City Council - Regular Meeting

On the exhibits A through I guess there's nothing there but it says to be inserted at execution. Does execution mean whenever the document is completed?

May I move that we approve first reading?

I have a concern, not necessarily for this, but since it's about coastal, and can I talk about something related? I'm talking about the overpass now. Should I wait until public, my time to talk?

I really do. I like these proposals and I think they will eliminate a lot of what you're talking about because the cars will be able to come in. I think they're great. I think it's very good work and I think there's a lot of research done on these different drop-throw lanes and where they needed to be. So I appreciate the work.

And it also helps get your traffic off that main highway. And that's the ultimate goal is to get them in and out.

Comments also. And I think that as much as we are growing in the city of Conway, we need to have these sidewalks put in on the forefront because we cannot build this sidewalk, replace or put the sidewalk in five, ten years from now for the same cost that's going to be done today.

Thank you. You took the words kind of right out of my mouth, Mr. Emmerich, is why can't this developer go around the ponds or there to put the sidewalk in? I'm with Mr. White. I think as much sidewalks as we can get in our city, We need them. They don't have to be over the storm drain and the gas lane. They can go elsewhere.

No, it's not a taking, it is, they've got an and or, if I understand it correctly, you can move the gas line and build your sidewalk straight down or you can not spend $50,000 and you can move it To the right or the left or around the pond?

I'll just make a quick note of comparison. Could be apples to apples, apples to pineapples. You're looking at this piece right now, and in 2027, we say there is no foot traffic on either side that we know of. I'm sure their study has not been done. We're just kind of assuming there's not a lot of foot traffic there. And I think that's probably a reasonable assumption. But when you look down 544, 20 years ago, we might have said, oh there's no foot traffic here and now we've got sidewalks all the way almost from conway to myrtle beach if we can do it go ahead and put it in so we've got it just

Before I undo my motion, please. Just one question for a point of clarification. Have we not repeatedly discussed that a developer when they're building the project can put in a sidewalk at a much cheaper rate than the city can go back to install that at a later date?

So when we are installing a sidewalk today, what is the city rate? What is the city being charged?

Can you flip back to the previous slide where you kind of see what's around there? And what's on the, how far is the speedway?

Could you just say, you said it was our largest falls forks in Greenwich, right? Can you check how much that has grown from last year?

about coaster yeah yes two things one I'm glad that they finally did something with 544 overpass but we also need something done on 501 because what I think it was 209 when I came on board on City Council there was an accident of a death I guess of a student crossing there and now that they have more facilities on the other side of 501 I think there will be, and now, and also the, what am I saying, fixing the roads today on 501. Now, I think now would be a good time to consider putting that overpass on 501 also.

I'd like to piggyback on Mr. White if I may, Mayor. I think also one thing that we can do now are talking with DOT is whatever type of technology they have that could be a pedestrian foot, because we got people who cross that on bicycles and foot every day multiple times.

Yeah. And we had, so I don't know what all technology or lights or, but there has to be something that can make that intersection safer. I do believe I was talking to a professor, a new professor to U.S., to Coastal Carolina, who was not even from the state. And this has been a, I don't know when the date was, but she's like, they told me to walk across 501 to Human Resources. And she's like, I just did it. And then she goes, I thought I was going to die. And I mean, that is a grown, intelligent person during her work day that has been... Well...

But I hope that the city can push as they're redeveloping that 501 that we can put some pressure on them. to say hey we're looking.

This is a very, very important question. Will we be having the orphanage this year in October? Can you tell me the hours of operation for the orphanage? two to four two to four to be in this room except when we have city councilmen i'd like to offer just one suggestion for our horry county students it's going to be difficult for some of them to be here by four so if we could look at maybe some longer orphanage days i think one of the issues is that five and sometimes we still align at five so if you're in line we don't try to turn you away okay thank you you're welcome

One last thing is the park on Palmetto Street. There's a fence around the playground that's there. Is there going to be any other things put out there?

I think that's all I got thank you mr. Jordan thank you mayor I think everybody's covered about everything but again thanks to the staff I know that October is getting ready to be absolutely crazy for all of our support staff our police force they will have some long days and nights and so we asked for some patience with everyone but You know, as Ms. Helms is looking forward to October 1st, I think a lot of people may be looking forward to October 31st. So, yeah, until next year. But, no, thank you seriously for all that you all do.

And Ms. Hardwick. Thank you, Mayor. I would just like to say I'm just going to ditto with homecoming, what my fellow council members have said with homecoming and staff. You're doing a fantastic job. Y'all are on fire. Keep it up. You're running into problems, but you're fixing them. Get them fixed by October 1st if we can. but we've got some really great things going on in our city and there's but there's things we have worked on and we planned on for for years and years so this just didn't happen I also want to give a great shout out to our keep Conway clean folks that were here that have th

may why you think about it can I say one more thing go ahead and I'll remember my let me let me help you yeah I can't believe we forgot we're almost to the end of this meeting burger week what a great great success burger week has had I think I believe we should make it two weeks because it's nearly impossible to get to all the burgers in the the restaurants that participated and there are some fantastic burgers are out there and um you know some sunday i was at river city cafe they were packed leone's was packed the the other sunday coppers was packed so they are bringing in business they're

Well, I hate to follow Amanda on this, but one of the things, i actually heard from a couple of students and they thought the cool you know they're like oh cool it's got a name on it which is going to lead me to do we want these cars to be in a homecoming parade which your comments might have negated that but i just wanted to i still wanted to put that on the table just i don't my father you don't want the mark branded in the home oh i've heard i've heard i've heard some really good things about it about the cars and i was going to suggest to put them in the homecoming grade and show them off.

Did pulling these cars completely fulfill our need? We're good right now. Right now. We're good. But if you have one in an accident right now, we're not good.

So you put a band-aid on this. What are we going to do? I can make it this year.

You said you ordered a vehicle in December that you stood in the hood? We don't have it. Any time, I mean, any time?

Because don't we have, I mean, it has school resource officer are the ones I've seen, right? That's all.

in downtown and say this is you know what I'm saying you know and just again throwing things around and talking back and forth I think just another statement of a thought of our SROs are in our schools to be approachable to students does this make them more approachable you know does the branding make them say okay we're more of a community we're more of a of a school, that's kind of what I thought about when I saw it, because we very, you know, I don't know the police officers in these four schools, but the ones I know elsewhere, they know the police officer is the police officer. It's a good

That's right. That's a good word. And if they're not an effective SRO, who moved on down the road.

What is this not done as in having the conversation with the SROs and the principals?

Did the SROs choose to go to their jobs or were they assigned? Were the SROs assigned or did they choose to be SROs?

Random ball, not a random ball. I like the police blue, but also the police officers ever go into Conway Green? Don't answer that. You mean Conway what? Conway Green. It's Queen Conway and Lincoln were blue. How do they feel if that was like Conway Green? On the car. And you don't have to answer that because I don't know if you know the answer. But I'm just throwing that out there just to say.

But when I look at this too, you've also got Conway Police on here with the seal on there.

was talking well we i just want to make sure we notice that it does have conway police and the conway badge on there and i assume it would be on the other side also it is it's a wrap and i can't read what's on the back anyway thank you that's all i had to say so that's making sure we do that whatever other questions you have i'm glad to answer them

But the general leadership team, I think, is great. I mean, the more employee engagement we have, not just in general, as a world, it's great.

I mean, it's just real easy to sit in a management seat and things just kind of fade away a little bit. But when you've got that feedback coming from your colleagues, it's just...

If we're coming together to, without cutting the trees, but just to line a soccer field or a baseball field or- You have to cut trees, don't you?

I'm sorry, keep going. So is it possible to have the baseball field and like the soccer field at the end of the baseball field?

Where the baseball field is now, right? Leave that where it is. I go to the outfield. That space there. Outside the fence. Unless you cut trees. There's not enough space there to do like a, okay.

Maybe even a half, you know, put in a soccer net so kids could kick in the soccer.

Obviously, I misjudged the size of the base . How far back does the property go?