* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:10] EVERYBODY WHO WERE AT THE LONG AWAITED STRATEGIC PLAN MEETING. FIRST OF ALL, I ASKED YOU, IF YOU COULD PLEASE CHECK YOUR PHONES AND MAKE SURE THEY'RE ON MUTE OR SHUT OFF FOR SOMETHING ALONG THE WAY. IF YOU HAVE TWO PHONES, MAKE SURE THEY'RE BOTH THE SAME WAY WALK. OKAY. UM, ONE WASN'T SHUT OFF. I MUST SAY THAT, UM, JEFF BUCKALEW GOT THE BEST PARKING SPACE TODAY OF ANYBODY HERE. HE WALKED FROM HIS HOUSE ON THE BEACH TO HERE, AND I WAS PLEASED, YOU KNOW, COME OUT TO THE BEACH BEACHY. WHEN HE CAME OUT OF THE WATER, I WAS KIND OF CONCERNED THAT HE WAS SOMEBODY, I DIDN'T KNOW, BUT I WALKED HERE FROM HIS BEACH AND IT WAS, UM, IT WAS VERY NICE. WELL, IT'S GOOD TO HAVE A ROLL HERE THIS MORNING. IT'S GOOD THAT WE'LL ROLL HERE IN PERSON, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE A FOOTBALL FIELD AWAY, BUT IT'S, IT'S A GOOD FEELING OF MEAN IT'S ALL YEAR AT THE SAME TIME. TODAY IS ALL ABOUT WHAT THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS ABOUT. WHAT, AND WHAT WE WILL DO IS WE'LL BE FILLING IN THE, THE, WHEN, HOW, AND, AND EVERYTHING. AT A LATER TIME, WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE, WHAT THE SEE WHAT'S THERE. UM, MARK HAS THE THING BROKEN DOWN TO THIS MORNING. WE'LL GO THROUGH WHAT'S IN THE BOOK. AND THEN HE HAS A WHOLE LOAD OF STUFF THAT MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL YOU HAVE TALKED ABOUT THAT WANTED TO REVIEWED EVERYTHING AND THEN GO THROUGH THEM. YOU HAVE TO LUNCH. UM, THIS IS NOT A SESSION FOR LECTURES, SPEECHES. IT'S A WORKING SESSION. I'D APPRECIATE EVERYBODY BEING AS BRIEF AS THEY CAN, RIGHT. TO THE POINT OF WHAT THEY CAN. LET'S TRY TO GET AS MUCH DONE AS WE CAN IN A REASONABLE PERIOD OF TIME. UM, WITH THAT MOCK, FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE, MARK. OH, I THOUGHT I SEEN YOUR CALL COG ON THE OTHER WAY WITH THE BRIDGE THIS MORNING. SO I WAS KIND OF CONCERNED YOU WERE GOING THE WRONG DIRECTION, BUT THANK YOU FOR THE RECORD. THAT WAS NOT ME. CAN YOU TURN THAT DOWN A LITTLE BIT FOR ME? THANK YOU. WELL, GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. UM, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE TIME THAT YOU PUT INTO THIS COMMUNITY AND, AND LEADING, UH, IT'S INTERESTING TOMORROW MARKS MY EIGHT MONTH ANNIVERSARY AND I DO COUNT, UH, BECAUSE I COUNT MY BLESSINGS AND, UM, I'M MORE THAN GRATEFUL TO BE HERE SERVING AS YOUR TOWN MANAGER. UM, AND I HAVE SUCH GREAT APPRECIATION FOR HOW MUCH WORK YOU ALL PUT IN, UM, FOR THE COUNCIL MEETINGS, AS WELL AS BEHIND THE SCENES WITH YOUR COMMUNITY. SO AS A STAFF AND I CAN SPEAK FOR US, WE COULDN'T BE PROUDER TO WORK FOR YOU AND ALONGSIDE YOU ALONG THE WAY. I REALLY WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE TEAM AROUND THE TABLE. UH, THEY ALSO HAVE BEEN COUNTING THAT I'VE BEEN HERE EIGHT MONTHS. UM, I THINK THAT WE'VE MADE SOME GREAT PROGRESS TOGETHER. I'M GETTING TO KNOW THEM AS MUCH AS THEY'RE GETTING TO KNOW ME. UH, AND I THINK THAT'S A, IT'S A GREAT RELATIONSHIP AND A VERY PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT TO DATE. AND I JUST REALLY APPRECIATE, APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU. I COULD SPEND MINUTES, LOTS OF MINUTES TALKING ABOUT EACH ONE OF YOU AND HOW YOU LEAD THE COMMUNITY AND HOW YOU'VE HELPED EACH OTHER IN YOUR RESPECTIVE. UH, WE HAVE A GREAT TOWN STAFF. I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THEM, GETTING TO KNOW THEM, UNDERSTANDING THE CULTURE OF THE ORGANIZATION, UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMIC, YOU KNOW, THE WHY, WHY DO WE DO IT THAT WAY? UM, DO WE NEED TO KEEP DOING IT THAT WAY? AND I'VE BEEN ASKING A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND TRYING TO INVOKE A LOT OF THOUGHT. UM, WE HAVE SEVERAL FOLKS IN INTERIM POSITIONS. UH, I TRULY BELIEVE THAT BUILDING THE RIGHT TEAM IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I CAN DO HERE, BUT I ALSO REALLY BELIEVE IN BUILDING THE TEAM SLOWLY. AND SO I AM GOING TO KEEP WAITING UNTIL I FIND THE RIGHT PERSON IN THE RIGHT POSITION AT THE RIGHT TIME, INSTEAD OF JUST PUTTING SOMEONE THERE. UM, IT'S ALLOWED SOME FOLKS, ESPECIALLY CHRIS YATES AND JEFF BUCKALOO TO SERVE AS INTERIMS OF TWO DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT. I THINK JEFF HAS SUCH APPRECIATION EVEN MORE SO IN ADMIRATION NOW WITH THE LOSS OF SCOTT SERVING AS THE DIRECTOR, INTERIM DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES. AND I KNOW CHRIS HATES, I ABSOLUTELY KNOW CHRIS HATES HAS AN APPRECIATION. UH, I WAS WALKING PAST THIS MORNING LOOKING FOR A BOTTLE OF WATER AND I HEARD CHRIS TELLING SOMEONE I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT WAS BEHIND ME. HE SAID, GOSH, I SURE APPRECIATE CHARLES NOW. SO, UM, GREAT JOB TO THE TEAM. GREAT JOB. UM, TO EVERYBODY. I ALSO WANT TO SAY A LOT OF THANK YOU TO THE VARIOUS. AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW TO SAY A COUPLE OF THANK YOUS TO KICKOFF OUR VARIOUS BOARD COMMISSION AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS, YOUR APPOINTMENTS, YOU KNOW, THE PLANNING COMMISSION, THE DRB, THE TASK FORCES, ALL OF THOSE FOLKS REALLY MAKE THE MACHINE RUN. AND, UH, I THINK THAT THERE'S, THERE'S SUCH GREAT OPPORTUNITY HERE. AND OFTEN WE DON'T SAY A LOT ABOUT THE BOARD COMMISSION AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS. THERE'S ALMOST AS MANY AS THE THEM AS THERE ARE STAFF MEMBERS. AND SO THAT, THAT, THAT GOES A LONG WAY AS WE ADVANCE. AND IT'S GOING TO PLAY IN A LOT OF THIS AS, AS, AS WE REVIEW THIS TODAY, A [00:05:01] COUPLE THINGS, JUST SOME HOUSEKEEPING, KRISTA, TELL US ABOUT THE MICROPHONES REAL QUICK. OKAY. ON THE FRONT OF YOUR MICROPHONE, YOUR LIFE, BECAUSE YOU'RE RIGHT WHEN YOU'RE DONE, IF YOU HURT YOURSELF AND YOU'RE OFF, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE DOWN IN THE MORNING. YOU'RE AMAZING. KRISTA, I HAVE A HOUSEKEEPING. I HAVE A HOUSEKEEPING ISSUE. YOU SIR, I DON'T NORMALLY COMPLAIN ABOUT TEMPERATURE. I KNOW YOU WANT TO KEEP US AWAKE, BUT YEAH, PRETTY COOL. OKAY. KRISTA HAS IT SET? SO IT DROPS ONE DEGREE PER HOUR, BUT WE'LL, WE'LL RESET. YEAH. YES, SIR. IF YOU THINK THE ROLE, THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT AND COMPLIANCE TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, THANK YOU. YES, WE ARE ABSOLUTELY IN COMPLIANCE WITH, WITH FOIL. AND THIS HAS ALSO LIVESTREAMED ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE ON OUR WEBSITE. I WAS JUST LOOKING AT OUR WEBSITE, BE FOR COUNTY CHANNEL AND THANK YOU TO BRIEF BUFORD COUNTY FOR BEING HERE TODAY. UM, HARGRAVE CHANNEL NINE AND SPECTRUM CHANNEL 1 3 0 4. SO LOTS OF WAYS TO SEE US IN HERE. WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY, UM, IN FRONT OF YOU MAYOR COUNCIL, YOU HAVE REALLY TWO AGENDAS, ONE, UH, THE PUBLIC AGENDA, THE STRATEGIC PLAN WORKSHOP AGENDA, BUT ON PAGE TWO IS AN OUTLINE THAT I JUST WANT TO GO OVER IT REAL QUICK. SO YOU KNOW WHAT WE HAVE IN STORE TODAY. UM, SO SKIPPING DOWN TO ITEM TWO, I'M GOING TO OVERVIEW THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS, RIGHT? LET'S JUST TALK STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR A MINUTE IN TERMS OF WHY IT'S IMPORTANT AND, AND HOW SUCCESSFUL WE CAN BE WITH A GREAT PROCESS IN PLACE. UM, BEFORE WE DIVE IN INTO THE WHAT'S, THE NEXT IS EXACTLY THAT DISCUSSION OF PROPOSED STRATEGIC INITIATIVES. SO OUR FOCUS AREAS, THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE THE, THE, THE PRIORITY ORDER OR THE PRIORITY SET OF OVERARCHING GOALS. WE'LL REVIEW AN ACTION AGENDA AND I'LL SHOW YOU THAT IN A SECOND. THERE'S ALSO TIME TODAY, UM, FOR, FOR ME TO HEAR FROM YOU, AS MUCH AS YOU HEAR FROM ME, I REALLY WANT TO HEAR FROM, FROM YOU AND, AND, AND ALLOW AND PROVIDE THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR, UH, YOUR DISCUSSION AMONGST YOURSELVES. UM, YOU HAVE PROVIDED COMMENTS TO ME. COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE PROVIDED SOME COMMENTS, BOTH IN-PERSON AND IN A MEETING AND OVER THE PHONE AND IN EMAILS. AND SO I'LL REVIEW SOME HIGH-LEVEL OF THAT TODAY. I'LL ALSO REVIEW SOME ADDITIONAL ITEMS THAT HAVE COME UP SINCE THIS BOOK WAS PRINTED AND PUT IN FRONT OF YOU. AND AS WE KNOW, YOU'VE HAD THIS BOOK FOR A WHILE, AND I KNOW YOU'VE TAKEN A LOOK AT IT. AND SO TODAY I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH SOME THINGS FASTER THAN I TYPICALLY WOULD SIMPLY KNOWING YOU'VE HAD THAT MATERIAL AND THAT CONTENT FOR SOME TIME. UM, I'M TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH A LOT TODAY. UH, I'M VERY RESPECTFUL OF THE PROCESS THAT YOU WENT THROUGH SHORTLY BEFORE MY ARRIVAL. SO NINE MONTHS AGO, YOU SAT WITH A NOVAK GROUP AND YOU WENT OVER THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND YOUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AND, AND YOU WORKED ON, UM, VARIOUS VARIOUS ITEMS. UM, THAT'S, THAT'S ATTEMPTED TO BE CAPTURED IN THIS BINDER. AND SO NEXT, UH, THE BINDER, AND JUST MAYBE FOR THE FOLKS LISTENING AND PARTICIPATING, AND I KNOW COUNSELING, YOU KNOW, THIS ON PURPOSE INTENTIONALLY ON YOUR DESK AS IS THE SHORT SUMMARY GUIDE, THE GUIDE BOOK OF OUR PLAN. THIS IS THE VERY FIRST THING SOMEBODY HANDED ME AS I ARRIVED. AND I KNOW THAT YOU KEEP THIS CLOSE AND PLEASE KNOW WE'VE USED THIS AS THE TEMPLATE, AS THE BASELINE, AS THE GUIDE FOR THIS STRATEGIC PLAN. UM, WE JUST DIDN'T MAKE THE, THE, THE COLORS THE SAME IN THE SAME FONT, THE CONTENT OF IT IS DRIVING THE STRATEGIC PLAN. SO AS YOU GO THROUGH YOUR BINDER, UM, IT'S, IT'S ALMOST, SELF-EXPLANATORY THE FRONT SECTION REALLY TALKS ABOUT STRATEGIC PLANNING, AND THEN IT STARTS DIVING INTO OUR STRATEGIC INITIATIVES. UM, ALL OF THOSE VARIOUS ELEMENTS THAT WE'VE EXTRACTED OUT OF THE S OUT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OUT OF OUR PLAN, AND REALLY BAKED INTO THE STRATEGIC PLAN. A PORTION OF THE BOOK IS THE HIGH LEVEL GOALS, THE HIGH LEVEL STRATEGIES, AND ANOTHER PORTION OF THE BOOK ARE THOSE TACTICS. TODAY'S NOT SO MUCH ABOUT TACTICS. TODAY'S ABOUT THE PRIORITIES, THE, THE, WHAT TO DO'S, UM, IT'S ABOUT THE GOALS, THE PRIORITIES, UM, AND THE STRATEGIES TO ACCOMPLISH THOSE IN YOUR BINDER. IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. [00:10:01] AND IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE BACK APPENDICES, AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE THESE DEPENDENCIES. ONE OF THEM IS THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. I THINK THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF ANY STRATEGIC PLAN OF ANY INITIATIVE IT'S, IT'S IMPROVING OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND THE PUBLIC REALM THAT CIP PROGRAM WILL ALWAYS REMAIN AS AN APPENDIX C OF THE, OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN AS I WORK ON IT WITH YOU. UM, YOU ALSO HAVE IN HERE THE WORK SESSION REPORT FROM THE NOVAK GROUP. AND, AND AGAIN, I HAVEN'T FORGOT ABOUT THAT. THIS ISN'T, THIS ISN'T TO REPLACE THAT WORK YOU'VE DONE. THIS IS REALLY TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE HEARD YOU WERE LISTENING AND TO ASK, ARE WE MISSING ANYTHING? SO THAT REPORT IS IN THIS BOOK. WHAT'S ALSO IN THE BOOK, ARE THOSE ELEMENTS OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, THE NOW NEAR NEXT ELEMENTS, UM, AND THAT PRIORITY ORDER, OR THAT PRIORITY SET, WE'VE TAKEN THAT AND ATTEMPTED TO, TO PUT THAT PLACE THAT INTO THE STRATEGIC PLAN. SO THAT SPREADSHEETS IN THE BACK, AND THAT HAS BEEN OUR GUIDING DOCUMENT FOR THE MOST PART AS WE GET THERE. UM, I ALSO WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING AND I'VE MENTIONED IT, BUT WE HAVEN'T HIGHLIGHTED IT ON THE LEFT SIDE. I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO READ ALL OF THAT, CAUSE I CAN'T EVEN READ ALL THAT FROM THIS CLOSE, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE CALLING OUR STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN. THAT'S REALLY OUR WORK PROGRAM. AND IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT IT, WHAT'S GOING TO REALLY HELP ME ALONG THE WAY. I ASSURE YOU, I'M NOT GOING TO BE READING THIS ON A DAILY OR A WEEKLY OR A MONTHLY I'M, I'M GOING STRAIGHT THERE. AND, AND THAT AIR TABLE HAS BEEN PUT TOGETHER BY JOSH. AND I APPRECIATE IT. IT'S SOMETHING I'VE USED IN THE PAST AND HAVE FOUND SOME SUCCESS IN MANAGING THIS. UM, MR. LENNOX ACTUALLY SUGGESTED ONE OF THE ITEMS OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN SHOULD BE THE STRATEGIC PLAN. UM, AND HOW DO WE IMPLEMENT IT? WELL, HOW, HOW DO I MANAGE IT? HOW DO I COMMUNICATE IT TO YOU? HOW DO I MAKE SURE, HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE'RE ON TRACK RIGHT THERE? AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE FAR LEFT COLUMN, IT'S THE STRATEGIC ACTION ITEM. SO THOSE ARE THE DIFFERENT STRATEGIES THAT WE WILL TALK ABOUT AND HOPEFULLY AGREE TO TODAY. JOSH, IF YOU GO FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. SO IS THAT AS FAR LEFT? OKAY. DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY WHO THE PROJECT MANAGER IS, WHAT FISCAL YEAR WE'RE STARTING. THERE ARE SOME THINGS IN HERE THAT WE ALL CAN'T START FISCAL YEAR 22. WE'RE OBVIOUSLY WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO START SOME THINGS IN FISCAL YEAR 23, FISCAL YEAR 24. AND I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION WE HAVE, IF NOT TODAY, SOON, PERHAPS, MAYBE EVEN AS WE WERE ROUNDING, UH, THE YEAR AND INTO NEW YEAR FOR, FOR BUDGET DISCUSSIONS. WHAT WE NEED TO DO THOUGH, IS BE REALISTIC ABOUT THIS WORK PLAN. IF EVERYTHING'S A PRIORITY, RIGHT? IF WE'RE WORKING ON EVERYTHING FIVE SECONDS AT A TIME NOTHING'S GOING TO GET DONE. SO THE HARD JOB IS GOING TO BE WORKING ON THIS IN A WAY THAT WE CAN GET SOME THINGS DONE. AND THAT COLUMN REMAINS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME. I REMEMBER IT WAS EITHER I FORGET WHO IT WAS THAT SAID, HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET ALL THIS DONE IN ONE YEAR? I SAID, WELL, STRATEGIC PLANS AND COMPANIES ARE NOT ONE YEAR DOCUMENTS. THINK OF THE LARGEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD, LINKEDIN, THE LARGEST COMPANY IN THE COUNTRY, THINK OF THE LARGEST, OR THINK OF JUST A COFFEE SHOP. IF THEY HAVE A BUSINESS PLAN. NO, NO. WHERE ARE THEY TRYING TO DO BUSINESS ONE YEAR AT A TIME? AND SO, UH, I DON'T, I DON'T TRY TO PRACTICE THAT EITHER. AND SO THIS PLAN IS IMPORTANT. IT'S NOT TO MEAN THAT WE DON'T HAVE A SENSE OF URGENCY. IT'S NOT TO MEAN THAT WE AREN'T GOING TO FOCUS TO MOVE THE, MOVE, THE NEEDLE AND ACCOMPLISH GREAT GOALS ON YOUR BEHALF AND, AND, AND AS DIRECTED BY YOU. BUT WE CAN'T DO IT ALL AT ONCE. THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO US NEXT COLUMN COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT. AND SO WHAT I FIND VERY HELPFUL IN WHAT STAFF REALLY, UH, HAS HELPED ME UNDERSTAND IS THE EBB AND FLOW THE PROCESS FROM TOWN COUNCIL COMMITTEES FOR MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, THREE COMMITTEES. UH, WE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE, BUT WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE LISTED TO OUR BEST ABILITY, WHAT COMMITTEE WE BELIEVE THESE STRATEGIES ARE WORKED ON ALONGSIDE YOU IN PRIOR TO A COUNCIL, UH, CONSIDERATION. AND SO WHAT, WHAT THAT COLUMN WILL DO, IT WILL HELP US IDENTIFY WHAT COMMITTEE CHAIR WE WILL WORK WITH TO PLACE THOSE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA. IT ALSO, AS A COMMITTEE CHAIR, LETS YOU KNOW, WHAT YOUR PIPELINE AGENDAS LOOK LIKE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS? UH, I THINK THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S HEALTHY BOTH WAYS. IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE LESS CHASING DOWN AGENDA TOPICS AND WE CAN BE MORE PURPOSEFUL AS WE'RE PLANNING OUR WORK, [00:15:01] THE NEXT COLUMN AND JOSH THAT'S THE LAST COLUMN. CORRECT. SO PROJECT MANAGER, DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE FISCAL YEAR START DATE, THE NEXT ARE THE PROJECT NOTES. AND TO ME, THOSE PROJECT NOTES ARE SO IMPORTANT. THAT'S HOW I WILL MANAGE THIS STRATEGIC PLAN. THAT'S HOW I WILL KNOW HOW TO GO WORK WITH DIFFERENT AND VARIOUS DEPARTMENT HEADS TO TALK ABOUT THE WORK PROGRAM, RIGHT? NOT JUST PUTTING OUT FIRES, BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT THE ORDINANCE. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE CAPITAL PROJECT, WHATEVER THAT POLICY DIRECTIVE IS. I WILL, I ALREADY HAVE STARTED TO TALK ABOUT THE EXPECTATION AND UPON ADOPTION OF THIS PLAN, THIS WILL BE LIVE ON THE WEBSITE. IT, YOU WILL HAVE READ ACCESS TO IT. AND SO A GOOD LINK. IT WILL BE LIVE ON THE WEBSITE AND THE LAST, YOU KNOW, LAST DAY OF THE MONTH, NO LATER THAN THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T GO PAST MIDNIGHT, THAT EXPECTATION IS THAT THE DEPARTMENT HAD ASSURES THAT THAT IS WELL UPDATED. SO WHATEVER PROGRESS WAS MADE EVERY MONTH, WHETHER IT'S BEEN ON A COMMITTEE AGENDA, GOING TO A COMMITTEE AGENDA, WE HAD A PUBLIC MEETING, WE HAD AN OPEN HOUSE, WHATEVER THAT IS, WHATEVER PROGRESS IS MADE ON THAT SPECIFIC ITEM THAT WILL BE UPDATED. SO YOU AS A COUNCIL, UM, OUR BOARDS, COMMISSION COMMITTEES MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC VARIOUS AND DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT HEADS DEFINITELY ME CAN GET ON THIS AND CHECK TO SEE HOW WE'RE DOING. UM, SO I THINK THIS IS A VERY HELPFUL TOOL FOR US. UM, IT'S AN ONLINE DOCUMENT. IT'S, UH, IT'S IN THE CLOUD SOMEWHERE. WE CAN, I CAN ACCESS IT FROM ANYWHERE. JOSH IS THE MASTER, UH, ADMINISTRATOR OF THIS. AND I, AND I THINK THIS, THIS AS A WORK PRODUCT HAS COME SO FAR SINCE WE FIRST STARTED THIS EXERCISE. SO, UM, SO, UH, WE KNOW THE COMPLAINT'S OUR GUIDING DOCUMENT AND JOSH, THE MOUSE, OH MY CLICKER, THERE WE GO. NOT A MOUSE, THE CLICKER, UM, AND THAT OUR COMP PLAN WAS ADOPTED IN 2020. AND IT INCLUDES VARIOUS GOALS, STRATEGIES, AND TACTICS, SOME GENERAL, SOME NOT SO GENERAL THE NOW NEAR NEXT PRIORITY ORDER, WE TRY TO REALLY UNDERSTAND AND PLACE IN THIS DOCUMENT. AND TODAY WE INTEND TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF, UH, OF THOSE GOALS. AND TODAY'S ABOUT CONFIRMING THE GOALS. NOT REALLY COMING UP WITH ALL THE GOALS THERE ARE, THEY'RE ALREADY HERE, THEY'RE IN THE PLAN. UM, ONE THING I REMIND MYSELF AND ONE THING I TALKED A LOT ABOUT WITH DEPARTMENT HEADS, I'M VERY CLEAR WITH THEM AND THEY ARE VERY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT IT, THAT YOU SET THE POLICY. I WANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU NEED ME TO BE. YOU. I NEED TO KNOW WHERE YOU WANT US TO BE GOING WITH VARIOUS ITEMS. I'LL ASK YOU MORE QUESTIONS FIRST. THEN, THEN I'LL WALK IN A ROOM AND GIVE YOU MY HARD FIRM RECOMMENDATION, UNLESS SOMETHING IS REALLY WRONG AND SOMETHING'S ON FIRE, OF COURSE. BUT THE PROCESS TO WORK IS AS IS WORKING WITH YOU INDIVIDUALLY, DEFINITELY COLLECTIVELY AND DEFINITELY THROUGH COMMITTEES TO SET THAT POLICY. AND ONCE YOU SET THAT POLICY, MY JOB, UM, WITHIN REASON IS TO IMPLEMENT, RIGHT? SO AS YOU SET POLICY AND I IMPLEMENT, UM, I WILL TALK TO YOU ALONG THE WAY ABOUT ALLOCATING RESOURCES, PRIORITIES ISSUES, QUESTIONS I HAVE. AND I JUST THINK THAT THIS PLAN WILL HELP ME HAVE THE CONFIDENCE, UM, TO MOVE FORWARD ON, ON THOSE ELEMENTS. UM, I'M GOING TO OVERVIEW THEM ACTUALLY. SO THAT'S THE OUTLINE RIGHT HERE, UH, TODAY OVERVIEW OF STRATEGIC PLAN, THE DISCUSSION OF THE INITIATIVES WE'LL HAVE A WORKING LUNCH. UM, WE'LL TALK ABOUT, WE'LL DIVE INTO THE AIR TABLE A LITTLE BIT MORE. IF, IF YOU WANT TO, AND THEN REVIEWING POTENTIAL ADDITIONAL INITIATIVES, WE RECEIVED SOME EMAILS FROM RECOMMENDATIONS FROM GREATER ISLAND, COUNCIL PLANNING, COMMISSION. THERE'S SOME NEW TOPICS THAT, THAT WE NEED TO JUST SIMPLY ASK OURSELVES. IS IT TIME? IS IT READY? UH, TO PUT IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND THEN A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ONE AND TWO O'CLOCK AND TRY TO GET YOU OUT OF HERE AT TWO, MY GOAL RIGHT NOW IS TO GET THROUGH THE FRONT PART OF THIS BOOK AS I CALL IT THE STRATEGIES BY 1130. SO I'M GOING TO GO A LITTLE FAST. AND WHAT I'D ASK YOU TO DO IS IF THERE ARE VARIOUS STRATEGIES YOU WANT TO KNOW A LOT MORE ABOUT, OR A LITTLE MORE ABOUT LET ME KNOW, WE'LL FLAG THEM AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THEM OVER LUNCH BEFORE TWO O'CLOCK. SO I THINK FROM AN EBB AND FLOW, IS THAT A FAIR OR DO YOU WANT, DO YOU WANT A DIFFERENT DIFFERENT WAY? GOOD THUMBS UP. OKAY. SO WE KNOW WHAT STRATEGIC PLANNING IS, RIGHT? IT'S IT'S OUR PROCESS TO DEFINE OUR VISION DIRECTION AND, AND MAKING, UH, CORRESPONDING DECISIONS ON HOW OUR RESOURCES WILL BE ALLOCATED. UH, I DON'T NEED TO DIVE TOO, TOO DEEP INTO THAT, [00:20:01] BUT HOW WILL THE PLAN HELP US? UM, THE OBVIOUS, YOU KNOW, OUR PLAN GUIDES, THE STRATEGIC PLAN, THE STRATEGIC PLAN NEEDS TO DIRECT THE OPERATING BUDGET AND THE OPERATING BUDGET INFLUENCES THE STRATEGIC PLAN. SO IT'S NOT THAT I WANT TO SIT HERE AND ADOPT EVERYTHING AND THEN COME TO BUDGET AND NOT HAVE THE FUNDS OR THE MEANS OR THE RESOURCES. UM, THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE THE REAL WORK PLANNING AND OPERATIONAL PLANNING COME INTO PLACE BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO FAIL. I DON'T WANT TO SET OURSELVES UP TO ACCOMPLISH THINGS, BUT NOT HAVE THE FUNDING OR THE RESOURCES TO ACCOMPLISH. AND THAT ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET EMPOWERS THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT. AND WHEN, WHEN WOULD THAT DOESN'T JUST MEAN ME. THAT MEANS ALL OF US. UM, WHAT'S NOT IN HERE, OUR ROUTINE OPERATIONS BUDGETED EXPENDITURES DAY TO DAY. UM, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, UH, THE ONE QUESTION AND WE PUT IT IN HERE AND THIS IS IMPORTANT THAT THIS NEEDS TO BE AN ANNUAL PROCESS. THIS CAN'T JUST BE ONCE IN A WHILE. IT CAN'T JUST BE TODAY. AND WE'LL SEE, MAYBE WHEN WE COME BACK, WE REALLY NEED TO FOCUS ON THIS STRATEGY. THAT WAY I STAY UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH YOU ON WHERE WE NEED TO BE GOING POLICY-WISE. AND THEN I HAVE THE CONFIDENCE TO CONTINUE TO IMPLEMENT A VERY IMPORTANT A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS. AND I THINK THIS IS MORE SO, AND I KNOW MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, I'M NOT SITTING HERE TRYING TO TEACH THIS, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT OUR COMMUNITY KNOW THAT WE ARE VISION AND MISSION DRIVEN THAT WE SEEK TO ESTABLISH CLEARLY DEFINED GOALS. WE SEEK TO ESTABLISH AND IDENTIFY STRATEGIES TO ACCOMPLISH THOSE GOALS, THOSE TACTICS, THE SPECIFIC ACTIONS, UM, THAT THAT NEED TO OCCUR. WE'LL DEFINE. AND IF IT'S A POLICY MATTER, I'M DEFINITELY WORKING WITH YOU. IF IT'S AN OPERATIONAL MATTER, I'M DEFINITELY WORKING WITH THE FOLKS AROUND THIS ROOM. UM, AND SO TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS. UH, SO IF, IF WE'RE VISION AND MISSION BASED, THIS IS WHAT, WHAT I HAVE TO USE AS OUR MISSION AND VISION, THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND, MISSION STATEMENT, THE MISSION IS TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND VITALITY OF THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE THROUGH ETHICAL AND INCLUSIVE PROGRAMS, POLICIES, AND ACTIONS. THAT'S OUR CURRENT MISSION STATEMENT. AND SO IN THE EMPLOYEE SURVEY THIS YEAR, AS, AS WE CONDUCTED IT, UH, A COUPLE MONTHS OR A FEW MONTHS AGO, STAFF WAS WARM TO THAT. THEY DIDN'T SIT THERE AND SAY, OH, I LOVE THIS. THIS REALLY HELPS ME IDENTIFY WITH THE COMPANY. IT REALLY HELPS ME UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR REAL MISSION IS. AND SO MY SUGGESTION IS THAT FOR TODAY AND FOR THIS STRATEGIC PLAN, THAT, THAT THAT'S TO BE PLACED IN THERE, BUT, BUT ADD THIS AS AN ELEMENT, YOU KNOW, IN OUR MINDS AND ON OUR, ON OUR, TO DO LIST TO PERHAPS REVISIT THIS IN THE FUTURE. I THINK THAT IT'S TIME TO THINK ABOUT A MISSION STATEMENT AND WE MIGHT SAY, HEY, WE LOVE THIS. YOU KNOW, IN HINDSIGHT IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE. IT'S GREAT, BUT IT IS TIME. AND THEN OUR, OUR HILTON HEAD ISLAND VISION STATEMENT AS IDENTIFIED IN OUR PLAN, WHICH IS THE 20, 20 TO 2040 VISION REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY, AGAIN, TO FOCUS ON REVITALIZATION AND MODERNIZATION AND TO BUILD AN INCLUSIVE AND DIVERSE COMMUNITY STRAIGHT OUT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. AND PLEASE STOP ME ALONG THE WAY TO ASK QUESTIONS. AND SO AGAIN, STRAIGHT OUT OF THE COMP PLAN, OH, I, I ALWAYS HAVE QUESTIONS. UM, SO, SO I'VE GONE THROUGH THIS AND I'M LISTENING TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. AND SO IF, IF, IF IT'S A GOOD TIME FOR QUESTIONS, I'VE WRITTEN DOWN A COUPLE, UM, I REALIZED THAT THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES OF, UM, UH, OF DEPTH THAT SOME OF THE GOALS HAVE IN HERE. JUST CURIOUS AS WE WORK THROUGH IT FOR, TO ASK YOU FOR YOUR GUIDANCE AND STEPS, GUIDANCE, IN TERMS OF WHERE WE DO START TO REACH THAT LEDGE, WHERE IT'S TOO MANY GOALS, RIGHT. IF YOU CAN KEEP US ON TRACK SO THAT WE DON'T OVERWHELM WHAT THIS FIRST YEAR'S PLAN REALLY LOOKS AT, UM, I'D LOOK TO YOU FOR THAT GUIDANCE AND STAFF. SOME OF THEM ARE LITTLE, SO THE NUMBER ISN'T NECESSARILY AS, AS, AS IMPORTANT AS THE DEPTH OF EACH ONE OF THEM AND HOW THANK YOU. UM, AND THEN SECONDLY, UM, UH, WHICH WILL BE PROBABLY RECURRING THEME. UM, WHEN WE LOOK AND READ THE WORDS THROUGHOUT OUR PLAN THROUGHOUT THE STRATEGIES, UM, THROUGH THE STRATEGIC PLANS THAT ARE DEVELOPED, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE A, UM, DEFINITION [00:25:01] OF A SPECIFIC LANGUAGE THAT BECOMES CONTROVERSIAL. AND I CERTAINLY, UM, ENCOURAGE US TO DO THAT, SO THAT WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE WITH REGARD TO THAT, WHICH LEADS ME TO, I REALIZE WE'RE NOT TALKING TACTICS AT THIS MOMENT, BUT TWO TACTICS, UM, AND THE TRANSPARENCY OF THE, WHAT SPECIFIC ACTIONS WE WILL BE DOING, THOSE ARE MY COUPLE OF, TO GET US STARTED. OKAY. UM, DEFINITIONS IN WHAT REGARD DEFINITIONS FOR OUR VISION AND MISSION AND MISSIONS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE STRATEGIC PLAN? WELL, CERTAINLY A COMMON DEFINITION IN TERMS OF WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY CERTAIN THINGS AND WHAT IS THE TACTIC THAT IS BEING EMPLOYED TO ACCOMPLISH, UM, THOSE, THOSE, UM, IMPLEMENTING THOSE WORDS, FOR INSTANCE, DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE AND A DEFINITION. AND SO THAT WE ALL ARE ON THE SAME PAGE, SO THAT WHAT'S BEING DONE IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT, UM, AND IMPLEMENT ANY ONE OF THESE STRATEGIES THAT WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT MEANS AND WHAT'S BEING DONE BEHIND THE SCENES. UM, AND THAT WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE WITH REGARD TO THAT. THAT IS WHAT I MADE. ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS THAT I FOUND THAT I FIND FLIPS IS THAT IN OUR PLAN, WE HAVE A, UH, PAGE I WISH I COULD SAY ANYWAY. UM, IT'S ON THE SECOND PAGE. UM, WE HAVE, UH, OUR PLAN KEY DEFINITIONS AND, UM, HOW THOSE WERE DEVISED IS FINE, BUT I THINK WE MAY NEED TO ADD TO THAT LIST AND BE CLEAR. AND I THINK THAT COUNCIL HAS AN IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP ROLE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE SAYING WHAT WE MEAN AND WHAT WE MEAN IS BEING CARRIED OUT. THANK YOU. HMM. I UNDERSTAND. THANK YOU. AND SO WHAT I'M HEARING YOU SAY IS FURTHER DEFINE THE UNKNOWNS RIGHT? FURTHER TO FIND SOME OF THESE COMMON THEMES, ESPECIALLY AS WE RELATE TO OUR VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT AND THROUGHOUT OUR DOCUMENT, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN HAS CERTAIN DEFINITIONS, BUT PERHAPS IT'S LACKING. SO JOSH IS TAKING NOTES. I SEE SEAN TAKING NOTES TOO, OVER THERE. AND BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM, I WON'T FORGET ANYTHING YOU SAY. OKAY. UM, I MAY SAY THE NOTE TWICE OR THREE TIMES AS WE GO ALONG, BUT THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THAT. I THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT WITH COUNSEL? UH, GOOD MORNING. UH, JUST TO MOVE ON FROM, UH, TAMMY'S COMMENTS, I THINK A SIMPLE WAY TO APPROACH THIS IS IF WE ASK OURSELVES, DO WE WANT A GLOSSARY OF TERMS? AND IF WE DO, THEN WHY DON'T WE INDIVIDUALLY SEND TO YOU, UH, WORDS THAT WE THINK ARE IMPORTANT, BUT MAY HAVE DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS. SO WE DON'T HAVE TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON IT. OKAY. THANK YOU. PLEASE SEND THEM, PLEASE SEND THEM ALL. COME UP WITH OUR OWN WE'LL WILL HAVING A GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOR THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS, SEEMS SIMPLE ENOUGH. ALL RIGHT. WELL, SPEAKING OF DEFINITIONS TODAY, A GOAL AND ASPIRATION OF A DESIRED OR AN A DESIRED OUTCOME. AND AGAIN, THIS IS OUT OF OUR PLAN. AND SO I'M, I'M BEING RESPECTFUL OF THAT DOCUMENT. I DIDN'T WORK ON IT. UM, I'M LEARNING IT. IT'S, IT'S A GREAT DOCUMENT. IT, IT ISN'T AS SPECIFIC AS A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COULD BE TO TELL US WHAT TO DO FOR OUR FUTURE. AND SO OVER TIME, I THINK THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE THAT PLAN AND RESPECTFULLY BAKE IT IN, PACK IT INTO THE STRATEGIC PLAN. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S A GREAT GUIDE FOR ME TO DO THAT. I THINK BOTH DOCUMENTS, ONE'S A HIGHER LEVEL. OF COURSE, ONE'S A LOT MORE SPECIFIC AND STRATEGIC, BUT IT'S ALSO MORE ACTIONABLE. AND SO BETWEEN THE TWO, I THINK WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THE, BOTH OF THOSE, A STRATEGY, OF COURSE, A PLAN OF ACTION AND A TACTIC, A TOOL OR ACTION ITEM. SO KEY COMMUNITY THEMES STRAIGHT OUT OF OUR PLAN. I WON'T READ THEM ALL BECAUSE I AM TRYING TO GET THROUGH THE TRUE STRATEGIES, BUT THOSE ARE IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. UM, THEY'RE IN YOUR BINDER AND THEY'RE IN OUR PLAN AND THEY'RE IN THEY'RE UP HERE SO THAT WE IN THIS PRESENTATION AFTER TODAY, PARTS OF IT, NOT ALL OF IT, UM, WE'LL BE ON OUR WEBSITE. SO OUT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ADOPTED PER PURSUE OUR IDEALS OF EXCELLENCE, UM, PROTECT AND PRESERVE OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, MANAGING EVOLVING GROWTH WHILE MAINTAINING OUR UNIQUE ISLAND, UNIQUE AESTHETIC, I SHOULD SAY, PROVIDE EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY OF LIFE [00:30:01] OFFERINGS AND ARTS CULTURE AND RECREATION BEST-IN-CLASS FACILITIES. AND AGAIN, RIGHT, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT OUR PLAN IS SAYING TO ACHIEVE OUR VISION AND MISSION, UM, DEVELOP CREATIVE REVENUE SOURCES TO FUND THE DELIVERY OF CAPITAL SERVICES, MAINTENANCE, OPERATIONS, AND PROJECTS RECOGNIZE RESPECT AND PROMOTE MULTI DIMENSIONAL DIVERSITY ON THE ISLAND PROMOTE EFFICIENT AND SECURE PUBLIC SERVICES TO MEET CURRENT AND FUTURE NEEDS. I SAID, I WASN'T GOING TO READ ALL THESE, BUT I THINK I BETTER PLAN FOR AND MITIGATE THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENTAL OR HEALTH CONCERNS AND NATURAL DISASTERS VIEW THE REGION AS A PARTNER, NOT A COMPETITOR HERE THAT A LOT. IT'S GOOD THAT IT'S IN THERE FOSTER A HEALTHY SELF-SUSTAINING COMMUNITY THAT ENCOURAGES ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY. AND SO, UM, THERE, WE HAVE IT STRAIGHT OUT OF OUR PLAN. THOSE ARE THOSE ITEMS TO ACHIEVE OUR VISION AND MISSION. AND SO HOW DID WE CREATE THESE CORE VALUES AND THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN GOALS WERE HERE. THEY ARE, THOSE ARE STRAIGHT OUT OF THE COMP PLAN AS WELL, PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE. AND SO THESE IF ASKED WALKING AROUND THE BUILDING OR THE 30 SECONDS IN AN ELEVATOR, ALTHOUGH WE DON'T HAVE MANY ELEVATORS ON OUR ISLAND, IF SOMEBODY ASKS WHAT OUR COMPANY GOALS ARE, AS WE COMMUNICATE OUR COMPANY GOALS THROUGH OUR WEBSITE, THROUGH ANY MATERIALS, SOCIAL MEDIA, UH, AS WELL AS DIGITAL, UM, AND MARKETING MATERIALS. THESE ARE OUR COMPANY. THESE ARE THE ORGANIZATION GOALS, PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE REQUIRE AND SUSTAIN EXCELLENCE OF PLACE, PEOPLE PLANNING AND PROCESS GOAL. ONE GOAL TO CREATE A RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH PLANNING AND POLICY THREE THIRD GOAL CREATE AN ISLAND APPROPRIATE ECONOMY THAT HAS SUFFICIENT DEPTH AND BREADTH TO ATTRACT AND SUPPORT A DIVERSE RESIDENT, VISITOR AND BUSINESS POPULATION. NEXT GOAL FOSTER, A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL EQUITABLE AND DIVERSE COMMUNITY. NEXT GOAL FACILITATE TRUE CONNECTIVITY IN IRELAND, PHYSICAL SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS, REGIONAL FOCUS, EVALUATE HOW REGIONAL EXPANSION WILL IMPACT IMMEDIATE AND FUTURE SOCIAL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PLANNING AND POLICY, RIGHT SIZED INFRASTRUCTURE ALIGN THE COMMUNITY'S PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL VALUES WITH CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING. AND THEN FINALLY, BUT NOT LAST AND DEFINITELY NOT LEAST PARKS AND REC IMPLEMENT THE PARKS AND REC MASTER PLAN. SO GREAT JOB TO EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN THAT MASTER PLAN. IT'S A GREAT GUIDING DOCUMENT. UM, AND SO THERE YOU HAVE IT THAT, THAT RIGHT THERE SHOULD BE THE FOCUS OF THIS TEAM, THIS THE SENIOR STAFF TEAM, AS THEY, AS THEY WORK, AS WE IMPLEMENT MARK, I HAVE A COMMENT ON THAT IF I MIGHT, UM, THIS GROUP DOESN'T NEED THIS, BUT I THINK THOSE IN THE PUBLIC THAT MAY BE WATCHING THIS NEED TO KNOW THAT THESE GOALS AND SO FORTH WERE DEVELOPED BY OUR CITIZENS NOT BEING IMPOSED BY THE GOVERNMENT. WE HAD THANKS TO THE LEADERSHIP OF OUR STAFF. WE HAD MANY, MANY, MANY PUBLIC MEETINGS WHERE THOSE INPUT FROM VARIOUS SECTORS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT EVOLVED AND DEVELOPED THESE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES. THANK YOU. THAT'S AN EXCELLENT POINT. AND THANK YOU FOR MAKING THAT. UM, IT'S SO CLEAR TO ME HOW MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC INPUT THERE ARE, BUT ALSO IN, AND PROBABLY JUST AS IMPORTANT AS HOW MANY FOLKS ACTUALLY GET ENGAGED AND INVOLVED AND, AND, AND SPEND THEIR TIME PROVIDING THAT INPUT. SO, EXCELLENT POINT. AND THANK YOU, MARK. IF I CAN JUST JUMP IN FOR A SECOND, BECAUSE I'D LIKE TO PICK UP ON WHEN GLEN SAID THAT THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE. AND BACK TO WHAT YOU SAID, UM, WITH REGARD TO HOW THIS COMMUNITY CAME TOGETHER AND WORKED LONG HOURS AND MANY SESSIONS TO PUT TOGETHER, UM, THEIR THOUGHTS ABOUT HOW THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND SHOULD PROCEED. AND THEN YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING JUST PRIOR TO THAT, ABOUT HOW IT, IT HAS SOME VAGUENESS THROUGH IT. AND I THINK IT MAY GO BACK TO, UM, BILL'S GOOD SUGGESTION OF HAVING A GLOSSARY, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE BROUGHT UP IN THE PAST, AND I STILL FIND, UM, MAYBE AN AREA THAT I THINK WE SHOULD REDUCE THE VAGUENESS, OR AT LEAST COME UP WITH, UM, UH, A GLOSSARY TERM FOR IT OF UNDERSTANDING IS, UM, BEST IN CLASS. I ALWAYS FIND THAT AS A SECOND TIER WORD. AND SO I'D LIKE TO HAVE A BEST, I KNOW WE HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING IN OUR CURRENT, OUR PLAN [00:35:01] ON THE DEFINITION PAGE, BUT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO EMPHASIZE TO OUR COMMUNITY, THAT'S LISTENING FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, I'M LOOKING TO BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. I'M NOT SETTLING FOR ANY CLASS DESIGNATION. I SEE HILTON HEAD ISLAND AS BEING THE BEST THERE IS THROUGHOUT, UM, THIS WORLD WE LIVE ON. AND THEN SECONDLY, IT JUST GOING BACK, IT'S THE RIGHT SIZE INFRASTRUCTURE. THAT ALWAYS BOTHERS ME BECAUSE I CAN'T GET MY HEAD WRAPPED AROUND WHAT RIGHT-SIZE INFRASTRUCTURE IS BECAUSE, UM, WE HAVEN'T DEFINED WHERE, WHERE OUR CAPACITY LIMITS ARE AND W NEVERMIND WHERE THEY ARE, WHERE WE WANT THEM TO BE. AND SO THAT'S JUST TWO AREAS THAT, UM, THAT I THINK WE NEED TO KIND OF THINK ABOUT IN THE FUTURE. UM, AND I KNOW THERE'S SOME ELEMENTS GOING THROUGH THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT ADDRESSED THAT, UM, THOSE YEARS OUT SEEMED TO BE A LITTLE BIT FAR AS, AS I SEE THAT AS A PRIORITY NOW, BUT, UM, JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I'M HEARD. THANKS. THANK YOU. MA'AM ANY OTHER COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, COMMENTARY. ALL RIGHT. SO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE BOOK, UM, AND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW IT'S IT'S BROKEN UP OR, OR I WOULD SAY SEPARATED. SO WE'RE ABOUT TO DIVE INTO THE STRATEGIC INITIATIVES, RIGHT? SO IF WE TALK ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY THEMES OUT OF OUR PLAN, HOW THOSE ARE CONVERTED INTO, YOU KNOW, STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN GOALS, BUT THEN WHAT'S ALSO IMPORTANT IS HOW WE CONVERT THOSE, HOW WE CONVERT THESE GOALS RIGHT HERE, THESE OVERARCHING GOALS INTO STRATEGIC INITIATIVES, POINT OF CLARIFICATION MARKET, A STRATEGIC INITIATIVE IS THE SAME THING AS A STRATEGY. YES. SO AS A STRATEGY AS WE GO THROUGH THIS DOCUMENT, UM, THE, THEY ARE USED INTERCHANGEABLY. YES. THANK YOU. AND JOSH IS GOING TO KICK ME IF I MESS THAT UP OVER HERE, HE ALREADY, ALREADY TOLD THEM THAT DON'T LET ME MESS UP THAT STRATEGY VERSE TACTIC. IT'S SOMETHING THAT JOSH AND I REALLY TALKED ABOUT TO BE HONEST AND UPFRONT ABOUT, BECAUSE IF COUNSEL IS REALLY FOCUSED ON THE GOAL AND REALLY FOCUSED ON THE STRATEGY, AND I'M REALLY FOCUSED ON DEFINING THE APPROPRIATE POLICY WITH YOU THROUGH THE COMMITTEE, THROUGH COUNCIL, WITH PUBLIC INPUT. SO ON, SO FORTH, THIS WORKS RIGHT. THIS, THE CIRCLE OF LIFE OF THAT INITIATIVE REALLY, REALLY PLAYS OUT. UM, YEAH. IF, IF WE HAVE THE RIGHT GOALS, CHANCES ARE, THEY WON'T CHANGE. WHAT WILL CHANGE WILL BE THE STRATEGIES AND TACTICS THAT YOU HAVE UP THERE BASED UPON WHAT WORKS AND WHY AND WHAT DOESN'T AND WHY NOT? YES, SIR. SO OUR, OUR FOCUS REALLY SHOULD BE AT, AT THE GOAL LEVEL, MAYBE SOME OF THE STRATEGIES, BUT THAT'S ABOUT AS FAR DOWN AS WE GO. I AGREE. AND THAT IS A VERY HEALTHY PLACE FOR A TOWN MANAGER AND A TOWN COUNCIL TO LIVE. UM, WHAT WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THOUGH, IS THAT, THAT THAT'S NOT SAYING THAT I'M SIMPLY BRINGING YOU THE POLICY. SO EXAMPLE SHORT-TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE. THAT DOESN'T JUST MEAN I'M GOING TO COME UP WITH THAT POLICY AND WORK WITH STAFF AND WORK WITH COMMUNITY AND, AND, AND KEEP YOU OUT OF THE WEEDS AND BRING YOU THAT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE CRAFT THOSE EXPECTATIONS, THOSE PRIORITIES, UM, TALK ABOUT THOSE CHALLENGES TOGETHER SO THAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY, UM, SOMETHING THAT COMES IN FRONT OF YOU IS SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE BEEN A PART OF ADDRESSING. AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT. AND SO IT'S, IT'S THE IMPORTANT PART AND ALSO THE CHALLENGING, BUT EASY PART IF WE DEFINE THE PROCESS. OKAY. UH, MARK GOOD, SIR. JUST FOR THE PUBLIC LISTENING THEN. SO WE, WE HAVE SIGNIFICANT IF NOT SOLE RESPONSIBILITY AT THE POLICY LEVEL, FROM THE PUBLIC CONSUMPTION STANDPOINT, IN TERMS OF STRATEGIES, IT IS, IS THAT IN OUR WHEELHOUSE OR ARE YOU IN THAT WHEELHOUSE WITH US? I THINK WE'RE ALL IN THE WHEELHOUSE, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLANS IN THE WHEELHOUSE, THE COMMUNITY HE IS, AND THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING, BUT I THINK THAT IT'S A GOOD PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW THAT. RIGHT. AND, AND WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE THE STRATEGIES, THE, THE REAL STRATEGIES THOSE COME OUT OF OUR PLAN. THOSE ALSO CAME ACROSS MY DESK OUT OF A COMMITTEE MEETING, RIGHT. SO I DON'T KNOW THAT ON A PARTICULAR PAGE, AND I'M GOING TO STICK ON SHORT-TERM RENTALS FOR A SECOND, BECAUSE IT'S AN EASY ONE TO TALK ABOUT. THAT'S NOT ON PAGE 92 OF OUR PLAN. ALL RIGHT. SO THAT CAME OUT OF A NEED. IT CAME OUT OF A COMMUNITY [00:40:02] ASSESSMENT. IT CAME OUT OF COMMITTEE, IT CAME, IT CAME FROM COUNCIL. SOME OF THESE ON THIS SCREEN TODAY COME FROM ME. SOME OF THESE COME TODAY, AS SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FROM DEPARTMENT HEADS THROUGH ME. AND AS I AGREED TO THEM, THEY'RE ON THE BOARD. UM, SO THEY'RE COMING FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES AT DIFFERENT PLACES. AND I THINK THAT'S A HEALTHY WAY TO LOOK AT THIS, BUT AT ALL TIMES OUR PLAN IS THAT GUIDE. SO WE'RE JUST NOT PULLING SOMETHING OUT OF THIN AIR FROM THAT, FROM THAT TRUE OVERALL GOAL STANDPOINT. AND SO TODAY, AS WE REALLY LOOK AT THE STRATEGIES, IT'S BROKEN UP THREE WAYS, POLICY, PROJECT, OPERATIONAL. SO POLICY IS OBVIOUS, RIGHT? STRATEGIST, STRATEGIC, STRATEGIC BY VIRTUE OF THEIR LEGAL ORIGIN AND REQUIRE FORMAL ACTION ON THE PART OF TOWN COUNCIL TO ACCOMPLISH. FOR EXAMPLE, AMENDMENTS TO THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND, ORDINANCES, FORMAL RESOLUTIONS CREATION OF NEW PROGRAMS, SUCH AS THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN FUNDS AND THE SUBSEQUENT PROGRAMS THAT WERE CREATED, THAT'S JUST NEEDS TO BE THROUGH YOU AND THEN POLICIES OR REVISIONS TO EXISTING ONES. SO IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THINGS THAT NEED A VOTE, THOSE, THOSE ITEMS THAT NEED A VOTE, UM, RESOLUTIONS ORDINANCES, SIMPLE VOTES, UH, NEW PROGRAMS. I'M NOT JUST NOT PICKING ON PIECES OF NEW PROGRAMS AND IMPLEMENTING THEM PROJECTS. SO THOSE INITIATIVES THAT ARE DEFINED IN OUR STRATEGIC BECAUSE OF THE SUBSTANTIAL COMMITMENT TO RESOURCES REQUIRED TO ACCOMPLISH THEM PRIORITY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. SO YOUR VOTE MATTERS THAT THERE'S REALLY DEFINING THE PROJECT THROUGH THE STRATEGIC PLAN, BUT REALLY AT TIME OF BUDGET. SO IN A BUDGETS OF POLICY, OF COURSE, NOPE. THERE WE GO. UH, THERE WE GO. SORRY, HAVING A COUPLE, HERE WE GO. NEXT OPERATIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES THAT CONSISTS OF TASKS OR OTHER ACTIVITIES EXECUTED BY TOWN STAFF IN ORDER TO PROVIDE ENHANCE SERVICES. SO OPERATIONAL ONE EXAMPLE IMPROVE THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROGRAM, UM, DIFFERENT THAN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, STRATEGIC PLAN FIRE DEPARTMENT, STRATEGIC PLAN CAME TO YOU AND THROUGH YOU, AND EVEN THOUGH THAT'S STRATEGIC AT AN OPERATIONAL LEVEL, YOU'RE INVOLVED, BUT IMPROVING THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROGRAM, ESTABLISHING DIFFERENT METRICS, REVIEWING THE PLAN, WORKING WITH THE HOME BUILDERS, UM, WORKING WITH STAFF TO REFINE THE PROGRAM, MAKING SURE THAT FOLKS ARE, UH, OUR RESOURCES ARE IN PLACE AND THE PROCESS IS GREAT. THAT'S OPERATIONAL. AND SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT I'VE ADDED TO THAT. AND SO YOU'LL SEE SOME OPERATIONAL ENHANCEMENTS TODAY, UM, THAT ARE ON MY PLATE. AND SO I THINK THAT THEY'RE STILL STRATEGIC, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE NOT A POLICY MATTER, THEY'RE STILL STRATEGIC. AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I'M WORKING ON THINGS EVEN OUTSIDE OF YOUR COLLECTIVE GOALS FOR YOUR POLICIES. AND SO I THINK THAT'S A GOOD PART, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE, THE, THE TACTICS SHEETS THAT WE WON'T REALLY GET INTO TODAY. BUT WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT IS THAT IN, IN A PORTION OF THIS, THIS BOOKLET HERE, WE'VE LISTED OUT THE INITIATIVE, THE STARTING FISCAL, THE INITIATIVE TYPE, WHETHER IT'S POLICY, PROJECT, OR OPERATIONAL, THE FOCUS AREA IN THOSE, IN THOSE TERMS AND WHO THE PROJECT MANAGER IS, REGARDLESS OF WHO THE PROJECT MANAGER IS, I WILL WORK WITH THE DEPARTMENT HEAD ON IT, BUT DEPARTMENT HEADS CAN'T BE PROJECT MANAGERS ON EVERY ITEM. AND, AND SO I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT. AND, UH, TO QUOTE OUR FAVORITE CIP PROGRAM MANAGER, RIGHT? SCOPE, SCHEDULE BUDGET, REGARDLESS, THAT'S JUST NOT A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM MINDSET. THAT'S, THAT'S ANY PROJECT MANAGER MINDSET ON THIS DOCUMENT, UM, WHO THE DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY IS, AND THEN A DESCRIPTION OF THE INITIATIVE. THAT'S YOUR CUE? JOSH? JOSH SAID, I COULD SLAP HIM IF HE WAS SLEEPING, BUT YEAH. AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO JUST SHOW HOW ALL OF THAT TRANSLATES TO THE AIR TABLE, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU CAN'T SEE THAT THERE. AND JOSH JUST RUN THROUGH THAT REAL QUICK AND PICK ONE, JUST LET'S PICK, UM, PARKING STUDY SINCE THAT'S COMING FORWARD. SO AS YOU CAN SEE WHAT THIS ONE IS MORE KIND OF HIGHLIGHTED AT THE OUTSET WITH GIVING YOUR TABLE IS GOING TO BE BASICALLY A SUMMARY SIDE OF THE FORMAT [00:45:08] STRATEGY. WHAT IS THE FISCAL YEAR START DATE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE ACTUAL I GRABBED A COFFEE. DID YOU CLICK ON THAT ONE AND GO STRAIGHT ACROSS THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN? ALL RIGHT. GOOD. PERFECT. ALL RIGHT. AND THEN WE'LL IMPLEMENT PARKING SITE. THAT'S THE ONE I'M THE PROJECT MANAGER ON. SO AS WE GO FORWARD, AS WE HAVE MONTHLY UPDATES ON COMMENTS, WE'LL BE POSTING THEM HERE WITHIN THIS TAKE. OKAY, GOOD. CAN YOU GO BACK? LET ME, LET ME, LET ME HELP GO ALL THE WAY TO THE LEFT PLEASE. SORRY. ALL RIGHT. SO THERE WE GO. NEXT COLUMN IS WHAT, THIS IS THE CORE VALUE THAT WE ARE ASSIGNING PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE. NEXT, THIS IS A POLICY INITIATIVE NEXT IT'S IN THE DEPARTMENT. OUR DEPARTMENT NEXT, JOSH IS THE PROJECT MANAGER NEXT THE SCHOOL YEAR START NEXT. THIS IS A TOWN COUNCIL COMMITTEE THAT WE WILL BE WORKING WITH ON THIS PARTICULAR ITEM. SO AGAIN, IN THIS CASE WILL BE MR. AMES THAT WE'LL BE WORKING WITH. AND I BELIEVE WE ACTUALLY HAD A MEETING SET FOR NEXT WEEK. SO IT SHOULD INDICATE THAT YES, SCHEDULE PRESENTATION ON RECOMMENDING IMPLEMENTATION STEPS FROM THE SESSION ON 10 28. SO AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THAT INFORMATION, THIS IS UPDATED ON A MONTHLY BASIS ABOUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED OR WHAT'S COMING UP THAT WAY. WE CAN CLEARLY TO THE PUBLIC ON EACH ONE OF THESE ITEMS WITH STATUSES, EVEN GIVEN THAT MEANS THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO ACTION ON THE SITE. THAT'S STILL US COMMUNICATING WITH THE PUBLIC, THAT THERE HASN'T BEEN ANYTHING THAT'S OCCURRED WITH THIS PARTICULAR ITEM. AND IT MAY BE BECAUSE IT'S NOT THIS FISCAL YEAR ITEM. IT IS A NEXT FISCAL YEAR, BUT AGAIN, IT'S STILL COMMUNICATES THAT INFORMATION AND THEREFORE EXPECTATIONS. WONDERFUL. SO THAT'S JUST REALLY HOW IT WORKS. AND IT'S KIND OF RIGHT THERE AT OUR FINGERTIPS. AND OVER TIME, THIS IS A LIVING DOCUMENT. AND SO WE'LL REFINE IT AND TO MR. LENNOX'S 0.0, STRATEGIES OVER TIME WILL CHANGE. WE'RE GOING TO ACCOMPLISH SOME THINGS, CLOSE THEM OUT, CELEBRATE THEM, UM, REALLY CELEBRATE AND APPRECIATE THE HARD WORK THAT GOES INTO THEM, UH, AND GET ONTO THE NEXT ONE. AND I THINK THAT IF WE MEET ON STRATEGIC PLAN ENOUGH, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT ENOUGH IS, THAT'S, THAT'S UP TO YOU. I HAVE SOME SUGGESTIONS, THEN THOSE STRATEGIES ARE ALWAYS BEING ADDED. WHAT IT'S ALSO GOING TO HELP US DO IS IF SOMETHING COMES UP MID YEAR AND IT'S LIKE, WHOA, HEY MARK. LET'S, I DON'T KNOW. LET'S, LET'S BUILD A COMMUNITY CENTER AND LET'S PUT A PARTNERSHIP IN PLACE AND LET'S, LET'S DO ALL THESE GREAT THINGS. WELL, MY, MY ANSWER SHOULD BE, AND WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT TOPIC TO TALK ABOUT AT STRATEGIC PLAN. AND SO THAT'S A GOOD TIME FOR TOWN COUNCIL TO UNDERSTAND IT DOESN'T MEAN I'M NOT GOING TO SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME ON THE DUE DILIGENCE COMING HERE. IT'S NOT JUST A, YOU KNOW, A PUT IT IN A PILE AND WE'LL VISIT IT IN 11 MONTHS. I THINK THESE OPPORTUNITIES FOR US MOVING FORWARD ARE TIMES FOR US TO TALK ABOUT NEW ITEMS. IT'S ALSO A TIME FOR US TO CLOSE OUT AND LOOK BACK AND, AND GET EXCITED ABOUT THOSE GOOD THINGS THAT ARE IN PLACE. SO, AND WITH THAT, JUST ONE QUESTION USING, UM, THE PARKING PLAN AS AN EXAMPLE, UH, WHEN THAT IS BEING EXPRESSED AT A TACTICAL LEVEL, IF I'M A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY AND I DON'T LIKE WHERE IT'S GOING, WHERE CAN I BE HEARD OR WORK? CAN MY COMMENTS BE MEMORIALIZED? IF IN FACT YOU WANT THEM, UH, CAN THEY BE INSERTED AT THE NOTE LEVEL? NO, THAT, THAT NOTE, THAT LEVEL ISN'T FOR THAT, THAT NOTE LEVEL IS FOR THE PROJECT MANAGER TO DO THEIR WORK THERE. THEIR VOICE NEEDS TO BE HEARD VIA EMAIL DIRECTLY TO [00:50:01] THEIR, THEIR, THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO THE TOWN MANAGER, TO OTHERS. BUT IT'S ALSO AT TIME OF PUBLIC COMMENT, UM, THROUGH DIFFERENT AND VARIOUS MEETINGS. AND IF WE'RE DOING THIS RIGHT, IT'S NOT JUST PUBLIC, IT'S JUST NOT THE PUBLIC COMMENT AT FIRST AND SECOND READING. IT'S IT'S THE PUBLIC OPEN HOUSES. IT'S THE INTERACTION, RIGHT? I THINK MR. LENNOX. OKAY. THANK YOU MARK. TO USE YOUR EXAMPLE OF AN IDEA THAT COMES UP MID YEAR, LET'S BUILD A COMMUNITY CENTER, LET'S DO A PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AND BUILD A COMMUNITY CENTER. I THINK YOUR ANSWER SHOULD BE, WHICH ONE OF THE GOALS DOES THAT SUPPORT? THAT'S A STRATEGY. THAT'S NOT A GOAL, THAT'S A STRATEGY. AND WHICH ONE OF OUR GOALS IS THAT IN SUPPORTIVE, ONCE YOU DETERMINE THAT, THEN I THINK YOU HAVE TO EVALUATE WHERE IN THE HIERARCHY OF EXISTING STRATEGIES, DOES THIS FALL OR FALL TOWARD THE BOTTOM? IF SO, THE LIKELIHOOD IS THAT IT WON'T BE ALLOCATED RESOURCES, IF IT'S A WONDERFUL STRATEGY AND YOU THINK, OR WE THINK THAT IT SHOULD BE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, THE LIKELIHOOD IS IT'LL GET RESOURCES ALLOCATED, BUT THAT'S THE FORMAL PROCESS THAT YOU'VE SET FORTH BY DOING THIS. YES, SIR. YES. THANK YOU. IN THE IDEAL WORLD AND THE, AND A GREAT PROCESS IN PLACE AND THE RIGHT PEOPLE AROUND THE TABLE. I THINK THAT THAT'S, THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE WONDERFUL PART OF THIS PROCESS, RIGHT? AND, AND JUST PICKING UP ON THAT IN USING THE SAME THEME, I DON'T SEE IT THAT DISSIMILAR TO WHEN WE BROUGHT, UM, WHEN A RESIDENT CAME TO ME AND ASKED, WELL, SEVERAL OF US ACTUALLY, AND ASKED THAT, UM, A PAVILION BE BUILT AT, UM, ISLANDERS PARK AND, UM, AND THAT WAS BROUGHT FORTH AND IT WAS ABLE TO BE ASSIMILATED INTO THE CAPITAL PROJECTS, UM, AND MADE SENSE FOR US TO MOVE ON IT IMMEDIATELY. BUT I THINK, UM, IN ANSWER TO BILL'S QUESTION, I THINK HE KNEW THE ANSWER. THOSE THINGS ALWAYS COME TO US FIRST, WE GET THOSE PHONE CALLS, WE GET THOSE EMAILS AND MESSAGES, AND IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY AND DUTY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR VOICES ARE HURTING THEIR OWN COMMITTEE OR DIRECTLY TO THE TOWN MANAGER. AND THAT CHANGES, UM, AS APPROPRIATE COULD BE MADE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD HOPE FOR WITH THIS SYSTEM, UM, IS THAT ANY LACK OF TRANSPARENCY THAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED IN THE PAST, UM, IS REDUCED NOT ONLY REDUCED IS ELIMINATED COMPLETELY. AND I'M WONDERING IN TERMS OF HOW THE FOLLOW THROUGH AND CHECKUP WITH TH THOSE THAT CAN KIND OF BE PLAY. I'M NOT ASKING FOR AN ANSWER RIGHT NOW, BUT I AM SAYING THAT, UM, THAT ISSUE MUST BE ADDRESSED. AND I THINK THAT THIS, THIS PLAN THAT YOU HAVE WITH WHAT'S, YOU KNOW, THE PROGRAM MAY HAVE NATURE'S NOTES OR THE DIRECTOR'S NOTES IN TERMS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IS CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT AND HONEST UNDERSTAND. ONE THING I DO HAVE A QUESTION ON IS, ARE YOU ASKING ME TO FOLLOW UP ON SOMETHING HERE, BECAUSE THERE, IS THERE A TOPIC OR AN ISSUE THAT I SHOULD GO BACK AND RESEARCH, OR DO YOU WANT TO GET THROUGH? NO, SIR, I WANT TO GET THROUGH THESE, BUT YES, I THINK, I THINK WE'RE ALL AWARE THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME TRANSPARENCY ISSUES AND SOME CONFUSION IN TERMS OF ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. AND, UM, AND I'M NOT, I'M NOT, I'M NOT AN, UH, LOOKING RIGHT NOW TO, TO TALK ABOUT IT, BUT I'M HAPPY TO OKAY. IF YOU'D LIKE, THIS IS YOUR DAY, WE SHOULD DIVE THROUGH THE STRATEGIES. YEAH. SO, WELL, HERE'S WHAT I'M GOING TO DO RIGHT NOW. SO I'M GOING TO DIVE INTO THESE STRATEGIES. I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THEM QUICK, PLEASE STOP ME AND SLOW DOWN AND ALSO SAY YES, I WANT TO TALK MORE ABOUT THAT LATER. WE CAN. OF COURSE, I'M GOING TO OVERVIEW EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW. KNOW THAT, JUST ONE QUESTION FOR YOU, MOVE ON. UH, YOU MENTIONED, UH, THAT AS FAR AS HOW OFTEN WE REVIEW IS UP TO US, BUT YOU HAVE SOME IDEAS. YES, SIR. YOU'RE GOING TO COVER THAT LATER, AS FAR AS THE IDEAS. YES. NEXT STEPS AND FUTURE, AND HOW ALL THIS, LIKE, LET ME TAKE THE DOG SMALL WALKING ME EVEN TALKING. AND WE'VE THE TENTATIVE PLAN IS TO RE RECONVENE THIS GROUP IN WATCH AND SEPTEMBER. SO WE WOULD MEET TWICE A YEAR, FORMALLY AND MORE OF MOCK OR YOU GUYS THINK WE NEED IT, BUT THE NEXT MEETING WOULD BE MARCH AND A FORMAL MEETING WOULD BE SEPTEMBER THAT CORRECT, SIR. YES, SIR. AND THE MORE WE MEET AND THE MORE WE REFINE, BECAUSE THERE, I ASSURE YOU, I ALREADY KNOW, I ALREADY SEE A COUPLE THINGS IN ABOUT SIX MONTHS. WE'RE GOING TO SAY, WHY ISN'T THAT IN THERE? OR WHY IS THAT IN THERE? AND GOSH, HOW DID WE NOT THINK OF THAT BACK THEN? THE MORE WE MEET ON THIS DOCUMENT, THE BETTER IT WILL BECOME IN YEAR THREE, WE [00:55:01] SHOULD BE HITTING OUR STRIDE AND A PART, A PART OF THE NORM, A PART OF THE CULTURE, AND VERY STRATEGIC AS A COUNCIL, VERY STRATEGIC AS A SENIOR STAFF AND FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS OPERATIONALLY. SO THAT'S THE GOAL. NO, THAT AS I GET THROUGH THESE STRATEGIES, I'M ALSO GOING TO COVER SOME OF YOUR FEEDBACK TO ME. I'VE RECEIVED WONDERFUL EMAILS. I'VE RECEIVED SUCH GREAT ADVICE, JUST EVEN IN TERMS OF REORGANIZING A PIECE OF THE DOCUMENT, MR. LENNOX, THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME PURGE OUT WHAT A GOAL ON THIS LOOKS LIKE. SO MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY NEED TO KNOW TOWN COUNCIL HAS PUT IN A LOT OF TIME WITH ME AND BY THEMSELVES AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THIS AND I APPRECIATE IT. SO I'M GOING TO GO OVER YOUR HIGH LEVEL FEEDBACK. I'M NOT READING EVERY SINGLE LINE OF EVERYTHING, SINGLE THING THAT WAS SENT TO ME. SO IF I'M MISSING ANYTHING, PLEASE DON'T BE OFFENDED. AND PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU THINK I'M MISSING ANYTHING. AND THEN ALSO THERE ARE NEW ITEMS, AS I'VE MENTIONED, NOT NEW ADDITIONAL, AND TO MR. LENNOX'S POINT, WE'VE GOT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE. UNDERSTAND WHAT GOAL, UM, WOULD THEY WOULD ACCOMPLISH IF THEY ARE A STRATEGY. WHAT, WHAT PRIORITY ORDER, HOW IMPORTANT ARE THEY? AND SHOULD WE ADD THEM TO THE MIX TODAY? AND TODAY IS ABOUT THE FUTURE. TODAY IS NOT ABOUT GOING BACK TO WORK TOMORROW MORNING AND HOPPING ON THIS. I REALLY ENCOURAGE US TO THINK ABOUT THOSE GOALS FOR OUR FUTURE AND DIVE INTO THE STRATEGIES. SO I'M GOING TO STAND UP BECAUSE I CAN SEE THE SCREEN A LITTLE BETTER BACK HERE. SO FORGIVE ME IF I'M MOVING AROUND. UM, AND SO JUST TO RECAP A LITTLE BIT AS WE LOOK, THESE STRATEGIES ARE REALLY BUCKETED INTO THESE GOALS. SO WE'RE GOING TO ADDRESS THEM IN THIS, IN THIS ORDER, I, BY NO MEANS IS THIS A PRIORITY ORDER IS SIMPLY THE ORDER. SO PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE REQUIRE AND SUSTAIN EXCELLENCE OF PLACE, PEOPLE PLANNING AND PROCESS. AS WE LOOK IN THIS RE REQUIRE AND SUSTAIN EXCELLENCE OF PLACE, PEOPLE PLANNING AND PROCESS. SO THEY'RE THERE IN LIES THAT GOAL, THE STRATEGIES THAT ARE IN PLACE, ALL OF THESE ON THE SCREEN SHOULD NOT BE A SURPRISE TO ANYBODY DEFINITELY TO, TO MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT SOME HAVEN'T STARTED, SOME WERE WELL UNDERWAY OF, AND I THINK TODAY, AGAIN, TO REMIND US IS ABOUT WHAT ARE WE DOING? AND DO YOU AGREE? AND IF YOU DO KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON THESE ITEMS TOGETHER AT A LATER TIME THROUGH PUBLIC MEETINGS, THROUGH COMMITTEE OPPORTUNITIES AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. SO HERE WE GO, ADOPT AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN FUNDING APPROPRIATION, WELL ON ITS WAY, SIGNED THE MOU, UH, WITH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION. UM, I EMAILED THAT TO YOU RECENTLY. IT, IT, IT WAS EMAILED A LITTLE LATER THAN I WANTED IT TO, BUT I DO THINK IT'S A, IT'S A REALLY GREAT MOU IT'S CONCRETE, MR. TROYER IS GOING TO SERVE ON THE COMMITTEE AT THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION. AND SO, UM, YOUR VOICE HAS BEEN HEARD THAT IS IN PLACE. THERE'S SEVERAL OTHER PROGRAMS THOUGH. TOWN HALL, SECURITY, TOWN HALL, UH, TECHNOLOGY, UH, HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE, I PATTERSON PARK INFRASTRUCTURE, A HOME REPAIR PROGRAM, THE SAFE AND DRY PROGRAM, AS WELL AS REMOVAL OF DILAPIDATED ON INHABIT. IT STRUCTURES ALL OF THAT WORK AS WELL, UNDERWAY ASSESS ALTERNATIVE REVENUE SOURCES THAT CAME UP AT BUDGET IMPLEMENT PARKING MASTER PLAN. I WANT TO GO BACK TO SOMETHING YOU SAID EARLIER WHEN YOU WERE PREEMPTING, UM, AS YOU GO THROUGH THESE VERY QUICKLY, YES. FLAG YOU. IF THERE'S SOMETHING WE WANT TO TALK IN MORE DETAIL ABOUT LATER, CORRECT? YES. I FELT IT. DID YOU FLAG ME YET? WELL, I'LL LET YOU FINISH, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE CLEAR ON THAT IMPLEMENT PARKING MASTER PLAN, ADOPT SHORT-TERM RENTAL REGS, ADOPT AFFILIATED AGENCY TOWN FUNDING PROCESS ADOPT A 2020 CENSUS REDISTRICTING PLAN, ADOPT A BEACH MASTER PLAN, A SWAT ANALYSIS ON OUR FINANCIAL POLICIES ADOPT THE REAL ESTATE TRANSFER FEE, EXTENSION AND EXPANSION BEACH SHUTTLE, SERVICE ENHANCEMENTS, ESTABLISH ISLAND BRAND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY. AND SO THOSE ARE THE POLICY ITEMS UNDER EXCELLENCE, ANYTHING TO FLAG FOR LATER ON THAT SCREEN ARC. YES, SIR. I HAVE TROUBLE FITTING VARIOUS PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS INTO CATEGORIES. UM, AND I'M NOT BEING CRITICAL HERE, BUT FOR EXAMPLE, WHY IS ADOPT THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN UNDER PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE RATHER THAN FOR EXAMPLE, BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY? IS THAT JUST AN ARBOR ARBITRARY DECISION THAT YOU MAKE AS, [01:00:01] AS BEING OUR COUNTDOWN? YES, SIR. IT'S, IT'S AN ART, NOT A SCIENCE. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ARGUABLY BECAUSE THE TOPIC WILL COME UP AND IT WILL BE OBVIOUS ENVIRONMENT. SURE. IT'S NOT AS ROBUST AS OTHERS. YOU CAN TAKE SO MANY OF THESE ITEMS AND PUT THEM IN ENVIRONMENT. SO IN SOME OF IT'S DRIVEN BY THAT, OUR PLAN, SOME, SOME OF IT WHEN YOU REALLY LOOK AT IT AND YOU DIVE INTO THOSE TERMS, BECAUSE TO BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT IT, I HAD SOME OF THESE IN DIFFERENT AREAS, BUT AS STAFF STARTED TO REVIEW IT, AND THE FOLKS THAT REALLY WORKED ON COMP PLAN ON THE, ON OUR PLAN SAID, NO, THAT'S NOT THAT BUCKET. THAT'S NOT THAT PRIORITY GOAL. IT'S OVER HERE. AND LOOK WHY A LOT, SOME OF THIS WAS REALLY DEFINED, BUT TO YOUR POINT, AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN EXCELLENCE IN YOUR GRAFFITI, A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PLACES I'M WILLING, I'M WILLING TO ACCEPT YOUR DECISION THOUGH. THANK YOU. AND IF YOU FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT IT, LET'S MOVE IT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT TODAY'S ABOUT. SO MARK, I DO HAVE, UH, A FEW HAIL ON THAT EXCELLENCE POLICY. UM, THE, UH, ULTIMATE REVENUE SOURCES. YES. UH, THE REDISTRICTING AND THE TRANSFER FEE. OKAY. OKAY. AND IF I CAN ADD TO THAT LIST, UM, BEAT SHUTTLE SERVICE ENHANCEMENTS AND ESTABLISH ISLAND BRAND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY WOULD BE TO THAT. I'D LIKE, OKAY, AS, AS WE EAT LUNCH AND LEADING UP TO TWO, AND IF WE DON'T GET TO THE MALL TODAY, WE'LL FIND SOME MORE TIME MARK TO, TO GLEN'S POINT IT'S POSSIBLE. AND IT IS FREQUENTLY DONE TO HAVE ONE STRATEGY, BE IN SUPPORT OF MULTIPLE GOALS. SO HE COULD HAVE THAT SAME STRATEGY LISTED UNDER ANOTHER GOAL. ONLY DO IT ONCE, BUT IN SUPPORT OF TWO GOALS. YES, SIR. AND THE SWINGING, GO AHEAD. SORRY. AND JUST ONE COMMENT, MARK. I'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE WHAT TAMMY AND ALEX MENTIONED IS TOP OF THE LIST FOR LUNCH RATHER THAN NEW STUFF COMING IN, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO DISCUSS SOMETHING AND NOT ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. I'D RATHER GO THROUGH THEIR QUESTIONS RATHER THAN BRING NEW STUFF IN. YES. OKAY. JOSH, DO YOU HAVE ALL THOSE ON A NICE CLEAN, OKAY, GOOD. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR FEEDBACK. OPERATIONAL RESPOND TO THE PANDEMIC, IMPROVE OUR PERMITTING PROGRAM. AND SO THESE ARE THINGS WE'RE WORKING ON. AS A STAFF CONDUCTING RESPOND TO EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION, SURVEY, IMPROVE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT PROCESS FOR BOARDS, COMMISSIONING COMMITTEES, ARGUABLY AN SOP STANDARD OPERATING ON HOW TO RECRUIT, HOW TO VET, HOW TO APPOINT, HOW TO ONBOARD AND HOW TO TRAIN SO FULL, FULL GAMUT RESEARCH TRENDS AND IMPLEMENT BEST IN CLASS MUNICIPAL SERVICES DELIVERY THAT THAT CAME OUT OF OUR PLAN THAT CAME OUT OF YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN DISCUSSION BACK IN FEBRUARY OR SO. UM, ACQUIRE FIRE RESCUE CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE EXCELLENCE, REACCREDITATION IMPLEMENT FIRE RESCUE STRATEGIC PLAN, IMPLEMENT CULTURAL AFFAIRS, STRATEGIC PLAN THAT SINCE IT'S BEEN RESCINDED NEEDS TO SHIFT TO POLICY. SO, NOPE. AND AGAIN, I DIDN'T CHANGE THIS SINCE THAT, UH, ENHANCED COMMUNICATIONS PLAN WITH STRONG SOCIAL MEDIA EMPHASIS CREATE A CULTURE OF HIGH ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE, IMPLEMENT OUR C CLICK FIXED MOBILE APP AND WEBSITE APPLICATION DEVELOP AN HR STRATEGIC PLAN AND DEVELOP A TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION STRATEGIC PLAN. SO THOSE, THOSE LAST TWO THAT'S LISA STOFFER, OUR AMAZING HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR AND JOHN TUTTLE. WHO'S ALSO AMAZING AS OUR IT DIRECTOR, THEY WILL HAVE STRATEGIC PLANS IN THEIR OFFICE, SO THEY KNOW WHAT BUSINESS THEY'RE IN. WE ALL WILL KNOW ANYTHING ON THIS. YOU WANT TO DIVE INTO A LITTLE BIT. THERE WAS ONE QUESTION ABOUT SEECLICKFIX. I CAN ANSWER IT QUICKLY. THESE ARE THINGS THAT I WILL PUT TOGETHER. IF THERE'S POLICY IN ANYTHING, I WILL DEFINITELY BE BRINGING IT TO TOWN COUNCIL AS A POLICY INITIATIVE. SO I, I HAVE, UM, BASICALLY JUST QUESTIONS BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD AN OPPORTUNITY AS A GROUP TO, TO, UM, I THINK TALK ABOUT SOME OF THESE. AND SO I WELCOME THIS OPPORTUNITY. UM, RESEARCH TRENDS AND IMPLEMENT BEST IN CLASS MUNICIPAL SERVICE DELIVERY DEFINITELY WANT THE VERY BEST SERVICE DELIVERY AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, UM, FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THE ISLAND AND OUR VISITORS AND BUSINESSES. I'M JUST CURIOUS, UM, A LITTLE TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT. OKAY. I'LL TELL YOU HOW I THINK ABOUT THAT. AND I DID A LAST NIGHT, IT WAS UP LATE READING A MAGAZINE, A PUBLIC MANAGEMENT MAGAZINE, INTERNATIONAL CITY [01:05:01] MANAGER ASSOCIATION, JUST PUT OUT THERE, THEIR PUBLICATION ON WHO WON AWARDS. AND I'M SITTING THERE THINKING WE COULD HAVE WON SOMETHING HERE. WHY DIDN'T WE APPLY? BUT WHAT'S FILLED IN THAT BOOK AND I'LL, I'LL FORWARD IT TO YOU. IDEAS ON EVERYTHING WE'RE WORKING ABOUT. IT'S SO SMALL TOWNS, MEDIUM TOWNS, LARGE TOWNS, EVEN PEOPLE, PEOPLE ARE WINNING AWARDS IN, IN THIS BUSINESS. UM, AND SO WE RESEARCHED THAT. I ALSO RESEARCHED URBAN LAND INSTITUTE, THOSE NATIONAL AND GLOBAL AWARDS FOR HOUSING, THOSE NATIONAL AND GLOBAL AWARDS FOR PUBLIC SPACE, AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION, MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION AWARDS. SO THAT I'M ALWAYS SCOURING. AND I KNOW THESE FOLKS AS WELL. WELL, WE ALSO DO, AND AGAIN, I'M GOING TO KEEP FOCUSED. MAYBE WE'LL MAYBE WE CAN ADOPT SHORT-TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE BY THE END OF TODAY. I'LL TALK ABOUT IT SO MUCH. I'M JUST KIDDING, SIR. WE WON'T TRY TO DO THAT TODAY. UM, BUT WHEN WE STARTED TO DIVE INTO THE SHORT-TERM RENTAL DISCUSSIONS, BEFORE WE HAD AN OPINION, MY DIRECTION, AND CHRIS WAS ALREADY ON TOP OF IT, WHICH MAKES HIM A GREAT PARTNER WAS ALREADY RESEARCHING DIFFERENT PLACES IN THE COUNTRY. NOT TO SAY WE NEED TO BE LIKE THEM. WE'RE NOT MIAMI. WE'RE NOT ONE NEW ORLEANS. WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT KEY WEST. WE'RE NOT CHARLESTON. WE KNOW THAT, BUT WHAT HAVE THEY DONE? BECAUSE IF THERE'S ORDINANCES AND POLICIES IN PLACE, WHAT HAVE THEY LEARNED? AND AS WE START NARROWING DOWN WHAT SOME OTHERS HAVE DONE, WE MAKE A PHONE CALL, HEY, WHAT DID YOU LEARN? WHAT DID YOU DOING? WHAT'S WORKING. WHAT'S NOT. AND SO TO ME, THAT'S RESEARCHING BEST IN CLASS, BUT THAT IS AT EVERY LAYER OF THE ORGANIZATION. IT IS AT, FROM FACILITIES MANAGEMENT. WE JUST HIRED A YOUNG MAN WHO CAME STRAIGHT FROM PALMETTO BLUFF. HE KNOWS WHAT BEST IN CLASS LOOKS LIKE HE HE'S GOING TO IMPLEMENT THOSE. AND SO I THINK IT'S A BAR MORE THAN A RESEARCH PROJECT. SO HOPEFULLY THAT HELPS ANYTHING ELSE ON HERE. WE CAN ALWAYS REVISIT THAT, OH, I JUMPED THROUGH THAT ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY CREATE A RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH PLANNING AND POLICY. AND AGAIN, THIS IS LIGHT AND WE'VE CHALLENGED EACH OTHER INTERNALLY. I'VE CHALLENGED IT SIMPLY BECAUSE THIS DOESN'T FEEL GOOD. THIS DOESN'T FEEL AS GOOD AS THAT AND SENT IN A SENSE OF WE'RE EXCELLENT. BUT WE SAY THAT OUR ENVIRONMENT IS NUMBER ONE WE'RE ENVIRONMENT BASED AND WE RESPECT NATURE AND WE'RE HERE TO REPLICATE IT, SO TO SPEAK, BUT IT'S LIGHT IMPLEMENT A BEACH RESILIENCY AND RENOURISHMENT PLAN. AND, AND WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THAT AT LAST BUDGET ADOPTION, UM, IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING OBJECTIVES IN COORDINATION WITH THE COUNTY WORK WITH PUBLIC SERVICE DISTRICTS ON LONG-TERM CAPITAL PROJECTS, AND THEN OPERATIONAL ESTABLISH A NATIONAL LEADERSHIP, CREDIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND RESOURCE PROTECTION ACQUIRE AUDUBON INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY RE CERTIFICATION. SO AS WE GO THROUGH THIS AND NEW ITEMS COME UP OR YOU SEE SOME ITEMS IN OTHER, UNDER OTHER GOALS, UM, OTHER STRATEGIES UNDER THOSE GOALS SECTIONS, WE CAN MOVE SOME. IT'S JUST REALLY USING THAT OUR PLAN AS A GUIDE. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE RECEIVING. YES, SIR. I SAID AT OUR RETREAT THAT THIS ASTOUNDED ME, THAT AN ISLAND THAT PUBLICIZES ITS BRAND AS BEING ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS, UM, COMES UP WITH JUST THREE POLICY STATEMENTS AND TWO OPERATIONAL STATEMENTS. AND I JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE WHAT MARK JUST SAID. THIS DOES NOT FEEL GOOD FOR OUR COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. I WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT HERE ALSO MAGA, AND I KNOW EMBEDDED IN THE PLAN, THERE'S A, TH THERE'S TALK ABOUT, UH, SUSTAINABILITY IN REGARDS TO CLIMATE CHANGE. RIGHT. UM, AND THAT DEFINITELY IS UNDER THIS ENVIRONMENTAL SECTION. RIGHT. BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT, YOU KNOW, AS YOU WENT THROUGH OUR GOALS EARLIER, UM, YOU KNOW, EACH ONE OF THEM KIND OF HAS A PURPOSE STATEMENT. RIGHT. BUT TO ME, THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY OR THAT GOAL KIND OF THREADS ITSELF THROUGH ALL OF THEM AND IT NEEDS TO BE SORT OF FRONT OF MIND FOR US AS WE GO THROUGH ALL OF THEM. RIGHT. UM, SO I GUESS I'M NOT AS CONCERNED ABOUT IT BEING SO, UH, SO EMPTY, SO TO SPEAK. OKAY. BECAUSE, BUT AT THE SAME POINT, MAYBE IT NEEDS TO BE NOTED ALONG THE WAY THAT THE ENVIRONMENT IS FIRST FOR US. UM, SO I UNDERSTAND YOU CAPTURING THAT, JOSH, THAT'S A GREAT POINT. I'M NOT POSITIVE THAT I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE THRUST. CAUSE I THOUGHT YOU WERE HEADED IN THE DIRECTION OF WHAT GOES INTO A [01:10:01] RESILIENCY PLAN. IT SUSTAINS THE ECONOMY IT'S SUSTAINED SOCIAL AND CULTURAL NETWORKS AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. BUT THEN YOU SAID THAT YOU'RE NOT AS CONCERNED THAT THEY'RE ONLY IT'S LIGHT ON POLICY HERE. WHAT, I GUESS WHAT I WAS GOING WITH THAT COUNCILMAN NAMES IS, UM, I'M NOT AS ANXIOUS ABOUT IT BEING LIGHT. I'M MORE ANXIOUS ABOUT IT. NOT BE IN FRONT OF MINE AND THE OTHER CATEGORIES. OKAY. YEAH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YEP. EXCELLENT POINTS. AND NOT ALL STRATEGIES ARE CREATED EQUAL. YOU MAY HAVE TO ALLOCATE ENORMOUS RESOURCES TO ONE OF THOSE STRATEGIES, UH, VERSUS VERY FEW RESOURCES TO OTHERS. SO SIMPLY BECAUSE THERE'S ONLY THREE POLICY STRATEGIES AND TWO OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES DOES NOT CLEARLY DEFINE THE COMMITMENT OF RESOURCES TO ANY ONE OF THOSE. I SUGGEST THAT THE COMMITMENT TO RESOURCES TO THOSE FAR EXCEEDS THE COMMITMENT OF RESOURCES ON OTHERS. OKAY, THANK YOU. THOSE TWO ALONE, YOU KNOW, REALLY BEACH RESILIENCE RENOURISHMENT PLAN. WE KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. IT'S, LET'S LOOK AT OUR ENTIRE COASTLINE AS A, AS A RESILIENCY AS A, AS A, AS A RISK RISK. WHAT'S THE THREAT LOOKING AT THAT AS A MAJOR CHANGE IN OUR POLICY AND HOW WE LOOK AT THINGS, WE'VE SIMPLY RENOURISHED BEACHES WHERE YOU CAN WALK ON THEM, BUT WE HAVEN'T REALLY LOOKED AT THE SHORELINE EROSION OR THE TRUE BEACH RENOURISHMENT OPPORTUNITIES. I KNOW JEFF'S GOT POINT ON THAT AND HE, AND I BET A LOT OF CONVERSATION ON IT TO YOUR POINT. AND THEN THE SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING WILL BE, IF WE ARE FOCUSED, WILL BE A MAJOR UNDERTAKING MARK, JUST ONE LAST COMMENT. UM, JUST TO MAKE MY POINT, UM, I THINK IF, IF THIS ISLAND IS TRULY INTERESTED IN COMMITTED TO THE ENVIRONMENT THAN SOME OF OUR LMO REGULATIONS ARE IN CONFLICT WITH THAT. SO I THINK THAT YOU HAVE TO DIVE INTO SOME OF THE DECISIONS THAT WE'VE MADE AND, AND PROMULGATED AND ASKED THE QUESTION, ARE WE TRULY PRESERVING AND PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT? OKAY, THANK YOU, DAVID, WHO DO YOU THINK SHOULD BE DIVING INTO THOSE LMO CHANGES THAT AFFECT OUR ENVIRONMENT IN, I THINK THE TOWN MANAGER HAS SOME IDEAS ON THAT. UH, AND I THINK, UH, IT WILL BE STAFF DRIVEN IN MY OPINION, STAFF DRIVEN TO THE POINT THAT IT STAFF CAN PRESENT TO A COMMITTEE, PROBABLY PUBLIC PLANNING, ALTERNATIVES, AND IDEAS TO ENHANCE, UH, OUR LMO TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT. MY PERSONAL OPINION, BECAUSE MY PERSONAL OPINION IS THAT DAVID'S GROUP SHOULD GET INVOLVED EARLY ON TO MAKE SURE WE'RE COVERING THE RIGHT GROUP OF LMOS AND MAKE SURE WE'RE GOING THE RIGHT DIRECTION. THAT OKAY. WILL YOU DAVID? THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, WE STILL JUST MADE A GOOD COMMENT AND YOU WANT ME TO RELAY IT? THE COMMENT WAS, WHAT ABOUT THE LMO COMMITTEE? THAT'S THEIR PURPOSE? THAT'S THEIR PURPOSE. OKAY. I THINK BOTH, RIGHT, BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IN THE POLICY MAKER, I THINK YOUR DIRECTION TO ME NEEDS TO BE, TO GO WORK ON SOMETHING. AND THEN WE WORKED THROUGH THAT LMO COMMITTEE TO SCRUB, TO REFINE, TO CREATE. AND AT SOME POINT IT'S GOING TO COME BACK TO YOU. I THINK THAT THAT'S THE INITIATIVE THERE AND THAT'S, I'LL COVER THAT BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME BIGGER PICTURE THINGS WE NEED TO DO BEFORE WE KEEP AMENDING THE LMO. YEAH. I THINK DAVID'S HEADING IN A VERY GOOD DIRECTION. I'M GOING TO ASK HIM THROUGH YOU, IF HE WOULD EXPLAIN WHAT'S BEHIND THE QUESTION MY SON'S AT WHAT'S BEHIND THE, IS THAT GIVEN ALL THE UNDEVELOPED LAND REMAINING ON THE ISLAND. UH, AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE BUY RIGHT USES AND YOU OPTIMIZE DENSITY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, IS THAT WHERE WE REALLY WANT TO GO OR DO WE WANT TO TAKE SOME OF THIS OUT OF HARM'S WAY AND DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT? RIGHT. OKAY. I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET, GET TO THAT. MAY I JUST JUMP IN? I JUST WANTED TO GO BACK TO, AND THIS MAY JUST BE SOMETHING FOR LATER, BUT AS I RECALL STUDYING THROUGH THESE GROUP MEETINGS, UM, AS OUR PLAN WAS BEING PUT TOGETHER, I BELIEVE IT WAS, UM, ANNE SIREN, UM, WHO WAS HOSTING A GROUP ON, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY [01:15:02] AND BROUGHT IN SOME EXPERTS FROM, I THINK, SEA PINES WHO HAS MENTIONS HERE RECYCLING AND SUCH. AND I RECALL THAT SESSION BEING SO INCREDIBLY INTRIGUING AND SO WORTHWHILE TO EXPLORE FURTHER. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A NOTE THAT I THOUGHT SHE HAD DONE A GOOD WORK, BUT BE THERE IN MY MIND IS SOMETHING THERE THAT WE REALLY SHOULD FOLLOW THROUGH ON AND DEVELOP PERHAPS, UM, IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE LMO CHANGES. UM, I KNOW THAT OFTENTIMES, UM, THOSE COME FROM, UM, IDEAS THAT TERRY BRINGS TO THE COMMITTEE BASED ON COMMENTS THROUGH VARIOUS COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS, ET CETERA, BUT ALSO, UM, THROUGH COUNCIL MEMBERS. AND I THINK THAT WE SHOULD REMAIN AN INTEGRAL PART OF THAT PROCESS. UM, SO ANYWAY, THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. AND JUST SO THE COUNCIL KNOWS THERE WILL BE SOMEBODY FROM THE COUNTY COMING IN, IN JANUARY OR FEBRUARY TO GO OVER THEIR LONG-TERM RECYCLING PLAN AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR HILTON HEAD HILTON, AN ISLAND IN THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER FEBRUARY. OKAY. HELP ME UNDERSTAND, PLEASE, YOUR FIRST POINT YOU SAID ANN SIREN DID A GREAT JOB. FOLKS CAME IN FROM AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SET, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY STANDPOINT. ARE YOU, WELL, WE MAKE AN A SIDE NOTE TO ADD SOMETHING NEW TO THIS MIX. SURE. IF WE'RE ADDING ANYTHING TO THE MIX, I JUST RECALL THAT CONVERSATION AND THE D AND THE, UM, PRESENTATION THAT WAS MADE, AND I FOUND IT, UM, AMAZING, INTRIGUING AND SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, I WAS SURPRISED, UM, MADE IT IN MY MIND SHOULD BE LOOKED AT AGAIN OR THOUGHT THROUGH, OR AT LEAST REVISITED AND THUMBS UP FROM CHRIS MEANS HE'S GOING TO LOOK INTO IT. HE'S GOING TO BRIEF ME ON WHAT HAPPENED AND IF THERE'S ANY, AND IF THERE'S ANY ACTIONABLE ITEMS. SO I'M GETTING, I'M GETTING THROUGH THIS, ANYTHING TO FLAG FOR LATER. OKAY. REVITALIZE ECONOMY AS NEXT. LET'S TAKE A QUICK BREAK. SO, AND I KNOW, AND I'VE JUST, IT'S FOLKS ARE LISTENING OR WATCHING FACEBOOK, WHETHER IT'S LIVE OR LATER, NO, THAT WE'RE MONITORING SOME OF THE COMMENTS. AND SO I APPRECIATE SOME FEEDBACK. I KNOW CAROLYN'S LOOKING AT IT AND THANK YOU, CAROLYN AND, AND OTHERS. ONE QUESTION WAS, HEY, WHEN CAN WE GET A COPY, RIGHT? WHEN CAN WE SEE ALL THIS? AND I MENTIONED EARLIER, I'M GONNA PUT THE PRESENTATION ONLINE. THE PRESENTATION IS DRAFTED AND WE'LL HAVE A WATERMARK DRAFT ACROSS IT, UM, IS SIMPLY THESE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES. NO, THAT WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SOME CHANGES BASED UPON TODAY. AND WE'RE GOING TO ADJUST SOME, SOME AREAS AS I'M GETTING THROUGH THIS AND HEARING YOUR COMMENTS. I THINK THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITY. AND THEN IF WE ADD ANYTHING OR SUBTRACT ANYTHING, THOSE ADJUSTMENTS. SO THE DOCUMENT THAT WE'LL PUT ON LIVE ON ONLINE WILL BE THIS PRESENTATION DRAFT. AND THEN I HAVE SOME NEXT STEPS THAT I'LL GO OVER WITH YOU ALL BEFORE WE DEPART TODAY. JUST SO YOU KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING FROM HERE. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, DIVING RIGHT BACK IN STRATEGIC INITIATIVE, RIGHT? SO HERE'S, HERE'S THE NEXT GOAL. REVITALIZE THE ECONOMY CREATE AN ISLAND APPROPRIATE ECONOMY THAT HAS SUFFICIENT DEPTH AND BREADTH TO ATTRACT AND SUPPORT A DIVERSE RESIDENT, VISITOR AND BUSINESS POPULATION, VERY CLEAR GOAL. AND SO FROM A POLICY STANDPOINT, ADOPT THE MODEL BUSINESS LICENSE ORDINANCE, HAPPY TO SAY, WE AT LEAST GET ONE POINT WE ALREADY DID THAT. DEVELOP TOWN OWNED, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, ASSET MANAGEMENT, AND UTILIZATION PLAN. IF I'VE HEARD THAT ONCE I'VE HEARD IT A THOUSAND TIMES, RIGHT? SUCH A, SUCH A, SUCH A BIG JOB, RIGHT. NOT TO DIVE TOO MUCH IN THE DETAILS, BUT, BUT IT WILL BE ON A MAP. THE MAP WILL BE INTERACTIVE. IT WILL BE CLEAR ON HOW WE ACQUIRED IT. IT WILL BE CLEAR ON WHEN WE ACQUIRED IT. IT WILL BE INTERACTIVE. IT WILL BE CLEAR ON, ARE THERE PRESERVATION COVENANTS IN PLACE OR FUNDING RESTRICTIONS THAT FORCE THE END USER. WE ALSO NEED TO MANAGE OUR ASSETS JULY. OKAY. YES, SEAN, UM, MAKE SURE TO USE YOUR MICROPHONE. AND SIR, I DIDN'T SAY WHICH JANUARY, SO THAT'S MY YES, SIR. YEAH. BY EASY BY JANUARY EASY. UM, SO OPERATIONAL, YOU ANNUALLY APPROVE THE DMO, THE DESTINATION MARKETING ORGANIZATION, MARKETING PLAN AND IN THE CONTRACT AND IN SOME ENHANCEMENTS AND IN GOOD PARTNERSHIP DISCUSSIONS, [01:20:01] THERE'S SOME EXPECTATIONS AND WE'LL MEASURE THOSE. THAT IS AN OPERATIONAL ITEM. THAT IS, THAT IS FOR US TO IMPLEMENT, BUT BY NO MEANS, AM I GOING TO OPERATE IN A, IN A VACUUM IN, UH, IN MY OWN SILO, THAT WILL BE THROUGH THE APPROPRIATE COMMITTEE FINANCE. IT WILL BE IN FRONT OF YOU, THE MARKETING PLAN, AS IT COMES FORWARD THIS YEAR, I'VE GIVEN SOME, SOME CLEAR DIRECTION AND JENS OUR POINT ON THIS, YOU SEE THE MARKETING PLAN, YOU REVIEW THE MARKETING PLAN AND YOU ADOPT THE MARKETING PLAN. SO I THINK THERE'S SOME GOOD, GOOD THINGS IN OUR FUTURE, BUT THAT'S AN OPERATIONAL ITEM, BUT I WILL BRING THAT FORWARD WITH YOU BECAUSE THAT IS A OBVIOUS, MANDATORY, AUTOMATIC PER OUR DMO PRIORITY TAX. SIR, WE'LL FIND THEM. AND JOSH IS PREPARING A LETTER FOR ME THAT WE WANT TO SEE THE MARKETING PLAN AND ITS DRAFT FORM NON-ACTOR WITH ALL PRINTING TO PUT TOGETHER. IT WAS A BOOK. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. BUT IMPLEMENTING ITS OPERATIONAL. SO THAT, THAT, THAT'S THE PART THAT WAS QUESTIONED FOR ME. I DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND, UM, IF, IF, IF I'VE MISSED SOMETHING IN THE PAST, IT DOESN'T, UM, OUR DMO, UM, PARTNER DO THAT. THEY BRING THAT TO YOU. THEY BRING IT TO US AND WE'VE IMPLEMENTED IT IN THE PAST. YOU, YOU AND IN A REAL PARTNERSHIP, WE SHOULD BE WORKING WITH THEM AND THEY SHOULD BE WORKING WITH US AND FOR US AS THEY IMPLEMENT THE PLAN. BUT BY NO MEANS, IS IT JUST A SIMPLE ADOPTION AND IT'S ON THEIR LAP, THIS IS A REAL PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT. AND THEY'RE ARGUABLY OUR MARKETING COMPANY. I LIKE THAT ESTABLISH AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AGAIN. UH, IF THERE'S SOME POLICY THAT COMES OUT OF THAT, THAT WILL BECOME A NEW POLICY OBJECTIVE, A NEW STRATEGY UNDER POLICY. BUT I THINK WE'VE GOT TO AS AN OPERATIONAL STANDPOINT, ESTABLISH THAT STRATEGY. UM, IF THERE ARE STRATEGIES IN THERE THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING, UH, INCENTIVES OR LAND ISSUES, WE'RE GOING TO BRING THAT FORWARD. BUT RIGHT NOW IT'S LIVING HERE IN OPERATIONAL ACQUIRE CULTURAL DISTRICT DESIGNATION. ANYTHING, ANYTHING PULLING, PULLING OFF THE LIST FOR LATER? YES. JUST ONE QUESTION, NOT IN TERMS OF THE BUFORD COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, UH, WHERE DOES DISCUSSION ABOUT RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM COME IN? UH, WELL, IT'S HERE. I THINK WE NEED TO REFINE THAT RIGHT FROM A REAL STRATEGY. I TALKED TO JOHN O'TOOLE LAST NIGHT. I MEET WITH HIM ON FRIDAY WITH SEAN. WE, WE ARE ALWAYS WORKING TOGETHER. UM, BUT SOME OF IT'S REACTIVE. I WANT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PLAY OFFENSE ON THIS. NOT SO MUCH JUST DEFENSE AND LEAVING JOHN TO DO HIS JOB, GREAT JOB FOR THE WHOLE REGION, BUT ALSO THINK THAT HE'S FOCUSED ON US ON A DAILY, RIGHT. SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE THAT COMES IN. OKAY. AND THIS GOAL, UH, MARK, IT SEEMS TO ME WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, A PART OF IT THAT WE OUGHT TO BE TALKING ABOUT AND SHOULD BE ON THE LIST IS GROWTH MANAGEMENT IS, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS JUST IMPLICIT IN THIS, BUT I THINK IT SHOULD BE STATED EXPLICITLY. OKAY. THANK YOU, MARK. I'D LIKE TO I'M FLAGGING HERE. THROW YOU THROW IN THE, YEAH, WELL, NOT FOR NOW, BUT A LATER TIME DURING LUNCH, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, THE TOWN OWNED PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, ASSET MANAGEMENT AND UTILIZATION. YEAH. YES, SIR. WE'LL TAKE A LITTLE DEEPER DIVE ON THAT. ALRIGHT. ANYTHING ELSE GOING ONCE GOING TWICE, THREE TIMES, WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO SAY SOMETHING? NO, I KNOW IT WILL COME UP IN LATER CONVERSATIONS, BUT, UM, THE CULTURE, THE, UH, ACQUIRE CULTURAL DISTRICTS DESIGNATION, AND I REALIZED THAT KIND OF WEAVES INTO THE MANAGEMENT PLAN, ET CETERA. SO, UM, I JUST WILL BE LISTENING TO HEAR MORE. OKAY. GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY PUT SOME CULTURAL DISTRICTS IN PLACE IN HER TERM AND CULTURAL DISTRICT DESIGNATION SIMPLY HELPS YOU WITH FUTURE GRANTS AND HELPS YOU WITH NOTORIETY. SO THAT'S WHAT THAT IS, RIGHT? NO, I UNDERSTAND THAT PIECE OF IT. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY FOSTER, A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL EQUITABLE AND DIVERSE COMMUNITY INCLUSIVE POLICY IMPLEMENT THE GULLAH GEECHEE TASK FORCE WORKFORCE WORK PLAN, SORRY, IMPLEMENT THE GULLAH GEECHEE TASKFORCE, ESTABLISH A PUBLIC INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIP WITH USC, BE TO SUPPORT ARTS AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS ADOPT ANNUAL HUD AND CDBG ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM DEVELOP LANDMARK PROTECTION PROGRAM CONDUCT, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SURVEY [01:25:02] INCLUSIVE FOR OPERATIONAL ASSIST WITH IMPLEMENTING THE MITCHELLVILLE MASTER PLAN. THAT COULD MEAN A LOT OF THINGS. WE JUST HAD A GREAT UPDATE FROM A MOD ON THAT ISSUE. UM, AND SO, UH, AGAIN, INTENTIONALLY AND SPECIFICALLY, WE'RE SAYING THAT WE'RE ASSISTING THE PARTNER, WHO'S LEASING THE PROPERTY UNDER OPERATING AGREEMENT, AS MUCH AS WE CAN WITH, WITH YOUR DIRECTION, INCORPORATE PUBLIC ART AND CULTURE PROJECTS IN THE NEW, EXISTING, NEW, AND EXISTING PARKS, UH, IMPLEMENT ASPHALT ART PROGRAM. ANYTHING TO PULL OFF THAT LIST FOR DISCUSSION DEEPER BEFORE BETWEEN NOW AND TWO O'CLOCK. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S BETWEEN NOW UNTIL TWO O'CLOCK AND IT'S PART OF A STRATEGIC PLAN ALREADY PULLED, BUT THE IMPLEMENT ASPHALT ART PROGRAM, UM, WAS SOMETHING THAT WE HAD DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY. AND I WAS UNCLEAR ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS TO THEM. ALRIGHT, MR. GRUBER'S WRITING THAT DOWN AND I'LL ASK JIM TO GIVE A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THAT AS WE DIVE DEEPER, MARK. YES. I'M NOT NECESSARILY, UM, ANYTHING ON THE BOARD THAT I WANT TO PULL OUT TO TALK ABOUT, BUT I DO WANT TO MAKE THIS, UH, THIS COMMENT. UM, THE MAN I, UM, HAVE TALKED ABOUT, UH, KIND OF CIVIC EDUCATION, UM, AND THAT SORT OF THING. RIGHT. AND, UH, UM, I'M UNDERSTANDING THAT THE POPULATIONS AND OUR SCHOOL, UH, DISTRICT PARTICULARLY RIGHT HERE ON HILTON HEAD. OKAY. THERE'S BEEN AN INFLUX IN THE LATINO HISPANIC POPULATION. OKAY. I THINK 45% IS THE NUMBER THAT WE'RE GETTING. OKAY. UM, THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY NEEDS MORE ENGAGEMENT WITH OUR GOVERNMENT. RIGHT. UM, THAT, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA THAT THE MAYOR CAME UP WITH AS FAR AS CIVIC EDUCATION. RIGHT. UM, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT MOVING FORWARD. UH, WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE A POLICY IN PLACE AT THE MOMENT OR ANYTHING OPERATIONAL AT THE MOMENT, BUT I THINK IT'S, UH, IT'S WORTHY OF DISGUSTING MOVING FORWARD. OKAY. DID YOU GRAB THAT UNDER A NEW ITEM FOR CONSIDERATION THAT WE CAN SCRUB AND REFINE? THANKS. THANK YOU, SIR. JUST A COMMENT ON IT. WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO TERRY HERON AND WE MADE IT VERY CLEAR TO THEM. HE'S WORKING WITH THE ASCENT COMMUNITY AND THAT THERE ARE JOBS AVAILABLE IN OUR FACILITIES DEPARTMENT, IN HER ODD JOBS, IN A TOWN THAT HISPANICS, AS WELL AS ANYBODY ELSE SHOULD APPLY FOR. AND ME A MEETING WITH A GROUP OF THEM THE FIRST WEEK IN JANUARY TO TRY TO GET THEM INTERESTED OUT OF TOWN HALL. SO THEY DON'T THINK IT'S A GOVERNMENT PROJECT RATHER THAN A, JUST A PERSONAL PROJECT. AND THEN WE'RE EMBEDDING THAT IN THE ORGANIZATION. YOU KNOW, WE HAD A TRANSLATOR AT A VERY IMPORTANT MEETING. I THINK THAT HELPED, UM, WE'VE CONVERTED. WHERE'S NOT HERE, BUT IT, CAROLYN ANGIE THERE'S, ANGIE WE'VE CONVERTED OUR WEBSITE THROUGH GOOGLE. AND SOME OTHER MEANS TO READ HISPANIC, UH, TO, TO BE SPANISH AND HISPANIC, UH, ACCESSIBILITY. AND THEN WE'VE ALSO STARTED TO CONVERT. ALL OF OUR FORMS ARE FILLABLE FORMS, HISPANIC. SO, BUT WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED AND I HEAR YOU CONNECTED FACILITATE TRUE CONNECTIVITY IN IRELAND, PHYSICAL SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS. SO THIS IS A BIG ONE, RIGHT? SO ARE WE CONNECTED, BUT CONNECTED JUST DOESN'T MEAN PEOPLE. IT MEANS PHYSICAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURE. SO POLICY ASSISTS WITH ST. JAMES BAPTIST CHURCH. WE KNOW THAT'S WELL UNDERWAY. WE'RE WAITING TO HEAR BACK FROM, UM, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ADOPT AN E-BIKE AND EAST SCOOTER USAGE REGULATIONS. WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT WITH, THROUGH PUBLIC PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR A LONG TIME, ADOPT A MID ISLAND REDEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AND PARK MASTER PLAN. WE KNOW WHAT THAT IS. DEVELOP A HILTON HEAD ISLAND GROWTH FRAMEWORK AND ILLUSTRATED MASTER PLAN CONDUCT A SWOT ANALYSIS OF THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE. BIG TWO DUES, REALLY BIG, REALLY IMPORTANT. UM, AND THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN IN SUCCESSIVE ORDER. WE CAN'T JUST DO IT ALL AT ONCE AND HOPE FOR THE BEST. I THINK THE TARGET HERE IS ON YOUR MARK. GET SET, GO, NOT ON YOUR MARK GO. AND SO WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL IN HOW WE RETHINK THIS, UH, UPDATE TOWN WEBSITE. AMAZING. WHAT DID WE JUST WIN? ANGIE? YOU HAVE TO TELL, SORRY. AND YOU CAUGHT ME WITH A MOUTHFUL. WE WON TWO AWARDS AND, UM, I'M GOING TO DEFER TO JOHN TUTTLE TO TELL US EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE. I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS LATE LAST NIGHT, BUT WE WERE SELECTED FOR TWO AWARDS FOR OUR BRAND NEW WEBSITE, JOHN. YES. UH, WE, UH, WE'RE HONORED TO RECEIVE TWO WARRANT FROM AQUA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENT WEBMASTERS IN TWO DIFFERENT CHARACTERS, ONE, UH, [01:30:01] AND POPULATION OF 50,000 OR LESS, UH, BEST DESIGNED WEBSITE. ONE ALSO A CUSTOM IN-HOUSE DESIGN WEBSITE WITH A VERY SMALL TEAM THAT WE HAVE. WE'RE VERY HONORED AND EXCITED TO RECEIVE. ONE THING I INHERITED AS I GOT HERE, EVERYONE WAS FIGHTING ABOUT THE WEBSITE. EVERYBODY I'VE NEVER BEEN A PART OF A NEW WEBSITE PROCESS WHERE PEOPLE WERE GETTING ALONG. CAUSE IF THAT WAS THE CASE, UH, I, I DON'T THINK ANYONE WILL BE REVIEWING IT. RENEE, WHO IS OUR HEAD. I WILL CALL HER THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF OUR WEBSITE, BUT IT'S MORE THAN JUST A BULLETIN BOARD OR THE FUNCTIONALITY OF OUR WEBSITE IS TREMENDOUS. AND WE DIDN'T OUTSOURCE IT LIKE SOME FOLKS DO. WE BUILT IT IN HOUSE AND WE CAN MOVE IT AROUND IN HOUSE AND CHANGE SOME THINGS. AND SO CONGRATS TO RENEE. AND I'VE ALWAYS SAID, IF, AS YOU'RE BUILDING A WEBSITE, THERE ARE SO MANY COMPETING INTERESTS TO GO ON A WEBSITE AND NOT EVERYTHING CAN BE ON THE FIRST PAGE. AND SO TREMENDOUS JOB TO RENEE, TREMENDOUS JOB, EVERYONE HERE. I INHERITED THIS AND I DO LOVE IT. UM, AND I'VE GOT A LOT OF COMPLIMENTS ABOUT THE WEBSITE AND RENEE CHRISTIAN AND JOHN HAD DONE A GREAT JOB IN UPDATING A LOT OF THE TECHNOLOGY IN HOUSE. KRISTA LOVES THE WEBSITE. YEAH. YEP. AND THE FUNCTIONALITY OF IT IS GREAT. IT LETS CHRIS TO DO HER JOB IS NOT JUST PRETTY PICTURES AND GRAPHICS. SO, UH, YES SIR. I HAVE A QUESTION. ALRIGHT. MAYBE A COMMENT BY THE COMMENT. IT'S LIKE, I GUESS A QUESTION CONNECTED COMMUNITY, UM, WITHOUT A TRANSPORTATION, LIKE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SEEMS TO ME, I KNOW THAT THE REGIONAL HAS A LINE ITEM WITH A MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION. IT SEEMS TO ME WE HAVE AN ON ISLAND TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGE. SO I'M JUST RAISING THAT AND SOMETHING THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER. ARE YOU SUGGESTING WE CONSIDER IT HERE OR YOU CONSIDER IT BECAUSE SUGGESTING WE CONSIDER IT UP HERE IN THE GOAL IS, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST ASSUMING THAT PHYSICAL MEANS TRANSPORTATION WELL, I'M SUGGESTING THAT NOT TO HAVE IT BE A POLICY ITEM IS LACKING. SO UNDERSTOOD. OKAY. I MEAN, THIS IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT BEFORE, HOW IT'S INTERWOVEN. SO BACK ON 27 AND REVITALIZED ECONOMY, THERE'S A POLICY DEVELOPED TOWN OWNED PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, ASSET MANAGEMENT AND UTILIZATION PLAN. IS THAT THE SAME? OR AM I JUST CONNECTING THEM? UM, ON PAGE 33 UNDER THIS CONNECTED COMMUNITY TO DEVELOP HILTON HEAD ISLAND GROWTH FRAMEWORK AND ILLUSTRATE, UM, MASTER PLAN IS, IS THAT THE SAY, WELL, IT'S DIFFERENT, BUT THEY OVERLAP, BUT THEY ARE DIFFERENT. AND SO WHAT JOSH IS DOING IS PULLING THEM OUT SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT THEM. AND WHICH ONES SPECIFICALLY THE GROWTH. ONE OF COURSE, WHAT? I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T HAVE MY PAGES IN FRONT OF ME. THE ASSET MANAGER. NO. I WANT TO HEAR FROM PAGE 27 AND PAGE 33, I JUST PAGE 27 AND 33, JOSH FLAG THOSE AND PULL THEM OUT AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT. THANK YOU. OH, ANYTHING ELSE ON HERE? WE'RE PULLING OUT ST. JAMES E-BIKES MID ISLAND GROWTH FRAMEWORK. LET'S PULL GROWTH FRAMEWORK OUT. I THINK I HEARD THAT. THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT ONE. WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT. THE LAST TWO OF THE FIVE ON POLICY, THESE, THESE TWO LIVE TOGETHER. WE'VE GOT TO DO THE TOP ONE BEFORE THE BOTTOM ONE. EVERY TIME YOU CHANGE A LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE, YOU FIX ONE THING AND BREAK THREE THINGS. SO WE HAVE TO TAKE A BIGGER PICTURE, LOOK IN A COUPLE OF STEPS BACK TO GO FORWARD, TO MY OPINION, UH, CONNECTED OPERATIONAL UPDATE WEBSITE, SWAT ANALYSIS OF OUR FIBER CONNECTIVITY, CELLULAR USAGE CAPABILITIES AND ESTABLISH SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES, A SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN ON THAT TOPIC. ANYTHING ELSE THAN WHAT I'VE HIGHLIGHTED TO PULL OUT? I KNOW IT'S NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENTATIVE OF IT NOT BEING A PRIORITY, BUT TO ESTABLISH A SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE, SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO START IN 2023, WE SHOULD HAVE ALREADY STARTED THAT. THAT'S ALL. OKAY. REGIONAL EVALUATE HOW REGIONAL EXPANSION WILL IMPACT IMMEDIATE AND FUTURE SOCIAL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PLANNING AND POLICY. SO HOW REGIONAL EXPANSION WILL IMPACT IMMEDIATE AND FUTURE SOCIAL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PLANNING AND POLICY. SO ALL POLICY HERE ASSESS REVISIONS OF THE BUFORD COUNTY IMPACT FEE ASSESS CREATION OF A REGIONAL [01:35:01] HOUSING TRUST FUND UPDATE. THE LAP STUDY THE LAW, THE LOW COUNTRY AREA TRANSPORTATION STUDY THAT REALLY COMES THROUGH THE LATS COMMITTEE AS BEING MANAGED BY, BY OUR LOWCOUNTRY COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS AS PART OF OUR MPO, RIGHT? LOTS OF LETTERS, BUT IT ALL FITS IN. AND THAT'S AN IMPORTANT, VERY IMPORTANT LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN FOR US. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE'LL DO BECAUSE THIS SETS UP FEDERAL STATE MONEY. IT ALSO DRIVES OUR OWN, UH, CONFIDENCE AS WE, AS WE WORK WITH OTHERS TO PRIORITIZE VERY IMPORTANT. UH, THIS IS AS MUCH AN IMPACT TO OUR ISLAND, THE LATS TRANSPORTATION PLAN AS, AS ANYTHING. SO THE INTELLIGENCE SIGNAL SYSTEMS THAT WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT, THE, THE NET NET, THE END-TO-END ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM HILTON PARKWAY, ALL OF THAT SHOULD BE IN THAT LAT STUDY. BECAUSE AGAIN, IF WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT THE ISLAND AND NOT LOOKING AT IT REGIONALLY, IT'S JUST AS BAD AS LOOKING AT. IT WAS JUST, IT'S JUST AS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE, I SHOULD SAY, THEN LOOKING AT ONE INTERSECTION AT A TIME. SO ESTABLISHED, RECURRING REGIONAL JOINT MEETINGS BETWEEN HILTON HEAD ISLAND AND BUFORD COUNTY COUNCIL AND EVALUATE ACCESS BETWEEN HILTON HEAD ISLAND AND THE GREATER REGION THROUGH VIABLE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION. SO HILTON HAD IN THE GREATER REGION THROUGH VIABLE, MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION, ANYTHING OFF THE, THE LIST TO TALK ABOUT AT LUNCH AND WE'RE GETTING CLOSER TO LUNCH, BUT WE'LL MAKE IT. SO AGAIN, I'M JUST, IT'S JUST A COMMENT AND IT SHOULD BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION. AND I THINK PROBABLY WHAT I BROUGHT UP, UM, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UH, 2 78 RECENTLY IS THIS IS AT 2 23, THE GREATER REGION HILTON HEAD ISLAND, AND THE GREATER REGION THREE VIA BOLT MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION. WE STARTED THE CONVERSATION THREE YEARS AGO ON 2 78 CORRIDOR SUGGESTING THAT THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT TOPIC. AND I JUST THINK IT'S STILL A VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC THAT SHOULD BE PART OF OUR CURRENT CONVERSATION. THANKS. I AGREE. AND I'M GOING TO CHALLENGE US WITH, IF WE WORK ON EVERYTHING NOTHING'S GETTING DONE, AND THAT'S THE HARD, THAT IS THE HARDEST JOB TO, TO FIGURE OUT HERE, BUT AS WE'RE APPROVING AND GOING THROUGH IDEAS WITH 2 78 AND SOME OF THAT, WHEN IT WAS ORIGINALLY BROUGHT UP IN THAT CONVERSATION WAS RELEVANT. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT CONVERSATION. HE HAS THE NOTE, AND I DO UNDERSTAND, AND I THINK I SAID FROM THE BEGINNING THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO SET FORTH, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH IS ATTAINABLE. I GET THAT RIGHT, BUT, OKAY, THANK YOU. MA'AM I AT LUNCH, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS AND THE MAYOR'S THOUGHTS ON, ON WHAT WE CAN DO, UH, IN TERMS OF DEVELOPING RAPPORT OR IMPROVING RAPPORT BETWEEN OURSELVES AND OUR REGIONAL COLLEAGUES. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. LAST CALL. RIGHT? SIZE INFRASTRUCTURE ALIGN THE COMMUNITY'S PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL VALUES. SO ALIGN OUR PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL VALUES WITH OUR CIP PROGRAM, IMPLEMENT THE WORKFORCE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING STRATEGY AS ADOPTED BY TOWN COUNCIL. UM, AND THEN KNOW THAT THERE'S SOME SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS AT THAT ADOPTION. SO I'M, I'M, I'M RESPECTING THOSE, UH, AND BEING MINDFUL OF THEM DEVELOP WILLIAM HILTON PARKWAY, GATEWAY CORRIDOR PLAN HATS OFF TO SEAN. THANK YOU, SEAN. I'VE BEEN HERE HEARING LEFT AND RIGHT. AND HOW GREAT OF A JOB YOU'RE DOING AND, AND TRUE SERVANT LEADERSHIP STYLE. YOU'RE DOING A FABULOUS JOB ASSESS MAIN STREET, RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION. ANOTHER POINT WE DIDN'T ACQUIRE IT YET. THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WORK TO DO. UM, AND THE REAL WORK HAPPENS ONCE WE ACQUIRE THAT STREET AND PLAN FOR THE IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENTS, LET ALONE LONG RANGE. UH, I I'VE BEEN READING THE COMMENTS ON FACEBOOK CHEERING THAT THEY'RE GETTING PATHWAYS, AND THAT'S GOING TO TAKE TIME AND IT'S SUBJECT TO FUNDING, BUT IT'S ON OUR LIST AS A VERY IMPORTANT ITEM AS, AS A POLICY INITIATIVE TO ACQUIRE. UM, AND THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL FOR YOUR, YOUR, YOUR DIRECTION AND SUPPORT ON THAT. UM, ADOPT COMMUNITY ADDRESSING ORDINANCE, SELF-EXPLANATORY ADOPT A TRAFFIC CALMING POLICY FOR POLICY ITEMS, INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, ASSIST WITH CROSS ISLAND PARKWAY AND TOLLBOOTH REMOVAL AND RECONFIGURATION. BEFORE WE LEAVE TODAY, I'LL JUST LET YOU KNOW WHAT THAT SCHEDULE LOOKS LIKE, BUT THAT'S FOR US TO MANAGE. AND JOSH IS DOING A FABULOUS JOB COORDINATING AND STAYING IN TOUCH WITH DOD ON THAT ISSUE. AND THEN A SMALL LITTLE ONE IMPLEMENT [01:40:01] A CIP PROGRAM. SO JEN ONLY HAS ONE THING TO DO. WE KIND OF COMMENTED ON THAT AGENDA TO GET AWAY WITH ONLY HAVING ONE ITEM. SO ANYTHING TO PULL OFF THE BOARD FOR DISCUSSION AT LUNCH? YES, SIR. BUT MORE ABOUT, UH, THE TRAFFIC CALMING POLICY THOUGHTS. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. WELCOME. OKAY, GOOD MARK. I'D LIKE, I'D LIKE TO TOUCH ON THE, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING STRATEGY. I KNOW THAT'S IN AND OUT OF COMMITTEE, BUT JUST WANT TO DIVE ON THAT ONE A LITTLE BIT. YES, SIR. PARKS AND REC. THIS IS OUR LAST ONE. LUNCH IS COMING AT LUNCH. WE'LL ARRIVE IN A QUARTER TO 12 KRISTA. OH, THERE YOU ARE. QUARTER TO 12 KRISTA. IT'S ABOUT FIVE TO 11. UM, EVERYBODY GOOD? WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER BREAK RIGHT NOW. JUST KEEP MOTORING GOOD PARKS AND REC IMPLEMENT THE PARKS AND REC MASTER PLAN. THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO WORKED ON THAT PLAN AND KNOW THERE WAS A LOT OF PUBLIC INPUT, THE PARKS AND REC COMMISSION, JEN TAYLOR, EVERYBODY, AND EVERYBODY ELSE, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, OF COURSE, YOU AS WELL. IT'S A GREAT PLAN THAT SERVES, IT, SERVES OUR PURPOSE. IT HELPS GUIDE OUR FUTURE. UM, I'M ALWAYS GONNA RECOMMEND THAT. AS SOON AS YOU ADOPT A PLAN, YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP LOOKING AT IT AND KEEP UPDATING IT ALONG THE WAY. AS WE LEARN DITTO WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN, DID A WITH OUR PLAN, ESTABLISH A PARKS AND REC MARKETING PLAN. SO ALL THESE ITEMS ARE OPERATIONAL SIMPLY BECAUSE THIS PLAN IS ADOPTED. JEN, DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS ADOPTED ISH? OKAY. SO A YEAR AGO, YEAR AGO, WELL UNDERWAY TO IMPLEMENT IT. UM, WE'VE GOT SEVERAL PROJECTS THAT WERE CALLED OUT IN IT, LIVE AND EMBEDDED INTO OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, CROSSINGS AND CHAPLAIN BEING TWO OF THEM, BUT A PARKS AND REC MARKETING PLAN ASSIST WITH THE FORD SHELL RING DEVELOPMENT. YOU ALREADY VOTED ON THAT, THAT WE SHOULD BE INVOLVED. THAT'S WHY IT'S OPERATIONAL. HAD YOU NOT VOTED ON THAT TO TELL ME AND THROUGH TO STAFF TO WORK ON IT, TO SPEND TIME, MONEY AND ENERGY ON IT, IT WOULD STILL BE POLICY. UM, THERE'S SOME WORK TO DO WITH THAT. I'VE HEARD FROM SOME FOLKS I'VE LOOKED AT THE PLAN. BUFORD COUNTY IS BUILDING A GREAT PROJECT. THEY'RE OPENING UP THE FORD SHELL RING ACCESSIBILITY TO VIEW. UM, THERE'S SOME RISKS WITH THAT. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE HEARD COUNTY HAS THE BUDGET AND IF AN ITEM WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO ME AND REALLY FROM STAFF AND THROUGH ME TO YOU, I MAY COME AND ASK YOU THERE'S RISK TO, TO, TO, TO SETTLE THAT RISK OR MINIMIZE THAT RISK. ARE YOU, ARE YOU WILLING TO INVEST A LITTLE FURTHER IN THAT SHORT, THAT FORD SHELL RING? SO AGAIN, AGAIN, THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD KIND OF CONVERT TO A CIP PROGRAM AND BACK TO A POLICY ITEM AND THEN ESTABLISH BUFORD COUNTY IN HILTON, HEAD, LAND TRUST, AND NORTHRIDGE CONSERVATION TRACT PARTNERSHIP. THAT'S BEEN ON THE TABLE IN SOME SORT. I HAVE A 23 START AGAIN. UM, THAT, THAT WOULD AT SOME POINT, IF THERE'S REAL POLICY THERE IN LAND SWAPPING AND MONEY, THAT WOULD BE BETTER EMBEDDED INTO THE, INTO THE BUDGET PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE REQUIRE AND SUSTAIN. EXCELLENT. OH, WAIT, WHAT HAPPENED HERE? OH, THERE WE GO. THAT'S THE LAST ONE. I'M LIKE SOMEBODY SAID THAT ALREADY. WAS THERE A QUESTION? OH YEAH. UM, IT ECHOES ON ME AND IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE IT'S COMING FROM OVER HERE. THE, THE, THE PARKS AND REC, UM, I MEAN, I I'D LIKE TO FLAG IT, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALL OPERATIONAL, SO TO SPEAK. RIGHT. UM, BUT BECAUSE OUR, YOU KNOW, ONE OF OUR CALLING CALLS ON HILTON HEAD IS OUR GREEN SPACE. OKAY. THE WONDERFUL JOB WE'VE DONE WITH PARKS AND SO ON. RIGHT. AND THE FACT THAT WE INFUSED THAT INTO OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, IT IS A BIG DEAL. RIGHT. UM, AND, UH, RIGHT NOW, UH, NO WE'VE GOT A PARKS AND REC COMMISSION, BUT AS FAR AS THE POLICYMAKERS REALLY BEING INVOLVED IN THAT ABSENT SAYING YES TO CIP MONIES, I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHERE WE CONNECT. RIGHT. THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING. AND, UM, BECAUSE IT IS A HIGH LEVEL GOAL IN, IN OUR, UH, IN OUR COMP PLAN AND NOW ON OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, UM, I JUST DON'T, I DON'T WANT US TO HAVE A DISCONNECT [01:45:01] WITH THIS PARTICULAR TOPIC. OKAY. AND, UH, JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, UM, WE HAVE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS TO A DEGREE THAT MAY MANAGE OUR PARKS AND RECREATION, BUT WE MAY NOT NECESSARILY HAVE OUR OWN POLICY TO DRIVE THAT. OKAY. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S, THAT'S A DISCONNECT THAT WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO WORK ON. OKAY. AND JOSH HAS THAT FLAGGED AS A NEW ITEM PHOTOGRAPHER FOR DISCUSSION. SO NOT BECAUSE IT'S NOT ON HERE, WE'LL FLAG THAT, BUT AS WE BRING FORWARD, THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT FROM HERE, WE'LL KEEP PUTTING THAT ASIDE, BUT THEN THERE'S PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY, ESPECIALLY GETTING THROUGH THIS, LIKE THIS, UM, TO TALK ABOUT THOSE TOPICS. SO, UM, IF I COULD, SO WE'VE JUST REVIEWED THE GOALS AND THE STRATEGIES AS WE KNOW THEM IN OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, UH, THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANYTHING THAT'S NEW TO YOU. THERE'S THINGS ON THERE THAT I KNOW YOU TRULY BELIEVE, NEED TO BE UP THERE. AND WE'RE GOING TO PLAN FOR SOME TIME THERE. UH, IT'S 11 LUNCHES COMING IN 45 MINUTES. SO LET'S KEEP MOTORING, UM, FOR 45 MORE MINUTES. AND THEN I THINK THAT THAT'S GOING TO GIVE US A LOT OF TIME TO TALK ABOUT THOSE, THOSE ITEMS, JOSH, AS A SUMMARY, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO TALK ABOUT? AND LET ME SHOW YOU MAYOR AND COUNCIL, AS WE TALK ABOUT THESE ITEMS, THE REASON YOU SEE THIS AGAIN IS FOR, FOR OUR PURPOSE TODAY. WELL, WE HAVE UP ON THE SCREEN, HERE'S A, HERE'S A GOOD ONE ON THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN, UH, AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN FUNDING APPROPRIATION 2021, MR. TROYER, HERE'S THE PROJECT DESCRIPTION. AND TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY, WE'VE PHASED THIS OUT. WE DIDN'T ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. WE DIDN'T DEFINE THE POLICY AS A REAL TACTIC, BUT WE PHASED IT OUT SO THAT WE CAN STAY ON TRACK AND RESPECT THAT WE'RE GOING TO KEEP IT ON TRACK, BUT WE'RE ALSO BEING REALISTIC THAT NOT EVERYTHING CAN HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. SO THAT'S THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS. SO JOSH, WHAT ARE THOSE ITEMS THAT WE WILL REVISIT IN ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE BROUGHT UP? SO IT'S ASSESSED DIVERSE REVENUE SOURCES, UH, THE 2020 REDISTRICTING, THE REAL ESTATE TRANSFER FEE BEACH SHUTTLE ENHANCEMENTS ISLAND, BRAND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH TRENDS, AND IMPLEMENT BEST-IN-CLASS SERVICES IMPLEMENT, SEE, CLICK FIX THE ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN, ACQUIRE CULTURAL DISTRICT DESIGNATION, IMPLEMENT ASPHALT ART PROGRAM DISCUSSION OF THE HILTON HEAD ISLAND GROWTH FRAMEWORK, EVALUATE ACCESS BETWEEN HILTON HEAD ISLAND AND GREATER REGIONAL AREA IMPLEMENT WORKFORCE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLAN, DEVELOP WILLIAM HILTON PARKWAY CORRIDOR PLAN, AND THE TRAFFIC CALMING POLICY. HOW MANY OF THEM ARE THERE? WE HAVE TO GO OVER THOSE ITEMS. THERE ARE 15, HOW LONG DO WE HAVE TO GO OVER THEM? IF WE ADD A ZERO AND SPEND 10 MINUTES ON EACH ONE, THAT'S 150 MINUTES. SO SOME OF US CAN'T SAY GOOD MORNING IN 10 MINUTES. SO WE'RE GOING TO GET THROUGH THEM. AND I THINK THAT WE CAN SPEND TWO MINUTES ON SOME AND, YOU KNOW, 12 MINUTES ON SOME OTHERS. UM, WHAT IS IMPORTANT THAT THIS IS NOT OUR FIRST AND ONLY TIME AS, AS, AS SHOWN ON THAT AIR TABLE. A LOT OF THESE ITEMS REALLY HAVE TO START AND CONTINUE, AND THEN FINALLY GET BACK TO TOWN COUNCIL AS, AS REAL INITIATIVES. UM, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT OVER TIME, AND I THINK WE'VE HAD SOME SUCCESS ON SOME OF THESE HEAVY ITEMS THAT JUST CAN'T GET SOLVED BY A COMMUNITY MEETING, SOME STAFF RECOMMENDATION THROUGH, IN, TO A COMMITTEE, UM, ON AN AGENDA THAT CHRISTA SENDS OUT. I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE SOME WORKSHOPS ON THESE ITEMS AND WE'VE HAD THEM, WE'VE HAD HOUSING WORKSHOPS. WE'VE HAD US WILLIAM HILTON PARKWAY WORKSHOPS, AND MAYOR MCCANN HAS BEEN GRACIOUS IN ALLOWING ME TO COME TOGETHER WITH YOU ALL IN A WORKSHOP SETTING. SO WE CAN REALLY SCRUB SOME OF THESE TOPICS. I DON'T SUGGEST WE WORKSHOP EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE THINGS IN THE BOOK, BUT THERE'S SOME OBVIOUS CONVERSATION. I NEED THE DIRECTION. I, I'M NOT GOOD AT MY JOB IF I'M NOT CLEAR ON WHAT YOU COLLECTIVELY WANT ME TO DO AND EXPECT ME TO DO. AND SO I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, TO, TO TAKE THE PRESSURE OFF, SOLVING EVERYTHING TODAY, WE ALSO HAVE TO AGREE IN SOME TIME, [01:50:01] PERHAPS BEFORE THIS DOCUMENTS APPROVED, WHAT'S GOING TO ALSO COME FORWARD IN SOME REAL WORKSHOPS WITH YOU AS A COUNCIL, SITTING AT THE TABLE WITH, WITH MYSELF AND STAFF. THERE'S A FAIR SIR, MAYOR. OKAY. PARDON ME? WE'RE READY. NOW. YOU ONLY HAVE EIGHT MINUTES TO TALK ABOUT EACH ITEM APPARENTLY. UM, SO TELL COUNCIL FEEDBACK, AND AGAIN, I'D PULL EVERYTHING OUT. HOW WILL THE PLAN BE USED AND THINGS PRETTY OBVIOUS AS I EXPLAINED IT, AND I MADE SURE I EXPLAINED IT THAT WAY, THE PLAN IS A LIVING DOCUMENT. IT'S GOING TO BE UPDATED ONCE A YEAR. IT'S GOING TO BE APPROVED BY YOU VIA RESOLUTION. UM, AND ONCE IT IS, WE'RE GOING TO USE THIS AIR TABLE TO TRACK AND MANAGE AND MEASURE OUR SUCCESS. THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO DO. YOUR TIME IS IMPORTANT. I'LL, I'LL BE AS EFFICIENT AS I CAN WITH YOUR TIME. UM, BUT, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO BE VERY INVOLVED WITH IMPLEMENTING IT. ALL THE POLICY ITEMS NEED TO START WITH YOU AND END WITH YOU. SO, AND OBVIOUSLY THROUGH THE BOARDS, COMMISSIONS COMMITTEES AND YOUR COMMITTEES, HOW OFTEN IT WILL BE, THERE'LL BE STATUS REPORTS WAS ANOTHER QUESTION. THE AIR TABLE MONTHLY, I SUGGEST TWO, MAYBE THREE TIMES A YEAR. MAYOR MCCANN HIGHLIGHTED THAT. I THINK THERE'S ONE BIG RETREAT. THERE'S ONE BIG, YOU KNOW, DISCUSSION WHETHER IT'S ONE DAY OR TWO DAYS TBD. BUT I ALSO THINK THAT WHEN WE COME BACK TO THE TABLE TO TALK ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE, EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT. PERHAPS TWO, THREE TIMES A YEAR IS PROBABLY A GOOD TEMPO ON THAT. UM, EXPLORE PARTNERSHIPS WITH ISLAND NONPROFITS WAS ONE. SO THAT COULD BE A NEW ITEM, JOSH, AND FOR DISCUSSION, WILL THERE BE AN ELECTRONIC VERSION? YES, SIR. UM, WE WILL, WE ACTUALLY ALREADY HAVE A REALLY GOOD DRAFT AND AN ELECTRONIC VERSION AND, AND IT'S FABULOUS BY NO MEANS IS THIS ENTIRE BOOK, THE STRATEGIC PLAN I WILL BIND. I WILL HAVE BOUND THE REAL STRATEGIC PLAN, THE, THE, THE, THE GOALS, OBJECTIVES, THE STRATEGIES, AND MAKE THAT AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC IN A NICE BOUND DOCUMENT, AND WE'LL CONVERT THE SAME TO A DIGITAL FORMAT. AND THEN WE WILL ALSO HAVE ACCESS THROUGH THAT AIR TABLE. SO THREE DIFFERENT WAYS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE DOING AND HOW WE'RE DOING IT. UM, ADD RE ADD REDISTRICTING TO THE TOWN WEBSITE UNDER MAJOR INITIATIVES. OKAY. AND I, AND WE KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS, AND THAT WAS A VERY GOOD SUGGESTION. SO THANK YOU. IMPROVE BOARD COMMITTEE COMMISSION, ADMIN SUPPORT AND RECOGNITION. I T WE TALKED ABOUT THAT IT'S EMBEDDED IN THIS PLAN AND KRISTA WILL BE WORKING ON A, A, A STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE FOR THE WHOLE LIFE CYCLE EMBED STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION IN THE STAFF REPORTS ASSURE ALIGNMENT WITH STAFF. THIS IS ME PARAPHRASING ALIGNMENT WITH STAFF BOARD COMMISSION COMMITTEES AND TOWN COUNCIL. SO THE PROCESS IS SO IMPORTANT. HOW IS RETURN OF INVESTMENT MEASURED WITH TOWN OWNED LAND PROGRAMS? AND I THINK WE GET INTO THAT WITH YOU, AND WE'LL, WE'LL DEFINE THAT RIGHT? DMO MARKETING PLAN IMPLEMENTATION, MORE REPORTS TO TOWN COUNCIL ARE NEEDED. POINT NOTED, ESTABLISH A RECURRING MEETING WITH BUFORD COUNTY COUNCIL IN THE PLAN, IMPLEMENT A WORKFORCE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLAN IN THE PLAN. SUGGEST WE TALK ABOUT THAT IN DEPTH HOUSING, VIA SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, RIGHT? AS WE'RE WORKING ON HOUSING AND PATTERSON TRACK BEING EXAMPLE, IT'S JUST NOT ABOUT ROOFTOPS. IT'S ABOUT A REAL SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY. AND AS A SITE, AS A PROJECT GREEN INITIATIVES, IS IT, YOU KNOW, IS IT WATER NEUTRAL? IS IT SOLAR POWERED? IS IT SUSTAINABLE? I THINK AS WE THINK THROUGH THAT INITIATIVE, THAT'S WHAT THAT COMMENT WAS, UH, ESTABLISH A TDR ORDINANCE. AND CAN IT, CAN IT ASSIST IN THE NORTH END OF THE ISLAND ZONING CORRIDOR PLANNING, WILLIAM HILTON PARKWAY, POPE PALMETTO BAY, SEA PINE CIRCLE, MAIN STREET CORRIDOR PLANS ARE IMPORTANT. ONCE THE CORRIDOR PLAN IS APPROVED, WE KNOW HOW TO PLUG IT INTO THE CIP TO IMPLEMENT. SO POINT NOTED. CAN, CAN WE HOLD OFF ON INCOMPATIBLE LAND USE UNTIL ISLAND MASTER PLAN, DISTRICT PLAN LMO IN PLACE? THAT'S A POLICY DECISION. UM, THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS TO LOOK AT THAT. WHAT IS I, I'M NOT SURE WHAT HOLD OFF MEANS, BUT DOES IT MEAN NO MORE REZONINGS UNTIL WE REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON. THESE REZONING APPLICATIONS THAT HAVE COME IN MARSHALL AND ROAD BEING ONE WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, STAFF'S LOOKING AT A ZONING MAP TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S NOT SPOT ZONING, TAKING A LOOK AT THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES AND MAKING A DECISION BASED UPON A MAP THAT'S BEEN IN PLACE FOR A VERY LONG TIME. THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO GET THERE. AND SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT THAT CONVERSATION IS. DO WE, DO WE KEEP DOING THAT? DO WE KEEP LOOKING AT [01:55:01] THE STATE LAW TO SEE, IS IT COMPATIBLE WITH THE COMP PLAN? IS IT COMPATIBLE WITH THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES AND THEN SPOT ZONE, EVERY PIECE OF PROPERTY CHANGING, YOU KNOW, LIGHT TAN, THE DARK, DARK, DARK BROWN, OR GREEN OR YELLOW. SO THAT'S WHAT THAT COMMENTS ABOUT, UH, LAND ACQUISITION STRATEGY. UH, PERHAPS WE NEED TO LOOK AT AT RISK PROPERTIES, UH, RESET AND SELL RESILIENCY PLAN, NOT JUST FROM A ENVIRONMENTAL STANDPOINT, BUT FROM AN ECONOMIC AND INFRASTRUCTURE STANDPOINT AS WELL. AND THEN SOME POSITIVE FEEDBACK FOR THE PLANS THAT ARE IN PLACE, UH, HAVING AN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY GOAL, UH, THAT THE STRATEGIES ARE NOT ROBUST. WE TALKED ABOUT WHY NOT ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND SOME AT TOWN HALL CAN HAVE TIME TO BETTER MR. BUCKALOO YESTERDAY ON HIS DAY OFF THAT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TAKING BEFORE HIS DAUGHTER'S WEDDING. THE SATURDAY WAS EMAILING ME ABOUT PUTTING, UH, BECAUSE DIANE'S MAKING HIM ACTUALLY THANK YOU, DIANE, UH, ELECTRIC VEHICLE STATIONS IN, IN THE TOWN HALL PARKING LOT CHARGING STATIONS WERE ALREADY REQUIRED ON NEW COMMERCIAL PROJECTS. AND SO WHY DON'T WE BUILD TOWN HALL INFRASTRUCTURE, SO TO SPEAK, TO BE THE MODEL COMMERCIAL OFFICE LOCATION, RIGHT? NOT JUST CHARGING STATION, BUT ENVIRONMENTAL, UH, MATERIALS, LIGHTING, YOU KNOW, STEP IT UP A NOTCH AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT. I'M MENTIONING IT SO THAT WE CAN COME BACK AND TALK ABOUT IT. OKAY. THERE'S PROBLEMS WITH THAT. THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH IT. YES, THERE IS. OKAY. DO YOU WANT TO PAUSE AND TALK NOW? NO. YOU DON'T WANT ANYBODY ELSE TO DO THAT. SO I'LL WAIT FOR MY TURN MERGE PARKING MASTER PLAN BEACH MASTER PLAN. UM, AND THOSE ARE MY TERMS, BUT INTERPRETING DON'T DON'T WORK ON A BEACH MASTER PLAN AND NOT THINK ABOUT THE PARKING MASTER PLAN BEACH POPULATION, THE CROWDING ON THE BEACH, THE BEACH POPULATION MUST BE ADDRESSED. QUESTIONS ON THE CULTURAL STRATEGIC PLAN. PAGE THREE, NO, SORRY. PHASE THREE, PAGE 79 PROGRAM. GOOD TIMES THROUGH PROGRAMMING, IMPLEMENTATION OF PARKS AND REC. SO PROGRAMMING'S NOT A RECREATION PROGRAMMING, BUT PROGRAMMING AS, AS A BIG PICTURE HAS COME UP A COUPLE OF TIMES. SO THAT'S YOUR COMMENTS IN, IN SOME EMAILS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE GIVEN ME, COMMENTS ON, UM, TO REFINE THIS, AND IT'S A MUCH BETTER PLAN WITH THE INPUT I RECEIVED, BUT THESE WERE THE KIND OF THE OUTLIERS MAIN POINTS. SO TO BE, PARDON ME, I WANT TO BE IN LOVE WITH THE QUESTIONS. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. HOW DO YOU WANT TO HANDLE THIS NEXT? I'LL TURN IT OVER. OKAY. UM, WELL, WHO WANTS TO, SO OUT OF THESE COMMENTS, DO YOU WANT ME TO REVISIT ANYTHING? OKAY. I'M GOING TO DIVE INTO THAT RIGHT NOW. ALL RIGHT. LET'S DO IT. TELL ME WHICH ONE'S FIRST. JOSH. JOHN, YOU WANT TO TAKE THIS ONE? SORRY. CAUGHT YOU OFF GUARD. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK ABOUT? YEAH. WELL, WHAT, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? YOU'RE CONDUCTING IT'S RIGHT UP THERE CONDUCTING AN EDUCATION AND EVALUATION. SO IN MY EYES OF POTENTIAL FUTURE REVENUE SOURCES TO ENSURE THAT THE TOWN CONTINUES TO DELIVER QUALITY PUBLIC SERVICES. AND SO REALLY WHAT THIS IS, AND JOHN, TO HELP, SORRY TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT THERE, BUT PHASE ONE, SPRING TO SUMMER, A LOCAL OPTION SALES SALES TAX, LOST CONSIDERATION. WE'VE, WE'VE WORKED WITH YOU ON THAT, THE MID ISLAND TIF DISTRICT, PERHAPS I THINK THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO REALLY INVEST IN A PORTION OF THE ISLAND, WE SHOULD AT LEAST CONSIDER. I'M NOT SAYING THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THAT'S AN ABSOLUTE, BUT WE'VE HAD GREAT SUCCESS WITH THE TIP RECENT TIF DISTRICT. IT'S ABOUT TO EXPIRE THE REAL ESTATE TRANSFER FEE. AGAIN, THAT YOU'LL SEE THAT IN TWO PLACES. AND THEN PERHAPS A MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT. THAT'S EVERY TOWN MANAGER'S DREAM, BUT IT NEVER HAPPENS. SO AT LEAST LET'S EXPLORE. IT RARELY HAPPENS. UM, CAN WE ADD, YES, SIR. I THINK IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO WORK WITH OUR STATE LEGISLATORS TO EXPAND THE USE OF A TAX MONEY, TO INCLUDE BROADER APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING HOUSING, UH, AND, AND OTHER FORMS OF INFRASTRUCTURE. WE'VE GOT THAT NOTE. IT SHOWS UP OTHER PLACES TOO, BUT YES, WE'LL PUT IT IN HERE AS WELL. YUP. WHAT WOULD IT BE INAPPROPRIATE TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME ON HELLO? S T UH, THE REASON I BRING IT UP IS, UH, IT, IT HAS GREAT POTENTIAL, I THINK, TO BE, UH, A LONG-TERM REVENUE SOURCE. UH, AND IF YOU ASK ANYONE ON, UH, ON, ON THE [02:00:01] STREET, WHAT'S GOING ON, NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING. UH, THE COMMUNICATION ON THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN NO. SO THE PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS PROBABLY WILL BE NEAL ALSO. UH, WHAT, WHAT CAN WE DO, UH, TO TRY TO ENERGIZE THIS IN TERMS OF COMMUNICATION SLASH EDUCATION WITH THE LITTLE TIME WE HAVE LEFT THAT'S RIGHT. JOSH IS COORDINATED WITH EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE COUNTY, ON THE EDUCATION MATERIAL, NOT JOSH, IN FACT, FROM THIS WHERE YOU HONEYMOON TRIP THIS WEEK. SO WE'RE BACK AT WORK. ONE OF THE PROGRESS SEEMS TO BE IS THAT THE NUMBERS WE'RE GETTING FROM THE COUNTY, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, KEEP CHANGING. SO YOU DON'T WANT TO GO OUT WITH ANYTHING AS LONG AS THE COUNTY NUMBERS KEEP CHANGING. AND I THINK IT'S TYPICAL COUNTY, BUT FOR US TO PUT OUR NECK OUT HERE AND SAY, THIS IS X, Y, AND Z, AND THEY END UP BEING AN MP AND, OH, YOU KNOW, IT WAS A MISTAKE, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. NO, THAT IS CORRECT. THERE'S A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON WITH THIS FIRST, UM, IS, YOU KNOW, OUR RESPECT FOR COUNCIL'S CLEAR AND DIRECT INSTRUCTIONS TO US THAT YOU WANTED A VERY INFORMATIVE, BUT CONTENT NEUTRAL, UM, PRESENTATION, BASICALLY OF ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS THAT ARE SURROUNDING THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE. AND SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT OUR FOCUS HAS BEEN AS STAFF IS KIND OF CREATING THAT FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS PAGE WHERE ANYTHING THAT'S COME IN TO US ABOUT ANY ASPECT OF THIS PROGRAM, WE'VE DOCUMENTED ALONG WITH OUR RESPONSES TO THAT INFORMATION, TO YOUR POINT. YOU KNOW, WE ARE SUBJECT TO RECEIVING A LOT OF THE FINANCIAL INFORMATION FROM THE COUNTY ON THIS BECAUSE THE SALES TAX REVENUE COLLECTIONS ARE A VARIABLE NUMBER. UH, THEY WILL GO UP, THEY WILL GO DOWN BASED UPON A NUMBER OF FACTORS. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY HAS TO GET THAT INFORMATION FROM THE STATE. THEY THEN HAVE TO APPLY THAT TO THEIR ASSESSED VALUES, UH, FOR CERTAIN CLASSES OF PROPERTY. AND AGAIN, DEPENDING UPON THE SALES OF PROPERTY THAT OCCURS THAT VALUE COULD CHANGE ON AN ALMOST DAILY BASIS, UH, BECAUSE OF REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS THAT ARE OCCURRING. SO WITH THAT UNDERSTANDING, WE HAVE BEEN PROVIDED SEVERAL SERIES OF FINANCIAL FIGURES. AND SO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS TAKE THE MOST UP-TO-DATE THAT ARE RECEIVED BY US, AND THEN TURN AROUND AND COMMUNICATE THAT INFORMATION OUT TO THE PUBLIC. UM, KNOWING THAT IT'S, AGAIN, IT'S NOT A STATIC NUMBER, IT'S JUST THE MOST RECENT INFORMATION THAT WE'VE RECEIVED FROM THE COUNTY ON THAT PARTICULAR ISSUE. AND AS WE, I KEEP ON GETTING NEW NUMBERS, IT APPEARS THAT WE WOULD GET LESS MONEY. SO THAT'S WHY IF SOMEONE ASKS JUST TO WATCH ON THE NUMBERS WITH JOSH, BECAUSE I'M CONCERNED ABOUT YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. IN THE DATA, THE REFERENDUM IS WHAT, UH, SO IT'S GOING TO BE NOVEMBER 2ND. SO, SO WE'RE DOWN TWO DAYS. WE ARE , I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TIME YET. I HEAR SOMEONE SAY THEY SCORED, UM, COMMUNICATION, MY OPINION. UM, AND IT'S A SHAME BECAUSE IS IT CREATED RATHER THAN SISTER COMMUNITIES HERE AND RIGHT. WHICH, WHICH BRINGS ME TO, UM, WE HAD $15,000 THAT WE ALLOCATED TO THAT. AND I'M JUST CURIOUS, UM, HOW, IF THAT MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT OR HOW IT'S BEING SPENT OR WHETHER IT'S YEAH. A PORTION OF IT'S BEEN COMMITTED SO THAT WE CAN WORK WITH THE CONSULTANT TO TRY TO USE THEIR MARKETING, UM, AVENUES TO GET SOME OF THE INFORMATION OUT THERE, BUT NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THOSE FUNDS HAVE BEEN COMMITTED AT THIS POINT. ALL RIGHT. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS BROUGHT UP TO ME RECENTLY, AND I AGREE WITH GLEN, I LISTENED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE AND, UM, I HAVE, UM, I HAVE ONE PERSON I CAN REFER BACK TO WHO I KNOW SUPPORTS IT, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, LARGE MAJORITY, UM, HAS DEVELOPED THEIR OWN INFORMATION. AND I THINK A LOT OF IT REALLY IS CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE HEARD WITH THOSE BEARING NUMBERS. AND IF WE'RE NOT SURE THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE SURE, AND THEY'RE NOT PUTTING THEIR NECKS OUT ON THAT. SO, UM, SO THAT IS, UM, UH, CONCERN OF, UH, I'VE GOT SOMETHING. UM, YEAH. UM, I'M GOING TO STEAL SOME OF YOUR WORDS, COUNCILMAN LENNOX. OKAY. I APPRECIATE WORKING WITH YOU AS FAR AS THE FINANCING IS CONCERNED. AND, UH, COUNCILMAN LINUX HAS SAID TO ME, TIME AND TIME AGAIN, UH, WE HAVE TO ACCEPT AND APPRECIATE THAT TOWN OF HILTON HEAD IS A DOUGHNUT MUNICIPALITY. [02:05:01] RIGHT. UM, AND I'M EMBRACING THAT TO A DEGREE. OKAY. UM, WE SAY UTILIZE ALL AVAILABLE RESOURCES AT THE FEDERAL STATE AND LOCAL LEVELS. UM, I'M, I'M KEEN AND IN, ON FEDERAL AND STATE HERE, UM, I'D LIKE TO SEE US LEVERAGE A LITTLE BIT MORE. OKAY. UM, I MEAN, THERE'S TONS OF INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY COMING DOWN THE PIPELINE. UM, IN THE PAST WE HAVE HAD, UH, ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE CHAMBER OR INTEREST GROUPS KIND OF LOBBY FOR MONEY FOR HILTON HEAD. RIGHT. AND I APPRECIATE THAT GRAVELY. UM, BUT US TAKING A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTROL OF THAT, I THINK IS IMPORTANT. OKAY. SO THAT WE CONTROL OUR DESTINY AT THE END OF THE DAY. ALL RIGHT. I THINK THAT, UH, IT'S ONE THING TO, TO HAVE A CHAMBER, UH, FUNCTION WHERE WE GET STATE OR FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES COMING HERE AND GIVING A GREAT SPEECH, BUT IT'S ANOTHER THING TO HAVE THEM WORKING ON OUR BEHALF TO MAKE SURE THAT MONIES ARE COMING BACK TO HILTON HEAD, WHICH IS REALLY THE DIAMOND HERE IN OUR STATE. RIGHT. UM, SO MORE EFFORT IN THAT AREA, UM, AND MORE DISCUSSION AT THE POLICY LEVEL AS TO HOW WE GO AFTER THOSE FUNDING, I THINK IS IMPORTANT. I WOULD SECOND THAT ENTHUSIASTICALLY, WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST WE DO WELL? WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST WE DO WELL? YEAH. UM, WELL, I THINK IT'S A LITTLE BIT DEEPER DIVE THAN, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST US GETTING, UH, BEING REACTIVE TO MONIES THAT MAY BE COMING OKAY. BUT MOST, SO US BEING AT THE TABLE WHEN THE CONVERSATIONS, UH, BEING HAD AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL, WHEN IT COMES TO BUDGETARY ITEMS. OKAY. UM, AND YOU KNOW, THERE ARE WAYS TO DO THAT. UH, UH, BUT, BUT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A LETTER OF SUPPORT COMING FROM SOMEBODY ELSE TO US ON AN ITEM VERSUS US HAVING SOMEBODY IN THE ROOM. OKAY. THAT'S IT. YEP. THAT MAKES SENSE. THE CONVERSATION SO FAR WITH NANCY MACE AND, UH, SHE'S BEEN PRETTY GOOD WITH THE INFORMATION AND EVERYTHING, BUT SHE SAYS AS A FRESHMAN, HE HAS VERY LITTLE CONTROL OVER ANYTHING. SHE'LL BE HONEST WITH US, BUT SHE KNOWS WHAT WE NEED THAT CORRECT, MARK. YES, SIR. THE, UH, LET ME, IF I MAKE ALEX'S COMMENT, I THINK RAISES THE QUESTION. UM, I MEAN, IF WE WERE A PRIVATE CORPORATION, WOULD W WOULD WE SEE THE VALUE OF HAVING OUR OWN LOBBYIST OR PLURAL, UH, FROM A TOWN STANDPOINT, UH, IF WE WANT SOMEONE THAT'S SKILLED IN THIS AREA, AND THAT HAS ACCOUNTABILITY AND DOES THIS FOR A LIVING, SHOULD WE, UH, SHOULD WE, AS A TOWN, THINK ABOUT A POSITION OF, OF LOBBYISTS TO AUGMENT WHAT'S BEING DONE TODAY. EXCELLENT QUESTION. THANK YOU. AND THE ANSWER IS THE COUNTY HAS ONE. I THINK THEY'RE HELPFUL. UM, I THINK THAT IF YOU ASKED ME THIS FIVE YEARS AGO, I'D SAY NO. UM, SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THE RELATIONSHIPS AT THE STATE LEVEL, BUT WITH NEW STIMULUS MONEY AND THAT MONEY ON THE TABLE, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE BACK HOME WORKING, WE'RE RELYING UPON SENATOR DAVIS AND THE STATE DELEGATION TO HELP US. UM, BUT NOBODY'S THERE SITTING IN THE CHAIR, HEARING THE REPORTS, HEARING THE UPDATES WHEN, WHEN WE'RE THERE AND WE CAN BRING THAT MINDSET BACK HOME AND BE STRATEGIC ABOUT IT. THAT'S THE ONLY WAY WE CAN GET IN THAT BUSINESS. THE LOBBYISTS WOULD HELP. NOW. I I'D ALSO DON'T WANT TO SET US UP FOR FAILURE. THERE'S A LOT OF LOBBYISTS IN THE STATE. THEY'RE ALL CHASING THE SAME DOLLAR BILLS. UM, BUT WE'RE NOT IN THE GAME IN THAT REGARD. I THINK THERE'S ANOTHER QUESTION. UH, SENATOR DAVIS IS A FANTASTIC RESOURCE AND IT DOES A GREAT JOB. I THINK WE ALL HOLD THEM IN HIGH REGARD, BUT SOMETIMES OUR INTEREST IN HIS TERRITORY, THEY'LL BE AT ODDS WITH SOMEBODY ELSE'S INTEREST IN THE SAME TERRITORY. SO, UM, THAT INHERENT CONFLICT IS REAL. AND WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT? OKAY. I'M WALKING, WALKING, ERIC GREENWAY, GOING TO START SPENDING MORE TIME IN COLUMBIA ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTY AND THE TOWN. IS THAT CORRECT, SIR? YES, SIR. OKAY. I DON'T WANT TO MS. DAVID THAT, THAT MAY HAVE BEEN AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION I WAS GOING TO ASK MARK. DO, DO YOU FEEL AS THOUGH THIS TOWN HAS, UH, AN INTENTIONAL, UH, POLICY TO INFLUENCE STATE AND FEDERAL, [02:10:01] UH, MONIES COMING IN THIS DIRECTION? UH, THAT'S A HARD YES OR NO. I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT DEPENDS, RIGHT? IT DEPENDS ON THE SOURCE. IT, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT WE HAVE AS AN INITIATIVE. UM, AND I THINK LOBBYISTS, IF WE WOULD, IF WE WOULD WORK WITH A LOBBYIST, I WOULD SUGGEST THIS, WE JUST DON'T GET FOCUSED ON THE DOLLAR BILLS, BUT THAT IT'S REAL POLICY IN THAT WE ALSO PERHAPS TALK, LET ME TALK WITH MR. GREENWAY AND SEE IF WE CAN PARTNER UP BECAUSE LOBBYISTS ARE STRONG REGIONALLY. MY QUESTION WASN'T DIRECTED TOWARDS HAVING A LOBBYISTS OR NOT. IT WAS, DO WE, AS A TOWN, HAVE AN ACTIVE AND INTENTIONAL PROGRAM TO INFLUENCE STATE AND FEDERAL MONEY. I THINK THE ANSWER IS NOT AT THIS TIME, NOT AT THIS TIME. SO I THINK AT THE VERY LEAST THAT'S SOMETHING WE OUGHT TO BE, AND WE WILL ADD THIS TO THIS. UH, THE BENEFIT OF THIS DISCUSSION IS WE'RE TAKING NOTES AS YOU GRAB THAT. SEAN, YOU'VE GOT THAT. OKAY. SO WE'LL ADD THAT AS A, AS A TACTIC. OKAY. IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE SO MANY OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH HERE ON HILTON THAT CAN'T BE ACCOMPLISHED BECAUSE OF STATE LEGISLATION, CORRECT. THE ATACS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE. YOU'VE ASKED ME, UM, ABOUT A TAX AND GETTING A MEETING TOGETHER AND I'VE WRITTEN THAT POST-IT NOTE DOWN FIVE TIMES. IF WE HAD SOME EXTRA HELP, WE WOULD ALREADY HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING. SO THANK YOU. UM, AND I RESERVE THE RIGHT, BECAUSE THIS ISN'T FINAL YET. IF WE LOOK WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW, RIGHT SPRING, SUMMER, FALL WINTER, I THINK WE NEED TO PUSH OUT PHASE TWO, BUT AS WE REALLY GET INTO THE TACTICS PROVIDE, I CAN READ IT FROM MY PAGE A LITTLE EASIER, UH, UH, SORRY. IT'S NOT IN THE SAME ORDER. PROVIDE PERIODIC UPDATES ON THE STATUS OF ALTERNATIVE FUNDING SOURCES THAT HAVE BEEN PURSUED AND THE OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS EFFECTIVENESS ON IDENTIFYING AND OBTAINING ALTERNATIVE REVENUES, DISCUSS CORRESPONDING USE RESTRICTIONS THAT MAY REQUIRE MAY BE REQUIRED DEPENDING UPON THE SOURCE OF FUNDING, EXAMINE TOWN DEVELOPMENT, REVIEW FEES, AND THEN ALSO EXAMINE STORMWATER IMPACT FEE RATES, DEVELOPMENT, REVIEW FEES. I'M NOT SURE WHEN THE LAST TIME WE'VE LOOKED AT THE MAR, BUT WHAT WE, AS A, YOU KNOW, WITH OUR N P D E S SYSTEM AND THE EXTRA WORK WE'RE WORKING ON, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE MEASURE HOW MUCH TIME GOES INTO MAKING SURE THE ISLAND IS A GREAT PLACE WITH HOW MUCH STAFF TIME IS BEING PUT IN THERE. I'M NOT, I'M NOT SAYING LET'S INCREASE FEES. I'M SAYING LET'S ASSESS IT. AND LET'S JUST NOT LEAVE IT TO BE 10 YEARS OLD AND SIMPLY BE SATISFIED. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS ONE BEFORE WE MOVE ON, WE'VE GRABBED A FEW THINGS. THE CONVERSATION'S HELPFUL. YOU MENTIONED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, I'LL TELL MANAGERS ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING BEEN NEVER WRECKED GET, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS. IT'S A WELL, IT'S, IT'S A FEE. SO TO SPEAK IN A DISTRICT AS DEFINED IN EACH PROPERTY, UH, AT A CERTAIN ACTIONABLE ITEM AT A CERTAIN THRESHOLD, UH, FUNDS, THE, THE DISTRICT YOU CREATE REALLY IT'S A SIMILAR TO KEEP IT SIMPLE. IT'S ALMOST LIKE A TIF DISTRICT WITH ITS OWN CAPITAL PROGRAM ATTACHED TO IT. THERE'S SOME STATE LAW AROUND IT, BUT IT, IT DEFINITELY NEEDS THE VOTE. MY THOUGHT WAS A MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ON MAIN STREET, BUT THE MORE I STARTED TO DIVE INTO IT, I JUST DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S AN APPETITE, BUT AGAIN, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO EXPLORE. IF NOTHING ELSE I CAN BRING IT TO YOU AND SAY, WE'VE LOOKED AT THIS AND BASED UPON THE COMPLICATIONS OR OPPORTUNITIES, I THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA. I THINK IT'S A BAD IDEA. OKAY. SO I HAVEN'T DOVE DEEP YET, BUT I PUT IT ON THERE KNOWING WE NEED TO DO IT. WELL, THANK YOU FOR THE, FOR THE, UM, THE INTRODUCTION. I'LL ALSO LOOK INTO THEM A LITTLE BIT MORE SO I CAN EDUCATE MYSELF. THANK YOU. YES, MA'AM ALL RIGHT. NEXT IN. ALL RIGHT. SO LET'S SEE IF THIS WORKS IMPLEMENT PARKING MASTER PLAN. SHORT-TERM REGS AFFILIATED AGENCY. THERE WE GO. MR. GRUBER. UM, SO WE'VE HAD A VERY KIND OF HIGH LEVEL. SO WE'VE HAD A KIND OF VERY HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW, BUT TO KIND OF DIG DOWN A LITTLE BIT INTO WHAT THE PROCESS IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE. I FIRST KIND OF WANT TO START BY GOING OVER A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PURPOSES OF THIS PARTICULAR ITEM. UM, WITH THE 10 YEAR CENSUS THAT COMES OUT, WE ARE CONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED TO REDRAW OUR WARD DISTRICT BOUNDARIES, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE MEET SEVERAL [02:15:01] VERY CLEAR AND DISTINCT CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES. ONE OF WHICH BEING ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE. AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS THERE SHOULD BE AN EQUAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE ALLOCATED TO EACH DISTRICT SO THAT EACH DISTRICTS REPRESENTATION ON COUNCIL HAS A FAIR AND EQUAL WEIGHT. NOW THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE. THERE ARE, OTHER THAN EXAMPLES THAT GO WITH THAT, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE DISTRICTS THAT WE DRAW ARE CONTIGUOUS TO ONE ANOTHER. SO YOU CAN'T JUST PICK ONE STREET HERE, ONE STREET HERE AND HAVE A JACKSON POLLOCK PAINTING BY THE TIME YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, IT NEEDS TO BE CLEAR AND DISTINCT BOUNDARIES SO THAT PEOPLE KNOW WITH SOME KIND OF CERTAINTY, WHICH WARD OR WHICH DISTRICT THEY FALL INTO. UM, WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE RECOGNIZE AND UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST ON THE ISLAND. SO PEOPLE THAT ARE OF LIKE-MIND LIKE BELIEFS, THAT SHOULD BE KIND OF GROUPED TOGETHER TO THE GREATEST EXTENT THAT WE CAN WHILE BALANCING OUT ALL THOSE OTHER PRINCIPLES, BECAUSE THOSE INTERESTS SHOULD BE REFLECTED. THEN IN THE POLICYMAKERS THAT ARE ELECTED TO COUNCIL, THAT THEN BRING FORWARD THE INTERESTS OF THOSE COMMUNITIES. SO ALL OF THOSE ARE VERY IMPORTANT FACTORS, BUT THEY ALL HAVE TO COME TOGETHER INTO THIS REDRAWN PLAN AND WHAT THE TOWN HAS DONE HISTORICALLY, AT LEAST FOR THE LAST, UH, 20 YEARS, IF NOT MORE, HAS AT LEAST INITIALLY BEGUN WITH UTILIZING THE SERVICES OF THE STATE TO HELP US TAKE THE CENSUS DISTRICT INFORMATION AND INCORPORATE IT INTO KIND OF A BASELINE PLAN THAT IF ALL OTHER VARIABLES WERE EQUAL, THIS IS THE PLAN THAT THEY WOULD BRING FORWARD TO MAKE SURE THAT EACH ONE OF THOSE CONSTITUTIONAL VARIABLES HAS BEEN SATISFIED BECAUSE THEIR GOAL IS NOT NECESSARILY TO PICK OR DRAW BOUNDARIES THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, THE BEST FOR INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE OR INDIVIDUAL GROUPS. THEIR GOAL IS TO DRAW A PLAN THAT IS UNQUESTIONABLY CONSTITUTIONAL IN ITS NATURE. AND IF IT WERE REVIEWED OR IF IT WERE CHALLENGED WOULD BE UPHELD LATER ON. SO WHAT WE WILL DO IS WORK WITH THE STATE, THE REVENUE AND FISCAL AFFAIRS OFFICE TO HAVE THEM TAKE OUR NEW CENSUS DATA, TO PLUG IT INTO A BASELINE MAP THAT THEY WILL THEN COME FORWARD AND BRING TO THE PUBLIC AND BRING TO YOU FOR REVIEW AND DISCUSSION. WE WILL THEN HAVE AN ACTIVE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT DOWN WITH EACH ONE OF YOU INDIVIDUALLY, GO OVER THAT DATA. AND IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT MAKING CHANGES, WE ABSOLUTELY CAN DO THAT. IF YOU WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS SIDE OF THE STREET, I KNOW THESE FOLKS, THEY ARE REALLY ALIGNED WITH THIS GROUP MORE THAN THEY ARE ANOTHER GROUP. WE CAN SIT THERE AND PLAY WITH THE CENSUS TRACKS AND SEE HOW, IF WE PUT ONE IN ONE DISTRICT OR ONE IN ANOTHER DISTRICT, WHAT IT DOES TO THOSE POPULATION LEVELS, BASICALLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO WORK WITH YOU TO LOOK AT POTENTIAL MODIFICATIONS. ULTIMATELY THAT MAY DEVELOP IN SEVERAL ALTERNATIVES FOR COUNCIL TO CONSIDER. WE'LL BRING THOSE FORWARD TO THE PUBLIC FOR DISCUSSION AND COMMENT. AND THEN ALSO ULTIMATELY GET TOWN COUNCIL TO ADOPT ONE OF THE ALTERNATIVES AS OUR REDRAWN PLAN. WHEN WE SPOKE WITH YOU, UM, IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT WE HAD PUBLIC MEETINGS, RIGHT? AND SO RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE, WE HAVE HERE FALL WINTER 2021, WORK WITH THE STATE. IT DOESN'T, IT'S JUST AS ENGAGED WITH THEM. SIMILARLY, NOT TURNING IT OVER TO THEM, BUT TO CONDUCT PUBLIC EDUCATION, PUBLIC INPUT. I THINK WE ALSO NEED TO HAVE PUBLIC INPUT AND EDUCATION MEETINGS WORK THROUGH ALL OF THESE ISSUES WITH THE STATE AT THE TABLE, NOT BY OURSELVES AND THEN ENGAGE THEM AND DEFINITELY NOT THEM WITHOUT US. AND THEN MOVE FORWARD SPRING 2022, WHERE WE START CONDUCTING THE PUBLIC EDUCATION ON THE PROPOSED REDISTRICTING AND PROVIDE THAT BACK TO YOU. SO IT'S, IT'S A PROCESS. UM, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU WANT ME TO KNOW ABOUT MOVING FORWARD AS WE IMPLEMENT THIS, TO GET IT READY FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION? I HAVE A QUESTION, BUT IT DOESN'T RELATE TO WHAT YOU JUST ASKED JOSH FOR, FOR MY BENEFIT AND PERHAPS TO THE BENEFIT OF, UH, THE POPULATION ON HILTON HEAD. DO YOU HAVE ANY SENSE AT THIS TIME OF HOW MUCH OUR WARD BOUNDARIES MIGHT BE? SO WHAT WE KNEW AT LEAST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WAS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF POPULATION CHANGES, WHICH I THINK WAS 562 FROM THE LAST CENSUS FIGURES. WHAT WE DON'T KNOW IS HOW THOSE FIGURES ARE APPORTIONED WITHIN OUR EXISTING DISTRICTS. THAT'S INFORMATION THAT THE STATE IS GOING TO TAKE DIRECTLY FROM THE CENSUS AND PLUG INTO THAT BASELINE MAP. AND THEN WHEN THEY COME TO PRESENT, IT, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO DISCUSS THOSE VARIATION CHANGES FROM OUR EXISTING ONE TO WHAT THE BASELINE MAP REF REPRESENTS. THANK YOU. SO AT THIS TIME, NO. YEAH, CORRECT. IT'S NOT YET. YEAH. UH, I HAVE A QUESTION WHEN, WHEN DAVID'S FINISHED, SIR, ARE WE GOING TO SEE SOMETHING IN THE NATURE OF AN INTERACTIVE MAP THAT WHERE YOU [02:20:01] ADJUST ONE, THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT IN ANOTHER SO THAT WE CAN KIND OF SEE IT LIVE, SO TO SPEAK ON A MAP, IS THAT IT'S POSSIBLE? YES. IT IS A POSSIBLE WITH OUR GREAT GIS, THE F G I S STAFF, WE WILL MAKE THAT POSSIBLE WITH THE NOTE. THANK YOU. JUST TO SHOW THE TRANSITION OR THE PROPOSED OR ANTICIPATED TRANSITION. YES, SIR. VERY MUCH. SO MARK ARE THE CENSUS NUMBERS THAT WE GET, UH, AT THE LOCAL LEVEL CONSISTENT AND A PART OF THE COUNTY AND STATEWIDE NUMBERS AS WELL. YES, SIR. SO THEY'RE ALL CONSISTENT. YES. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING. THAT'S MY BELIEF. YES, IT HAS TO BE, THEY ALL COME FROM THE SAME SOURCE, RIGHT? YES, SIR. I DON'T THINK YOU CAN ANSWER THIS QUESTION, BUT IF IT'S PROBABLY REALISTIC THAT THE CENSUS IS NOT, DOES NOT ACCURATELY REFLECT THE TRUE SPANISH POPULATION. GREAT. SO IF THAT'S THE CASE AND THEY FACTOR AWAY, DO WE BRING THAT INTO LIGHT AND OUR THINKING? I THINK WE BRING THAT INTO PLAY IN OUR ASSESSMENT, BUT WE DO HAVE STRICT RULES AND REGS TO, TO FOLLOW IN. IT'S GOTTA BE, IT HAS TO BE BASED UPON REAL DATA. GREAT. CORRECT. CORRECT. THE CENSUS FIGURES ARE THE OFFICIAL FIGURES THAT WE HAVE TO DRAW OUR MAPS OFF OF. SO WE CAN'T SAY, WELL, WE ASSUME THAT THERE'S ANOTHER 3000 PEOPLE THAT ARE UNDER COUNTED AND DRAW THE MAPS WITH THOSE NUMBERS. IN MIND, WE HAVE TO USE THE CENSUS FIGURES, MR. LENNOX, HOW WOULD YOU COMPARE? AND IT'S PROBABLY YOUR BEST GUESS THE CENSUS NUMBERS VERSUS VOTER REGISTRATION. SO CENSUS NUMBERS SHOULD INCORPORATE EVERYBODY WHO LIVES IN AN ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD. SO THOSE THAT ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 AND ALL THOSE THAT ARE THEN OVER THE AGE OF 18. SO YOUR REGISTERED VOTERS ARE PROBABLY GOING TO BE A FRACTION OF THE OVERALL POPULATION. SO I THINK IF OUR NUMBER WAS 38,000 AND CHANGE, THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS I THINK IS SOMEWHERE AROUND 18,000. SO THAT KIND OF GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF THE PERCENTAGE OF REGISTERED VOTERS VERSUS THE OVERALL POPULATION. AND DO WE KNOW WHERE THOSE REGISTERED VOTERS ARE? TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, WE CAN SEE THE HISTORICAL VOTING RECORDS. SO WE KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE VOTED IN DISTRICT ONE, A ONE B, ONE C, ET CETERA. UH, BUT AS FAR AS THE LIVE COUNTS, WHO ARE, WHO, WHERE THEY ARE BEFORE AN ELECTION, I'M NOT SURE. YEAH. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? SO MY QUESTIONS, UM, YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE OF 562 OR SO, SO TWO QUESTIONS. SO THAT'S, THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A BIG NUMBER. UM, SO WOULD ONE, THEREFORE ASSUME THAT'S NOT A BIG CHANGE OR FIRST QUESTION. I KNOW NO ASSUMPTIONS. IT'S JUST A QUESTION DON'T, DON'T EVEN WASTE THE TIME ANSWERING. UM, SECONDLY, UM, JUST, UH, SECONDLY, I WOULD IMAGINE THAT WITH ALL THE NEW DEVELOPMENT IN CERTAIN AREAS, WE MAY BE ABLE TO SORT OF IMAGINE WHERE, UM, SOME OF THOSE NEW NUMBERS WERE COMING FROM, BUT JUST AS A GLOBAL PICTURE OF, OF HOW THAT ALL KIND OF LOOKS, UM, THOSE WERE MY THOUGHTS AND I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHERE THERE WAS A QUESTION IN THERE, BUT THOSE WERE TWO. DID I GET THOSE TWO POINTS? WOULD THOSE BE RELEVANT POINTS THEN? YEAH, I THINK THERE'S TWO THINGS TO REALLY KIND OF POINT OUT WITH REGARDS TO OUR JURISDICTION. ONE, WE HAVE A VERY LARGE SECOND HOMEOWNER POPULATION. AND WHEN YOU HAVE A SECOND, YOU CAN CHOOSE WHICH ONE YOU REFLECT AS YOUR PRIMARY RESIDENCE FOR CENSUS PURPOSES. SO YOU MAY HAVE PICKED ONE AS COMPARED TO THE OTHER, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE NECESSARILY THERE ANY MORE THAN ANY OTHER PLACE. THE SECOND IS REMEMBERING THAT WHEN THE CENSUS WAS OCCURRING WAS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC. SO IN TERMS OF THE ABILITY TO GET ACCURATE COUNTS, IT IS ABSOLUTELY INFLUENCED BY THAT EVENT THAT WAS GOING ON. I'VE GOT SOMETHING, SOME OF THE TH THE, UH, THE INTRICACIES THAT HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED THUS FAR I E UH, FOLDING RECORDS AND, AND THAT SORT OF THING. WELL, THAT BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION AT THE FISCAL AFFAIRS OFFICE AS THEY DEVELOP THAT BASELINE. TH TH THEY DON'T LOOK AT VOTER REGISTRATION, THEY LOOK AT POPULATION. OKAY. AND IN THE PAST, JOSH, I APPRECIATE YOU GIVING US THAT 20 YEAR HISTORY OF WHAT WAS THAT PROCESS SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU'RE SUGGESTING NOW, WHICH IS ONCE [02:25:01] THE BASELINE WAS ESTABLISHED, IT THEN WENT TO THE POLICYMAKERS INDIVIDUALLY TO BLESS SO TO SPEAK, OR WAS THERE SOME COMMITTEE OR TASK FORCE OR SOMETHING ASSIGNED TO IT IN THE PAST? SO IT WAS THE POLICYMAKERS, IT WAS COUNCIL. AND ULTIMATELY WHAT CAME OUT WAS TWO SEPARATE MAPS. THAT'S WHAT WAS THEN BROUGHT FORWARD TO THE PUBLIC FOR DISCUSSION AND COMMENT. AND THEN COUNCIL ULTIMATELY VOTED TO ADOPT ONE OF THE TWO MAPS. OKAY. UM, I JUST THINK THIS IS WHERE THE, A LITTLE BIT MORE DISCUSSION. OKAY. BUT, UM, FIRST OF ALL, I'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, SOME ANXIETY ABOUT SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE ELSE, DRAWING THE LINES FOR US. NUMBER ONE. OKAY. UM, AND I'VE HEARD HORROR STORIES OF, UH, PLACES WHERE, UH, THE ELECTED OFFICIALS WILL JUST DRAW WHEN THEY WANT, WHERE THEY CAN HAVE THE MOST QUOTE, UNQUOTE POWER, SO TO SPEAK ON ME. AND I DON'T WANT US TO BE, UH, PERCEIVED GUILTY AS THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, HILTON HEAD IS VERY, VERY DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, IT'S A PARTICULAR WAY YOU START DRAWING THE LINES OF, UH, PLAYING NEW DEVELOPMENTS, UH, THESE NEW DEVELOPMENTS, UH, PLACES OF INTERESTS AND SO ON AND SO ON. UM, I MEAN, I, I I'LL, UH, I'LL JUST RAISE THIS, YOU KNOW, UH, THE TIMES WHEN, I DON'T KNOW IF THE PERSON'S CALLING ME IS MINE OR MR. STANFORD'S OR MR. HAWKINS. RIGHT. AND WE ALL GUILTY OF THAT. RIGHT. SO I JUST THINK THERE'S SOME, SOME FORM OF, UH, NOT JUST EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ALONG THE WAY. OKAY. BUT SOME REPRESENTATION AS TO HOW WE GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS, I THINK IS IMPORTANT THAT GIVES NOW CONFIDENCE BACK TO THOSE THAT ARE VOTING, THAT WE DID OUR DUE DILIGENCE VERSUS JUST GETTING IN THE ROOM AND DRAWING LINES. THAT'S, THAT'S MY POINT. AND I'M JUST GOING TO FOLLOW UP WITH A COMMENT THAT, UM, I THINK THAT ONE OF THE REAL STRENGTHS OF THIS COUNCIL THAT I'VE APPRECIATED OVER THE TIME THAT I'VE SPENT HERE AND EVEN PREVIOUSLY IS THAT, UM, WE ALL WORK TOGETHER FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ENTIRE ISLAND. SO WHETHER SOMEONE KNOWS THAT THEY'RE CALLING ME IN MY WARD, OR SOMEONE'S CALLING ME FROM A DIFFERENT WARD AND ASKING ME FOR, UM, TO LET THEM SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS AND CONCERNS, UM, A, I USUALLY ALWAYS GET BACK TO THE PERSON THAT, UM, THE, THE WORD THEY COME FROM, BUT I TAKE THAT INITIATIVE SERIOUSLY, REGARDLESS OF WHAT WARD THEY'RE COMING FROM. UM, TO ME, UM, THE IDEA THAT THEY PICKED UP THE PHONE AND HAD FAITH AND CONFIDENCE IN ME, UM, MEANS AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT TO ME PERSONALLY. AND, UM, I TAKE THIS JOB VERY SERIOUSLY. AND SO WARD FOUR, VERY IMPORTANT TO ME, DON'T MISUNDERSTAND, BUT I I'M OPEN TO, UM, COMMUNICATION WITH ANYONE ON THIS ISLAND. MAY I MAKE A SUGGESTION SO WE CAN MOVE ON LET'S WORKSHOP. THIS I'LL DO RESPECT MAYOR. MAYBE WE COULD PLAN A SPECIAL WORKSHOP, OR WHEN WE HAVE A LIGHT AGENDA, IF WE DO ADD THIS AS AN ITEM AND BRING IN, AND WE'VE GOT TO KEEP CALLING THEM THE SOUTH CAROLINA REVENUE, FISCAL AFFAIRS OFFICE TO HAVE THAT WORKSHOP, BECAUSE IF THEY HEAR FROM YOU AND THEY CAN SETTLE THE NERVES, AND WE ACTUALLY ADD TO THE INGREDIENTS HERE, PUBLIC INPUT AND WORKSHOPS, AND NOT JUST PUBLIC EDUCATION AS THIS IS READING, I THINK THAT WE WILL HAVE A GOOD PROGRAM THAT WOULD THAT SUBTLE THIS AND SOLVE THIS. AND THAT GAVE US CONFIDENCE TO MOVE FORWARD. YES. OKAY. JOSH NEXT, SIR. UH, THE REAL ESTATE TRANSFER FEE. SO WE JUMPED OVER THIS ONE. THIS IS IMPORTANT. AND I THINK THIS IS GOING TO, I WON'T PUT JOHN ON THE SPOT ANYMORE, BUT CONDUCT A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF OUR CURRENT FISCAL POLICIES TO CLARIFY, RIGHT REVIEW CURRENT DEBT CONDUCT SURVEY TO BEST PRACTICES ACROSS ORGANIZATIONS. HOW ARE WE USING OUR DOLLARS? UM, VERY, VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE'RE, WE'RE GETTING INTO THAT. IT REALLY ALIGNS WITH ADOPT A REAL ESTATE TRANSFER FEE AND EX EXTENSION EXPANSION. BEFORE WE LEAVE TODAY, WE HAVE A MEMO ON THIS. I WILL HAND IT OUT. IT GIVES A BACKGROUND ON THE REAL ESTATE TRANSFER FEE. UM, YOU CAN JUST BRING IT HOME AND HAVE THAT TO REVIEW, BUT THIS, THIS SHOULD BE IN OUR NEAR FUTURE. AS WE LOOK AT IT, UH, PROJECT MILESTONES DEVELOPING, AND THEN THERE'S A GOOD THING. I CAN'T SEE THAT DEVELOP AN INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM ON THE HISTORY OF THE REAL ESTATE TRANSFER FEE. WE'LL, WE'VE SPED THAT UP. YOU'LL HAVE THAT BY THE TIME YOU LEAVE TODAY, IDENTIFY POTENTIAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS THAT COULD BE INCLUDED WITH [02:30:01] THE PROPOSED EXTENSION, UM, AND DEVELOP A LIST OF NECESSARY STAKEHOLDERS TO TALK THROUGH. JOSH CURT. CURTIS IS HERE AS WELL. I THINK ON THIS ONE, BEFORE WE REALLY DIVE IN, WHAT WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IS PURSUING AN EXTENSION OF OUR TRANSFER FEE AND EVALUATE MODIFICATIONS OF ITS USE TO ALLOW FOR MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF EXISTING PROPERTIES THAT HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED. JOSH CURTIS CONFIRMATION. THAT IS A LOCAL ORDINANCE DECISION, CORRECT? MIKE MICROPHONE. YES. THAT IS A LOCAL ORDINANCE DECISION. THERE IS PROBABLY A DISCUSSION THAT NEEDS TO BE HAD THOUGH, UM, REGARDING THE IMPACT OF THE STATE STATUTE THAT PRESERVED THAT FOR US AND WHETHER OR NOT THAT HAS ANY IMPACT ON WHAT WE CAN DO WITH IT. I HAVE A COMMENT ON THAT, AND THAT IS THAT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO GET A LEGAL ADVICE FROM OUR LAWYERS HERE ABOUT WHAT ARE THE LIMITS ON CHANGES IN THE REAL ESTATE TRANSFER FEE, WHICH I THINK IS WHAT CURTIS WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT. UH, THAT IS, DO WE JUST REENACT IT AS IS? I THINK THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE SAFE, BUT IT'S ALWAYS EASY TO TINKER WITH ONE OF THESE THINGS. AND IF WE TINKER WITH IT, ARE WE PUSHING IT TOO FAR? AND ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'RE GOING TO FIND IT THROWN OUT IN THE COURTS. WE NEED SOME LEGAL ADVICE ON THAT, AND WE NEED TO BE VERY CONSERVATIVE IN MY OPINION ABOUT HOW WE GO ABOUT CHANGING THIS ORDINANCE, IF AT ALL, THANK YOU. I, I, I THINK, UH, A POLITICAL DECISION WILL, WILL, UH, DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT WE GET AN EXTENSION, UH, THE REST OF THE COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES IN THE STATE DON'T HAVE THIS CAPABILITY. AND SO IF WE TRY TO MASSAGE IT, SO THEY PERCEIVE IT AS BEING UNFAIR OR GOING TOO FAR, I THINK WE JEOPARDIZE OUR OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE IT AT ALL. SO I'D BE VERY CAUTIOUS, BUT THIS IS ONE ITEM THAT I THINK WE NEED TO START TALKING TO OUR LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION, UH, TODAY. THANK YOU. YEAH. UH, UM, THOSE ARE THE REASONS WHY I THOUGHT THIS WAS WORTHY FOR US TO TALK ABOUT, RIGHT. UM, AND ONCE WE DO GET THE NEWS GOOD OR BAD, I THINK IT DIDN'T JUMP THEN CHANGES OUR MINDSET IN TERMS OF OUR REVENUE SOURCES, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN SCREAMING IT, MAYBE WE WANT TO EXPAND IF WE CAN'T, WELL, NOW WE NEED TO START LOOKING AT SOME NEW MONEY TO GET SOME STUFF DONE AROUND HERE. SO, UM, THIS IS DEFINITELY TOP OF LISTEN IMPORTANT. I THINK THIS IS A GAME CHANGER WEEK. WE CAN'T ALLOW THIS TO SUNSET. WE HAVE TO GET IT RENEWED. COULD, COULD SOMEONE ALSO SHARE WHAT THE ROLE IS, UH, WITH THE, UH, THE AREA REALTORS ASSOCIATION RELEVANT RELATIVE TO THIS MERRILL DIFFERENT? ARE YOU ON THAT? YEAH. THE DECIDING GROUP BILL. I MEAN, THEY DECIDING IF THEY DECIDE WHETHER THEY'RE GOING TO EXTEND IT OR NOT, WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING TO DO NOW IS TO EXTEND IT OR WHAT PURPOSES THE TOWN'S GOING TO USE THE MONEY FOR. AND THAT'S GOING TO ROLL YOUR OWN. THAT PROCESS WALKS INTO A GENE BECK THIS WEEK AND NEXT WEEK, NEXT WEEK, PROBABLY. RIGHT. YEAH. SO WE ALREADY HAVE A MEETING ON THE BOOKS TO MEET WITH JEAN AND THIS BE ONE OF THE TOPICS. UM, BUT IF YOU COULD REFRESH FOR US, UH, WHO THE BOARD IS, WHO WAS ON THE BOARD OR THE REALTORS ASSOCIATION, BECAUSE THAT'S IN THAT ROOM BEHIND CLOSED DOORS WILL BE A DECISION MADE. AND MANY OF US PROBABLY KNOW A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE, UH, FORGETTING WHAT ROLE OR FORGETTING WHO'S ON THE BOARD CURRENTLY. OKAY. I'M MAKING A NOTE, SHAWN, IF YOU CAN MAKE THAT NOTE, IDENTIFY WHO'S ON THAT REALIST ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS BOARD. AND PLEASE, IF YOU COULD SEND THAT OUT TO TOWN COUNCIL DIRECTLY ON THAT OKAY. ALL RIGHT. CAN I MOVE ON FROM THIS TOPIC? YES. OKAY. WHAT'S NEXT? JOSH. WE HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR EVERYTHING ELSE. EACH I'M JUST KIDDING. WE'RE BANKING. IF I COULD JUST ADD TOM LENNOX, JUST REMINDING ME, UH, THE REALTORS ARE HAVING AN OYSTER ROAST NEXT WEEK. SO IF WE FIND OUT WHO'S ON THE BOARD AND THEN A SUGGESTION TO, [02:35:01] UH, OUR COLLEAGUES HERE, THAT IF YOU CAN GO GOOD TIME TO DO SOME, UM, LOBBYING LOBBYING, I WAS GOING TO SAY SCHMOOZING, BUT I GUESS, HUH. ON FACEBOOK LIVE. I'M GOING TO SAY DISCUSSING. HI EVERYBODY. NOW IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC. IT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS ON MY RADAR FROM JOSH AND MR. LENNOX AND THE MAYOR AS WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT BUDGETS. SO I'M, THIS IS GREAT DIRECTION. ALL RIGHT. NEXT TOPIC, JOSH. OKAY. OH, NEXT, UH, JUST REAL QUICK, PROVIDE A SAFE, CLEAN, ENJOYABLE BEACH, FREE BEACH, SUBTLE SHUTTLE SERVICE THAT WILL TRANSPORT CITIZENS BETWEEN PARKING AREAS AND PUBLIC AMENITIES, EVALUATE REGS, UM, AND MANAGE THE SHUTTLES. SO THERE'S SEVERAL THINGS I'M NOT GOING TO DIVE INTO ALL OF THEM. I KNOW SOMEONE BROUGHT THIS UP TWO THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING JUST TO SHOW YOU THAT WE HAVE REFINED AND IT, AND IT DEFINITELY TAKES A VILLAGE. UM, MS. BECKER BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION THAT THERE WERE SOME COMPLAINTS ON ONE OF THE TROLLEYS GOING THROUGH A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD WITH A DIESEL ENGINE SEVERAL TIMES A DAY THAT WE WORKED WITH LRT A, UH, OR WITH THE SHUTTLE, THE SHUTTLE SERVICE WAS FOR ONE MIDDLEBURY'S. THANK YOU, JEN, JEN THERE. NOW YOU WONDER WHY I QUOTE JEN, SHE'S ALWAYS ON IT. UH, WE, WE W WE MODIFIED THE, NOT THE ROUTE, A LITTLE BIT OF THE, ABOUT ROUTE, BUT ALSO THE TYPE OF VEHICLE. UM, WE ALSO WORKED WITH PALMETTO BREEZE TO CONNECT THE USC B COLIGNY PARKING LOT TO COLIGNY BEACH. AND SO, AGAIN, WE'RE ALWAYS ON IT. UH, I WASN'T THE ONE THAT BROUGHT THIS UP. SO JUST KNOWING THAT, LIKE, WAS IT MS. BECKER THAT BROUGHT IT UP OR RIGHT MICROPHONE? AND MY REASON FOR BRINGING IT UP WAS MORE BECAUSE IT SEEMED AS THOUGH IT'S AN ESTABLISHED, UM, POLICY THAT WE HAVE THIS SHUTTLE, AND IT'S ONLY BEEN IN EFFECT FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. AND THROUGH, THROUGH THOSE COUPLE OF YEARS, WE'VE HAD VARIOUS DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHETHER IT MAKES SENSE FOR US TO CONTINUE IT BASED ON RIDERSHIP. AND, UM, GRANTED, UM, IT'S RUN BY A GRANT, BUT WE ALSO CONTRIBUTE FUNDS TO THAT. AND SO THE PURPOSE, THE COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS. SO AS I READ THROUGH THE, THIS DOCUMENT, IT THERE'S AN ASSUMPTION THAT IT'LL ALWAYS REMAIN, AND I'M NOT SURE THAT DECISION HAS BEEN, UM, THAT THAT HAS BEEN EVALUATED AND DECISION HAS BEEN MADE. THAT'S WHY I BROUGHT IT UP. THANK YOU. WE WILL PLUG THAT INTO OUR, UM, TO DEUCE, SO TO SPEAK TO THE TACTICS THAT WE WILL PROVIDE TO YOU. AND I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT AS THE, AS THE, THROUGH OUR NEW INTER-AGENCY FUNDING REQUEST PROCESS, WHERE FOLKS MAKE THAT APPLICATION TO US THROUGH FINANCE COMMITTEE AND ULTIMATELY TO COUNCIL AS PART OF THE, THE, THE, THE BUDGET CONSIDERATION. WE WILL ADD TO HEAR THAT ON THIS FREE SERVICE THAT WE PROVIDE THAT COST BENEFIT AND IN PROVIDE SOME REAL DATA THAT YOU CAN SEE IN RIDERSHIP, AS WELL AS OUR COSTS, VERSUS THAT RETURN DEFINING HOW WE MEASURE. IT'S GOING TO BE MORE DIFFICULT. ARE WE, ARE WE, YOU KNOW, RETURN ON AN INVESTMENT IN THIS AREA, ISN'T A PENNY FOR A PENNY, IT'S A COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT. AND SO I THINK WE HAVE TO BE REALLY CLEAR. I WILL ASK YOU TO BE VERY CLEAR TO ME AS A COUNCIL ON, ON HOW YOU, WHAT YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE ON THAT MEASUREMENT. UH, JUST TO STAY ON THE TOPIC. AND I KNOW, SORRY, GLENN, DO YOU WANT TO GET, UH, A SUBSET OF THIS ISSUE IS HONOR'S BEACH PARK. UH, WHAT DOES SHUTTLE MEAN IN RELATION TO ISLANDERS BEACH PARK? IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A SHUTTLE, IS IT JUST FOR TOURISTS OR IS IT ALSO FOR RESIDENTS? UM, THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH. HONOR. SPEECH PARK IS A HOT SUBJECT, UH, FROM A LOT OF POINTS OF VIEW. THERE ARE CITIZENS FIRED UP ABOUT IT, AND I'M VERY PLEASED THAT THE TOWN MANAGER AND STAFF HAVE BEEN AGGRESSIVELY LOOKING AT IT. BUT THIS TO ME IS A SUBTOPIC OF THIS VERY QUESTION. THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE ON THIS TOPIC? NOT NECESSARILY DIRECTLY WITH THIS TOPIC, BUT JUST TO POINT THAT, UM, TO THE FACT THAT, UM, THROUGHOUT THE STRATEGIC PLANS, RIGHT? THERE'S JUST LIKE THIS, UM, BEING AN ASSUMPTION THAT IT'S THERE, IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO ALWAYS BE THERE. THERE ARE OTHER AREAS THAT THERE ARE, UM, THERE ARE PEERS, UM, ISSUES LIKE THAT. [02:40:01] AND I DON'T WANT TO USE THE WORDS ISSUES, CAUSE THERE'S REALLY NOT AN ISSUE, BUT THERE ARE OTHER PLACES WHERE THERE HAVE BEEN THINGS PUT IN PLACE. THERE'S BEEN DISCUSSIONS, UM, BUT NOT NECESSARILY, UM, A CONFIRMATION IT'S THERE TO STAY FOREVER, BUT THAT'S ALL. SO I'M JUST WATCHING AND WONDERING AND THINKING, THAT'S GOOD. YEAH. THIS IS GREAT CONVERSATION, YOU KNOW, UNDER PURPOSE. IT DOES READ IN A, WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT IT'S VERY CLEAR IN THESE PHASES, BUT EVALUATE REGS TO BETTER MANAGE PRIVATE SHUTTLES IS IN HERE. UM, SO NOT TO BELABOR THAT, I THINK WE CAN MOVE ON FROM THIS ONE. WHAT'S NEXT, JOSH LUNCH HERE. ALL RIGHT. PERFECT TIME TO TAKE A QUICK BREAK. LET'S SEE. QUESTION FROM A CONSTITUENT, WILL LUNCH BE IN A SENSE EXECUTIVE SESSION OR WILL IT BE TELEVISED? TELEVISED? THANK YOU. WE HAVE TO KEEP MOVING. THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO EXECUTIVE SESSION PLANNED FOR TODAY. LET'S HAVE OUR LUNCH AND WHILE WE'RE EATING, UM, LET'S TALK ABOUT BRANDING. I HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF EXPERIENCE FROM A BRAND PERSPECTIVE. I'LL SHARE THAT WITH YOU. UM, BUT I ALSO WANT TO WALK OUT OF HERE TODAY AND TRULY UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS TO TOWN COUNCIL THOUGH. YEAH. MAYOR WE'RE BACK, LIVE CAMERAS ARE LIVE WE'RE BACK. UM, SO WE LEFT OFF AT ESTABLISH ISLAND BRAND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY. UM, I FORGET WHO PULLED THIS OFF, JOSH, ARE YOU AWARE? BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT WE'LL DEVELOP AN ISLAND BRAND CAMPAIGN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR DMO AND IDENTIFY A VISION AND VALUES AND A FRAMEWORK TO COMMUNICATE OUR VISION, TO ENHANCE OUR IMAGE AND BRANDS. TO ME, THAT'S WHAT I UNDERSTOOD AGAIN, FIRST TIME WITH YOU WAS AT THAT STRATEGIC PLAN RETREAT, BUT THAT'S HOW I UNDERSTOOD IT. BUT THEN OVER TIME, I'VE HEARD BRAND COME UP ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. SO I THINK HIT PAUSE AND HELPED ME UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT TRULY MEANS TODAY FROM A BRAND STANDPOINT, PLEASE. SO SINCE IT'S QUESTIONED AND NO ONE ELSE'S JUMPED IN, I'LL JUMP IN. UM, I THINK THAT, UM, I THINK THAT THE, THE DISCUSSION ABOUT BRAND HAS BEEN KIND OF HAD OVER A COURSE OF TIME AND I ALWAYS FALL, UM, SHY OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT, WHAT IS MEANT BY IT SINCE HILTON HAS, I THINK, HAS A BRAND, RIGHT. UM, WE KNOW WHO WE ARE. UM, MAYBE WE'RE NOT EXPRESSING IT. UM, CLEARLY MAYBE WE HAVEN'T IDENTIFIED SOME AREAS THAT WE WANT TO HIGHLIGHT, LIKE OUR, UM, SUSTAINABILITY AND ECOLOGY, UH, CONCERNED FOR THE, UM, ECOLOGY THAT, UM, I THINK GENERALLY SPEAKING, UM, PEOPLE KNOW WHO WE ARE, THEY KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN THEY GET HERE. AND, UM, PERHAPS THERE'S PLACES THAT WE NEED TO DEVELOP AND HIGHLIGHT, UM, THAT WILL, UM, MAKE THAT MORE CLEAR TO OTHER PEOPLE. I WAS JUST REMINDED, I THINK MOST OF US WERE AT A, UH, RECENT, UH, MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION MEETING. AND THERE WAS A PRESENTATION MADE BY A GENTLEMAN WHO TALKED ABOUT, UM, I GUESS BRANDING. AND, UM, I REMEMBER WALKING AWAY FROM IT THINKING IT WAS AN EXCEPTIONAL PRESENTATION AND REALLY DROVE HOME THE IDEA WHY IT'S, UM, IMPERATIVE THAT WE ESTABLISH OURSELVES AS WHO WE ARE AND MAKE THE WORLD KNOW THAT WE ARE THE MOST EXCELLENT, THE BEST IN THE WORLD. IF YOU ALL RECALL WHO WERE THERE, HIS VERY DRAMATIC WAY OF EXPRESSING THE BEST IN THE WORLD. UM, AND, AND THAT KIND OF ALIGNS WITH MY THINKING. AND, UM, SO I THINK THAT'S MORE OF WHAT WE SHOULD SAY TO, TO THE WORLD IS THAT WE'RE NOT ONLY BEST IN CLASS, BUT WE ARE THE EXCELLENCE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD AS WAS, UM, APTLY, UM, HANDED OFF TO ME BY OTHERS IN THE ROOM, MS. NYAN HAS, UM, CAPTURED THAT SENTIMENT AND SHARED IT WITH ME. SHE, SHE, UH, AND WE SAT IN ON THAT SAME PRESENTATION THAT DAY TOGETHER, AND I THINK WALKED AWAY WITH THOSE IDEAS. SO, [02:45:01] UM, IF ANYONE ELSE IS READY TO TALK, I'LL STOP TO ME. UM, WHEN THIS ISLAND WAS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED, THE THING THAT PEOPLE GOT TO KNOW BEST WAS GOLF. THAT IS CERTAINLY SECONDARY, UH, TO THE BRAND NOW. BUT SOME OF THAT LINGERS, I THINK RIGHT NOW, OUR BRAND PRIMARILY TENDS TO SURROUND TOURISM. AND THAT'S BECAUSE OF OUR DMO AND THE CHALLENGE WE'VE GIVEN TO OUR DMO. BUT TO ME, OUR BRAND SHOULD EQUALLY EMPHASIZE FAMILIES. IT SHOULD EQUALLY EMPHASIZE RETIREMENT, SAFE, HEALTHY RETIREMENT COMMUNITY. AND I DON'T THINK THOSE THINGS ARE BEING EMPHASIZED IN OUR BRAND DEVELOPMENT. UM, AND THOSE THINGS SHOULD BE THE DMO SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH MORE THAN PUTTING MORE HEADS IN BEDS RATHER SHOULD BE PROMOTING THESE OTHER THINGS THAT I MENTIONED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YEAH, I'LL CHIME IN. UM, I THINK BRAND IS IN, IN OUR, IN OUR CASE HERE ON THE ISLAND IS IT'S MORE ABOUT THE VALUES THAT MAKES OUR ISLAND UNIQUE. UM, ACTIVITIES ARE A PART OF IT, BUT I TEND TO GO TOWARDS THE VALUE, UH, THE VALUES THAT THE ISLAND WANT TO PRESERVE, UM, AND OUT OF THOSE VALUES, WE EXPRESS ACTIVITIES. SO, UM, WE, WE HA WE HAVE TO BE CLEAR WHEN WE SPEAK ABOUT BRAND, AND I THINK IT'S UP TO THE COUNCIL AND TOWN TO ARTICULATE AND PROMULGATE THOSE QUALITIES THAT DISTINGUISH US. SO I, I, I AGREE THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE OUGHT TO BE PURSUING BECAUSE ALL OF US MAY FEEL WE KNOW WHAT OUR BRAND IS, BUT IN ORDER TO APPROPRIATELY MARKET IT, WE HAVE TO BE MORE SPECIFIC. SO I, I THINK THIS IS HEADED IN A GOOD DIRECTION. I THINK, UH, THE TOWN MANAGER FOR PUTTING IT ON THE AGENDA. THANK YOU. YEAH. EXCUSE ME. I THINK WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BRAND, IT'S A PRETTY, A MORPHOUS CON CONCEPT. AND I THINK JUST AS WE NEED TO COME UP WITH A GLOSSARY OF TERMS ON SOME OTHER MATTERS, WE NEED TO IDENTIFY A LIST OF TANGIBLE THINGS, IF YOU WILL. UM, AND, AND SEE HOW WE RATE, UH, IN COMPARISON TO OTHER LOCATIONS. SO I WOULD PICK IN TERMS OF BRAND, I WOULD LOOK AT HOW ARE WE DOING IN TERMS OF TRANSPORTATION? HOW ARE WE DOING IN TERMS OF HEALTHCARE? UH, HOW ARE WE DOING IN TERMS OF EDUCATION, UM, FROM CHILDREN TO SENIORS, SENIORS BEING CONTINUING EDUCATION, UH, HOW ARE WE DOING IN TERMS OF MAINTAINING OR CREATING OPEN SPACES? UM, HOW WAS, HOW WAS THE SERVICE LEVEL WITH OUR, OUR COLLEAGUES IN THE COMMUNITY THAT OWN RESTAURANTS, AS AN EXAMPLE, UM, HOW ARE WE DOING IN TERMS OF COST OF LIVING, UH, HOW ARE WE DOING TO TERMS OF AIR QUALITY, UH, HOW ARE WE DOING IN TERMS OF, UH, WATER AND SEWER THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY? UM, AND I THINK IF WE COME UP WITH MAYBE THE TOP 10 OR 15 THAT ARE TANGIBLE, UH, THEN WE CAN DEMONSTRATE AND WE CAN COMMUNICATE, UH, OTHERWISE WE'RE JUST, UH, WAXING AND WANING PHILOSOPHICALLY. YEAH. OKAY. I WOULD PIGGYBACK ON WHAT BILL WAS SAYING. UM, WHEN I, WHEN I SPEAK OF VALUES, I'M SPEAKING OF SOME SPECIFIC THINGS [02:50:01] THAT DISTINGUISH OUR COMMUNITY, VOLUNTEERISM IS ONE, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR STEWARDSHIP. THAT'S ANOTHER QUALITY AND DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT, UM, PLANNING, INNOVATION, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT ARE SORT OF FUNDAMENTAL AND THERE ARE OTHERS. THOSE ARE SORT OF FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS OF OUR BRAND. THANK YOU. OKAY. UM, SO NOT GETTING IN THE WEEDS, IT SOUNDS LIKE, AND I'M NOT HEARING ANYTHING DIFFERENT THAT THIS DESCRIPTION IS IMPORTANT AND THAT THERE'S SOME AGREEMENT THAT THIS IS THE DESCRIPTION AND THE WORK THAT GETS DONE. AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN. WE DEVELOP A BRAND DEVELOPMENT CAMPAIGN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR DMO TO IDENTIFY OUR VISION AND VALUES AND FRAMEWORK TO COMMUNICATE THOSE VISION AND VALUES THAT ENHANCE ALL FACETS OF OUR IMAGE AND BRAND AS IS THAT CLEAR. DO I HAVE WALKING MARCHING ORDERS FOR THAT? OKAY. THEN WE'LL MOVE ON NEXT. JOSH RESEARCH TRENDS BEST IN CLASS. OKAY. WHERE WE GO. UH, RESEARCH TRENDS WILL BECOME KNOWN AS AN ENTITY THAT DELIVERS A SUPERIOR LEVEL OF PUBLIC SERVICES AS COMPARED TO ITS PEERS AND WILL BE LEAD WHEN WE WILL BE ON THE LEADING EDGE OF NEW ADVANCEMENTS, THE AREAS OF SMART SLASH CONNECTED CITIES, DIGITAL SERVICE DELIVERY, AND AN EMPHASIS ON OVERALL CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE. ONE EXAMPLE IS THE RECENT TWO AWARDS ON OUR WEBSITE. WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT. WE DO IT WELL. AND WE DO IT IS, IS, YOU KNOW, THE INTENT IS AS WELL AS ANYBODY AND RIGHT. THE QUOTE, RICKY, BOBBY AT VA FIRST, YOUR LAST RIGHT. SO TO HAVE THAT MENTALITY OF, OF, OF WORK, WHETHER WE'RE BUILDING A PROJECT IN THE, FOR THE PUBLIC REALM OR WE'RE ENHANCING A SERVICE, IS, IS THAT CLEAR? DO WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THAT MORE? WE'RE GOING TO RUN OUT OF TIME IF WE SPEND A WHOLE BUNCH OF TIME ON THESE GOOD. I DON'T KNOW WHO PULLED THAT OFF, BUT IF WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT FOR A FEW MINUTES, I'M, I'M OPEN. I JUST KNOW THERE'S SOME HEAVIER ITEMS TO TALK THROUGH. IT WAS ME AND, UM, SHOCKING. IT WAS ME. AND I GUESS, UM, AS YOU'VE DESCRIBED IT, UM, IF THAT'S THE PARAMETERS, UM, I'M GOOD WITH, UM, WITH THAT I'M ALSO FAMILIAR WITH, AND, AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY I BROUGHT IT UP. I'M ALSO FAMILIAR WITH, UM, HAVING HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ, UM, SOME OF THE, UM, MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS THAT EXIST OUT THERE OF SOME NEW TRENDS AND SOME NEW EMPHASIS IN TERMS OF, UM, I GUESS, UM, MUNICIPAL SERVICE DELIVERY, ET CETERA. AND I'M NOT SURE, UM, WHAT I'M READING NECESSARILY FALLS INTO THIS CATEGORY, BUT I THINK THAT, UM, SOME OF WHAT IS GOOD FOR OTHERS IS NOT NECESSARILY GOOD FOR HILTON HEAD. AND SO WE NEED TO BE VERY, VERY CAREFUL THAT EVERYTHING THAT'S WRITTEN AND HYPED AND CURRENT AND ET CETERA, UM, DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT NEEDS TO BE IMPLEMENTED INTO OUR TOWN. UM, AND THAT WE MUST BE VERY COGNIZANT OF, UM, OF WHAT WE'RE DOING EACH STEP OF THE WAY. SO WE AVOID THOSE PITFALLS. THAT'S ALL. OKAY. AND WHAT'S GOING TO HELP ME AND HELP OUR TEAM. IF YOU, AS A COUNCIL, HEAR OF THINGS AND COME ACROSS ARTICLES OF THINGS THAT WE SHOULD BE DOING, SEND THEM MY WAY OR SOME OF THE IDEAS. I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT'S AN ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, ALL THE TIME INITIATIVE, MS. BECKER, I'LL GIVE YOU SOME COMFORT TO, AS I'M, AS I'M LOOKING THROUGH THIS, THIS BOOK, THIS BOOK OF WORK, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S, IT'S INTENTIONAL THAT EVEN THOSE OPERATIONAL ITEMS ARE IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN. SO ALL SURROUNDING STAFF WILL NOT HAVE OUR OWN AGENDAS TO, TO, TO RUN DOWN THE ROAD, PUTTING NEW THINGS TOGETHER, STARTING NEW PROJECTS, TELLING ME THAT WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO DO ALL THIS BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT'S NOT IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN. IF ONE THING THERE IS ABOUT ME AS A MANAGER AND VERY CONSISTENT THAT IF IT'S NOT IN THIS PLAN, I'M NOT SPENDING MY TIME ON THAT ON IT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU'LL MEASURE MY SUCCESS. AND THIS IS WHERE I'LL MEASURE OUR SUCCESS. AND SO VERY CLEARLY IF THERE'S PROGRAMS AND I WENT OVER THAT EARLY ON, NOT JUST POLICY, NOT JUST PROJECT, BUT THE OPERATIONS IN SOME OF THOSE OPERATIONAL ITEMS ARE PROGRAMS THAT I WILL ABSOLUTELY BRING [02:55:01] THROUGH THIS WORK PRODUCT. SO AS YOU ADOPT THIS AND YOU TELL ME I CAN BE IN THE BUSINESS, I'M GOING TO RUN WITH IT. SO NOTHING IS GOING TO SURPRISE YOU IN THE FUTURE. THAT'S THE GOAL. WELL, I APPRECIATE THAT. AND I, UM, AND I HEAR YOU CLEARLY, AND I UNDERSTAND, UM, AND, UM, LOOK FORWARD TO THAT, UM, THAT HAPPENING. UM, I, I ALSO WONDER, AND IT'S MIGHT BE A DISCUSSION FOR LATER IN SOME OTHER CATEGORY, AND I DON'T WANT TO USE UP THE THREE MINUTES THAT'S LEFT IN EACH ONE OF THESE CATEGORIES BY MY TALKING, BUT I DO WONDER, UM, IN SOME OF WHAT YOU JUST MENTIONED, HOW, UM, AD HOC, UM, NOT APPOINTED, UM, COUNCIL, NON APPOINTED COUNCIL APPROVED, UM, COMMITTEES INFLUENCE SOME OF THAT WORK AND, AND, AND THAT CLEAR DELINEATION IN TERMS OF WHO'S RESPONSIBLE TO WHO AND WHO OVERSEES WHAT, AND, UM, WHERE THE TRANSPARENCY AND ALL OF THAT COMES. OKAY. WHAT'S THE NEXT JOSH IMPLEMENT SECRET? SEECLICKFIX, I'LL GO OVER THAT QUICK FIRE RESCUE FIRE. SO ONE WAS THE REACCREDITATION CONGRATULATIONS TO CHIEF AND THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT, UH, LEADERS, AMONGST LEADERS. AS I, AS I SAY, UM, RE-ACCREDITATION FIRE RESCUE STRAP PLAN IMPLEMENT CULTURAL AFFAIRS, STRATEGIC PLANNING. I'LL HIT PAUSE ON THIS FOR A SECOND. THIS WAS PROVED, IT WAS RESCINDED. YOU'VE ASKED ME FOR SOME NEW INFORMATION, I'M COLLECTING THAT INFORMATION. UM, AND I WILL BRING THAT BACK TO YOU AT AN INAPPROPRIATE TIME. YES, SIR. MICROPHONE IS MY INTENTION RIGHT NOW TO BRING YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN BEFORE COUNCIL FOR A VOTE ON NOVEMBER 2ND IS ALSO MY INTENTION TO BRING THE CULTURAL ARTS THING TO THE COUNCIL. BEFORE WE VOTE ON A STRATEGIC PLAN TO BE BLOATED ON AGAIN, WITH THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE, OKAY. ONCE MORE ON A DATES, BUT THE PURPOSE IS HERE, THE CULTURAL PLAN WILL COME FIRST TO REVOLT ON THAT. AND THEN WE'LL GO INTO THE VOTING ON A STRATEGIC PLAN. SO WE HAVE A WHOLE PLAN TOGETHER RATHER THAN JUST PIECES. WELL, I'D LIKE CLARIFICATION ON THAT BECAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN, UH, AS YOU KNOW, AS EVERYONE IS AWARE ISSUES WITH REGARD TO, UM, THIS STRATEGIC PLAN, I HAVE RECEIVED THE INFORMATION PARTIALLY, UM, THAT I'VE REQUESTED AND, UM, THE ANSWERS I GOT ON SATISFACTORY. SO I NEED TO HAVE, UM, I NEED TO HAVE BETTER CLARIFICATION ON THAT. UM, AND IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN TALKING ABOUT THAT, NOW, I, PEOPLE YOU ASK THE INFORMATION FROM, IF YOU DON'T GET IT, I WISH YOU'D LET ME KNOW WHEN WE CAN WORK ON IT, BUT I WILL BRING US TO THE COUNCIL BEFORE WE DO THE STRATEGIC PLAN. I THINK WE SHOULD GO AS A TEACHING PLAN OF ONE TO NOT LEAVE PIECES OUT. SO AS WE TALK ABOUT THE STRATEGIC PLAN, AND, UM, AS WE TALK ABOUT THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THIS PARTICULAR, UM, OFFICE, THEN IT'S YOUR ANTICIPATION THAT PIECES OF THIS THAT ARE NOT FOUNDED IN THE FOUNDING DOCUMENTS AND, UM, JOB DESCRIPTIONS AND THE LIKE ARE, UM, STRUCK FROM THAT PLAN. MY INTENTION, THAT PIECES IN THAT DOCUMENT THAT WERE WORLDWIDE HAPPY WITH A NUMBERS I WAS HAVING WITH WILL BE DISCUSSED AND VOTED UPON AT THAT TIME. OKAY, WELL, THIS IS WHERE THE ISSUE OF TRANSPARENCY COMES FROM, AND I NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE'RE DOING THAT, THAT THE LANGUAGE AND THE, UM, ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE, UM, WITHOUT APPROVAL AND BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, UM, HAVE BEEN STRUCK FROM THIS AND THAT THERE'S A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY WILL BE STRUGGLED TO BE PART OF THE DISCUSSION THAT DAY BEFORE WE VOTE ON IT. OKAY. I THINK IT'S GOING TO NEED TO BE A TRANSPARENT DISK, TRANSPARENT DISCUSSION, AND HERE TO POUR. I HAVE BIT MY TONGUE, BUT I WILL NOT BITE IT OFF. I'M GOING TO ASK ANYBODY TO BITE THEIR TONGUE UP, BUT WE WILL DISCUSS THIS OPENLY BEFORE WE TAKE THE VOTE ON IT. AND THAT PIECE BACK IN MARY, YOU MENTIONED NOVEMBER 2ND. SO IF I'M UNDERSTANDING THIS, WE'RE GOING TO BRING, I'M GOING TO BRING WITH STAFF, THE CULTURAL AFFAIRS, STRATEGIC PLAN FORWARD AT A COUNCIL MEETING FOR DISCUSSION AND RECONSIDERATION PRIOR TO THE ADOPTION OF WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'LL CALL. YEAH. BECAUSE MY INTENTION AND THE COUNCIL COULD THINK DIFFERENTLY. IT'S MY INTENTION TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ADOPT THE STRATEGIC PLAN. THIS IS PART OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN, WHETHER IT'S THE WAY IT IS NOW, WHAT WE CHANGE IT OR WHATEVER IT IS, BUT IT SHOULD BE DISCUSSED FIRST. SO WE CAN ADOPT THIS TJ PLAN AS ONE AND NOT KEEP ADDING TO IT. RIGHT. UNDERSTOOD. OKAY. WITH THAT, I MEAN, YEAH. OKAY. AND THEN YOU MENTIONED NOVEMBER 2ND, THIS DOCUMENT, MY INTENT, AND WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO WITH SOME EDITS, UM, TO BRING IT FORWARD TO YOU AS A DOCUMENT AT THE SECOND MEETING IN NOVEMBER OR THE 16TH OR THE, OR THE LATEST, OR THE LATEST, THE FIRST MEETING IN [03:00:01] DECEMBER. I SHOULD APPRECIATE IF YOU COULD DO IT NOVEMBER 16TH. ALL RIGHT. JOSH NEEDS TO LEAVE RIGHT NOW TO BUILD BACK TO THE OFFICE. OKAY, PLEASE. EXCUSE HIM, JOSH. UM, CAN I ASK ONE LAST FOLLOW UP ON THAT? UM, I KNOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT. UM, DAVID BROUGHT IT UP. I KNOW YOU RESPONDED TO HIM DURING TOWN COUNCIL MEETING THAT WE WOULD BE BACK IN CHAMBERS. I THINK THIS IS A SUFFICIENTLY IMPORTANT TOPIC, GIVEN THE INFORMATION THAT I'VE RECEIVED, THAT THE PUBLIC HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE AND INPUT IN TERMS OF WHAT, UM, LIKE THE ANSWERS I RECEIVED WERE. AND I WOULD THINK THAT THAT MEANS WE SHOULD BE DOING THIS IN AN OPEN SESSION IN TOWN HALL. WE WILL NOT BE BACK IN SESSION, A DOWNHILL ONE NOVEMBER 16TH. AND I RESPECTFULLY ASK THAT WE, AND I TELL YOU, WHY IS THAT BESIDES FOR GETTING THE MEDICAL REPORTS ON WHAT WE NEED FOR THAT DATE? I ALSO NEED TO REPORT FROM THE TOWN AS TO THE SAFETY REQUIREMENTS THAT WE REQUIRED TO GO BACK INTO SESSION. I MEAN, THE LAST THING WE NEED IS PEOPLE NOT GETTING THE VIRUS, NOT GETTING SHOT AT THE SAME TIME. AND I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THE COUNCIL AND THE STAFF. SO I'M WAITING FOR THAT REPORT, THE COMMANDER, MR. ORLANDO, UH, AS TO WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT, THAT RIGHT. MOCK YES. UNDERSTOOD. AND I PROTECT, UM, PROTECT EVERYONE'S SAFETY AND CONCERNS FOR THAT AS WELL. BUT I DO THINK THAT, UM, THIS IS A SUFFICIENT TOPIC OF COMMUNITY CONCERN, UM, AND INTEREST THAT IT'D BE DONE IN OPEN SESSION WITH OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO SPEAK AND NOT JUST THREE MINUTES ON A BROKEN, UM, UH, BROKEN UP ZOOM CALL. JOSH WAS NEXT CULTURAL HIGH ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE. SEE, CLICK FIX WASN'T THAT ON THERE TOO. DISCUSS THAT OR NO, I'M SORRY. THAT WAS THE ONE THAT YOU BROUGHT UP THE SECRET FIXED MEASURE. WE'RE GETTING THERE. WE GOT SATURATE. THAT WAS THE NEXT ONE. SEE, QUICK FIX. YES. ALL RIGHT. IT'S AN APP FROM ANYWHERE. ANYTIME, ANY PLACE YOU CAN TELL US THAT THERE'S A POTHOLE, A LIGHT OUT GARBAGE TRASH CAN OVER FLOWING AND YOU GET ON THE APP AND IT'S SIMPLE. YOU SEE SOMETHING, YOU CLICK IT AND WE FIX IT. SO IT'S INTERACTIVE. IT'S A, IT'S A NATIONAL FIRM. THEY'RE IN A LOT OF PLACES. I'VE HAD SOME GREAT EXPERIENCE WITH THEM, PLEASE, BY NO MEANS. DOES THIS MEAN THAT YOU SHOULD STOP CALLING ME TO TELL ME THAT YOU CALLED ME ONE DAY, SIR, THERE WAS A TREE DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AFTER A RAIN STORM. I WANT TO GET THOSE CALLS, BUT IT'S ALSO REALLY GOOD IF WE PUT THIS TO WORK PROPERLY AND WE COMMUNICATE IT PROPERLY AND WE MARKET IT PROPERLY. THERE'S FOLKS IN OUR COMMUNITY, UM, THAT CAN BE STRAIGHT, A STRAIGHT LINE OF COMMUNICATION TO TOWN HALL. THEY DON'T HAVE TO LOOK FOR A NUMBER. THEY DON'T HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT PERSON THAT I WOULD SAY THAT WORK ORDER. IT'S A FRIENDLY WORK ORDER. IN THAT SENSE, IT'S LOGGED STRAIGHT THROUGH THE APP. IT'S STRAIGHT INTO THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT, THAT EMAIL RESPONSE OR THE RESPONSE, AND THE APP TELLS YOU, THANK YOU FOR YOUR INQUIRY. WHEN WE FIX IT ON OUR, OUR ROLE IS TO COMMUNICATE INTO FIX OTHERS ROLE IS TO SEE IT AND CLICK IT. AND ONCE WE FIX IT, THERE'S ALSO AN EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION THAT LETS THE PEOPLE KNOW WHETHER IT'S YOU AS COUNCIL MEMBERS, YOUR CONSTITUENTS OR WHOMEVER, SAY TO SAY, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION. AND YOUR ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED. LET US KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY, UH, QUESTIONS. AND SO I THINK IT'S SO GOOD TO HAVE THAT IN PLACE THAT THE TRICK IS GETTING PEOPLE TO KNOW IT'S THERE. UH, WELL THE HARD PART, I WOULD SAY, EXCUSE ME A LITTLE BIT IN THE FOG HERE. ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THE ASSET MANAGEMENT? NO, JOSH WAS JUMPING AHEAD CAUSE HE THINKS I'M BEHIND. OH, WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT SEECLICKFIX FIRST. YOU DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT, BUT JOSH JUMPED AHEAD ON ME. OH, ALL RIGHT. HE WAS ACTUALLY LEAVING TO GO UPDATE THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND THREW HIM OFF. YEAH, NO, THIS IS SEECLICKFIX APP BECAUSE THIS WAS ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE I'VE I'VE TALKED ABOUT IT. I THINK THAT ANSWERED SOME QUESTIONS. ANYTHING ELSE ON THIS TOPIC? ARE YOU SAYING THAT WE CAN GO ON THE INTERNET AND SEE A DEMONSTRATION OF SHEET CLICK FIX? WE SHOULD, THERE'S GOTTA BE A DEMO SOMEWHERE. I'LL I WILL GET YOU SOMETHING WE WILL JUST LIKE TO SHARE IT. IT'S FABULOUS. IT'S LIVE AND FUNCTIONAL ON OUR WEBSITE. I'M NOT SURE OF THE STATUS OF THE APP, BUT IT'S COMING CORRECT. AND, AND, AND THE TAKEAWAY IS COMING AND IT'S COMING PER THE SCHEDULE. AND THE TAKEAWAY WHEN WE LEAVE HERE IS LET'S GET COUNCIL SOME LINK ON A, ON A, ON A TUTORIAL [03:05:01] OR, UH, UH, THE APPLICATION OF IT. WE'LL DO. THANK YOU. CAN I, CAN I FOLLOW UP ON THE COOL APPLICATION LIKE THAT, THAT SOMEONE, UM, SUGGESTED TO ME RECENTLY, UM, AND I'M JUST GONNA THROW IT OUT THERE. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE DISCUSSED, BUT I THINK IT'S, UM, A REALLY GOOD, UM, IDEA TO AT LEAST THINK ABOUT. UM, AND MAYBE, UM, IT'S ALREADY KNOWN, BUT I THINK LEFT-HAND USES IT ACTUALLY. UM, IT'S CALLED OPEN A CHECKBOOK AND IT'S A, UM, SAME SORT OF PROGRAMMING WHERE WITH UNDER, UNDER EVERY, UM, BUDGET CATEGORY THAT IT IS CLEARLY TRANSPARENT IN TERMS OF WHO THE CONTRACTORS ARE, THE CHECKS THAT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN, UH, THE CONTRACTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE, WHO MADE THEM ET CETERA. I THINK THAT'S REAL IMPORTANT IN, IN, IN, UM, IT KIND OF FOLDS INTO MY CONCERNS WITH THE OFFICE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS. OKAY. SURE, ABSOLUTELY. WE'LL LOOK INTO THAT. I WILL ADD IT TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN AS AN EXTRA ITEM NOW THAT OKAY. YES, SIR. YES, SIR. AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE PLAN. I'M NOT EXPLAINING EVERY DETAIL, BUT I WILL NOT ADD ANYTHING TO THIS WITHOUT CONSENSUS OF COUNCIL, UH, NEXT HR, STRATEGIC CLAN TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, STRATEGIC PLAN. UM, JOSH, WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR? ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN. ALL RIGHT. BEACH RESILIENCY AND RENOURISHMENT PLAN SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING PSDS. JOSH, SHOULD I PASS IT? NOPE. ALL RIGHT. IT'S AN ECONOMY. ALL RIGHT. NATIONAL LEADERSHIP SUSTAINABLE. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. ADOPT MESC MODEL, BUSINESS LICENSE, TOWN OWNED, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, ASSET MANAGEMENT AND UTILIZATION PLAN. YOU'RE ON, SIR. THANKS MARK. IN A NUTSHELL. YEAH. SO THIS IS AN EFFORT THAT WE'VE, UM, BEEN INVOLVED WITH FOR, FOR QUITE A LONG TIME. UM, AND IT'S LONG OVERDUE. UM, WE'RE TRYING TO DEVELOP BASICALLY THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE LAND ACQUISITION PROGRAM THE TOWN'S HAD SINCE INCEPTION AND IN THE MID EIGHTIES, UH, TO UNDERSTAND FUNDING SOURCES USED, UM, CURRENT DISPOSITION OF EACH ASSET. UM, AND WE'VE BEEN PART OF, UH, ENOUGH DISCUSSIONS TO KNOW THAT IT'S NOT, UM, THESE ARE NOT JUST SIMPLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD ACQUISITIONS WITH ONE FUNDING SOURCE. OFTENTIMES THERE'S, UM, DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCES THAT HAVE BEEN USED IN COMBINATION. UM, THERE'S RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS THAT COME ALONG WITH SOME OF THESE PURCHASES. SO WE ARE EVALUATING THESE AND OUR RECORD KEEPING SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE PROGRAM, UM, AS SORT OF HAD VARIED LEVEL OF DETAIL. AND SO, UM, WE'VE HAD STAFF, UM, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, LEGAL, UH, GIS, ALL WORKING IN CONCERT TO DEVELOP THIS INFORMATION, REFINE IT. UM, WE HAVE DEVELOPED AN INITIAL DASHBOARD AND I KNOW THAT YOU SAW JENNIFER RAY'S CIP DASHBOARD AT THE COUNCIL MEETING. UM, THE OTHER DAY THERE'LL BE A SIMILAR, UM, TOOL THAT WILL BE USED FOR THIS EFFORT. SO IT'LL BE AN INTERACTIVE MAP. YOU CAN CLICK ON EACH PARCEL, EACH ASSET, THE TOWN OWNS, UNDERSTAND THE FUNDING SOURCE, THE DATE PURCHASE, THE AMOUNT PAID, UH, SO ON AND SO FORTH. UM, BUT TO REDUCE THIS DOWN INTO, UM, DISCUSSION FOR COUNCIL ON OPPORTUNITIES FOR ASSETS THAT MAYBE UTILIZE GOING FORWARD IN THE FUTURE. SO WE'RE, UM, WE'RE OPTIMISTIC AND WE'LL HAVE THIS DELIVERED BY THE JANUARY DATE THAT THE MAYOR AND MARK HAVE DISCUSSED HERE EARLIER TODAY. GOOD JOB. THANKS. ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? UM, WE, WE FIND THAT, UH, THERE'S A PIECE OF LAND THAT THE TOWN OWNS, UH, THAT IS IN FACT UNENCUMBERED. UH, IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S NOT, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE GREEN SPACE EMPEROR IN PERPETUITY. UH, AND WE HAVE, WE HAVE A DEVELOPER THAT LOOKS AT THAT AS AN OPPORTUNITY AND WANTS TO DO SOMETHING IN THAT, THAT, THAT LAND AREA AND ACQUIRE IT IN A FAIR WAY. SO, SO DETERMINED BY US WHAT CAN BE DONE CONCURRENTLY TO EXPEDITE THE PROCESS OF, I KNOW IN THE NORTH END, UH, WE'RE DRAWING A CIRCLE AROUND THE PORT ROYAL AREA, AND WE'LL BE SAYING, UH, THIS IS WHAT WE'D LIKE TO SEEK DEVELOP IN THAT AREA. SO WILL WE BE [03:10:01] DOING THE SAME THING IN TERMS OF THE ASSET MANAGEMENT PROGRAM THAT YES, THIS, THIS, UH, ACREAGE, WHICH IS UNENCUMBERED, AND IF IT'S THE WILL OF THE COUNCIL COULD BE DEVELOPED FOR SOMETHING, ARE WE GOING TO PUT THE QUALIFIER IN THAT TOO, THAT THIS IS AN, A ZONE OR A DISTRICT THAT THESE ARE THE FOLLOWING THINGS WE'D LIKE TO SEE AND CONVERSELY, THESE ARE THE OTHER THINGS WE DON'T WANT TO SEE. I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THOUGH. I THINK WE, I DON'T MEAN WE NEEDED A LITTLE WORKSHOP ON THIS BECAUSE IT'S A MATTER OF, CAN I WALK THROUGH YOU A PIECE OF LAND AND DO SOMETHING WITHOUT OFFERING IT TO SOMEONE ELSE AT THE SAME TIME? BUT I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE A WORKSHOP AND DISCUSS THIS. CAUSE IT'S MORE THAN THE SIMPLE QUESTION THAT YOU HAD RIGHT BEFORE. I TOTALLY GRANTED THAT WORKSHOP AND I I'D LOVE TO SEE SOME CRITERIA ALSO ON THE, WITH THE LAND THAT WE OWN. THAT'S UNENCUMBERED. IF WE CHOOSE TO USE IT FOR SOMETHING THAT IN YEARS TO THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY, ARE WE GOING TO HAVE, WHAT KIND OF CRITERIA ARE WE GOING TO HAVE? AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE THAT IF A DEVELOPER WANTS TO COME IN AND, UH, HELP US ON WORKFORCE HOUSING, BUT THE PRICE POINT FOR THE LAND, UH, PUTS THAT BEYOND A REASONABLE RETURN ON INVESTMENT FOR THE DEVELOPER. ARE WE GOING TO EAT IT ON AN ACCOUNTING STANDPOINT, BUT ON AN ECONOMIC STANDPOINT, UH, HELP CREATE A MORE VIBRANT WORKFORCE. SO, I MEAN, I, WE'RE NOT GOING TO SOLVE IT TODAY, BUT THOSE ARE THE THINGS I'D LOVE TO START TALKING AND DEBATING IN A WORKSHOP IN EVERYBODY ON THE COUNCIL WOULD SAY THOSE KINDS OF QUESTIONS, IDEAS, AND PROBLEMS TO HIM. SO SHE WENT TO MAKE SURE HE COVERS THAT IN OUR WORKSHOP THAT DAY LOCATION ONE, THAT OKAY, MARK, THAT IT GOES TO SEAN. YES, SIR. OKAY. IDENTIFY TITLE. THERE IT IS. I'M GOING TO HAVE A COMMENT ON WHAT BILL SAID, AND THAT IS THAT I DON'T THINK WE CAN PUT DOWN IN, UM, THIS TYPE OF APPLICATION, WHAT WE WILL DO WITH A PIECE OF PROPERTY IN THE FUTURE. UH, WE CAN, WE CAN PUT IT WHERE THE RESTRICTIONS ARE, BUT THEN WHEN SOMEONE COMES ALONG AND SAYS, I'M INTERESTED IN THIS PROPERTY, WE NEGOTIATE A TRANSACTION ON ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, BUT WE CAN'T BROADCAST THAT BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THOSE PARAMETERS MAY BE. RIGHT, RIGHT. OKAY. MAYBE I'M GOING A COUPLE OF STEPS AHEAD. BUT MY POINT HERE IS THAT THE COST OF DIRT ON THIS ISLAND IS VERY EXPENSIVE AND WE OWNED A LOT OF IT AND NOT ALL OF IT IS ENCUMBERED. SO IF A PROJECT COMES FORWARD THAT HAS SOCIAL MERIT, UH, UH, AND A COULD HAVE LONG-TERM ECONOMIC IMPACT. ARE WE GOING TO BE, ARE WE GOING TO HAVE FLEXIBILITY OF THOUGHT SO THAT WE DON'T DRIVE THE DEAL BASED ON THE MARKET PRICE, WE DRIVE THE DEAL BASED UPON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT. AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO SOLVE THIS TODAY, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A DISCUSSION LIKE THAT. RIGHT. AND AGAIN, I, I, I MARKED A WORKSHOP ON HERE BECAUSE A FEW THINGS THAT NEED TO COME TOGETHER IN MY MIND, MY RECOMMENDATION ON THIS TOPIC IS A TRUE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY HERE AT A LOCAL LEVEL, THE ISLAND MASTER PLAN. SO TO SPEAK IN ALIGNMENT WITH INTENDED LAND USES, AS WE TALK ABOUT DISTRICTS, AND WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO THAT. AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, IT'S REALLY YOUR INTENDED USE, RIGHT? I, I REALLY WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW IF THEY'RE PAYING ATTENTION, WE'RE ALWAYS OPEN FOR BUSINESS. WE ARE OPEN FOR BUSINESS, BUT WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT OUR FUTURE WITHOUT A FUTURE PLAN IN PLACE. AND SO PART OF, PART OF MY JOB IS TO PUT SOME OF THOSE FUTURE PLANS IN PLACE SO THAT YOU HAVE THEM AS THE BASELINE, AS YOU MAKE THESE CONSIDERATIONS TO WONDERFUL PROPERTIES THAT ARE OBVIOUS THE PALMETTO BAY ROAD, BUSINESS PARK SITE, A MODERN CLASSIC MOTORS, IF UNENCUMBERED, IF WITHOUT STRINGS WITH PURCHASE OR COVENANTS, ARE THOSE APPROPRIATE, UM, FOR AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY. UM, I THINK WE NEED TO EXPLORE THAT, BUT, BUT IN LESS THAN UNTIL WE HAVE THE BIG PICTURE TO KNOW, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT FOUR PROPERTIES OR ARE WE TALKING ABOUT 400 PROPERTIES? ARE WE TALKING ABOUT 1400 ACRES OR FIVE ACRES? THAT'S THE IMPORTANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS? WE, WE, WE TALK A LOT ABOUT IT, BUT UNTIL WE HAVE THE DATA AT OUR FINGERTIPS, WE'LL NOT BE ABLE TO THINK BIG PICTURE AS WELL AS DEALS. SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE GOAL. AND THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S, WHAT WILL BE DISCUSSED AT THE WORKSHOP, JOSH, WHAT'S NEXT? W W CAN I JUST JUMP IN BECAUSE [03:15:01] I JUST WANT TO MAKE A POINT. UM, AND, AND MY POINT IS, UM, AS WE ARE CONSIDERING ALL THE IN IT'S IN IT'S THROUGHOUT HERE, AND I WAS, I WAS, MY HEAD WAS SPINNING IN A COUPLE OF PLACES ABOUT HOW, HOW MANY PLACES, UM, IT, IT APPEARS VARIOUS, UM, USE OPTIONS FOR TOWN OWNED LAND. AND I HEAR IT FROM THE OUTSIDE TO EVERYONE SAYING, WELL, WE CAN DO THIS ON TOWN, ELLEN LAND. WE CAN DO THAT ON TOWN OWNED LAND, ET CETERA. AND I WOULD LIKE EVERYONE TO REMEMBER, UM, AS THEY WERE SAYING THAT TO LISTEN TO THEMSELVES, IT'S TELLING ON LAND AND IT WAS PUT INTO WHATEVER POSITION IT WAS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. AND, UM, I WOULD ALSO LIKE FOR EVERYONE TO KEEP IN MIND, UM, IF IT'S IMPORTANT TO THEM, I'M WILLING TO DEBATE IT WITH, BUT I CERTAINLY THINK IT REPRESENTS OUR VALUES AS AN ISLAND, THAT WE ARE UNIQUE IN THAT WE ARE, UM, A, A, UM, ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE IRELAND AND THAT WE DON'T HAVE BILLBOARDS OR SIGNS, OR EVEN GETTING TOO LARGE AT THIS POINT, BUT THAT WE ARE SENSITIVE TO THESE TYPES OF THINGS. AND THE LAST THING THAT WE WANT TO DO, EVEN THOUGH WE MAY HAVE, YOU KNOW, GREAT IDEAS FOR THIS LAND IS TO GO AND USE ALL THE TALENT OWN LAND IN DEVELOPMENT AND TURN OURSELVES INTO SOMETHING OTHER THAN WHAT I GUESS I REFERRED TO AS WHO WE KNOW WE ARE, AND THAT IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN AN URBAN CENTER. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE MY VOICE HEARD ON THAT. I WANT, I'D LIKE TO PIGGYBACK ON THE WELL ARTICULATED COMMENTS, MS. BECKER. UM, I OFTEN HEAR THE TERM HIGHEST AND BEST USE AND, AND THE SECOND PART OF THAT IS HIGHEST AND BEST USE WHEN, UH, WHAT MIGHT BENEFIT OUR COMMUNITY TODAY MAY SACRIFICE THE COMMUNITY IN THE FUTURE. LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA COMMITTED WHEN IT WAS FOUNDED TO 25% OPEN SPACE. AND IF YOU GO TO MELBOURNE TODAY, YOU'LL SEE THE BENEFIT OF THAT. AND IT ACCRUES TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF MELBOURNE BEYOND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS TO PRESERVE OPEN SPACE. I THINK A QUALITY OF THIS COMMUNITY 50 YEARS FROM TODAY WILL BE, OR SHOULD BE THE OPEN SPACE THAT WE HAVE PRESERVED AND THE QUALITY OF THAT OPEN SPACE. AND SO I THINK WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT AN ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE ISLAND, IT ISN'T NECESSARILY HIGHEST AND BEST USE FOR TODAY, BUT ALSO HIGHEST AND BEST USE IN PERPETUITY. THANK YOU. YES. YES, SIR. JUST, JUST ONE COMMENT ON, I APPRECIATE THE VIVID DISCUSSION ON THIS, WHICH MEANS WE NEED TO HAVE A WORKSHOP, RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY. UM, BUT JUST ONE LAST THING, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M FOCUSED ON THE WORDS ASSET AND PLAYING HERE. AND TO ME, IT'S NOT JUST A QUANTITY OF HOW MUCH PROPERTY WE HAVE AND THE USES OR NOT USES OF THAT PROPERTY. OKAY. BUT MORE SO HOW WE PROTECT OURSELVES. OKAY. AND THE ENVIRONMENT IS DEFINITELY IMPORTANT. OKAY. BUT THERE ARE OTHER AREAS THAT WE NEED TO PROTECT OURSELVES. RIGHT. AND ABSENT A TRUE PLAN OTHER THAN JUST HOW MUCH WE HAVE. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. OKAY. UH, I THINK COUNCILMAN HAWKINS IS GOING DOWN A ROAD, SO TO SPEAK HERE AND MARK, YOU TOUCHED ON IT WITHOUT HAVING A TRUE, UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN IN FRONT OF US. IT'S HARD TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS ALSO. RIGHT? SO AS WE DEVELOP THIS, I THINK SEEKING, UH, OUTSIDE EXPERTISE, SO TO SPEAK THAT HELP US NOT JUST LOOK AT THIS FROM AN ACCOUNTING STANDPOINT, WE PAID $5 FOR IT. THERE'S NO WAY IN TO WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GIVE IT AWAY FOR $4, I THINK IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO EXPAND OUR THOUGHT PROCESS ON. OKAY. UM, BECAUSE IF IT'S A TRUE GOODWILL FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY, THEN MAYBE WE SEE THE RETURN ON OUR INVESTMENT ELSEWHERE. OKAY. AND THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY A PART OF THE DISCUSSION AT THE MOMENT AND IT NEEDS TO BE, UH, SO I JUST WANT TO OFFER THAT. OKAY, THANK YOU. AND COMPREHENSIVELY REVIEW AND ASSESS APPROXIMATELY 1400 ACRE INVENTORY OF TOWN OWNED PROPERTIES TO POSSESS A FULL AND COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORICAL ACQUISITION OF ALL TOWN OWNED PROPERTIES, THE SOURCE OF FUNDING TO EFFECTUATE THE PURCHASE OF [03:20:01] PROPERTIES ON ANY CORRESPONDING ROUTE RESTRICTIONS. AND I, YOU KNOW, I'M HEARING FROM YOU AND I BELIEVE THE SAME THING I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR OUR HIGHEST AND BEST USE OF OUR MAJORITY OF OUR PROPERTIES IS CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION. AND SO THE INTENT HERE THOUGH, ISN'T JUST AN ANALYSIS OF A MAP, RIGHT? THAT'S JUST GETTING STARTED, YOU KNOW, BUT IT'S ALSO IN THE TOWN HAS DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB, BUT ALL THOSE FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN KNOWING WHY THINGS WERE BOUGHT WHEN THEY WERE BOUGHT AND WHERE THEY'RE AT HAVE RETIRED OR MOVED ON OR PASSED ON, I DO THINK THAT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO PUT A, SO TO SPEAK GAME PLAN IN PLACE TO MAKE THAT PUBLIC STATEMENT IF 50% OF THE ISLAND AS A GOAL IS PRESERVATION AND OPEN SPACE AND, YOU KNOW, SIGNIFICANT DESIGNATION OF CONSERVATION. AWESOME. BUT LET'S, LET'S PURPOSEFULLY STATE THAT. SO WE STOP HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS OF PIECEMEALING OF OUR PROPERTIES. IT DOESN'T, AND THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT PALMETTO BAY ROAD IN MODERN CLASSIC MOTORS, AREN'T GREAT SITES BECAUSE SOME OF THE CONVERSATION AND FEEDBACK I'VE HEARD WAS LET'S BUY SITES. LET'S RESET THEM. LET'S SET THE ZONING IN PLACE AND LET'S PROTECT THEM FROM A BUILT ENVIRONMENT. SO ALL OF IT MATTERS, BUT THE SOONER WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE, AND WE HAVE AS AN EXAMPLE OF FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN IN PLACE FOR TERM, AND THAT WE HAVE A SITE INSPECTION PLAN IN PLACE, AT LEAST AN ANNUAL SITE INSPECTION ON OUR PROPERTIES TO SEE THEM AND TOUCH THEM AND INVENTORY THEM THE BETTER. AND SO THIS IS A MAJOR, MAJOR UNDERTAKING, BUT IT'S ALSO DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE HAVE TO FINISH ALL OF THIS BEFORE WE CONTEMPLATE PERHAPS SOME OF THE SITES. SO AGAIN, THEY ALL GO TO, THEY ALL PLAY IN THAT. WHAT ELSE IS DOING SO WORKSHOP? YES. JOSH NEXT ACQUIRE CULTURAL DISTANCE. UH, WE'RE GOING TO RUN AT A TIME. IT'S WE HAVE 55 MINUTES BEFORE WE'RE AT TWO O'CLOCK. UM, WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT. DO WE WANT TO WORKSHOP THAT? WHAT DOES IT MEAN WITH IT MEAN, UH, FORMALIZE A CULTURAL DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, SIMILAR TO A HISTORIC DISTRICT, RIGHT. WE KNOW WHAT HISTORIC DISTRICTS ARE LIKE THEY'RE ON THE NATIONAL HISTORIC DISTRICT REGISTER A DISTRICT, A, A PROPERTY IS ON THE NATIONAL HISTORIC DISTRICT REGISTER. SOUTH CAROLINA ROCK HILL WAS THE FIRST, UH, BLUFFTON WAS THE SECOND ESTABLISHED CULTURAL DISTRICTS IN THEIR COMMUNITY SIMPLY TO CELEBRATE THE, THE, THE CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS OF IT IS THROUGH THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, THROUGH THE SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AND DEPARTMENT. UM, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP AND FOR DISCUSSION. SO THIS MEANS MORE THAN A STORE NEIGHBORHOODS COULD BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY DESIGNATED HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS LOCALLY, LOCALLY, DESIGNATED NOT AT A STATE LEVEL. UH, BLUFFTON HAS ONE LUMP-SUM HAS A CULTURAL DISTRICT IT'S MORE OR LESS THE SAME AS THE HISTORIC DISTRICT. AND WHAT IT DOES IS IT SIMPLY ALLOWS FOR THE CELEBRATION OF CULTURE. IN ADDITION TO HISTORY, IN A SPECIFIC DISTRICT, IT, IT SETS THE TABLE FOR POTENTIALLY GRANT APPLICATIONS IT'S ORGANIZED. AND FROM A MARKETING STANDPOINT, IT'S PLUGGED IN AS SUCH THROUGH THE DMO THEY'RE THERE THERE'S SOME, THERE'S SOME SUCCESSION THINGS IN PLACE. WE HAVE SOME CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT PLACES ON OUR ISLAND. NOT JUST, NOT JUST LOCALLY, NOT JUST REGIONALLY, BUT I WOULD SAY IN HISTORY. AND DO WE ONLY WANT TO HAVE LOCAL DISTRICTS OR DO WE WANT TO HAVE DISTRICTS AT A HIGHER, SIGNIFICANT LEVEL? I GUESS IT WOULD DEPEND ON WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS ARE AND EXPECTATIONS ARE. AND I THINK THAT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT WE DON'T HAVE WITH REGARD TO THAT. SO, UM, I'D LIKE MORE INFORMATION, RIGHT. AND I WANT TO, I WANT TO SAY THAT BECAUSE WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME, IT'S IN HERE AGAIN, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? NOT HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO IT? AND I'VE HEARD A RECURRING THEME. I NEED MORE INFORMATION AND I LOVE THIS, BUT TODAY I'M NOT. YEAH. AND IT ISN'T RIGHT. AND, AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE NOT BEING IMPLEMENTED TODAY AND ANNUALLY GET RE VIEWED. GOT IT. WHAT'S NEXT. ANY, ANYTHING BEFORE I MOVE ON, THERE'S SOME HOT TOPICS THAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT BEFORE WE LEAVE NEXT ASPHALT ASPHALT ART PROGRAM. GOLLY, KISHI, USC, B HUD LANDMARK SURVEY, MITCHELLVILLE, MITCHELLVILLE, PUBLIC ART IN PARKS. IT'S JUST INTENTIONAL. WE'VE DONE IT BEFORE, BUT JEN MCEWEN AND JEN RAY ARE WORKING ON [03:25:01] THE CIP AND THEN IMPLEMENT ASPHALT ART PROGRAM. JEN, MAY I CALL ON YOU TO EXPLAIN WHAT THAT IS, PLEASE? THANK YOU. UM, SO THE ASPHALT ART PROJECT IS A PROGRAM THAT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND THE OCA DEVELOPED MARCY BENSON, AND I HAVE SUBMITTED A FEW GRANTS. UM, BUT ULTIMATELY IT IS JUST A MURAL REP PROJECT ON UNSIGHTLY, UM, UTILITY BOXES ALONG POPE AVENUE, GUMTREE AND MARSHALL AND MATTHEWS ROAD. UM, NOT THE ONES THAT ARE COVERED BY BUSHES AND NOBODY NOTICES, BUT THE ONES THAT ARE, UM, OUT THERE AND NEEDS SOME REPAIR AND SOME AESTHETIC PICK ME UP. UH, WE DID RECEIVE $10,000 FROM THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOW COUNTRY FOR ARTISTS, MARY FERRIS, TO DO AN ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL. FROM THAT PROGRAM, THE STUDENTS WILL BE SUBMITTING DESIGNS THAT WILL THEN BE JURIED BY THE ARTS COUNCIL OF HILTON HEAD. UM, AND THAT'S HOW WE WILL SELECT THE PIECES. THANK YOU, JEN. ANY QUESTIONS? JUST AN OBSERVATION. UM, AND AGAIN, IT GOES BACK TO PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT, UM, AND OUR AESTHETICS HERE ON THE ISLAND. UM, I THINK I MENTIONED IN MY LAST COMMENT THAT OUR SIGNAGE IS EVEN GOTTEN TO THE SIZE AND SCOPE IN COLORS THAT, UM, UM, ARE BEGINNING TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION OF BILLBOARDS, IF NOT, UM, CLOSE TO IT. UM, WE HAVE SIGNAGE OF ALL SORTS IN TERMS, UM, ON EVERY PATH AND ROADWAY, UM, THAT IS NOW JUST IN, I DON'T WANT TO USE A WORD THAT GIVES AN IMPRESSION THAT SOME OF IT'S NOT VALUED OR VALUABLE, BUT LITTERING, UM, EVERY, UM, EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, YOU CAN'T SEE PAST IT TO SEE THE BEAUTY OF THE ISLAND. AND I JUST, YOU KNOW, AT, AT SOME POINT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND I DON'T SEE THIS AS A VALUABLE PROJECT. THANK YOU. MA'AM ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS AND COMMENT FOR YOUR CLOTHES? THE EMOC THE ARTS COUNCIL OF HILTON HEAD IS NOT A TALENT COUNCIL, UH, COUNT. IT'S NOT APPROVED TOWN COUNCIL. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO CALL IT? OKAY. IT'S AN OUTSIDE INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATION THAT DOES A LOT OF GOOD WORK, BUT IT'S NOT A COUNCIL OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL. OKAY. YES, SIR. OKAY. WITH, WITH ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THOUGH ON, UM, OUR WEBSITES, IT GIVES CLEAR INDICATION, UM, THAT IT IS, AND THEIR MEMBERS ARE ADVISOR TO THIS AND HAVE AN AWFUL LOT OF CONTROL, UM, OVER THE DEPARTMENT. AND, UM, I THINK THAT BRINGING, HAVING SAID THAT THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING, IN FACT, IT'S ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I SENT OUT RECENTLY THAT I WANT ANSWERS TO, UM, AND HOW THAT AD HOC COMMITTEE, UM, IS STRUCTURED, UM, WHO IT REPORTS TO WHAT AUTHORITY IT HAS BECAUSE, UM, AS WE'VE WE KNOW FROM, FROM RECENT EVENTS, UM, HAS, IS, IS CAUSING WILL CAUSE, UM, ISSUES. UM, AND SO HAVING SAID THAT BACK TO THAT, UM, STRATEGIC PLAN, I WOULD REQUEST, UM, JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT, THAT, THAT CANNOT COME FORWARD WITHOUT A GLOSSARY OF TERMS CLEARLY DEFINED BECAUSE AS WE KNOW, WORDS THAT ARE THROUGHOUT THIS DOCUMENT AND THE, UM, THE OTHER AND OTHER DOCUMENTS, THE OFFICE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, STRATEGIC PLAN THAT, UM, HAVE MEANINGS THAT WE ALL ASSUME WE KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN AND ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE MEANINGS THAT OTHERS ARE USING OR THE, UM, ACTIVITIES THAT ARE TAKING PLACE BEHIND THE SEATS. AND SO I NEED THAT CLEANED UP. IT IS NOT AN AD HOC COMMITTEE OF THE TOWN AND MULTIPLES, LOOK AT THE WEBSITE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS TO TRY TO CLARIFY THAT AND CLEAN IT UP. THANK YOU. MAY I MOVE ON? YES, JOSH. SORRY. I KNOW YOU'RE WRITING A HEAD ON GROWTH FRAMEWORK. OKAY, CHRIS, HIS NAME'S ON THERE. CHRIS IS THE INTERIM JUST ACCOUNTABLE TO KICKING THIS PROJECT OFF. I WILL HELP SPEED US UP THROUGH THIS. I'VE HEARD A LOT FROM YOU AS A TOWN COUNCIL INDIVIDUALLY, COLLECTIVELY ON THIS TOPIC. UM, I HAVE MY OWN THOUGHTS. I LOVE THIS ISLAND. I'VE ALWAYS SAID THAT WE NEED MORE THAN A ZONING MAP TO KNOW WHAT WE LOOK LIKE IN WHAT WE ARE IN THE FUTURE. [03:30:01] AND THAT IS NO DISREGARD FOR, UM, ALL THE HARD WORK THAT HAS GONE INTO GETTING THE ZONING MAP RIGHT. AND GETTING THE LMO. RIGHT. BUT TO BRING THIS CURRENT, I WILL SAY THAT I TRULY BELIEVE THAT GREAT PLACES ARE PLANNED, NOT ZONED, RIGHT? JUST FROM A HIGH LEVEL, PICK YOUR PICK A GREAT PLACE. YOU LOVE THAT YOU'VE BEEN TO, WHETHER IT'S REGIONALLY IN THE COUNTRY OR IN THE WORLD, CHANCES ARE, THERE'S A PLAN IN PLACE. THE ROADS ARE PLANNED. WE HAVE ROAD PLAN, UM, PATHWAY SIDEWALKS ARE PLANNED. UM, BUT ALSO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IS PLANNED IN OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT, HAS A LOT TO DO WITH BEING REACTIVE TO A DESIGN REVIEW BOARD STANDARD, WHICH IS GREAT, GREAT STANDARD. UM, AND WE'RE, WE'RE ACCOMPLISHING. AND JUST FOR CLARITY, I THINK WE'RE ACCOMPLISHING GREAT PROJECTS, BUT AGAIN, I THINK IT'S, UM, THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO START TYING THIS TOGETHER. SO, UM, INTENDED RESULTS I THINK ARE PLANNED ON AN TENDED AND HOPE WE GET IT RIGHT THROUGH DESIGN REVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW. I'VE HEARD FROM YOU ALL, I'VE HEARD FROM YOU THAT A CAPACITY STUDY, RIGHT? WHAT'S THE CAPACITY OF THE ISLAND. I DON'T KNOW THAT WE WILL EVER GET TO A CAPACITY THAT A LEVEL OF SERVICE OF X AND Y WITH 30,000 CARS. AND IF WE'RE EVER AT 35,000 CARS, IT'S, WE'RE DOOMED BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH THAT HAS TO WORK. BUT WHAT, WHAT THIS SUGGESTS IS A, AN ISLAND CAPACITY BASELINE ASSESSMENT. SO WHAT DO WE HAVE, HOW MANY CARS ARE ON OUR ROAD, NOT JUST ON THE GATEWAY, BUT, YOU KNOW, END TO END SEA PINE CIRCLE, POPE AVENUE AND EVERYWHERE IN BETWEEN HOW MANY HOSPITAL BEDS ARE THERE, HOW MANY CHAIRS IN THE SCHOOL? UM, I COULD GO ON AND ON. I DON'T, I DON'T NEED TO GO ON AND ON TO THOSE, BUT FROM A TRUE BASELINE AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE HAVE IN COMPARING IT TO OUR POLICY AND OUR POLICY REALLY IS A ZONING MAP. THE THINK THAT WE'LL KNOW WHAT OUR REAL BASELINE CAPACITY ASSESSMENT IS. I THINK THAT'S THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS YOU'VE ASKED ME FOR THAT. I'VE BEEN RELUCTANT TO JUST GET STARTED ON IT BECAUSE WE NEED THE RIGHT TEAM IN PLACE HERE. I WANTED TO GET THROUGH TOWN COUNCIL WITH YOU. I DON'T WANT TO DO TOO MUCH AND FAIL OR GET SEIZED ON 20 THINGS. I I'D RATHER GET SOME A'S ON THOSE HIGH PRIORITIES. I WAS SUGGEST. AND I BELIEVE THAT, UM, THE STAFF FEELS THE SAME WAY THAT ISLAND CAPACITY AS A BASELINE ASSESSMENT IS VERY IMPORTANT. I THINK ONCE WE HAVE THAT AND WE CAN START WORKING IN CONCERT WITH IT TO ESTABLISH A GROWTH FRAMEWORK, HARBOR TOWN, WE LOVE HARBOR TOWN. AND WE LOOK AT THE DENSITY OF HARBOR TOWN. AND WE, IF WE'RE ONLY LOOKING AT DENSITY AND LAND USE WOULD NEVER ALLOW HARBOR TOWN TO BE HERE ANYMORE. RIGHT? I WOULD SAY THAT, I THINK THAT THAT'S WHAT OUR CODE WOULD SAY, BUT SO AS WE DEVELOP A GROWTH FRAMEWORK, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE IDENTIFY WHAT OUR CENTERS ARE AND WHERE OUR EDGES ARE, EDGES DON'T GROW. AND IF MARSHLAND ROAD IS AN EDGE, AND WE DEFINE THAT THROUGH POLICY, THROUGH A REAL GROWTH FRAMEWORK POLICY, THEN THE, UM, THE OUTCOMES PREDICTABLE. WHEN YOU KNOCK ON OUR DOOR TO ASK US TO REZONE A PIECE OF PROPERTY, AND I WANT TO PROVIDE FOR OUR INVESTORS IN THIS ISLAND, WHETHER, IF THEY'RE HERE OR IN THE FUTURE PREDICTABLE OUTCOMES. AND SO IF WE ACTUALLY DEFINED A GROWTH FRAMEWORK USING THE BASELINE ASSESSMENT TO REALLY START UNDERSTANDING DISTRICTS, AND HERE'S A GOOD EXAMPLE, WE ALREADY KNOW FOR THE MOST PART IN OUR MINDS WHERE THE DISTRICTS ARE AND WHERE THE DISTRICTS AREN'T, WHERE, WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GROW? WHAT NEEDS TO HAVE A LITTLE MORE LOOK MID? ISLAND'S A GREAT EXAMPLE. WE JUMPED OUT OF THE GATE WAY BEFORE THIS ON MID ISLAND, BUT THE DISTRICT NEEDS TO MOVE FORWARD. YOU NEED TO AGREE TO WHAT THAT DISTRICT IS. UM, WE NEED TO SCRUB THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE, BUT PERHAPS BEFORE WE DO THAT, LET'S PUT A CONCEPTUAL MASTER PLAN IN PLACE. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THAT CONCEPTUAL MASTER PLAN. LET'S ALIGN IT WITH A FUTURE LAND USE MAP, AND THEN LET'S START APPLYING THE ZONING CHANGES TO THAT FUTURE LAND USE MAP. AND THEN OF COURSE, AS WE LEARN A LOT MORE ALIGN OUR LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE, I LIKE TO SAY CALIBRATE OUR LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE TO THE INTENT. AND SO THAT'S WHAT THIS IS. THIS IS A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING. UM, BUT, BUT I'VE TRIED TO PUNCH LIST THIS, THANK YOU TO SEAN. THANK YOU TO JOSH. THANK YOU TO JEN AND EVERYBODY ELSE WHO, WHO HELPED THINK THROUGH THIS, BUT ISLAND CAPACITY, GROWTH FRAMEWORK, STRATEGY, SUB AREA, DISTRICT PLANS. IT [03:35:01] WILL REALLY START TAKING SHAPE. WE WILL HAVE, WHEN WE WORK ON THIS AT THIS LEVEL, A MASTER PLAN, I'M NOT SAYING I'M NOT, PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS AS A PARCEL, THE PARCEL MASTER PLAN, BUT A MASTER PLAN OUTSIDE THE GATES OF OUR ISLAND. THAT'S INCLUSIVE OF CORRIDOR PLANS. THAT'S INCLUSIVE OF DISTRICTS NEIGHBORHOODS. UM, I THINK THE ONE THING JUST THINK FOR A SECOND, IF, IF WE DEVELOPED A F A DISTRICT IN THE MID ISLAND AND REALIZE THAT AS AN EXAMPLE, SIX OR EIGHT UNITS PER ACRE IS APPROPRIATE AS A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD IN THAT AREA, THE ALIGNMENT OR CALIBRATION OF THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE IS PERHAPS, UH, A FUTURE LAND USE MAP THAT SHOWS RESIDENTIAL NOT MULTI-FAMILY NOT COMMERCIAL. AND THEN, AND THEN MEN, THE SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS TO OBTAIN THE, THE SUBDIVISION EXPECTATIONS, THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, EXPECTATIONS THAT YOU WANT YOUR CODE RIGHT NOW, SETBACKS, BUFFERS, HEIGHT, FLOOR, AIR RATIO, PERVIOUS, IMPERVIOUS, AND SOME SITES STANDARDS IS, IS WHAT WE HAVE. AND IT'S SIMPLY A, UH, A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT IT. EUCLIDEAN, REALLY ZONING MAP, YOUR PURPLE, YOUR YELLOW, YOUR BLUE. I WANT TO MAKE A CHANGE. I WANT TO TAKE YELLOW. I WANT TO MAKE A TAN. AND IF WE HAD A GROWTH FRAMEWORK, WE COULD LITERALLY TELL THE FOLKS THAT ARE THINKING OF REZONING. HEY, THIS ISN'T GOING TO BE AS DIFFICULT AS YOU THINK. OR WE MIGHT BE ABLE SAY, NOW YOU DON'T COMPLY WITH THE GROWTH FRAMEWORK MAP IN 18 OR 20 UNITS, AN ACRE ON A TWO LANE ROADWAY IN MARSHLAND ISN'T APPROPRIATE. AND HERE'S WHY. AND SO IT'S ALL PACKED INTO THIS ONE. THIS ARGUABLY IS, UH, IS OUR, IS OUR FUTURE FOR A VERY LONG TIME. BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT THE CAPACITY STUDY, THE GROWTH FRAMEWORK POLICY MAP, THE DISTRICT PLANNING, THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP THE ALIGNMENT OF THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE, AND THEN ADDING THE DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS TO IT. I THINK THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE IN A BETTER PLACE. THIS IS EVERYTHING YOU'VE TOLD ME. I DIDN'T MAKE THIS OUT. THIS IS EVERYTHING, TO MY OPINION, IN MY OPINION AND ASSESSMENT OF WHAT YOU'RE ASKING, I'VE HEARD WE NEED A, WE NEED A CAPACITY STUDY ASAP WE'VE CHEWED OFF AND BID OFF AND ARE IN BUSINESS AND THE DISTRICT PLANNING OF THE MID ISLAND. SO WE'RE LEANING THIS WAY. IT'S NOT TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE ZONING MAP. I THINK IT'S SERVED HILTON HEAD ISLAND. WELL, UM, BUT OVER TIME, I THINK, I THINK IT ALWAYS NEEDS A REFRESH. AND IN THIS, UH, WE'RE SUGGESTING THIS TOPIC TO BE A REAL RESET OF HOW WE DO BUSINESS FROM THIS PERSPECTIVE. SO NOT SURE IF YOU ALL AGREE, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR THIS NEEDS A WORKSHOP, A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS IT'S BUT TO KICK IT OFF, IF, IF, AND WHEN YOU ADOPT A STRATEGIC PLAN, IF IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN, THE CAPACITY STUDIES A PART OF IT I'LL GET TO WORK RIGHT AWAY. I STAND STANDPOINT THE SOONER, THE BETTER CAUSE THIS, THIS REALLY DOES DICTATE WHERE WE END UP. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO ANYTHING FURTHER UNTIL WE HAVE THIS ESTABLISHED, RIGHT. I MEAN, IN, IN THE CAREFUL ESTABLISHMENT OF IT, BECAUSE WE'VE DONE THIS IN 2014, AS WE MIGHT RECALL, AND CREATED SOME HORRIBLE SITUATIONS AND THEY ARE NOW, UM, EMBEDDED IN RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS. AND CAN'T DO THAT AGAIN. YES, MA'AM THIS IS CRITICAL, SIR. MARK, THERE ARE THREE DATA POINTS THAT I THINK SHOULD GO INTO THIS DISCUSSION AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE THREE. THE FIRST IS AN INCREASE OF 500 RESIDENTS OVER 10 YEARS. THE SECOND IS, UH, THE TREND IN BUSINESS LICENSES, AS IT PERTAINS TO THE NUMBER OF UNDERUTILIZED OR VACANT NON-RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS. THE THIRD PERHAPS YET TO BE DETERMINED WOULD BE THE TREND IN 4% PROPERTIES VERSUS 6% PROPERTIES AND WHICH WAY THAT'S GOING AND WHAT WAY WE THINK IT WILL CONTINUE TO GO. I THINK THOSE THREE DATA POINTS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO ENTER INTO THIS DISCUSSION, UH, AND, AND BE A PART OF IT BECAUSE TO, TO FAIL, TO RECOGNIZE THE TRENDS THAT WE SEE OCCURRING RIGHT NOW, I THINK IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER AND MOVING FORWARD IN THAT I UNDERSTAND. GREAT, GREAT HEADSTART, SIR. THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE? MOVE ON. THAT'S GREAT. UH, THE OTHER ONE, THE SWOT ANALYSIS, A SWOT ANALYSIS OF THE LMO NEED TO COINCIDE TOGETHER. SO NO, NO THAT THOSE [03:40:01] TWO ARE THERE. JOSHUA WHAT'S NEXT, SIR. EVALUATE ACCESS BETWEEN HILTON HEAD ISLAND AND GREATER REGION THERE IT IS. I THINK THE COMMON EARLIER WAS 2023. THIS, THIS IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT AND IT'S ALREADY STARTED, UM, THIS TOPIC HERE WITH, UH, NO, SORRY. THIS TOPIC REALLY DRIVES THIS WHILE THAT STRATEGY REALLY DRIVES PUN INTENDED, UM, THIS STRATEGY. SO ANYTHING TO ADD ON THAT COMPARED TO WHAT THE NOTES THAT WE HAVE OTHER THAN STARTED EARLIER, IT'S BEEN IMPORTANT. EVERYTHING'S IMPORTANT. THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH TIME. EVERYTHING'S IMPORTANT. I KNOW THAT I'M NOT, I'M NOT CHALLENGING THAT I, I RESPECT THAT. I FEEL THE SAME WAY. I HAVE A HIGH SENSE OF URGENCY. I'M INCLINED TO THINK THAT THIS STUDY WILL BE MUCH MORE VITAL TO US AFTER WE'VE SEEN THE CHANGES IN THE CARTER, 2 78 GATEWAY. IT DOES JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS ON IT. MARK IS THAT THE CAR TO 2 78 GATEWAY NOW IS ALL GOING THROUGH ERIC GREENWAY IS NO MOMENT GOING FROM THE TOWN AT S C D O T. ERIC IS THE PERSON FOR THE COUNTY TO CORRECT THEM ON A COUPLE OF THINGS. WE'LL GO THROUGH ERIC AND WALK HIS WORK AND VERY CLOSE TO WHAT ERIC AND WALK AND ERICA WILL BE TAKING A TRIP NEXT MONTH TO THE SIP GROUP TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT OUR PROJECT. UM, MARK, MYSELF AND TOM MEET EVERY OTHER MONTH WITH OUR COUNTERPARTS FROM THE COUNTY. UH, THAT'S BEEN GOING VERY WELL. THEIR AGENDA IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN ALL OF US, BUT IT WAS DIFFERENT. UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE CITY MANAGERS AND CITY MAYORS MEET EVERY OTHER MONTH TO, TO DISCUSS OUR RELATIONSHIP WHERE WE ARE. UH, WE JOANNE ASKED NICK AND ME HAVE TALKED ABOUT HAVING SOME COUNCIL OF COUNCIL MEETINGS TOGETHER. UM, BUT I HAVE AN EASIER TIME PUTTING THAT TOGETHER THAT HE DOES. SO WE JUST LEAVE IT AT THAT. BUT WE ARE WORKING AT THE FEDERAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COUNTY AND THE TOWN. YES, SIR. WE HAVE THOSE NOTES AND THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENTS. ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE I MOVE ON, WE IT'S 1 24, UM, ISH AND TICKING. WE'LL GET THROUGH IT. I DON'T WANT TO MISS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME GENERAL DISCUSSION AND THEN TO TALK SOME NEW ITEMS AS RECOMMENDED WHAT'S NEXT, JOSH WORK WITH COUNCIL TO DEVELOP APPROPRIATE POLICIES THAT WILL SUPPORT THE GROWTH AND EXPANSION OF WORKFORCE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. BEGINNING OF 19 COUNCIL MADE IT PRIORITY ADOPTED WORKFORCE HOUSING STRAP PLAN. FOLLOWING HIS CONTINUED WORK TOWARDS IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS YOU, SINCE YOU'RE MARKED A MILLION DOLLARS TOWARDS A HOUSING PROJECT, AND YOU VERE MARKED A MILLION DOLLARS IN PRINCIPLE TOWARDS A HOUSING PROJECT, HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ON PATTERSON TRACT. AS, AS, AS AN EXAMPLE, I, AGAIN, ALL THOSE WILL COME FORWARD AS TRUE STRATEGIES TO YOU. UM, MY, MY FEEDBACK THAT I'VE BEEN HEARING IS WE NEED TO THINK WAY BIGGER THAN ONE TRACK. WE HAVE ADOPTED POLICY. I THINK IT'S SERVED US WELL. UM, WE HAVE A RESIDENTIAL, NO COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL CONVERSION POLICY, SO TO SPEAK IN PLACE. WE ALSO HAVE A DENSITY BONUS. WE'VE COMMUNICATED THAT TO MR. LENNOX'S POINT. I REMEMBER ONE OF MY FIRST MEETINGS WAS A WORKSHOP ON THIS TOPIC AND WE SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW, RATHER THAN THE JUST ADOPTED AND LET IT COLLECT DUST OR BE IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO PROMOTE IT? WHAT ARE WE DOING TO ADVERTISE IT? WE ARE ON LINKEDIN. WE'VE SENT IT TO EVERYONE. WE KNOW I'VE SENT IT TO TWO PEOPLE. I KNOW IN MY NETWORK THROUGH LINKEDIN AND SOME SHARED MESSAGES THERE. I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A PRESS RELEASE IF IT'S A RECURRING ITEM AS A STRATEGY IN OUR SOCIAL MEDIA. AND I DON'T JUST MEAN A FACEBOOK POST. I MEAN, REAL LINKEDIN COMPANIES ARE WATCHING US ON LINKEDIN COMPANIES ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT WE'RE DOING. INVESTORS EMPLOYED, EMPLOYEES THAT WANT TO WORK HERE. THEY ALL LOOK AT LINKEDIN TO SEE WHAT WE'RE DOING. AND, AND LIKE, WE LOOK AT OTHERS, THINGS ON LINKEDIN FOR TODAY. UM, FOR TODAY, I'M SORRY, I DON'T HAVE IT UP THERE. WHAT DO WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT? AND OR IS THIS READY FOR ANOTHER WORKSHOP? I THINK THAT, UH, WE NEED TO ALSO BE REACHING OUT TO THE DEVELOPMENT [03:45:01] COMMUNITY IF WE'RE NOT ALREADY, UH, THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO BE BUILDING THESE PROJECTS AND THEY NEED TO KNOW WHAT WE HAVE HERE. AND AS PART OF THAT, I, FOR ONE NEED TO UNDERSTAND MORE WHAT A PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP MIGHT LOOK LIKE OR HOW WE MIGHT WANT A PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TO APPEAR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. ANYBODY ELSE? MR. BROWN? SORRY. OKAY. QUICK NOTE. SURE. UM, I THINK YOU SAID 2019 IS WHEN THIS WAS ADOPTED, UH, AS A, AS A GOAL BY THE TOWN COUNCIL. UM, AND WE KNOW THAT OUR LEVEL OF SERVICE ON HILTON HEAD DEFINITELY SUFFERS BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF WORKFORCE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, WHATEVER YOU MAY WANT TO CALL IT. OKAY. FROM THE SERVICE INDUSTRY IN RESTAURANTS, CHILDCARE, SO ON. RIGHT. UM, AND I AGREE WE HAVE TO, WE HAVE TO KEEP, UH, KEEP RAISING THE FLAG THAT WE'RE OPEN FOR BUSINESS. ALL RIGHT. UM, I'M, I'M REALLY WANTING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT WE DO WHEN THE UNLIKELY DEVELOPER SHOWS UP TO HILTON HEAD SAYING, I WANT TO DO A HUNDRED PERCENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING. OKAY. AND IS IT AT THAT POINT THAT WE HAVE A LIST OF OFFERINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO GIVE THEM? AND I'M NOT SURE THAT WE HAVE ESTABLISHED THAT. UM, I KNOW THAT THE START OF IT PLAN, UH, CLEARLY STATES THAT, UH, WE SHOULD BE ATTACKING THIS FROM ALMOST EVERY ANGLE THAT YOU CAN. OKAY. AND I THINK WE HAVE TO A DEGREE, UH, DEVELOP THAT MINDSET THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR, THE, THE HOME RUN ON THE LONG BALL HERE, RIGHT. WHERE THERE'S GOING TO BE A PROJECT THAT SHOWS UP THAT BRINGS FORTH 2, 300, 400 UNITS. RIGHT. AND W WE'RE JUST NOT, WE'RE NOT GETTING THERE WITH THAT. OKAY. AND EVERY, I'M SORRY, EVERY DAY THAT GOES BY I'LL SITUATION WORSENS. UM, SO I THINK TWO WORDS COME TO MY MIND BEING AGGRESSIVE AND BEING INTENTIONAL. OKAY. SO IF IT'S NOT NECESSARILY WAITING FOR THE DEVELOPER TO KNOCK ON THE DOOR, BUT THE TOWN ITSELF TAKING A STANCE SAYING, HEY, HERE IS A PROJECT THAT WE WANT TO DO. HOWEVER MANY UNITS, HERE'S A COST INVOLVED, LESS MOVE FORWARD WITH MAKING IT HAPPEN, BECAUSE WE DID START TO INSTILL A LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE ARE SOLVING THIS ISSUE AND NOT WAITING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO SOLVE IT FOR US. UM, AND BACK TO THE ATTACKING FROM EVERY ANGLE. UM, IT, IT MAY NOT BE THAT 200 UNIT, UM, YOU KNOW, HABITAT IS GOING TO DEVELOP MAYBE A DOZEN OR SO. OKAY. BUT EVERY UNIT THAT WE PROVIDE ON HILTON HEAD THAT IS AFFORDABLE, WE ARE CHIPPING AWAY AT THAT PROBLEM. AND AT LEAST IN MY MIND, I THINK IT'S SEVERE ENOUGH TO WHERE THE ANSWER SHOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE KNOW WHEN SOMEONE WALKS IN THE DOOR, BUT ABSOLUTELY YES. WHEN THEY WALK IN THE DOOR. AND I JUST, I THINK THAT THAT NEEDS TO BE A MINDSET LIKE OFFERING THAT, THAT WE ARE GIVEN OFF THAT WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE. UM, AGAIN, JUST TO, TO BUILD SOME CONFIDENCE, MARK, MAY I, OF COURSE YOU ASKED THE QUESTION, SHOULD IT BE A WORKSHOP? AND I THINK, YES, THE PUBLIC PLANNING COMMITTEE HAS BEEN DEALING WITH THIS FOR FOUR OR FIVE YEARS. UM, MADE RECOMMENDATIONS. COUNCIL HAS SUPPORTED THEM, BUT WE HAVEN'T MADE THE FIRST, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNIT OTHER THAN AS PART OF A MARKET RATE PROJECT. UH, MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE THAT STAFF PREPARE, UH, OPTIONS FOR THE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER, UH, ARRANGEMENTS, BUSINESS ARRANGEMENTS, DEVELOPMENT ARRANGEMENTS, UH, GOING FROM, UH, A PRIVATE DEVELOPER, DICTATING EVERYTHING TO, UH, THE TOWN IN A SENSE, SPONSORING A, UH, HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ON, UH, HILTON HEAD TOWN PROPERTY SPONSORING WOULD MEAN NOT NECESSARILY TO BE IN THE DEVELOPMENT BUSINESS, BUT SEEK THROUGH AN RFP DEVELOPERS WHO WOULD [03:50:01] CREATE A HOUSING PROJECT, UH, ON TOWNS SPONSORED LAND. UH, WE HAVE STRUGGLED OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT KIND OF COMMITMENT THE PUBLIC SECTOR WOULD HAVE TO MAKE IN ORDER TO, UH, FILL THE GAP BETWEEN THE COST OF A PROJECT AND THE RENT ROLL FROM AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING. I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE PREPARED AS WELL. UM, STURTEVANT SAID THAT OUR RECOMMENDED 2000 UNITS OVER 10 YEARS, I'VE BEEN USING THAT AS A GOAL. UM, WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE 23, 24, 20 5,000 EMPLOYEES ON THE ISLAND, 15 OR 16,000 OF THOSE ARE COMMUTING TO THE ISLAND EVERY DAY, 2016 IS A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER, 12%. I THINK THAT'S A DOABLE GOAL. I THINK WE SHOULD PUSH IN THE DIRECTION OF ADOPTING IT IN A WORK PROGRAM THAT GETS US TO A POINT OF IMPLEMENTING A WORKFORCE HOUSING PROGRAM WITHIN THE YEAR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. AND IT SHOULD BE A, THAT WAS ALL. OKAY. YEAH. DAVID BOUGHT THEM OFF MYSELF, THIS DEVELOPER OUT OF A SEA PINES THAT WANTED TO TAKE A PROJECT, CROSS THE STREET FROM US CB AND DEVELOP IT INTO AFFORDABLE HOUSING WORKFORCE HOUSING. WE WANT TO CALL IT WELCOME. YOU WERE VERY MUCH IMPRESSED BY THE WHOLE IDEA. AND THE WHOLE IDEA WAS THAT THEY WOULD BUILD HOUSING FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING AND THAT THEIR CLIENT WOULD BE THE MAJOR GROUPS ON THE ISLAND, WHETHER IT BE DESTROYED TO A COASTAL OR WHATEVER IT WAS. AND IT WAS GOING REALLY, REALLY WELL. AND THEN IT JUST STOPPED. THE MODEL WAS PERFECT AND IT JUST WENT AWAY. BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE WITH CREATIVE IDEAS OUT THERE, AND WE SHOULD BE SOLICITING ALL THOSE CREATIVE IDEAS FOR GREAT OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THAT. BUT THAT WAS, WE HAD, WE HAD ONE WITH THAT DOT YET, BUT IT'S, I, I AGREE THAT WE SHOULD ENTERTAIN ALL THOSE IDEAS. THE PROBLEM WE SOMETIMES RUN INTO IS THE QUALITY OF HOUSING THAT IS BEING PROPOSED BY A DEVELOPER, MAY NOT MEET THE STANDARDS WE WANT TO HAVE ON THE ISLAND. AND THEN WE AS A COMMUNITY AFTER YOU WILLING TO SUBSIDIZE THAT PROJECT TO GET IT TO OUR STANDARD. THANK YOU. LET'S MOVE ON. IT IS 1 20, 1 35. ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT, JOSH? OH, WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THAT ANYMORE TODAY. CAN WE, DID SOMEONE BRING THAT UP? YEAH, NO, NO ONE BROUGHT THAT UP. JOSH WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IT. I WROTE THEM DOWN AS THEY, NO, I'M KIDDING. WE PROBABLY DID. BUT FOR LACK OF TIME, I'M TEASING YOU. YEAH. SO THIS CAME UP WHEN WE HAD A REQUEST FROM A NEIGHBORHOOD TO PUT UP SPEED HUMP IN THE STREET, AND IT'S SO REACTIONARY. ONCE A HUNDRED PEOPLE ASK YOU TO PUT A SPEED HUMP IN AND IT'S NOT YOUR ROAD AND THERE'S NO EXPECTATION. AND THEN WE'RE THINKING ABOUT A SPEED HUMP ON THIS STREET, AND THAT'S A HUNDRED PEOPLE THAT WANT THE SPEED HUMP, BUT TRULY, WE DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S 200 PEOPLE THAT HAVEN'T CALLED US THAT DON'T WANT THE SPEED HUMP. IT'S REALLY GOOD TO HAVE A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CALMING POLICY IN PLACE SO THAT FOLKS KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE REQUEST. THEY DON'T NEED TO KNOW ONE OF YOU, NOT THAT I'M SHYING AWAY FROM THAT, OF COURSE, BUT IF WE HAD A PROGRAM IN PLACE, THEY COULD MAKE AN APPLICATION AS A NEIGHBORHOOD. THEY COULD COLLECT THE SIGNATURES, THEY COULD MAKE THAT REQUEST AND WE COULD WORK WITH THEM TO DO SOME TRAFFIC COUNTS, TO TRULY UNDERSTAND. THEY'RE ASKING FOR, TO PUT THIS AS ONE EXAMPLE, A SPEED HUMP IN PLACE, BUT THEN WE WOULD HAVE THE CONFIDENCE AS A STAFF AND IN AN ORGANIZATION THAT IT'S, IT'S PLANTED, IT'S INTENTIONAL AND IT'S SUPPORTED NOT JUST BY THE VOCAL MINORITY. AND THERE'S ALSO A PROCESS IN PLACE SO THAT YOU KNOW HOW TO ASK FOR IT. SO IT'S JUST RESTRICTED TO NEIGHBORHOODS OR IS IT TRAFFIC CALMING ACROSS ARTERIAL, SECONDARY ROADS AND SO ON? WELL, I THINK THAT AS WE BUILD OUR CORRIDOR PLANS IN PLACE, WE'RE GOING TO BAKE IN THERE. THOSE TRAFFIC CALMING ELEMENTS, OUR CROSSWALKS ARE MID-BLOCK CROSSWALKS [03:55:01] AS ONE EXAMPLE, UM, SIGNAGE, LANDSCAPING, THOSE NEED TO BE IN A CORRIDOR PLAN AS A TRAFFIC CALMING LAYER OF, OF THE ENHANCEMENT. AND THIS IS UP THERE IS FOR NEIGHBORHOOD. YES. THANK YOU. OKAY. CAN I JUST JUMP IN? CAUSE I THOUGHT WE HAD A POLICY THAT ALL NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND MAYBE CHRIS CAN IN ALL, WELL, I'M NOT SURE WHERE IT SITS, SO I'LL, I'LL, I'LL LEAVE THAT. SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO SEARCH MY BRAIN FOR THAT INFORMATION. RIGHT. BUT I THOUGHT WE HAD SOMETHING IN PLACE THAT AS DEVELOPMENT WAS TAKING PLACE THAT CALMING, UH, TRAFFIC CALMING, UM, ASPECTS WERE ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO BE CONSIDERED, UM, AS PART OF THAT. BUT HAVING SAID THAT, UM, TRAFFIC CALMING SHOULD BE HAPPENING FROM THE TIME YOU COME ONTO THE ISLAND AND YOU KNOW, EVERYWHERE YOU GO ON THE ISLAND, WE SHOULD HAVE SOME ASPECT OF TRAFFIC CALMING. IT'S IT'S ONLY LOGICAL. AND I THINK ABSOLUTELY BENEFICIAL TO EVERY PERSON WHO, WHO COMES ACROSS THE BRIDGE. THANKS NEXT. ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT NEXT? THE LAST ONE. ALRIGHT. I FLAGGED ONE AND THAT IS THE ASSIST WITH CROSS ISLAND PARKWAY TOLL BOOTH REMOVAL. JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME UPDATE ON THAT CROSS ISLAND, TOLL PLAZA, REMOVAL, ROADWAY, RECONFIGURATION, AND CROSS ISLAND RESURFACING, RIGHT? SO IT'S NOT JUST REMOVING THE TOLL. UM, AND THIS IS, AS OF EARLIER THIS MONTH, DMT IS PROCURING THIS WITH AN ANTICIPATED AWARD IN DECEMBER OF THIS YEAR, UH, EXPECTS TO BE UNDER CONTRACT WITH THE WINNING FIRM BY LATE JANUARY OF 22, EXPECT SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT TO OCCUR BY DECEMBER OF 22. SO THIS IS THE NEXT YEAR, ALL YEAR PROJECT. UM, THEN ONCE THEY MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT, WE'LL TALK TO THEM ABOUT TRANSFERRING THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. THEY HAVE SOME CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES, THE TUNNEL UNDERNEATH, THEY DON'T EVEN WANT TO TALK TO US TOO MUCH ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW UNTIL THEY GET THEIR CONSTRUCTION FIGURED OUT. SO WE HAVE SOME DECISIONS TO MAKE IF A, IF WE WANT THE BUILDING AND B WHAT WE DO WITH THAT BUILDING. UM, SO THAT'S IMPORTANT. UH, ANOTHER THING HERE TOO, AND WE HAVE A NOTE AND I HAVE A NOTE SEVERAL TIMES, WE'VE GOT TO WORK WITH THE DOD TO MAKE SURE THOSE TOLL LANES COME DOWN AT APPROPRIATE TIME OF YEAR, NOT PEAK SEASON ONE WEEK BEFORE HERITAGE OR ON JULY 4TH WEEKEND. SO WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE SURE WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY CAREFULLY. AND JOSH HAS POINT ON THAT NEXT, AND I'LL JUST ADD THIS IN WILLIAM HILTON PARKWAY RESURFACING. SAME THING. DLT IS, THIS IS THE THEME HERE. THEY ANTICIPATE PUBLISHING A BID IN MARCH OF 2022 WITH A GOAL OF BEING UNDER CONTRACT SOMETIME IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER, UH, DOES NOT WANT THE RESURFACING TO BEGIN UNTIL AFTER LABOR DAY. NEXT YEAR, ESTIMATES ESTIMATE OF FALL 22 CONSTRUCTION REPAVING SCHEDULE REPAVING WILL OCCUR FROM GUMTREE ROAD TO INDIGO RUN DRIVE SLASH WHOOPING CRANE WAY. AND AGAIN, FROM SHELTER COVE LANE TO YAACOV DRIVE, THAT'S IT. AND SO WE'VE GOT SOME WORK TO DO WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO REQUEST PAVING OUTSIDE OF THOSE LIMITS OF, OF PAVING. SO THAT'S WHAT WE KNOW AT THIS TIME. THERE'S NOT MUCH TO CHAT ABOUT. IT'S JUST INFORMATION. I MEAN THE POTHOLES AND THE CAUSE DRIVING UP TO 78 MEAN PEOPLE GO SOLVE AND LOOK INTO US FOR THE DAMAGES TO THEIR CAR. I MEAN, PUTTING IT OUT THAT FOR B WE'VE ASKED FOR IT ALMOST A YEAR AGO IS REALLY UNACCEPTABLE AND I'M NOT BLAMING YOU, BUT IT'S UNEXCITING. YES, SIR. I'M MAKING THAT NOTE. I WILL KEEP WORKING ON THAT. UM, THERE WERE A FEW THINGS, ADDITIONAL ITEMS. SO I'M GOING TO JUMP INTO THAT AND FOR LACK OF A BETTER WAY TO DO THIS ISLAND RESILIENCY PLAN WAS A TOPIC. WHAT I BROUGHT UP WAS A VIRTUAL MEETING ORDINANCE AND THINKING ABOUT BRINGING THAT FORWARD, SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING PER THE GREATER ISLAND COUNCIL AND PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION DIFFERENT THAN JUST US WORKING ON THIS WITH THE COUNTY. UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY THE WORD CHAT. YOU KNOW HOW TO SAY THAT WORD, JOSH CHAT TO CHAUTAUQUA ANNUAL EVENT, WHICH IS A COMMUNITY CENTER CHAUTAUQUA, THANK YOU, WHICH IS A DESTINATION FOR AN ORGANIZATION AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES IS FOR NONPROFITS. IT'S FOR TOWN EVENTS, IT'S FOR BIO DIVERSITY EVENTS MORE THAN AN AUDITORIUM. UM, WE TALK STRATEGIC PLAN WHEN WE WOULD REVISIT AND GET TOGETHER. YOU AT A COUNCIL MEETING, BROUGHT UP A PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE, AND CHRIS YATES GAVE YOU SOME INFORMATION ON THAT. I CAPTURED IT TO TALK ABOUT THIS TODAY. THAT'S A, THAT'S A BIG BUSINESS. I WOULDN'T SUGGEST WE ADD THAT TO OUR LIST RIGHT NOW, BUT THAT, THAT DID COME UP. UM, SANDALWOOD FOOD PANTRY CAME FORWARD MONTHS AGO. IT WAS ON [04:00:01] AN AGENDA CSPS. SO COMMUNITY SAFETY, PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE AGENDA, UM, THAT'S IN LIMBO. I WOULD SAY I JUST, AT SOME POINT, I'M GOING TO PUT THAT BACK, UM, WITH YOU ALL THAT MIGHT, THAT MIGHT BE ON AT LEAST A PROPOSED AGENDA IN THE FUTURE. YES. LET'S PUT IT ON THE NEXT AGENDA. YES. OKAY. OKAY. THAT'S FAIR. THAT'S WHAT I NEED. UM, NO TO PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE. SO THIS BIODIVERSITY AND CULTURAL CENTER CONCEPT, I THINK IS IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT THE SOLID WASTE RECYCLING PER THE GREATER ISLAND COUNCIL. AND I APPRECIATE THE RECOMMENDATION. UM, AND THEN THE ISLAND RESILIENCY PLAN. THERE'S REALLY THREE THINGS TO TALK ABOUT. AND IT'S, AGAIN, TODAY'S ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO, NOT HOW YOU WANT ME TO DO IT. SO BARK. UM, I'D LIKE TO ADD TO THAT BECAUSE I HAVEN'T HEARD A LOT ABOUT IT TODAY. THE PEACH MANAGEMENT PLAN IS, IS THAT IN HERE SOMEWHERE? WE JUST DIDN'T. WELL, THE REASON I'M BRINGING IT UP NOW, BECAUSE IN ORDER FOR US TO COME UP WITH A BEACH PARKING PLAN, WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME IDEA HOW MANY PEOPLE WE WANT TO SERVE. AND THAT IS DEPENDENT ON HOW MANY PARKING PLACES WE HAVE AND HOW MANY PEOPLE WE WANT ON THE BEACH AT ANY ONE TIME. SO I, I GUESS WHAT I'M ADVOCATING IS W WHEN DID YOU SAY YOU WERE GOING TO HAVE THE BACK BEACH MASTER PLAN MANAGEMENT MASTER PLAN DONE. OKAY. YOU UNDERSTAND MY POINT? I THINK I APPLAUD YOU AND THE STAFF'S EMPHASIS ON PLANNING TO CREATE THE CONTEXT IN WHICH OUR DECISIONS AND POLICIES ARE BEING MADE. SO THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF A MASTER PLAN THAT WILL DICTATE OTHER THINGS COMING OUT OF IT. YEAH. YEAH. WE IT'S IN HERE. IT'S, IT'S ONE OF OUR 68 HERE. UM, YOU MENTIONED RESILIENCY PLAN. THIS OFTEN GETS THROWN OUT THERE AT ANNUAL MEETINGS. MY REQUEST IS THAT STAFF DO ENOUGH TO IDENTIFY WHAT THE THREATS ARE TO THE COMMUNITY. NOT NECESSARILY TRY TO ANSWER ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS. OKAY. SO THAT, SO THAT WE, AS POLICY MAKERS CAN BEGIN TO PRIORITIZE IF NECESSARY, UH, AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. UH, MY, MY SENSE IS THAT LIVING ON A BARRIER ISLAND HAS SOME OBVIOUS THREATS COMBINE THAT WITH EVERYBODY'S DESIRE TO BE ON A BARRIER ISLAND AND A BEACH COMPLICATES THOSE EVEN FURTHER. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ANSWERS ARE, AND I'M JUST LOOKING FOR DIRECTION FROM STAFF ON THAT. UM, WE HAVE IN PASSING DISCUSSED THE STONEY NON-PROFIT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. UH, I'D LIKE TO EXPAND THAT, UH, CONVERSATION AT SOME POINT, I THINK IT'S TIMELY BECAUSE OF THE, UM, CORRIDOR S C D O T FUNDING THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION FAIRLY QUICKLY. YEAH. BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO THIS COMMUNITY, NOT ONLY FOR THE STONY NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT IF SUCCESSFUL THAT CONCEPT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SOLVE ISSUES ACROSS WARD ONE. AND I THINK WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT, UH, SUBSTANTIVE SOLUTIONS, UM, THAT REALLY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OF SOLVING A CULTURAL ISSUE AS WELL AS A ISLAND WIDE POPULATION DENSITY GROWTH ISSUES. AND I THINK THERE IS, UM, A SOLUTION THERE CONNECTED TO, UH, THE IDEA OF TRANSFERABLE DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS TO NAVIGATE OR MEDIATE THE ISSUE BETWEEN NATIVE ISLAND PROPERTY VALUES AND ISLAND WIDE EXPECTATIONS OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE LIVING HERE. SO THOSE ARE THREE ITEMS FROM MY STANDPOINT THAT NEED ADDITIONAL EMPHASIS. THANK YOU. CAN I MAKE ONE COMMENT ON WHAT DAVID SAID? S C D O T MADE IT VERY CLEAR THAT WHAT THEY WILL PUT NO MONEY INTO THEIR PROJECT WHATSOEVER, YOUR, THE DOWNLOADS, A TOWN PROJECT IN A TOWNSHIP, YOU WORK WITH THE STATE ON SOME FUNDING, BUT THEY WILL NOT FUND ANY PART OF IT WHATSOEVER. OKAY. UM, JUST, JUST TO BE, JUST TO BE CLEAR, UH, I DID [04:05:01] USE THE WORD S C D O T. I WAS USING THAT IMPROPERLY. I WAS SAYING STATE FUNDING, SUGGESTING STATE FUNDING. IT'S A POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION THAT NEEDS TO BE DEALT WITH DECIDED THANK YOU. YES, SIR. THANK YOU, SIR. AND I, FOR, FOR FULL DISCLOSURE AND CLARITY, I DON'T KNOW WHY I JUMPED OVER IT, TRYING TO LOOK AT THE SHOT CLOCK HERE. GULLAH GEECHEE, HISTORIC CULTURAL DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION IS ON MY NEW AS A TOWN COUNCIL. YOU, IN YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE RECENT WILLIAM MILTON PARKWAY, UM, VOTED FIVE TO TWO TO ADVANCE THE RECOMMENDATIONS. A PART OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS IS TO EXPLORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. SO WE'VE ALREADY STARTED DOING SOME BACKGROUND RESEARCH ON THAT. UH, SOUTH CAROLINA CODE ALLOWS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS TO BE SET UP HERE. THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE ALLOWED DIFFERENTLY IN DIFFERENT STATES, BUT WE'LL SOON HAVE SOME BACKGROUND ON THAT. I'M LITTLE FAMILIAR WITH PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS AND SOME NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. SO TBD. SO, SO I'M CLEAR. UM, AND I HAVE NO ISSUE WITH THIS. I THINK IT'S A GOOD, A GOOD THOUGHT, ESPECIALLY AS WE'RE LOOKING AT BEACH RESILIENCY TO ADD TO THE MIX, A SWAT ANALYSIS, SO TO SPEAK OF ISLAND. AND IF THAT DICTATES A RESILIENCY PLAN MUCH SOONER THAN LATER, IF THERE'S ANY GAPS, WE ADD THAT. OKAY. SO WE'LL ADD AS A STRESS STRATEGY, A SWAT ANALYSIS OF ISLAND RESILIENCY, AND WE'LL DEFINE THAT. OKAY. SO THERE'S ONE TO THE TDR ORDINANCE. I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THAT A LITTLE MORE, BUT WE'LL, IF, WITHOUT OBJECTION, I'M GOING TO ADD AS A STRATEGY TO EXPLORE A TDR ORDINANCE TO ACHIEVE THE BENEFIT YOU'VE MENTIONED. YEAH. ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION IDEA, BECAUSE THOSE TWO THINGS DOVETAIL NICELY AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF REALLY CREATING A BALANCED SOLUTION. THANK YOU. WELL, THANK YOU. AND THEN DEVELOPMENT CORP WILL BE A STRATEGY WITHOUT OBJECTION. OKAY. UH, MARK, ARE WE GOING TO BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME CLUES CONCLUDING COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS? THANK YOU. THAT'S WHY I'M HURRYING. OKAY. I WANT YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU AND THEN THIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER, REX GAIL MADE A PROPOSAL. IT'S A FABULOUS PROPOSAL. IT'S WELL, OUTLINED, SHOULD IT BE NUMBER 72 ON THE LIST FOR US TO BE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW? OR DO WE PUT THIS ON THE SIDE AND LET US CATCH UP WITH OUR PRIORITIES AS ALREADY DEFINED? I'M NOT SURE. I THOUGHT I THOUGHT YOU SAW IT. OKAY. CONSTANTLY WOULD JUST SEND IT TO US. YEAH, WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. THANK YOU. SORRY. I THOUGHT YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD IT APOLOGIES. ALL RIGHT. WELL THAT IS IT FOR THE WORK I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU. UM, MOVING FORWARD AGAIN, THIS IS AT TWO. IF WE GO A LITTLE OVER, THERE'S NO PENALTY, BUT I KNOW THAT FROM YOUR OWN TIME, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE GET OUT OF HERE. SO WITH THAT, MR. MAYOR, I WILL TURN THIS BACK OVER TO YOU, MR. GLENN, THANK YOU. THIS HAS BEEN A, AN ENLIGHTENING AND REWARDING EXPERIENCE, AND I'M VERY GRATEFUL TO THE TOWN MANAGER ON OUR WONDERFUL STAFF FOR ALL OF THE WORK THAT HAS GONE INTO THIS. THIS PROCESS IS I SEE IT TIES THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF THE TOWN TOGETHER, MUCH BETTER IN THE PAST. WE WERE ACCUSED OF HAVING SILOS OF RESPONSIBILITY, BUT I SEE CROSS-POLLINATION OCCURRING HERE. AND I THINK THAT IS VERY, VERY HELPFUL. THAT INFORMATION IS ALSO BEING SHARED WITH THE TOWN COUNCIL, WHICH IS VITAL AND IMPORTANT AND, AND CERTAINLY IN LINE, BUT THERE'S SOMETHING MISSING IN MY OPINION. AND THAT IS, THIS PROCESS IS NOT INCORPORATING THE INPUT FROM OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS YESTERDAY. I HAD A DISCUSSION, UH, WHERE THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND HE SAYS, HE FEELS LIKE HE'S FLYING ALONE. HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HIS MARCHING ORDERS ARE. SO TO ME, VERY, AND I KNOW THERE'S A MEETING SET UP BETWEEN THE TOWN MANAGER, UH, AND THE MAYOR AND, UH, THAT PARTICULAR CHAIR. BUT WHAT I'M SAYING TO YOU HERE IS THAT I THINK WE NEED TO DRAW IN THOSE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS INTO THE STRATEGIC PLAN SO THAT THEY KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO AND MOVING IT FORWARD. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. I HAVE A VERY GOOD SENSE OF THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT HAS GONE INTO A DOCUMENT LIKE THIS AND, AND, UH, CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU, MARK, AND, AND JOSH AND THE ENTIRE STAFF. [04:10:01] UH, IT IS VERY APPARENT TO ME, UH, HOW, HOW DEDICATED ALL INVOLVED WORK. UH, I SEE SOME, UH, ELEMENTS AND ISSUES THAT WE AS A COUNCIL HAVE TO CONTINUE TO ATTRACT. UH, I THINK THE, UH, MANAGEMENT OF THIS PROCESS IS MASSIVE. UH, HOWEVER, I THINK THIS DOCUMENT AND THE STRUCTURE YOU HAVE CREATED WITHIN THIS DOCUMENT WILL FACILITATE THAT, UH, YOU HAVE CLEARLY DEFINED THE GOALS, STRATEGIES, AND TACTICS, AND THAT IS STEP ONE IN EVERY PLANNING PROCESS YOU'VE ESTABLISHED ACCOUNTABILITY, WHICH REALLY HASN'T BEEN DONE BEFORE THAT I'VE SEEN AT THE TOWN LEVEL. UH, I THINK, UH, YOU ARE DEVELOPING AND TALKING ABOUT THE APPROPRIATE MEASUREMENT, UH, OF THE GOALS AND TO WHAT EXTENT EACH GOAL IS ACCOMPLISHED, UH, EVERY YEAR. UH, AND I THINK YOU'VE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HOW BEST TO COMMUNICATE, NOT ONLY WITH COUNCIL, BUT WITH THE COMMUNITY, UM, MOST AND MOST IMPORTANT, UH, THIS DOCUMENT AND THE STRUCTURE INHERENT IN THE DOCUMENT, UH, AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO THOSE ELEMENTS, UH, WILL MAKE IT A SUCCESS. GOOD JOB. THANK YOU. GOOD. THANK YOU. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND MARK AND THE ENTIRE STAFF, UH, SUPER WORK. THANK YOU. THIS WILL BE A STRATEGIC PLAN. UM, UNLIKE OTHERS, UM, MANY STRATEGIC PLANS AND THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, JUST NOT HERE, UH, ARE DONE. EVERYBODY TAKES A DEEP BREATH, AND IF IT IT'S PUT ON THE SHELF AND GATHERS DUST, UH, WHAT YOU'VE DONE HERE AS YOU BREATHE LIFE INTO IT, UH, WITH THAT FIRST CHART HERE ON THE LEFT, UH, YOU'VE, YOU'VE LINKED ACTIVITY TO THE PLAN. UH, YOU'VE CREATED ACCOUNTABILITY. YOU CREATED TIMEFRAMES. UH, YOU REALLY HAVE BROUGHT IT TO LIFE. YOU'VE TRANSLATED, UH, A DOCUMENT THAT SPEAKS TO THE FUTURE IN TERMS OF A DAY TO DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONAL PLAN FOR THE STAFF. THAT IS EXCELLENT. I THINK SOME THINGS IN THE FUTURE, UH, WE NEED TO, WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT, THE WORD SUBSIDY, IN TERMS OF WORKFORCE HOUSING, UH, I'VE RUN THE NUMBERS MANY WAYS AND THERE'S NO WAY IT GETS DONE WITHOUT SOME TYPE OF SUBSIDY. I DON'T THINK WE AS A GROUP HAVE COME TO GRIPS WITH THAT YET. AND, UH, I THINK WE SHOULD. UH, AND, AND JUST, UH, PERSONALLY, UH, I HAVE A COMMITTEE MEETING ON MONDAY, UH, COMMUNITY SERVICE, AND WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THE HIGHLANDER IS BEACH. UH, SO I'LL BE MEETING WITH JEFF AFTER THIS TO GET AN UPDATE ON YOUR THOUGHTS, ON WHAT CAN BE DONE TO MAKE THAT MORE ACCESSIBLE, MORE ENJOYABLE, UH, TO, TO OUR ISLAND RESIDENTS. SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO THAT AND, UH, FOR THE PUBLIC THAT'S WATCHING, UH, PLEASE, PLEASE SHOW UP OR ATTEND IF YOU CAN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. UM, I'M JUST TAKE, TAKING, TAKING MY NOTES AND WE'LL REPORT BACK TO THE MANAGER. YOU DON'T WANT TO TELL ME HOW MUCH FUN YOU HAD CURTIS? WELL, UM, IT WAS A LOT OF FUN AND, UM, I THINK THAT THE, UM, UM, THE, THE, I MEAN, JUST TO ECHO WHAT EVERYONE ELSE HAS SAID, CERTAINLY, UM, A LOT OF THOUGHT WENT INTO THE PRESENTATION, YOUR, YOUR, UH, DASHBOARD OVER THE YEARS, UH, IS A GREAT IDEA. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, AGAIN, THIS IS, THIS IS ALL Y'ALL'S WORK. UM, UM, AND, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, THEN LEAVES, UM, COUNCIL WITH A LOT TO DO. I DO THINK THAT AS YOU MOVE FORWARD TOWARD THE WORKSHOPS ON THE SEVERAL ISSUES THAT, UM, YOU'VE DISCUSSED HAVING WORKSHOPS ON, UM, I THINK THAT THE, THE ONE THING THAT ALL OF THIS SHOWS IS HOW ALL OF THESE THINGS, OR CERTAINLY MANY OF THEM ARE INTERCONNECTED IN WAYS THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, DON'T MAKE IT EASIER TO, UM, UNTIED THE KNOTS, BUT I, BUT I THINK THAT YOU, THAT YOU HAVE TO, AND JUST SINCE, SINCE I WAS GIVEN THE CHANCE, I, I WILL SAY THIS, I THINK THAT THE, [04:15:03] TH TH THE ISSUE OF WORKFORCE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOCUSING ON THAT AS A ITEM IS IN MY VIEW TO THE EXTENT THAT MY VIEW MATTERS TO ANY ONES TO NARROW. UM, I THINK IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE IN RESULT, THERE IS, YOU KNOW, UH, A DORMITORY FOR PEOPLE YOU'VE, YOU HAVEN'T ACCOMPLISHED TOO MUCH. UM, WHAT I THINK THE CONVERSATION MIGHT BE, UM, IS ONE RELATED ALSO TO THE ONGOING SUSTAINABILITY OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND AS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WILL COME TO MAKE A LIFE, NOT JUST COME TO, YOU KNOW, WORK IN A RESTAURANT. UM, AND IF, IF, IF THERE'S NOT A FOCUS ON DEVELOPING THE OVERALL ISLAND AS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN COME AND PERHAPS START OFF IN, UH, IN, IN, IN LOWER COST HOUSING, BUT BE ABLE TO MOVE ON TO, TO HAVE A, I MEAN, TO HAVE A LIFE HERE, YOU KNOW, RAISE YOUR FAMILY, SEND THEM TO SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, LIVE HERE. UM, UM, I'M NOT SURE THAT AGAIN, JUST FOCUSING ON WORKFORCE HOUSING IS WHAT MIGHT BE DESCRIBED AS, UH, AS, AS A, AS A DORMITORY IS, IS BROAD ENOUGH. I THINK THAT THE, THAT THE INTERCONNECTIVITY OF, OF ALL OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN LAID OUT HERE TODAY, UM, IS, IS TO ME ANYWAY, THE, THE, THE, THE MAIN TAKEAWAY FROM ALL THIS AND HOW IN ORDER TO, TO KEEP THE PLACE SUSTAINED, NOT JUST FOR THE, FOR THE VACATIONERS WHO ARE A TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT PART OF, OF THE EQUATION, BUT ALSO FOR THE COLLECTIVE WE HERE WHO MAKE THIS PLACE, OUR HOME, IT NEEDS TO BE A PLACE WHERE OTHER PEOPLE CAN COME AND MAKE IT THEIR HOME, AS OPPOSED TO JUST A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN COME TO LABOR. UM, WELL, I WANT TO THANK YOU MAYOR FOR THAT, AND THANK YOU, MARK AND STAFF FOR, UM, SUCH A GREAT OPPORTUNITY AND PRESENTATIONS AND ALL THE HARD WORK THAT WENT INTO THIS DRAFT. UM, AND, AND THANK YOU, CURTIS, BECAUSE, UM, YOU ECHO A LOT OF THE FEELINGS THAT I HAVE WITH REGARD TO WORKFORCE HOUSING, AND, YOU KNOW, WE STILL HAVEN'T REALLY CLEARLY FOR ME ANYWAY, MADE A, A GLOSSARY TERM OF WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY WORKFORCE AFFORDABLE, BUT WHAT WOULD, I MEAN, WHAT'S IN MY HEAD WHEN I THINK OF THAT IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG FAMILIES TO JOIN US HERE ON THE ISLAND, TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN AND TO BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR COMMUNITY. AND SO THE DORMITORIES, WHICH IS APTLY PUT SOME OF THE DISCUSSIONS IN THE PAST HAVE REVOLVED AROUND, UM, LIVING CONDITIONS THAT WOULD NOT ACCOMMODATE IN MY MIND GROWING FAMILIES OR, UM, GROWING SENSE OF BELONGING AND PERSONAL GROWTH HERE. AND SO THANK YOU, CURTIS, FOR LEADING THAT CONVERSATION IN THAT DIRECTION. UM, IT IS IMPORTANT. UM, AND, AND, AND AS LONG AS I'M THINKING ALONG THOSE LINES, THERE'S SOMETHING THAT I'VE BEEN, I'VE STARTED WORKING ON. IT STARTED BEFORE CAMP COVID AND HAVE RECENTLY PICKED IT UP AGAIN. BUT, UM, WE THINK ABOUT THOSE YOUNG FAMILIES ON OUR ISLAND, AND WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE, UM, NOT JUST HERE ON HILTON HEAD, NOT JUST IN BUFORD COUNTY, NOT JUST SOUTH CAROLINA, BUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WE HAD ISSUES WITH REGARD TO, UM, THE LEVEL OF EDUCATION AND THE CLASSIC EDUCATION THAT CHILDREN DESERVE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEIR GROWTH, NOT ONLY THROUGH THEIR ACADEMICS, BUT THROUGH THEIR EMOTIONAL LEARNING AS WELL. AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I THINK IT WOULD MAKE SMART AND MARK, UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT PERHAPS IF WITH AGREEMENT WE COULD LOOK AT, UM, PUTTING ON OUR LIST, UM, I, I THINK IT'S TIME THAT HILTON HEAD ISLAND BEING THE EXCELLENT COMMUNITY, EXPECTING HIGH STANDARDS, THOSE OF US WHO LIVE HERE APPRECIATE, UM, EDUCATION, UM, CONSIDER HOW WE PUT TOGETHER A CHARTER SCHOOL FOR THE ISLAND AND FOR OUR STUDENTS, HOW WE GIVE THEM SOMETHING BETTER THAN WHAT THEY ARE CURRENTLY GETTING, UM, SOMETHING THAT'S WITHIN REACH OF EVERYONE. AND SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE US TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE DO THAT FOR OURSELVES. NOT ONLY ARE WE CREATING ALL OF THESE THINGS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT TODAY, BUT IF WE DON'T EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN PROPERLY, UM, IN A CLASSICAL EDUCATION AND A PLACE WHERE THEY ARE, UM, UM, FEEL SAFE AND, [04:20:01] UH, ABLE TO GROW, UM, I THINK WE'VE DONE A DISSERVICE AND NONE OF THE REST OF THIS REALLY MATTERS. SO HAVING SAID THAT, UM, I MENTIONED THE GLOSSARY OF TERMS, UH, YET AGAIN, AND, AND I'M FINDING IT ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL THAT BEFORE WE ADOPTED THIS OR ANY STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WE HAVE CLEAR DEFINITION OF WORDING. UM, AS WE KNOW RECENTLY THERE WAS SOME CONTROVERSY, UM, THAT, UM, CAME UP AND I FIND THE SAME LANGUAGE INTO WOVEN THROUGHOUT THIS DOCUMENT. AND SO ONE PIECE THAT WE DIDN'T TOUCH UPON AND, AND IT'S NOT, UM, IT'S NOT TOO WELL. IT IS IT'S, IT HAS A LOT OF THE LANGUAGE THAT I'M MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, THROUGHOUT IT. AND THAT'S THE, UM, DEVELOP A HUMAN RESOURCES, STRATEGIC PLAN. I'VE GOT ALMOST RED AND YELLOW ALL OVER BECAUSE THERE'S LANGUAGE HERE, UM, AND IDEAS AND CONCEPTS AND STRATEGIES AND TACTICS, I GUESS, UM, THAT I WANT CLARITY ON. AND I WANT CLARITY, NOT BECAUSE OF ANYTHING THAT I CAN GET CALLED A NAME FOR, BUT BECAUSE OF THAT, IN FACT, WHAT I THINK OF WHAT MOST OF US THINK OF THOSE I'VE SPOKEN TO IN THE COMMON DEFINITIONS OF PARTICULAR WORDS ARE NOT NECESSARILY UTILIZED IN THAT WAY WHEN THEY'RE JUST SET FORTH IN A DOCUMENT. AND BECAUSE OF THAT, WE KNOW THAT WE'VE RUN INTO SOME TROUBLE. UM, AND I THINK THAT IT BEHOOVES US TO BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR THAT WHEN WE ARE CREATING WHAT WE KNOW TO BE TRUE AND VALUABLE, A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY THAT WE, UM, AND STRATEGIES FOR THAT, THAT WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT OTHER ITEMS SUCH AS CRITICAL RACE THEORY OR ANY OF THOSE THAT GO ALONG WITH THAT. AND I'M GOING TO BE ON THIS COUNCIL AND IN THIS TOWN FOR A VERY LONG TIME AND TO EVERY INCH OF MY ABILITY TO ENSURING THAT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN. I WANT TO MAKE SURE I WILL SHOW YOU THAT I WILL MAKE SURE. UM, AND FOR THAT MATTER, THE GLOSSARY BECOMES VERY, VERY IMPORTANT PRIOR TO ANY ADOPTION OF ANY STRATEGIC PLAN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND MARK, THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE OUR OPINIONS. UM, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, UM, MARK AND STAFF REALLY, I'M, I'M VERY PLEASED AND ENCOURAGED BY THE ORGANIZATION, THE BREADTH, THE DEPTH OF WHAT YOU'VE PRESENTED. UH, I'M ALSO ODD BY THE NUMBER OF THINGS THAT ARE OUTLINED IN THIS. I'M GLAD TO SEE SOME OF THE DATES AREN'T TWO TO 2021. UH, BUT I SEE DATES THAT ARE 2023 AND WISHED THAT THERE WERE 2021. SO THAT'S THE BALLGAME, UH, THE PLAN REFERENCES, A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT MASTER PLANS AND A BEACH MASTER PLAN, PARKING MASTER PLAN, STRATEGIC ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN, MID ISLAND, MASTER PLAN, MITCHELLVILLE, MASTER PLAN, GROWTH FRAMEWORK, MASTER PLAN, AND PROBABLY OTHERS. I AM COMFORTED BY YOUR COMMITMENT AND STAFF'S COMMITMENT TO PLAN SO THAT WE CAN MAKE BETTER DECISIONS AS THEY COME ALONG. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YES. UM, IF, IF Y'ALL, IF Y'ALL DIDN'T KNOW, UH, MR. ORLANDO WAS A HIGH SCHOOL QUARTERBACK, AM I CORRECT? YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TELL ANYBODY CAUSE NEAT. AND, UH, QUITE OFTEN AS THOSE ASTOUND ATHLETES AGE, I'M SORRY. UH, THEY, THEY DEVELOP INTO THE REALLY GOOD COACHES. RIGHT. AND, UM, I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT WE HIRED US A GOOD COACH. OKAY. AND I WANT TO THANK HIM FOR SHARING WHAT I WOULD DESCRIBE AS A PLAYBOOK. OKAY. AND HE'S GOT PLAYERS ON HIS STAFF TO GO GET THE JOB DONE RIGHT. AND WAS SHARING IT WITH THE COMMUNITY, WHICH COULD BE DESCRIBED AS THE FANS. UH, BUT END OF THE DAY, I THINK WE ALL WANT WINS. RIGHT. AND WE'VE GOT A COACH HERE THAT, UM, IS IT'S TELLING US OUT LOUD, UM, I'M READY TO WIN. OKAY. UM, AND AS A SIDE NOTE, I'M A DALLAS COWBOYS FAN. AND THANK GOD THAT JAMIE JONES IS NO LONGER GOING DOWN THERE AND TRYING TO CALL THE POLICE. UH, AND I THINK WE NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT ALSO, AS WE ASK THE COACH TO GO OUT AND GET US SOME [04:25:01] WINS, RIGHT. UM, THAT WE REMEMBER WHERE WE ARE AS FAR AS POLICY IS CONCERNED AND, UH, CONTINUE TO SUPPORT HIM IN THAT ASPECT. UM, SO I, UM, I'D ALSO WANT TO TAKE THIS TIME. I'VE, I'VE TALKED TO MR. ORLANDO ABOUT IT. I'VE TALKED TO, UH, THE MAYOR ABOUT IT. UM, AND IT'S CRUCIAL THAT WE HAVE, UH, MR. LANDELLS, UH, NO EVALUATION TIED TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN. RIGHT. I THINK I SENT EVERYONE A NOTE ABOUT THAT NOW. I THINK THAT'S CRUCIAL THAT WE HAVE THAT, UM, NOT ONLY THAT WE IN THE PUBLIC ARE MAKING SURE THAT MR. ORLANDO IS DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT IT ALSO REFLECTS THAT WE ARE SUPPORTING HIM. OKAY. AT THIS OLD DESK IN MY MIND, WHY IT'S SO CRITICAL THAT WE HAVE THAT, UM, AS WE MOVE FORWARD. SO I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'VE DONE. UH, MR. MAYOR, I APPRECIATE THE TIMELINE THAT YOU HAVE DEVELOPED WITH, UH, EXPEDITE THIS TO NOVEMBER 16TH. I THINK CLOSING IT BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR IS IMPORTANT SO THAT MR. ORLANDO CAN THEN START TO DEVELOP HIS BUDGET AROUND THE, THE PLAYBOOK. RIGHT. UM, HE NEEDS TO KNOW IF HE'S GOT TO GO OUT AND GET A GOOD RECEIVER, NOT RIGHT. SO, UM, I APPRECIATE THE TIMELINE. I APPRECIATE THE TIME WE SPENT HERE TOGETHER TODAY. UH, WE'RE IN A GOOD PLACE. UH, FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE AND CONFIDENT WITH US MOVING FORWARD. SO THANK YOU AGAIN, SIR, TO YOU AND YOUR STAFF. THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY. THANK YOU, MARK. I WITNESS YOU AND JOSH INTERESTED US THEREFORE, OVER THE LAST 90 DAYS TO PUT THIS PLAN TOGETHER, UM, TEXAS LATE AT NIGHT, AND YOU WERE STILL UP DOING THINGS. WHEN I WAS WATCHING THE BASEBALL GAMES, UH, I CAN'T GET TO THANK LISA FOR THE WORK SHE'S DONE ON YOUR EVALUATION. IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, TALK TO LISA. OKAY. THE, THE COUNCIL WE'LL GO OVER THAT EVALUATION STARTING ON NOVEMBER 2ND. UH, LISA HAS DONE A VERY GOOD JOB ON IT. BILL HAS CHECKED OUT TO MAKE SURE IT ALL WORKS AND THE ANSWERS ARE RIGHT AND EVERYTHING. SO WE'VE COME A LONG WAY, BUT YOU STAY UP AND YOU ARE GOING AN EXCELLENT JOB. YOU AN EXCELLENT HIRE. YOU ARE MY LEGACY. THE FACT THAT YOU'RE HERE, SO DON'T SCREW IT UP. OKAY. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU USE ALL THE ACCOLADES BEFORE THE THANK YOU STAFF FOR ALL THEY DID, AND THEY WERE ENTITLED TO ALL THOSE DOCUMENTS, BUT I MUST SAY THE COUNCIL IS ARTICULATE BRIGHT, BRILLIANT, CREATIVE, THOUGHTFUL. AND AS I ALWAYS TELL THE STAFF ALL THE TIME, WE TALKED THAT YOU ARE GENIUSES IN YOUR OWN, RIGHT? BUT WORKING TOGETHER, WE BECOME A REALLY GREAT GROUP BETWEEN YOURSELF, YOUR MANAGEMENT TEAM, THE STAFF OF THE, OF THE, OF THE TOWN AND THE COUNCIL GOT TOGETHER. WE BECOME A VERY GOOD GROUP AND I'M VERY APPRECIATIVE FOR THE MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL AND APPRECIATE OF YOURSELF AND YOUR STAFF. MARK. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT'S BEEN A GREAT COUNCIL, GREAT MEETING AND HAVE A GOOD DAY. THANK YOU. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.