City Council - Regular Meeting

Councilman Thomas here. Mayor, you have a quorum. Okay. I need a motion to move into executive session. Um, we have two items to discuss. Item A is a legal briefing regarding the annexation and zoning designation on Buffkin Road. Item B is a discussion regarding a potential transfer of city property to North Strand Helping Hand. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. A motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. We'll move into executive session and resume our meeting after that. What

We're missing one council member. We'll get started here in just a second. The council met in executive session and no votes were taken. We'll move into invocation. And Reverend Tony Adams with Little River Methodist Church, are you here tonight? Thank you. Good afternoon. Let us pray. Gracious Father, as we gather here in the council chambers, we see in bold words, "In God we trust. In you, oh Lord, we place our trust. We trust you and we're called to trust one another. In this time of invocation tonight, we pray that you would enable us to do all the good that we can. Standing here as a United Methodist pastor, I pray these words from John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement back in the 1700s in England. He said, "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." So tonight we pray for this council, for the city council of North Myrtle Beach. We pray for Mayor Jay Balden, for Councilwoman Jerry McCumbi, for Councilwoman Bubba Collins, for Councilwoman Fred Coin, for Councilwoman Trey Skidmore, for Councilman Hank Thomas.

And we pray too for this vacant spot that is here before us tonight. We pray for this special election on February the 24 February 24th to fill the Crescent Beach seat. We pray tonight, Lord, for all the government that we have in our nation all the way from the top from the president all the way down tonight to our mayor. We're thankful for celebrations and we're thankful even that we're able to pray for frustrations. We know Lord that right now we live in a time of division. But we know Lord that through Jesus Christ the great unifier that we can have unity in our community that can be that we can be one with you and with one another. We pray for integrity and we pray for transparency of all of our government and of residents and citizens. We pray that we'd be supportive, but also at times, faithful, challenging. St. Francis of Aisi prayed a prayer and it's known as the peace prayer. It talks about unity. It talks about reconciliation. It talks about empathy and it talks about self-giving and faith. It highlights overcoming hatred, Lord, and injury and darkness with love, pardon, and light. And many of us in this room tonight, we've probably heard this prayer. We've prayed this prayer.

But we hear it again tonight and we pray it. Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us so love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. Oh divine master grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand. To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Oh Lord our God, we give you thanks once again for the opportunity to gather as a community, to gather for support and for challenge, together as a community of North Myrtle Beach. Be glorified in this meeting tonight. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.

Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. 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. Moving to uh item two, minutes. So, do I have a motion to approve the minutes from the city council meeting Monday, January 5th, 2026? So, moved. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I.

Eyes have it. We'll move into communications. Um employee of the month awards and our city manager, Ryan Fabry, will give those. Thanks, Mayor. Uh, we are going to, uh, present both December and, um, and January. So, I'm going to ask that Chief Croll come up and present the first one. Got it. Yeah, I think so. So, for December, uh, one of our, uh, police officers was selected as the employee of the month, and that is officer, uh, Joe Kester. Um, Joe, come on up, Joe, so everybody can everybody can see you. Don't be shy. Yeah.

Uh, Joe is one of our police K9 handlers. He hand he handles a K9 Mac, which is one of our explosive and um bomb K9s. Actually, our only one. And uh he is kind of a jack of all trades. He does a little bit of everything. You may see him out front in front of a for city council meetings. You may see him teaching a citizens academy. You may see him out on on Main Street with his K-9. Um he just does a little bit of everything. But one of the the biggest things that he does for us is he helps to organize and run our junior K9 program. That is a program that we started a couple of years ago within five different schools. And uh they choose us they select a different child from each school every month. And the the educators have told us that since we started this program and and he was a founding member of starting this program that the children's behavior in the schools have has significantly increased because the kids want to be a part of this program and they want to be selected by their teachers. So their behavior, their grades, their attendance, um not bullying, being good neighbors, being good friends has significantly increased. So and he is the he's the instrument for making this program work every single month. It's a lot of work, a lot of contacting the the schools, arranging it, organizing it, and without him, we wouldn't be able to make it work. So, he is certainly uh deserving of this, and he is an intricate member of our department, and uh we are lucky to have him as one of our police officers. So, There you go. Appreciate you. Thank you, bud.

Okay. And uh Jim Wood, the uh planning and development uh department head is not with us. He's in uh he's on vacation for extended period of time. So I will fill in and uh this employee of the month award goes to uh Suzanne Pritchard who is our assistant planning and uh development director. And so I can only speak on behalf of my own experience with Suzanne which is uh you know I'm only as successful as the people that I rely on daily which is mostly our department heads and assistant department heads. Um, and rarely a day goes by where I do not uh have to either stop by Suzanne's office or call her or email her because she has such a wealth of knowledge of everything it takes to um to operate in the city. So, um I am so grateful for for having her on my team and having her as somebody that I can rely on to to make sure I can do my job to the best of my ability. Um that being said, it goes above and beyond that even. I mean like she's that kind of person who um you know you ask somebody a question and I'm just really just expecting like uh you know one or two word answer and she goes above and beyond all the time. She'll give me not just like a huge paragraph about exactly what the answer is but then she'll elaborate further tell me but you better worry about this that and whatever based on whatever uh whatever solution we come with up with. So, I am I am so grateful, like I said, to to have her on my team. And uh I did not nominate you, so I I I wish I would have, but that just goes to show that there are other people within the city who feel the same way that I do. So, um very welld deserved. So, thank you.

All right, I'll let you do all. Thank you. I'll get it. So, Jim isn't here tonight, and I'm kind of selfishly glad because I get to tell Elton how much he means to us and our team here. Um, this isn't for any one single thing that he's done. Uh, this is for who he is as a person and how he shows up for our department every day. I'll go ahead and give you He's the friendliest person here at city hall. He always greets everyone with a smile and a wave. He goes out of his way to help everyone who needs any help immediately. Zero hesitation. Um he does a lot of heavy lifting around here and uh literally he does. And um he's always looking for other ways to pitch in. He has um to deal with diff delivering difficult news sometimes or explaining hard topics. and he does it with the utmost uh kindness and care to everyone. He um always makes sure that people feel heard about their concerns and that they don't walk away not understanding what's going on with their property. And then also he's great at diffusing tension if the situation ever gets elevated. He um his very presence is calming to people. He also has great intuition. Um he flags small things before they become big problems and he's always paying attention here at city hall around the community with our customers and internally with our department. He's really just the best. He's um a rock that we depend on every day and um we thank him and appreciate so much everything he does. Thank you.

Okay. Item B on our communications department monthly reports for December 2025 and January 2026 are available online. We'll move into item four, announcements by mayor and council. Are there any announcements by council? I do have one. Um I know as a council we have discussed this a lot about wanting to get our agenda packets earlier and I know there's going to have to be some ordinance changes to do that. But I would like to ask staff if the rest of council is for that to start working on getting our agendas a little earlier and whatever kind of changes that we need to make. That's all I got.

I got you. Look, I think that would be important. And I think it would be helpful to the public too to have it that would require basically applicants that are applying to apply earlier. Um so that staff would have time to put it together. And uh if y'all could work on that, that'd be great. Any other announcements by council? I have one. Oh, sorry. Go ahead, Jerry.

I have one. I'd like to say thank you to the fire department, the police department for their awards ceremonies um the past two weekends. They were amazing. The quality of staff that we have protecting our city is topnotch. Um, I was so impressed to see the videos that they showed and the life-saving skills that they performed and the lives that they actually saved in our city. It was wonderful. Thank you so much.

Mayor, I do have one uh more a question of staff. You know, we got in and council. We have a lot you a lot of people sometimes get frustrated because they don't know what's going on in the city and they can't find anything and how do we know about that and I don't know if it would be appropriate that at some point in time our it at one of our council meetings takes five minutes since this is now broadcast and the and residents could see okay this is the way you access this material this is the way you go to our website you want to know about council meetings it's over here you want to go this to go that it wouldn't take that long and uh I think it may be beneficial. And then my second question is how much history do we have on that on that? Like in other words, if I got financial reports or um zoning board of appeals and I want to see what somebody did uh last year September 14th, do we keep that history that you could find it on that site? Yeah, I mean if you go to if you go to the agendas and minutes section and we have for the last at least available for I think 2021 um where you can go back and look at any of the agendas the minutes

um you know now the the the live streams that are recorded so any meeting like this meeting will be placed online uh and someone 5 years from now can go back and look at it and see exactly what you said word for word. Um and stuff available prior to 21 is available as well, but that would have to be through a foyer request just because of we changed the way in which we um we put that out to the public. Um but yeah, all all of that is is available and readily available to the public in terms of um I mean I'll get with it. We could certainly put something together to educate the public on in terms of how and where you find certain information because it's it isn't terribly hard to find, but I get it. you're not familiar with our website, it might be a little overwhelming given all the uh all the information that's available. So, we'll be happy to do that.

Okay. Now, I don't I don't know if this is the right form for that, but it sounds like it if it didn't take too much time, I think it would be good because a lot of people if they want to, like I say, they could instead of having to go to a for request, they could just go online. Okay, I want to see what they what was approved and what was took place x amount of time ago. They could go there and research it themselves and not have to burden the city with having to go dig that information up.

Yeah. I mean, I don't think there's uh there's an incorrect form for doing it. So, anything we can do to educate the public on how to find uh certain information in the long run, it's beneficial to us because we have less people coming to us asking um how do or where do I find this? Uh, Councilman Skidmore, back to your uh, request to get the agendas and the packets earlier. A lot of that is out of our control. I know um, Allison would probably have a lot to say about that. We do have uh, things that we are we've put together ordinances that would put strict deadlines in place for things that are due to us by a certain date prior to whenever the meeting is. So, uh, it would be a rigid deadline. Either you get it in or you don't. Um, and it makes it very easy for us so we don't have to say no. uh you'll probably end up getting a lot more requests from people who are upset with us for not giving them a little bit of time, but it's um I mean that's really the only way to combat it.

And I I understand that and I understand that it might put a little delay or a little you know frustration at first, but once they get used to having to have it in by a certain time, they will conform to that. It just it's it's hard when you get your package on Friday to really dig into some of this stuff. I mean, when it's not a big agenda, it's it's not that big of a deal, but when we got big items on our agenda, I just And I get there's another reading, but you still like to really dig into what you have in front of you, even on the first reading.

So, I mean, there's a difference between us getting you internally kind of a rough draft of the agenda and what's coming that we know about. We might not have all the the the relevant information quite yet that we are wanting to put out to the public, but once we put it out to the public, it is what it is. we can go back and amend it, but we don't want to we want whatever we put out to be the final version. Um, and have to be, you know, some sort of curveball for us to go back and amend it before you guys actually meet. But we unfortunately to say, okay, we can do it any quicker than I would say like Wednesday would be really, really aggressive in terms of saying, "Okay, we'll put it all out there, get it posted on the website so everyone can see it on Wednesday." But um there's a lot of weeks where we don't even know some of the things that we discuss in a in a council meeting. We don't even know until Thursday before the meeting. That's how how late some of this stuff comes. And if we are to start doing it on Wednesday, what we're really going to end up doing is, you know, penalizing you and the city by having things that we'll have to wait two more weeks or whatever the next meeting is because we're so aggressive in putting that agenda together, if that makes sense. But um but yeah, I mean we're I work for you and that's this is your meeting and this is where you handle official business. So whatever you want that to look like, we'll make it happen. I just really would hope you'd consider the the reasons why we do it. It's not like we're trying to withhold it and um and give it to you last minute. There's just a lot

doesn't normally fall on you. Most of the time it's the people that are asking to have the agenda put on our council meeting. And that's where I was saying that I feel like at first, yes, that it might be an inconvenience, but as time goes on and they get used to the way we do our process, it would fix itself. And we're on the same page there. So, as long as you guys support that, we'll be more than happy to do that. Well, even Thursday, one more day

because a lot of stuff to read and we want to be prepared. But a lot of times we're we get our packet and there's areas that are asking for annexation or something to that effect where we have to go look at it visually. So, we have to take our time and having two or three days is kind of tough and and it happens, but we make it happen and we'll make it happen no matter what, but it would be easier if we had a a couple more days.

I think there's a solution to like that type of stuff. We know well in advance like we could tell you, hey, like to publicly actually post the agenda. Like I could tell you a week and a half before, okay, this resoning or annexation request is coming before you next week. You'll have 10 days notice. That doesn't mean actually to be more of a rough draft version of it, but giving you the information as quickly as we possibly can. Either way, we're on the same page. We'll come to some sort of um come up with something and bring it to us. Thank you so much. Any you got any

Okay. Only thing one thing I would like to say is I want to thank our public safety department, our um our public works department, our recreation department, our fire department, everybody in place. We had a we had a meeting that was cancelled a couple of weeks ago cuz we had a snowstorm. Doesn't happen here very often, but it was a lot of snow and and it was amazing that people were, you know, calling me, Jay, can I travel to church? Can I, you know, can we go to church tomorrow? I had a pastor call me. My pastor said, can we open church? I'm like, look, let me reach out. But we, all of our roads were open. Um, we sorted the roads. I mean, and look, we're not really equipped to do that, but obviously we are. We did a great job. Y'all did an incredible job. Everybody, our police department, our fire department, our public works department, every department. Just thank you all so much for that. Um, we will move into consent agenda and if everybody uh is okay with this, we'll take uh all these together. Is that does anybody have an issue with that? Um, there's only everything's to do with parades and everything like that. The only one thing is uh evaluation and salary of the um city attorney which is falls into place with staff the same salary increases we have given staff. Um so item A is a resolution to approve the valuation and salary of Chris Nuri our city attorney. Um item B is a motion to approve SOS parade on April 25th 2026. Item C is a motion to approve Ocean Drive music. Ocean Tribe Ocean Drive Beach Music Festival on May 2nd, 2026. Item D is a motion to approve music on Main Concert Series, June 4th through September 24th, 2026. Item E is a motion

to approve Pink Ribbon Run on September 26, 2026. Item F is a motion to approve 9th annual Grand Strand Kite Festival October 24th through 26th, 2026. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Second. So I have a motion and a second. Is there uh any comment by council? Is there any comment by the public? I just want to thank Chris for what he does. I don't think anybody has any clue what he does for us. Yeah. We appreciate you. Is there any comment by the public hearing? None. We'll take our vote. All in favor say I.

I. All opposed. Eyes have it. We'll move into uh unfinished business. Item A is an ordinance second reading amendments to chapter 23 zoning of the code of ordinance ordinances of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina removing beach cabanas. Do I have a motion to approve? Some moved. Is there a second?

Second. So basically this is uh second reading and um we also have a second part of this but when we first started this it was not um we were not going to allow any more beach cabanas to be built on the ocean front which was fine but we there was some concerns from some of the existing cabanas if they couldn't rebuild back after that. So we fixed that and we'll add that in the next item. Are there any comments by council? Are there any comments by the public? Hearing none, we'll take our vote. All in favor say I. I.

All against. Eyes have it. We'll move into item B, which is uh ordinance second reading amendments to chapter 23 zoning of the code of ordinances of North Mortal Beach, South Carolina, adding beach cabanas to nonconforming uses allowing repair. Do I have a motion? So move. Second. Motion a second. Any comment by council? This just allows if they get destroyed more than 75% they can they can build back if if conform. If Right. Right. Right.

That's right. Yeah. If they're conforming. Yeah. They can build back. This statute won't stop the city from allowing them to build back. So existing cabanas can be there. Are there any other comments by council? Are there any comments by the public? hearing. No, we'll take our vote. All in favor say I. I. All against. Eyes have it. Item C is ordinance second reading, amendments to chapter 23, zoning of the code of ordinances of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, revising subdivision signs. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Second.

The first and a second. Is there any comment by council? Um would it be Suzanne? So this is basically keeping the same dimensions that we have, but we you could go in front of the B the the board of appeals if you wanted to do a larger sign. That's correct. Going back to that workshop we had earlier that earlier or at the end of last year, um if they were proposing a different sign or a larger sign, then they could go to BCA for that. And the sign is the actual structure

typically. Yes. Um and so that's why if you have a large architectural feature with wording on it, that would count towards the whole calculation of the sign, which is the case of what kind of spurred this amendment. Yeah. That would be kind of in the scenario where you'd have an entrance wall that sort of pulled everything together and then they then we could have their identification for that particular neighborhood on it which has a nice nice look. But BZA would then look and make sure it is fitting with the neighborhood and the character and everything.

Any other comments by council? Are there any comments by the public? hearing. None. We'll take our vote. All in favor say I. All against. Eyes have it. We'll move into item D, ordinance, second reading, amendments to chapter 12, health and sanitation of the code of ordinances of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, adding nuisance parties and impeding public passage. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Is there any comments by council?

I do. I'm sorry. Go ahead. I'd just like to take the moment to thank once again, I know we did first reading, but to thank staff. We asked as a council for help with this and y'all came through for sure, especially you, Dana. We appreciate the time you put in. As our city grows and our tourism destination gets larger, there's a lot more people coming to the beach. And I think it's important to have the tools in place for your officers to when gatherings get large to be able to break them up before they get so big we can't even manage them. And I think this is going to do a good job to help us with that. So, thank y'all.

Uh, in the, uh, ordinance on page one in section two, I think the the wording is a little bit maybe too broad because it said duty to duty to control premises. Any owner, tenant, occupant or other person with possession or control of premises who organizes, host uh, or allows permits a gathering that becomes a nuisance of this section. is in violation of this section. And I don't know that naming the owner or other persons it I'd like to see it be restricted to the people the bad actors if the people who are who have are in possession and physically staying in the property. I'd hate for an owner who's in Charlotte uh to have to get penalized for people that rented his house and they were the bad actors. And I don't think that's the intent that we're we're going after here. I just like to see it modified and just uh any tenant occupant uh with control of premises who organizes host a permiss gathering that becomes a nuisance is in violation of this section.

I think Hank I mean and the way I read it I would read that as it could be the owner hosting the party. Well, if the owner then you going to go get him too cuz he's a bad actor. So you may need to leave him in there. So, it's No, it's really No, it's the occupant. It's the person who physically occupies the property and the people that are physically there.

Uh because you could you could stretch it as far as um let's see um or other persons with possession or control. Um you know, it could be that uh the real estate company may control the property. I don't know. I don't think the intent is to go after the real estate company. Councilman, I I think that um that Councilwoman was right. That's just in inclusive. We're not trying to say and the owner. It is the person that is on the premises at the time. And it could be the owner. It could be a tenant. It could be um someone just at the party who's assumed uh control over the party. So, we're not saying that we would um address the tenant and the owner. It if the owner is the person that's throwing the party, we would address the owner. If the tenant is the person throwing the party, we would address the tenant. So,

okay. When I don't know that it quite says that. Okay. I I just think if it needs we need to clarify that the person that uh control of premises, organizes, host, allows or permits a gathering or permits a gathering that becomes a nuisance. You know, I rented the house and I kind of permitted the gathering even though I didn't know it was going to be a a gathering and they're going to raise hell. Act stupid. I'm Go ahead, Mr.

Um Well, I think you're you're on to the section um that that also says who organizes, host, allows or permits a gathering that becomes a nuisance party. So, an entity that may lease this to an individual um to use the the property for whatever purposes, that person that they rent to that allows the nuisance party, that's who the ticket's going to be issued to, not the rental company that's allowed the person to to rent the the space for the week. And that the key language is um any owner, tenant, occupant, or other person. I can't I can't hear you. Can you

um Yes. The green light's on. Should it be? Got it. All right. Uh might have to just lift that microphone up or something. Grab that. Sit down. Um All right. Duty duty to control premises. Any owner, tenant, occupant, or other person with possession or control of the premises who organiz, hosts, or allows or permits a gathering that becomes a nuisance party

is in violation of this section. So you have to look at the totality of that section, not just a part of it. So if you're an owner and you organize, host, or allow a party. If you're a tenant who organize, host, or allows or permits a gathering. If you're an occupant who organize, host, or permits or other person with possession of the or control the premises who organizes, hosts, allows or permits a gathering. So you have to look at the totality there and it leaves um room for the police department to um issue the ticket to whoever might be responsible for um organizing hosting or allowing the the the party the house to be used for that purpose.

If you left owner out then I could say I'm the owner. You can't give me a ticket. That's right. Well, now it says the person the tenant. Oh, I see. Gotcha. On the back end cuz I wouldn't be the person. Whoever's in the house is a person ought to be it's the guilty party. But if the owner throw if the owner throws the party, then the owner can be issued a ticket for it. Well, he's occupied. He'd be he would be you could get him. Okay. If I want to take the uh I don't know how that legal stuff is sometimes gets convoluted. Next thing you know, I'm you're writing me a citation.

Yes. And and we look carefully at that. Um, and we feel that it's it's written in the appropriate fashion to allow the police department to issue the ticket to um, again, and I'm repeating myself, who organizes, host, allows, or permits the gathering, not someone who's leasing the party to those individuals who then um, allow the the house to be used for nuisance purposes. We certainly can look into that.

I just see a hole in it. I could see where a lawyer could go in there and come back to the person that um controls it. The control could go all the way back to the owner and go all the way back to the to the real estate company. But I'm not going to if you feel that strongly about it and it's a council decision. I like the ordinance. I love everything about it. I do have a little concern because I know how legal things somehow another get out of the and I know there's an attorney that has looked at this and he feels that it it could be a problem but um I I disagree with him on that point. Okay. You're taking under consideration.

Thank you very much. Yes sir. Thank you. Are there any other comments by council? I just like to say one I think I said this in the first reading. This is, you know, one of many changes we're looking at making in short-term rentals to protect the quality of life of our residents and this is a start and it's a good start. Are there any comments by the public? Please come to the microphone, give your name and address and we have a threem minute limit.

Yes. But um since Hank said said this, Hank, if you're so concerned about this, my suggestion would be if I didn't say who I am. I'm Barbara Campbell, 2241 um Waterview Drive. But I would just think to layer that for you as a rental person that you could have in your contract. You know, you have this orient ordinance of as you're reading, you know, you're giving your customers that they read that there is this on the books and they would be responsible if anything happened and there is a noise ordinance. To me, that sounds simple. Just thought I would just throw that out there just for you.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Are there any other comments by the public? Hearing none, we'll take our vote. All in favor say I. I. All against. Eyes have it. We'll move into item E, ordinance, second reading, reszoning request for 8.32 acres on Ye old Kings Highway. Is there a motion to approve? Second. Motion and second. Is there any comment by councel?

I just want to say what I said last time. I I just would hope that staff and the developer, whoever that is, whenever that is, of this property, uh does everything they can to save the beautiful trees that are on this property. Um that's and there are some really nice trees. Are there any other comments by council? Are there any comments by the public? Hearing none, we'll take our vote. All in favor say I.

I. or against eyes have it. We'll move into item uh A under new business approve investment in the South Carolina local government investment pool which is LGIP. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second.

So have a motion and a second. I'd like for ask our city manager to please explain this. So, this is a vehicle that's uh managed by the South Carolina Treasures Office. And I mean, it's really just kind of a it's it's a money market fund for all intents and purposes. So, really, it's um state of South Carolina. it it restricts the way that local governments um can invest their their funds and uh that's either through like a CD or some sort of uh saving mechanism um that'll give you a higher rate but that would have to be collateralized meaning that the the bank in which you have a CD with um would have to put up securities or investments to back your specific um investment. anything that's above and beyond the $250,000 the FDIC ensures. So, not a problem. We do it and uh it's on the bank to to collateralize whatever whatever investments we have. But there are, you know, there's reporting and and things that we have to do to make sure that the funds that we have invested um or deposited with a with a bank is collateralized. Again, not really a big issue, but the other way to that you can um satisfy the state law is to uh put your funds in a poolled uh account with the rest of the other municipalities, school districts, counties, special district uh governments. Um then it's a a fund that is managed by the South Carolina Treasures Office. And that gives us basically it's you're getting a very uh competitive interest rate on your idle reserve funds that you don't intend to use anytime soon. Um and you don't have to time up for a long time. It's very um you know very liquid in the sense that if we want the funds tomorrow, we can pull them out. But we you know like right now um I think they're 4.1% um interest rate as opposed to just

sitting in some money market account that we have with a bank. uh probably getting like 2.8%. So, it's a significant difference in terms of um you're talking about millions of dollars. So, it's really um it's something like I said that's used by over 100 municipalities in the state of South Carolina, almost 100 school districts. Um it's 15 billion plus in assets. Uh so, it's it's it's about as safe as it gets. Um but it's a way to not have to worry about collateralizing or having our funds on deposit um being collateralized. So, it's just another option really. I don't know how much we'll I mean, I have no plans for exactly how much we would move there. It's just something that we would have at our disposal in the future. Um, and this is an account that we had and the city had an algeb for a very long time. It just went dormant in the sense that uh we didn't use it. We didn't have any funds on deposit with them. So when um you know we went to go use it recently uh they felt more comfortable if we would just go back to council have a resolution to reopen an account as if we were opening one from scratch. So that's really what this is about.

I understand it. Anybody I think it's a good idea. Any other comments by council or any comments by council? I I got that explained to that today and I appreciate you explaining it again cuz I didn't want to go in and all that. Are there any comments by the public? Hearing none, we'll take our vote. All in favor say I. I. I. All against. Eyes have it. We'll move into item B, ordinance first reading amendment to chapter 23, zoning of the code of ordinances of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, defining in ground pools. Do I have a motion to approve? Motion. Is there a second? Second.

So motion to approve. There's a second. Is there any comments by council? Yeah, I'd like to know where if somebody in staff could explain because I already thought that pools were at a 5ft setback. They do, but not above ground pools. So, not the above ground. I just always associated all. That's my understanding. Yeah, I saw that, but I thought that it was already allowed. So, it wasn't already allowed. It it was allowed in the setback. There just wasn't a definition about what an ingground pool was. So above ground pools, people are trying to put in the setbacks now. Okay. Yeah. So it's just basically clean clean up. Really? Yeah. So it's clear the difference between an ingground pool and an above ground pool.

Everybody's playing by the same rule. Exactly. By the same rules then, right? Exactly. But an ingground pool would be able to elevate 30 in. 30 inclusive of the coping edge. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Are there any other comments by council? Are there any comments by the public? Hearing none, we'll take our vote. All in favor say I. I. All against, eyes have it. We'll move into item C, ordinance first reading petition for annexation and zoning designation for 1.05 acres on Buffin Road. Do I have a motion to approve? So move.

Second. A first and a second. Is there any comment by councel? Well, we spent a lot of time on this. Um, most people don't even know where this property is and it's right in the middle of the city and it's county. There's how many lots? Four. Four. Four parcels, right? That that's what we're looking at. But there's some still after if if this gets approved, first reading, it doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the places in the county and they're in very very poor poor conditions. I mean, I don't just go back there and look.

So, we're trying to figure out what we can do with that portion getting working with the county to get it cleaned up. And there are mobile homes on that property right now. So, is the applicant here? Could I would you mind if I ask you a question? Please, please give me your name and address. applicant's mom. I'm sorry. I'm the applicant's mom. Okay. Hey, that's even better. Give your name and address. Qualified. U My name's Alice Man and my son is Tyler Man.

Okay. I saw your son's name on the application, but I don't know him. But anyway, um so we talked about this. I went and looked at the property today. So did several other council members. I didn't even know it was back there. It's kind of hidden in the middle of nowhere. And um there it's four vacant parcels, but before you get to it, there's some old mobile homes that are in the county that uh would derick left behind cars with no license tags and houses are falling down. Looks pretty rough. Um like to figure out a way to clean it up. Surprised it hadn't come to our attention before this happened. But um one of the things we were thinking about is an idea of and some of us talked about was clean up was an R2A district would allow instead of a mobile home type situation would allow maybe a single family or even a townhouse or something to that effect. Was just wondering how you felt about that um zoning if y'all thought about that. Er, but I know that part of our goal was that there was very little affordable housing in the city. Um, so that's sort of where we were headed, but we haven't definitely, you know, made a determination.

The we're hoping too that obviously the other ones get cleaned up. That was going to be my question. Do you have any? We've tried to approach uh both actually both parties that own the others that are there that are in very bad shape. Um but uh so far nothing. No, no response or you can't get them. One is a girl that represents her elderly father who thinks his property is still pretty nice. I don't know when he saw it last. You might need to take a picture and send it to him. Uh I you're we're trying to do it delicately because you don't want to insult them, but yeah, we want to that's

you definitely want it to be cleaned up. Obviously, I I deal with something similar to that on 39th South Elton behind you probably knows exactly what I'm talking about. And there's an elderly lady that doesn't realize trees are growing through her mobile home. Um, and you don't have the heart to tell them that. Yeah.

But I do like to hear that y'all are trying to clean that. I myself am am very familiar with that street just because I have property near it and I've drove through it a lot. Um when I first saw this come up, I was really excited because I thought this was a part of that property, but then as I got out there I realized it was not. But hopefully, you know, there would be the opportunity to clean the whole street up. And I'm assuming there's probably some people in the audience that are on the opposite side of this that I'd also like to hear from.

Yeah. Well, we'll do that. Well, we have open to public comment. I want to hear from the applicant first. We're still under council comment right now, but uh uh thank you so much. Uh I just would like for you to maybe talk to your son and consider and maybe you want might reach out to Suzanne and talk to staff about the ideas and options under R2A, which would be I don't know. It's just uh something that was talked about. But um I'm I'm okay with whatever it takes to improve this area at this point. But uh but I would like to consider something a little more than than the mobile home. Gotcha. Thank you so much. Okay. Are there any other comments? Council, we're going to open up for public comment. Just a second. Yeah. Allison, who made the motion?

I think Jerry did. I think it was Hank. Maybe got Okay. I think we were supposed to accompany that motion with when necessary to implement the comprehensive plan. We've not Okay. Yeah, we've not got that point. So, are there any other comments by council before we bring this to public comment? I'd like to hear from the public. I think that's going to be important. Okay. You got something? I

do have one since um Bubba brought it up. The R3 is um does fall within uh within the comprehensive plan and meets that criteria. And then in addition to that, right up the street, probably 400 ft is a section that is in the city that's currently zoned R3. So the zone in R3 is is compatible to that area and would fit. Yes, that that is correct. Okay. Are there any comments by the public? I'm not the applicant, but I'm the current owner of the Buffkin property that we're talking about. So what's your name? Ashley Coy.

Coy. Mhm. Um, so this sale of this property is contingent on the annexation of it being put in the city, but regardless if that goes through or not, I'll be right back here again to annex into the city. So, um, I know it's one of the donut holes that is part of the county that needs to be part of the city of North Myrtle Beach and it has been for a while. So, and I do know that the other properties, the two particular that I know you've probably saw driving down that street have always been somewhat of an eyesore to say the least. But I um I was told that those two are no longer occupied anymore and I think the owners of those um have since been deceased. So I don't there's probably opportunity to take those lots or you know for sale as well. So anyway,

thank you. Thank you. Are there any other comments by the public? Okay, hearing none. Um we will move to take our vote or or we can discuss this further. Look, I I would like to go ahead and push this forward until we can at least for first reading and and then we can always uh the applicant can meet with staff and talk about the options of R2A. But moving forward with improving this property, I think is the right way to go, at least in my opinion.

And it might be good for Miss Causy to to to be a part of those conversations. So, how however however this ultimately plays out, I think that might be a good Absolutely. Absolutely. It'd be good to bring these parcels in that are an isore as you brought up, but then that's an understatement, but um it would be good to clean up the area. Chris, do we need to add that language to the motion? Yes, I would prefer that you do add that language to the motion that is consistent with the comprehensive plan. This R3 zoning designation is consistent with the comprehensive plan. Whoever made the motion to approve, Mr. Thomas did. Okay.

If you'll make that as part of the uh of the motion that it does uh comply with the uh comprehensive plan. Do you second the revised motion hearing? Okay. So, um we have a first and a second. All in favor say I. I. All against. Eyes have it. We will move into item D, second public hearing reading f the first amendment to the development agreement for the Laurette Associate. It's track. Do I have a motion to approve?

Council Baldwin, this is um or Mayor Baldwin, sorry. Um this is actually a public hearing. I'll go over the items for the public hearing with council and with everyone who's present. Okay. Okay. Um, the principal provisions of the proposed amendment to the Lorett track development agreement are summarized as follows. Can nobody hear me? Okay. Yes.

Just All right. Um, number one, Long Bay Road improvements. Consistent with the original Lorett track development agreement, the developer will be required to construct improvements to Long Bay Road from the point where Long Bay Road abuts the the Lorett tract to the intersection of Long Bay Road and Water Lily Road. The improvements will consist of a two-lane roadway with each lane comprising a 13t paved travel lane and an additional one- foot unpaved shoulder. The project will also include a 5-ft concrete sidewalk which transitions to a 10-ft multi-use path as depect as depicted on exhibit D1. And D1 should be um on your monitors there in front of you. Um number two, the uh maintenance responsibility. Um pursuant to Ory County requirements, the city will assume responsibility for the maintenance of this segment of Long Bay Road. Notwithstanding that the roadway is located within Orie County, the county will relinquish all rights and obligations associated with this portion of Long Bay Road. Construction timeline and remedies. Um, the developer will have 12 months from the effective date of the amended development agreement to complete the required Long Bay Road improvements with an additional 4 months cure period in the event of a default. If the improvements are not completed within this time frame, the city will have the right to withhold the issuance of additional building permits. The developer will also be required to post a financial guarantee to secure completion of the roadway improvements. All right. Limitations on building permits prior to the completion of Long Bay Road. um except as expressly set forth below, the city will have no obligation to um issue additional residential building permits within the project until the Long Bay Road improvements are completed. Number one, including the 34 previously released

permits, the city will issue up to 41 additional permits for a total of 75 when the developer delivers to the city the signature page of the amended development agreement signed by the developer. after second reading. Number two, um upon commencement of grading of Long Bay Road and providing grading um and construction activities continue, the city will issue up to 100 building permits in the aggregate. Number three, upon completion of 50% of the Lombay Road improvements, the city will issue up to 150 building permits in the aggregate. And number four, upon full completion of Long Bay Road improvements, all remaining building permits may be issued not to exceed a total of 520 residential permits. And those are the major points of the amendment to the development agreement. And at this point, this is a public hearing um open for council um and open for public comment.

I understand. Is this something we need to vote on or uh No, not the public hearing. Um this is just a host of public hearing. Then the next item before you will be the amendment to the development agreement which you will take action on. I understand. So my concern is are we extending the time for completion of this road? Correct. And and I I do not want to see that. Um I think this road's imperative that it gets done under the previous agreement. Well, under the previous agreement, u they had until I want to say it was um September of last year to complete.

I get it. And I know they've already asked for extension one time and I get that they had trouble getting easements and all that. I understand. But um we're asking the difference right now. We're asking for I think they've asked for additional time one time already and now they're asking for it again. And and I'm not sure I understood the first time. I got it, but what's I don't understand this time. Well, um there have been um a number of um intervening factors regarding um getting the development agreement to the point where it is now. And one was was the city going to um allow um or to allow the placement of certain infrastructure on land that we were contemplating um buying. However, that transaction never went through. There was also discussion about the city possibly exercising eminent domain to acquire a portion of a neighboring development to put the infrastructure there. Right.

Um there was a lot of um back into regarding the um the language of the development agreement that took time to develop that language. Um I think it's important that the road is um developed and this does allow a path forward for the development of the road.

I get it. But ultimately this is a public hearing. So this is going to come back for us as a vote. But we're talking about it out loud right now. And I'm sure some of the residents in that area would like to see it done earlier. I'd like to see it done early. I don't know how the rest of the council feels, but I'd like to see a push and pressure against the developer to get this done as quickly as absolutely possible. I understand we can't ask for something that's impossible, but we had an agreement going back years ago of when this road was going to get done, and I get there was challenges that came about that prolonged it. I understood the first one and I understand the second one, but I'm ready to get this done. And it's important for safety, public safety, and and people being able to get in and out from one area to the next. So, it's hugely important that we get this done as soon as possible.

Mayor, um the Chev is here on behalf of the developer. I'll let him address those issues. Sure.

Mayor, we agree with you 100%. And one thing I wanted to clarify is there's never been an extension. If you'll recall, this discussion has been ongoing since last July trying to resolve because we were imposed conditions on a county road that again that the county would not agree to. That's part of what's taken so long to resolve this. Now, my hats off to public works. Dana's done everything he could to find a resolution that works so we could expedite building this road. We're in a position to do that now. So that's one of the reasons why it's so imperative. But I just wanted to clear up that we've not gotten an extension. This is the only extension. I got you. Okay. This is the only extension.

Yeah. And this one is accompanied with a bond. So if they don't perform, the money is there to perform. That was not part of the deal before. Is any way you can tighten this schedule up? I think Rob would tell you he'll tighten it as quick as he can. I would like to request that. y'all look at that before we actually have the and and be able to explain in detail so that we and we have so if everything fell into place we could accelerate the 12 months but sometimes everything doesn't fall into place I promise you that the developer wants it more than anybody because they're throttled on how many homes they can put in there

the other option here is that we go well instead of 75% we you know start cutting you down on those things look I'm just saying it's important it's really important so please come like and and explain the details and try to cut that schedule down as much. Absolutely. Thank you so much. I got a question too, Chef, and it might be a Rob question, but is this road completely designed and ready to be permitted or y'all still working on the design?

So, the road was designed as originally proposed. There's some tweaks to that that will cause some new approvals, but it's not like starting over again. So, worst case scenario is they think they can get started on that in late summer. Um, and as soon as they start, you all see how these roads work. You got one at Champions, um, that's essentially the same thing. With the right contractor and the right weather, you can make great time on this, and that's what they intend to do. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other comments by council?

I just agree with you. I think timing is is is of essence. I don't know, 12 months. I'm okay with that. a a four month grace period. I'd rather hold the defeat to the fire and get 12 months to get it done because in the meantime, a lot's going to be going on out there and the sooner that roads is completed, the less headaches we'll have and the citizens that live out there. I agree. And Councilman Thomasson, we agree, too. The only problem with not having any leeway in there is if we get to that point, then we got to come back to you again and negotiate another extension. And what we don't want to do, spend four months negotiating the extension here. There's a clear bright line. There's a default. You got the money to pull and you hold the building permit. So, I think you have all the leverage now the way it is with that default provision in there.

Okay. Well, 12 months is pretty clear, too. I know. Believe me, we're hearing it from the client that they want the road built tomorrow. It's not it's not just you all. They're in the same position. Okay. Thank you. Are there any comments by the public? Hi Deian Triair, 902 Parin Drive. Um just have some questions. This is a lot. How many acres is it total that we're talking about this? Um Laura, we're talking about the road. Is it just about the road then?

Yeah, we're just talking about the road that that was agreed upon that would make connectivity when this development was approved as a PDD many many years ago. Okay. And it's right now it's a dirt road. That is correct. Okay. And but um I think Mr. Nory me mentioned about maximum 520 houses or uh permits. Is that correct? And so approximately how much land are we talking about in the 520 I'm sorry the total the language for the it's a lot keep in mind that all those have all been approved it's we're just down to the about

they've already been approved they're already been in you may have been at the meeting. Yeah. Yeah. All we're talking about is the road and the timing of getting the road done paved. So the connectivity and ingress and egress can be improved. And it's Long Bay Road mainly we're talking about, right? It's off of Champions Boulevard that goes to the sports complex off of Highway 90. Off of Robert Parkway and Highway 90. So the connectivity between Robert Parkway and Highway 90. Yeah. It will there's you know a lot of homes out there a lot of residents that will this will give them in more ingress and egress also for our public safety.

Okay. So the permits are already approved correct and um is there any negotiation going on? I guess my whole point of speaking is just that um we've talked about when we're bringing more development into the city, the city the developer needs the city's services. Correct. And um we've talked about having therefore some control over what the development is. For example, maybe preserving uh some percentage of the land. Is that still on the table? No, this was something was approved a long long time ago, Jamie. Many many years ago when the sports complex was brought into play this or might have been after that, but anyway, it was a long time ago. But it was about the connectivity and improving the zoning of this and the density was cut down at the time when it was approved to less than half of what they could have done in the county. But the big thing was to get the connectivity and the roads built. And that was something we held the developer feet to the fire about doing. And now things have come to, you know, there's been problems and challenges that came up in front of that and and uh so there's a request for a little bit of an extension and we're pushing back on it.

Okay. Just in general, I love for when we consider new tracks to consider that we have some control over and ask for some um preserved land. Absolutely. As part of that agreement to become part of the city. Thank you. Okay. For clarification, too, when we did um did all this several years ago, we did go through that process and we did reduce the density and we did have open space and we required a lot of people of a lot of changes from the developer when we approved it. Okay. So, it's like we didn't do that. We went through that process. Part of the public benefit is this is this road. Is this road? Yeah.

That's why everybody's a little wants it done, right? I got you. And talking to planning often times denser denser housing is better. You like you do a trade-off between a little bit denser housing and then preserved land. That's another important way that a lot of times planning um has said that's a good way to go. So not you know just having more sprawl is not necessarily the best. I'd rather have less dense and and more preserved. Yeah, exactly. Yep. Thank you, D.

Trey has proposed a zoning if you want to explain that. You know, we're working that way in a big way. Thank you so much. Are there any other comments by the public hearing? I'm going to take our vote. All in favor? Oh, we're not voting. I'm sorry. So, we're just now we on E. We will. So we're going to move into item E ordinance first reading first amendment to the Laurat track development agreement and authorize the city manager to sign the document on behalf of the city. Do have a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Second.

Is there any comment by council? I think we just made a lot of comments. Yeah. Is there any comment by the public? Hearing none, we'll take our vote. All in favor say I. I. All against. Eyes have it. Okay, we will move into item AF. Motion to approve proposed council meeting changes. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second.

A motion second. Any comments by council? Basically what we're doing is rescheduling the budget retreat from March 12th through the 13th to April 27th through the 28th. We're adding March 16th as an additional council meeting date and we're removing the previously scheduled April 20th, 2026 council meeting. Are there any comments by council? Are there any comments by the public? I'm Dana Brown. I live at 2314 Veraway in Longs. Um, on the budget thing, last year I had asked you guys to make the budget process a little more open, not have your offsite, you know, so far away where it was really hard to get to and find overnight accommodations. And I don't see that happening this year. And I am a little disappointed that you are trying to push the offsite out so far close to when you have to approve the budget. So that doesn't give the citizens a lot of time to look at what's being proposed and have any comments on it. So I don't think it's a good idea, but

thank you. Actually, it should give you more time that uh to get it for us to get the budget together and then get it to you so you can review it versus coming up in March and having such a short notice. So hopefully this will actually benefit you versus uh give you more opportunity. I' I've worked with three different localities and budgets are always due usually the same time as ours is here and they start the budget process with the public in January and there are multiple meetings every month until then. Last year we had uh public comment two weeks before the budget got signed. Totally not enough time. Maybe we can get it to you earlier. That's our goal. Well, thank you.

Thank you. Are there any other comments by public? Hearing none, I need a motion to adjourn the meeting. Who wants to adjourn? No, we got to do a motion to approve this and then we got still have public comment. Oh, sorry. Sorry. I Well, I thought that I'm sorry. My bad. My bad. All right. So, um, need to vote. All in favor. So, is it There was no more public comment. So, okay. Somebody

So, we'll Oh, I'm sorry. Come forward, please. Please give your name and address. We have a threeminute time limit. I'm Dr. Jackwal and Bader. I live at 1444 Crested Iris Way. Uh, I am a grateful and proud citizen of North Myrtle Beach. Since I retired about a month ago, I've already overcommitted and signed up for way too many volunteer organizations. But when I learned that I could also do some good for our community by speaking with you tonight, I um jumped at this chance. I will briefly talk about something important, our beaches. Just this past summer, I three times saw families pick up all their chairs, carts, umbrellas, towels, coolers, and their children to escape the one person who was smoking on the beach.

Ma'am, I'm so sorry, but we we are still on um item I'm stay there. We we'll be Yeah, we'll be all we need is to vote on I thought we had gone into It's item 7F. It's the resolution just to change. You hand me your sheet right there, brother, for just a second. Thank you. So, we need to vote. We need to vote on it. Okay. I'm sorry. Yeah, we did not. I thought we were in public comment. We We are We're still on Just give me one second and we'll wrap this up. We're on the motion to approve the council meeting date changes and we need to take a vote on that. And you can stay right there and then you'll be up to the microphone. So, all in favor say I.

All against. Eyes have it. Okay. Ma'am, I'm so sorry. Now, we're going to open it for public comment, and you'll be the first one.

Okay. Um, Surfside Beach, Folly Beach, Myrtle Beach, Sullivan's Island, and other nearby beaches have already gone no smoking, and others are considering the move. I started asking people in this area what they think of a potential smoking ban on our beaches, and I kept a count. Of the 72 people I asked, 68 said they're in favor of a ban. Three said that they thought there already is a ban of smoking on the beach. And one didn't speak English very well, but he smiled at me a lot while I was talking. Even with all the times that I visited our beaches, I haven't once seen anyone violating any of the posted policies. Although my surveying didn't constitute scholarly research, it does lend itself to the premise that enforcement of a smoking ban does not appear to be an issue. Most people here seem to follow the rules. And guess what percentage of South Carolinians smoke? Anybody have a guess? What percentage?

It's 20%.

It's only 11.6%. Nationally, it's 11%, but in South Carolina, it's 11.6%. Very small percentage. We market our beaches as nine miles of tranquility with hidden treasures. One of the 10 best beaches in South Carolina, a kid-friendly paradise with classic beachy fun. And now we need to live up to the brochure description. In conclusion, I'll say that a smoke-free beach policy would stop children from breathing in secondhand smoke, protect everyone's health, reduce the litter of cigarette butts in the sand, and help keep our oceans cleaner. I just think it would show that you really care for the people uh the residents, the visitors if you protect us from the smoke on the beach and you'll help make us known as the clean and fresh air beach. Thank you.

Thank you so much. And Councilman Coin brought this up in the last meeting that we'd like to see this on the agenda. We all agreed so it'll be on the agenda soon and thank you for contacting us. Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. My son lives there and they started out with just a simple sign that says keep your butts off our beach and the cigarette butts. So, are there any other com Thank you. Are there any other comments from the public? I did. I just

Dana Brown 2314 Veraway back again. So, a little story. I'm trying to adopt a kitten and I'm trying to get one from our our shelter here down the road. Um, not any luck yet. It's not kitten season, but I'm hopeful. It's coming up. But I've made a few trips over there and you got some really, really terrific people working over there. They work really hard and they do the best they can with what they have and they have seen some really, really unspeakable things. I mean, things that just I can't believe humans treat their animals that way. Um, many of these animals that come in there have been through some recent trauma before they get there. Um, and if they make it to the shelter, this is supposed to be where they're safe. They can get a meal, maybe feel safe enough to get some sleep. Um, they usually try to bathe them, you know, when they come in, um, before they put them where they need to be. But one thing when I visit that just makes me shudder when I walk by is the tub. So, this tub that we have over there looks like a really beat up, stained, dirty old casket. Something that you might find in a morg from, you know, a hundred years ago. It It's awful. And as an animal, I can't imagine being put inside that. And I'm just hoping since we're in budget now, a city of our means maybe can spare a couple thousand dollars, that's what it looked like online, to get a new one and get it installed to get a new stainless steel tub for for our animals. It's not a lot of money, but I encourage you all to maybe take a trip down there and just see what you think when you walk by. But as a prospective adopter, I just it just doesn't set a good tone. But if we can find a couple thousand, I'd really be appreciative.

Thank you. And they're not asking, by the way. I was over there met with them the other day. I understand. We're we're working on getting them a new building. We're working on Oh, okay. I didn't They're not asking. I understand. I understand. Anything. They do such hard work. They do. Thank you. We've been working with them for a while on the new buildings. So, is there any other comment by the public?

Good evening, Cheryl Kildday, Destination North Myrtle Beach. I'm the president and CEO of the local chamber and your tourism um promotion organization. And I wanted to thank you for coming to our premiere last week for the um documentary we did on the oyster shell recycling program. and thank you for your involvement with the city. Matt wasn't able to be there, but thank you so much for participating in that, but also just working together. We really appreciate all of that. And I um also just wanted to make sure that you all know that we have a um a new resident workshop that we've started. We did our first ones before the first of the year. We're planning to do them about quarterly. And so our next one is March 4th. So, we actually talk about how to sign up for the alerts and do various things and show people the websites. We talk about how to unpack the county and the city taxes. Um, where to go for local resource information. When we were putting our product, um, our workshop together, we worked with our resident advisory committee and they helped us like when I moved here, this is some of the stuff that I was looking for. We called both the city of North Myrtle Beach and Ory County and and Secret Shop them in the sense of I'm moving to the area. Where should I go? And everybody referred them to us as well as their own websites. So, we thought we'd go ahead and put this together. So, I just thought you'd want to know that. We're promoting it through some advertising, but also we're asking realtors and um real estate attorneys to help um promote it as well. We're not defining what a new resident is. if somebody feels like they want to come and learn more about those kind of things, then they certainly can. But, um, it's a great workshop and we encourage you to help, um, promote it as well.

On time and location, the it's March 4th and it's in our conference room and it begins at 6 p.m. 6 p.m. And um, there is a registration. It's free, but there is a registration just so we can make sure we have enough chairs and if we got full that we'd be able to have a second date. But yeah, we're so far registration is going really well. So, we're we're excited about it. It's something that I think the community has a need and we're happy to um to provide it. Thank you. But Cheryl, you beat me to it. I was before we adjourned. Going to thank you for the what you did. What was it? Friday, Greg Rolls with the oyster recycling program, which if people out there don't know about it,

it's a really good thing that the chamber and destinations partnering with DHECK and creating the live shorelines. But I also want to thank you at the end of that video through conversation with me and other business people in this community and I'm definitely not taking credit for it, but I noticed it at the end of it that um creating that posit positive messaging that you're going to be putting out um welcoming people to come visit our town or beach, but um getting familyfriendly vacationers um the messaging that was nice and I think that's a positive way to let people know we want to but we want you to vacation the right way.

Thank you. And we do we have a and we're inviting people to help us share that. We have a video that's saying if you're coming to visit, here's how to help prepare so they know about, you know, single-use plastics is not the way that we that we bring. So, bring your own bags and look for those parking spaces and the trash pickup and how to turn your lights off and not to touch sea turtles and all that kind of stuff. It is really important because we do market for being a family-friendly place and it was um the the doctor who spoke earlier used our brochure as the example. We always love that. Thank you. Um but you know that is what we're what we're doing and really trying to bring those people in that align with our resident core values which is they want what they told us in the de development of our destination master plan is residents want us to market to people who respect that this is our home and so that is the messaging that we really um use in our recruitment of people to come spend their time here. So thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other comments by the public? Okay, hearing none. Now we will need a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. All in favor say I. I. This meeting is a journ.