County Council - Regular Meeting

Heavenly Father, we come together today to thank you for our country, our state, and our county, and for the people who live here. We ask for your wisdom and guidance during this meeting. Help us to listen, understand, and make the decisions that benefit our entire community. Grant us the strength to handle difficult decisions with grace and patience. Watch over our first responders, our staff, and our neighbors, and guide our discussions today so that our work honors you. In your name we pray, amen. Amen.

I'll make a motion to approve the request by the tax commissioners to dissolve Rock Creek Special Tax District. Second.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Shannon Hill, she comes to us with a BS, a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from NC State, North Carolina State University, and she has a Six Sigma Black Belt, which is a manufacturing term for operational excellence. she has professional experience she retired from Eaton as being a most recently as operating supervisor excuse me supervising operational excellence and lean manufacturing activities and she does hold an inactive real estate broker's license in North and South Carolina She is a member of the Greenwood County board of assessment appeals an

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, I want to present to you, Mr. Dave Schofield. Thank you for being here tonight, Dave. Um. interesting story in in all transparency I think people want to know how we arrived at these Dave first time I met him was at the June 16th meeting when he spoke up at public hearing had the unique experience of being from Loudoun County Virginia and those of you that don't know there's over 250 data center facilities in that 50 million square feet area Dave and his wife lived there for over 20 years Dave has professional experience, 33 years in information technology, advanci

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As I said at our last meeting, there were some folks who were not interested in serving on this committee for various and sundry reasons. But I did have folks from outside my district express interest in wanting to be appointed. But as we talked about, we wanted to keep it within one from each district so we had representation. So it's my honor, Mr. Chairman, to present my and that is Mr. Steve Coleman. His professional role is director of community outreach at Piedmont Technical College, supporting educational access, student success, and community engagement. He's al

Will this be open to the public to attend as a public meeting as far as being an observant member, similar to maybe what we with our capital project sales tax committees that we had is that the

I agree that representation would be beneficial from those two groups.

I was just going to say thank you, Ms. McIntyre, too, because we talked about the new software. Ms. Miller and I had the pleasure of visiting with them at the conference, and I failed to mention that all the other folks that, and I had a number of people reach out to me about the ad hoc committee and had an interest. I kept forwarding those names to Ms. McIntyre, and I think we should all do that, people that have interested interest in serving in any capacity dealing with greenwood county we should forward that information so that we'll have it for future use right right

Mr. Chairman, I would like to say that I personally reached out to both of the appointments from my district, Nancy Bruce with Carol Quill Run and Scott Johnson with Grace Court, because I did not personally know them, but I did chat with them, and I certainly approved that as well.

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Uh, Ms. Bishop and I both share the fact that we served on school board. We know how important it is. It's a whole lot of work. Um, something that only happens five years and we have new people in, in most places now from a finance and superintendent role. So I think we want, we just want to take our time and let them get it right. Let them meet with their school boards, let them make some decisions and get back to us. Um, so that we can help. I mean, at the end of the day, it's all about what's best for Greenwood County and

so and and yeah so that that is my report i hope that everybody has a good evening thank you district four miss miller mr chairman i have uh two celebration comments and two more serious comments one is uh that i did attend eaton's ribbon cutting ceremony it was a very hot day i couldn't get a spot under the big white tent so i stood there at about 97 degree heat with 105 heat index Um, and they were celebrating their $30 million expansion. So that's a big plus for Greenwood as well to have that, uh, and to congratulate Piedmont tech for their 60 years of service to our students and our employ

and there's a huge number of people with that as well so on this friday if you'll take a moment to pause or remember that as well thank you that concludes my report thank you ms miller district 5 mr pruitt thank you mr chairman i would invite and encourage everyone to come out for my district 5 cleanup this saturday it's going to be the the best and the funnest one yet if you want to get in a kayak you can kayak from the dam all the way to chapels and clean up Look forward to seeing you, Mr. Chapel, uh, in a kayak, in a kayak. Although I will probably be on the roadside. You don't have to get

Mr. Templeton, District 6. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll be brief. Our Friday report this past week was on basically 9-11. The Hodges Fire Department did a tremendous job with their lights on main, and it was very well attended, and they hit on a lot of those things that Ms. Miller pointed out, so that's great. Just see a lot of familiar faces in the audience, but I do want to appreciate Shane Goodwin being here tonight. Thank you. And I had one more thing, but I can't remember what it was, so that is my report.

I want to thank Officer Womack for being here and taking care of us. Appreciate it.