County Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome everyone at this time I will call to order the September 21st 2026 County Council meeting to order our first item of business is to recognize the honorable bump Roddy in district 4 for the invocation and pledge of allegiance.

I always like to start off by a moment of silence to think about our loved ones and those who've gone before us, who've made some sacrifices for us to enjoy some of these great liberties that we have here in South Carolina and across the nation. So we'll take a moment of silence and we'll say a prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you with bow heads and humble hearts. full of thanks and forgiveness. We ask that you continue to watch over us, lead us, and guide us, and direct us to have us do your will. We ask that you bless this meeting so that we do what is right, what is pleasing in your

At this time, we do have our oath of office for individuals who have been nominated and are here to be sworn in to serve on the various boards. If I call your name, if you'll please come forward and stand in front of the podium. Our county attorney will meet you in front of the podium and swear you in. We have Alan Abernathy and Cody Cooper with the Agriculture Ad Hoc Advisory Board. Perry Johnston with the Lake Wiley Marine Commission. Thomas Debrouillet, Rock Hill York County Airport Commission. Thomas Monroe, Keep York County Beautiful At Large. And as you make your way forward, we do thank

We don't have any appearances tonight. We do have public forum. This is the opportunity for individuals to come and speak to council about matters that affect jurisdiction. What I would ask folks is if you'll please keep your comments to the two minute mark. As soon as you come forward, give your name and address and your time will start if you pay attention to the screen. um it will give you a warning and then it will let you know when the two minutes is up and if you will cut off your comments at that time that will save me from having to do that i do not think anybody is here to speak about

It goes by quick. I'm sorry. Steve Penland.

Thank you, ma'am. That concludes our public forum session. We do want to say thank you to the individuals who came out to speak and to share. Again, it's not a time for us to answer questions, but to receive information from the community. Do we have a motion on consent agenda?

Motion and a second to approve consent agenda. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, consent agenda is approved. We have one public hearing item today. Council to conduct a public hearing and provide third reading of an ordinance authorizing the first amendment of that certain fee in lieu of taxes agreement by and between York County, South Carolina and BAC Calair, Rock Hill, LLC and Palladus, Inc. relating to without limitation one, updating the fee agreement to reflect an assessment ratio of 6% instead of 4, and two, removing Palladus, Inc. as a party to

Thank you, sir. Any questions for staff before we open public hearing?

I have a question for staff. Is this change from 4 to 6, is it supposed to happen now or was it supposed to happen earlier and we're just doing it? Are we on schedule? Was this a schedule change?

Since the project didn't come to fruition, it returns back. Basically, the FLO rate that was at 4% now has changed at 6%, which is the same rate that all general commercial pays. Any other questions? Thank you, sir. This is not a new agreement. We are required to make these changes through a public hearing, so is there anyone here who wishes to speak against this change? Is there anyone who wishes to speak in favor?

Motion and a second to close public hearing. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, public hearing is closed. Do we have a new motion?

Second. Motion and a second to approve. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion is approved. We move now to our first item of old business counts to consider second reading of an ordinance to amend chapter one fifty five zoning code one fifty five point one two four six interpretation of zoning map to permit a parcel with more than one district boundary to be governed by the development regulations of district making up the greatest area and chapter one fifty four land development code one fifty four point four individual plants for land divisions

Second. We have a motion and a second. Do we have some information to be shared?

So originally, I'll ask my questions. Originally, what was proposed that council consider was something far more broad. And I think at first reading, I was one of the most critical of that in that it attempted to allow decisions to be made about how to deal with things based upon the larger parcel. Since then, listening to the comments, what I'm trying to make sure is that this ordinance will only apply to residential. It doesn't apply to the situations that folks are talking about. It only applies if you have a split zone, current split zone lot, and the reason why it's necessary is to allow

Just a point of clarification. Just a point of clarification. Since first reading, my understanding was this was about residential, only residential.

OK. Thank you. I was going to say, so from the onset, this was never involving any commercial property, just residential.

Well, I think, uh, uh, first of all, you know, having these conversations in, in, in you know, parsing this apart was critical. Again, this is the critical process of us defining and identifying issues from within these bills and then clearly defining the guardrails and the understanding of what we really want to get out of here. So I think this puts in the restrictions that we need in order to manage this situation. So I appreciate it. Nice work. And thank you, Walter.

You can't create a split zone now. Right.

Any other questions or discussion? All right, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. We move now to item number two in old business, rezoning action. Counts to consider second reading case number 26-27, tax map number 721-0000023 and 073 to rezone from GC to LI 24.06 acres in District 7. We have already had public hearing. I know that information was presented to all of council prior to that. Do we have a motion?

We have a motion and a second to approve. Is that motion? Go ahead.

OK. I would like for planning to come up and present some information that they received.

I will say that at first reading, there were a number of deed restrictions that we were encouraged to wait until second reading to address. Is that something that staff is prepared to share or outline?

Can we get that up on the screen somehow so that those here who are for it and against it can see kinda what some of those restrictions are?

We can talk about some of those, can't we? You wanna go ahead and talk about them?

Some of the exclusions that may help ease some of the concerns of the neighbors.

Jonathan, did you have the Walmart deed restrictions when you guys talked about this project in the beginning?

Is this common that you don't get those date restrictions in the beginning?

Okay. So can you talk about some of the restrictions?

I think it was someone spoke that it was 75 feet, but I think it's 250 feet. Is that correct?

Christy, the developers are here and they can speak to that. It is 250 feet. I think...

What I would like to see happen, and as I understand it, the applicant, we don't typically hear from the applicant twice. We hear from them once, just like we do from the public. The applicant has sent in information that was sent to staff as well, and so the hope was that this information would have been uploaded and that staff would be prepared to identify all of the restrictions. that are part of this agreement as well as address any of the questions that have to do with any buffers. I think if y'all are prepared to work on that. Jonathan, one of the things I understand is that as a propert

what i had understood and what i had hoped that would be presented from staff at least at second reading is something that we could all see to show all of the deed restrictions that exist so that at least those are made part of part of the record thank you so these are things that won't or can't come to the property

And this is, as I understand it, the developer has put their own deed restrictions on the property. This is not Walmart. This is the developers. So there's another whole set of deed restrictions.

So all... Assuming this property is rezoned, all of these things are prohibited to be used, even though they're allowed in light industrial, they're prohibited by deed restriction. That's enforceable. Is that correct? Correct. Jonathan.

What about this section down here, number three? It says all loading docks face inward so that any of the noise from those things, does that apply to any development on the property, that there won't be noise, the backing up or the trucks loading on the outside of the perimeter of the buildings?

But this restriction does restrict it for this property going forward? Can you show us the ones that are currently the property owner is not allowing by virtue of their ownership interest?

So while we're waiting on that to upload, I just have a quick question that I wanted to point out. One of the citizens spoke about being residential. If this was a residential property on 24 acres, how many homes approximately or multi-family homes could go on 24 acres?

I mean, if they decide to go, they rezone it to residential. If this was a residential piece of property,

What I was trying to do is show a comparison of different things that could come here that some people may or may not want. Some people may not want. apartments put there. Some people, man, I want single family residency. I know our schools probably, I don't know how they would feel about it, but just, because sometimes when people don't want something, they don't know the alternative of what could come that could be possibly worse than what they have. Just trying to do a comparison.

Okay, I've just got one more comment. Okay, so our community of course is very sensitive to warehouses and we are dealing with a bad situation. I do thank the developer for putting into their deed restrictions about manufacturing and taking away hazardous chemicals. So we're looking at a different type, are we not? A different type of warehouse than a 750,000 square foot warehouse that is housing one company. Is this, isn't this a different proposal than that?

You don't know that it's an individual, that they're gonna have like six individual companies.

Has the applicant submitted any information relative to that?

To what they're proposing here on this site.

So one I've seen, it is individually split up. In other words, if you had a heating and air conditioning company that wanted to come in, they're actually going to have a storefront. So I think I saw a conceptual drawing. And there's like six. individual companies that's going to be in one of the buildings and they're each going to have like a storefront and so it's going to look a little bit different than your traditional warehousing are storefronts allowed in light industrial well and i use that term loosely yeah it depends on what you mean by storefront well i guess can you sell out of a wa

Based on the design we saw last meeting, from what I remember on that is the two warehouses were set back with the buffer zone. On the upper front of it was still commercial. then um and again that's again from what i can remember from the diagram and what we looked at but the couple questions i have and and i know they originally proposed i think uh walmart to go into this location and i know that there were some numbers that we talked about from a traffic in traffic out standpoint when you do have something like a walmart going in there the traffic was comparatively heavier than It sounds li

Yeah. And all this stuff plays a factor. The other the other question I have is that when we look at 250 feet buffer zone, there was a comment made about trees being knocked down etc um you know you've got a natural buffer zone right there and that's a heavily dense woods from within there so i guess my question is you know how when are we looking at saving these trees in this buffer zone um to make it look as natural as possible to to um the concerns that I think I've heard tonight where a lot of times we've seen where they clear cut or they've cut down all the trees and then start planting s

And then the last thing I just thought of, too, you know, when it comes to trucks backing up etc i know we've there has been some requirements in certain areas we have sound fences that have been installed to hold in the sound i think that's something that we should look at as a possible solution if this is something we do approve so again Yeah, there's no code requirement for sound mitigation of backup noises from vehicles, but... Yeah, and yeah, so again, when you look at what they're stating won't go in there, you know, I think, and I do appreciate the developers here in working with the co

One thing, I think 50, Flint Hill will have, I got a new updated design from Patrick Hamilton, and he has turning lanes on Flint Hill, to the right and to the left. They don't have now, currently. So there will be an improvement on Flint Hill there.

Is that is that as part of are there turn lanes as part of the development agreement where the developers required to do that?

He had it as maybe something that's going with the Penny's project with 21 widening there. So I'm not sure if it's pennies or the developers. It showed me a drawing with the turn lanes going right and left.

A couple of questions, please. Yes, sir. OK, so I think 21 is slated to be widened by the end of September of 2028. And I saw Patrick Hamilton here earlier. Is that still slated to be on time? Does anybody know the answer to that?

I've talked to him. I talked to him about that.

Is it slated to be completed by 2028? I think it's on time.

Is Flint Hill slated to be improved, especially at the intersection? I heard the question. Just want to make sure. OK.

OK. Let me say this, and I'll make my last comment. So when you look at general commercial compared to L.I., which I'm sure you've done because this is in your district, moving to L.I., I know you're going to have restrictions, but there are a lot more uses that can happen in L.I. If you want to avoid warehouse distribution manufacturing, then you'd go to, if you want to avoid it, you'd leave it in general commercial. But you're moving towards that, which I think I remember seeing in the report. There was 6,100 I think it was 6,100 trips a day coming out of this facility, right?

I think that hasn't been studied yet. I'm uncertain that's what it said. And I'm just making comments and asking questions, trying to do what's best in your district. And I relate this to what I brought up at the last meeting about Mount Gallant Rd. Mount Gallant from museum to heckle Mount Gallant from museum to 161. And I've got a proposed project. I actually have two proposed projects out in that area. And they're going to have an impact on an already difficult traffic situation currently. So I'm not necessarily opposed to the development, but I'm definitely concerned about the traffic. I'm

Well, since you brought that up, I'll say this then. In this project that I'm referring to, we have some that are currently Es and Fs and definitely Ds. Like I said, there are 10 out of 14 that are in the poorest of categories. It might be if this project comes to fruition, they're going to have to address some of those that they're not causing, but they need to help improve them before they take them down another letter grade. And that may be something you want to consider in your area.

We'll see what happens with the TIA. They haven't done it yet, so we'll see.

TIA would dictate that. Will she get the TIA before third reading? No.

Can we require TIA before we rezone? Yes. Have we done it in the past?

Well, does the staff feel that if this project moves forward, it will cause the road to fail, then throwing them into a bag that says you can't do the project? Is that a concern to staff? I would begin to speculate. So how do we know if we should require TIA before we rezone it?

I'll say this. I didn't bring that up. to cause this rezoning not to happen. I'm simply saying we had a TIA before first reading, before the land was annexed, and it's helping us have a conversation with the developer about what we might want them to consider that they wouldn't have considered otherwise. They've been working with Kimberly long already.

Just for purposes of clarification, let me make sure I'm clear. The comments that you made about the TIA have nothing to do with this project. Nothing at all. You're talking about a different project. But it could. And there's no issue.

But the developer is already working with Kimberly. So maybe they can come up with something like that. But I want to make sure that everybody on council understands that there are three parcels facing 21 that are going to remain general commercial. Do you understand that? Okay. So they're gonna be like a restaurant or whatever, you know, goes in there.

They're not changing that part. No. That's facing 21. So I'm thinking, just off the top of my head, if it is, let's say a Chick-fil-A. I would think the majority of the traffic is going to come from those three general commercial properties, like a Chick-fil-A, versus what's gonna happen even toward the warehouse situation.

You mentioned 59 roll-up doors. I don't think that's the case.

Well. Okay. Jonathan, do you have any of the information on the parcel that we're talking about here? The parcel only is the internal parcel. It doesn't include the road frontage pieces.

OK. I'll say this. In order for me to support, I've heard the community, there are some concerns about where we are. One of the things that I'm concerned about is passing second reading at all without having all of these deed restrictions as part of the motion. I think all of the deed restrictions need to be made a part of it. I would make the amendment that all of the deed restrictions mentioned in the by wal-mart in the sale agreement which includes they have specifically come out and said they think refuse to sell the property if if anything is going to be a discount store a grocery store s

Is there a second to an amendment to that effect? Second.

OK. So what we're going to debate now is the amendment, which is basically putting in second reading. There still is a requirement for three readings before anything can pass. But at least at this point, what this amendment would do would be to put in place something that requires all of the restrictions that the applicant is saying they're going to abide by and that the owner of the current property says they will not sell the property. to allow in writing as part of the existing motion. Is there any other discussion on the amendment?

The intent of my amendment is to include all of the restrictions that have been presented to us, either by virtue of the sale agreement or by virtue of the deed restrictions that the applicant said they would adhere to, both of them.

And OK, so I will clarify that my motion applies to any of the restrictions lit listed and exhibit B to the agreement of sale. And. Any of the prohibited uses identified in the restrictive agreement, which I don't. the restricted covenant agreement. I think that's as close as I can get.

Thank you, sir. Is whoever seconded my amendment prepared to agree to that clarification?

OK. So we are now working from an amendment that references those two documents. Any other discussion on the amendment?

All right. All those in favor of the amendment, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. The amendment passes, and the restriction are made part of the agreement.

All right, so is your motion to amend to ask for a TIA before we have third reading, or do we need an assessment of, is that your amendment? Well, however you want to propose it.

Is there anything that staff can help us with in terms of the question? I think that Mr. Huckabee raised is a good one. Clearly, there is a use that's allowed on this property that they could do that generates a certain amount of traffic. I think what we're trying to determine is how this compares to that and without having any kind of framework. I mean, the only other thing I could think of is to request that staff take a look at it and provide a memo and that we defer third reading until we have some information. At that point, we could commit to a TIA requirement.

I'll second your motion to include a TIA. Does she make an informal motion?

We haven't had a second. I think we're debating what are the options when it comes to the traffic. What are the options when it comes to the traffic issue, and how do we get some feedback? I mean, I heard also some information about what are the current road improvements that are required from Pennies. That's a separate question. Is that going to be required with turn lanes in the surrounding area? I don't know. Ann?

Could we not, because she did, I remember the presenter did show us some traffic information. Could staff not sit with the developer to say, hey, if this is the situation with the traffic count, this road will fail. Or if this effect plays out, this road will still meet a passing law. Because that's basically what a TIA is going to tell you.

But sitting with staff wouldn't take six months.

Now, keep in mind, the traffic study is not going to eliminate all the other concerns that residents have brought forth. So this thing was just, if we're hinging it on traffic, Let's say we're gonna approve it. If it passes, we're gonna deny it if it fails. But let's don't have a traffic, a TIA done, then come back and say, hey, well, what about this, what about that? If this only hinges on traffic, I'll say let's do the TIA before third reading. But traffic doesn't eliminate the beeping sound that someone brought up, the noise and some of the other variables that have come up. But if we're go

Well, I think I agree with you, you know, and I think to this extent, I mean, this is a larger extent, a larger ask on and from in this situation. But I guess back to the timing with TIA. So we pass this on second reading requesting that a TIA be done prior to third reading. But so I guess my question is, I'd like to understand how we can

will be more than willing to jump in there to support any mitigation.

I guess at this point, we don't have an amendment on the table. Are we asking staff to provide an analysis of options to us and get some response back about the options as to the TIA purpose? Or are we going to officially require a TIA before third reading? There's different options here. So I don't... I don't mind entertaining either of them, but I want to make sure. The thing that I struggle with with this particular rezoning is that it sure would be nice to do some, I don't know what the community, it sure would be nice to do, a lot of times community comes and says we really would like for

I'd like to amend the motion to include a TIA to be completed before a third reading.

Yeah, I'll second that because the quicker we start this process.

And the reason I bring this up is that, and again, in my district, you've said it once publicly, somebody said it once publicly, that there's not a lot of growth. There wasn't a lot of growth going on in my District 6 in Rock Hill. But I've seen it now in 161-274, and it's happening on Mount Gallant. What I've learned from this is, most recently, when you go through that TIA and you start looking at how those roads are graded out right now, The developer is going to help you with some of that, but not all of that unless you ask for the help on the other things. And ultimately, as county counci

Did you say a TIA was six weeks or six months, possibly?

The one we just did was six to eight weeks. We didn't do it. The developer did it. I'm not saying that's the case, but.

Well, I think we already got some preliminary comparison numbers, again, in our last three. So, again, I think, you know, if we're going to move forward with this and we get the votes, I think there has been some numbers given to us on the upfront. I think we can help at every angle to move this along as quickly as possible.

I'm a little bit uncomfortable with passing a motion without knowing what questions we need to ask. So I mean, as it pertains to this amendment that's on the table, the current amendment that has been seconded is to require a TIA prior to third reading. If you're telling us that we need to have very specific questions as part of that, this council is not prepared to ask those.

Let me ask, isn't it standard for the TIA to include intersection impact and approaching intersection impact? That's standard, isn't it?

That's really what you're looking for is you want to see in that surrounding area, how does your area grade out? And that will help you, help us help you with whether it remains GC or it goes to light industrial.

I think the concern I have is the questions are an individual is allowed to build something now. They aren't required to do that. And what we're trying to determine is what are they allowed to do? With all of these restrictions in place, what do we have left compared to what's allowed by right versus the other? And I guess the motion on the table is to include the TIA, but I'm hearing from staff that we need to have very specific questions answered before we can commit to that. I don't know if someone wants to go into executive session to do that now, or do we want to defer the issue or get so

I mean, if we're going to do the TI's, I think that's something that we need to mitigate now in a second reading. And then I mean, we don't like we could circle in and come back to you with requirement. I think the questions we're asked, I think we talked about it. earlier really around the impact of the vehicles or the trucks in essence. That's really the big question to me. So what is the ingress and egress? Those simple basic questions and based on what could go there, they can obviously come up with some type of estimate, but do you need to have the answers now? I mean, I think we pass it

No, I think that these are conversations I think we're talking through and I think the proposed opportunity from what I heard in the original requirement had half the impact on this property that if a Walmart went in there. So I think there's less impact here. We talked about the numbers in our last meeting. I think that we are making this decision based on some of the concerns we're hearing, which again, we need to address everything, including sound and that type of thing. And I think By us asking for TIA, I think this will help us to answer some of the public's questions. So I don't think i

Yeah, I think those numbers for this development is far less than what the projected was for the Walmart.

well I guess Walmart could be there later they just aren't ready to build there now I think we're speculating we have to we have to base our decision based upon the facts in front of us the question and the amendment in front of us is to require the TIA prior to third reading unless there is A motion for executive session to get legal advice.

Is there any other discussion on that? Yeah, just come up with questions after the meeting tonight, submit that to Jonathan so he can talk to the developer.

All right. All those in favor of the amendment say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Amendment passes TIA will be required before third reading. Any other amendments before we go to the main motion? All right, all those in favor of the motion as amended, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Opposed. Motion passes six to one. Thank you, sir. We move now to our only item of new business. Council to receive the fiscal 2526 development report as information.

Sorry, we can't hear a word you're saying.

Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Any questions?

Can we go to the slide that shows, I think it had the circular breakdown? Yeah, that one, that one, back. Is that a one year, $4 million collection? Or is that over a period of time?

I'm wondering if from this report, have we learned anything that we can use to help better serve folks? I mean, I know if you look back at the single family, I mean, COVID was 20. So the explanation of kind of looks to me like the 2021-22 is an outlier. So I don't know that you can necessarily use a five-year average on the residential, but it does look like the county is focusing on single family residential rather than townhomes. Townhomes and high density housing is not in the county. We're seeing less of that, which I think makes sense. But when it comes to single family, it looks like it'

So to piggyback on what you just said, because I was looking at this same slide, too, and what I wanted to ask is 93.8% single family. And this is unincorporated York County. Is that correct? Yes, sir. All right.

OK. Single family because of well and septic, I would guess. 6.2 townhome. So I'm going to take. Councilmember Cox's question and ask it this way. Are there, and you may not know the answer to this, but I'd like to know the answer to this since we just had the presentation on workforce housing or affordable housing, whatever we're gonna call it, attainable housing. What do we need to do in our zoning? Because we haven't had any conversation since that meeting on this topic. Looking forward to this conversation. But what do we need to do in our zoning or our approach to housing other than singl

Is this data also shared with DOT when they look at requirements on road expansion, et cetera? I mean, this is good data, and it kind of shows you present and future model for growth. So I think it would be good to share if you're not.

Appreciate you sharing that, because to me, this speaks to that need.

Can we get this by district, this information by district?

I think there's a way to at least show where the permits are being done, seeing the geographic areas that folks are gravitating to. I think we have a guess on that.

Obviously, roads are a problem. So it would help with planning some in the future. We could get it by district.

The schools use this for when they start redistributing.

We do have a committee, Finance and Operations Committee meeting. Tom Alldead, our chairman.

All right, yeah, this evening we had our, this afternoon we had our meeting, and we passed a few items here which were around committee assignments. So committee assignment for Keep York County Beautiful Board, there was an at-large seat for Shelly Champion, which was approved, and then also Corey Tilley also was approved. for a seat on that committee. Also, there was a committee seat that was approved for, but they fired a district board, which was Christopher Meredith was approved for that position. Then a position was approved for District 6 for the York County Library Board. Ellen Brand wa

Thank you, sir. We do have a citizen concern tonight. Is Miss Tonetta Moore Cathcart here? I'm sorry, if I pronounced your name wrong, please come forward. She's here tonight to recognize volunteers with the Walk for Peace community. She's one of the volunteer coordinators and has patiently waited her time to come forward. Yes, ma'am.

Thank you, ma'am. I am proud of my district.

Oh, yeah, we're definitely. Did y'all complete your programs? Yes. Is that everything? Okay. Yes.

Sure, go ahead. I want to give you your thanks because I know you've always been responsive, and I know you got this short notice and was able to put it together. And as you thank them, we want to thank you for spearheading the whole collaborative effort across the whole county. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.

What we'll ask that you do, and I have to say this, Ms. Cathcart, you have such a positive spirit about you. I appreciate you waiting your time, and I appreciate you folks for waiting this long to get to this piece. This is something our community should be very proud of. I know we all are, and we need more of this here. How do we take care of each other? How do we start binding together in order to look out for our community and work for peace and a common goal? Thank you so much. If y'all want to get up here and get a picture, we want to make sure we recognize you all. Thank you.

We do have executive session tonight Any other council member new knowledge in the comments before we go into executive session?

I'd like to make a comment with myself and a couple of fellows over there. Sometimes I want to hug them, sometimes not. We all ended up, believe it or not, at Narrow Way last week, and that was to celebrate, I think everybody was invited, but it ended up the three of us went. It was a very, they're celebrating 20 years and it is, um, I can't even explain their story. These two women that started Narrow Way and still own it and have tremendous hopes and aspirations for the future. It's going to be a show place. Eventually it's gonna be a tremendous show place for the whole county to be very, ve

I agree. I agree. I'll share a couple of things. On Wednesday, September 9th, I was able to go over to Riverstone Logistics, a company that we brought into York County and Rock Hill recently with a little bit of incentive money. I'm going to mention each one of these because I feel pretty moved by them. Number one, I want you to know that you brought a company into York County recently. who truly is gonna make an impact. When I walked in on the third floor, I probably spoke, 10 to 12 staff members of that company spoke to me as I walked in. You could tell what the culture of this company was.

And her name is Cleopatra, and she's four months old.

Yeah. So I'd encourage you to go visit. They are looking for a new location. She's so cute. Last thing is I'll be sponsoring a table again this year for Safe Passage. So they have an event on October the 22nd, which I invited all of you all since we joined council. I'm going to invite you again. It's a wonderful event, too. You learn a lot about how women, children, and even men are abused in their homes and what happens after that happens. So pretty moving evening that evening too. So I appreciate your time. Thanks for letting me share that.

I'll just say I've heard a lot of great things about Narrow Way. I work with a coworker who goes up there all the time. So they got a big Christmas production he always attends and comes back and tells me about it. So a number of great things. I do want to put staff on notice. I would like to hear back on these supposed violation of noise orders going on after the hours that are permitted. That seems to have come up several times over the last couple of months over in the data center area. I would like to know if there's a way that we can Um, I don't know if we can have staff available, but I

Yeah, I did want to piggyback off of what you just stated about the noise violations at night. I think that's, you know, we need to really get down to the bottom of it, understand that what's going on here and really hold them accountable. And it doesn't sound like that's happening, so I appreciate that.

All right. I'll echo that and look for a report from staff to give us some feedback since we had a number of folks out here requesting help. Thank you. Yeah.

Yes, we got a few. Receive a legal advice litigation updates, a receipt of legal advice, contractual matter, mutual consent agreement with city of Rock Hill. Receive legal advice, contractual matter, county manager. Receive legal advice, contractual matter, county attorney. And receipt of legal advice, county personnel policy.

Motion and a second. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. We will go into executive session. We are out of executive session. No action was taken while we were in executive session. Do we have any motions?

We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, motion carries.

Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion?

Yeah, I'd like to second that, too. It's been an honor working with you, Josh. We really appreciate the time that we've spent together. We appreciate you. Thank you.

Yeah. Oh, I was just seconding what Tommy said, for sure, on your family. We hope you get into a good place with your kids, especially.

Josh, I want to thank you for your service to York County. When we met you in 2024, you came in with a smile on your face and a ton of enthusiasm and passion for what you could do for York County. So from April to September, you managed to put together a strategic plan that we have followed and we have pretty much implemented. There's some things we're still a little short on, but for the most part, that three-year strategic plan, we're almost two-thirds of the way through implementing that. And it was your vision. pulling together this council, your executive staff, and all the employees of t

I just want to echo and say thank you for your service to York County. We wish you well in your future endeavors. We appreciate the work that you will be doing to help with the transition and ensuring that we have a stabilized transition to the management of this county. Thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Do we have any other motions? Motion to adjourn. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. We are adjourned.