County Council Committees - Regular Meeting

I would like to advise the audience about a live video. All Lake City County committees are being broadcast live on the Lake City County spectrum channel 1302 and Lake City County website meeting forum. The committee meeting today will be available for viewing anytime on demand at our county website. I would remind everyone to speak loud and clear and after each motion, please confirm who made the motion in the second and open the floor for discussion and then call for the vote. All right. First up is economic development, and that is our director, Derek Dragondo. I'm going to that. She's in charge. I would seek a motion to approve the May 12, 2026 meeting minutes. All right, I have a motion by Councilman Cullum and a second by Councilman Brigham. Any comment or question? All in favor? Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Next up, I would seek the approval of the April of the May 26, 2026 meeting minutes.

Madam Chair, I move to approve. Second.

I have a motion by Councilman Cullum and a second by Larry Brigham. Any comment or question? All in favor? Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Next up, we have one executive session item for contract negotiation. So I would move that we approve to go into an executive session for a contract negotiation pursuant to South Carolina Code Section 30-4-78-2. I made the motion. We have a second. All in favor? Anyone opposed? And we should be about 15 minutes. Thank you. All right, we're coming out of executive session with no votes to be taken, and we are adjourned.

Okay, planning is now in session, and I would like to call for a motion to approve the May 26, May 26, 2026 meeting minutes.

Move to approve.

I have a motion by both. A second by anybody?

I'll second.

Thank you. Daryl? All in favor? All right. Motion passes. Next up, we have Mr. Walt McPherson, Zoning Map Amendment Number M2602. Tell us all about it, sir.

Okay.

We have Juanita Wright and John Cantwell are the owners of Juanita Enterprises LLC. Can you make that larger? Sure. Yep, that might help. How's that? Does that work?

That's better.

Good, sorry. Juanita Wright and John Cantwell are owners of Juanita Enterprises LLC. Ms. Wright and Mr. Cantwell own property on Bush River Road, identified by parcel numbers 002798-02. 013, 015, and 016, and wish to develop these parcels for RV and boat storage. The current zoning classification is C1, neighborhood commercial, which does not allow vehicle parking activity, which will be, this is what we'll classify in the zoning ordinance as. And this request is to change the zoning classification to C2, general commercial. This is in Council District 7, represented by Ms. Kerrig. AND STAFF REQUESTS COUNCIL TO CONSIDER AND IF APPROVED, PLEASE MOVE FORWARD TO FIRST READING AT OUR SEPTEMBER 26 COUNCIL MEETING. I'VE GOT A COUPLE OF SLIDES HERE. THERE'S THE THREE PARCELS TOTALING BETWEEN FIVE AND A HALF AND SIX ACRES. IT'S RIGHT PAST THE PREVIOUS FUR LINE THAT'S BEEN REMOVED THERE ON BUSH RIVER ROAD. YOU SEE THE C1 CLASSIFICATION. And a 2025 arrow shows the parcels unimproved. And this is the proposed layout for the Bowdoin RV parking.

Do we need to vote on this? Yes.

Yes, ma'am.

Right now? Okay. Well, I move that we approve Ordinance 2612, a zoning map amendment M2602. Second.

Okay.

I have a question before we do.

No, go ahead.

All right, before you all vote. I had a complaint, I think I reported to you on 378, where we have one of these book storages in my district that is five high stacked, five storage. And it clogs the view of the lake, and people don't like that. So my question is, I don't know if this would block the view of the lake or block the view of anything. Not on the lake. How high is it?

This is all surface storage. I got it from the applicant, yeah. This guy thinks it's going to be just graveled. I mean, obviously, if approved, they'll have to go through our regular permitting procedures. SCDOT has approved the access, land development, landscape zoning, obviously, but it's all surface parking. Okay.

Go up?

Horizons, I'm aware of.

Okay. Let's check it.

Yeah. But I don't think they really have any buildings here. I think it's just going to be all just probably gated, security gate, and just gravel parking.

Is this store open or closed, Larry? Open.

It's open and it's open. Just a frame. It's just a really awful frame.

Right there near the double bridges. Yes.

Exactly. It's awful.

There's a closed one over there, the old, what used to be Putnam's. Putnam's. This is closed.

Yes. Yeah.

All right, that was the, unless you had a question.

No, I don't have any questions other than to review the process. It gets approved today for first reading. Signs get placed. Public hearing, public will be notified, all the things.

Three readings, public hearing, and it'll go to planning commission as well.

I have a motion by Ms. Kerrig, a second by Todd Cockrell. Any other discussion? All in favor? Okay. Any opposed? Motion passes. That is it for planning.

All right. Call to order the administration committee looking for approval of the May 26, 2026 meeting minutes. Approved May 26, 2026 meeting minutes.

Seconded. Motion to approve by Vice Chairman Cockrell.

Second by Councilman Fisher. Any additions, deletions, questions? All those in favor? Anybody opposed? Motion passes and we're adjourned.

All right. Call to order Health and Human Services. We also have approval of meeting minutes May 26, 26. Seek approval. Second. I have a motion by Councilwoman Wessinger and a second by Councilman Bishop. Any additions, deletions, corrections? All in favor? All opposed? Motion passes. We are adjourned.

All right. We'll call the Justice Committee to order. And I would move that we approve the May 26, 2026 meeting minutes.

I'm second. I make a motion.

Chairman made the second. Any comment or question? All in favor? Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Next up is Captain David Day. Hey, David.

For you.

This is seeking the approval to accept the fiscal year 25 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Award.

Yes, ma'am. Mason County has received $58,170 from the FY25 Edward Byrne Memorial JAG Program. The Sheriff's Department and the Magistrate's Court Administration asked that council allow us to accept the funding. If approved, the funding would be allocated as following. $6,980 to the Magistrate's Court to purchase audio-visual equipment and a walk-through metal detector. $44,791 to the Sheriff's Department to purchase 50 jail radios and one ruggedized laptop, and $6,399 to Sister Care as partial reimbursement for counseling services. Excuse me. This grant does not require matching funds or any conditions at the end of the grant, and a public hearing has already taken place on April 14th.

Anybody have any questions?

Make a motion to approve Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistant Grant. Second.

All right. I have a motion and a second. Any further comment or question? All in favor? Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Thank you, David. Have a good day. We're adjourned.

All right. I'm going to open up the Public Works and Solid Waste Management. First, I'm seeking approval on the May 12th, 2006 meeting minutes. Move to approve those minutes. All right. Move to approve by Michael Bishop. Second. Second by Cliff Fisher. Any questions? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. I'm looking for approval of the May 26th, 2026 meeting minutes. Move to approve. Moved by Bishop. Second. Second by Clifford. All in favor?

Any opposed?

Motion approves. And this discussion we're going to put off is on the possible policy of traffic calming devices.

There's some more information we're looking on this that we want to bring back to council, so we asked that it be moved at least to the September 8th meeting.

We'll bring it back at that point. We're going to look at that more, so we're going to move that off until September, and that will be it for Public Works and Solid Waste. We're adjourned.

Before we get rolling, does anybody need a second or short break, or do we keep rolling? Got it? Okay. Committee of the Whole is now open. And I think, can I do all these meetings at one time, Jeff? I'm looking. He said yes. From May 5th, May 12th, May 26th of 2026. Move to approve May 5th, May 12th, May 26th, 2026 meeting minutes. I have a motion by Mr. Bishop and a second by Mr. Fisher. Any discussion? All in favor? All opposed? Passed. Hey. Good afternoon. Yeah, good afternoon. Approval of contract extension 2025IFB08, security services for the Irmo Library Branch. Yes, sir. That's the stat.

Yes, sir. Procurement and the library services are requesting an additional one-year extension for the security services for the Irmo Library Branch contract with Chief Services and Security Solutions. County Council initially approved this contract on October 22, 2024. for a period of two years with the option to extend three additional one-year periods. This contract went into effect on November 12, 2024 and currently expires November 11, 2026. We are requesting that the first extension begin November 12, 2026 through November 11, 2027. The estimated annual value of this contract is $51,707 and no issues. I have to approve.

We have a motion by Ms. Kerrig. Second. Second. My Vice Chair, any other questions before we get rolling? All in favor? All opposed? It passes. Thank you, Madison. You're going to be here for a while, it looks like. Okay. Yes, sir. Approval of contract extension 2022IFB06 waste tire recycling. Madison Stack.

Yes, sir. Procurement and solid waste management are requesting an additional one-year extension for the waste tire recycling contract with Ridge Recyclers. County Council initially approved this contract on November 1st, 2021 for a period of five years with the option to extend to additional one-year periods. This contract went into effect on November 1st, 2021 and currently expires October 31st, 2026. We are requesting that the first extension begin November 1st, 2026 through October 31st, 2027. The estimated annual value of this contract is $495,000 and no issues. Move to approve.

A motion by Ms. Kerrig. Second. Second by Mr. Bishop. Any questions? That said, all in favor? All opposed. It passes. The next one is Larry Brigham's favorite subject. Approval of Contract 2026IFB. Granular Fotulent. I said that wrong two years ago.

Yes, sir. Procurement and solid waste management are requesting an additional one-year extension for the granular-froculent 06 contract. County Council initially approved this contract on October 14, 2025, for a period of one year, with the option to extend for additional one-year periods. This contract went into effect on November 1st, 2025 and currently expires October 31st, 2026. We are requesting that the first extension begin November 1st, 2026 through October 31st, 2027. The estimated annual value of this contract is $215,000 and no issues.

I can be proud to say I'm not the only one who came close to messing that name up. Any questions? Move to approve. I have a motion. By Mr. Brigham.

What are we approving? Granulated loculant cameras.

I have a second by Vice Chair. That was fun. All in favor? All opposed. Thank you. Okay, approval of contract extension 2025 IFB 06 County Pavement Marking.

Yes, sir. Lastly, Procurement and Department of Public Works are requesting an additional one-year extension for the County Pavement Markings contract with Peak Pavement Markings. County Council initially approved this contract on September 10, 2024. for a period of one year, with the option to extend four additional one-year periods. This contract went into effect on November 1st, 2024, and currently expires October 31st, 2026. We are requesting that the second extension begin November 1st, 2026, through October 31st, 2027. The estimated annual value of this contract is $75,000, and no issues. Okay.

I have a motion by Ms. Kerrig and a second by Mr. Bishop. Any questions? With that said, call for the vote. 100%. All approved.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madison. I appreciate it. Excuse me. We appreciate it. Approval of resolution to name Lexington County Fire Station 34 in honor of firefighter Jeffrey Baden Chavis. If you have not seen this fire station, it's incredible.

With that said, Chief Minnick is here. Good afternoon, Council. Thank you for having me today. We're very excited to come to a conclusion of Station 34 and, again, on the Agenda 35, but we are respectfully seeking your approval to name Station 34 on North Lake Drive after firefighter Jeffrey V. Chavis, who died in the line of duty July 2001. Move to approve.

Second.

By the way, the name looks absolutely fabulous on the building.

It really does. We keep that a secret. And I talked to Ms. Linda and Mr. Vaden multiple times. They called that a God's wink that Jeff wanted everybody to know that's his station. And so we just gave up on keeping that a secret. But we think this is an appropriate way to honor this family. It's really great. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

We have a motion by Beth, who was second? Right here. And Vice Chair made the second. Any questions? All in favor? All opposed, 100%. Thank you. Second, approval of resolution to name Lexington County Fire Station 35, if y'all haven't seen it yet, it is unbelievable, in honor of Firefighter Jeffrey, excuse me, in honor of Paul Edwin Qualabam, Jr.,

Same thing. Station 35 was a unique opportunity for us in our history to build two new fire stations at one time, and having two line of duty deaths in the history of our fire service, it was appropriate to name one after each. Station 35, which is the west region, in conjunction with EMS, the sheriff, and the magistrate's office on that complex will be named after engineer Paul Edwin Quattlebaum Jr., who died in the line of duty October of 2019.

If you haven't seen it, it's a great looking station. I think it's the largest one in Lexington County, if I'm not mistaken.

The ribbon cutting is Thursday morning at 9 a.m. Hope you all can attend.

A motion by Mr. Conwell, a second by, I'm going to start over. Okay. If you don't mind, Mr. Conwell, can we start over? Would you like to make a motion? I have a motion by Mr. Brigham, second by Mr. Conwell. All in favor? All opposed? It is unanimous. Thank you. We'll see you on Thursday. Thank you, sir. Approval of resolution honoring Tim James. I'm just kidding.

I love Tim. Tim asked to be voted on.

That sounds like Tim.

Tim did.

That makes sense. Oh, actually, I asked to be voted on.

If you'd like to.

I don't know what to say.

I'm looking for a motion or a movement. I move to approve the resolution to honor Tim James.

Second. There you go. We have a motion by the Vice Chair and a second by Mr. Bishop. All in favor? All opposed? Passes unanimously. Approval of letter of support for dining on the dam.

As usual... We want to bring the council looking for support for the dining on the dam for 2027. The date has been selected as Sunday, April 11, 2027, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. As customary, we write a note to SDOT seeking their approval. And I would ask for your support that we send this to DOT for their approval to move forward with this.

Any discussion?

I move to approve the support dining on the dam.

about a motion by the Vice Chair and a second by Mr. Cullum. And no questions. All in favor? It is unanimous. Thank you. Approval of Ordinance 2613, an ordinance awarding a contract for residential curbside service to Capital Waste Services for Franchises Area 1. With us today is Lee McIntyre.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Procurement and Solid Waste Management... solicited proposals for servicing the residents in Franchise Area 1, which is the Chafin area. Ordinance 2613 would establish the franchise agreement between the county and Capital Waste Services. Capital Waste Services is the current vendor in that area. and they were the only vendor to respond to the proposal. The current rate is $30.78 per month. The new rate will be $31.70 per month, so it's a $0.92 per month increase for the service. So for the public.

No, it's going up 90-something cents, Charlie, it sounds like. And we send out for RFP to how many vendors?

I don't have that information, but I believe it was a couple hundred. Anybody in the ion wave system that has hauling by their name, it sends them an automatic email. I do know there were 10 or 15 vendors that opened the bid and looked at it, but we only had one response.

I think a dollar increase is pretty reasonable.

Yeah, I'm just letting the public know that we have some trash issues that people talk about all the time. We have no competition bidding on them. That's the point I'm trying to make, but thank you. All right, with that said, I am seeking a motion.

Move to approve Ordinance 26-13, an ordinance awarding a contract for residential curbside at Capital Waste Services for Franchise Area 1.

I have a motion by Ms. Kerrig. Second. Second by Vice Chair. Any other discussion? All in favor? All opposed? It passes. Thank you, Lee. This could take a while. The next two should probably take a while. We've got plenty of time.

I was just thinking to myself, gosh, I can run out and vote.

Well, you might be able to. Depends on what happens next year. I'm going to take a 10-minute recess. We'll be back in 10 minutes.

Alright. Alright.

We are, we're back. Okay. Bobby Derrick's here to discuss the March 10th, 2020 Council Strategic Planning Session update and the next levels that we need to go to. First of all, I want to make sure that y'all want to continue. We spent that whole day planning on what we wanted to do in our district. Do you want to continue?

Absolutely.

Yes?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay, very good. That's what I thought. Okay, go ahead. And the purpose of the agenda item today is an update to council and the public on where we're at with action items from the March 10th strategic retreat. Council directed staff to look at some amendments to the zoning ordinance, specifically creating separate articles and overlays. to identify future growth areas within the county, as well as amendments to the Land Development Manual regarding potential special watershed protection and other design features regarding roads and sidewalks, as well as amendments to the Landscape and Open Space Ordinance with such road corridor buffers, potential open space mitigation, trophy tree protection, etc. Per discussion from council and direction from council, staff has provided all members of council the draft text highlighting all these proposed changes to the zoning ordinance, landscape and open space ordinance, and the land development manual. One area in the Land Development Manual we have not updated yet is specific to road design standards and sidewalks. Staff from playing in GIS, administration, public works, and community development have some meetings set up this month to gain some insight on how other jurisdictions are handling especially the issues with sidewalks and sidewalk maintenance. So that will be some future language we'll have in the Land Development Manual. The goal for this is, again, to simply update council on where we're at, update the public on where we're at. As we have in the past with the discussions within the pod ears that were created, what I would envision is each pod meet, discuss the proposed text. That same spokesperson meet with Administrator Sturkey and I and make sure we're all on the same page and bring back the draft text in public in the September meeting. Of course, these have to go through three readings, a public hearing, and planning commission review. The land development manual regulations have to go through the Stormwater Advisory Board. If timing is an issue, we can always have special call swap meetings for that. The difference is landscape... Zoning has a 15-day public hearing window, a notice requirement. Land development is a 30-day public hearing notice requirement. But, again, I think we've touched on all the action items that were brought to us by the three residential growth areas. And, again, encouraging you all to review and seek any type of questions or clarity you have from staff once you'll have an opportunity to review.

Has anybody had an opportunity to – I had mine printed. It's very big.

um it's very large you may not want to do that i'm old school um if you need a copy we're more than happy to print it on the email i sent on july 28th i gave you kind of a table of contents on where you can find all the proposed changes so it's a quick reference tab where you can find everything so i guess that's my job to get on the phone with uh

Beth and I are in one. Charlie, you and Larry are in one. And then the rest of you guys are in one. So you need to, I guess, schedule a time. Point person. I'll be the point person with Beth. I guess you need to be the point person with your group. Larry, you and Beth. I mean, you and Charlie need to find a time to sit down.

Or we can just meet with the group. You know what I'm saying? We can do a team's meeting or something.

A team's meeting of some sort. Is that a problem? You think you can do that? All right. That's what we'll do. How long do you think you'll have your study done on the other stuff you're looking at, the sidewalks and all that?

I don't know. We have not gotten the meeting arranged yet. I'll get with having meetings set up with Len and Michael and more, and if I get some clarity on that, I'll update you on that. We'll get Len that information, let him know.

We'd appreciate it very much. Okay.

Can I ask one question before we do this? Sure you can. I've reviewed it. I didn't break it line by line. Is there a way y'all can take all the commonality from all three? Where there's uniformity, so there's not duplication? Yes.

I mean... That's a good idea.

Out of all three, how they... We had a lot of commonality. So in an effort maybe to eliminate some confusion, if you bring all the commonality with all three of them served, there's no changes between all three. And then that way I think people would understand in each one of your, you call them the pods.

Pods is what I, my name I came up with.

That each specific one may have a design criteria or setback criteria. I'm just thinking about people having to use it, follow it every day, which takes up a tremendous amount of your and staff time, right? I would just personally like to know that, well, pod A and B only differ because of these three or five or whatever they are matters. We can run some scenarios. We can do the commonality of it. If there's going to be changes that are uniform with all three, that we can identify that too.

I think three of them off the top of my head, I know the commonality, four dwelling units per acre is the maximum countywide. That's the worst case scenario. The road corridor buffers, which all three pods wanted, are now 50 feet for new residential subdivisions along all roads. And the traffic impact studies, traffic impact analysis will be countywide. So those are three common ones that I know off the top of my head.

What comes to my mind is the subdivision aspects of it is that we've talked a little bit about connectivity. to apply some commercial features maybe into a residential feature, again, to redistribute some of the traffic rather than everything.

I think we're looking, we've actually had a recent stakeholder meeting with our transportation improvement plan. We had a real good meeting with our consultant on some design options that hopefully we can incorporate with some of this as well.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. We had a kind of summer lull here, and I want to respect you guys' vacation, but it's time to put the pedal back to the metal.

I apologize for the time it took. It was a lot of the zoning aspect that we had to basically build inside out, so it took some time to kind of put all those pieces together. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Okay, guys, we're going to be in executive session a while. We've got five or six subjects, Glenn. Yep. So I need a motion to go into executive session.

I move that we go into executive session.

I don't know. Let's see here. Yeah.

To add front page. I move that we go into executive session for a legal briefing on matters protected by attorney-client privilege for a zoning matter pending in potential litigation and contract negotiations pursuant to South Carolina Code Section 30-4-78-2.

Thank you very much. We have a motion? Second. And a second by Mr. Cullum. All in favor? All opposed? We will be in, I'm going to say, for an hour and a half. Maybe less. And if we're less, we'll disperse so they'll know, and then Beth can go back. So, guys, I hope it didn't take as long as I thought it would. We come out of executive session with one vote to be taken. I move Lexington County join the litigation in regard to the ultra-processed foods subject to the approval of the attorney fees agreement with outside attorneys, and it costs the county nothing to move forward. Up front. That is my motion. Motion to approve. I move to approve. I have a second. Ms. Conwell. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Passes. With all that said, it is 4 o'clock. We'll see you at 4.30, and we are adjourned.