things about and you try to make me cry. No I'm not.

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this is exactly how we dispatch together. Um, lynn is a very dedicated

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and loyal employee and you'll hear me say that over and over again about public safety.

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it is definitely a calling. And I asked the chief what was one thing he could tell me

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about lynn. He said come. On to.

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>> he said that no matter what the task, if you tasked lynn with it she would get it done.

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it didn't matter if it was under her responsibility day to day or not.

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lynn cares about people. She cares about her colleagues and I'm very proud of her and

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I'm very honored to be able to present this 40 years, uh, of recognition to you, lynn.

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uh, lynn has a request and I guess after 40 years she certainly can make one.

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we'd like her sister and her partner to come up here, please .

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uh, picture. >> you're not going to be happy

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either. >> we can't get.

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>> we'll get there. You don't go.

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>> your heels it right here. >> what's the point?

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you mean you take the. Like, you turn it.

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your little gift card to. >> her money?

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yes we have. Anybody want to guess what little bow with that shoes for

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sure. And if I could have liz orlando come up here please.

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and marcus road will be with her. Because I'm not telling that

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she got. This is live. .

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liz spent 30 years of service with us. Liz works out of the jail.

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liz is also low and dedicated. She is one of five girls. She comes from a law

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enforcement family and I have to say this for her she's a big buffalo bills fan.

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did I get it right? You know, um. Liz is very compassionate.

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I have watched her take care of her colleagues when the worst times of their life and

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there's nothing but love that pours out of her. And I'm very proud to serve

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with liz as well. Every year.

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>>

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liz would like her family to join us to please indulge.

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>> mr chair. Um, I.

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congratulate.

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duffy.

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thank you sir. And good things are always happening in horry county.

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I mean. Good things are always out in horry county.

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more good news and horry county resolution are 89 2026 recognizing mr barry bobby, our

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county administrator for being named one of gfa was outstanding professionals

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of the years and a motion. All right we will recognize miss jamie norman.

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oh there. See mr chairman. Stand up.

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>> and each year the government finance. Officer association recognizes

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finance professionals across the nation for their dedication to the finance profession,

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their colleagues and the organizations they serve. There have only been three

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individuals from south carolina to earn the designation of outstanding professional

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of the year and this year one of those recipients is our county administrator, mr barry

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bobby. His dedication to this organization, his commitment to

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excellence and his genuine desire to serve the community make him especially deserving

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of this recognition. I can't think of anyone who better exemplifies the

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qualities of a public service professional. I know he does not like being

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in the spotlight, but it is my pleasure to present him with this resolution recognizing him

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for his outstanding achievement and his continued commitment to public service.

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yeah. >> I would.

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>> just. Like to say. That any.

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recognition that. Is received. By our organization is a

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reflection of the. Every individual within that organization.

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it's a reflection of the leadership that we have at our council, our leadership team

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and each and every employee. So I am grateful to be able to work with a team that excels

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and strives to do their best each and every day. I admire them and I appreciate

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them. Thank you sir.

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>> congratulations. >> thank you very much.

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hi. >> the ayes have it.

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all right we'll move on to reading of ordinances. First up is third reading

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reading for ordinance 65 dash 2026 amending chapter. 15 article six of the code of

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ordinances of ori county as it pertains to development agreements.

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is there a motion so moved? Second uh mister cam, do you have an amendment?

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it's in the handout. Motion? Yes, sir.

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motion to, uh, amend the current ordinance to include the amendments on the dias.

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thank you sir. And the second. All right.

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all in favor of the amendment say I I that passes unanimously back to the original motion as

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amended. All in favor? Aye.

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all right. Opposed? No.

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I'm that passes unanimously. Next up is the third reading of ordinance 25 dash 2026

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amending article eight, section 809 of the zoning ordinances pertaining to the highway 17

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overlay. Is there a motion. To move?

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okay. >> I have a motion and a

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second. The proposed amendment is in the packet.

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if somebody wants to make a motion for that. .

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>> so movements. Chair thank you. We have a motion and a second.

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all in favor of the amendment say I. All right the ayes have it back

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to the original motion as amended. All in favor I I the ayes have

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it. That passes. Next up is third reading

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of ordinance 73 dash 2026 to approve the development agreement with pulte home for

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the pine ridge residential tract to provide for a connection of carolina bays

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parkway to highway 17 bypass and limit the allowed density on the tract.

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is there a motion. And a second? I have a motion and a second.

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there are proposed amendments contained in your packet. If there's a motion for those.

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motion second. All right. All in favor of the proposed

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amendments contained in the packet say I. Hi.

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>> that passes there's also an a handout which is a proposed amendment.

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is there a motion for the amendment that's contained in the handout?

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so moved. Second.

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>> all in favor of that motion say I hi. Any opposed?

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none that passes unanimously back to the original ordinance as amended twice.

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all in favor I hi. The ayes have it. That passes.

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next up is second reading of ordinance ten dash 2026 to amend the index map of the

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official map ordinance for horry county adding the right of way for carolina bays

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parkway from highway 707 to highway 17 bypass and associated interchange of the

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aubrey county official index map. Is there a motion to move the

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second? All right. We have a motion and a second.

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there is a proposed amendment contained in your handout which replaces the proposed amendment

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that was in the package. Is there a motion to approve that amendment.

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so moved. Second.

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>> all in favor of the amendment say I and. I ayes have it back to the

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original ordinance as amended. All in favor I I yeah I have that.

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moving right along with the second reading and public hearing for ordinance 74 and 75

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2026 to amend the future land use map of the imagined 2040 comprehensive plan for pin

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numbers 441050100959697 from suburban to mixed use and to also rezone from highway

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commercial to multi residential. We need one motion for both

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ordinance mr loftus. So moved. Second is.

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all right these two are scheduled for public hearing. Is there anyone from the public

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wish to be heard? Hearing none. Anyone from council wish to be

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heard. Hearing none. All in favor say aye.

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all right. That's one vote for both ordinances and passes

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unanimously. Next is second reading and public hearing on the following

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ordinances to approve the request to amend the official zoning maps.

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first is ordinance 76 dash 2026 diamond shores agent for atm property group mr hardy motion.

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second. >> anyone from the public wish

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to be heard on this? Hearing none. All anyone from council.

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hearing none. All in favor? I eyes have it.

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next up is ordinance 77 dash 2026 cf. Smith property group.

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agent for glc holdings. Doctor dukes. So moved.

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second. >> anyone from the public

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hearing? None. Anyone from council.

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hearing none. All in favor I have it. Next up, ordinance 78 dash 2026

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damon shores, agent for brandon tree. Andrew mr allen to move mister

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. Second I have a motion and a second anyone from the public

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hearing? None. Anyone from council?

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hearing none. All in favor I. I eyes have it.

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next up ordinance 79 dash 2026 damon shores agent for bud t trammell at all mr allen so

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moved mr chairman anyone from the public hearing none anyone from council?

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hearing none all in favor I I I have it. Next up is ordinance 80 dash

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2026 damon shores agent for hd one mr. Mr rowley.

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move mr. Jim. Thank you sir you have a

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second? Anyone from the public hearing ?

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none. Anyone from council? Hearing none.

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all in favor I have it. Next up is ordinance 81 dash 2026 kingston engineering agent

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for hunter brown. Mr allen so moved, mr chair. Second.

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>> anyone from the public hearing? None.

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anyone from council? Hearing none. All in favor I.

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uh the ayes have that. Next up is old and new business and what we have on there is

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the vote for the solid waste authority board of director appointed.

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there's one position available. We were voting for it by ballot and the clerk has tabulated the

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ballots and mr neves has won the election. And all dedications are next.

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I will start. Off by. Bill grammer, a wonderful

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person and an excellent lawyer for orry county. Um he will be missed.

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mr allen. Yes, sir.

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>> mr chairman edwards jr. Mr ronald richardson. James o'dell.

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bud ter beeville. Miss elizabeth lib. Fry.

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tillman. >> roger.

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>> holding. Miss hazel. Hazel granger.

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miss. Brenda hay night and miss wanda harrell.

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thank you. Thank you sir mr morrow, mr.

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>> uh brant baron calvert. Senior miss carol. A petroski.

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mother of ed piotrowski. And steven. David sassy.

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thank you sir doctor news. Former north myrtle beach. City councilman terry white.

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mr crawford. Uh.

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>> mr james r baxley who was, um a teacher at sarcastic high school, assistant principal at

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myrtle beach and an assistant principal at carolina forest.

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>> and a friend of mine at the high school. Mr hart thank you, jim list and

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her. List and. Hearty thank you, sir.

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mr anderson. Priscilla lucy sellers. Linda roddy henderson, mac.

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owens junior. Miss leroy bo. Rainbow conway.

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police officer eddie. Scott. ,patricia brown.

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bassoon. >> thank you.

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>> that's all right. Thank you sir. Next up or listing of the

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upcoming meetings set forth in the agenda please pay attention our social media there because

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from time to time they change. There is no executive session tonight.

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the motion to adjourn. So moved. All right.

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>> we are.