City Council - Regular Meeting

We're going to go ahead and proceed with the meeting tonight. Time has come and it'll help me out right there. As we always do, we call the meeting to order. This is a regularly scheduled, called, and convened Greer City Council meeting held September 22, 2026. Having called the meeting to order, I'd like to ask Councilman Bettis, if he would, to lead us in a pledge of allegiance and an invocation. If you'd like to join us, please stand.

Council, with that... I don't believe that we have anybody to appear in public forum this evening. So with that, we will dispense with that and also departmental reports. Uh, we do have financial activity report and Mr. Klein will come and bring that to us this evening.

We're not off to too fast a start here. Mr. Klein, you're here. Go ahead and do it, and then we'll go back and pick up the minutes. How about that? You got it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, sir.

Thank you, sir. Floor is open for questions.

Comments or discussion? Hearing none. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. Council, let's go back and pick up the minutes from our last council meeting. I'll entertain a motion that they be received. And a second. Any items of note to the clerk? No. Hearing none.

Yes. Council and I think it's appropriate as well to let folks know that we have been without the services of one of our staff members and wish her well in her recovery and we've We've been trying to make do, but you don't realize sometimes how important things are until somebody is out unexpectedly. And it, for us, has been I guess to say that we have tried to make up for our clerk's presence and we want to wish her well as we hope to see her return soon. So with that, Mr. Merriman, your report this evening, please, sir.

Thank you, sir. As you are aware, it's been a little time since Ms. Duncan's been able to be with us, and some of you have seen Ms. Dowd, who's been here a time or two, trying to get on our agenda as a petitioner, And I had an opportunity to speak with her this evening. She obviously was not able to get on this agenda, but know that she has been diligent in trying to come and address council in regards to technology. And so what I am going to do is ask council for this meeting only, stated as this meeting only, to suspend our rules and allow Ms. Dowd to come as a petitioner at this evening's m

Yes. Mr. Booker. Yes. Mr. Hopper. Yes. Mr. Lander. Yes. Mr. Bettis. Yes. Mr. Lamb. Yes. Mr. Mayer. Yes. Ms. Dowd, you can come to the podium to address council. Typically, we allow three minutes for remarks. I will allow you five minutes tonight. We've got a fairly short meeting, so the floor is yours. is yours, and we'll start the clock when you start. I will need you to state your name and address as a matter of the record, please.

With that, Council, then we're going to move to our regular agenda here. We have two items of old business, the only thing that are on our agenda this evening. So we will proceed with those. As the first item before us this evening is the second and final reading of Ordinance Number 33-2026. This is an ordinance approving the financing of the improvement, extension, and enlargement of the combined utility system of the city of Greer, South Carolina, through the borrowing by the city of not exceeding $1.9 million plus capitalized interest of any from the drinking water revolving loan fund by ag

Thank you, sir. You're going to be available for questions, I assume. If you will, if you want to, take that seat there for a minute, and we'll keep you from having to walk around too much, hopefully. With that, I'll entertain a motion to receive. And a second. Floor is open for discussion.

Yes. Second and final reading of ordinance number 34-2026. This is the first reading of ordinance number 34-2026. An ordinance approving the financing of the improvement, extension, and enlargement of a combined utility system of the city of Rear South Carolina through borrowing by the city. of not exceeding $4.18 million plus capitalized interest, if any, from the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund by agreement with South Carolina Water Quality Revolving Fund Authority pursuant to Title 48, Chapter 5, Code of the Laws, South Carolina, 1976, as amended, providing for a loan application to

Even luck happens every now and then around here. With that, then, I'll entertain a motion to receive.

Motion and a second. Floor is open for discussion.

Half of my voters think CPW is part of the city. And they're always thanking me, telling me how great a job you're doing.

I think it's important for us to note that this is a relationship that now is well over 100 years old. I don't know that much of our community or a large portion of our community understands that relationship because We were the empowering authority, but they only have their own commission, and so those decisions are made by their commissioners, and it's sort of like having your father-in-law on your mortgage and wanting to get a loan extension or something, you're going to have to go to somebody else to ask them for permission while you're making the decision and actually paying the bills. So

Yes. Mr. Lamb? Yes. Mr. Mayer? Yes. Council, we have no new business this evening. We have no executive session this evening. We stand adjourned.