County Council - Regular Meeting

I want to thank y'all for coming today. And, you know, this is near and dear to my heart as well. So I just want to give you a chance really quickly to introduce yourself and your canine, if that's appropriate.

Okay, so on behalf of the Greenwood County Council, a proclamation recognizing National Police K-9 Day. Whereas law enforcement K-9s are highly trained partners who serve alongside police officers and deputies to protect the citizens of our community. And whereas the K-9 teams of the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office and the Greenwood Police Department provide invaluable service through their specialized skills in areas including tracking, locating missing persons, detecting narcotics and other dangerous substances, apprehending suspects, searching buildings and vehicles, and assisting officer

I have a comment. I think that this is a great follow up for, you know, our citizens and concerns for transparency. I know the index did a great series of articles about economic development, and I think this is a great follow-up to that, to continue that quest for understanding.

Also, it made me think of something as well. People ask all the time about what we do, and I've seen you in action james and been with you on places and i appreciate you including me but also it's it's a challenge being in the area that we're in not near an interstate not near a port basically kind of a rural community so it's it's more difficult than people realize to draw businesses here and then sometimes it also is dependent on workers availability of workers and housing and those types of things so it all goes hand in hand and i appreciate the openness and as you mentioned transparency ab

Quick question. Mr. Davis, as we get often asked on rezoning requests, has there been any discussion on timeline or anything? What you guys are looking at? Just curious.

I have a comment to Mr. Chairman, please, ma'am. I appreciate you showing up and the questions that you asked. I will tell you that in my district district five, I've had a lot of interest. I've gotten a lot of emails. I continue to get emails, um, pro and con as far as the data centers are concerned, but I had, um, people reach out to me, people with advanced degrees, PhDs masters. Um, I actually have a neighbor who. is responsible for installing data centers all across the country. Um, but for me personally, uh, the person I'm gonna bring forward is somebody that, uh, actually lived in Loudo

Mr. Chairman, I'll have your motion to approve.

Mr. Chairman, I'll just make one quick comment. I am very close also to naming mine. I've gotten multiple emails like I guess everybody on council. I will share I think it's funny what Mark said because I had the same issue. I've had a couple of very qualified candidates that have said they don't want any part of this because they don't want to target on their back and they don't want their families being harassed. And that's kind of sad that people don't want to get involved because they're scared about people harassing them. So that's a problem. But we will find qualified people and we will

Can I have one more? I'm sorry, I know we're getting long. And I think one other thing to kind of answer one of the questions asked earlier was this committee in itself is not making a decision. I think that was asked. This committee will be making a recommendation for, you know, possible text amendments or the language if there is a new zoning classification. and they will make a recommendation back to county council, okay? So I just wanted to put that. This group of citizens is not making a decision on whether a data center comes to Greenwood or not. Thank you.

Sorry, I could use some comments. So yeah, this is my district, obviously, in 96. And Dr. Eichelberger and I have really been discussing this for, I think, about the whole two years. And he's not able to be here tonight. He's got family things going on, and I don't blame him for that. So he actually sent me a letter I'd like to read for the record, please. About two years ago, my family and I purchased two historic buildings here in 96, one that needed updating and a second that had been underutilized for several years. I've driven past these buildings since I was a child and I wanted to see t

Mr. Chairman, I offer you a motion to approve with the 20-year request. Second.

We got a lot of input, the whole process. Oh, okay. Sorry. Yeah. Okay. I'll ask you later on that, Ron.

Ms. Storm, what's the deadline for completion of this? I know you said every 10 years, but what's our deadline? Is it the end of June?

So there's no penalty if we miss a deadline. There's no deadline as long as we're making progress. Is that kind of what I'm hearing?

Yes, Mr. Pruitt. Mr. Blant, so with it being AG1 going to NPR, does that... Did the density change at all?

Okay. So basically it's just a setback thing.

Mr. Chairman, before he steps away, I want to go backwards real quick. Sure. Ryan, if you would, can you tell us what the next step is for the Eichelberger property as far as, because we did pre-certification. What happens next?

Like the one for MacArthur. That's correct.

Perfect. That's all I need. Well, I was going to say in a perfect world, pre-cert just means somebody starting the project. Unfortunately, this one. We've already completed.

District 5, Mr. Pruitt. I have one, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Just want to remind everybody, I am going to be involved with probably the most interesting trash cleanup ever. Thanks to Ms. Amber. appear that I would like for you to join me for district 5 cleanup this month on Saturday September the 19th is being called Beach River sweep day we're cleaning the Saluda River that day starting at 9 a.m. to make the biggest impact we're partnering up cleanup will take place along the shorelines near the dam via kayak yes put in will be at the dam and take out will be at the chapel's boat ramp. Kayaks

I'll be brief, Mr. Chairman. I just want to thank our county staff and employees for what they do on a day-to-day basis, and I want to, again, thank our law enforcement for what they do first responders and our guys here that um want everybody when they come in the door so and watch over us here lastly i will close with um you know you i've caught a lot of grief on social media for various and sundry things but i've had a tremendous amount of support from the community i just want to thank you for that and that is my report thank you mr temple