County Council - Regular Meeting

All right, let's call the meeting to order. Welcome out tonight everyone. Second meeting of the year. Appreciate you being here for this Tuesday, January 27th, 2026 Kershaw County Council meeting. Mr. Tucker uh had a sudden emergency. He's taken care of tonight, so he won't be able to attend. I'll go ahead and offer the invocation and then the pledge of allegiance and we'll get into the meeting. Let us pray. Dear heavenly father, we're thankful for our many blessings. We're grateful for our families. We're thankful for the hope of a new year in front of us. Please help us be productive and let all of our activities be pleasing unto thee. Please help us do right by others and by ourselves. And we pray for thy guidance and direction and spirit here as we try to make good decisions for the benefit of Kershaw County and its citizens and families. We thank thee in all things and we pray for those who mourn and need thy comfort. Please give it to them. We say this with gratitude in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Amen. I pledge allegiance 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. Thank you, gentlemen. Uh, do we have Mr. Brazzle in remotely? [snorts] Not yet. Okay, Mr. Brazle's out of town on business, but I think he is trying to call in remotely. Please just give me some notification if he's able to participate. That moves us to adoption of the agenda, item number four. Do we have a motion on the agenda?

Mr. Chair, I make a motion we adopt the agenda. Is there a second on the motion? I'll second. We've got a second. Any discussion on the agenda? Seeing none and without anyone participating remotely. Uh for those who are present, all in favor raise your hand on the agenda. Miss Hannah, it passes unanimously. That takes care of item number four. Next up, we have a very important resolution placed on by the entire Kersaw County Council in relation to honoring Patty Lou Templar. Do we have a motion? I so make a motion. We have a motion by Mr. Jones. We got a second by Mr. Shoemake.

Thank you, Mr. Shoemake. I'll go ahead and share the um the resolution before we vote on it. Our administrator, [clears throat] Mr. Templer, uh sadly just lost his mother. Again, you've heard from us personally and from staff overall, but our hearts go out to you, and this is the very least we can do. Uh the entire county council placed this on. This is a proclamation honoring the life of Patty Lou Templer. Our lives are full of special moments and wonderful memories. When a loved one is lost, sharing those moments and memories through a tribute that beautifully memor memorializes a life lived provides family and friends with opportunity to reflect and remember. Whereas Kershaw County Council pauses to honor the life of Patty Lou Templer, mother of our distinguished county administrator, Danny Templar. Whereas our hearts and prayers remain with the family as they move forward with a legacy of love and sweet memories, embracing the years of laughter and joy. Whereas Patty Lu Tempmpler embraced motherhood and loved reading stories to her children each night and baking for them, her love for animals, especially horses, and a gift and passion for sharing with family and friends will always be cherished. Whereas Patty Lou Templar has created and left unforgettable memories shared over the 87 years with each one of her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, extended family, and friends, and all of those who knew her. Whereas her loved ones will surely miss her and are saddened because she is not present. [snorts] Rest in knowing that she is free and you have a precious angel continuously watching over each of you. Now therefore, on this 27th day of January, 2026, Kershaw County Council honors and remembers the life of Patty Lou Templar forever in our hearts. Any discussion from council members? That is the proclamation.

If I may, Mr. like since I've been up here longer than the rest of you. He and I have been together a little longer than the rest of you, but uh Danny and I go way back. How many years, Danny? [clears throat] I know when Nikki used to keep you straight.

Yeah. But you know, Danny, you you've uh I know personally the trips every week you would make to go by and visit your mom, the lunches, and checking on her the way you did. And I just want you to know that uh I'm honored to be a part of this and uh I honored to be a part of working with you and your administration here. I just want to say uh our thoughts and prayers have been with you and thank you for all you've done. I mean that Nikki, it's good to see you, too. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Uh Mr. Shemik, you had the second.

Yeah, I mean I [clears throat] think Mr. Jones said it well and and Danny, you know, I I think we're all just sort of an amalgamation of the people that we meet and that, you know, influence us along the way. And while I didn't get to know your mom very well, I heard you talk about her enough that I felt like I knew her. And the stock that she produced says a lot about the kind of person she was. So, [snorts] um, I have no doubt that, uh, you know, even when people pass, you know, they live on by the people who they leave behind and the people they influence. And I have no doubt while you carry your mother in your heart, you're going to carry her memory around. but also carry forward those lessons in the way you live your life. So again, I'm sorry for your loss, my friend. Thank you, Mr. Shoemake. Council members, [cough] [clears throat] Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir.

I only have three words. I love you. Yeah, the Templar family is in my hearts and prayers. Losing a loved one's never easy. Um, but you got an army around around you to to be here if you need anything. So, thank you very much, Mr. Thomas. Mr. Kato,

Danny, my heart goes out to you. I've talked to you about this before, but I want to say this through this whole time. I, you know, I just got to say it shows y'all's commitment to your mother. Um, all of you, I heard you talk about the care that y'all give her and the love you give her during this time. And it says a lot about the family. So, my prayers continue for you and your whole family. And, uh, we thank you for your service here and for the time that you take away from your family [clears throat] to do what you do. All love to you, brother. Mr. Mr. Chairman, could I I made an observation. May I comment on it? You want to comment on your observation? Sure.

Well, the observation that I made was [snorts] when I went to visit with Danny and there as many Templars as there are Connell's. That's a big family. How many in your Danny? How many in your family siblings? Uh I was one of nine. One of nine. [laughter] Okay. Yeah, he's got you beat there. Chairman, we way more. But I mean [laughter] neither here nor there and and I know y'all have a lot of kids. I watch TV.

So um in closing this I'll just shared I love you as well Danny and very sorry that this has happened but um we have great hope in the resurrection and in our faith and uh I share on behalf of the council deep condolences to the family members and friends and those who are also impacted by this who are here tonight or who might be watching remotely. We love y'all too and so sorry for your loss but uh just be comforted and on and [clears throat] only the way that he can. Any other comments or discussion? I know Mr. Brazzle I think is on the call but he says he can't hear anything so we'll have to get comments from him at some some later time or all right with that we'll move it to a vote. All in favor on the proclamation raise your hand. Okay. It passes unanimously. Miss Hannah,

I don't Danny, it's completely your preference if you want to have any family members take a picture to memorialize the event or we can just That'd be great. And if I could just say one thing quickly. Yes, sir.

I have my my brothers and and their significant others out there, Eric and Tom. [snorts] Um, y'all talk about the work I do and um but those two guys, they really put me to shame when it comes to having a servant's heart. Um, brother Eric, he has been with the fire service forever. He took my mom to all of her appointments and uh really struggled through the waiting rooms and all that. So, I took her to one appointment and I immediately called them. I was like, "How do you do this?" You know, it was just so so uh tough. But, um, I always I always wanted to be more like those two guys. and um you know and just doing right by others and and just um it it it's amazing what they'll do for their fellow human beings and uh they set a high bar and I'm hoping to get there one day. But one more thing, I truly appreciate the support y'all gave me and my family while I was out. It's hard to be out from this job, but you just get pulled in that direction sometimes and y'all were just stellar. I I can't thank y'all enough. Um, it's an amazing group up there and um, and I'll never forget that. So, thank you all so much for your support.

Yes, sir.

Invite [clears throat] whoever you'd like, please. This is Martin. Wait a minute. Thank you. Good to see you. I would like to thank council staff and the public for indulging us uh in that moment. It's funny thing you start to work pe work with people when you work with them up close you start to care about them a little bit and that's obvious here. Thank you so much. [snorts] Okay, we have Mr. Brazzle on the line now, I believe. All right, thank you so much. That moves us on. Uh, [clears throat] Mr. Mr. Brazzle, we're just about to close on resolutions in honor of Patty Lieutenant to move on to public comments. Would you like to share anything?

Yeah, I'd just like to tell Danny, we've been thinking about him and we know his mother's a special woman and hope that the entire family is doing well. Lots of love for all you guys. Thank you, Mr. Brazzle. All right, that moves us on to public comments. Mr. Das, no one signed up to speak.

I think this is a a record. There's two meetings in a row. No public comments. [clears throat] Y'all are either doing something very right or very wrong. I'm not sure. No public comments. All right, let's move on to uh public hearings. Item number 7A. This is on um an amendment we'll see later in the packet regarding the ZLDR zoning and land use development regulations related to hemp drive products and canabonoid products and regulations related there too. Do we have them? Anybody signed up? No, Mr. Chair. No speakers have signed up for public hearing.

I'll go ahead and open up the public hearing to see if anyone present wants to speak. The public hearing on 7A is open. Anyone present wishing to speak can speak on the topic on the agenda. Anyone wishing to speak, come forward. Seeing none, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing on 7A. All right, gentlemen, that takes us to item number 8A. I placed it on this as a public presentation. Make a motion that we hear from the sheriff's foundation for their annual report and any other information they want to share. Do we have a second? Second.

We've got a second. We have Come on up. Yes, sir. my dear friend, Mr. Jackson. Hey, brother. And how many board members or other supporters do you have here tonight? We have um Kathy Zobel is here with us. Yes, ma'am. Glad to hear you here. Okay. Yeah, we will. Let's go ahead and have a vote. Okay. All in favor on this public presentation, raise your hand. [clears throat] It's unanimous. For those who are present, Mr. Razle, how do you vote? Remotely. Hey, chairman, I vote in favor of Thank you.

It's unanimous, Miss Hannah, for the record. Yes, sir. Mr. Benji Jackson, we'd love to hear from you.

Well, I'm glad to be here. Thank you for having us. And u Thank Kathy for coming. Thank Sheriff Lee Bone for being here. One of the things that we've talked about in the past was uh let me introduce who I am first. I'm Benji Jackson and uh I chair the Kershaw County Sheriff's Foundation and Kathy is a board member association and u we're here to kind of do two things. Number one is to tell you about Kershaw County Sheriff's Foundation, what we do and number two make a special presentation. So, number one, there's I have some more information in my packet for anybody that's here that wants it about the Sheriff's Foundation and what we do. We are in we're here we're a 5013C. [snorts] So, we're we're a uh a charitable organization established in 2011 and support the Kershaw County Sheriff's Office on their unfunded unfunded mandates or things that they need at the sheriff's department that are not funded. This started back when um Jim Matthews was sheriff and I think u it's evolved to what it is now. We are u we're a 5013C so if you want to make some donations you can deduct them some most of the time. Um number two we give out different awards during the year. We give out deputy of the quarter deputy of the year

[snorts]

uh the Leonard Price Law Enforcement Award to a citizen in Kershaw County that supports the the sheriff's office. And let me give you an idea. Let me give you an idea of some of the things that we've funded in the past. In the past, we bulletproof vests, patrol car video cameras, service dogs, ammunition for training, deputy quarter funding. We do that every quarter. Um, personal officer video cameras to put on the personal officer, the deputy of the quarter, as I mentioned, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Association. We pay the fees for all of our deputies that join that uh during the year. And uh I need to slow down a little bit because I'm getting ahead of myself. [laughter] Sorry about that. Um we've provided picture um puncture resistant gloves for these deputies that are out searching people and they were getting hurt by sticking their hands in pockets and sealing devices automatically um activated as they do their job. training materials for the for the DARE program. So, we do a lot of unfunded items that the sheriff does does not have money to do. So, the people in Kershaw County donate to us to help us help the sheriff's department. That's the bottom line. And I have some more information on that if anybody wants any. And the second reason we're here, we we put out a we put out a bulletin in the paper in u in December, November or December each year to give out. a funded Leonard Price friend of law enforcement award and um we put that in the paper I think in December and we are to get um ideas from the public who they would like to nominate for that and so it's a big it was a big deal because Leonard Price was a huge supporter of the sheriff's law enforcement period in Kershaw County for years I don't know some of you may even

know him and know his family so we put that in the paper in December And we pretty much uh got two two nominees for that award. And uh let's see, we got the final judgment came back to my name. Ben Connell is our law enforcement supporter of the year. Leonard Price, friend of law enforcement. [applause]

Surprise, surprise. You You You are very tricky, Mr. Jackson. Actually, I think the fact that we're cousin means you're uh you might be uh conflicted out of any votes. [laughter] I wouldn't take a vote on that. You want to take a picture of that or what? Do you have any other presentations or that's it? That's it. Okay. Well, my goodness. I have some more information about the Sheriff's Foundation. Let me tell you a little bit about we have a memorial going on right now for law enforcement in Kershaw County that ended their duty. Um they were they lost their lives during duty. Go ahead. Take your time, Benji. [snorts]

Sorry. So, we're raising money to do that. I pray this wouldn't happen. But we have a we have a different we have a committee and we'll probably get some more information probably in another two weeks or 3 weeks. So be looking for that information. It's probably going to be in the chronicle or something like that. So um well I [clears throat] have information on any of that that you would like to have after this board members or members of the audience. Either one. Mr. Chair, I need Mr. Jones [clears throat]

Ben will tell you thank you. It is so good to see you here and Kathy. Oh my goodness. What a what what a wonderful surprise to see you walk in the door as well too. You know, we love you and same with you, Benji. And I'm I tell you, Jim Matthews started this organization back when he first got elected sheriff. It it flourished. It went well. And Lee Bones has done a great job. And and I see that the foundation has done well. And I just want to say thank you to both of y'all and the foundation because, you know, I'm retired law enforcement. My son's second generation retired law enforcement. So we we understand what they go through and what y'all have done just I know it's put a smile on some faces throughout the years and thank you so much.

You're welcome. Thank you very much for that those kind words. Any other council members want to I mean just congratulations. You know you [clears throat] really got me. I would not have put this on the agenda. [laughter] I could not that you got it. That's why nobody told you. Yeah. Well, all right. Let's let's go ahead and take a quick picture. Thank you so much. Thank you. I'm speechless for boxing.

Congratulations. We got to get this picture anyway. [snorts]

Hey, Martin's gonna go first. All right. One, two, three, and a half. All right. Now, you can give me the big cheese. Pleasate appreciate all you do.

You sure? Well, before y'all scoot out, let me just say a very hearty thank you. Anybody that knows me knows I would not have put my own name on the agenda [laughter] is bringing this up if I thought I was getting any type of award, but it gives me one moment to uh to comment on the importance of law enforcement and the rule of law, which I believe in very hardly in our country, in the Constitution. Um, we had Miss Kathy here tonight. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention her husband, Steve Zobel, who was uh a great friend, Mr. Jones, I know, but uh became a friend of mine as well prior to his passing and was one of the most ardent supporters of law enforcement. So, thank you to the sheriff, other law enforcement who are here tonight and those that put their lives at risk to try to protect us in the community. I appreciate that very much. So, where you can try to support them, try to donate, try to encourage them, and try to encourage others to keep the law. Without the rule of law in our country, we are in big trouble. Amen. Amen.

All right, that concludes that [clears throat] item. That brings us to item number 9A. This is the minutes. Do we have a motion on the minutes? I'll make a motion to approve the minutes. Mr. Schumick has a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Got a second. Any discussion on the minutes for those who are present? Any discussion remotely, Mr. Brazzle? Hearing none. We'll move it to a vote for those who are present. All in favor on the minutes, raise your hand. It's unanimous for those who are present in voting. Mr. Brownzel, how do you vote on the minutes? I vote.

As a yes, it's unanimous on the minutes. Miss Hannah, for the record, gentlemen, this brings us to ordinances. We're now at uh 10A. This is a second reading regarding a resoning uh for the zoning map. First reading was January 13, 2026. Do we have a motion on 10A? Mr. Chair, I make a motion we approve second reading of the ordinance. We've got a motion. Is there a second? Yield. Mr. Kato has a second. Mr. Thomasson, anything you want to share on this one?

Um, just I guess I'll give some brief background information on it. We had first reading um last meeting January 13th and this is u reasonzoning going from RD1 to MRD1. Um, RD1 currently doesn't allow manufactured homes and they want to replace the manufactured home and then put a another manufactured home for their children on the property. So, I'm happy to support it. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Mr. Kato, you had the second. No comments. Any other comments from those who are present? Comments or questions on 10A? Seeing none, Mr. Brazzle, any comments or questions on 10A before we vote? I have a comment if I may, Mr. M. Mr. Okay, go ahead, Mr. Jones.

I just I'd like to thank this council for doing the right thing. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Jones. You're welcome. Mr. Brazzle, since I had your attention, um, how do you vote on 10A? I vote yes. That is a yes remotely from Mr. Brazzle. For those who are present, raise your hand if you're in favor on 10A. It is unanimous for those who are present in voting. Miss Hannah. 10 A passes. Second reading. Item number 10B. This is second reading on restrictions and regulations related to the use of public boat landings. Do we have a motion? I'll make the motion. Mr. Schemeck has a motion. Is there a second?

Second. Mr. Kato has a second. Mr. Schemeck, anything to share? Just for background, this ordinance we pass unanimous on first reading. This basically takes our fairly scant ordinance and cleans it up so that we can be clear about what is and isn't allowed at the bow ramp. does not impact its opening hours as Councilman Brazzle noted. Uh but this basically talks about what can and can be done at the boat ramp as we've got our new boat ramp on county property. Want to make sure people aren't out there turning into a party zone. Thank you, Mr. Shoemake. Mr. Kato, I believe Mr. Shoemake summed it up. Any other comments or questions for those who are present? Seeing none, Mr. Brazzle, any comments or questions on 10B? [clears throat]

Yes, sir. While I've got you, uh, how do you vote on 10B? Vote yes. That is a yes remotely from Mr. Brazil on 10B. For those who are present, raise your hand if you're in favor on 10B. Miss Hannah, it's unanimous. For those who are present in voting, it passes. Second reading on 10B. This takes us to item number 10 C. This is a second reading regarding regulations and the prohibition of certain distribution and sales of nitrous oxide andratum to miners in Kershaw County. First reading was on January 13, 2026. Do we have a motion on second reading? I'll make a motion. Mr. Schumick has the motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Mr. Kato has a second. Mr. Schemeck,

I'll yield to I also have a I'll yield to Councilman Ko for his amendments. Okay, we have another motion. [clears throat] Okay, chair. I u want to make the motion to amend and move that the Kershaw County Council amend the ordinance and form included in the agenda packet as labeled proposed second reading of the amendments and I can explain further if need be. I'll get a I'll second.

Okay, we got a second on the Kato amendment. Got a second. Go ahead. Okay, for a brief description, this is just simp simply put. This just amends this um through legal counsel. It just amends this saying that we're going to go by the age restriction forratom products that is listed as state law, which is the age of 21. So, it's it's very simple, cut and dried. It moves the legal age to be able to purchase [snorts] the stuff to the age of 21. All right, Mr. Sheck, you had the second. No comment. Any other comments or questions from those who are present on the Kato amendment?

Just a question. I I certainly support this. I think it's a great thing, but county government, we can't supersede state government anyway, can we? Correct. If if the state or feds preempted a field of regulation, um yeah, you can't. So, this is good cleaning. That's good cleaning up. Yeah. Correct. Correct. Originally, this had um nitrous age limit at 18 and the cratom at 18. States established at 21. said equating this up. All right. And may may I ask just for clarification? Yes, sir. This proposed second reading amendments, that is what we're voting that was just moved on. Correct.

Okay. So, gentlemen, in your packet, we've got this. Basically, there's a lot of red lines, but what those red lines do is just uniformly confirm it, conform it to the age requirement. [clears throat] Thank you, Mr. Shoemaker. All right, we're still on the K2 amendment. I think that takes care of the questions or comments from those who in person. Mr. Shoemaker, any I mean Mr. Brazzle, anything remotely? Uh only to thank uh Councilman Kato and CH for making sure this was handled in my physical absence. Thank you guys.

Thank you, Mr. Brazzle. [clears throat] We can barely hear you just so you know, but thank you, Mr. Brazzle. I I could hear the thank yous coming through on that. Um, while I have you and we do have signal, how's your vote on the U Kato amendment? I vote yes. That's a yes remotely from Mr. Brazzle on the K2 amendment. We'll vote on the K2 amendment now. All in favor on the Kato amendment, raise your hand. Gentlemen, we're at the vote. Okay, it's unanimous. Uh, for those who are voting present in person as well. So, the K2 amendment passes. Now, we'd have to vote as amended unless there are any other motions. Council Mada, do you have any other amendments? No other amendments.

All right. No other amendments. [snorts] All right. Let's get a motion to approve as amended if that's the desire of the council. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion we approve as amended. Okay. Second. Second. All right. We got a second. Any other discussion? All right. Let's move to a vote for those who are in person. Raise your hand if you're in favor. It passes unanimously for those Well, Mr. Schumick, how do you vote? Oh, sorry. It passes unanimously for those who are present in voting. Mr. Brazzle, how do you vote remotely on the um I vote? Go ahead. Second reading as amended. I vote I vote yes. Can you hear me better now?

Much better. Much better. All right. Passes on second reading. Thank you. All right. That was 10 C. This brings us to 10D. This is a second reading. [clears throat] regarding addition of uh table 33.29 and table 3-3, excuse me, section 3329 and table 3-3 uh regarding regulations for hemp dive or synthetic canabonoid products. First reading was December 9, 2025. Do we have a motion on second reading? Make a motion we approve. All right, we have a motion, Mr. Kato. Is there a second? Second. Mr. Thomasson, Mr. Kato, anything to share? Al also have a motion to amend [snorts] on this also.

Okay. I move that the Kershaw County Council amend the ordinance by accepting all planning commission recommendations labeled in the agenda packet as planning commission recommendations other than the suggested amendment 3329C allowing hemp retail establishments in a general business district B2. and that we also amend the ordinance at section HH um existing uses subsection two to remove all change of ownership. So text will will now read expansion or relocation of a non-conforming hemp retail establishment shall require compliance with all provisions and of this ordinance.

That's the motion to amend. Do we have a second on the motion to amend? I'll second the motion to amend. Mr. Schumick has a second. You've got a second. Anything else you'd like to share? Uh, no. I I can turn this over to legal counsel. He might can explain this in a little bit better terms than I can. Um, so I would ask that he just give a brief description.

Yes. Um, members of council, the planning commission uh heard this draft ordinance on January 9 for its recommendations to y'all. Those were of course included in the agenda package. Um the proposed amendments from the planning commission uh were I think uh sent to y'all to minimize some of the potential difficulties and enforcement of the ordinances originally drafted. Um many of these establishments are not standalone um smoke shops but located in gas stations and um as drafted again the administrative enforcement of this might have been difficult as it was originally envisioned with hours of operation. Um those hours of operation provisions were changed to hours of sale for these products. Um that way a gas station that is engaged in the sale of these products is not faced with a um ordinance that says you can um only operate from 7:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. Um that is more or less the long and short of it. The uh change of ownership provision was debated and discussed by planning commission as well. um didn't make it into the final motion, but does um also address a uh concern to narrowly tailor this ordinance um for those non-conforming uses that are already established. And um again, for what it's worth and by way of general background for council and the public, um there is a uh provision in um the last government funding bill, a rider um essentially that addressed these types of hemp products and the loophole in the farm act. And um unless modified by the feds, uh these uh products will be effectively outlawed and banned come this summer

anyway. Um but this is uh certainly a step to to handle these and um keep them away from underage people, unsuspecting consumers in that interim um several months that we will have before the federal legislation will go into effect. Thank you, Mr. Kato. Yeah, just to follow up on what John said, I I firmly believe that this is to protect our young people. I mean, we have several months before that hopefully takes effect and those seven seven months, six, seven months could save [clears throat] several lives. So, I I believe this is a very important step for this county to take. Thank you, Mr. Kato. Mr. She making

I just want to recognize Miss Mara Jones is here with the alpha center and you know I know Councilman Ko Council Brazen Miss Jones have all been instrumental in working on this issue. So I just want to recognize particularly Miss Jones and the office center and her staff for all the hard work they've done on this issue to get in front of it and just again thank every one of you guys for your work on this. Thank you Mr. Shoemaker. Uh council members who are present any other comments? Mr. Chairman, I have one quick question. If the overall goal of this is to prevent access to to our youth, right, why are we only pushing back 500 ft from a church, from a school, from playground and park? Is that

So those distances are are certainly matters of policy and um matters for um

Kershaw County Council to consider. uh if the 500's been utilized and is often utilized in zoning ordinances um as a separation distance, but I've also seen a,000 ft. Um I think in any zoning ordinance um there's a balance in um narrowly tailoring tailoring it to achieve the stated goals. But again, that's a a policy um call for y'all that I think there's certainly discretion there for council and um certainly make myself available to discuss it um if it needs further discussion outside of tonight or an executive session or again um if it were the will of council um could certainly um move to amend that as well or move it on third reading. Yeah, I'd like to for council to look into seeing possibly pushing that even further back because that would be from say this is a school from here to the law firm, you know, or or the corner. That's not that far and we're not eliminating access to that.

You can make an amendment third reading. That'd be good. Yeah, I support you. We'll look at that in third reading. Thank you, Mr. Thomasson. Mr. Jones, before we go remote?

Yes, if if I may. Um, I'd also like to just just thank uh Leon Proer, the chairman of the Alpha Center board, and Steve Lee is here, his pastor. I hope him and my wife still like each other because they sitting far apart tonight. But uh but anyway, uh I'd like to just make sure pastor, we appreciate your hard work into this. And we also appreciate uh Chairman Proer, his hard work in as well, too, along with my colleagues up here on County Council, Danny, Derek, and and and what's his name? He's He's in Disneyland tonight. [laughter] My brother, he's laughing. I'm I'm in my truck.

Okay. Anyway, it's good to hear your voice. But anyway, thank you so much. Appreciate y'all being here and appreciate hard work on this and I look forward to the amendment, too. That was very good catching that. Um, Councilman, thank you, Mr. Jones. So, Mr. Mr. Chairman, thank you so much. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Uh, we're still on the K2 amendment. Mr. Brazzle, anything on the K2 amendment before we vote? No, I support it. It's a yes from me.

We will take that as a yes vote remotely on the Kato amendment. For those who are present, how do you vote on the K2 amendment? All in favor, raise your hand. It's unanimous. It passes for those who are present in voting. That brings us back to the pending motion and second we have on passing as is on second reading. Any other discussion needed for those who are present? Any other discussion needed, Mr. Brazzle, remotely on voting as amended? Seeing none, no sir, I can support it. All right, Mr. Mr. Brazel, we're going to take that as a yes vote remotely. Is that okay? Yes. Supported as amended.

All right. And then uh let's move to a vote for those who are present on voting as amended. All in favor, raise your hand. It's unanimous hand and passes. Uh second reading as amended. That's on 10D. That moves us on gentlemen to item number 10E. Third reading. This is a reasonzoning related to property approximately 4.18 acres at 209 Bullwware Road. We had first and second reading. The most recent reading being January 13, 2026. Do we have a motion on third reading? I'll move that we adopt it. Mr. Shoe has the motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Mr. Kato has a second. Mr. Shoemake. Any discussion?

Just by way of background, I see Mr. Wells is here, but hopefully we don't have any questions. This is the property we've had in front of us a couple times and had questions with Mr. Wells. This is basically a down zoning and they're just zoning a piece of multiple parcels so that they can do something with it so that it's not sort of patchwork but it's actually a down zoning. So they're actually putting more restrictions on themselves and thank Mr. Wells for coming. He's been at every reading and obviously used to sit up here on on uh this dis and again always thank Mr. Wells for his service. By the way, when I was in high school um I had a little political club and Mr. Wells delivered a letter from the governor and read it to the school in our political club. So, uh, I thought that was big stuff. So, I always appreciated that. He's smiling a lot more back there than we are up here.

He He [laughter] Well, let me tell you, the 12 years I was with him, he didn't smile a whole lot. I tell you what, he was one of He was one of the finest council members we've had on 10 third reading. Any other comments or questions for those who are present? Any other discussion? Seeing none, Mr. Brazzle, do you have any comments or questions or discussion? And if none, how do you vote on 10?

I vote yes. That's a yes remotely for Mr. Brazzle on 10E. Let's move it to a vote for those who are present. All in favor raise your hand on 10E. Third reading and it passes unanimously. Those who are present voting Miss Hannah passed on 30 ring. Thank you very much John. And the last ordinance we have tonight 10F. This is uh third reading regarding regulations for operation of golf carts within uh Kershaw County. Uh, we've had a couple council members very interested in golf cart regulation. We've had first and second reading, most recent being on January 13. [clears throat] Do we have a motion on third reading? Mr. Chair, I make a motion. We has a motion. Is there a [clears throat] second?

Second. Mr. Jones has a second. Mr. Tomlinson. I think we've had enough discussion on this. Um, just to kind of highlight, all this does is just change the state law that was passed last year to allow golf operations after dark in Kershaw County as long as it abides by the state law. So, thank you, Mr. Thompson. Mr. Jones, you had the second. Yeah, I think it he said he said it all. Just makes good common sense to do this. And thank you to the Williams family. They they they've helped and been very supportive on this. Appreciate it so much. I I actually wouldn't have got on it if it had have been for you. So, thank you.

He would have, right? [laughter] Thanks so much for being here tonight. Okay. Uh Mr. Brazzle, any comments or questions or discussion remotely? No. All set. How do you vote on 10F third reading?

If you could say it again, we lost you there for a moment. Do you vote yes or no on 10F? Yes, I support it. Yes, that's a yes. I'll take that as a yes. Uh remotely from Mr. Brazle, Miss Hannah. And for those who are present, raise your hand if you're in favor on 10F. Third reading is unanimous in favor and passes. Third reading, Miss Hannah, for the record. Good job. All right, that takes us to appointments. I make a motion that we reappoint to fill a um a holdover position at large appointment of Shannon West to seat number nine. This is for the Kersaw Health District. Is there a second? I'll second.

Thank you for the second. Um we got the floor for a moment. I just want to say Shannon, as I understand it, his experience in healthcare and his background has been essential and vital for some of the achievements that the health district has made recently and on what they plan on doing in the future. They have developed quite the product over there for uh those who are aging or can we say pre-aging, is that a thing? Um but need particular type of care in Kershaw County that that wasn't necessarily there before. They've done a really good job and they have uh plans to expand their offerings throughout Kershaw County and I know Shannon has done a good job. So that's why I've got the motion to reappoint Shannon. Reappoint Shannon, [clears throat] excuse me. Is there any other comments for discussion on the reappoint? Mr. Browzel, anything remotely

hearing? None. Uh we'll move it to a vote for those who are present in case Mr. We lost Mr. Brazil for a second on the reappointment of Shannon West. If you vote in favor, raise your hand. It's unanimous. For those who are present in voting, Mr. Brazzle, do we have you? I think we may have lost him. Miss Hannah, uh, if you just note for the record, we didn't have him participate on this particular vote, but it did pass unanimously. For those who are present in voting, he said he's gone. Oh, he's gone. Okay. All right. Next up, council member briefings. Mr. Kato.

Uh, just one quick thing. I I want to thank Danny and and his entire staff um for the job they did during this ice. Um, I think we made the right move for Monday morning and I and a lot of the businesses and churches and stuff on Sunday for for doing the right thing, keeping the the traffic down. But thanks for the updates and for the hard work that y'all put forth in this storm. Looks like you're going to get another shot at it this weekend, too. So, but uh thank you for the hard work. I do appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. K. Mr. Tomlinson.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, we were blessed in Kershaw County there. A lot of the upstate had a lot bigger issues with the ice uh than we did. So, thank God for sparing us. Uh, we did have a few power outages, but our county staff did a wonderful job. Thank you, Danny. And one quick announcement. So, my appointee that I put in place for the planning commission back in December, um, he reached out and he got a job offer back at his home in North Carolina and he made a decision for the best for him and his family to move back. So, my planning commission appointment will be opening back up. Um, I know that there's a few people who want applications open, so I plan to have that on the February agenda. So, that's all I have, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Thomas and Miss Hannah, if you please note that for the February agenda. Mr. Jones.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, members of county council. I uh just very quickly, briefly say, Danny, it's good to have you back. We know you've been through a lot and you've got a great staff as well, too. And thank y'all. But good to see you back, buddy. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Mr. Sheum.

Yep. Two brief things. I just want to thank the sheriff's office uh the foundation for presenting and just [clears throat] got uh just saw that was just posted for those of you who are live in or near Elgen. You've may have read about this uh nail issue we've been having over there where someone we think has been putting nails all over the road and the sheriff office has just posted that there'll be a uh press conference and community meeting on tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Elgen Community Center uh to identify a suspect one in connection with those screws. So, I want to appreciate Sheriff Bone for jumping on that and Jimmy and I were at that meeting uh last week and you know, obviously they've been moving fast and now have a suspect to identify. So, that's was just announced by the sheriff's department on their social media channel. So, I wanted to put that out there. And on a a little point of personal privilege, uh this coming Tuesday at the next schoolboard meeting, uh my wife is going to be recognized for having the highest scores for her grade level in the county. Um really proud of her, the work she does.

[applause] So yeah, it's good stuff. So if she's one of the tens of thousands of people listening to this meeting, I love you, Lane, and I'm proud of you. So thank you, Mr. Shemake. Mr. Brazzle. [clears throat] Oh, he's off, correct? He didn't hop back on. Okay. Well, I don't have any report tonight, so that'll move us right on to [clears throat] the administrator's briefing. Do you have anything for us, Danny? No, sir. Just uh thank you all for everything, and it's good to be back. Yes, sir. Good to have you back. [clears throat] Mr. Bose. Is any non-privileged legal briefing needed? No.

We do have one item, gentlemen, for executive session. For the public's benefit, no vote is anticipated. This would be under attorney client privilege related regulations SC code 30-4-7A2 related to a uh pending or potential legal matter and attorney client advice. Do we have a motion for executive session? Make a motion. Go to executive session. Mr. Kato, do we have a second? Second, Mr. Thomasson, we have a second. All in favor of going into executive session, raise your hand. It's unanimous. We are in executive session.

Is there a motion? I guess I guess the sheriff's department doesn't see you as a threat, Martin. They just went Is there a motion? Motion to exit executive session? I'll make a motion. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Second. Any discussion on exiting executive session? Seeing none, all in favor, raise your hand in favor. It passes. We are out of executive session. Seeing no other business before the county motion to adjurnn. Can we get one? So moved. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. We got a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of adjournment, raise your hand. It's unanimous by those present voting. Miss Hannah, thank you so much. We are ajourned.