Town Council - Regular Meeting

Hello. Thank you all for joining us this evening. We appreciate your attendance and uh we have a pretty good order of issues to talk about tonight. If you have any kind of device, not just a phone, a laptop, an iPad, I don't know, something that will make noise and interrupt us, please turn it on silence so we can give you our full attention. Uh, with that council, we will stand for pledge of allegiance. Councilman Helms will give our invitation. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] Father, as we come before you today, we want to thank you for another blessing day that you've bestowed upon us. We pray that you be with us tonight. Guide us, direct us, give us wisdom to conduct the town's business. We give you the praise and glory for it all. In your holy name we pray. Amen.

Amen. Thank you. All right, council members. You have been provided copies of the July 23rd council budget workshop minutes, the July 28th council meeting minutes, the August 11th council budget workshop minutes, and the August 19th council budget workshop minutes. Are there any changes, deletions, or additions? I make a motion to accept the minutes as submitted. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please say I.

I. All those opposed, thank you. You can tell it's that time of year. We're meeting a lot. Uh public comment pursuant to section 2-46 of the code of ordinances for the town of Fort Mill. Any citizen of the town may appear before council for the purpose of providing public comment. Thank you. on any municipal matter except personnel matters. Those who wish to speak must sign in outside the council chambers prior to the start of the meeting. Citizens will be given three minutes each to speak. We have uh Miss Karen W. Kimp that would like to speak this evening. Miss Kimp. [Music]

I've never done this before. That's okay. So I I'm shaking. We're generally gentle people. Okay. Good. Good. Um, I was driving on uh anyway past Merkodile Harris ter and then I saw a sign for uh 150 new units next to those town homes

and I thought, man, we need something for homeless people. So, a tiny home tiny homes community for homeless people is what I what it got started. Um, so I was wondering if the town I don't know am I supposed to acknowledge you when I start. Anyway, sorry. Um, I was wondering if the town count town of Fort Mill and surrounding communities could donate a parcel of land to build tiny homes for the homeless. If different builders would each build a tiny home for build a tiny home tiny house or two for the homeless each anyway to get them back into society. then they could get cleaned up, find steady work, and really live a meaningful lives, not exist. Feel like I'm homeless. I've been homeless 6 years and 3 months in a couple days, and I feel like I just exist, you know. Um the house could be called after the builder uh for them and they could like advertise the house. This is the one I built for this homeless person. And uh anyway, in a couple months when the homeless are settled into their home and working, see they can work. It's just too hard to work as a homeless person. You're not clean. and um it's just too hard. They could begin making monthly low payments toward rent or owning their home. They would work

that out with the um builder, I guess, whatever, you know. Um the payments would go to the builder of their home. A family could adopt a homeless family to work with, help with finances, care of their new home, mow the lawn, wash dishes, you know, teach, retach them all those things of having a house, whatever the homeless person needs. until they know how to run their house.

Good. So, that's it. Has it been three minutes? No, you're fine. So, um this could build community where the people are well off could help the poor um get where a better place to live. So landscaping, I love hearts and um so eastern red bud trees and elephant ear plants and whatever else. So did I explain enough? I think so.

Yeah. Just just to give them a start, a new start. I haven't been homeless. Well, I've been homeless six years and three months. And then I was in an apartment with my daughter. And then um I was homeless two other times. Each time was shorter, each time was longer. And this has been the longest time. So it's wears me out. So And I I got swollen feet now. I'm in in a van. Uh able to get one July 9th. I got a van to have more room for all my junk. And it um now my now my feet are all swollen from sitting up I guess. So anyway, and I I have lots to do writing books and stuff, but it's just too hard in a in a van. Can't hook up a desktop into a van. So, thank you very much.

No, thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. And I'm not the only one. There's other people I know that are homeless. One guy is trying to get his car fixed. Thankfully, his job lets him stay there, but his brakes are out. And so, he's been sitting there since the end of January um in his car and he sleeps in his car and then he goes walks to work. Um he's security. So at least he has a job and but he needs help. He he's Anyway, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you for sharing your situation so that perhaps we can all find ways to help others. I think it's an incredible uh gesture of kindness to ask for help for others when you have needs of your own. Um I believe Virginia has a long list of agencies that can provide assistance. The town doesn't have any land to donate to make tiny homes yet. Um, and it is a topic that we all talk about. Meeting you today or tonight, however, is very touching because we all forget how blessed we really are. So, um, if you'll talk with Virginia afterwards, um, she'll try to give you some help and, um, we'll we'll keep in mind your presence as we have future discussions on how to help. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. All right, we have no further folks um signed up to speak. Uh unfortunately, we were going to have the Fort Mill Fire Department uh promotions tonight, but I understand that two uh the two folks we were going to be celebrating with, one has a pregnant wife and he had to go with her and then the other one had another emergency. So, I guess they're prone to go to emergencies, right?

But we will celebrate them at another time. Uh, presentation number two. I see many friends in the audience uh here to present the Fort Mill History Museum year in review. So, we welcome you um to present to us all the wonderful work that you've been able to do in the past year. [Music] Good evening, town council. Thank you for having us. Good to see you all. Uh, now, mayor, I've been told I have roughly an hour and a half. Is that

We've got 150 slides, so I'll do my best to get through it. Now, I think you've all seen the slides. So, uh, again, thank you for having Fort Mill History Museum here to speak tonight. Uh we've got representatives here and in the audience and u if we could all well those of us standing up here quickly say our name and our role with the museum. I'm Christia Hberg and I'm the exe executive director and have been for six years. And I'm Ashley Taylor and I'm the chairman.

And I'm John Pettis. I'm the vice chair of the history museum. And again, thank you for your time this evening. Uh, one of the major things that we want to accomplish here is to continue to strengthen the bond between the history museum and the town of Fort Mill. Uh, we we have a long history of working together, a rich partnership and we want to continue that. Uh, as we talked about in the lobby before entering um, it's good practice that we come here and stand before you and and share what we're doing. Um, a a brief story if you will allow me. One reason that I'm part of the history museum now is that I've grown up in the town. I'm a multi-generation resident here. My my parents uh my dad grew up here. His father his father and u as I have grown and now my kids are in Fort Mill school system. I wanted to continue to find ways that I could partake in the community and give back. And I could not think of a better way than to continue to work with the history museum and and find a way to preserve our heritage. So, uh that's why I stand you stand before you tonight along with these two lovely ladies and all the time that they give for the history museum. So, we do have a presentation uh ready for you tonight. I'm trying to click through it and we're not advancing. Did you you limited my rights because I I flipped early. I was messing around with it earlier and I flipped before the meeting started. So,

hey, so I always think it's important for an organization to start with the mission and the vision of that organization. Um, whenever questions arise when you're when you're part of an organization, you should always revert back to the the mission. What is it that we're here to do? And you can imagine a a history museum. The mission is fairly simple. Uh preserving the heritage of our township. It is our mission. That's what we volunteer to do. And we're going to tell a story tonight about all of the things that we work towards. And that is really driven by our mission, that preservation of Fort Mills history. So the story that we want to tell is our involvement in the community, the partnerships that we have, what we have done, and what we will continue to do. U so the the slide before us shows the Fort Mill History Museum. This is a historic uh home in our community that is right downtown. It's right off the back side of Main Street. And uh we'll get into some uh visitor statistics here in a minute, but just wanted to show our history museum and the role that it serves for for the town. So our purpose is multiffold for the museum, but preservation of our town's history is certainly a massive part of what we do. I've mentioned that several times when we discussed our mission a second ago. And we've got several pictures here that help illustrate how we preserve our town's history through exhibits at the museum. Um, and we do have an audience member that's in our center picture here, David.

Um, pointing out Yeah. Yeah. That's the way he looks.

I We We did our best. Photoshop could only do so much. So um if if you look at the the far right side of the picture though, interestingly enough, this is one of the largest collections of uh Kataba Nation Indian heads or era heads, excuse me, that we have. So there's a lot of preservation of history for the town that that date far back. One of the more uh one of the things that I get very excited about for the museum is that education that we provide. Um so in addition to our museum that have the gallery exhibits, we do a lot of educational outreach programs. We do a history trunk program. Uh we go into our schools. Uh we do events for downtown where all of people in our township can be involved. But there's a lot of outreach to help educate our township about the history of Fort Mill. U so that that is certainly a major piece of our mission and we also offer those tools online for anybody that'd like to go and do their research. One thing that I know this town council is passionate about and certainly the history museum is as well is the building of this community. Uh we host several events as a museum that are engaging to our township. The strawberry suare is one every spring that I see many faces in this room at and it's a great event. I see a bunch of people nodding and smiling. Just a fantastic event. So when you you start to think about a history museum, it's beyond the walls. It's beyond the exhibits of that history museum. It's these events. It's getting people in our town together to form those relationships and bonds so we can continue to build a strong community.

And we also wanted to talk in the spirit of our partnership with town council. These are flyers that the town of Fort Mill have put on throughout the year. And we just wanted to remind you that the history museum plays a part in each of those. We we have a booth or we we volunteer. um continuing to try to to be partners and build partnerships throughout our town. Sticking uh with the partnership theme, um several logos on the screen here that are are showing our community partners. Town of Fort Mill certainly being one, the school system another. Um Chrissy, I think you wanted to say a couple of words. We um we play a huge part in tourism in our uh town and our county and we have a strong partnership with Discover South Carolina uh from SCPRT Discover South Carolina. They uh we get a tag grant from them every year and we we work uh closely with them to help our marketing dollars go further than um as as far as they can go. And then we also on a local level, well on a regional level, we work with the Old English District Tourism Commission who represents tourism in seven counties across the state. Uh uh South Carolina's broken into 11 tourism regions. And we're part of Old English that promotes tourism in um our region. And then from there, we've got Visit York County uh on a county level that uh we participate in uh with we're partners with them and we also um advertise in their annual uh publication. And um then uh the Arts Council of York County, um we have a strong relationship with them. Actually, Melanie Cooper's here. Thank you. And um we we work with them on events and um we have a board member that uh from Winthrop. So we we

try to incorporate Winthrop as much as we can and FMEP as well and of course you guys and then the school district. But those are I wanted just mainly to point out a strong tour our tourism partners.

Thank you. Continuing with the partnership theme, uh, a community is several things, but the the local businesses in our community continue to help make this a strong town. And we have strong partners for the museum that are local businesses that are displayed on the screen. I won't go through them all, but I I just wanted everybody to recognize the Fort Mill History Museum sponsors. These ought to be logos that we all recognize as residents of Fort Mill. And Christia just uh talked about tourism as one of the things that the history museum strives to to help accomplish in partnership with the town of Fort Mill. Um we try to bring tourism to our town through the museum and through our events. And we do so in several different ways. One of these ways is uh print advertising and uh we're able to do that through some of the dollars this town council a awards or grants to the town uh the history museum. Uh so we just wanted to say thank you for for that but also to to show an example of what it is we're trying to accomplish through that. And Christia has a whole stack here if we ever want to thumb through and see the the print ads that we do. But uh again trying to get people into our downtown, trying to get dollars into our local economy. [Music] So these maps are heat maps and the major point that we want to show here is that uh the history museum is not in a bubble. It's not just residents of Fort Mill. It's not just North Carolinians and South Carolinians. it. We have people from all over the US that come and visit the history museum.

Um, and not just the US, we have people from all over the world that have come and visited the history museum. So, uh, I thought that to be an interesting statistic worth sharing with you all.

We collect zip codes. So, we, uh, when they, when people enter the museum, we ask them to sign in. We really, we're not interested in their name, but we want their zip code. We want to know where they're coming from. So we uh we collect them uh that way, but we also collect them when they are buying tickets for our events and we can collect them that way. And then we have a lady that uh she is great on an Excel spreadsheet and she uh is meticulous about entering all of those zip codes and tracking tracking those numbers for us and has been for several years. So, we think that is uh very important data that uh it's important for us, but it's important for you as well to know where they're coming from. And I don't know if you noticed, but um Wyoming is white. Um

we don't know anybody there. We got nothing. We we've actually placed a prohibition of Wyoming visiting the museum. We just don't like them. So, they're not allowed. Everybody else is free to to come to visit. I love it. Yeah. If you know anybody have any family from Wyoming, please have them come by the museum. We we'd like to fill in the gap. Round it out. Yeah.

And this is what we're really excited to stand in front of you and present tonight is is where we're going from here. Um we we have a lot of volunteers and a lot of board members that spend lots of time uh working together to try to put a plan uh to to help the history museum grow and grow within our community. So one of these things is the lantern society and uh that is the name we've given our plan giving program. So we've talked about what uh dollars we've received and and how we use them. Plan giving is a part of that. So, um, if if a member of the museum is interested in plan giving or passionate about the history museum, we have a program where they're able to, uh, to do plan giving and help us thrive moving forward. Strategic plan. Uh, had several conversations regarding a strategic plan for the history museum and we want you all to know that this is in process. When we outlined our pri our priorities for 2025, completing a strategic plan was one of the top priorities that we had as a history museum board. And then in 2026 and beyond, we will execute on that strategic plan, updating it semianually to make sure that it's still relevant. So I see a lot of nod. Any questions as we move through these? Good. Okay. Anything you want to add? Good. Good.

All right.

One of the major pieces of the strategic plan, but also a project for our history museum and the town in general is um continuing to make sure the museum and its property has very nice curb appeal. So, uh we have worked with Innovate Innovative Landscaping. Uh they're in the room tonight. Vincent's in the room tonight. we appreciate him attending. Uh they've put a wonderful schematic together to really update the property and again this propertyy's on the back side of Main Street. Um and it's really just a beautiful rendering of what the property can be and we can turn it into a place where people gather that where events for the museum can be held, events for the town can be held. Uh people may possibly even rent the space from us and hold events for their families and friends. Um all of that bringing people into the downtown area so that once the event or whatever they're they're hosting is done, they'll go into downtown and go get a burger at Hobos or go get a beer at a more artist. uh continue to be downtown and participate in the area. [Music] And we'd like to close with uh just thanking you once again for the partnership that we have with the town. Um the history museum could not be be where we are today without this partnership. So we appreciate all of your time and attention. um all of your consideration for our request over the years and moving forward. Thank you very much.

We'd like to thank you. Um I for one have noticed the continual growth. Your outreach programs have tripled, quadrupled in the last couple of years. You've begun to uh you know put a a real fine point on making sure that your programs are excellent. The lanterns tour is extremely positive and promising. I've been on several of them myself and they're a lot of fun. Uh fun seems to be a nice connecting point between people and I know that doesn't happen without a lot of hard work. It's good to see a strategic plan uh on your list. I think that's critical for sustainability and I'm looking forward uh to seeing what's new and thank you also for supporting our events. you do a lot of volunteer work with us and for us and we're grateful. Council,

thank you. Yeah, I'd just like to follow up. Thank y'all for presenting. We we always we have that partnership with other uh uh groups that receive funding and we just like to see what y'all are doing with the funding and what your future is. You know, we're all working to keep the culture and charm of the town as we move forward, as the town continues to grow. Um, so it's uh great to that we've got someone focused on the history and I've come a long way. I remember when it was just a concept and uh so all great things have challenges and I have confidence you'll continue to work through them. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much. And by the way, I used to I know nobody will believe this, but I used to sing in the choir at St. John's and he used to sit in the pew with this stuffed animal and just wrestle to keep himself still and he did a great job. So, it's so nice to see you all grown up and so Yes, ma'am. My grandma did the wrestling. I just paid attention to what she said.

Thank you guys for all that y'all do, the the passion that you guys have for the history of the town. Uh not only the the the members here, but the ones who you who are not here. Uh, one in particular is uh, Kimberly Long, who you talk to me you mentioned the the lantern tours. Uh, you know, she's going to do the the ghost tours. My wife who she's threatened to dress up as a ghost and and come out, you know, out of the cemeteries and scare everybody for the the October tour. So, but but thank you guys for all that y'all do. You mentioned the uh the zip codes. You collect those. Do you know how many like individual different zip codes that y'all you have collected over over the year? Not individuals. And these ladies can probably answer better than me. We do have thousands of zip codes collected every year, just not Wyoming, which is

right. Well, the prohibition of Wyoming still stands. So, but we do have thousands of visitors and the heat map was just for who has actually been in the museum itself as you can imagine with all of the events that that we have that the heat map changes even further. Absolutely. When we look at that. So, thank you guys.

Thank you all for your time. smaller museums and some other towns, but I mean, if it wasn't for the the group of people and volunteers y'all have, I mean, that's what makes it so special. And and you know, it goes a long way. And I mean, I remember taking my kids by there. Rudy was there. It's the first time I met him like 12 years ago. And uh just sat down with my kids when they were really young, coloring stuff on, you know, and and just went out of went out of his way, make us feel welcome, you know. And then I brought my parents by there and showed them the museum and and Rudy was there that day too and and just, you know, just just a great group of people. We appreciate everything y'all do for our town. Thank you.

Thank you. One thing I I want to say that um the fact we are free and I think that's a lot to be proud of because anybody and everybody can come in and uh we welcome them to the museum. So there's no um financial restraints on anybody. So, um, I'm proud that we are still able to do that after all these years and we're con we're continuing to do that just because of outside support, members, donors, sponsors and so on. Yeah, I've been in the museum too and a lot of the pictures of the Cottonville has got a lot of my wife's family in it. So, let's give the history museum a round of applause.

Thank you. We appreciate you. Before we wrap up, I just want to say thank you as well. And I would kind of issue a little bit of a challenge to those who might be, you know, watching this. There's a few people that watch it on on TV, but uh you know, to anybody that's not been there, we meet on a regular basis, people whether you all around town that have not been in Fort Mill, you know, maybe some a year, maybe some 5 years, maybe some longer than that that are not familiar with it. So I think it's kind of a a responsibility I feel like where you're going to live to know where you live and and know the history of it. So I would challenge those to to that have not been there to go by there and and there's a lot of fascinating things that even you know I've gone through there myself several times and look seems like every time it's like wow I didn't remember that or I didn't know that. So that's a that would be an open challenge I would put out there. It's a great facility.

And if you did grow up here and went to Fort Mill High School, there's a good chance your yearbook's in there. Really? Okay. Yes, I did. I graduated. Let's make sure we add that Mayor Savage sang in the choir at the Methodist Church. St. John's United Methodist. That's pretty sad. Beautiful voice if I recall. Thanks everybody. Thank you. You offered that mayor. I know. I know. I couldn't help it. He was so cute. All right. Old business item number one, second reading, an ordinance authorizing staff to enter into a lease agreement with Fort Mill History Museum for office space located at 111 South White Street. Chris Pettit, has anything changed since the last time we reviewed this?

No, ma'am. This is for uh 111 South White Street, better known as the caboose, at the bottom of Main Street. Okay, questions. I would like to I would like to thank the history museum for the investment they put into the caboose that was not being used. I put windows and then some other updates to it. So, it's really nice to see preserving, you know, something of the past as as an history museum. So, that's uh uh it was vacant for years and and now was getting some use. So, I uh and I' I'd like to take that and just uh I'd like to approve uh new business item. I make a recommendation motion motion to uh

old business item number. I had to find my where I was on the thing. Old uh business item number one. Yes. So, I have a motion to approve old business item number one. Do I have a second? I have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please say I. I. All those opposed. Thank you so much. New business item number one, resolution accepting the streets within the wide at the Kataba subdivision into the town of Fort Mill Street maintenance system. Penelopey, welcome.

Good evening, mayor and council. Um, tonight this is the wateride at the car at the Kataba subdivision. They're ready for street acceptance application to get approved tonight. Um, it was submitted by Lenor Carolina's LLC. um they've recorded all roads were recorded before the establishment of the street acceptance policy and therefore they are exempt from the inspection fee and the shity bond. The planning department has reviewed the application. The the subdivision is 100% built out which meets and exceeds the requirement of the street acceptance application. Um a maintenance agreement for non-standard pavement and landscaping medians were recorded and we have that on file. Um, talking with the public works department and utilities department, they reviewed the roads submitted for acceptance and found them to be in compliance with the town specification and requirements. Should the town council vote to approve this resolution accepting the streets, the developer would enter in a one-year warranty period during which time they are responsible for any maintenance on the streets. Upon the closing of the warranty period, the town would take over the maintenance responsibilities for the streets. So, tonight um it's either to approve the resolution or to not approve the resolution. I think it's fair for those that are watching and maybe hearing something like this for the first time that the town does have a very strict criteria that all streets must be brought up to before we even consider taking them on. Uh I was in Wateride over the weekend and uh the street paving looks so much better. Um so that's a a positive and this is not an uncommon uh event these days in the town to be asked to take over a road system. So with that being said, does anyone have questions for Penelopey?

Anyone have a motion? Yes, Mr. Mayor. Just a quick question. So um the curb where the curb cutouts cuts have been and places where the sidewalks is that totally have been replaced separate from this or so the sidewalks and the the streets is what is part of the street acceptance. Now, if you're referring to parts of the neighborhood that have um cuts for future connections, you know, there will be once the other property gets developed, it will tie in. And well, I guess there was there was some sidewalks that had to be portions of them that had to be replaced over the last few years. That that has been um verified. We're good with all that now.

That's what Mr. um Previtt mentioned to me and Greg Russian from utilities. So, I've received um you know notifications when I know that part of that neighborhood is split now, but it all used to be in Ward 4. So, I would always get all the complaints about when is it going to be paved and when are their sidewalks going to get fixed. So, that was just No, that's a great question, Mr. Moody. Um so, tonight it's the whole neighborhood. It's basically phases one through four portion of Whites Road that comes into the neighborhood and also there's a small section of a portion of JW Wilson that we are also accepting because of the entrance of um one of the streets in in Wateride. Okay. All right. Thank you. You answer my question. Thank you. I got one question.

Sure. Uh if we do not accept the roads, who takes responsibility of the roads? If we don't if we do not accept the roads, then the developer works out something with our HOA and the residents of the subdivision um contribute to that funding. Further questions for Penelope? Does this one Penelope? I knew Chris Wolf was going to have one tonight. I was waiting. I was I keep pushing it just got this one. No, the uh So, you're saying the roads were recorded before the street acceptance policy. So that that was in 2018. This Yes, that's um so they were already underway before that.

So if you remember many years ago um this project was approved um in 2014. And so the policy that we've that council has updated over the years. There's different versions. The latest version was from 2018 that requires uh that shity. But because this developer or development, excuse me, was approved in 2014, it's exempt for the inspection fee and then that shity bond. And so he's going to stand one-year warranty just regardless.

So the one-year warranty is basically for utilities um and um excuse me, public works to go back within a year. So what I do, I work with those departments. We have like a 60-day little timer that says, "Hey, this this neighborhood was approved almost a year ago. Go out and check is everything still checking up and is is good since we've approved it." And so, Gre Greg Russian and his team, they go back out to make sure the roads and the sidewalks have maintained themselves within that year. Okay. Thanks for the clarification. That's a great idea to have that reminder. Yes. check it

because time goes by so fast before you know it and it's a year. Any further questions? Hearing none, I call for a motion. Make a motion to approve new business item number one. I have a motion to approve new business item number one. Do I have a second? I'll second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please say I. I. All those opposed. All right. All right. Thank you. Thank you. New business item number two, consideration to award a contract for construction of four new picnic shelters at parks and recck facilities for a total of $122,633.17. Brown Simpson.

So, thank you for joining us. Tell us a little bit.

Thank you, Mayor and members of council. I do come for you tonight. A couple months ago, we did an RFP uh for four new shelters. Two at Harris Street Park, one at Millstone Park, and one at Steel Street Park as part of our improvements of our parks and recreation uh plan. Um we're bringing to you tonight that we ask you approve Badam Company LLC and they are based here in Fort Mill on Gold Hill Road to approve this. Um and the the shelters will be a 15x20 shelters with a 20 x 25 concrete pad. We are going to have to u take out a couple shelters. One at Steel Street, demolish it, also at Harris Street, an older one. Also some concrete work also at both of those sites, plus some concrete work that will have to be demolished at um Milstone Park at the top where we have two picnic tables. Um, also too, um, we had, uh, seven companies that were interested in this project and we appreciate all those that showed interest in that. I want to thank, uh, Philip AOK, our procurement manager, who helped me with this whole process. Philip does a great job for us and we appreciate all his effort with that. We do have funding that is designated for this project. Uh, so I will be glad to answer any questions if I can for you. Uh, and I do want to remind you one thing. You know, we did at one time have a gazebo at Harris Street Park and we we took that one down a couple years ago because it had become unsafe and uh just didn't meet ADA standards at all. And all four of these new shelters with the improvements if you guys choose to approve this will meet ADA standards also too. And we'll be working with our builders department uh to make sure acquire the correct permits and make sure the inspections are done during the construction process. Also too, we will not have any power uh or lighting at

these shelters. These would just be individual picnic shelters. So, I want to make sure that you knew that going forward. I'll be glad to answer any questions that you might have. What can you tell us about like this? Is this a steel steel structure steel frame? Yes, sir. It'll be a steel frame with a wood structure up top and it'll be a metal roof.

And u I think y'all got a drawings of those. That will not actually be the the color that we use that roof. We're looking at like a forest green kind of match uh some of the playgrounds that we have. Black poles and then a light brown wood structure underneath that would support the wood frame the metal framing uh for the roof. Well, I think that um they will uh be welcomed in our park facilities. Uh the old blue ones that we got at Steel and Harris, they've they've shown the test of time. So, yeah, they predate me.

U So, Carrie, is this uh in I haven't seen, you know, working our parks rec master plan. Does this fit with it? We're not going to conflict by moving forward with these? No, there'll be no conflict with the the park and wreck master plan. Um, this is really just replacement uh maintenance and upkeep of our current facilities. Okay. I just didn't want to step ahead and then cause some conflict and spend extra money. Lord, no. It it is good to see we got a Fort Mill company that's be doing the work, the local company. So, we're keep glad we're keeping that business local. Yes, sir. Yep. We like that.

That is nice to see. Any further questions? I'll call for a motion. I'll make a motion to approve new business item number two. I'll second. Have a motion in a second. All those in favor, please say I. I. All those opposed. All righty then. Thank you so much. Thank you.

So, we do not have any information or discussion items for this evening. However, we do have four executive session items. Uh, please note that council may take action on any of these items. Uh when we come back into public session, executive session number one is receipt of legal advice related to potential claims. Two, discussion of negotiations incident to proposed contractual agreements. Three, discussion of negotiations incident to proposed purchase of real property. And four, discuss relating discussions relating to personnel matters. Please note that it's often times important uh that we we do business as a business should and there these items that we discuss in executive session must be discussed in executive session or we're not doing our fiduciary responsibility to you as a taxpayer. So with that I'll entertain a motion to go into executive session.

I'll make a motion to go into executive session stereo. I started it first. I'll sec I'll second. I have a motion and a second. And all those in favor, please say I. I. All those opposed. Thank you so much.

All right. Let the record reflect that no vote was taken in executive session. I'll entertain a motion to return to regular session. I'll make a motion to return to Go ahead, Ron. I have a motion to return and a second. All those in favor, please say I. I. All those opposed. Thank you. Um, I do believe we have one item that we need to address post executive session. Yes. I make a motion to authorize the manager to enter into a purchase and sale agreement discussed in executive session. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. All those in favor, please say I.

All those opposed? Nay. All right. Um, I believe that ends our session for this evening. Does anyone have a comment for the good of the whole? If not, we'll entertain a motion for adjournment. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Have a motion to adjurnn. Second. I have a second. All those in favor, please say I. I. All those opposed. Thank you so much.