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AND THEN EVERYONE IT'S 430 THE MONDAY APRIL 24, 2023 MEETING OF THE PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SAFETY COMMITTEE IS CALLED TO ORDER CHAIRMAN CUNNINGHAM IS UNABLE BE HERE PERSONALLY BUT HE IS HERE VIA ZOOM AND HE'S GOING TO HAVE SOME REMARKS AND BELIEVE TURN IT OVER TO ME ARE A BIG THANK YOU I YEAH I JUST FIGURED IT'D BE BETTER SUITED UP I EVEN HANDLED THIS TO BE THERE IN PERSON IS THE BEST WAY TO THINK ABOUT THAT SO I'M GOING TO TURN OVER MY DUTIES TODAY TO HIM AND I WILL BE HERE FOR SUPPORT HE IF HE NEEDS IT ALL RIGHT.
WITH THAT BEING IF EVERYONE COULD PLEASE RISE AND START WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND EVERYBODY FOR WHICH EXPERIENCE ONE NATION UNDER, GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR IN PUBLIC
[4. APPROVAL OF AGENDA]
NOTIFICATION OF THIS MEETING HAS BEEN PUBLISHED, POSTED AND DISTRIBUTED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SOUTH CAROLINA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT. DO I HAVE A MOTION IN A SECOND FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA ? I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE[5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES - February 27, 2023]
SECOND THANK YOU. ANY NO OBJECTION THE AGENDA IS APPROVED MOVING INTO ITEM FIVE THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM FEBRUARY 27TH 2023. CAN I GET A MOTION IN SECOND FOR APPROVAL? SO MOVE SECOND PLEASE. ALL RIGHT ANY ANY DISCUSSION? NO I'M SEEING NO OBJECTION THE MINUTES ARE APPROVED. MOVING INTO THE NEXT ITEM THE CITIZENS COMMENT PERIOD DO WE HAVE ANYONE SIGNED UP TO DISCUSS TO DISCUSS AGENDA ITEMS TODAY SEEING NONE. I WILL CLOSE THE CITIZENS PERIOD AND MOVE INTO THE AGENDA[7. RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR TO ENTER INTO A LEASE AGREEMENT FOR REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 32 HUNTER ROAD WITH ACE HARDWARE OF HILTON HEAD]
ITEMS THE FIRST AGENDA THE FIRST AGENDA ITEM WITH ITEM SEVEN IS RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ADMINISTRATOR TO ENTER INTO A LEASE AGREEMENT FOR REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 3200 ROAD WITH ACE HARDWARE OF HILTON HEAD DO I HAVE A MOTION A MOTION ANY SECOND ON SECOND ALL RIGHT ANY DISCUSSION IS DONE HERE JOHN.WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE CONTRACT AT ALL OR DOES ANYBODY NEED JOHN TO PRESENT? NO. ALL RIGHT. SO NO DISCUSSION AND NO LEAVE OUT THE ISSUE MEAN THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO JUST RELEASE BUILDING? I BELIEVE SO YES IT IS TIED TO NEXT ONE AS WELL AND THE EIGHT. YES.
OKAY UM OKAY. THESE ARE PROPERTIES THAT COUNT SO AUTHORIZE US TO BUY TIME AGO WITH THE FOR THE BOUNDARY AROUND THE BOUNDARY TO TO HILTON HEAD ISLAND AIRPORT WE'RE JUST LEASING THOSE PROPERTIES UNTIL WE'RE ABLE TO DISPOSE OF THOSE BUILDINGS WITH THE AIRPORT IMPROVEMENTS NO NEED FOR THEM TO SIT THERE VACANT THAT YOU APPRECIATE IT.
THANK YOU. AND IT DOES APPEAR THAT THIS PARTICULAR LEASE GENERATE $24,795 IN ANNUAL LEASE REVENUE. IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS AGENDA ITEM SEEING NON DO WE ANY OBJECTION TO THIS MASSIVE NO SEE NO OBJECTION IS
[8. RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR TO ENTER INTO A LEASE AGREEMENT AND COMMERCIAL OPERATING AGREEMENT FOR REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 32 HUNTER ROAD WITH GITIBIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC DBA GO RENTALS]
PASSED MOVING INTO ITEM EIGHT RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY TO ENTER INTO A LEASE AGREEMENT AND COMMERCIAL OPERATING AGREEMENT REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 32 HUNTER ROAD WITH GIDEON AND LLC DOING BUSINESS AS GO RENTALS GO MOVE SOME MOVES THERE SECOND OUR SECOND ANY DISCUSSION I THINK THIS ONE IS INTERESTING BECAUSE IT TALKS ABOUT THIS THIS GROUP THAT WANTS TO RENT IT IS A CAR RENTAL COMPANY IT WOULD WELL SERVE THE AIRPORT PEOPLE COMING IN TO AIRPORT AND THEN GET A CAR RENTAL RIGHT.SO I THOUGHT THIS WAS SO 200 ROAD THESE ARE BOTH AT THE SAME PLACE.
MM. AND IN ADDITION SO THIS WOULD GENERATE $16,947.72 ANNUALLY IN ADDITION TO 10% OF THE GROSS REVENUES FOR THE PARKING SPACES SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION OF MOVING FORWARD TO A MOTION TO APPROVE THIS AGENDA ITEM LIKE THE TO APPROVE SO ANY
[9. RECOMMEND APPROVAL TO AWARD IFB #011223E BEAUFORT COUNTY DIRT ROAD ROCKING CONTRACT #54 TO J.H. HIERS FOR COUNTY OWNED ROADS ($5,291,646.80)]
OBJECTION SEEING NO OBJECTION IT IS APPROVED AND MOVING IN TO AGENDA ITEM NINE RECOMMEND APPROVAL TO A WARD BEAUFORT COUNTY DIRT ROAD ROCKING CONTRACT TO GEORGE HIRED COUNTY OWNED ROADS SO MOVE I'LL SECOND THAT ALL RIGHT ANY DISCUSSION I WOULD LIKE TO WOULD QUESTION[00:05:08]
WHEN WE SINCE WE'RE GIVING THE CONTRACT TO JH AYRES DO WE GO OUT LIKE THREE BIDS IT SAID THEY WERE THE SOLE BIDDER AND SO THEN WE DON'T GO OUT FOR OTHER BIDS TO SEE WE DO GO OUT FOR OTHER BIDS BUT NOT SOMETIMES PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE THE CAPABILITY.THIS IS FOR WORK ON THE FIRST GALLON AND ACTUAL MATERIALS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE BARGED IN SO NOT EVERYBODY HAS THAT CAPABILITY TO DO THAT. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS MATERIAL IS GOING TO BE COMING IN FROM ACTUALLY CANADA TO GET TO THE US IS THANK YOU SEE WE DIDN'T DISAGREE WE THE THE YOU KNOW UNDERSTAND THE CTSI ACTUALLY CONSOLIDATED ALL THESE SO THAT IT BE A ONE TIME THING FOR THESE THREE ROADS WHAT HAPPENS TO LEGACY ROAD ON ON THE FIRST YOU WHERE IS THAT WELL THERE ARE SOME YOU SEE THE ROADS ON THE FIRST GIVEN THE MAIN ROAD THEY'RE GOING TO BE HERE TALKING ABOUT THE IT YEAH YES YEAH WE'RE STILL IN LITIGATION ON THAT OKAY WAITING ON A HEARING THAT'S OKAY AND. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO ADD TO THAT TOO. SO THIS IS PART OF OUR TAG. SO CTSI HAS BEEN INVOLVED BEFORE BUT WE USUALLY PAY FOR THEIR REPAVING OUT OF OUR TAG PROGRAM AND HAVE A FIVE YEAR PAYMENT SCHEDULE AND PREVIOUSLY ITERATION. WE HAD ONE ROAD PROSPECT ROAD WAS IN YEAR THREE AND THEN SCHOOL ROAD AND CHURCH ROAD WE'RE IN YEAR FOUR AND THE FIRST GARLAND COUNCIL APPROACHED US PREVIOUSLY AND ASKED THAT ONE WE SWITCH OUT PROSPECT ROAD FOR FRANCIS ROAD AND TWO THAT THE ROADS NOT BE PAID BUT THEY BROUGHT AND THEN WE STAFF CONSOLIDATED THEM FROM YEAR THREE AND YEAR FOUR AND PUT THEM ALL IN ONE YEAR SO THAT WE COULD GET ECONOMIES OF SCALE FOR TRANSPORTATION LOGISTICS AND WE'LL GO BACK FOR PROSPECT ROAD IN SOME OTHER FUTURE IN THE LITIGATION. THAT'S GREAT.
IT'LL GET REENTERED INTO THE LIST AFTERWARDS BUT IT WAS REQUESTED THE FIRST IN COUNCIL TO USE WHAT THE ROADS THERE. THANK YOU MR. FREY. I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY FOR THE RECORD THESE ARE ONLY COUNTY ROADS CORRECT THAT THAT ARE BEING PAVED NOTHING ELSE.
THAT'S CORRECT RIGHT IS PART OF OUR DIRT ROAD PAVING PROGRAM WHICH IS ONLY ON OUR COUNTY OWN ROADS. THAT'S CORRECT. THANK LOGAN AS YOU SAID UP TO NO. YES. I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE ONE OF MY QUESTIONS AND THE OTHER ONE WAS CAN YOU TALK ABOUT DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH MONEY WE WERE ABLE TO SAVE THE TAXPAYERS CONSOLIDATING THAT? NO, NOT A REAL GOOD ESTIMATE JUST BESIDES THE FACT THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO WE HAD A MORE THAN OUR TRADITIONAL COST BECAUSE OF THE LOGISTICS OF GETTING SO THERE'S A SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. I DON'T HAVE A REAL GOOD ESTIMATE OF SPECIFICALLY HOW MANY THOUSAND THAT SAVED BUT DEFINITELY A GUARANTEE OF SAVINGS FROM THE COST THANK YOU. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION SAYING NO FOR THE DISCUSSION? IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE OR DENY? IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE
[10. RECOMMEND APPROVAL TO AWARD THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND INSPECTION FOR THE SC 170 NEAR-TERM IMPROVEMENTS TO HDR ($673,351.48)]
MOVE? IS THERE A SECOND CHANCE I CAN DO ANYBODY ANY NO SEEING NO OBJECTION THAT IS APPROVED AND MOVING ON TO THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM WHICH IS RECOMMEND APPROVAL TO AWARD THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND INSPECTION FOR THE SOUTH CAROLINA 170 NEAR TERM IMPROVEMENTS TO HDR SO MOVED ANY DISCUSSION I HAVE A QUESTION YOU KNOW I LOVE TO ASK YOUR QUESTIONS SO FOR THE APPLICATION OF OUR AUDIENCE AND ANYBODY LISTENING CAN YOU TALK ABOUT SAFETY AND CAPACITY IMPROVEMENTS ALONG 170 FROM OKATIE CENTER SOUTH TO SOUTH CAROLINA FOR 62 AND SO THEY HAVE READ THIS IT'S RESURFACED TURN LANE IN INTERCHANGE IMPROVEMENT SIGNAL BLAH BLAH CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT FOR PEOPLE. YEP. SO IN 2019 THERE WAS A STUDY COMMISSIONED BY LAS OUR REGIONAL PLANNING ORGANIZATION TO WHAT IMPROVEMENTS NEED TO BE DONE ON 70. OUT OF THAT STUDY CAME A SERIES OF RECOMMENDATIONS WITH SOME SHORT TERM INTERMEDIATE AND LONG TERM PROVISIONS. THE LONG TERM PROVISIONS WOULD BE WIDENING THE FOUR AND A HALF MILE SEGMENT FROM UGLY CENTER SOUTH ALL THE WAY UP TO 462 FROM FOUR LANES TO SIX LANES AS WELL AS SAFETY INITIATIVES AT SPECIFIC INTERSECTIONS AND THAT IS A VERY LARGE PROJECT THAT WILL TAKE TIME DEVELOP AND DESIGN AND PERMIT.SO THEY ALSO PROVIDED SOME SHORT SOLUTIONS THAT WILL MAKE SOME IMMEDIATE RELIEF BUT NOT OBVIOUSLY THE FULL FINALITY OF THE RELIEF PLAN SO THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE IN FRONT OF US IS THE SHORT TERM PROJECTS AND THERE'S FIVE SPECIFIC INTERSECTIONS THREE CENTERS
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SOUTH. THERE'S SOME IMPROVEMENTS THEY'RE GETTING GETTING OUT OF INTERSECTION. THE KEY ONE IS AT THE INTERCHANGE OF US 278 AND 170 MAKING SOME PROVISIONS WHERE THAT KIND OF STARTS GETTING CONGESTED RIGHT THERE AS WELL GETTING OUT OF OKATIE CENTER NORTH THERE WOULD BE SOME ENHANCEMENTS TO THAT INTERSECTION TO MAKE SAFETY A LOT BETTER IN THAT MOST RECENTLY WAS TIED WATCH AND I'LL COME BACK TO THAT BUT TOD WATCH THERE ARE SOME IMPROVEMENTS THERE LEFT TURN SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS AND CHERRY HILL ADDITIONAL SIGNAL TO ADVANCE WARNING SIGNAL AT CHERRY HILL IMPROVEMENTS AT ARGENT BOULEVARD AND THEN IMPROVEMENTS AT 462.SO THOSE WERE THE FIVE AREAS TO BE ADDRESSED IN THIS MOSTLY WITHIN THE EXISTING CONFINES THE EXISTING PAVEMENT AGAIN AS A SHORT TERM TEMPORARY HOLD OVER AT TAD WATCH WE WE JUST GOT PERMISSION FROM DOTTIE NOT LONG AGO THAT YES WE COULD THAT LEFT TURN SIGNAL THERE WASN'T INITIALLY SOMETHING THAT VIEWED FAVORABLY UPON FROM WE WERE ABLE TO COORDINATE WITH DOTTIE APPRECIATE IT THERE IS A LOT OF OF PEOPLE IN THE ROOM THAT HELPED OUT ON THAT AND APPRECIATE ALL THE AND THAT WAS A EXPECTED WEEKS AGO A 10 TO 12 THEY TURN AROUND BUT WE ACTUALLY JUST COMPLETED IT IN SEVEN DAYS AND THE LEFT TURN SIGNAL I THINK JIM INVESTMENT TOLD ME IT WAS INSTALLED TODAY SO IT IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL I'M GLAD WE COULD GET THAT ONE IN AHEAD OF THE GAME BUT THOSE ARE THE INTERSECTIONS ARE THIS PROJECT SO WHAT'S THE TIMELINE ON THIS JUST I KNOW TO AVOID THE WHOLE AREA. YEAH YEAH ABSOLUTELY SO FIRST OF ALL THE WORK WILL MOST OF THE WORK WILL OCCUR AT NIGHT TIME SO IF IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRAVELING THIS IS A ROAD THAT DOTTIE DOES NOT ALLOW US TO WORK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAYTIME FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. OKAY SO IT WON'T BE TOO BAD THERE MAY BE SOME SHOULDER WORK . WE INTEND TO GO OUT IN A BIT AND THEN IN THE COMING WEEKS WE'RE FINALIZING SOME DETAILS WITH DOTTIE BECAUSE WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE RESURFACING HERE AND TOGETHER THEIR PROJECT WITH OUR PROJECT. SO AS SOON AS WE THAT FINAL APPROVAL WE'LL PUT IT OUT TO BID HOPEFULLY IN THE COMING WEEKS BY THE TIME WE GET THAT PROCURED AND APPROVED AT THE COUNTY COUNCIL IS THREE OR FOUR MONTHS AWAY.
SO OUR HOPE IS BY THE END OF THE YEAR THAT THESE IMPROVEMENTS WOULD START TOWARDS MIDDLE OF THE SUMMER AND DONE BY THE END OF THE YEAR AS OUR GAME PLAN.
SO THESE SHOULD SERIOUSLY HOW MANY NICKELS WE GET ABOUT THE ACCIDENTS AND I HOPE SO.
OKAY YEAH IT'S LIKE DAILY NICK SO YEAH I CAN UNDERSTAND. THANK YOU.
YES. ANY ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION YES OR NO? YEAH. WELL IN THE CONTRACT I HIGHLIGHTED TWO WORDS ONE IS DRAINAGE AND THE OTHER ONE WAS TWO WORDS PUBLIC SPEAKING THAT'S IN THE BACK THERE OF INFORMATION BUT THAT'S NOT RELEVANT TOO MUCH AS LONG AS THEY'VE WORKED FOR A LOT OF THE TRANSLATING IT TO YOU YOU TRANSLATED TO US AS CORRECT I DON'T WANT THEM TO TRANSLATE TO NONE. OKAY THAT'S A YEAH NO IT'LL BE COMING THROUGH STAFF DRAINAGE AND I'M GOING TO REFER TO HIGHWAY 21 SEA ISLAND PARKWAY WITH THE STATE D.O.T. AND MOST OF THE DRAINAGE ON ALONG HIGHWAY 21 IS IN THE KITCHEN. I DON'T KNOW THEY CALL THEM CATCH BASIN IS THAT THE SAME ISSUE ON ONE SEVEN THEY HAVE CATCH BASIN AND MY CONCERN CATCH BASINS IS THAT WITH ALL THE DOWNPOUR WE ARE HAVING ONCE THAT BASIN FULL TO CAPACITY THERE'S NO OTHER PLACE TO GO OTHER THAN IN IN PEOPLE'S YARD. YEAH WE NEED TO AVOID THAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE IMPROVEMENT ON DRAINAGE IS LIKE THAT IT IS.
I HOPE THAT WE CAN DO ABOUT THAT. YEAH ON DRAINAGE ON THIS PROJECT IS IS VERY MINIMAL WE'RE TRYING TO STAY WITHIN THE CONFINES OF EXISTING PAVEMENT DRAINAGE IN GENERAL YOU EITHER HAVE A DITCH OR YOU HAVE A CLOSED DRAIN OPEN DRAINAGE SECTION OR A CLOSED DRAINAGE SYSTEM. BOTH ARE SIZED FOR A CERTAIN YEAR STORM SO IF WE HAVE SIX INCHES OF RAIN IN HOUR BOTH ARE GOING TO BE TAXED TO THE POINT WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO THEY'RE GOING TO BE HARD TO KEEP UP BUT MAINTAINING THAT'S SOMETHING WE WORK WITH D.O.T. ON THEIR ROAD NETWORK TO HELP THEM ARE THEY INFORMED THEN WHEN THERE'S AN AREA THAT NEEDS A MAINTENANCE AND THEN WE IT'S ON OUR ROAD NETWORK FOR US TO MAINTAIN WELL MOST OF THE PROBLEM HAVING I MEAN I'M AN EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT 170 I'M TALKING ABOUT OF ZERO BUT WE IS BECAUSE OF THOSE CATCH BASIN AND IF WE CAN WORK TOWARD WORKING WITH D.O.T. TO DO SOMETHING BETTER I EITHER RETENTION POND OR AN OUTFLOW CONNECTION IN OUR CANALS BUT RIGHT NOW ALL THAT WATER STAYS IN THE BASIN WHEN IT OVERFLOWS IT ENDS UP IN
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PEOPLE'S YARD AND IT LOOKS LIKE WATERFRONT PROPERTY IN MOST CASES BUT THEN IF YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC AREA JUST LET ME KNOW AND WE CAN WORK WITH D.O.T. TO PUT A MAINTENANCE REQUEST BUT IN GENERAL I WANT YOU RIGHT NOW TO USE THIS COMMUNITY AS ONE OF IT.LET'S GET JEFF AND GET THE SPECIFICS AND THEN WE CAN WORK COORDINATE WITH D.O.T., APPRECIATE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION SO NO FURTHER DISCUSSION CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE THIS AGENDA ITEM YOU YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY THEN ANY ANY TO THIS PASSING SAYING NO OBJECTION THIS IS APPROVED AND MR. CHAIRMAN DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENT BEFORE I ADJOURN OTHER THAN YOU DID A FABULOUS JOB FOR ME IN THAT WAY WELL I TELL YOU WHAT WE MADE IT AND I APPRECIATE FOR DOING IT. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. BUT WE MAY HAVE SET A RECORD 16 MINUTES AND WE ARE ADJOURNED
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