May 13, 2025 Bluffton Town Council

[I. CALL TO ORDER]

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. 13. BEFORE I CALL THIS FOOD ORDER WOULD LIKE TO JUST TAKE A MOMENT OF SILENCE ON BEHALF OF MAYOR TOUMA LOST A BROTHER YESTERDAY AND IF YOU WOULD JUST VALUE HIS TAKE HIS SILENCE AND WE'LL COME BACK TO ORDER.

THANK YOU. YOU WILL PLEASE RISE WITH PLEASURE TO BE WITH YOU JUST TO PROVIDE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE WHICH STANDS BY NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THIS BURDEN EVERYONE WITH THEIR HEAD IS WITH ME. YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER. LORD, I THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY . I THANK YOU FOR ALL MY FELLOW COUNCILMEN, FOR OUR TOWN STAFF AND ALL THE RESIDTS. LONDON. I PRAY OVER NIGHT TONIGHT.

I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD INSTRUCT TO GO. I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD GIVE US COUNSEL A SURRENDER AND SUBMIT TO YOUR WILL. I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD PROTECT OUR TOWN FROM ALL TROUBLE AND I PRAY THAT WE WOULD TRUST IN YOU KNOWING THAT AS WE DO YOUR FAITHFUL LEVELS SURROUND US. PLEASE BE WITH MAYOR TOUMA, HIS FAMILY DURING THIS TIME AND ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS LOST A LOVED ONE. I PRAY ALL THIS IN YOUR SON'S

[IV. ADOPTION OF THE MINUTES]

I WOULD LIKE TO SEEK A PROMOTION OF THE REGULAR MEETING MINUTES IF THERE'S NO CHANGES. 1/2. ALL RIGHT.

ANY DISCUSSION ALL IN FAVOR. SAY I. ALL RIGHT.

ANY OPPOSED THEORIES FOR THE QUARTERLY WORKSHOP MINUTES OR ARE THERE ANY TO THOSE MINUTES DURING NONE? I WOULD LIKE A MOTION FOR THAT PLEASE.

SO ME OH A DISCUSSION NONE. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I I MOTION CARRIES AND WE MOVE ON TO

[V. PRESENTATIONS, CELEBRATIONS, AND RECOGNITIONS]

THANK YOU. YEAH, I HELP THE COUNCIL GO OUT, SIR.

SHE SHE GOT IN A SELF CONTROL WHICH I'LL SO THIS IS DUE TO THE MONTH THERE ARE LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS IN THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON AND YOU WERE CHOSEN SO WE'RE VERY PROUD OF YOU AND YOUR CHARACTER TRAIT IS SELF CONTROL AND I WAS JUST CURIOUS IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING BEFORE WE PASS IT OFF THAT YOUR TEACHER YOUR MOM I'D LIKE TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR BEING HERE AND FOR EXCUSING YOUR TIME LIKE THIS BEING HERE TO SUPPORT ME IN GETTING FORWARD AND THANK MS. BENSON MR. HALL FOR NOMINATING ME LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE NOW MAYBE IF GREATLY APPRECIATED IT WELL WE'RE PROUD OF YOU. THIS WHOLE COUNCIL IS PROUD OF YOU THIS DOING THIS JOKE SAY SOMETHING DEFINITELY I WOULD LOVE TO SAY THAT SHE'S SO DESERVING OF PLEASE REFER TO HER AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND SO IT'S BEEN INTERESTING AND BEAUTIFUL GETTING TO KNOW ALL THE STUDENTS AND SEEING HOW THEY GROW AND OUT OF THAT SHE'S GROWN ACADEMICALLY. SHE GREW ON THE COURT BASKETBALL AND MORE IMPORTANTLY WITH HER PEERS ENCOURAGING THEM TO MAKE GOOD DECISIONS AND LOOK AT THEIR POSTSECONDARY GOALS SO VERY PROUD OF HER. BLUFFTON VERY NICE. AND YOU'RE IN THE 10TH GRADE, RIGHT? YES. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO YEAH SO RAYLAN I'LL NEVER FORGET ONE OF THE FIRST COUPLE OF DAYS THROUGH THE DOORS WITH IT BEING MY FIRST YEAR OF THE HIGH SCHOOL. YOU KNOW, I JUST KIND OF INTRODUCED AS TO WHAT HER NAME WAS AND THEN THE FOLLOWING DAY, YOU KNOW, I'M LIKE HEY, GOOD MORNING BRANDON. YOU KNOW MY NAME IS AND SO THAT WAS KIND OF THE START A RELATIONSHIP WHICH WAS GREAT THIS YEAR BUT GETTING TO KNOW HER AND KNOW WHAT SHE WAS ON WHICH IS ALL ABOUT IS TREMENDOUS. AND HERE'S SOME STORIES ABOUT KIND OF HOW SHE CENTERED HERSELF LAST YEAR AS A FRESHMAN, HOW SHE HOW SHE'S GROWN THIS YEAR AND SOME OF THE SOME OF WHAT SHE'S CONCENTRATING ON PERSONALLY AND

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SHE'S REALLY STRUGGLING TO TURN THE CORNER AND STARTING TO SEE HOW ACADEMICS AND SEE IN HIS LYRICS AND AND ALL THOSE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HER PEERS AND THE ADULTS IN HER LIFE ARE GOING TO START PAYING DIVIDENDS LATER ON IN LIFE. SO VERY, VERY PROUD OF HER AND SELF-CONTROL THAT SHE'S BEEN DISPLAYING THIS YEAR AND WE JUST ARE EXCITED TO SEE WHERE IT TAKES HER IN THESE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS IN HIGH SCHOOL .

WELL, I WANT YOU TO DO SOMETHING FOR ME WHICH YOU AROUND LOOK RIGHT ACROSS THIS TABLE HERE THERE'S A TEACHER FOR YOU IF YOU GET OUT OF COLLEGE THERE IS.

BUT BEFORE THAT CAN BE DONE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND APPRECIATE IT.

AND THIS IS FOR YOU. IS THERE SOMETHING HERE IF YOU WERE TO GO BACK AND VOTE FOR ME THINK AND WE HAVE A LITTLE EXTRA FOR YOU. YEAH IT IS MAY YOUR LIFE TO SAY WE DON'T JUST NOT JUST ANYONE CAN GET THESE CALLS OKAY WE DON'T PUT THEM OUT ON THE STREET SO YOU HAVE SOME SPECIAL MOMENTS AND WE'RE AGAIN WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU'VE ACCOMPLISHED IF YOU HAVE CARDS YOU CAN USE IT. IT'S BEEN WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. I REGRET ANY WHICH WAY I ALSO THINK YOU KNOW ALL OH AND THE OTHER THING THAT COULD BE HELPFUL BE ONE MORE OR A RELATIVE THE OH THAT'S NOT ACCURATE YOU ALL RIGHT SO IS CLAUDIA AND NICK IN THE ROOM.

THIS IS NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS PROCLAMATION. PLEASE COME UP IF YOU WILL.

I WANT DO ME A FAVOR. SO YOUR LAST NAME AND YOUR LADY THAT I WAS CLOSE.

ALL RIGHT, SO YOU'RE WITH THE CHANGE FOR HEALTHY YOUTH. YES.

AND THIS PROCLAMATION THE MONTH OF MAY IS DEDICATED TO INCREASING PUBLIC AWARENESS AROUND THE MENTAL AND WELLNESS OF YOUTH AND ADULTS. ONE OUT OF FIVE CHILDREN EXPERIENCE A MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER A GIVEN YEAR AND A HALF OF ALL LIFETIME CASES OF MENTAL ILLNESSES BEGIN BY THE AGE OF 14. THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON THE EFFORTS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ALLIANCE FOR HEALTHY YOUTH COALITION AND THE HEALTHY YOUTH COALITION IS AWARENESS AND PROMOTING MENTAL HEALTH WELLNESS.

I WOULD ALONG WITH BLUFFTON TOWN COUNCIL DO HEREBY THE MONTH OF MAY AS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING? PLEASE. GOOD EVENING. WE REPRESENT TO YOU BELLEVUE AN INITIATIVE OF LOCAL TREE FOR HEALTHY YOUTH COMMUNITIES. OUR VISION IS TO PROMOTE POSITIVE TEEN HELP. WE HAVE CHAPTERS IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS OF BLUFFTON ON BEHALF OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ALLIANCE FOR HEALTHY YOUTH AND TEENS FOR HEALTHY YOUTH.

WE ARE HONORED TO ACCEPT THIS POPULATION. WELL, THANK YOU.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING? THIS PLACE PROCLAIMED AS A NATIONAL MULTICULTURAL RIVERSIDE MAY HOLD A SPECIAL FOR COMMUNITIES THAT REPRESENTS A COMMON GOAL TO SUPPORT HEALTHY YOU AND HEALTHY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT.

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK TOWN COUNCIL AND FORTUNATELY WE REALIZE MAYOR TUMA WASN'T ABLE TO JOIN US BUT WE'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK HIM FOR HIS CONTINUED SUPPORT OF OUR YOUTH.

THANK YOU. OH, THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE IT.

BELIEVE YOU THIS AWARD AND I'M SURE THEY'RE GOING TO WANT TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS AS TYPICALLY EQUALS. GREAT. ARE YOU READY? DO TAKE THE WHITE PAPER OFF THE FOLKS OUT. I'LL LEARN.

ALL RIGHT. READY? ONE, TWO, THREE.

I GOT IT. YES. YOU'RE GOING TO APPRECIATE IT.

SO AMY, ARE YOU IN THE ROOM? I'M BRINGING A FRIEND. I HOPE YOU DO.

HELLO, FRIEND. STEPHANIE. STEPHANIE, GOOD TO SEE YOU.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. THANK YOU.

SO TONIGHT IS SCLEROSIS AWARENESS DAY. DID I SAY THAT CORRECTLY?

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THIS DISEASE THE LEADING GENETIC CAUSE EPILEPSY AND I PROCLAIM THE MAYOR PROCLAIMS MAY 15, 2025 AS TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX. AWARENESS AND SO I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO SAY SOMETHING. OKAY. UM, MY DAUGHTER CHLOE'S IN THE AUDIENCE SHE SHE JUST TURNED 19 AND SHE HAS TO SEE. AND SO I'VE JUST BEEN VOLUNTEERING WITH THE TSC ALLIANCE FOR THE PAST. HOWEVER MANY YEARS.

IT'S BEEN 15 YEARS I GUESS AND PRETTY MILDLY AFFECTED BUT AT EVERY THE WAY PEOPLE ARE BY IT IT CAUSES TUMORS TO GROW REALLY HARD. WELL, KIDNEYS, LIVER, ETC..

SO THIS IS A RARE DISEASE ONE IN 6000 BIRTHS HAVE GFC. AND SHE JUST HAPPENS TO LIVE IN BLUFFTON. AND DO YOU WANT TO JUST TELL ME UM.

I HAVE TO ASK AS WELL AND SO I AM WITH CHLOE ON THE MILDER END OF THE SPECTRUM ONLY EVER HAD INVOLVEMENT IN MY KIDNEYS WHICH ACTUALLY ALMOST TOOK MY LIFE 16 WITH KIDNEY TUMORS AND THINGS LIKE THAT MASSIVE INFECTION. THAT WAS A LONG STORY BUT MY DAUGHTER WHO'S WITH US HERE IS ,IVY HURST AND SHE'S PRETTY AWESOME. SHE'S TEN YEARS OLD AND SHE HAS ON THE SEVERE END OF THE SPECTRUM LET'S SEE SHE HAS EPILEPSY.

SHE HAS SEVERE AUTISM. SO WE WOULD BRING HER UP HERE BUT THAT WOULD FREAK ME OUT SO WON'T DO THAT. BUT SHE HAS UNINHIBITED LIKE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE SHE LOVES WITHOUT A AND THEN AND OUR HOPE AND ONE THING I WANTED TO SAY WAS IT'S AMAZING WHEN YOU WHEN YOU HAVE A CHILD ON WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES THE KINDNESS THAT EVOKES OUT OF PEOPLE WHEN SHE'S IN HER WHEELCHAIR PEOPLE OPEN THE DOORS FOR YOU THEY RUN TO HELP YOU KIND.

THEY SMILE, THEY WAVE. YOU DON'T SEE THAT AS MUCH WHEN SHE'S NOT AS VISIBLY DISABLED.

AND MY HOPE IS THAT IT EVOKES KINDNESS. IT PROMPTS PEOPLE TO KIND NO MATTER IF THEY SEE A DISABILITY OR NOT AND THAT THAT KINDNESS THAT YOU FEELING VOTE TOWARDS SPECIAL NEEDS THAT YOU WOULD BE PROMPTED TO BE KIND TO EVERYONE BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S STRUGGLING WITH SOMETHING AND THAT WE WOULD FROM THE ONE WHO INVENTED KINDNESS HIMSELF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD WHO WAS THE MASTER OF INCLUSION HE COULD INCLUDE IN US NOT BECAUSE HE NEEDED US BUT BECAUSE HE JUST LOVED US. WE BRING NOTHING TO THE KINGDOM BUT HE LOVES US.

THAT'S WHAT TRUE INCLUSION IS JUST LOVE AND INCLUDE NOT BECAUSE THERE'S BENEFIT THERE BUT BECAUSE LOVE AND JESUS CHRIST IS IS THE ANSWER TO THAT WHO WE THANK YOU BOTH FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING FOR THE COMMUNITY WE DO EMPATHIZE WE HAVE PASSION AND COMPASSION AND WE'RE PASSIONATE WE HAVE WE HAVE FAMILIES HERE SO OUR HEARTS OUT TO YOU.

I THINK MOST FAMILIES AT SOME POINT HAVE HAD SOMEBODY THE FAMILY THAT DOESN'T GET THAT THE ROLL OF THE DICE THE WAY MOST OF US DO AND THEN THEY HAVE BRIDGES TO CLIMB OR MOUNTAINS TO TO CLIMB BRIDGES TO CROSS. SO WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE DOING WITH COMMUNITY AND AND WE JUST WISH YOU ALL WELL AS WELL AS YOUR DOG. SO THANK YOU AND WE APPRECIATE THIS.

THANK YOU. THANK THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

READY? I GOT IT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

APPRECIATE THE DAY OF THE WHOLE CASE DAY FOR STARTERS. IS THERE ANYBODY THE ROOM THAT'S REALLY SPECIAL TO YOU? WOULD YOU VOICE OUT MAMA BEAR WORKS WITH SO TOURETTE'S SYNDROME AWARENESS MONTH TOURETTE'S SYNDROME I KNOW TRUMP SAYING THAT CORRECTLY IS AN INHERITED NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER AN ESTIMATED 22,246 SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN IN SOUTH CAROLINA DEALING WITH TOURETTE SYNDROME. THERE'S AN IMPORTANT NEED FOR MORE PROFESSIONAL HELP TO IDENTIFY TO TREAT PEOPLE WITH TOURETTE SYNDROME.

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PRO TEM AND GOOD EVENING. TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS DAVID ROTH AND I'M AN EIGHTH GRADER AT MCCRACKEN MIDDLE SCHOOL ACCORDING TO THE TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ONE IN EVERY 160 CHILDREN HAS TOURETTE. SO STATISTICALLY SPEAKING THERE IS AROUND 134 KIDS MYSELF INCLUDED WITH DISORDER IN THE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

THESE ARE MY PEERS THE NEXT GENERATION OF CHILDREN FORCED TO LIVE WITH THE CONDITION MAKES THEM UNCONTROLLABLY TWITCH AND VOCALIZE THE THE VERY SAME CONDITION THAT MAKES THEM TARGETS OF RIDICULE AND BULLYING AS SUCH. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR SIGNING THIS PROCLAMATION OF TOURETTE'S SYNDROME AWARENESS MONTH AND ENSURING THAT THE TROUBLES OF THESE CHILDREN DON'T GET IGNORED. THANK YOU AGAIN.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR VERY, VERY NICE WORK. I THINK YOU APPRECIATE APPRECIATE IT. JIMMY SO THIS IS HISTORIC PRESERVATION MONTH PROCLAMATION SO GLEN AND BRUCE I'VE GOT JAN AND NICKY PLEASE RESEARCH. YEAH, WE'RE TOGETHER.

YEAH. THE NATIONAL FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION ESTABLISHED MAKING NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION MONTH IN 1973 TO PROMOTE HISTORIC PLACES IN 2007, TOWN COUNCIL ESTABLISHES THE LOCAL OLD TOWN BLUFFTON HISTORIC DISTRICT THAT IS COMPRISED OF 86 CONTRIBUTING RESOURCES ON MAY 2025 THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON, AN HISTORIC BLUFFTON FOUNDATION WILL HOST THE 10TH ANNUAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION SYMPOSIUM .

MAYOR TAYLOR ALONG WITH BLUFFTON TOWN COUNCIL DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE MONTH OF MAY AS HISTORIC PRESERVATION MONTH IN THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON. GLEN YOU WANT TO IDENTIFY WHO YOU ARE AND SAY A FEW WORDS SO MY IS WILLIAM BERGER. I'M THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION TOWN BLUFFTON AND OBVIOUSLY THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION MONTH WAS A BIG DEAL FOR ME BECAUSE OF MY JOB. BUT ALSO BLUFFTON IS JOINING WITH CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES IN CELEBRATING THIS MONTH. VERY GOOD.

I WANT TO MENTION THURSDAY THURSDAY AND THURSDAY IS THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION SYMPOSIUM RIGHT HERE BEGINNING 530 RIGHT HERE RIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM. OKAY AND THEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT WE HAVE AN EVENT GOING ON AT THE HAYWARD HOUSE THAT WE'RE ALL INVITED TO.

VERY GOOD. AND I THINK THE RAIN HAS US. I BELIEVE SO, YES.

ANYBODY ELSE CARE TO SAY ANYTHING? IT BEING IN LINE WITH THE NATIONAL AND BEING NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AS PRESERVATION MONTH? I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO IT IN OUR TOWN AS WELL WITH GRASSROOTS INITIATIVE TO BE ALIGNED WITH THAT OUR LOCAL HISTORY IS AS IMPORTANT.

WELL THANK YOU. I THINK THIS TOWN CLEARLY THE FACT THAT PRESERVATION AND HISTORIC STRUCTURES JUST PARAMOUNT TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR COMMUNITY.

IT'S AN ECONOMIC ENGINE. IT BRINGS IN LOTS OF TOURISM AND IT'S OUR HISTORY AND SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT EVERYBODY SET THE TABLE UP HERE. AND SO I THINK WE HAVE SHOWN THAT THROUGH OUR ACTIONS OVER THE YEARS SO THAT HANDS OFF THANK YOU.

APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU VERY THANK YOU IS WITH YOU THANK AND I KNOW THERE'S GOING TO BE PHOTOGRAPHS IF YOU GO THROUGH I KNOW WE'RE ABOUT 30.

ALL RIGHT. WE READY? ONE, TWO, THREE.

I GOT IT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE APPRECIATE IT.

APPRECIATE YOU GOT TO THINK, SIR. THANK YOU.

THE NOW WE MOVE INTO PUBLIC COMMENTS BUT BEFORE WE DO I NEED TO READ THIS ABOUT AND

[VI. PUBLIC COMMENT]

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ATTENDEES MAY NOT DONATE TRANSFER YIELD OR GIVE ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THEIR SPEAKING TIME TO ANOTHER PERSON. ALL PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE TO BE CONDUCTED FROM THE PODIUM AND DIRECTED TO THE TOWN COUNCIL AS A WHOLE AND NOT TO ANY MEMBER THEREOF.

ALL SPEAKERS SHALL BE MINDFUL AND RESPECTFUL OF THOSE PARTICIPATING IN OR PRESENT AT THE MEETING OR SHALL BE EXPECTED CIVIL IN THEIR LANGUAGE AND SHALL REFRAIN FROM COMMENT OR BEHAVIOR THAT INVOLVES DISORDERLY SPEECH OR ACTION NAME CALLING, PERSONAL ATTACKS THREATS OBSCENE OR INDECENT REMARKS OR AN A IN OR DISRUPTIVE ACTIONS.

ALL SPEAKERS CAN FIND THEIR COMMENTS TO THE ISSUES UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL SPEAKERS SHALL NOT USE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD TO PROMOTE OR ADVERTISE AWARDS, SERVICE GOODS OR CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFFICE. ANY SPEAKER THAT VIOLATES THESE RULES AND PROTOCOLS FOR PUBLIC MAY BE RULED OUT OF ORDER BY THE PRESIDING OFFICER.

ANY PERSON WHO COMMITS TO ME WHOSE COMMENTS HAVE BEEN RULED OUT OF ORDER SHALL IMMEDIATELY CEASE AND DESIST FROM FURTHER IMPROPER COMMENTS. THE REFUSAL OF AN INDIVIDUAL TO DESIST FURTHER IMPROPER COMMENTS I SUBJECT THE INDIVIDUAL TO REMOVAL FROM THE MEETING AND OR A CITATION UNDER SECTION 249 OF THE TOWN CODE WE HAVE EXCUSE ME JOHN READ IN PERSON 3 MINUTES IS A THREE MINUTE AND IF YOU KNOW THE DRILL OF YOU PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR YOUR ADDRESS WHETHER YOU LIVE IN OR INCORPORATED COUNTY I JOHN REID 38 MINUTE MAN DRIVE NOT IN BLUFFTON ACROSS THE STREET AND HOW YOU NEED WHAT I WANTED TO COMMENT ON WAS I THINK WE'RE TALKING TONIGHT ABOUT THE SCHOOL AND SOME LAND OVER NEXT TO ROTATE ALL OVER THE YEAR AND I JUST TO BE SURE IT WAS I THINK WITH THE NINTH AMENDMENT AND WANT TO BE SURE THAT WE GET TO PARTICIPATE THIS TOWN REPORT SAID THAT THE TOWN WOULD RESPECT OUR RIGHTS AS UNIVERSITY AND BETH WAS RIGHT AND HONORS TO IT CONTRARY TO THE AGREEMENT ON THE NINTH AMENDMENT AND YET I HAVE NOT HAD WITH ANYONE SO I JUST WANT TO BE SURE THAT WE HAVE A MEETING OR GET TO SIT DOWN AND WE GAVE THEM I THINK 15 ACRES OF THE RIGHT AWAY WE GET 90 UNITS BACK AND SO FORTH AS PART OF THAT KNIGHT AMENDMENT IF YOU'RE MOVING FORWARD I THINK YOU'RE DOING FROM WHAT I HEAR THE SCHOOL WE WELCOME THAT WE NEED IT WE NEED PARK AND OPEN SPACES AND WE'RE ALL FOURTH. WE JUST WANT TO BE SURE THAT AT WE CAN MEET WITH SOMEONE AND FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON OKAY THANK YOU.

NEXT UP WE HAVE A MR. MIKE WILLIAMS. MR. WILLIAMS, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME YOUR ADDRESS. MIKE WILLIAMS 8414 COURT IN BLUFFTON IN BLUFFTON AND I WANT TO THANK ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR SERVING AS WELL AS THE MAYOR.

I'M JUST A REGULAR OLD CITIZEN OUT HERE IN BLUFFTON. I LIVE IN HAMPTON LAKE.

I LIVE ON 14TH COURT. 14TH COURT IS THE NORTH SIDE OF THE HAMPTON LAKE DEVELOPMENT . WE HAVE A VERY OPEN BORDER WITH A DEVELOPMENT IS CURRENTLY GOING ON. I'M HOPING THAT THAT WITH ALL OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS ARE SORT OF BACK TO BACK TO BACK THERE'S TWO OR 300 ACRES OF DEVELOPMENT THERE ON BLUFFTON PARKWAY AND BLACKWATER AND ALL THAT TIMES THEY GET APPROVED INDIVIDUALLY. I'M HOPING THAT SOMEONE WE HAVE AN OVERSEER SOMEWHERE THAT'S LOOKING AT THE WHOLE ALL THESE DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE BACK TO BACK OR SIDE TO SIDE. AND I HOPING THEY'RE LOOKING AT THE ENTIRE POSITIVES AND THE NEGATIVES THAT COULD COME FROM THE ENTIRE DEVELOPMENT AND THAT'S REALLY ALL I WANT TO SAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, TIFFANY.

QUICK LIGHTER GROUP ARE YOU YOU'RE ALL RIGHT? HOW MUCH THIS ALL SOUNDS GOOD.

THANK YOU. YOU STATE YOUR NAME. ADDRESS, PLEASE.

WHETHER YOU'RE IN THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON GETTING NEAR MY SIBLINGS WHETHER I LIVE ON ONE PADDINGTON LANE IN THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON I'M THIS EVENING ON A STOP I HAD WITH INCIDENT IN FOR COUNTY ME AND MY HUSBAND WERE BRIGHT LIGHTED BY A COUNTY OFFICER WE PULLED OVER

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MY HUSBAND AND I HAD PULLED TO THE SIDE. MY HUSBAND HAD GENEROUSLY THE KNOW THAT I AM AN EPILEPTIC OH I SEVERELY EPILEPTIC I HAVE GRAND MAL SEIZURES I HAVE HAD FOUR OF THEM IN MY LIFE WHERE IT HAS LIFE THREATENING DISEASE AT THIS POINT WE HAD TRIED TO TELL THE OFFICER THE OFFICER PUT MY HUSBAND RESTRAINTS WITHOUT ANY EVEN QUESTION ANY ANSWERS I GUESS HE HAD CALLED FOR BACKUP. I WAS RECORDING ALL OF THIS.

THIS IS ON YOUTUBE. I HAVE TRIED TO LET IT BE KNOWN ACROSS.

I HAVE MADE REPORTS I HAVE DONE EVERYTHING I HAVE TRIED TO DO TO GET IT SEEN AND OUT I WAS FORCED TO THE GROUND AND THEN FORCED INTO A SEIZURE. I JUST WANT EVERYBODY IN THIS TOWN TO BE PROTECTED I AM ONE OF THE ORIGINAL GRADUATES FROM BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL.

I HAVE BEEN A MEMBER OF THIS COMMUNITY IN THIS TOWN AND I HAVE BEEN SO SAD TO THE DIGRESSION IN WHAT THIS TOWN HAS COME TO. I JUST WANT MY DAUGHTER WAS 16 WHO IS GROWING UP IN THIS COMMUNITY TO SEE THE GROWTH AND THE PROGRESSION THAT I WISH THAT I COULD HAVE SEEN THIS TOWN IT'S BEEN SUCH A PART OF MY HEART AND TO SEE THAT WE HAVE DONE SO CAUTIOUSLY WALK OUTSIDE IS JUST SO SAD FOR ME TO HAVE A DISABILITY AND HAVE TO BE SCARED OF OUR OWN OFFICERS IS ABSOLUTELY DISHEARTENING.

I HAVE A TIDBIT INFORMATION IF YOU GUYS WANTED TO TAKE IT ON. I AM ONE OF OUR STRIVING INDIVIDUALS IN OUR RETAIL COMMUNITY. I DEAL AND WORK WITH MILITARY POLICE AND MILITARY OFFICERS EVERY DAY. I HAVE SERGEANT WHO WORKS WITH ME AND I LOVE OUR INDEPENDENT OFFICERS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE OR HOW TO HANDLE THIS. I'VE TAKEN IT AS FAR AS I CAN TAKE IT AND I HAVE OUTREACHED AS FAR AS I CAN OUTREACH. SO I AM HERE TODAY TO JUST TRY TO LET ANYBODY AND EVERYBODY KNOW YOU KNOW, NEED TO KEEP A BETTER EYE ON THIS. WE NEED TO KEEP A BETTER RESTRAINT ALMOST. IT NEEDS TO BE A BETTER EYE. WE NEED TO DO BETTER.

WE NEED HAVE BETTER HELP. WE NEED TO DO BETTER BY COMMUNITY.

OUR KIDS CAN'T SEE THIS FOR MY DAUGHTER TO HAVE GO THROUGH THAT WAS SAID THANK YOU AND WE WE APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS AND I DON'T KNOW IF THE TOWN MANAGER MIKE CAN TAKE AND REACH OUT TO YOU AND POINT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION WITH YOU FOR COUNTY OR WHOEVER SAID YOU HAD THAT VERY COLLINS TO PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS I'M VERY COLLINS AND MY ADDRESS IS 12 RED CEDAR AND IT IS IN BLUFFTON THANK YOU AND GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS SO YOU HAVE PICTURES THAT WERE GIVEN TO YOU OF THE SHORT TRACK AREA THAT I IN BLUFFTON I GOT A CHANCE TO TALK WITH EMILY THE NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE HUNDRED YEAR STORMS BEING 100 YEARS AND THEN THE HUNDRED YEARS STORMS BEING EVERY 20 YEARS.

AND THEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE HUNDRED YEAR STORMS THERE TWICE A YEAR AND WHAT'S CHANGED IN FOR ME IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD IS ROOFTOPS. SO LET ME CAST A VISION AND THIS IS SOMETHING OBVIOUSLY I THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT JASPER POOR IN FROM SAVANNAH GEORGIA TO CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA IS GOING TO BE ONE BIG HUGE METROPOLIS TOTALLY BUILT OUT NOT IN OUR LIFETIME BUT IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. WE'RE GOING TO BE UP SPACE MAYBE AND LOOKING DOWN AND IT'S GOING TO BE BRIGHT IS YORK CITY ON OUR COAST? OKAY. AND YOU'RE THE GATEKEEPERS ON YOUR WATCH.

COMMUNITY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROTECT WHAT HAS BEEN BY MAKING THE WATERSHED INFRASTRUCTURE YOUR WORK. WHAT I AM ASKING FOR AND INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH THIS CAME FROM THE POINT ENGINEER HE SAID YOU NEED TO ASK FOR THIS A PUBLIC MEETING WITH WHATEVER AGENCY NEEDS TO BE THERE. I DON'T CARE IF IT'S THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY TOWN

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IT SHOWED ME THE 80% BUILDOUT. WELL BEFORE WE DO THE OTHER 20% BUILD OUT THERE'S GETTING READY TO TRY TO GO MY NEIGHBORHOOD ON WETLANDS WE NEED TO GET THE INFRASTRUCTURE STRAIGHT IT'S IT'S IN ELSE MADE COMMENT IN DIRECTION I'M ASKING FOR A PUBLIC MEETING THIRD TIME I SAID AND I'M ASKING FOR A PUBLIC MEETING WITH A MAP THAT SHOWS HOW THIS PROBLEM IS GOING TO TO BE FIXED IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD IN 1997 WHEN I BECAME A HOMEOWNER HOMEOWNER IN BLUFFTON WAS SCRUB WOOD. I DIDN'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS. DITCHES BY HOMEOWNERS WERE FILLED IN BY HOME WITHOUT ANY REGARD FOR WHETHER IT BLOCKED WATER OFFICE BUILDING ON MAY RIVER IN RED CEDAR THAT BUILT IN BLOCK FLOW CEMETERY ACROSS THE STREET IN MAY RIVER THAT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT LIKE TO HAVE SOMEBODY TO NAME THAT COULD SET THIS UP FOR A PUBLIC MEETING. THANKS. THANK YOU.

WE THAT ADRIAN KANE COULD BE ANYWHERE FROM PRO TEMPORE MEMBERS OF COUNCIL MY NAME IS ADRIAN KANE AND I 386 SPANISH FALLS ROAD ON HILTON HEAD AND I REPRESENT THE HILTON HEAD AND CHARLESTON HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN.

I HAVE A FEELING I'M GOING TO GET TO KNOW EACH OF YOU OVER THE COMING MONTHS.

I WANT TO TO EXPRESS OUR APPRECIATION FOR CONVENING THE FOP A WORKSHOP LAST MONTH ON THE WETLANDS ORDINANCE. I ALSO WANT TO EXPRESS OUR STRONG CONCERN AND OPPOSITION TO THE ORDINANCE WRITTEN AND APPROVED THROUGH FIRST READING DURING COUNCIL COMMENTS SHARE THAT ONE ENGINEER CHURCH DISSIPATED EARLY IN THE PROCESS .

I THINK IT REPRESENTS THE ROOT OF THE ISSUE WITH THIS ORDINANCE AND THE PROCESS.

ENCOURAGE COUNCIL TO TAKE THE BRAVE STEP OF STRIKING DOWN THE ORDINANCE THE SECOND READING AND CONVENING A WORKING GROUP WITH STAFF ENGINEERS BUILDERS, WETLANDS EXPERTS AND YES EVEN CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS. THIS EFFORT IS FAR TOO IMPORTANT TO LEAVE TO CHANCE OR TO ALLOW CONSERVATION ACTIVIST BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO USE THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON AS CANNON FODDER FOR ITS NARROW PURSUITS. LET'S BE CLEAR THIS ORDINANCE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CREATES SIGNIFICANT AND UNNECESSARY LEGAL RISK FOR THE TOWN. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 80% OF RESIDENTS LOTS HAVE BLOCKED EXISTENT PLANNED DEVELOPMENTS. THOSE SPEEDS CREATED AND APPROVED BY TOWN USING FEDERAL AND STATE GUIDELINES WITH JURISDICTION WETLANDS AT THE TIME TO USURP THOSE RIGHTS VIOLATES ONE OF THE STRONGEST TENANTS SET FORTH IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA CONSTITUTION THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS EVEN MORE CONCERNING THE 20% OF RESIDENTIAL LOTS NOT CONTAINED IN PDS THROUGHOUT BLUFFTON IN MANY CASES THOSE ARE OWNED BY MULTIGENERATIONAL FAMILIES MANY OF WHICH ARE BLACK FAMILIES THAT WILL FIND THEIR PROPERTIES REDUCED IN VALUE OR NOW ON DEVELOPABLE PASSING THOSE PROPERTIES ON TO FAMILIES ARE CREATING GENERATIONAL WEALTH WILL NOW BECOME IMPOSSIBLE THREE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE I'M JOINED THIS EVENING BY MEMBERS OF THE HOME BUILDING ASSOCIATION AND THOSE THAT BUILD OUR COMMUNITY. I'D LIKE TO ASK THEM TO STAND REMAIN STANDING THROUGHOUT MY COMMENTS IF YOU GUYS WILL STAND PLEASE WE COLLECTIVELY REPRESENT OF FAMILIES AND EMPLOYEES THROUGHOUT BLUFFTON THAT BUILD AND PROTECT THE AMERICAN DREAM OF HOME AND HOMEOWNERSHIP WHERE SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS YOUR NEIGHBORS SPONSORS OF MANY EVENTS THROUGHOUT COMMUNITY A CRITICAL PIECE OF THE REGION'S ECONOMIC ENGINE CONCLUDED BY SHARING THAT WE ARE READY TO ASSIST THE TOWN WE ARE HERE AND PAYING ATTENTION. WE ARE ENGAGED AND ORGANIZED. WE SINCERE AND READY TO BE COLLABORATIVE. BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE WE'RE ALSO BRAVE AND WILLING TO STEP INTO THE FRAY. WE BUILD WE VOTE IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND WE TAKE PRIDE IN THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE DEVELOP AND THE CRAFTSMANSHIP OF A WELL-BUILT HOME.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP. WE LOOK FORWARD TO BUILDING A BETTER FOR ALL OF OUR FAMILIES FOR YOURS AND OURS AND THOSE TO COME TO THIS REGION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU. THANK YOU.

MR. BRIAN ESPOSITO ESPOSITO. I THANK YOU FOR THAT. NAME AND ADDRESS BRIAN.

TEN PINK SANDS HILTON HEAD ISLAND. YOU.

I MOVED DOWN HERE 20 YEARS AGO. I LIVED IN UNINCORPORATED BLUFFTON DOWN BY THE ALL JOY AREA. I SINCE MOVED TO HILTON HEAD BUT I'M A BUILDER IN THE AREA HAVE BEEN FOR SINCE 28. I WANTED TO BRING YOU KNOW I WAS LOOKING AT RELOCATING MY

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THE LOT THAT I WAS ABOUT TO MAKE AN OFFER ON IS AN INFILL LOT AN EXISTING COMMERCIAL PROPERTY. IF THIS WERE TO GO THROUGH IT WOULD BE DEVELOPABLE SO PROTECTED FOR PROTECTING IS IMPORTANT. RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT IS IMPORTANT LET'S MAKE SURE WE GET ALL THE PARTIES TOGETHER TO CRAFT SOMETHING AND PUT LEGISLATION TOGETHER THAT IS GOOD FOR ALL. THANK.

[VII. COMMUNICATIONS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL]

I WANT TO GIVE MY SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO THE TOUMA FAMILY AND IF YOU GUYS AROUND ABOUT TRY TO SHARE SOME OF YOUR SYMPATHY AND LOVE WITH THEM AS WELL.

THANK YOU, JORDAN. I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR COMING OUT AND SPEAKING TONIGHT. I KNOW IT'S YOUR TIME AND I ALWAYS APPRECIATE HEARING FROM ALL OF YOU. I'LL DITTO THAT I OVER THE YEARS OF SITTING UP HERE AS A COUNCILMAN WE USED TO HAVE WHAT WE CALL TOWN CRIERS AND THOSE THAT WAS AWARE OF AND A NEW FRIEND BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME. THEY WERE HERE EVERY MONTH AND WE MISSED THEM.

YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN'T ALWAYS AGREE WITH BUT THEY WERE DOING THE PEOPLE'S BIDDING AND PEOPLE'S WORK AND WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT IS LISTENING AND SPEAKING IN A CIVIL WAY AND TRY TO COME TO A CONSENSUS. SO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME OUT THIS EVENING TO COME

[VIII.1. Direction and Input on Proposed Amendments to the Buckwalter Development Agreement and Concept Plan, Easements, Land Swap Agreement, Transfer of Development Rights and the Purchase and Sale Agreement regarding the Willow Run Tracts between the Town and the Beaufort County School District – Kevin Icard, Director of Growth Management]

GREAT. THANK YOU MAYOR PRO TEM GOOD COUNSEL.

WE ARE HERE THIS EVENING. THIS JUST A WORKSHOP. MORE OF A RECAP OF THE PROJECT THAT WE HAVE GOING ON SPECIFICALLY FOR THE WILLOW RUN TRACK.

IF YOU REMEMBER BACK IN DECEMBER I CAME IN FRONT OF YOU WITH A WORKSHOP OF THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND TO THE CONSENT PLAN.

JUST A QUICK RECAP OF COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT IS IN THE PROCESS OF PURCHASING THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE WILLOW RUN TRACT AS THE PROPERTY THE THREE PROPERTIES IN ORANGE ON THE MAP. THE TOWN OWNS THE PROPERTY IN RED WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY 20 ACRES TO THE SOUTH AND PART OF THIS PURCHASE THE SCHOOL IS LOOKING TO POTENTIALLY HAVE SCHOOLS SPORTS COMPLEX ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES. AT THIS TIME THEY ARE NOT FULLY AWARE OF THE FROM A PROGRAMING STANDPOINT BUT IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO PURCHASE A LARGE TRACT OF LAND IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THOSE NEEDS FOR IN THE FUTURE.

SO REAL QUICK JUST FROM A OUTLINED PROCESS WE'VE GOT A LOT OF MOVING PARTS TO THIS PROJECT. THE FIRST FIRST TWO ARE SPECIFICALLY WELL WE'LL BE MOVING THROUGH IS THE AMENDMENT TO THE BUCKWALTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AS WELL AS THE CONSENT PLAN AND THAT'S TO TO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL AMENDMENT WHICH IS REMOVING OBLIGATIONS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE NINTH AMENDMENT AND IF YOU GUYS REMEMBER THAT DECEMBER MEETING I WENT THROUGH A LONG LONG DESCRIPTION OF OF OF WHAT THAT ENTAILED.

I'M NOT GOING TO GO OVER THAT NOW BUT JUST KIND OF LETTING YOU KNOW WE ARE IN THE PROCESS AND I'LL SHOW THAT HERE IN A SECOND. SOME OF THE OTHER ITEMS THAT WE HAVE THAT WILL COME IN FRONT OF YOU AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE PROCESS IS DEALING WITH EASEMENT AGREEMENTS. WE DO HAVE A 50 FOOT EASEMENT THAT RUNS THROUGH THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE OWNED BY INDIAN INDIAN HILL. EVENTUALLY THE SCHOOL THAT PROVIDES ACCESS TO THE TOWN'S PROPERTY RIGHT. SO AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE

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SO THERE'S A THERE'S A PROCESS FOR THAT. WE ALSO HAVE THE LAND SWAP AGREEMENT. THIS IS WHERE WORKED WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN ORDER TO CHANGE OR SHIFT PROPERTY SO OUR PROPERTY IS TO THE SOUTH. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WOULD IS WILLING TO WORK WITH US TO SHIFT THAT PROPERTY UP TOWARDS THE NORTH ON TO 78.

SO WE'RE WORKING THROUGH GETTING THE NECESSARY SURVEYS IN ORDER FOR US TO DETERMINE THAT EXACT AMOUNT OF LAND THAT WE WOULD BE WORKING THROUGH AND THEN FOR THAT PURCHASE AND SALES AGREEMENT THAT IS PART OF THE AGREEMENT AND THE FUNDS THAT WOULD TO GO PAY FOR THE COSTS THAT THE TOWN WOULD RECEIVE THE DEVELOPMENT THAT ARE CURRENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH INDIAN HILLS AND THAT'S THE HUNDRED 60 RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNITS, THE HUNDRED AND 62 ACRES OF GENERAL COMMERCIAL AND THEN THE TWO 150 UNIT HOTELS AND. JUST REAL QUICK THAT OBLIGATION JUST JUST FOR A VISUAL SO YOU UNDERSTAND THE OBLIGATION WAS FOR THE RIGHT OF WAY.

IT'S AN 80 FOOT EASEMENT THAT'S RECORDED THROUGH PROPERTY FIVE WHICH WE REFER TO AS THE MOONIE TRACT AND IT'S A RELOCATED EASEMENT. SO WHAT WE WOULD DO IS WE WOULD ESTABLISH THE OBLIGATIONS THAT WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ON CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROADWAY AND THEN FUTURE OBLIGATIONS AS THAT ROADWAY WOULD RUN THROUGH PROPERTIES SIX AND SEVEN WOULD WOULD BE ALLEVIATED AT THAT TIME. SO REAL QUICK OF PROCESS WISE.

SO THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AMENDMENT CONCEPT PLAN THOSE APPLICATIONS WERE SUBMITTED SINCE OUR LAST MEETING THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE HAD THE CONCEPT PLAN AMENDMENT GO THROUGH DURING APRIL. FROM A NEXT STEP STANDPOINT GOING TO BRING THIS TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR A WORKSHOP IN MAY ULTIMATELY WITH THEIR RECOMMENDATION IN JUNE BRING BACK FOR FIRST AND SECOND READINGS IN FRONT OF YOU AND TOWN COUNCIL FOR JULY AND AUGUST AND AS YOU CAN SEE ON HERE THAT THE AGREEMENT LAND SWAP AND THE PURCHASE AND SALES FIRST TWO OR WILL BE ORDINANCES WILL BE A FIRST AND SECOND READING.

WE'RE WORKING ON THE DATES ON THOSE AS WELL AS THAT PURCHASE AND AGREEMENT WHICH IS A RESOLUTION. SO JUST GIVING YOU A QUICK RECAP SO WE ARE WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. WE'VE ACTUALLY WE ARE SETTING AS OF THIS WEEK WEEKLY MEETINGS WITH THE DISTRICT TOWN STAFF AND BOTH LEGAL IN ORDER TO SAY THAT WAY EVERYONE'S ON THE SAME PAGE AND WE'RE PUSHING THIS FORWARD TO MAKE SURE WE'RE GETTING THIS BACK IN FRONT OF YOU AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE. HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.

THAT'S REALLY THAT'S FOR OUR PRESENTATION AND JUST IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

MR. HAMILTON YOU KNOW, FIRST OF COURSE THIRD QUESTION THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE ON THIS SITUATION. AND JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, ONE OF THE PRIMARY, KEVIN , FOR CONSIDERATION THAT THIS AMENDMENT WAS BECAUSE THIS WAS LOOKING AT NOT HAVING TO HAVE THEIR DEVELOPMENT WHERE THE FRONTAGE PART WITH US AND SO SWAPPING IT OUT THEY COULD FOCUS OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION MESSAGE OR DEVELOPMENT NEEDS IN THE INTERIOR WAY FROM 278.

YES, MA'AM. YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT.

[X.1. Consideration of an Ordinance Approving the Town of Bluffton Fiscal Year 2026 Proposed Consolidated Budget – First Reading – Stephen Steese, Town Manager]

I THINK WE'VE GOT ABOUT 70 SLIDES FOR THE BUDGET PRESENTATION AND WE'LL TRY TO SUM THAT UP IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES AS WE HAVE TWO BUDGET WORKSHOPS THAT ARE UPCOMING AND WE'LL GET INTO FURTHER DETAILS. SO I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THAT I'M GONNA GO UH WHAT MAY SEEM PRETTY QUICK BUT WE DO HAVE MORE MEETINGS UPCOMING SO MAYOR AND COUNCIL I'M HAPPY TO PRESENT YOU FOR FIRST READING THE FISCAL 2526 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON.

I WANT TO AT THE BEGINNING BECAUSE I'LL FORGET WHEN I GET TO THE END IF I DON'T DO IT NOW THANK ALL THE DEPARTMENT HEADS FINANCE UM CHRIS HEATHER EVERYBODY.

COUNCIL UP TO THIS POINT HAS BEEN INVOLVED TO GET US TO THE PRESENTATION OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET. SO TO GIVE YOU AN OUTLINE OF THE SCHEDULE WE'RE FOR FIRST READING TONIGHT AS I MENTIONED WE HAVE OUR FIRST BUDGET WORKSHOP COMING ON MAY 22ND AND THEN THE FOLLOWING ON THE 20 I'M SORRY FIRST AND 22ND SECOND THE 27TH AND WE'LL GO THROUGH THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC COMMENT AT BOTH OF THOSE WORKSHOPS AND WE'LL GO IN DETAIL INTO DIFFERENT FUNDS THAT I'M GOING TO HIGHLIGHT HERE TONIGHT.

SO GO THROUGH AND I'LL GO THROUGH JUST SOME HIGHLIGHTS ON THE BLUFFTON ECONOMIC FACTORS, THE BUDGET GOALS, THE PROPOSED BUDGET OVERVIEW AND THEN GO THROUGH KIND OF HOW THE PROCESS GOING TO WORK GOING FORWARD. SO JUST SOME OF THE ECONOMIC FACTORS I'LL LET YOU ALL READ THROUGH THIS AND AGAIN THIS WILL BE ONLINE IT'S ALREADY BEEN SENT OUT AS PART OF THE

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MEDIAN RENT IS UP TO ABOUT 20 $200 A MONTH AND. YOU'LL NOTICE THAT OUR AREA MEDIAN INCOME IS NOW TOPPED $88,000. I THINK WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE IN 2021 THAT NUMBER WAS IN THE 47 $50,000 RANGE. SO AS YOU CAN SEE THAT AS WELL AS THE HOME VALUES AND RENT HAVE GROWN SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS WHERE OUR PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE YOU WILL SEE THAT HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION HAS NOW MOVED UP NUMBER ONE. ACCOMMODATION, FOOD AND ENTERTAINMENT IS NUMBER TWO.

AND THEN PROFESSIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND MANAGEMENT UP TO 13.3%.

AND WE HAVE A NEW ONE THAT IS SHOWN UP FROM LAST YEAR INTO OUR TOP SIX AND THAT IS FINANCE, INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE AT 10%. AND THEN CONSTRUCTION IS UP ABOUT HALF TO 7.1. SO JUST A COUPLE OF ECONOMIC FACTORS TO CONTINUE IS THE TOWN HAS WORKED HARD TO BE FINANCED FINANCIALLY AND MANAGE THE TOWN'S FUNDS AS WELL AS THE CITIZENS FUNDS. AS OF LAST YEAR WE HAVE OUR TRIPLE-A BOND RATING AND WE HAVE OUR A-PLUS BOND RATING WITH STANDARDS AND POOR'S. SO I'M EXCITED TO CONTINUE THAT THAT STEWARDSHIP WE DO HAVE CONTINUING WE DO HAVE A GROWING TAX BASE AS WE KNOW AS WE'VE HEARD WITH THE CONSTRUCTION GOING ON AT TAXPAYERS IS CONTINUING TO GROW AND WE'VE ALSO BEEN ABLE TO HOLD A ROBUST FINANCIAL POSITION DUE TO OUR OUR LOW AMOUNT OF DEBT THAT THE TOWN HAS TAKEN ON AND NOT HAVING AN OUTSTANDING PENSION BURDEN.

AS ALWAYS, OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TOWN COUNCIL'S GOALS AND PRIORITIES THAT WE'VE WORKED TO SET IN OUR STRATEGIC PLAN ARE REFERENCED AND REFLECTED WITHIN THE BUDGET.

OUR BUDGET IS A PLANNING DOCUMENT FOR THE TOWN AS IT IS HOW WE MAKE ALL OUR GOALS COME TO LIFE. YOU WILL SEE THAT THERE'S STILL A PUSH FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

LONG RANGE PLANNING VISION AND UPDATES TO MASTER PLANS LOTS OF WATER SHARED AND RESILIENCY AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT WITH WETLANDS AS WELL AS WORKING THROUGH DRAINAGE AND STORMWATER ISSUES AS WELL AS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLANS TO CONTINUE OUR PARKS, OUR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION, OUR TRAILS, SEWER CONNECTIONS, AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND SO FORTH AS WE MOVE FORWARD . WE HAVE SEVERAL FUNDS HERE AT THE TOWN.

AGAIN, I WANT TO GO THROUGH AT A HIGHER LEVEL AND THERE'S MORE INFORMATION HERE FOR ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT IT AT A LATER DATE. AS YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE GENERAL FUND OUR SPECIAL REVENUE FUND STORMWATER CERP, OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND AND OUR DEBT SERVICE. THIS IS AN OVERALL CONSOLIDATED BUDGET BUDGET.

AS YOU CAN SEE, OUR BUDGET IS DOWN ABOUT $9 MILLION OVER LAST YEAR.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF THAT IS IN CAPITAL PROJECTS AS WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO COMPLETE LIKE SQUIRE POLK, THE NEW RIVERSIDE PARK, THE SPLASH PAD AND OTHER PROJECTS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO COMPLETE WE'RE CARRYING FORWARD FROM PRIOR YEARS. WE'VE ACTUALLY SPENT DOWN FUND BALANCE WITHIN CAPITAL PROJECTS SO OUR GOAL IS TO CONTINUE TO SEE THAT NUMBER DECREASE AS WE CONTINUE TO COMPLETE MORE PROJECTS WITHIN THE TOWN. THE GENERAL FUND IS UP.

IT IS ABOUT $2 MILLION. OUR SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS WHICH I'LL GET INTO A LITTLE BIT A TAX AND ACCOMMODATIONS AND HOSPITALITY TAX WE ARE SEEING A LITTLE SLOW IN SOME OF THOSE.

SO WE ARE BUDGETING A LITTLE CONSERVATIVELY WITH SOME OF THE UNCERTAINTY GOING INTO NEXT FISCAL YEAR ON HOW TOURISM MAY AFFECT THAT. THIS GIVES YOU A PARTIAL VERSION WHERE THE REVENUES WITHIN THE TOWN'S BUDGET COMES .

AS YOU CAN SEE, TRANSFER IN MAKES UP ABOUT HALF OF THAT. I'LL GO THROUGH THAT HERE IN A MINUTE BUT TRANSFER ENDS A LOT OF HOW WE MOVE FROM LIKE GENERAL FUND TO CAPITAL PROJECTS PAY FOR PROJECTS OR HOW WE MAY MOVE FROM STORMWATER TO GENERAL FUND TO PAY FOR STAFF THAT'S PERFORMING THOSE SERVICES. SO THAT MAKES UP WE MOVE A LOT OF MOVING PARTS WITHIN THE BUDGET BUT YOU CAN THAT PROPERTY TAXES HOSPITALITY ACCOMMODATION TAXES AND LICENSE PERMITS MAKE UP A LOT. VAST MAJORITY OF OTHER REVENUE SOURCES THAT I PROVIDE THE BUDGET THIS GIVES YOU THAT AND A BREAKDOWN FOR THE BUDGET REVENUES THAT IS JUST REFLECTS THE PIE CHART WE DISCUSSED. AND THIS GETS INTO EXPENDITURES SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE TOWN'S MONEY IS GOING. AGAIN, CAPITAL OUTLAY FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS IS ABOUT A THIRD IS THE LARGEST ITEM FOLLOWED BY TRANSFER REALLY OUR

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THIS TAKES THAT PIE CHART AND BREAKS IT DOWN WITH THE ACTUAL NUMBERS SO YOU CAN SEE NOT ONLY THE PERCENT OF THE BUDGET THAT IT MAKES UP BUT THE CHANGE FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

SO YOU CAN SEE THAT PERSONNEL AND BENEFITS IS UP ABOUT A MILLION FOR.

WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHERE THAT'S COMING FROM IN A MINUTE. OPERATIONS ARE UP SLIGHTLY BUT YOU CAN ALSO SEE OUR CAPITAL OUTLAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS GOING TO BE REDUCING AS WE'RE GETTING CLOSER TO COMPLETING OUR PROJECT OVER IN BUCKWALTER. WE'RE SEEING SOME OF OUR FACILITY PROJECTS OUR HOUSING PROJECT AT 1095 IS MOVING FORWARD AS WE GET INTO JULY WE'LL HAVE THAT SPENT DOWN SO AND THEN YOU SEE AN INCREASE IN LAND ACQUISITION AS WE'RE LOOKING TO BUY ADDITIONAL PROPERTY AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO TO TAKE DEVELOP AS WE TALKED ABOUT WITH LOWER RON TO REDUCE RATES OF RIGHTS OFF AND CONTROL MORE PROPERTY FOR POTENTIAL GREENSPACE GREENSPACE SO THIS IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER ABOUT ENTER FUND TRANSFERS. THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE'RE MOVING FUNDS FROM ONE FUNDING SOURCE TO ANOTHER FOR EXAMPLE YOU CAN SEE IN THE GENERAL FUND WHERE WE'RE TRANSFERRING ABOUT $5 MILLION OUT TO CAPITAL PROJECTS. THIS IS TO COMPLETE PARTS AND DIFFERENT VENTURES LIKE THAT. YOU CAN SEE WHERE HOSPITAL IS MOVING FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS AND PRETTY MUCH EVERY FUND GOES INTO CRP TO SUPPORT OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS COMING BACK INTO THE GENERAL FUND. IT'S WHAT I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER WHERE YOU CAN SEE HOSPITALITY, LOCAL ACCOMMODATIONS AND, STORMWATER MOVING IN TO HELP PAY FOR THINGS LIKE OPERATING EXPENSE THE WELCOME CENTER PAYING FOR POLICE TO SUPPORT AT TOWN EVENTS AND AT LAKE MAYFAIR'S ARTS AND SEAFOOD TO PAY FOR STORMWATER THE STORMWATER DEPARTMENT BENEFITS AND SALARIES FOR OUR EMPLOYEES THAT ARE DOING THAT.

SO SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS WITHIN THE BUDGET IT DOES HOLD OUR PROPERTY TAXES LEVEL FROM WHERE WE WERE AND AS A REMINDER WE LOWERED TWO FISCAL BUDGETS AGO FROM 38.5 OR 8.6 DOWN TO 36. SO WE DID REDUCE TAXES A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.

IT HOLDS EVERYTHING STEADY. IT'S WHAT'S PROPOSED IF YOU HAVE SOME UPDATES TO OUR MASTERPIECE SCHEDULE. AND AGAIN I TALKED ABOUT THE PRIORITIES THAT WE'RE FOCUSING ON AND ONE OF THE THINGS AS WE TALKED ABOUT THE BENEFIT OF THE COST FOR EMPLOYEES GOING UP.

WE PROPOSING WITHIN THE BUDGET A COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT FOR 3% FOR ALL EMPLOYEES.

WE'RE ALSO PROPOSING A LITTLE SOMETHING DIFFERENT THIS YEAR WITH OUR MERIT INCREASE IN THE PAST OUR MARRIED INCREASE GOING TO FLAT PERCENTAGE. WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING IS IT BEING UP TO 4% WITH A CAP SO THAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LOWER WITHIN OUR PAY BANDS WILL ACTUALLY SEE A HIGHER INCREASE THAN THOSE THAT ARE HIGHER UP OUR PAY BANDS AND THAT WORK TO HELP MOVE SOME OF THE LOWER PAID EMPLOYEES UP AT A FASTER RATE TO HELP THEM GET FURTHER WITHIN THEIR BANDS QUICKER. IT ALSO WORKS TO INVEST IN PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE.

AGAIN ONE OF THE CAPITAL ONE OF THE PRIORITIES OF COUNCIL WORKING TO MAKE SURE THAT ANYBODY WHO'S ON SEPTIC IS CONVERTED TO SEWER TO ON OUR STREETSCAPES AND TO CONTINUE TO BUILD PARKS FOR OUR CITIZENS. IT ALSO CONTINUES OUR PARTNERSHIPS.

WE HAVE A PALMETTO BREEZE THAT WE A PARTNERSHIP WITH UCB FOR OUR TESTING AND LAB AS WELL AS THE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM. IT ALSO CONTINUES OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS.

IT ALSO CONTINUES THEIR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITH DON RUN CENTER AND WE ARE CONTINUING WITH THE ALLOWABLE EXPANSION NOW TO MOVE FROM AFFORDABLE MOVE TO FIND AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAMS OUT OF STATE AND LOCAL ACCOMMODATIONS TAX OR WE WILL PUT THE STATE ACCOMMODATIONS IN OUR CERP PROJECT WHERE WE CAN DO WHAT WE'RE USING FOR PROJECTS LIKE 1095 MAE RIVER ROAD AND THEN WE'RE PUTTING OUR LOCAL WHERE IN OUR GENERAL FUND WHERE WE CAN SUPPORT PROGRAMS LIKE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

WE'LL GO INTO THE DIFFERENT FUNDS RIGHT NOW AND START THE GENERAL FUND.

THIS IS OUR PRETTY MUCH WILL BE OUR TOWN'S OPERATING FUND HOW WE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OUR OPERATIONS, ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALK ABOUT IS PROPERTY TAXES AND, HOW THEY'RE GENERATED.

WE DO THAT BASED ON THE VALUE OF A MILL SO AS YOU CAN SEE OUR ASSESSED PROPERTY VALUE HAS GONE UP WITHIN THE TOWN SO IT'S GONE UP ABOUT $32 MILLION WHICH IN TURN MOVES THE VALUE OF A MILL OF ABOUT $32,000. SO WE'RE 415000 TO 447 ALMOST $448,000 PER MILL.

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THIS IS I DON'T MEAN TO INTERRUPT YOU BUT FOR THOSE THAT ARE NEW TO THE AREA THAT MILLAGE IS ACTUALLY DECREASED THREE TIMES IN THE LAST TEN YEARS.

FOR THOSE WHO LIVE HERE THAT ARE NEW DO NOT KNOW THAT. YES, SIR.

AND THE LAST BEING TWO YEARS AGO THIS GIVES YOU A PIE CHART OF WHERE THE GENERAL FUND REVENUES FROM AND THIS BREAKS THAT DOWN INTO THE NUMBERS AS WELL AS THE PERCENT OF THE BUDGET AND THE PERCENT CHANGE FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR. SO YOU CAN SEE PROPERTY ARE UP A LITTLE OVER 1.1 MILLION. LICENSE AND PERMITS ARE UP. YOU'LL SEE GRANTS AND ENTITLEMENTS DOWN. WE RECEIVED A LARGE DIRECT ENTITLEMENT OR GRANT FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO HELP WITH POLICE EQUIPMENT. WE'VE BOUGHT A LOT OF SO YOU'RE SEEING THOSE GRANTS START TO DROP OFF BUT WE HAVE SOME GRANTS BUT THAT OVERALL YOU CAN SEE THAT FOR NET WILL BE ABOUT 1.5 MILLION OVER WHERE WE WERE IN FISCAL YEAR 24 OR 25 FOR ABOUT A 5.7% INCREASE IN THE GENERAL FUND. THIS SHOWS WHERE THOSE EXPENDITURES GO. AS WE SAID, THE GENERAL FUND IS REALLY OUR OPERATING FUND.

SO THIS IS WHERE ABOUT HALF OF IT TO PAY FOR SALARIES AND BENEFITS FOR THE EMPLOYEES FOR THE TOWN. THE OTHER ABOUT 31% GOES TO OPERATING.

WE TRANSFER OUT ABOUT 13 AND A HALF THAT GOES TO CAPITAL PROJECTS.

AND THEN WE HAVE ABOUT 4.6 THAT GOES TO CAPITAL OUTLAYS. THESE WOULD BE THINGS THAT LIKE VEHICLES, EQUIPMENT, THE PUBLIC SERVICES MAY USE BACKHOES AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

AGAIN, THIS GIVES YOU A REPRESENTATION THAT PIE CHART WITHIN THE NUMBERS AND YOU CAN SEE THE CHANGE FROM YEAR TO YEAR. A COUPLE NOTES ON THE GENERAL AS WE TALKED ABOUT A REFERENCE TO 3% COLA THAT'S PROPOSED AS WELL AS THE MID-YEAR MERIT INCREASE WITH THE CAP WE STILL KEEP PROPOSED TO KEEP THE 25 HOUR PAYOUT FOR EMPLOYEES AS WELL AS THERE ARE DEPARTMENT UPDATES. IF YOU REMEMBER A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WHEN WE STARTED GROWING THE EVENTS WE CREATED THE I CREATED COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH DEPARTMENT. NOW THAT WE HAVE THE WELCOME CENTER AND WE SEE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE BARN AND OTHER VENUES THAT ARE SUCH A BIG PART OF OUR OPERATIONS. I'M PROPOSING TO SPLIT THAT INTO ITS OWN DEPARTMENT WHICH WOULD BE CALLED EVENTS AND VENUES AND THEN HAVE COMMUNICATIONS GO BACK TO JUST STRICTLY FOCUSING ON COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THAT WHEN WE GET INTO THE POSITIONS THERE A COUPLE POSITIONS PROPOSED TO HELP SUPPORT THE DIFFERENT LIKE THE NEW BARN COMING ONLINE AND THE DOCENTS THAT WE NEED FOR THOSE OPERATIONS.

ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS WE'RE DOING IS PROPOSING A MASTER FEE SCHEDULE UPDATE.

THERE'S TWO MAIN FOCUSES ON THAT. ONE IS TO REDUCE THE MOBILE PERMITS FROM 400 THAT $400 PER YEAR TO $50 PER YEAR. THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS BROUGHT TO US WHEN WE FOUND WE SET THAT NUMBER SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND WE INITIALLY ADOPTED THE VENDING PERMIT, FOUND OUT WE WERE A LOT HIGHER THAN THOSE AROUND US.

SO IN DISCUSSION AND REVIEW THE RECOMMENDATION WAS TO BRING IT DOWN TO $50 WHICH IS THE SAME AS THE BASE RATE FOR THEIR BUSINESS LICENSE AND TO COVER CALLS FOR STAFF TO STILL PROCESS AND DO THE INSPECTIONS OF FOR THAT VENDOR. THE OTHER THING THAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE PROPOSING AND YOU'LL SEE THIS WHEN YOUR YOUR BUDGET BACK IS THE RENTAL OF OUR FACILITIES THAT WE HAVE THROUGHOUT THE TOWN TAKES UP ABOUT THREE PAGES OF OUR FEE SCHEDULE SO WE'RE PROPOSING TO REDUCE THAT DOWN TO JUST HAVE A MORE CONSOLIDATED RENTAL FEE SCHEDULE TO OUTLINE TRY TO MAKE IT EASIER AND MAKE IT EASIER MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND AND KNOW WHAT THEIR AND MAKE IT CONSISTENT ACROSS THE TOWN SO IS IN THERE AS WELL FOR THIS YEAR AND WE'LL AGAIN DURING FIRST READING DURING THE FIRST WORKSHOP WE'LL GET MORE IN DETAIL ON ALL THIS A COUPLE OF NEW POSITIONS THAT ARE PROPOSED AND I'LL AGAIN GO THROUGH THESE REALLY THERE'S A PART TIME FOR THE RCR THIS HAS A LOT TO DO WITH THE NEW BUILDING COMING ONLINE TO BE ABLE TO HELP MANAGE THAT FACILITY WELL AS WORK WITH THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE COMING IN. WE ARE LOOKING AT A FULL TIME GRANTS ADMINISTRATOR.

IN THE PAST WE HAVE ACTUALLY CONTRACTED SOMEBODY TO APPLY OUR GRANTS THAT IS PROPOSED TO GO AWAY AND BRING THAT POSITION AND HOW THE PERSON WHO WAS THAT HAS RETIRED AND WE'RE LOOKING AT OPPORTUNITY TO POTENTIALLY TAKE THAT MONEY AND PUT IT IN THIS POSITION AS WELL AS

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THE EVENTS AND VENUES. I SAID THERE'S ONE FULL TIME POSITION PROPOSED AND THIS WOULD REALLY HELP LINDSEY AS WE START RUNNING OUT THE BARN AND WE HAVE SOME THE DEMAND HAS TAKEN PLACE FROM ALL OF OUR RENTALS THE PART TIME POSITIONS ARE TO HELP BE ABLE TO EXTEND AT THE WELCOME CENTER. RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ONE PART TIME POSITION THIS WITHOUT A SECOND AND THEN THE OTHER PART TIME POSITION IS PROPOSED IS ACTUALLY MADE UP FOR THE DOCENTS SO WE KIND OF DID THOSE AS PART TIME TEMPORARY THIS YEAR WHENEVER WE STARTED DOING THE DOCENTS THE GARVIN GARVEY HOUSE AND THIS CAPTURES CATCHING THAT UP BECAUSE NEED THOSE PART TIME POSITIONS SO WE CAN GET COUNCIL TO KIND OF APPROVE THOSE TO CATCH UP WHAT WE DID DURING THAT TRANSITION AGAIN FOR OUR EMPLOYEES IT CONTINUES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ALSO CONTINUES OUR RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OUR MENTAL HEA PRN AND OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THIS WOULD BE YOUR FIVE HOUR VEHICLE THESE PROGRAMS THAT WE DID A YEAR TIME PERIOD. SO AFTER THIS YEAR WE'LL START REVIEWING AND SEEING IT'S OPERATING AND THIS WILL BE SHOWING UP ON TIME TO START REPLACING.

IT ALSO MAINTAINS OUR EMPLOYEE PROGRAMS WE WILL BE KICKING OFF THIS THURSDAY AND ONSITE EMPLOYEE WELLNESS CLINIC ACTUALLY AS A WITH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND IS OPEN TO EVERY EMPLOYEE ANYBODY THAT'S COVERED UNDERNEATH OUR INSURANCE AND IT WILL HAVE A NURSE PRACTITIONER ON SITE THAT WILL BE ABLE TO SEE SOMEBODY AND IF YOU HAVE A SINUS INFECTION AND YOU NEED SOME YOU CAN'T GET INTO A PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN BECAUSE YOU JUST MOVED HERE. THEY WILL BE ABLE TO SERVE THAT ROLE OUR EMPLOYEES THEIR GOAL IS FOR THEM TO BE HERE TWO DAYS A WEEK, ABOUT 4 HOURS EACH DAY AND THEY'LL ROTATE ONE DAY HERE AT TOWN HALL AND ONE DAY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. BENEFIT OR A BENEFIT I I PUT IN PLACE BEFORE AND BEEN WELL RECEIVED SO IT'S TAKEN US A LITTLE BIT TO GET IT IN PLACE BUT IT WILL ACTUALLY KICK IT OFF THIS THURSDAY WILL HAVE AN INFORMATION SESSION FOR OUR EMPLOYEES AS COUNSELORS WHERE WE STARTED HOMEBUYING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM YEAR WE'VE HAD TWO OR THREE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT SO THAT AS WELL AS PAST ALL BONUSES FOR EMPLOYEES NOW WE GET THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS THESE HOSPITALITY IT IS A 2% TAX ON GROSS SALES OF PREPARED MEALS AND BEVERAGES SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE ARE THIS YEAR VERSUS LAST YEAR YOU CAN SEE THE PIE CHART OF AS WELL AS THE FINANCIAL OVERVIEW ON BOTTOM WE'RE ANTICIPATING A SLIGHT INCREASE FOR HOSPITALITY TAX ABOUT 1% AND THAT'S MOSTLY COMING FROM GROWTH.

MORE PEOPLE IN THE AREA EATING OUT BUT IT'S STAYING PRETTY SO WE DIDN'T THERE'S NOT MUCH OF AN INCREASE YEAR OVER YEAR THIS A LIST OF THE HOSPITAL OF THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY MOVING MONEY FROM HOSPITALITY TO ACCOUNT TO PAY FOR SO YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF IT IS PARKS SEWER AS WELL AS STREET IMPROVEMENTS THINGS THAT RELATED TO BRINGING PEOPLE INTO THE TOWN AND THESE ARE FUNDS WE WERE TRANSFERRING AS I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER FROM THIS FUND INTO THE FUND AND THE COURSE THAT THEY WHERE THAT NUMBER COMES FROM AND THAT THEY ARE COVERING. SO YOU CAN SEE IN COMMUNICATIONS THEY COVER SOME PERSONNEL EVENTS AND VENUES AS WELL PERSONNEL AND THEN A PORTION GOES TO EXECUTIVE FINANCE OTHERS THAT ARE MANAGING THESE FUNDS AS WELL AS PUBLIC SERVICES AND GROWTH AND PLEASE FOR THE ADDITIONAL PROTECTION THAT IS PROVIDED THROUGHOUT THE TOWN FOR FROM AND AND IN THE BUSINESSES THIS ALSO WHERE WE PAY FOR OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH US NOT US WITH LATS FOR THE PALMETTO BREEZE AND THE LOCAL ACCOMMODATIONS THIS IS A 3% ON RENTAL ON RENTAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE TOWN I'M SORRY LIKE HOTELS AIRBNB STUFF LIKE THAT. NOT ALL RENTAL PROPERTIES BUT ON OVERNIGHT LIKE SHORT TERM RENTAL PROPERTIES. THIS GIVES YOU KIND OF A BREAKDOWN ON WHERE THE REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES GO FROM THERE. AS YOU CAN SEE WE'RE ANTICIPATING ABOUT A 3% DECREASE HERE. AS I SAID SEEING KIND OF A SLOWDOWN OR LEVELING OFF OF THAT FROM WHERE WE SAW THE PREVIOUS OF YEARS. SO WE'RE BUDGETING A LITTLE CONSERVATIVELY CASE THAT NUMBER MAY CONTINUE TO DECREASE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH THE

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NOW THE ONE THAT SAYS SUPPORTS WATER QUALITY MODEL AND PROJECTS THE BIG ONE THAT'S COMING UP FOR NEXT YEAR IS THAT MODELING FOR THE ROSE DO SO OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS THIS IS WHERE WE MAKE ALL OF THE REALLY THE BEAUTIFUL PARTS THE STREETSCAPES EVERYTHING THAT THE THE TOWN PRIORITIZES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE PROVIDING ADDITIONAL SERVICES TO OUR RESIDENTS YOU CAN SEE THE SOURCES OF FUNDING HERE AS WELL AS WHERE THEY FROM HERE FINANCIALLY TO MAKE UP ABOUT A $31 MILLION CERP FUND AND THIS IS WHERE WE'RE SPENDING AS YOU CAN SEE PARKS IS THE LARGEST FOLLOWED BY STORM WATER PROJECTS, ROAD PROJECTS AND YOU'LL SEE A LARGE TO LAND ACQUISITION IN THE PERCENTAGE OF THE AMOUNT OF PROPOSED USE OF FUNDS FOR NEXT YEAR AND HERE IT IS OUTLINED IN NUMERICAL AND THIS GIVES YOU THE BREAKDOWN OF THE DIFFERENT PROJECTS AND THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THOSE PROJECTS GOING INTO 2526 YOU'LL SEE THERE'S A FEW NEW ONES SOME THEM ARE CONTINUATION OF PROJECTS LIKE NEW RIVERSIDE BARN. UM WE DISCUSSED WITH COUNCIL DURING ONE OF THE WORKSHOPS ABOUT PUTTING PAVILION OUT THERE TO BE ABLE TO HOST LIKE CONCERTS OR DIFFERENT EVENTS.

SO THAT'S THE DESIGN FOR THAT IS IN BUDGET AND TO START MOVING FORWARD TOWARDS PERMITTING AND CONSTRUCTION OF IT AS WELL AS THE PUBLIC SERVICES BUILDING EXPANSION AND WATERSHED FACILITY. WE DISCUSSED DURING THE LAST WORKSHOP WHERE YOU HEARD THE SPACE AND NEEDS IS TO START PLANNING TOWARDS THAT PROJECT AGAIN SOME CONTINUATIONS OF CURRENT PROJECTS YOU HAVE PHASE TWO AT NEW RIVERSIDE BARN AS WELL AS BEGINNING THE DESIGN

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THIS IS BASED ON 8% OF OUR ASSESSED VALUE. WE DO A CALCULATION YEAR SO WE OUTLINE WHAT THAT DEBT RATIO IS . SO AS YOU CAN SEE THE TOWN CAN TAKE ON A LEGAL DEBT OF ABOUT $29 MILLION GOING 2526 AS A PERCENTAGE OF HOW MUCH ACTUALLY HAVE OUT THERE WE'RE ONLY AT 18.7% OF THE POTENTIAL DEBT THAT WE COULD TAKE ON.

THIS SHOWS YOU THE CURRENT DEBT THAT WE AND THE GEO WE HAVE TWO DIFFERENT ONES ONE FOR THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER AND THEN ONE FOR STORMWATER PROJECTS AND YOU CAN SEE THOSE OUTLINED BETWEEN THE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS HIGHLIGHTED IN BLUE UP THERE AND THEN WE HAVE OUR TIFF ONES THAT WE USED 2006 AND THEN WE DID A NEW ONE IN 2023 TO HELP COVER THE COST OF THE NEW RIVERSIDE BARN TO EXPEDITE THE CONSTRUCTION IT TO EXPIRE SO YOU CAN SEE 2026 WENT AS FAR AS 2026 THE 2023 WHEN WORKS ARE IN TEN YEARS SO IT WOULD BE 2033 WE TIMED IT SO THAT WAS TEN YEARS REPAYMENT FOR SO IF WE TO EXTEND THE YEAR FOR THOSE TEN YEARS AS WELL THIS GIVES YOU THAT BREAKDOWN OF WHERE THE FUNDS COME FROM TO PAY FOR THOSE DEBTS.

YOU CAN SEE PROPERTY TAXES MAKE UP THE LARGEST OF THAT THIS GIVES YOU THAT NUMERICALLY AND I'M SORRY THIS IS WHERE THE REVENUES COME THE MONEY THAT'S COMING IN TO PAY OUR DEBT AND GIVES YOU WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING AND THE TRANSFER OUT FOR CERP THE REASON THAT IS SO LARGE IS BECAUSE WE DID TAKE THAT CHIP ON. WE'RE STILL MOVING OUT OF THERE TO CONTINUE TO PAY FOR NEW RIVERSIDE BOND. THIS BREAKS DOWN THAT EXPENDITURES NUMERICALLY AND LASTLY WE TALK ABOUT WE KEEP FUND BALANCE SO THIS IS THE AMOUNT OF RESERVE SAVINGS RAINY DAY FUNDS THAT THE TOWN CARRIES IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE END OF THIS CURRENT FISCAL WE'RE ESTIMATING THAT IT WILL BE AROUND 25 35,000,726.

WE'RE PROJECTING THAT TO GO DOWN WE'RE PROJECTING WITH SOME OF THE CARRYING FORWARD SOME OF THAT TO USE TOWARDS LAND ACQUISITION AND HOSPITALITY TAX FUND.

YOU CAN SEE WE'RE PLANNING WITH THE CAPITAL PROJECTS CONTINUING TO MOVE FORWARD A LOT OF THE REASON THERE'S FUND BALANCE IN THERE IS THAT MONEY IS BUILT UP AS WE'RE BEEN PUSHING PROJECTS FORWARD SO AS WE'RE ANTICIPATING A NEW RIVERSIDE BAR AND OTHER PROJECTS TO MOVE FORWARD WE HAVE FUND BALANCE AND DRAW DOWN SAME THING WITH LOCAL ACCOMMODATIONS AND THE STORMWATER THAT A LOT OF THAT IS GOING TOWARDS THOSE MODELING PROJECTS THAT I TALKED ABOUT A LITTLE BIT AGO AND THE GOAL AS ALWAYS WITH THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FUND IS TO COMPLETE ALL OF OUR PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE PROPOSED AND IF WE DO SO WE REMOVE OUR FUND BALANCE IN THAT PROGRAM DOWN. THE GOAL IS FOR IT TO BE AT NOTHING BECAUSE THAT MEANS WE'VE COMPLETED ALL OF OUR PROJECTS AS WE KNOW DOES NOT ALWAYS HAPPEN BUT AS YOU CAN SEE WE'RE ANTICIPATING IT TO GO DOWN BY ABOUT $10 MILLION FROM LAST YEAR TO THE END OF THIS YEAR, WHICH MEANS THAT HAVE COMPLETED A LOT OF PROJECTS TO REDUCE THAT FUND BALANCE DOWN STEPHEN. YES, SIR. YOU KNOW MINE MAY BE ELABORATE TOO SLIGHTLY. A LOT OF PEOPLE AGAIN MOVE HERE.

THEY SEE THESE LARGE NUMBERS AND YOU KNOW, THE EMERGENCY FUND, ETC. IMPACTS OUR BONDING CAPABILITY. SO MAYBE KNOW THEY SEE A NUMBER LIKE THAT I THINK WELL OKAY BUT THERE'S A REASON THERE'S SEVERAL REASONS FOR THAT AND ACTUALLY ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CHRIS IS GOING TO DO DURING I THINK THE SECOND BUDGET WORKSHOP IS ACTUALLY GO THROUGH WE HAVE SEVERAL POLICIES THAT OUTLINE FUNDS THAT WE RESERVE MOST OF THE BECAUSE WE HAVE LIKE ONE FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE FOR HURRICANES AND NATURAL WE HAVE ONE THAT WE PUT IN PLACE TO REPLACE CAPITAL EQUIPMENT AND WE ALSO HAVE ONE THAT WE USE AS OUR EMERGENCY RESERVE FUND WHICH I BELIEVE IS 35% OR OF THE GENERAL FUND. SO WE DO HAVE THESE POLICIES THE COUNCIL HAS ADOPTED TO SET THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE HOLD IN RESERVE TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND SHOULD THERE BE AN EMERGENCY HURRICANE OR WE END UP IN A SITUATION LIKE OVER

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WITH THAT BEING SAID WE DO ONE OF THE POLICIES WE DO HAVE SAYS THAT IF WE EXCEED THOSE RESERVES WE CAN USE THEM FOR ONE TIME EXPENDITURES. SO THERE ARE SOME POTENTIAL LIKE LAND ACQUISITIONS THAT WE COULD USE THEM FOR AS ONE TIME EXPENDITURES TO TAKE CARE OF STUFF LIKE THAT. BUT YES IT DOES ALSO HELP OUR BOND RATING AND ONE OF THE REASONS WE WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH A TRIPLE AA THIS JUST GIVES YOU THAT NUMERICALLY FOR ARE WHERE THOSE FUNDS ARE. AND LASTLY JUST TO REITERATE A LOT OF THE THAT I KIND OF WENT OVER HOWEVER WE WILL GO INTO FAR MORE DETAIL AT THE BUDGET WORKSHOPS AND IT WILL ALSO BE WHERE WE'LL GET INTO A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS, CONCERNS AND DIRECTION THAT COUNCIL MAY BRING THAT WE MAY WANT TO CHANGE BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING OF THE BUDGET ORDINANCE IF COUNCIL GOOD I DO HAVE A PROPOSED MOTION I PROPOSE MOTION FOR YOU TO THE FISCAL YEAR 26 PROPOSED CONSOLIDATED BUDGET FIRST READING FOR TONIGHT AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS THAT COUNCIL MAY HAVE MISSED, RIGHT? YES, I DO HAVE A QUESTION IN REGARDS TO THE BUDGET AND THIS MAY GIVE DIRECTION IF NEED BE BEFORE WE GET TO OUR FIRST WORKSHOP. SO I KNOW YOU MENTIONED OUR INCREASES THERE TOO ON THE STORMWATER PORTION OF THE BUDGET. I ALSO AM AWARE THAT WE LOST A POTENTIAL GRANT WITH THE FUNDING THAT HAS BEEN DEPLETED FROM FEMA AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL . SO I KNOW WE WERE RELYING ON A $309,000 GRANT AS A PART OF OUR BUILDING RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM TO MITIGATE OUR FLOOD PRONE AREAS OFTEN DUE TO THAT LOSS HAVE WE FORECAST SAID OR HAVE WE LOOK TO ABSORB THAT THE OF THAT MITIGATION STRATEGY THROUGH OUR OWN EITHER GENERAL FUND OR DEBT SERVICE PLAN SO WE DON'T LOSE THAT MUCH NEEDED STUDY PLAN. YES THAT'S WHERE WITHIN HERE WHERE YOU SEE THAT LARGE INCREASE FOR OPERATIONS WITHIN STORMWATER THE MAJORITY OF THAT IS FOR CONDUCTING THESE STUDIES AND I WAS TRYING TO GET BACK THERE I THINK I WENT TOO FAR BUT IT IS IN THERE TO ACCOUNT FOR THE STUDIES LIKE I MENTIONED THE ROADS DO THE STORMWATER, THE FLOODING MODELING, ALL OF THAT. THAT IS A LARGE PART OF THE INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR. AWESOME. SO I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR TO YOU IN MY OTHER QUESTION ON THIS SAME REGARDS BECAUSE WE WE KNOW WE MAY POTENTIALLY HAVE AN ACTIVE HURRICANE SEASON. HAVE WE ALSO FORECASTED REALITY THAT WE MAY NOT HAVE ANY FEMA FUNDS TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS? HAVE WE LOOKED AT WHAT OUR BUDGET WILL LOOK LIKE IN TERMS OF MAKING WE HAVE NECESSARY FUNDS FOR LIKE DEBRIS COLLECTION OR DRAINAGE OR EVEN IF THERE MAY BE SOME COMMUNITIES WOULD NORMALLY RELY ON SOME ASSISTANCE IN TERMS OF COMING AND HAVING DRAINAGE AND STUFF TOO THAT WE CAN BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE IN ALLEVIATE THE WINDFALL WHERE THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET THAT NORMAL ACCESS.

YES, MA'AM. AND BETWEEN THE EMERGENCY FUND WE SET AND OUR REGULAR FUND BALANCE I FEEL COMFORTABLE THAT WE'RE THERE WHEN CHRIS GOES OVER THE RESERVE FUNDS THAT WE HAVE THAT MAY BE A CONVERSATION AS WE GET INTO IF THAT BECOMES MORE OF A REALITY WHERE WE MAY WANT TO ADJUST THE PERCENTAGE THE THE AMOUNT THAT WE'RE KEEPING IN OUR EMERGENCY RESERVE FUND FOR HURRICANE AND NATURAL DISASTER RESPONSE. THANK YOU.

YES, MA'AM. IT APPEARS THAT WILL BE A REALITY FOR I'M GOING TO SAVE ALL MY QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS FOR THE WORKSHOP BUT THANK YOU .

APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK ON THIS INCREDIBLE TIME FOR STEVEN TO SIT DOWN.

WE AS YOU ALWAYS KNOW, YOU CAN ALWAYS ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ON THE BUDGET BETWEEN NOW AND FIRST READING I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY AND SO WILL CHRIS AND NATALIE TO SIT DOWN AND GO THROUGH ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE SO YOU AND THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

SO THANK YOU AS A MOTION ON THE SCREEN A MINUTE AGO, SIR. ALL RIGHT.

SO I NEED A MOTION PLEASE. I'M GOING TO APPROVE FISCAL YEAR 2026 PROPOSED CONSOLIDATED BUDGET ON FIRST READING. IS THERE A SECOND THING? IS THERE DISCUSSION HEARING NONE ALL IN FAVOR SAY I I NO OPPOSED IT CARRIES THANK YOU THANK YOU SIR NEXT IS MR. CHRIS

[X.2. Consideration of an Ordinance Amending Chapter 2 – Administration, Article IX – Purchasing. First Reading – Chris Forster, Assistant Town Manager]

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THE LAST UPDATE TO ANY OF THE DOLLAR THRESHOLDS THIS ORDINANCE WAS IN 2008 SO IT'S BEEN QUITE SOME TIME SINCE THEN A LOT HAS CHANGED MOST NOTABLY AS THE AMOUNT OF GROWTH IN TOWN HAS GONE THROUGH. OBVIOUSLY POPULATION HAS BOOM SINCE 2008.

INFLATION IS UP QUITE SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE THAT PERIOD AS WELL.

THE AMOUNT OF REVENUES THAT THE TOWN HAS AS THEY GO OUT HAVE INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY AND ALSO THE AMOUNT OF THAT CAPITAL ASSETS THAT ARE ON OUR BOOKS AND THAT WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN ON A REGULAR BASIS SINCE THAT TIME PERIOD WE HAVE MADE NO CHANGES THIS THESE THRESHOLDS WHICH CAUSE US TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS AND AGAIN THE GOAL REALLY HERE IS TO MAINTAIN OUR SERVICE LEVELS AND REMAIN COMPETITIVE AND EFFICIENT AS WE LOOK TO SERVE OUR CITIZENS.

WE DID A PEER COMPARISON EXCUSE ME OF WHAT OTHER POLICY THRESHOLDS THEY HAD AROUND PROCUREMENT IN LOCAL IN THE AREA. OUR CURRENT LOW DOLLAR THRESHOLD IS $500 SO WE HAVE HEARD QUOTES FOR ANYTHING LESS THAN THAT BUT IT'S NOT REQUIRED ONCE IT GOES OVER 2500. WE CURRENTLY REQUIRE AT LEAST THREE QUOTES IN THE PUBLIC SOLICITATION AS REQUIRED FOR THAT IS ESTIMATED TO BE OVER 50,000 OR MORE AND THERE ARE SOME EXCEPTIONS FOR DIFFERENT REASONS LOOKING AT THE OTHER TOWNS AROUND US A LOT OF THE LOWER DOLLAR THRESHOLDS ARE MUCH HIGHER BUT MOST NOTABLY IF YOU LOOK AT IT HARDLY LONG BEFORE YOU KNOW THAT LARGER DOLLAR THRESHOLD DOESN'T KICK IN UNTIL IT'S OVER $100,000 WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO BE A LOT MORE NIMBLE AND REACT THE NEEDS TO SERVE THEIR CITIZENRY.

THE PROPOSED CHANGES THAT WE HAVE INCLUDED IS TO ALIGN THE THE REALITIES OF SOME OF THE CONDITIONS WE FACE IN OUR ECONOMY AS WELL AS TO MATCH SOME OF OUR PEERS WE PROPOSE TO INCREASE THAT LOW DOLLAR THRESHOLD TO 15,000 FROM 15000 TO 100000.

WE REQUIRE AT LEAST THREE QUOTES AND THEN A HUNDRED THOUSAND OR GREATER WOULD REQUIRE A COMPETITIVE BEAR OR US PROPOSALS. OF COURSE WE WANT TO MAINTAIN THE ABILITY FOR THE TOWN MANAGER TO CREATE ADDITIONAL AND PROCEDURES WITHIN THE PROCUREMENT MANUAL ITSELF THAT COULD BE POTENTIALLY MORE RESTRICTIVE OR PUT MORE CONTROLS AROUND THINGS AND THEN OF COURSE THE EXCEPTIONS FOR SOURCING EMERGENCY PROCUREMENTS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES WOULD ALSO REMAIN AS WELL TO PROVIDE THAT FLEXIBILITY FOR MSOS AS MASSIVE SERVICE AGREEMENTS AND IN SUCH ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIND GOING BACK TO YOUR SCREEN THAT YOU COMPARE THE DIFFERENT TIME AND TO MY KNOWLEDGE THERE ARE THESE CITIES OR TOWNS HAVE NOT UPDATED THEIR THRESHOLDS FOR QUITE SOME EITHER THANK YOU MR. HAVE THE TREASURE ALL RIGHT THAT EVENT CALLING FOR A MOTION PLEASE A MOVE TO APPROVE FIRST READING OF THE ORDINANCE AMENDING THE OF LOVEMAN QUOTE A BURDEN TO ADMINISTER THE ARTICLE NINE SEARCH SECOND SECOND ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION HEARING NONE ALL IN FAVOR SAY I AM ANY OPPOSED I A MOTION CARRIES ALL RIGHT SADLY GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCIL THIS

[X.3. Consideration of Ordinance Amending Chapter 6 – Businesses and Business Regulations, Article III – Soliciting and Mobile Vending – First Reading – Natalie Majorkiewicz, Director of Finance & Administration]

IT WAS INTENDED TO REGULATE LOCATION AND HOURS AND THE PERMITTING PROCESS AS WELL AS SET A $400 PER PERMIT FEE FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR IN 2021 THE TOWN AMENDED ITS CHAPTER SIX ORDINANCE TO COMPLY WITH ACT 176 WHERE IT SET THE BUSINESS LICENSE DUE DATE OF APRIL 30TH FOR EVERYONE IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND. THEN IN 2024 THE TOWN AMENDED ARTICLE THREE TO ALIGN THE PERMIT WITH THE BUSINESS LICENSE YEAR FROM MAY TO APRIL

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WHAT THIS AMENDMENT DO IS TO REMOVE THE FEE FOR THE PERMIT FROM THE ORDINANCE AND THEN REFERENCE THE MASTER FEES SCHEDULE AND THEN THERE'S A MINOR TAX CLEANUP FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. SO AGAIN IT'S INTENDED TO REMOVE THE $400 FEE FROM THE ORDINANCE ITSELF AND REFERENCE THE MASTER FEE SCHEDULE WHICH THE TOWN MANAGER REFERENCES IS RECOMMENDING DECREASING $450 AND THEN ALSO THAT MINOR TEXT AMENDMENT NEXT STEPS WOULD BE SECOND READING NEXT MONTH AND THEN THE NEW MOBILE VENDING PERMIT WOULD TAKE PLACE OR TAKE EFFECT WITH THE MAY 1ST 2026 PERMIT AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. OKAY. MAY I HAVE A MOTION PLEASE? I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE ORDINANCE AMENDING THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON CODE OF ORDINANCES CHAPTER SIX BUSINESS AND BUSINESS REGULATIONS ARTICLE THREE SOLICITING AND MOBILE VENDING AS PRESENTING AS SECOND MR. HAMILTON ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION HEREIN? NONE ALL IN FAVOR SAY I IN THE OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES THANK YOU NEXT WE HAVE MR. DAVID ALL

[X.4. Consideration of an Ordinance Authorizing an Economic Development Incentive Agreement Between the Town of Bluffton and Sunshine Bluffton Group, LLC. First Reading – David Nelems, CEO of DRCI]

I HAVE A NEW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE GRANT I WOULD LIKE YOU TO LOOK AT TODAY FOR AN ORGANIZATION CALLED THE SUNSHINE BLUFFTON GROUP JUST AS A WAY OF BACKGROUND AND REMEMBER COUNCIL PASSED THIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE BACK IN SEPTEMBER 12, 2023.

THE IDEA IS THAT THE AREA WE CALL WEST BANK WATER HAS 51% OF THE POPULATION BUT 17% OF THE SERVICES AND THERE WERE MULTIPLE BENEFITS ESPECIALLY IF WE TARGET BUSINESSES AS YOU SEE LISTED HERE HEALTH CARE, DENTAL HOME ETC. CHILD CARE IF WE CAN GET THE SERVICES WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO DRIVE ALL OVER THE PLACE AND MORE SPECIFICALLY DOWN TO 78 AND THE WAY THIS PROCESS WORKS. DO YOU THINK THIS BEFORE WE TALK TO THE THE APPLICANT AT THE DON RYAN CENTER USUALLY ON THE PHONE AND IN PERSON WITH STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED THEY SUBMITTED IMPACT STATEMENT THAT WE GOT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.

STANFORD VIEWS IT. KEVIN'S TEAM LOOKS AT IT AS WELL.

WE THEN HAVE THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION AND WE BRING IT TO WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW SO AGAIN THE WAY THE GRANT WORKS THIS IS AGAIN A REIMBURSEMENT THE ORGANIZATION ONLY WAS REPAID THIS MONEY BY THE TOWN AFTER THEY'VE PAID IT FIRST SO THEY HAD TO INCUR THAT EXPENSE FIRST AND FOR THE PERMIT DEVELOPMENT FEES UP TO 50% THE CAPACITY FEE FOR BEAUFORT JASPER 200%. YOU CAN SEE THE MATRIX HERE. YOU'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE.

THIS HAS NOT CHANGED AND OF COURSE BASED ON THE NUMBER OF JOBS AND OR THE CAPITAL INVESTMENT WITH A SLIDING SCALE FOR HOW THE PERMIT FEES AND THE OTHER PAPERWORK THAT AS A WAY OF BACKGROUND NOW HERE THE ACTUAL SUMMARY WHAT WE'RE THE BLOCK OF SUNSHINE BLUFFTON GROUP ACTUALLY RUNS AN ORGANIZATION RUNS A FRANCHISE CALLED THE GODDARD SCHOOL GARDNER SCHOOL HAS 600 SCHOOLS AROUND THE COUNTRY IS AN EARLY CHILDHOOD AND DEVELOPMENT FROM SIX WEEKS TO SIX YEARS OLD. THIS ORGANIZATION THAT WANTS TO PUT ONE IN BLUFFTON HERE AT WASHINGTON SQUARE YOU CAN SEE THE SITE THERE IF YOU CAN KIND OF GET YOUR BEARINGS THERE THERE'S BERKELEY PLACE THERE'S THE CAR WASH AND THE PARKERS AS YOU'RE GOING DOWN BY GOING TO THE PARKWAY IF YOU CONTINUE TO GO DOWN TOWARDS THE BOTTOM THAT MAP YOU WOULD RUN INTO THE DON RYAN CENTER AND THE KROGER AND ALL THAT PUT IT RIGHT THERE ON THE SITE A LITTLE LITTLE MORE INFORMATION. THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A SCHEME FOR IT.

IT'S A 17,000 SQUARE FOOT CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER WITH INVESTMENT OF $7.6 MILLION.

THEY ANTICIPATE BREAKING GROUND IN LATE 2025 AND THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE OPEN IN THE 2026 TO 2027 SCHOOL YEAR. SO ABOUT A YEAR FROM NOW THEY WOULD BE SERVING 230 CHILDREN AT THIS LOCATION. THEY HAVE 36 EMPLOYEES THAT WERE 32 WOULD BE TEACHERS AND FOUR WOULD BE STAFF MANAGERS AND MR. HAMILTON WE HAVE THEM TO HIRE FROM BLUFFTON FIRST BASED ON THE SIZE OF , THE INVESTMENT AND WHAT THEY'RE BRINGING TO THE TOWN HERE IS THE FEE SCHEDULE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE NUMBERS THERE YOU CAN SEE THAT THE FIVE YEAR BENEFIT TO ORGANIZATION WOULD BE $95,624. AGAIN THIS IS A REIMBURSEMENT

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THAT'S THE REVENUE TO THE TOWN OVER THE FIVE YEARS WOULD BE $52,624.

AGAIN THESE ARE ALL AGAIN A 17,000 SQUARE FOOT A CHILD PERSONALIZED THIS OPERATION IS 2026 SCHOOL YEAR AND I'VE I'VE MENTIONED ALL THIS SORT OF STUFF BEFORE SO WE FEEL THIS IS A WORTHWHILE PROJECT IT FITS WELL WITHIN THE GRANT SPECIFICATIONS WE ALL KNOW THAT BLUFFTON NEEDS MORE AND MORE CHILD CARE SERVICES AND THE GODDARD SCHOOL IS THE CREAM OF THE CROP AS IT RELATES TO THAT TYPE OF SERVICE. SO THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS.

I HAVE A MOTION. YOU ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR? OF COURSE.

THANK. WELL, WE'RE MOVING FAST TONIGHT.

GOOD. I HAVE A MOTION. I'LL MAKE A MOTION I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE FIRST READING OF AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE TOWN TO ENTER INTO AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON AND SUNSHINE BLUFFTON GROUP LLC FOR THE GOOD ART SCHOOL I HAVE A SECOND SECOND FIRST AND A SECOND IS ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION THEN ALL IN FAVOR SAY ARE I ANY OPPOSED MOTION THANK YOU TO THE ALL RIGHT MR.

[X.5. Approval to Authorize a Contract with Nix Construction Company, Inc. for the Reconstruction of the Sarah Riley Hooks Cottage (Fiscal Impact: $943,448.00). Kimberly Washok-Jones, Director of Projects and Watershed Resilience]

WE ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT A CONTRACT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION. SORRY RATHER IT WAS COLLEGE.

THIS IS THE SITE OF 76 BRIDGE STREET. SOME BACKGROUND ON THIS BACK JANUARY 2021 WE PURCHASED THE SILVERADO'S PROPERTY IN I WAS ABOUT .896 ACRES NOVEMBER 22 TOWN COUNCIL AND RESIDENCE PROJECT TO OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND SHAPE PLAN JANUARY 23 GROWTH MANAGEMENT THAT PRESENTED THE INITIAL VIABILITY AND PRESERVATION ASSESSMENT BACK IN APRIL OF 23 THE METTERS CAME AND PRESENTED TO YOU ALL AN UPDATE ON THE CURRENT STATE OF THE STRUCTURE AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONFIGURATION FOR PLAN AND THEN THE IN 2023 OF THE SAME MONTH THE RESULTS OF THE PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY AND CONCEPTUAL MASTER PLAN WERE PRESENTED TO YOU AS WELL. THIS CONTRACT JUST FOR THE COLLEGE ITSELF. SO I PULLED OUT THE COMMENTS AROUND THE SPECIFICALLY THE PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY IS WERE THE TOP FIVE ITEMS THAT CAME UP HISTORY IN OUR SPACE FOR THE TOP TWO SOME OF THE COUNCIL FEEDBACK THAT YOU ALL GAVE STAFF AT THE TIME WAS TO INCORPORATE THE FAMILY HISTORY INTO THE FUTURE PLANS PROVIDE ACCESS AND RESTROOMS TO PREFER TO KEEP THE BUILDING SPACES OPEN AND FLEXIBLE AND ACCOMMODATE DIFFERENT USES SUCH AS AND MUSIC CLASSES. THIS IS A RENDERING OF THE COTTAGE WHEN COMPLETED THIS IS A LOOK AT THE INTERIOR SPACE SO YOU'D WALK INTO MAIN GALLERY AREA OFF TO YOUR RIGHT THE FIRST ROOM THERE WOULD BE A STUDIO SPACE WITH A SINK SOME MORE FLEX SPACE BEHIND THAT THERE WOULD BE A BACK DECK THE ADA RAMP SO IT'S ACCESSIBLE WELL AS TWO RESTROOMS, ONE WESTERN FACING INSIDE AND DON'T HAVE TO ARREST HIM TO SUPPORT THE PARK AREA TOWN ARE PIECE IN MARCH OF 25 AND RECEIVED THREE COMPLAINT PROPOSALS TOTAL ONE WAS DEEMED NON-COMPLIANT AS WERE EVALUATED BY A COMMITTEE ON QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND VALUE OF THE OVERALL PROPOSAL AND NEXT CONSTRUCTION WAS DETERMINED TO THE MOST QUALIFIED BIDDER AND YOU CAN SEE THE SCORES AND AVERAGE SCORES ON THERE STAFF REQUESTS TOWN COUNCIL AUTHORIZED TOWN MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT NEXT CONSTRUCTION THE TOTAL AMOUNT IS $857,680.

WE ALSO AS WE ALWAYS DO A 10% CONTINGENCY ADDED OF 85,000 7068 FOR A TOTAL POTENTIAL FISCAL IMPACT OF 943,448 AND IT WITHIN THE PROJECT BUDGET AS WELL NEXT STEPS FOLLOWING COUNCIL APPROVAL STAFF WOULD SUBMIT A CONTRACT FOR CENTERS THE OTHER PRE-CONSTRUCTION HEARING THE DURATION OF THE ESTIMATED PROJECT IS 300 CALENDAR DAYS AND THEN THEY WOULD SITE DEVELOPMENT CONSTRUCTION IN MAY FOR THE OVERALL SITE.

ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION? FRAZIER ANY QUESTIONS? MR. HAMILTON LUCKY YOU NO

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I JUST WE'LL JUST WAIT ONE OF THE LOTTERY WHAT IT IS. ALL RIGHT.

THAT BEING SAID WELL, LET ME ASK ONE I'M SORRY IF YOU MIND GOING BACK TO THE PICTURE OF THE COTTAGE. YES, THE INTERIOR THE NEXT YEAR THAT ONE OF THE IS THAT DECK IS IT COVERED . I DON'T BELIEVE SO NO NO THANK YOU.

HAVE A MOTION AND MOVED TO APPROVE AUTHORIZING TOWN MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH NEXT CONSTRUCTION INC. FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SURROUNDING HILLS COTTAGE IN THE AMOUNT OF $943,440 WHICH INCLUDES A 10% CONTINGENCY.

THANK MOTION AND A SECOND ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION? NONE ALL IN FAVOR SAY I I'M OPPOSED I KNOW NO MOTION. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

[X.6. Approval of Public Art Committee Recommendation to Award a Public Art Commission at Oyster Factory Park to Wesley Clark with a Fiscal Impact of $65,000. Chris Forster, Assistant Town Manager]

THE MEDIUM WAS OPEN TO INTERPRETATION AND THERE WERE NO SIZE PARAMETERS THERE WAS NO SPECIFIED THEME. BUT WE ASKED THE ARTIST TO CONSIDER THE LOCATION AND THE HISTORY OF THE AS PART OF THEIR PROPOSAL NOT TO EXCEED OF 65,000.

AND OF COURSE WE PROVIDED THEM WITH ALL THE NECESSARY HISTORY AND BACKGROUND ON THE SITE WHEN THE COMMITTEE EVALUATES THE SELECTION OR THE PROPOSALS THEY TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION CONSIDERATION OF ESTHETIC QUALITY ARTISTIC MERIT WHERE WE PLACED THE FABRICATION HANDLING ANY MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS AND POTENTIAL LIABILITY OR SAFETY ISSUES.

THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THE PROPOSAL WESLEY CLARK HE WAS ONE OF FIVE INITIALLY THAT WAS TRIMMED DOWN THREE TO PRESENT AND WESLEY CLARK WAS THE RECOMMENDED PIECE.

THEY DID PUT AN ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATION THE MOTION TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COUNTRY BASE OF THE ARTWORK IS STANDARD TAN OR BROWN BUT THIS IS A CONCRETE BASE TO LOOK LIKE A BATEAU AND THEN A OYSTERMAN STATUE BRONZE STATUE IN THE CENTER THERE AND THIS WOULD BE THIS THE PROPOSED LOCATION ALONG THE WALKWAY GOING DOWN TO THE PARK AREA IS APPROXIMATELY A LITTLE UNDER SIX FEET WEIGHT IS OVER #1,000 AGAIN CONCRETE BASE, A BRONZE STATUE THE TIMELINE FOR MANUFACTURING AND INSTALLATION IS APPROXIMATELY TEN MONTHS. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS MR..

UM DO YOU MIND GOING BACK TO THE ACTUAL I DON'T HAVE ANY MR. HAMILTON A LOT OF MONEY IS A LOT OF MONEY. I THINK WE'VE MATURED THOUGH IS A PRESSURE I IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PIECE. MY ONLY QUESTION IS THERE'S USUALLY LIKE A PLAQUE THAT WILL LIST THE ARTIST WHO DID THE WORK OR WILL THERE BE ALSO LIKE AN INSCRIPTION ON OF THE BAT TO A BOAT AND MAYBE IT'S SIGNIFICANCE TO THE AREA OR EVEN A LITTLE KEY OR SOMETHING THAT COMES OUT OF THE GROUND FOR THOSE THAT MAY BE UNFAMILIAR WITH WHAT THE LOCATION. ALL RIGHT ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I HAVE A MOTION PLEASE.

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WE HAVE A SECOND. SECOND? OH, YEAH.

I DIDN'T HEAR YOU. THANK YOU. UM ANY DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I I'M ALL OPPOSED.

MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU, CHRIS. EXCUSE.

[X.7. Consideration of an Ordinance to Amend the Town of Bluffton Code of Ordinances, Chapter 23 - Unified Development Ordinance, Article 4, Section 4.3 Uses by District to Allow Schools in the Preserve (PR) District. First Reading - Kevin Icard, Director of Growth Management]

[X.8. Consideration of Ordinances for that Certain Real Property Owned by Beaufort County School District, Consisting of a Total of 24.12 Acres, More or Less, Located at 1105 Bluffton Parkway and Bearing Beaufort County Tax Map Nos. R600 029 000 011A 0000, R600 029 000 1736 0000 and R600 029 000 0034 0000 into the Town of Bluffton corporate limits. First Reading - Kevin Icard, Director of Growth Management]

NO RESIDENTIAL USES ARE ALLOWED SO THIS IS JUST A FACILITY MAP HERE YOU CAN SEE PROPERTIES I HAVE DASHED IN RED ARE THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE BEING ANNEXED AND EVERYTHING THAT IS IN BLUE IS PART OF THE REZONING REQUEST. AGAIN FROM THE BOUNDARY MAP YOU CAN SEE THIS THE COLOR RIGHT NOW OF YELLOW IS RED RESIDENTIAL GENERAL SO THAT WILL CHANGE TO THAT DARK GREEN WHICH IS PRESERVED FOR ALL OF THE PROPERTIES FROM A TIMELINE FOR THIS CAME THROUGH IN FEBRUARY CAME IN FRONT OF YOU IN MARCH THAT'S WHEN WE WORKED ON THESE THE TEXT AMENDMENT RIGHT AFTER THAT MEETING THEY THEIR APPLICATION TO INCLUDE ALL THE PROPERTIES IT WENT IN FRONT OF A PLANNING COMMISSION WITH A UNANIMOUS RECOMMENDATION TO TOWN COUNCIL JUST SOME QUICK BACKGROUND INFORMATION THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE BEING ANNEXED THERE IN THE TWO RURAL AS YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A LIST OF ALMOST 23 DIFFERENT USES THAT ARE ALLOWED AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO EIGHT USES SO ALL THE PROPERTIES IN THE PRESERVE WOULD HAVE THAT AND AGAIN THE SCHOOL IS PART OF THAT TEXT AMENDMENT THAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD AS OF RIGHT NOW THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS STATED POTENTIAL

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THIS MOTION NUMBER ONE I WAS NUMBER ONE. I HAVE A SECOND.

OKAY AT FIRST AND THE SECOND AND ANY MORE DISCUSSION AND ALL IN FAVOR SAY I UH I'M OPPOSED JERRY'S MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. MOVING ON TO THE NEXT ONE ALSO MAKE MOTION NUMBER TWO IS SHOWN ON THE SCREEN YOU KNOW IN SECOND SECOND IN THE DISCUSSION HEARING NONE ALL IN FAVOR SAY I OPPOSED AND MOTION CARRIES THANK GOOD AGAIN THANK YOU MAYOR PRO TEM COUNSEL THIS IS THE EXCUSE ME 1/2. YES, SIR PLEASE.

YES, SIR. WE'RE GOING TO GO TO YOU NEED A BREAK ALL RIGHT WE'RE GOING TO

[X.9. Consideration of an Approval for the Initial Master Plan Request by University Investments, LLC, for Approval of an Initial Master Plan Application for Seven Contiguous Parcels Located Southwest of the Intersection of Buckwalter Parkway and Bluffton Parkway within the Buckwalter Planned Unit Development. Kevin Icard - Director of Growth Management]

SO THE REQUEST IS BY UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS FOR APPROVAL OF AN INITIAL MASTER PLAN REFERRED TO AS PARKWAY. IT'S A 114 ACRE PARCEL THAT'S ZONED BACKWATER AND IT'S AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BOSTON PARKWAY AND BUCKWALTER PARKWAY APPROXIMATELY 6869 ACRES OF UPLAND FOR COMMERCIAL MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL MEDICAL FROM A LOCATION STANDPOINT I'VE HIGHLIGHTED TWO PROPERTIES HERE IN RED SO QUICK BACKGROUND INFORMATION THIS IS AGAIN PART BUCKWALTER PAD THE CONCEPT PLAN AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT SO THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE TRACK IS IDENTIFIED AS THAT COMMONS LAND USE AND AS YOU REMEMBER THIS JUST CAME THROUGH FOR AN ANNEXATION REQUEST AND THE SOUTHERN PORTION THAT THE GRANDIOSE COMMON LAND USE TRUCK AND THAT'S HAS THE OUTLINES OF THE TOTAL IN THE 13TH AMENDMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AGAIN SO YOU CAN SEE THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS VERSUS NORTHERN PORTIONS HERE FROM THE PLAN I'VE JUST HIGHLIGHTED THE THE ENTIRE PROPERTY IN BLACK AND YOU CAN SEE THE THE CROSSHATCH IS LOCATION THE GRANDIOSE COMMON LAND USE OF TRACK VERSUS THE BACKWATER COMMONS. SO FROM A PROJECT STANDPOINT THE PROPERTY IS BROKEN UP INTO SEVEN DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT AREAS LABELED A THROUGH G AND I HAVE THAT ON A MAP HERE IN JUST SPINE ROAD ACCESS POINTS WETLANDS PRESERVE AREAS AND THEN YOU'LL NOTICE HERE ON G IS THE LABONTE SITE IS PROPOSED AND THAT'S THE ONLY AREA OF THE PROPOSED MASTER THAT PROVIDES SPECIFIC DETAILS SUCH AS THE BUILDING LOCATION PARKING, LANDSCAPING AND VEHICULAR INTERCONNECTIVITY. HERE IS A COPY OF THE INITIAL MASTER PLAN AND AGAIN YOU CAN SEE THE ACCESS POINTS LOCATED OFF OF LAKE DRIVE ACROSS FROM WHERE THE PARK FIRST IS LOCATED. INNOVATION WHERE ACCESS TO CULTURE PLACE THERE'S AN ACCESS POINT ACROSS FROM MYSTIC BLUFF WHICH WILL A LIMITED ACCESS AND THEN A FULL ACCESS FURTHER DOWN WHERE THE APARTMENTS IS LOCATED SO THE APPLICANT FROM STILL FOR

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A COUPLE OF THE OTHER ITEMS IT WAS WITH THE COMPATIBILITY OF THE PROPOSED LAND USES DENSITIES TRAFFIC CIRCULATION AND WE JUST STATED THAT IT LACKS THE DETAIL REQUIRED TO ASSESS COMPATIBILITY OF THE LAND USES WHILE IT IDENTIFIES OF THE INFORMATION THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH LEVEL TO DETERMINE THE COMPATIBILITY WITH THE ADJACENT LAND USES AND THEN DEMONSTRATING THE INNOVATIVE SITE PLANNING TECHNIQUES. ONE OF THE ITEMS AND DO APOLOGIZE IN THE STAFF REPORT THERE WAS MENTION OF A 50 FOOT BUFFER AROUND THE ENTIRE PROPERTY THAT THEY NEEDED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT I WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT THAT THERE WAS A PROPERTY AND I'LL JUST KIND OF SHOW ON THIS PLAN HERE FROM MY MY MOUSE IS NOT WORKING HERE THAT THERE'S A PROPERTY WORK MAYBE MAYBE NOT THE LITTLE CORNER AT THE CORNER LAKE POINT DRIVE AND BUCKWALTER PARKWAY THAT IS NOT PART OF THE ANNEXATION REQUEST PREVIOUSLY THAT IS STILL PART OF GRANDY OAKS IN THE COUNTY. SO THEY ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE STATEMENT OF THAT BUFFER AROUND THE ENTIRE PROPERTY. SO THAT ITEM IT WAS IN THE STAFF REPORT UPON FURTHER RESEARCH IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THAT.

SO I HAVE REFLECTED STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION AS WE MOVE FORWARD.

THE OTHER ITEM IS JUST MAKING THAT THAT THE MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT WHICH IS ALLOWED IN THE BUCKWALTER YOU STATED YOU JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS SHOWN AND THEN THAT LAST ITEM WAS JUST CONFORMANCE WAS ADOPTED OR ACCEPTED PLANS AND AGAIN THAT'S REFERENCING TO THAT PREVIOUS COMMENT WHERE IS COMPLIANCE THE BUCKWALTER PD CONCEPT PLAN FOR THE ALIGNMENT OF THE FROM A PROCESS STANDPOINT YOU CAN SEE THAT WE'VE HAD THE PRE APPLICATION MEETINGS THE DRC MEETING PLANNING COMMISSION AND THIS IS NOW IN FRONT OF YOU THIS EVENING SO WITH THAT STAFF HAS SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AS THIS MOVES FORWARD SHOULD YOU DECIDE TO APPROVE WITH CONDITIONS STAFF WOULD SUGGEST THAT ALL PLAN EXHIBITS INCLUDING THE INITIAL PLAN AND CONCEPT PLAN SHALL BE UPDATED TO IDENTIFY THE FUTURE REALIGNMENT OF THE PARKWAY EAST OF BUCKWALTER PARKWAY AS SHOWN ON THE CONCEPT PLAN AT TIME OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN ANY PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT THAT DEVIATES IN THE INITIAL MASTER PLAN KEVIN YOU SAID EAST YOU MEAN WEST WEST SORRY GOT A LITTLE AHEAD OF MYSELF THERE WEST OF THE BLUFFTON PARKWAY THANK YOU. AND THEN THAT THERE'S ANY DEVIATIONS FROM THIS IT MAY WARRANT A MINOR OR MAJOR AMENDMENT TO THEIR MASTER PLAN HERE YOU CAN SEE I HAD A RECOMMENDATION WE'VE SINCE SHIRKING THIS THAT IS IN THE GREEN PARTY UPDATE THE

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OUR CONCERN IS THAT WHILE THERE ARE TWO ACCESS POINTS FROM THE HOSPITAL ONTO POINT DRIVE LAKE POINT DRIVE DOES NOT HAVE ANY OTHER ACCESSES OUT TO ANY OTHER ROADS BESIDES.

BUCKWALTER PARKWAY SO AFTER TALKING WITH THE FIRE MARSHAL AND EMERGENCY SERVICES THE CONCERN IS IF THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT AT LAKE POINT AND BUCKWALTER PARKWAY BUT THAT IS THE ONLY POINT FOR THIS SITE IF IT WERE TO DEVELOP BY ITSELF SO STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS THAT IF IF THAT MOVES FORWARD ITSELF THAT A SECONDARY ACCESS POINT WOULD BE PROVIDED NOW THAT COULD BE IN THE FORM OF AN ADDITIONAL ACCESS BUCKWALTER PARKWAY OR THAT COULD BE A ROAD CONNECTING OVER THROUGH THE EXIST THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT TO INNOVATION DRIVE BUT SOME TYPE ACCESS WOULD BE PROVIDED IF THEY MOVE FORWARD AND THEN PRIOR TO THAT FINAL MASTER PLAN APPROVAL THAT WE CREATE A PHASING PLAN RELATED TO THOSE TRAFFIC AND IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSOCIATED PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT AGAIN IF YOU'VE READ THROUGH THE TIRE YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THERE'S MULTIPLE IMPROVEMENTS BOTH ON LAKE POINT ON BUCKWALTER PARKWAY AS WELL AS BLUFFTON PARKWAY BUT THERE'S NO PLANS SHOWING AT WHAT POINT OF DEVELOPMENT ARE THOSE IMPROVEMENTS REQUIRED. SO THAT'S WHERE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE FINE TUNE THIS REPORT IN ORDER TO SHOW THAT IF IF YOU KNOW AREA G STARTS FIRST AND THAT'S NOVANT HEALTH LIKE WHAT IF THAT IS THE ONLY DEVELOPMENT THAT HAPPENS THE NEXT I'M JUST SAYING HYPOTHETICALLY 3 TO 5 YEARS YOU KNOW WHAT LEVEL OF IMPROVEMENTS ARE NECESSARY JUST THAT AND THEN AS THE SITE DEVELOPS INTO THE FUTURE WHAT OTHER IMPROVEMENTS BASED OFF OF EITHER SQUARE FOOTAGE OR ACREAGE OR USES WOULD IMPROVEMENTS BE NECESSARY? AND THAT'S WHERE THAT PHASING PLAN COMES INTO PLACE. THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. THE APPLICANT'S HERE IF YOU WISH TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS FOR THEM I'D LIKE TO ASK A QUESTION.

KEVIN THE GUY IS NOT FROM THE COUNTY YET TO MY KNOWLEDGE I HAVE, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'VE RECEIVED A COPY OF IT BUT I HAVE NOT. OKAY.

THE NEXT PART OF THIS QUESTION IS THE BEAUFORT COUNTY DOING THE ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN AS WE KNOW RIGHT NOW. SO WITH THAT IMPACT THAT ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN IN SOME WAY THAT THEY'RE NOT OF OR HAVE THEY CONSIDERED THAT I'M NOT SURE FROM THE COUNTY'S PERSPECTIVE I KNOW THAT THEY HAVE COPY OF THIS SO THEY ARE AWARE OF IT.

OKAY. AND IT WILL IMPACT IT IN ONE WAY.

THE FRAZIER HAMILTON YEAH. COME BACK TO ME BECAUSE I GOT TO GET MY THOUGHTS TOGETHER GETTING CERTAIN I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS AND JUST SOME. DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING JUST FOR THOSE PEOPLE PLEASE? I DEFINITELY FOR THE RECORD I DON'T SEE JANINE OBJECT.

GREAT PLEASURE TO SEE YOU ALL. THANKS FOR HAVING ME. THIS ISSUE WITH REGARD TO THE TIRE THE CONCERN UM IS IS UNFORTUNATE IS MISS THE TIRE DOES ACCURATELY REFLECT THE PLAN THAT WAS SUBMITTED AND I DO HAVE SPECIFIC COMMENT FROM THE NO WHITE TEAM I'D LIKE TO READ BUT WHAT I WILL SAY IS THAT THE UM THE 100 BED HOSPITAL AND THE COMMENT THAT WAS DELIVERED FROM STAFF COMMENTS ABOUT AN ADDITIONAL MATERNITY WARD AND A TRAUMA CENTER ALL THINGS ARE ACTUALLY WITHIN THE TIRE THAT WAS ALREADY DRAFTED, RESEARCHED AND SUBMITTED SO THERE'S NOT AN AN ADDITIONAL COMPONENT TO IT'S ALL WITHIN WHAT'S ALREADY BEEN

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THEY WILL PROVIDE INJURY ASSESSMENT RESUSCITATION AND INTENSIVE FOR PATIENTS WITH TRAUMATIC INJURIES. THERE IS NO SEPARATE SERVICE OR BUILDING AS A TRAUMA CENTER REGARDING THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON, COMMENTS FOR WARD INCLUSIVE TO THE INITIAL 50 BEDS BLUFFTON MEDICAL CENTER WILL HAVE A WOMEN'S BIRTHING WHICH WILL INCLUDE EIGHT LABOR DELIVERY ROOMS AND 16 POSTPARTUM BEDS. THESE BEDS ARE INCLUDED THE OVERALL FUTURE 100 BED COUNT BOTH SERVICES MENTIONED ARE INCLUSIVE TO THE 100 BED PROGRAM THAT WAS STUDIED FOR THE TIAA. SO THERE'S NOTHING IN ADDITION TO WHAT'S BEEN SUBMITTED SO THE CONCERN I THINK IT'S WE'VE ADDRESSED IT KNOWING THAT THE TRAFFIC IMPACT ALREADY SPOKE TO THAT SPECIFICALLY WITH THIS DOCUMENT HERE. THE NEXT THING AS IT PERTAINS TO THE ACCESS PLAN IT FITS I THINK IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE PUDI PREDATES THE MANAGEMENT PLANS WE WEREN'T NECESSARILY SUBJECT TO THEM HOWEVER HOWEVER WE HAVE ALWAYS COMMITTED TO ALIGNING WITH THEM AND WE HAVE ALWAYS AGREED TO SAY THAT THE ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN THE LAST ONE THAT WAS SUBMITTED AND ACCEPTED WE'VE ALWAYS SAID WE WOULD WORK TO ADHERE TO AS BEST POSSIBLE AND REMAIN COMMITTED TO IT WITH SUBMISSION OF THE TIME WE SAID HEY WITH THE UNKNOWNS OF WHAT COULD COME BECAUSE IT'S NOT DONE YET WE'RE CERTAINLY NOT HAPPY NOW. WE'VE SUGGESTED THAT WE WOULD REMAIN COMMITTED TO THE FORMER ACCESS PLAN THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN SUBMITTED AND ESTABLISHED BY THE TOWN AND THE COUNTY.

SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE AT THIS MOMENT. MR..

I HAVE HAD SOME QUESTIONS AND I'M NOT SURE I THINK YOU MIGHT NEED IT OR KEVIN I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHO WHO YOU MAY THINK OF WHERE TO START. I MIGHT JUST GO START WITH A STAFF RECOMMENDATION AND GO THROUGH IT THAT WAY. SO YOUR FIRST RECOMMENDATION WAS TO FOR THEM TO INCLUDE IN THEIR INITIAL MASTER PLAN THE POTENTIAL I'M GOING TO PUT IN POTENTIAL FUTURE REALIGNMENT THE BLUFFTON PARKWAY WEST OF BUCKWALTER.

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT IN THERE. I KNOW WE ARE STILL BUT WE ARE WAITING FOR THE STUDY TO COME OUT MONTHS AWAY AND AT THAT TIME I THINK WE WILL HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO WITH THIS POSSIBLE REALIGNMENT OR NOT BUT UNTIL THEN AM I RIGHT THAT IF IT'S NOT INCLUDED COULD THEY SELL THAT AREA WHERE THAT FUTURE POTENTIAL REALIGNMENT COULD GO IF IT'S NOT IN SHOWN ON THIS AN INITIAL MASTER. YES.

AND SO THERE'S AN ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN BUT THERE'S ALSO THE BUCKWALTER PUDI CONCEPT PLAN. SO FROM A HIERARCHY STANDPOINT YOU HAVE THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, YOU HAVE THE CONCEPT PLAN AND THEN YOU HAVE THE ZC AND SOME MODIFICATIONS.

SO THAT CONCEPT PLAN HAS IS HAS CONSISTENTLY SHOWN THAT THAT PORTION OF REALIGNMENT IS THERE SO THEIR PLANS ARE NOT WITH THAT CONCEPT PLAN. SO THAT WAS THAT HAS BEEN OUT THERE FOR A VERY LONG TIME. I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT OF WHEN IT WAS PUT ON THERE BUT IT HAS BEEN THERE AND FROM A STAFF WE CONSISTENTLY LOOK AT THE CONCEPT PLAN TO MAKE SURE THAT PROJECTS ARE MEETING MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF IT SO AND THAT'S WHY THAT COMMENT IS ON THERE COULD COULD IF THE SITE WAS REDEVELOPED OR THE SITE WAS DEVELOPED WITHOUT THE ALIGNMENT ON THERE THEN THEN THE ALIGNMENT CAN'T GO THERE AND I SPEAK TO THAT EXCUSE ME BEFORE YOU GO POINT BY POINT SO THERE'S BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT RECOMMENDATIONS.

SO WHAT'S THE SOONEST ADDRESSING THIS ONE SO I GUESS MY QUESTION WOULD BE THE COUNCIL ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SEEING THIS SHOWN AS PART OF THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION? I DON'T WANT IT FOR ME. YES. OKAY.

AND TO UNANIMOUS. ALL RIGHT. WHAT'S THE NEXT ONE THE NEXT RECOMMENDATION WAS TALKING ABOUT THE BUFFER OF WHICH HE EXPLAINED THAT ONE CORNER.

BUT I DO HAVE A QUESTION IF YOU COULD JUST PULL UP THE INITIAL MASTER PLAN MAYBE ON THE SCREEN I'D LIKE TO EXPLANATION ON THE ABOVE FOR I KNOW IN AREAS THERE'S A 50 FOOT BUFFER AND OR

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I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO GO THROUGH IT AS OF RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST AS A A 50 FOOT VEGETATIVE BUFFER UNDISTURBED. DOES THAT MEAN WHAT'S THERE NOW WILL NOT BE NOTHING NOT GOING TO BE TOUCHED? THAT'S THE INTENT. YES.

RIGHT. AND THAT'S JUST THE ADJACENT PROPERTIES BUT NOT ALONG BLUFFTON PARKWAY OR I'VE GOT THE PARKWAY CORRECT. NOW THERE IS THERE IS SETBACKS SO THERE IS A A SETBACK FOR FOR BUILDINGS OBVIOUSLY I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A 50 FOOT SETBACK ALONG THE PARKWAY THE BLUFF ASKING THE BLOCK ULTRA PARKWAY I DO KNOW THAT ALONG THE THE BLUFFTON PARKWAY THAT THERE THE I BELIEVE THE EASEMENTS OF THE LINES RUN UP TO THE PROPERTY LINES SO THERE'S DRAINAGE EASEMENTS IN THERE AS WELL AS POWER LINE EASEMENTS AND YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO PUT ANY TYPE OF LANDSCAPING IN THOSE EASEMENTS JUST FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE POWER LINES SO THEY'RE THEY'RE CONSTANTLY REMOVED NOW ALONG THE PARKWAY OBVIOUSLY THERE IS THERE'S THAT 50 FOOT SETBACK AND I'D HAVE TO LOOK EXACTLY AT THE THE THE PLOTS TO TO SEE WHAT IS ON THERE BUT AS WE WOULD GO THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN WE WOULD ALSO REQUIRE ADDITIONAL LANDSCAPING IF NEEDED THROUGHOUT THAT AREA. I WOULD LIKE TO THAT I MEAN I THINK WE'VE LEARNED FROM SOME OTHER AREAS AND WE CAN LOOK AT YOU KNOW IF YOU EVEN LOOK ACROSS THE STREET AT THEM YOU SEE OR THE NO EVENT THEY'VE KEPT A BUFFER BETWEEN THEIR SITE AND BUCKWALTER PARKWAY I WOULD ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPER TO CONSIDER A VEGETATIVE BUFFER ALONG THE PARKWAYS BOTH OF THEM IN ADDITION TO THE 50 FOOT SHOWN AROUND THE ADJACENT PROPERTIES AND I KNOW AM I CORRECT THAT SOME OF THE TREES THAT WE'RE SEEING CURRENTLY ARE IN THE DRAINAGE DITCH THAT SHOULD NOT PROBABLY BE THERE TO BEGIN WITH.

YES CORRECT. OKAY. SO IF THOSE COME DOWN THAT'S NOT IN ANY DOUBT TRULY IN THE DRAINAGE DITCH. CORRECT.

AND A LOT OF THE MOST RECENT REMOVAL WAS MAINTENANCE OF AREAS THAT LITERALLY HAD NOT BEEN MAINTAINED HAD NOT BEEN MOWED. HAD THEY BEEN MOWED IT WOULD HAVE JUST BEEN GRASS OVER THE PAST 8 TO 9 YEARS WITHOUT MAINTENANCE.

JUST SAPLINGS HAVE STARTED TO GROW IN THAT AREA. YOU MAY TO STOP AT THAT POINT.

WELL HIM YES MA'AM. LET HIM GO BACK TO WHERE HIS ITEMS ARE AND WE CAN TRY TO ADDRESS THEM BECAUSE WE WON'T BE ABLE TO MAKE A MOTION WITHOUT KNOWING WHICH ONES WE'RE GOING TO GO ALONG WITH. SO SO I TAKE YOUR CONVERSATION ABOUT THE BUFFER FOR THE TIME BEING IS ADDRESSED I THINK SO YOU HAD A NUMBER TWO UP HERE KEVIN YES.

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SO THIS ITEM NUMBER TWO SAYS AT TIME OF DEVELOPING PLAN ANY PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT THAT SUBSTANTIALLY DEVIATES FROM THE APPROVED INITIAL MASTER PLAN AS DETERMINED BY THE ITEM IDIOM INITIATOR MAY WANT A MINOR OR MAJOR AMENDMENT TO THAT DOCUMENT SO ONE OF THE CONCERNS THAT STAFF HAS WITH THIS TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT WE HAVE WE'RE NOT SURE WHAT THEY ARE PROPOSING TO DO BEYOND THE NOVE ON SITE.

OUR CONCERN IS THAT IF WITH WITHOUT HAVING ANY CERTAINTIES AS TO ANYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN HERE YOU KNOW THINGS COULD COMPLETELY CHANGE AND THAT IF THE DIFFERENT TYPE OF ALIGNMENTS HAPPENED THAT YOU KNOW IT WOULD IT WOULD CAUSE US TO HAVE CONCERNS AND IT MAY BE A CHANGE TO THE MASTER SO IT MIGHT BE A MINOR ONE OR A MAJOR ONE WHICH IS OUTLINED IN THE DOCUMENTS AS WHAT DICTATES A MINOR OR MAJOR CHANGE. SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW, AGAIN, ONE OF OUR CONCERNS IS THAT THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH INFORMATION FOR US TO BE ABLE TO TO TO ACCURATELY, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS. SO THE CONCERN IS IF IF CHANGES START TO HAPPEN THEN WE WOULD WE WOULD WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EITHER PLANNING COMMISSION TAKES A LOOK AT IT OR PLANNING COMMISSION AND TOWN COUNCIL. SO I THINK AS WE ALL KNOW A MINOR CHANGES IN THE ADMINISTRATOR. YES, A MAJOR WHICH A MINOR CHANGE NOT COME BACK TO THE EYES OF COUNCIL. CORRECT.

A MAJOR CHANGE TO A MASTER PLAN WOULD BRING BACK TO THE EYES OF COUNCIL.

YES, SIR. I MEAN WITH THIS ROAD THAT'S SHOWN IN THIS INITIAL MASTER PLAN, IF MOVED IS THAT A MINOR OR MAJOR? IT DEPENDS.

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SO DEPENDING ON WHAT CHANGES MADE WE WOULD THEN HAVE TO MAKE THAT DETERMINATION IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA. KEVIN THERE ARE ALREADY NO DESIGNATION IN TERMS OF WHAT THE ALLOWABLE USES FOR WELL THEY HAVE DICTATED IT SAYS IN OUTLINED IN RED AREA IT'S KIND OF HARD TO SEE THAT SAYS MEDICAL COMMERCIAL MIXED USE OUT PARCELS AND THE AREA IN BLUE STATES COMMERCIAL USE OUT PARCELS NOW I THINK A CLARIFICATION PLEASE PLEASE IDENTIFY YOURSELF THANK YOU SIR . GOOD GOOD EVENING.

MY NAME IS NATHAN LONG WITH THOMAS AND HUTTON DOING WELL YOU.

SO ONE THING I DID WANT TO POINT OUT WE POINTED OUT AND HAD A LONG DISCUSSION ABOUT AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS WE FORMATTED OUR SUBMITTAL BASED ON THE MASTER PLAN REQUIREMENTS WITHIN THE BUCKWALTER P.D. WHICH IS WHAT GOVERNS THIS PROPERTY OBVIOUSLY THE STAFF REPORT IS REVIEWING THE PROJECT BASED ON THE MASTER PLAN REQUIREMENTS THE YOUDO AND RICHARDSON, THE BRUCE THAT AS WELL AND WHEN WE SUBMITTED THIS BASED ON THE REQUIREMENTS THAT APPLY TO THE PROPERTY BUT IT'S BEING REVIEWED BASED ON AND I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE AFTER THAT CLARIFICATION THAT THE STAFF REPORT AGAIN REFERENCES THE OTHER SECTIONS.

SO I THINK THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH WHAT'S REQUIRED AND WE'VE WE'VE TRIED TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND MAKE SURE THAT WE SUBMITTED CORRECT DOCUMENTATION.

THE SECOND THING THERE'S JUST ONE MORE CLARIFICATION WAS THAT THE TOTAL ACREAGE IS 79.3.

SO MINOR CLARIFICATION IS IN THERE BUT THAT COMPLIES WITH THE NARRATIVE AS WELL AS THE EXHIBITS THAT WERE UPDATED UM PRIOR TO THE DRC MEETING AND THE STAFF REPORT ALSO REFLECTS SOME OF THE OLDER ACREAGE JUST SO I JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ARE ADDRESSED PROPERLY REVIEWED UNDER THE CORRECT CRITERIA AS WE GO FORWARD YOU KNOW PRIOR TO SECOND READING OR HOWEVER THAT WOULD WORK BUT THANK YOU. YOU MENTIONED THE 59.3 ACRES.

YOU DID? YES, I DID. I'M JUST A COMMENT I THINK A LOT OF TIMES ONE OF THE BIGGEST CONCERNS COMES UP WHEN AMENDMENTS TO THE MASTER PLANS OR INITIAL MASTER PLANS ARE CRAFTED IS TYPICALLY SPACES THAT ARE NOT ALLOCATED OR SPOKEN FOR IN TERMS OF WHAT THE USES WILL BE IS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE CONNECTIVITY ISSUES AND INSURANCE WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IT WILL BE TO IN THOSE ACCESS POINTS AS WELL AS TO HANDLE THE MAINTENANCE OF IT AND SO THAT DOESN'T DEFAULT BACK ON THE TOWN SO I KNOW SPEAKING WITH THE REST OF COUNCIL I KNOW A LOT OF THE PROBLEMS WITH THE AMBIGUITY LIKE IT SHALL OR WHAT HAVE YOU. I THINK IF IF WE PROCEED AS IS I THINK YOU KNOW IT SHOULD BE CLARITY THERE IN TERMS OF EXACTLY WHO'S RESPONSIBLE IT WILL BE TO MAINTAIN EVEN CONSTRUCT THE FUTURE CONNECTIVITY POINTS BASED OFF OF WHATEVER USAGE OF THOSE AREAS WILL BE. SO THAT WAY THERE'S THERE'S CLARITY FOR ALL PARTIES ON WHO SHOULD BE WHO SHOULD DOING WHAT IS OR ISN'T REALLY IDENTIFIED. JOHN REID UNIVERSITY IN REDMOND I ANSWER YOUR QUESTION I DIDN'T COME UP HERE TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION BUT UNDERSTANDING PER THE ANNEXATION AGREEMENT IN TOWN WE ORIGINALLY GAVE INNOVATION DRIVE TO THE TOWN BECAUSE THAT WAS THE PART OF AGREEMENT 2000 THINK WE GAVE THAT TO YOU GUYS AND IT STATED WE DIDN'T HAVE TO BUILD IT BUT DURING THE ANNEXATION Y'ALL SAID Y'ALL NOT WANT THE TOWN DID NOT WANT TO MAINTAIN OR MAINTAIN IT SO WE HAD TO AGREE TO DO THAT WHEN WE GO GET THE DEVELOPMENT PERMIT TO DO THAT SO WE THAT THE DEVELOPER WILL BUILD AND MAINTAIN THE THE ROAD CONNECTIVITY ROAD AND SO FORTH SO CLEAR THAT ONE UP I DID FAVOR THEY WENT THE OTHER DAY THAT WE NEED TO GET THE DEED BACK WE JUST GAVE IT TO YOU IN A LARGE COUPLE OF YEARS.

WE NEED TO GET THE DEED BACK TO INNOVATION DRIVE IF YOU WANT TO BUILD YOU KNOW THE DEVELOPER HAS TO BUILD IT BUT HAVE TO OWN IT. Y'ALL DON'T WANT TO OWN IT THAT WAS ONE THING SECOND THING AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION WE TALKED ABOUT THE PHASE FIVE

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HOWEVER THIS ABOUT TO REVEAL ITSELF THROUGH INSTEAD IT IS TAKING PLACE AT THE TOWN COMMISSION ON FIVE POINTS ONCE THE COUNTY WITHDREW FROM IT THAT INFORMATION WILL BE FORTHCOMING THIS YEAR AND WILL BE PRESENTED TO LABS IN AUGUST. SO THEN THE DECISION BETWEEN THE THE COUNTY AND THE TOWN WILL BE MADE AT THAT POINT MY MY QUESTION AND MY CONCERN AND I SUSPECT ALL THAT OF COUNSEL IS IS PROBABLY IN THE SAME BOAT BECAUSE WE ALL SAID WE WANTED TO SHOW THAT ROAD THERE. I THINK THE KEY WOULD IS AND THIS IS A STAFF QUESTION IF WE SHOW THE ROAD THERE AND WE HAVE THE COMMITMENT BUT THEN ONCE IF IT SHOWS ITSELF THEN FIVE B WHENEVER THAT MAY THAT DEBATE WILL TAKE TAKE PERIOD A PLACE OF TIME WILL GO ON FOR A LITTLE WHILE IF FOR SOME REASON THE FIVE B IS NOT TO BE BUILT, IS THERE ANY MECHANISM IN THERE THAT WE COULD GIVE CONSIDERATION BACK TO THE DEVELOPER AT THAT POINT I'M GOING TO LOOK TO TERRY FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT BUT I WOULD SUGGEST IT GOES BEYOND JUST THE INITIAL MASTER PLAN. BUT THAT CONCEPT SO THE CONCEPT PLAN WOULD HAVE TO BE CHANGED AT THAT POINT ORDER FOR IT TO BE REMOVED UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT IT'S OFFICIALLY REMOVED IT'S ON THE PLAN IS ON THE CONSENT PLAN AND NEEDS TO BE ADHERED TO. I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY RIGHT DESPITE THE FACT WE'VE BEEN TOLD BY THE COUNTY THEY HAVE NO INTENTION DOING FIVE B PROBABLY IN OUR LIFETIMES IT IS STILL ON THE CONSENT PLAN SO WOULD THAT BE SOMETHING THAT NOW WOULD AFFECT THE SITUATION? REMOVE PROPER APPLICATION? YES PERHAPS BUT THEY HAVE THE POWER PUT A PLAN TO DO THAT THAT CAN BE ANYBODY WHO OWNS PROPERTY WITHIN THERE AND I GUESS THE TOWN COULD IT IF THEY WANT THEN I'M SAYING I OWN THE PROPERTY RIGHT NOW AND HAVE ONLY FOR 21 YEARS AND IT BEGINNING TO BE AN ILLEGAL TAKING PLANNING COMMISSION BASICALLY SAID THAT WOULD BE AN ILLEGAL TAKING A PERSONAL PROPERTY YOU KNOW I INTERRUPT YOU I REMEMBER ALWAYS WANTED THAT ROAD THERE AND I WANT IT YOU'VE ALWAYS FOR OUR BEST FOR ANYBODY FOR BLUFFTON AND SO AT AT THE TOWN IS EMPHASIZING TO YOU IS THE ANSWERS TO SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS WILL BE COMING OUT JUST IN THREE MONTHS WELL AFTER 20 YEARS PRETTY MUCH WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN THREE MORE. MY POINT IS IF IF IT COMES OUT IN THREE MONTHS AND YOU CAN GET IT, YOU KNOW, AND NOTHING'S GOING TO BE BUILT THERE ON THE ON THAT SECTION IT'S MAY NOT EVEN BE IT'S JUST CONCEPTUAL RIGHT THERE WHERE THE ROAD HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE WILL BE BUILT SOMEDAY SO I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IF YOU PASS IT AND CAN GET IT FUNDED IF ONE THING TO PASS AND GET IT FIND IT AND IT'S IN THE AGREEMENT WITH COUNTY IF A SWAP THEY SWAP THEY'RE GOING TO SWAP THAT PROPERTY WON'T GET OUR PROPERTY BACK AND BECAUSE WE GAVE IT TO THEM ORIGINALLY AND THEY CAN'T DO IT WITH THAT SWAP IN IT SO I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS YEAH WE WILL BE GLAD TO COME YOU GET IT APPROVED.

WE'LL BE GLAD TO COME BACK BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A DEVELOPMENT PLAN YET FOR THAT

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THEY'VE GOT TO MAKE THEIR PLAN. THEY'VE GOT TO MAKE THEIR PLAN SOMETIME IN THE NEXT ONE MONTH.

THEY'VE GOT ONE SET OF PLANS FOR THE YOU KNOW, THE INITIAL HOSPITAL IN THE RIGHT LOWER RIGHT CORNER DOWN THERE NEXT TO GRAND OUT THEN THE PARKER THE REST OF IT THEY'RE GOING TO START PLANNING THEY MAY BE ALREADY PLANNING IT DON'T KNOW BUT THEY KNOW ABOUT THE ROAD AND WE'RE TRYING TO PLAN IT SO WE CAN BE AT IT BUT I CAN'T FORCE THEM TO DO THAT.

AND THEN IF YOU REMEMBER COMING OUT HERE WE ONLY BROUGHT IN ORIGINALLY THE THE CORNER DOWN THERE FOR ANNEXATION THEY THEN MAYOR LUTHER SAID JOHN ARE GOING TO TRY TO BUY THE REST OF THE ROBERSON PROPERTY BECAUSE THEY CAN'T GET TO IT YOU KNOW WITHOUT GETTING THROUGH YOUR PROPERTY. I SAID YEAH WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE TO BUY IT NOW.

SHE SAID THE COUNCIL WITH THE COUNCIL MEETING THEY SAID WOULD YOU PLEASE TAKE THIS OFF AND BRING IT AFTER YOU'VE SAID IT TOOK US ABOUT A YEAR TO DO THAT WHAT WE DID WE'VE DONE WE THINK EVERYTHING ALL THEY ASK US TO DO EVERY TIME AND THE AND SO NOW WE'RE BRINGING IT BACK AND IF YOU REMEMBER IT 79.3 ACRES OF UPLAND THEY'RE EFFECTIVE BIG BUT IT'S ALL COMMERCIAL MEDICAL COMMERCIAL SO YOU CAN'T PLAN YOU CAN'T YOU ALL YOU DO IS CONCEPT PLANNING NOW IT'S NOT LIKE WHEN I DO MY MASTER PLAN COMMUNITIES AND LAYOUT HOUSES LOTS AND SO FORTH SO ALL WE CAN DO IS CONCEPTUALLY VERY CONCEPTUAL. YOU ASK ABOUT THE ROAD ACCESS PLAN THAT IS THE THAT THE AGREED UPON ACCESS PLAN THAT WE AGREED UPON WITH THE COUNTY WAY BACK WHEN SO EVERY ONE OF THOSE AND WE'RE THAT WE'VE AGREED TO DO IT WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO IT SO YOU HAVE YOU AT THIS POINT WE ONLY HAVE RIGHT NOW TWO DOWN THERE AND THEN WE GOT AN INNOVATION DRIVE SO IF WE DID HAVE ANOTHER ONE UPRIGHT DIRECTLY TO THE HEART WHERE THE HOSPITAL HERE THEY'RE JUST ABOVE PARKER BUT Y'ALL ASKED TO TAKE IT OUT SOMEBODY ASKED US TO TAKE IT BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO CLOSE. THEY THOUGHT IT WAS TOO CLOSE TO THE LEFT. YOU COULD GET A RIGHT IN RIGHT THERE ALSO BUT THEY THOUGHT IT TOO CLOSE TO THE LEFT TURN LANE COMING OUT FOR BLUFFTON PARKWAY ANYWAY.

I KNOW WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING WE THINK Y'ALL ASK YOU TO DO. WE GO BY THE RULES AND WE'RE ASKING YOU TO NOT PUT ON THE YOU KNOW SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN THERE FOR 19 YEARS BUT STILL NOT BUILT. BUT WE WILL TRY BECOME IF IT DOES AND WE CAN WE WILL TRY TO PUT IT OUT THERE BECAUSE WE STILL WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE ROAD BUILT GOING TO THE COUNCIL ADVISE STAFF ON THIS BECAUSE PART OF THE PROBLEM THAT WE'VE ALWAYS DEALT WITH IN THE IN THE COMMUNITY MATTER OF FACT WHEN ONE OF THE PRESENTATIONS WAS GIVEN A MOMENT AGO ABOUT THE SUNSHINE NURSERY YOU'RE SITTING THERE LOOKING AT THE MAP WAS IN WASHINGTON SQUARE AND WE HAVE TWO ROWS OVER THERE NOW THEY DON'T CONNECT ANYTHING. YEAH, THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO CONNECT BUT THEY DON'T CONNECT AND SO THE FEAR FOR THIS COUNCIL IS THE FACT THAT IF I BE IN I KNOW FIVE B'S A CONTENTIOUS ITEM FOR SOME FOLKS AND MAYBE FOR OTHERS ONCE THE STUDY REVEALS ITSELF THEN THERE'LL BE SOME HARD MEETINGS BETWEEN THE COUNTY AND BLUFFTON TO DETERMINE WHETHER THERE'S ACTION OR NO ACTION. BUT WE CAN'T GIVE UP THAT RESPONSIBILITY IN THAT RIGHT BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN FIGHTING THINKING THAT FIVE MAY BE NEEDED FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE COMMUNITY I BELIEVE IN IT ALONE.

AND SO AND IN ADDITION TO THAT ,LET ME LET ME ADD THIS IN ADDITION TO THAT THE OTHER THING THAT CAME UP A MOMENT AGO WAS THE EXISTING INGRESS TO THE HOSPITAL SITE AND YOU KNOW WE WE SEE THE ROAD ON THE MAP HERE WHICH OVER TO THE FIRST INTERSECTION WHERE THE TRAFFIC LIGHT IS AND SO YOU KNOW THAT'S A CONCERN FOR COUNCIL AS SO I DON'T KNOW HOW STAFF PROPOSES WE DEAL WITH THIS I THINK GOING BACK TO TO WHAT'S BEEN DISCUSSED ALREADY AND LOOKING AT PREVIOUS MASTER PLANS WE'VE HAD WHETHER IT'S BEEN THIS ONE WASHES THEIR SQUARES THE ORGANIZATION I THINK WE HAVE TO TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY IN ESSENCE TO IN A SENSE OF IF WE WANT

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I THINK THE RESPONSIBILITY IN TERMS OF WHAT PITFALLS WE'VE ENCOUNTERED BEFORE THE PLAN THAT WE COULDN'T CHANGE WE SHOULD BE ABLE KNOW WHAT WE NEED TO DO GOING FORWARD TO ALLEVIATE HAVING IMPEDIMENTS LIKE THAT WITH THIS PARTICULAR PLAN AND OTHERS TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR THE TOWN TO ENFORCE AND FOR DEVELOPER TO HAVE DIRECTION OR THE POTENTIAL OR IF IT'S ALL OFF AND WHO'S GOING TO BE DOING WHAT NOW RESPOND PLEASE.

IT PERTAINS TO ACCESS IN THE 13TH AMENDMENT TO THE PUDI WE COMMITTED TO PROVIDING ACCESS THROUGH ALL OF THE PROPERTY AGAIN WE'RE WE'RE WE'RE SUBJECT TO THE PUDI PRIMARILY NOT THE UDL BUT WE STILL HAVE WORKED WITH THE TOWN TO HELP IT GAIN ALL OF THE INGRESS EGRESS AND ACCESS THAT IT WANTS. THESE ARE PRIVATE ROADS. THEY'RE NOT PUBLIC ROADS.

THEY'RE BEING BUILT ON PRIVATE PROPERTY AND WE'VE COMMITTED TO BUILD THEM FOR THE PUBLIC'S BENEFIT TO ALLEVIATE OFF OF THE PARKWAYS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY IT SAYS IN THE ANNEXATION AND IN THE IAP THAT WE WILL DELIVER THESE ROADS AS DEVELOPMENT OCCURS.

IT'S THE DEVELOPER'S RESPONSIBILITY. IT'S NOT I MEAN UNLESS THE TOWN WANTS TO TAKE IT WHICH I HIGHLY DOUBT IT DOES WE DON'T HAVE ANY AGREEMENTS THAT SAY THAT BUT THESE ARE PRIVATE ROADS, PRIVATE PROPERTY THAT WE'VE COMMITTED TO BUILD IN THE ANNEXATION AND IN THE AS DEVELOPMENT OCCURS. LET ME LET ME ASK QUESTIONS OF STAFF AND COUNSEL SO WE'VE GOT TO NARROW THIS DOWN SINCE WE COULD YOU WANT TO DO THIS FOR A WHILE? MY UNDERSTANDING IS IT MAY NOT BE WHAT THE DEVELOPER IS LOOKING FOR I DON'T KNOW BUT IT MAY UNDERSTANDING IS ONE IF WE DO A MASTER PLAN OF WHAT IS THERE G AND DO A MASTER ANOTHER MASTER PLAN FOR THE REST OF IT INSTEAD OF THE INITIAL MASTER PLAN THEN ALL OF THAT COMES BACK TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO COUNCIL, IS THAT CORRECT? YES. OKAY. NUMBER TWO IS IT CAN BE TABLED TO GIVE STAFF AND COUNCIL OPPORTUNITY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SOLVE THE QUESTIONS THAT HAVE HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP TONIGHT FOR EXAMPLE THE ROAD THAT WE WE WANT TO SEE ON THERE FOR NOW AND WHETHER YOU KNOW THAT ROAD NEVER GETS BUILT WHAT DO WE DO? THE THIRD ONE WOULD BE WE TRY TO APPROVE THIS INITIAL MASTER PLAN AS PRESENTED WITH ADDRESSING STAFF'S QUESTIONS. I MEAN IN OTHER WORDS THE CONCERNS YOU HAVE WE WOULD HAVE TO PUT THOSE INTO THE TO THE MOTION CONDITIONS. SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL THOSE CONDITIONS WOULD LOOK LIKE RIGHT NOW. SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE RECOMMENDATION FROM STAFF AND COUNCIL WOULD BE AT THIS POINT. I WOULD TO SEE US TAKE A VOTE THAT MAY SPLIT IT WOULD MEAN THE MOTION WOULD FAIL TO DO ANYTHING AS OF BEFORE IT ON THE SCREEN NOW A PROPOSED I HAVE SUGGESTED TO STAFF A MOMENT AGO THAT IN EXHIBIT NUMBER ONE SORRY CONDITION NUMBER ONE WE'RE TALKED ABOUT IT HAS TO COMPLY WITH THE CONSENT PLAN THAT'S CURRENTLY IN EXISTENCE LANGUAGE ON CONDITION NUMBER ONE TO BE ADDED WOULD BE NOTHING IN THIS MOTION PRECLUDES ANY ENTITY STANDING TO APPLY TO HAVE THE BUCKWALTER CONSENT PLAN AMENDED SO IF IF IF THIS ROAD NEEDED TO GET OUT OF THAT CONSENT PLAN THERE IS A

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AND SO I THOUGHT IF WE ALLOWED THIS TO BE APPROVED BUT WE ADDED LANGUAGE THAT SAYS NOTHING IN THIS APPROVAL PRECLUDES ANYBODY FROM GOING AS SOON AS THEY NEED TO TO GET THE CONSENT PLAN AMENDED TO REMOVE IT. THAT MIGHT MOVE THIS FORWARD AS OPPOSED TO TABLE IT OR LETTING IT SIT IN LIMBO ANY LONGER. I BELIEVE THAT'S A REASONABLE COMPROMISE. THAT'S JUST A MATTER OF WHETHER THE TOWN THE TOWN WOULD HAVE ANYTHING TO DO IT. CERTAINLY THEY WOULD HAVE STANDING TO DO IT.

WE WOULD NEED TO GET SOME INPUT FROM WE NEED TO GET SOME DEFINITE INPUT FROM THE COUNTY TO CONFIRM WHAT ALL BEEN TOLD. CAN WE PUT A TIME LIMIT ON IT? IN OTHER WORDS? I THINK NOT. YOU KNOW, NOT RIGHT THIS MINUTE AGAIN I HAVE YOU MAY NOT HAVE AND THE TOWN MANAGER HAS INFORMATION YOU MAY NOT HAVE. AND SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE TO WAIT A LITTLE BIT LONGER FOR THE STUDY TO COME TO LAPSE AND THEN IT WILL BE STARTED TO GET DEBATED AT THAT POINT AND AND THEN WE'LL KNOW MORE TIMELINE TODAY CERTAINLY WITHIN I GUESS AND I WAS GOING TO SAY CERTAINLY WITHIN A YEAR OR LESS BUT IT'S GOT TO GO TO LAST AND IT'S GOT TO BE DEBATED THERE'S A THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH THE NEGATIVES THERE THAT BEEN APPROVED SEVERAL TIMES BUT IT CAN'T GET FUNDED. I HAVE INFORMATION YOU DON'T HAVE YET. I DON'T MEAN THAT YOU WON'T BE CORRECT BUT HAVE INFORMATION YOU DON'T HAVE I DON'T UNDERSTAND ALL THOSE. AND AGAIN PLEASE COME TO YOUR MICROPHONE. IT CAN BE SWORN IN. THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE SWAT NUMBER TWO. I DON'T UNDERSTAND NUMBER FIVE SAID PROVIDE A SECOND DEGREE.

I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THAT ONE AS WELL. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT.

WELL, I THINK I IF I AM CORRECT LOOKING AT THE INITIAL MASTER PLAN Y'ALL ARE RECOMMENDING ACCESS POINTS FROM DEVELOPMENT AREA G ON TO LAKE POINT DRIVE AND STAFF IS RECOMMENDING THE SECOND ACCESS POINT NOT TO BE ON LAKE POINT BUT TO EITHER BE ON BUCKWALTER PARKWAY OR PARKWAY IN CASE HE WAS SAYING THERE'S AN ACCIDENT THAT INTERSECTION OF LAKE POINT DRIVE AND BACK WALDRON THERE'S NO WAY EVEN ACCESS THE HOSPITAL AT THAT POINT I'M SORRY THE INTENT IS A SECONDARY ACCESS SO WHILE THERE ARE TWO ACCESS POINTS ONTO LAKE POINT ARE CONSIDERATIONS THAT'S ONE ACCESS BECAUSE IT ONLY LAKE POINT DRIVE IN ESSENCE A CUL DE SAC AND THERE IS NO OTHER EXITING EXCEPT FOR ONTO THE PARKWAY AND SO THE CONCERN IS THAT IF THAT SITE WERE DEVELOP FIRST AND NO OTHER SITES ARE DEVELOPING THAT'S ALL THERE BUT THE ONLY ACCESS POINT IS AT LAKE POINT AND THE PARKWAY AND STAFF IS STATING THAT A SECONDARY ACCESS NOT JUST THE TWO DRIVEWAYS BUT A SECONDARY ACCESS OUT ONTO A PUBLIC ROAD WOULD BE NECESSARY IF THAT IS GOING FORWARD ONLY AND THAT'S WE'RE TRYING TO DETERMINE IF AND WE LEFT IT IN THE SENSE OF LIKE IT MAY BE AN ACCESS ONTO BUCKWALTER PARKWAY OR IT MAY BE AN ACCESS ONTO BLUFFTON PARKWAY. LET'S GO OUT AND GO AHEAD AND FINISH THE ELEVATION DRIVE. LET'S SAY THAT WOULD BE A AN OPTION.

YES JUST TWO INNOVATION FROM THAT I DIDN'T HEAR HIS OR HE STILL HAS TO CONNECT TO INNOVATION DRIVE DON'T THAT PROPERTY IS THAT SEPARATE FROM THAT'S A THAT'S A LARGE ROAD

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WE HAD THE RIGHT DO WE THOUGHT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IT. THE COUNTY HAS TO MAKE THAT ROUTE RIGHT. I MEAN YOU CANNOT MAKE THE ROUTE GET KIND OF LIKE THIS WE WANT IT INNOVATION DRIVE TO DO IT YOU GUYS AND SOMEHOW OR ANOTHER IT'S NOT YOUR BUT BETWEEN YOU AND THE COUNTY THEY SOMETHING HAPPEN YEAH THEY DIDN'T THEY DIDN'T MAKE THEY DIDN'T MAKE THEM BUILD IT CONNECT TO IT STICK TO Y'ALL OR WHATEVER SO THAT THEY DIDN'T BUILD INNOVATION DRIVE TO THIS FACT THEY SHOULD HAVE FOR IT TO BE A COMMERCIAL THOROUGHFARE AND ANY OF YOU WERE WITH ME, SIR? WE'RE NOT GETTING ANYWHERE VERY FAST. DO YOU HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS YOU MAY HAVE.

SO IF WE WANT TO I THINK WE STARTED WITH THE MAYOR PRO TEM. WOULD YOU TAKE US DOWN THE RIGHT PATH? I THINK WE WERE GOING THROUGH INDIVIDUAL ITEMS AND YOU STARTED WITH A ARE NUMBER ONE AND I BELIEVE THAT COUNCIL WAS UNANIMOUS IN OF THAT.

I THINK IT WOULD BE OF IF THERE IS AN ISSUE WITH ITEM TWO WHICH IS THE ONE THAT KEVIN WENT THROUGH THAT OUTLINES SHOULD IT SUBSTANTIALLY DEVIATE, THEY WOULD HAVE TO DO AN AMENDMENT WHICH IS ALREADY CALLED FOR UNDERNEATH THE ANY DEVELOPMENT THAT WHETHER IT'S MINOR OR A MAJOR IF COUNCIL IS GOOD WITH THAT ONE THEN WE COULD MOVE ON TO NUMBER THREE.

UM, SO NUMBER THREE WOULD BE THE ONE TO IDENTIFY JUST HAVE THE NARRATIVE REFLECT THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT ALLOWED AND BUCKWALTER POINTED WHICH I THINK IS ALREADY OUTLINED IN THE BUT KEVIN IS IN HIS 50 FEET IS JUST TO REITERATE THAT NUMBER FOUR OF COUNCIL AND AGAIN I WOULD OPEN THAT UP A COUNCIL HAS ANY QUESTIONS ON JUST REITERATING THAT THE BUILD TO THAT'S OUTLINED IN THE PUD IS IS ADDRESSED. UM I THINK NUMBER FOUR, UM BASED ON THE CONVERSATION THAT'S TAKEN HERE IT SOUNDS LIKE IF AGAIN GOING BACK TO IF THE TO MEET TO COUNT DOWN A COUNTY STAFF REQUIRES THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE GOING TO BE APPROVING THE UM THE ACCESS ON TO THE ENCROACHMENT ON THE BLUFF BUCKWALTER OR BLUFFTON PARKWAY. THEY WOULD BE THE ONES WHO DETERMINE IF THE A QUALIFIES TO MEET WHAT THEY NEED FOR THEIR ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN KEVIN CORRECT.

THE COUNTY IS HAPPY WITH WHAT'S BEEN THERE THEN THERE WOULD BE NO NEED TO UPDATE CORRECT? YEP. SO I THINK IF EXCUSE ME IS THAT LANGUAGE IS WRITTEN ACCOMMODATE WHAT YOUR POINT IS. WELL WHERE I WAS GETTING THAT OF COUNCIL BASED ON THE CONVERSATION THAT'S TAKING PLACE HERE I THINK IF WE WANTED TO AMEND NUMBER FOUR IT COULD IT DOES SAY ACCEPTED COUNTY PRIOR TO FINAL INITIAL MASTER. I THINK IF THE COUNTY SIMPLY TELLS US THAT THEY'VE ACCEPTED THEN THAT MEETS THE QUALIFICATION FOR THAT ONE.

KEVIN OR WOULD YOU RATHER ADDRESS THE LANGUAGE TO BETTER CLARIFY THAT AND AND THEN AGAIN WITH NUMBER FOUR, IS THERE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR COUNCIL OR IS THERE ANY UM IF EVERYBODY IS SUPPORTIVE OF THAT THEN WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT TWO.

SO WITH NUMBER FIVE THIS IS THE ONE WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT WITH SECONDARY POINT AGAIN WITH COUNCIL'S DISCRETION TO DETERMINE WHETHER HOW YOU WANT TO PHASE UM PART OF AS YOU'VE HEARD KEVIN DISCUSS AND YOU'VE HEARD FROM THE DEVELOPER HAS TO DO WITH WHEN THINGS ARE GOING BUILT AND PHASING AND ALL OF THAT I THINK THE REQUIREMENT TO REQUIRE A PHASING PLAN AND ADDRESS WHEN AND AND I THINK SOME AS I THINK IT WAS COUNCILMAN FRAZIER ADDRESSED WHO'S RESPONSIBLE AND HOW THOSE ROADS ARE GOING TO BE ADDRESSED.

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UM, SO WHAT YOU HAVE WITH WITH THAT IS BASED ON THE CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE HAD IF COUNCIL IS SUPPORTIVE STANCE MOTIONS THAT WE WENT THROUGH THEN IT COULD CONDITIONALLY APPROVED AS WHAT'S OUTLINED IN MOTIONS ONE THROUGH SIX WITH SOME OF THE MINOR CHANGES THAT LEGAL AND THAT HAVE COME UP DURING DISCUSSION TONIGHT IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT'S MISSING THAT COUNCIL WOULD LIKE ADD OR THEY FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO AS PART OF THAT WE CAN ADDRESS THOSE MOTIONS AS THEY ARE PROPOSED RIGHT NOW. BUT IF BASED ON THE DISCUSSION THAT WE'VE HEARD I THINK FROM COUNCIL TONIGHT THERE SEEMS TO BE SUPPORT FOR THE SUGGESTED MOTIONS ARE IN PLACE AND IF THAT'S THE CASE THEN I THINK WHAT HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU IS SOMETHING THAT CAN MOVE FORWARD LEADING IF THERE IS STILL CONCERNS THAT YOU WANT TO ADDRESS YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE OPTION TO TABLE. SO I THINK IN THE ROUNDABOUT WAY THAT I'VE ANSWERED THAT MR. WOOD I THINK OF COUNCIL WAS SUPPORTIVE OF THE STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS. THERE'S AN OPTION TO MOVE FORWARD IF NOT I AGREE WITH YOU AND THINK IT MAY BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TO A LATER DATE. I'M CONFUSED.

IS THERE RECOMMENDING THE ROADS BE BUILT NO MATTER WHAT IS BUILT? CAN YOU REPHRASE THAT? THEREFORE RECOMMENDING THE ROADS BE BUILT NO MATTER WHAT IS BUILT THE PROPERTY AT THE VERY BEGINNING NO SIR I'M WE'RE NOT RECOMMENDING THAT WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS FOR THAT NUMBER SIX WHERE IT SAYS THE THE THE PHASING THAT'S WHERE THE TRAFFIC CONSULTANT WE WORK WITH THEM ON BASED OFF OF AS DEVELOPMENT COMES ONLINE WHAT AT WHAT POINT IS IT WARRANTED TO MAKE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS? SO THAT'S OUR THAT'S OUR BIGGEST CONCERN. SO THAT'S THE FIRST ONE WHAT IMPROVEMENTS ALONG BUCKWALTER PARKWAY WILL BE NEEDED WHAT WE ARE SAYING IN NUMBER FIVE FIVE IS THAT THERE IS THAT ACCESS POINT NOW THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN IT HAS TO BE INNOVATION DRIVE AND THAT'S WHERE WE WE SAY EITHER CONNECTING THE BLUFFTON PARKWAY OR THE BUCKWALTER PARKWAY AS READ STATED HE'S LIKE WE COULD POTENTIALLY DO IT RIGHT IN, RIGHT OUT ONLY LAUNCH PARKWAY IF WE CAN WORK WITH THE COUNTY TO DO THAT THEN THAT'S ALTERNATIVE IN ORDER TO TO MOVE FORWARD IF WE AGREE TO DO THAT WITH THE TOWN BUT WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DO IT.

I MEAN WE ALL WILL AGREE THAT IF YOU CAN GET THE TOWN YOU AND I THE COUNTY AND THE TOWN AND THE DEVELOPER CAN GET THE COUNTY TO AGREE TO IT EVEN IF IT'S TEMPORARY MAYBE EVEN SOME TEMPORARY ONE UNTIL INNOVATION DRIVE DOES HAPPEN, WE WOULD WE WOULD AGREE TO THAT BECAUSE WE CAN'T AGREE TO SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER. BUT WE HAVE AGREE TO WORK WITH THE TOWN RIGHT AND RIGHT OUT THERE THE COUNTY AND EVEN GO FURTHER TO SAY IT COULD BE A TEMPORARY IF YOU WANT IT TO BE OF THE COUNTY UNTIL THE UNTIL YOU DO HAVE ONE AND INNOVATION DRIVE A CONNECTIVITY TO INNOVATION DRIVE. OKAY BUT BUT IT PUTS US IN A IT PUTS US IN A LIMBO IF WE KNOW THAT ACCESS POINT IS NOT SHOWN OR IS NOT APPROVE OR IS NOT RECOMMENDED IT PUTS US AT A PLACE WHERE WE FOR YEARS WE DIDN'T WE DIDN'T WE DIDN'T DO OUR WORK PROPERLY THAT'S HOW I SEE IT. SO BECAUSE THIS OF DEVELOPMENT REALLY REQUIRES HOW YOU MOVE THINGS AROUND RIGHT? JUST I MEAN WE GOT TO BE ABLE TO MOVE TO MOVE AND UM AND, IT MAKES IT A SAFE AND AND IT AN INVITING PLACE TO VISIT SO COUNTY IS NOT AT THE TABLE TONIGHT BUT MAYBE WE NEED HAVE THAT WE NEED TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION WITH THE COUNTY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY SEE AT THE SAME TIME WHAT WE ARE WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN THIS TOWN. I DON'T THINK WE CAN I DON'T THINK WE CAN IMPROVE A PROJECT KNOWING THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN FEEL LIKE IT'S A A QUALITY AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT THE BETTERMENT FOR THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON HAVING THE

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SO I MEAN IF YOU LOOK AT LIGHT POINT DRIVE YOU'VE GOT FOUR DEVELOPMENTS DOWN THAT ROAD SANDY POINT WILLOWS EDGEWATER AND I THINK IT'S ARBOR WOOD ALL OF THOSE ARE ACCESSED BY A SINGLE ACCESS ON POINTS RIGHT NOW THERE WAS A PLAN IN THE COUNTY TO CONNECT TO OLD MILLER ROAD OUT THE BACK END OF GRANDIOSE BUT THAT NEVER HAPPENED BUT THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL PLAN TO HELP WITH ROAD BUT WE RUN INTO SITUATIONS ALL THE TIME WITH DEVELOPMENT YOU HAVE A SINGLE ROAD NOW WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE CAN REVISE THE BULLET POINT I GUESS THAT TALKS ABOUT THE SECONDARY ACCESS IS THAT WE WORK HAND IN HAND THE FIRE MARSHAL TO COME UP WITH AN ACCEPTABLE ACCESS THE THE SPACING OF THOSE TWO ACCESSES ON LAKE POINT DRIVE CAN PROVIDE THAT ACCESS IS BASED ON LIKE A DIAGONAL DISTANCE TO THE PROPERTY.

I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY HOW IT IS CALCULATED BUT WE HAVE WORKED WITH MARSHALS BEFORE AND IT DOES LOOK LIKE THAT ACCESS COULD SHIFTED FURTHER DOWN LAKE POINT WELL MADE ACCOMMODATE THAT I'M GOING TO BRING THIS TRY TO BRING THIS TO CONCLUSION WITH THE HELP OF COUNCIL UM WE UNDERSTAND AND THE PAIN AND THE TIME THAT IT TAKES THAT YOU'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS PROJECT WE GET THAT AND THE ROAD THAT WAS THERE THAT YOU WERE A CHAMPION OF FOR YEARS IT TIES IN AND RESTRUCTURED THE FIVE B AND FIVE WE MAY OR MAY NEVER BE RIGHT NOW ALL I KNOW IS THE IS COMING OUT AND IT WILL YIELD SOME INFORMATION THAT WHETHER THE COUNTY LOOKS AT IT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER I CANNOT SPEAK FOR THE COUNTY. THAT BEING SAID, IT'S IT MAKES FEEL UNEASY WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO YOU KNOW, I WON'T USE THE WORD SOLVE THE AMENDMENT PROBLEMS AND CONDITIONS ON THE FLY I MEAN WE DO THAT FROM TIME TO TIME BUT THIS ONE HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR QUITE A WHILE. SO I FEEL THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMMODATE THE DEVELOPER AS WELL AS THE TOWN BUT IF WE VOTE AND I CANNOT BEGIN TO GUESS HOW THIS COUNCIL WILL VOTE IF WE VOTE ON THE MOTION AND THE MOTION FAILS THEN I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE BEFORE TO BRING IT BACK. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT WOULD BE ANOTHER MONTH OR NOT BUT THE REALITY IS IF WE TABLE IT IT DOESN'T FAIL AND THEN IT GIVES YOU TIME AND STAFF TIME TO GO

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OTHERWISE I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH EVERYTHING I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ANSWER IT NECESSARILY OTHER THAN TO SAY YOU'RE ASKING YOU'RE ASKING A PRIVATE DEVELOPER TO SOLVE A LOT OF A LOT OF ISSUES THAT AREN'T OUR ISSUE. BUT WE UNDERSTAND IT BUT WE'RE TRYING TO AND I'VE DONE IT EVERY TIME I'VE TRIED DO IT AND NOW BECAUSE THE COUNTY DIDN'T DO WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO IN THEIR PUD WITH IT WITH O MILLER ROAD THAT'S IT IT'S IN THEIR AGREEMENT AND THE ORIGINAL AGREEMENT I'M PRETTY SURE THAT THEY HAVE TO CONNECT IT BUT THEY NEVER MADE THEM CONNECT IT WITH THAT. THEY DIDN'T DO THAT.

WE KNEW ONLY WHEN WE GAVE YOU THE INNOVATION DRIVE THAT THE COUNTY DID MAKE THEM AND HOW HOW THEY DIDN'T MAKE THEM CONNECT THEY DIDN'T MAKE IT CONNECT INNOVATION DRIVE.

NOW YOU'VE GOT TO PUT TWO TO YOU KNOW, TWO PLACES. SO WE'VE DONE IT WE'VE DONE THE PLACES ON LAKE DRIVE, LAKE POINT DRIVE TO TO MAKE IT BETTER.

BUT NOW WE'RE TRYING TO YOU'RE TRYING TO GET IT SOLVE EVERYBODY'S PROBLEMS. WE'LL WORK WITH YOU. I THIS IS DIFFICULT IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR US AS WELL.

YEAH. WE'RE STRUGGLING UP HERE. YEAH.

I MEAN, DO YOU WANT A VOTE FROM COUNCIL? DO YOU WANT TO HAVE A TABLE? WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS OF THE VOTE? WELL HE JUST TOLD IT IT COULD BE A MULTI WE'VE GOT A HOSPITAL THAT'S TRYING BEST. DO YOU WANT A VOTE OR DO YOU WANT IT TABLED. WELL IF THERE IS ANOTHER OPTION WE TRIED TO WORK IT OUT TONIGHT IN THE LAST COUNCIL TO CONTINUE THIS DIALOG. I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE GETTING ANYWHERE. WELL, NOT ONE QUESTION IF BEFORE WE DECIDE TO VOTE TO TABLE OR TO AN ACTUAL VOTE THERE'S A REQUEST. UH RIGHT NOW TO TABLE AND HAVE THEM COME BACK IF THAT POTENTIAL REQUEST IS TAKEN TO A VOTE.

WHAT CHANGES FROM TONIGHT VERSUS ANOTHER MEETING OF IT APPEARS THAT STAFF HAS MADE THE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED OFF OF WHAT THEY HAVE DEVELOPER HAS MET THOSE UM AS KNOW THERE'S INFORMATION YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU'RE WANT I TOO WOULD WANT TO NOT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS TO HAVE ANOTHER MEETING OF THIS IF WE'RE GOING TO MEET TO TABLE TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE SAME ISSUES IF ONE OF THE MAIN CONTINGENCIES YOU'RE WAITING ON IS AN ENTITY THAT MAY NOT PROVIDE THAT IF WE TABLE AND HAVE TO COME BACK SO WHAT CHANGES IF WE COME BACK IN THE SAME ISSUES IN FRONT OF US ARE WHAT WE HAVE TO DECIDE ON TABLING TABLING GIVES THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK IT OUT WITH STAFF AND COUNCIL TO DETERMINE IF WE CAN COME TO AN AGREEMENT THEY WILL ANSWERS ALL UNKNOWN RIGHT NOW OR NOT. I MEAN IF THEY I'M SURE THEY WON'T COME BACK WITH THE SAME OPTIONS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT TODAY IF THEY DO NOT AGREE WITH YOU. I'M JUST ASKING BASED OFF OF LIKE THE SIX ITEMS HERE IN THE BULLET POINTS MEANING THAT COUNCILMAN MENTIONED AND IF KEVIN CAN RESPOND TO THAT, WHAT OUTSTANDING INFORMATION FROM THOSE BULLETED POINTS AND FROM WHAT WE SEE IN FRONT OF US WE ARE GOING TO CHANGE A STAFF PERSPECTIVE THAT WOULD HAVE YOU ALL REVAMP THIS AND GIVE US NEW INFORMATION IF IT'S TABLED ARE WE GOING TO BE SEEING THE SAME THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO THEM MAKE A DECISION ON? WELL, I IS GOING IS A BIG ISSUE FOR ME.

I AGREE THAT'S A BIG ISSUE IN THE ROOM. I CAN UNDERSTAND THE DEVELOPER TO LOOK AT THE SIX CONDITIONS YOU SUGGESTED AND LET US KNOW WHAT THEY CAN'T LIVE WITH WITH THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE ON NUMBER ONE AND THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE IN NUMBER FOUR, IS THERE ANYTHING UP TO THAT YOU CAN'T LANGUAGE THEY ALL SAY OH YOU GUYS IS THE LAST AND IT'S THE NUMBER ONE. NOTHING IN THIS MOST PRECLUDES ANY ENTITY WITH STANDING TO APPLY TO HAVE THE BUG WHAT THE CONCEPT AMENDED SO ESSENTIALLY WHAT THAT STATING IS THAT AS A DEVELOPER FIRED US OR SOMEONE ELSE WERE TO COME FORTH WITH THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND SEE PERMITTING AND IT DIDN'T HAVE FIVE BE ON THE PLAN BECAUSE FOR WHATEVER REASON THAT MEANS THE CONCEPT PLAN HAVE TO BE AMENDED PRIOR TO THAT DEVELOPMENT PERMIT GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS IT NOT YES IT COULD GO ON AT THE SAME TIME BUT BUT YOU SAID IF ANYTHING INNOVATIVE WILL NEVER BE DONE THEN CONCEPT PLAN WOULD NEED TO GET AMENDED AND WHAT KEVIN HAS STATED IS

[02:55:04]

I THINK WE COULD LIVE WITH WHAT THEY'VE SAID. I WE CAN LIVE WITH IT YEAH WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO COMPLY WITH THE MLS REGARDLESS WE'RE GOING TO TO DO THAT THE BUILDING IF I NEED YOUR UNDERSTANDING ON THE PHASE FIVE IN THREE OR FOUR MONTHS IF SOMETHING IS NOT DONE PLEASE DO IT AND JUST KEEP KICKING IT DOWN THE ROAD I GUESS OTHERWISE WE WOULD HAVE A PROBLEM WHERE WHERE DID WE SETTLE ON NUMBER FIVE? GO AHEAD ABOUT THIS SECOND ACCESS POINT TO TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT NOTHING BASED ON TIME.

DO YOU KNOW THAT THAT IMAGES THAT IS THIS AREA AT THE TIME OF DEVELOPMENT PERMIT BECAUSE YOU CAN TURN IT DOWN BY NUMBER FIVE. YES.

NUMBER FIVE YOU'RE REALLY BOUGHT. YEAH.

NO, NO, NO, NO. WITH A SECONDARY ACCESS POINT TO BUCKWALTER BLUFFTON PARKWAY AT THE TIME OF DEVELOPMENT PERMIT IF WHAT IS BEING SHOWN IN SEEKING A PERMIT IS BEYOND IS SHOWN IN THE I AM P STAFF CAN REQUIRE ADDITIONAL TIRE CAN IT NOT INDICATING THAT HEY YOU WILL NEED AN ADDITIONAL ACCESS POINT SO IN MY HUMBLE OPINION BE BASED UPON WHAT AT THAT TIME IS BEING ASKED TO BE PERMANENT BECAUSE RIGHT NOW NO ONE COULD STEP IT BACK CONSIDERABLY AND WHAT THEY PLAN TO PUT THERE WOULDN'T REQUIRE ADDITIONAL ACCESS POINT ON BUCKWALTER PARKWAY. SO FRANKLY AT THE TIME OF DEVELOPMENT PERMIT IT COULD BE MANDATED THAT THAT RIGHT IN RIGHT OUT BE AT APPROVED TO BE DONE IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE NOW IS TIME OF DEVELOPMENT PLANS WELL OKAY PERFECT ALL RIGHT SO ARE WE GOOD THROUGH ONE THROUGH FIVE SO Y'ALL ARE GOOD WITH PROVIDING A SECOND ACCESS POINT CONNECTING TO EITHER BUCKWALTER BLUFFTON PARKWAY AT THE MOMENT IF IT'S AN REALLY BUT NOT NEEDED THEY SHOULD JUST SAY TO ME IN THIS REQUIREMENT I BELIEVE BECAUSE THAT'S WHO MADE THE COMMENT THAT'S THAT'S NOT THAT THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT LANE IF NEEDED YOU'RE SAYING WE NEED AN ACCESSIBLE ACCESS POINT CONNECTING TO EITHER ONE OF THE PARKWAY OR GIVING KEVIN HIS NUMBER FIVE KEVIN OR HEATHER NUMBER FIVE LIMITED TO EMS ISSUE? NO, NO I DIDN'T THINK SO JUST REAL QUICK I'M NOT TO A WERE THE CONVERSATION BUT KEEP IN MIND TOO THAT SAYS AT THE TIME OF THE FINAL DEVELOPMENT AT TIME OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN SO AFTER THIS IF AFTER SOME FORM OF AN IMP IS APPROVED BY COUNCIL THE NEXT STEP IS MUCH MORE DETAILED PLANS WITH THE PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN WHICH THEN WILL GO TO DRC THEN PLANNING THAT WILL BE MUCH MORE DETAILED AND REQUIRED. LIKE I SAID A DETAILED TRAFFIC STUDY DEPENDING HOW THAT CHANGES BECAUSE THIS IS JUST CONCEPTUAL ALSO WHO OWNS THE ROADS? WHOEVER OWNS THE ROADS WILL HAVE TO ISSUE AN ENCROACHMENT. SO WHILE AS WHERE THOSE ACCESS POINTS ARE BASED ON THE NUMBER OF TRIPS WHOEVER OWNS THAT ROAD IN THIS CASE BEAUFORT COUNTY WOULD HAVE TO ISSUE THOSE ENCROACHMENT PERMITS. WHAT I WOULD ASK FROM TOWN COUNCIL IS LIKE WE SAID THAT THOSE DETAILS DO GET WORKED OUT LATER IN THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN PHASE. BUT WHAT I THINK STAFF IS ASKING THIS DEVELOPMENT PLAN IS AT WHAT POINT ARE THOSE CONNECTIONS REQUIRED? THIS IS A MASTER PLAN.

SO LIKE I SAID WHERE DO THOSE PHASING LINES START AND STOP? SO I THINK THAT WITH WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT AREA G AND THOSE CONNECTIONS WHAT WHAT WHAT IS ALL ENTAILED IN PHASE SO LIKE I SAID THERE WILL BE A DEVELOPMENT PLAN, THERE WILL BE MORE DETAILS, MORE INFORMATION FLESHED OUT THE TIRE INPUT FROM THE COUNTY, THE ENCROACHMENT PERMITS, WHATEVER THEY MAY BE INPUT FROM THE FIRE MARSHAL FOR EMERGENCY ACCESS SECONDARY ALL OF THOSE THINGS WILL BE CONSIDERED AT THAT POINT. SO ALL THAT BEING SAID ITEM NUMBER SIX ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO ITEM NUMBER SIX OR ARE YOU SAYING IT'S NOT NECESSARY I ALWAYS PREFER MORE SPECIFICITY AS I ALWAYS PREFER MORE SPECIFICS INCLUDED.

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YEAH SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SIX DAY IN NOTHING ON HERE SHOULD BE REMOVED IT'S THAT'S THAT'S A PHASING PLAN THAT'S TYING INTO THAT TIRE AND WHAT THEY RECOMMEND AS FAR AS IMPROVEMENT ABOVE WALTER PARKWAY AND TURNING INTO LAKE POINT DRIVE AND CORRECT THINK THE ISSUE THAT I'M NOT CLEAR ON IS THE ACCESS POINT BECAUSE I FEEL PRETTY STRONGLY ABOUT A SECOND ACCESS POINT NOT COMING OUT TO LAKE POINT DRIVE AND IT CONNECTING TO BUCKWALTER OR BLUFFTON PARKWAY BUT IT SEEMS THAT THE COUNTY IS NOT GOING TO APPROVE SOMETHING TO BUCKWALTER AND SO TO ME IT SEEMS THAT IT MIGHT HAVE TO GO ON UP TO INNOVATION DRIVE AND CONNECT TO BLUFFTON PARKWAY. I DON'T WANT THIS TO FIND US IN A POSITION WE DON'T HAVE THESE INTERCONNECTED ROADS AND WE'RE STUCK WITH ONE WAY IN AND ONE WAY OUT AND SO THAT'S I THINK I THE COUNTY WOULD PROBABLY TAKE A DIFFERENT LOOK AROUND AS THE HOSPITAL BEING BUILT, YOU KNOW, PRIOR TO PRIOR THIS THERE WAS NO REAL DESTINATION OF WHAT WAS GOING TO BE ON THE SITE NOW WE KNOW THERE'S A HOSPITAL I THINK THE COUNTY WOULD SHOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT OPINION ON ON THE ACCESS POINT. YOU MEAN AS FAR AS TO BUCKWALTER ALLOWING A RIGHT JUST A A RIGHT IN AND RIGHT OUT? MY QUESTION IS IS THAT ENOUGH THOUGH I MEAN TO A HOSPITAL THERE VERY CLOSE TO LAKE POINT DRIVE WHERE YOU'RE MERGING FROM BLUFFTON PARKWAY ONTO BUCKWALTER TO ME I'M JUST QUESTION IF THAT WOULD SOLVE FOR THE TRAFFIC ISSUES THAT YOU KNOW THIS THIS DEVELOPMENT IS IS GOING TO CREATE WELL AFTER THE TIRE THE WHEN THIS TO DRC BECAUSE THIS IS A YOU KNOW EVEN THOUGH WE'RE MAKING A CONDITION APPROVALS OR MOTIONS HERE TONIGHT IT'S A VERY INTENSE PROCESS WHERE YOU KNOW A PERSON CAN'T JUST SKIRT BY THINGS THE WORDS HERE TONIGHT IT MIGHT JUST BE A CONCEPT THEY WOULD HAVE TO SUBMIT THOSE SPECIFICS TO DRC AND AT THAT TIME. SO I THINK THE COMMUNICATIONS OF OF WHAT COUNCIL IS ASKING IN TERMS OF WHERE SECONDARY ACCESS POINT WOULD BE, WE WOULD SEE PROPOSALS MADE FROM THAT PARTICULAR PLAN. BUT I THINK ALL THAT'S GOING TO BE CONTINGENT ON ON IT YEAH WE WON'T SEE IT DON'T COME BACK TO IT DOESN'T COME BACK TO ME IF WE DO THIS IF WE APPROVE THIS INITIAL MASTER PLAN IF WE DON'T TURN IT INTO A MASTER PLAN FOR THE NO SIDE AND A MASTER PLAN FOR THE REMAINING PORTION OF IT, IT DOES NOT BACK TO COUNCIL WITH A NO I'M NOT SAYING IT COMES BACK TO COUNCIL.

I'M SAYING THAT THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO LEAVE HERE TONIGHT AND JUST GO AND DO THIS HAVE TO COME BACK TO STAFF WITH WHATEVER THAT IS AND HAVE TO GO BACK THROUGH OUR COMMISSIONS.

DRC IN PLANNING COMMISSIONS OR WHATEVER WE'RE SAYING WE WANT THEM TO HAVE IN THIS IAP THIS BECOMES THAT BREATHING DOCUMENT THEY CANNOT CIRCUMVENT SO COUNCIL WON'T WEIGH IN ON THAT.

THAT'S WHY WE DO HAVE THOSE COMMISSIONS AND NOW IT'S IF IT BECOMES A UNANIMOUS THING WHERE WE'RE SAYING THAT WE WOULD LIKE THEM TO COME BACK TO US YOU KNOW, TO SHOW WHATEVER THOSE POINTS ARE AFTER IT. DRC THEN THEN THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO BE CONSIDERED.

I DON'T KNOW THAT IT IS URGENT . I THROW ONE THING OUT AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT'S NOT IT THAT'S THE BEST METHOD. I'M NOT SAYING THAT BUT IT DID GO TO PLANNING COMMISSION AND THERE WERE THINGS THAT THE STAFF PROPOSED THAT DID NOT GET ADDED INTO IT AND SO HERE WE ARE DEBATING IT TONIGHT. SO AGAIN I SEE THREE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS HERE. OKAY. ONE IS THE INITIAL MP WE APPROVE IT WITH CONDITIONS NUMBER TWO IS TABLE IT AND NUMBER THREE WOULD BE CREATING A MASTER PLAN INSTEAD OF AN INITIAL MASTER PLAN. IS THAT CORRECT? KEVIN LET ME ME CLARIFY YOUR NUMBER THREE IF YOU'RE REFERRING TO THAT THIS EVENING WE WOULD IN ESSENCE REDUCE DOWN THE MASTER PLAN TO WHERE IT WOULD FOCUS JUST ON THE NO VAN EVEN THEN YES. AND THEN THE FUTURE IF I'D HAVE TO COME BACK FOR THE OTHER PORTION OF YES. JUST THE THREE ITEMS SIR. HAVING THE STAFF COMFORTABLE WITH THE MOTION AS DRAFTED IS ON THE SCREEN NOW. YES.

[03:05:02]

THAT'S WHAT I UNDERSTAND. AND I HAD ONE THING THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER NOBODY ELSE I DON'T KNOW HOW THE REST OF THE COUNCIL FILLS WITH THAT TREE BUT FOUR ALONG THE PARKWAY IS BLUFFTON PARKWAY IN BUCKWALTER . WELL A COUPLE OF THINGS.

NUMBER ONE THE THE THE SETBACK OR THE BUFFER IF YOU WILL IS FOR THE PERIMETER TO THE PUDI AT THAT LOCATION. THAT'S NOT A PERIMETER TO THE PUDI THERE A SETBACK HOWEVER FOR DRAINAGE AND UTILITY. THE TREES THAT WERE THERE WERE IN A DITCH AND THEY WERE PROHIBITING DRAINAGE AND THEY WERE CAUSING PROBLEMS. AND SO BECAUSE THE COUNTY DIDN'T ADDRESS IT, WE DID ON OUR OWN UM OUTSIDE OF THAT YOU ASKED ABOUT LANDSCAPING IF YOU GO TO THAT PLAN YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE THE POWER LINES ARE SPECIFICALLY OR ELSE I'D HAVE TO SHOW YOU ON IT ON A ON A TELEVISION BUT IT RUNS PARALLEL TO BLUFFTON PARKWAY AND IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THAT IT'S 200 FEET AND A LARGE WETLAND TOWARDS BUCKWALTER PARKWAY THAT LOOKS LIKE A WHY THAT IS THE BORDER OF THOSE POWER AND IN THAT 200 FOOT POWER LINE EASEMENT YOUR FOCUS YOUR FOCUS IS ON WE'RE IN FRONT THE HOSPITAL ALONG THE PARKWAYS AND THE DEVELOPMENT AREA I MEAN SO WHAT THE WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS SITE COUNCILWOMAN IS THAT WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO LANDSCAPE WITHIN THE POWER LINE AREAS BUT UP TO A HEIGHT OF 15 FEET SO WHAT THEY ASK IS THAT WE LIMIT THE LANDSCAPING TO THAT HEIGHT AND IF IT GETS HIGHER THEN THEY'LL JUST COME THROUGH AND EITHER POISON IT OR ,CHOP IT DOWN.

SO WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO LANDSCAPE AND MEET THE STANDARDS WITHIN PARK TO CREATE THE BUFFERING THAT I THINK YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT YOU KNOW A BIT OF A VISUAL BUT NOT IN THE TRANSMISSION EASEMENT AND IF WE THAT THE NEW AIRPORT WOULD DO THAT WOULD IT YOU COULD PLANT ONLY UP TO 15 FEET WITNESSES WOULD YOU BE COMFORTABLE TO PUT SOMETHING IN THAT SAYS AS ALLOWABLE RIGHT AWAY THE THAT BECAUSE IF THEY LIMITATIONS AND IT WOULD JUST BE YOU'D HAVE TO MEET THE LIMITATIONS TO MEET THE GUIDELINES OR LIMITATIONS PER THE THE EASEMENTS RIGHT

[03:10:02]

I MEAN THE HOSPITAL WATER WAS THERE A VEGETATIVE BUFFER BECAUSE I DON'T FOR THE ROAD THINK YEAH FOR FOR BEFORE MEMORIAL BETWEEN FOR NO EVENT SITE BECAUSE THAT'S NOT IN THE POWER LINES IT DOES MEAN THERE ARE SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES THAT THAT WE HAVE TO ADHERE TO WHEN IT COMES TO THOSE SETBACKS AND BUFFER REQUIREMENTS.

THOSE ARE IN PLACE FOR THE PD AND THERE WILL BE PLANTING REQUIREMENTS IN THOSE AREAS AS WELL MOST LIKELY I THINK WE WILL LIVE WITH IT. I THINK I THINK WE'RE ALL TIRED IT IF YOU IF YOU BOTH GO THROUGH SEVEN MILE RUN THEM I SIX OR SEVEN WHATEVER YEAH SEVEN WE WILL LIVE WITH THAT AND TRY TO MAKE IT WORK AND I HOPE YOU GUYS MAKE IT WORK WITH ACCOUNTING SO AT ONE POINT IF YOU LOOK JUST OKAY YOU COULD SEE YOU KNOW I JUST MADE MENTION OF THE ANY REQUIREMENTS THEY'LL COMPLY WITH ANY SETBACK ANY ANY PUD SETBACK AND BUFFER REQUIREMENTS WILL BE COMPLIED WITH. SO THAT'S BE THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE ARE DOING RIGHT. OKAY. MOVING ON I'D LIKE TO CALL FOR A MOTION FOR ITEM NINE ON THE AGENDA CONSIDERATION OF THE INITIAL MASTER PLAN FOR UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS WITH AMENDMENTS AS PROPOSED BY STAFF AND I HAVE A MOTION AS SOON AS WE MOVE THAT I MAKE THAT MOTION MAY I HAVE A SECOND SECOND IS THERE ANY MORE DISCUSSION HEARING AT ALL IN FAVOR SAY I I'M ALL OPPOSED? NO MOTION CARRIES THANK YOU.

I THOUGHT I WAS ON A ROLL GETTING THROUGH ALL THIS TONIGHT YOU ALL RIGHT?

[XI. CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS]

OKAY. SO COULD I HAVE A MOTION TO THE ITEMS MOVED A SECOND KIND OF MOTION AND A SECOND ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? NONE AT ALL IN FAVOR SAY I I'M UNANIMOUS HERE ACTUALLY WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AND WE'RE COMING UP FOR

[XII. EXECUTIVE SESSION]

[XIII. ACTION FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION]

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MR. HAMILTON SECONDED IS THERE ANY MORE DISCUSSION THERE? NONE.

EVERYBODY IS IN FAVOR I ANY OPPOSED UNANIMOUS. WE HAVE ANOTHER MOTION THAT WE WOULD NEED ON THE FOOTHILLS TRACK. I NEED TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN MANAGER TO EXECUTE A PURCHASE AND SALES AGREEMENT FOR THE ACQUISITION PROPERTY REFERENCED AS TAX MAP NUMBER ARE 610 DASH 030000-1971-0000 SO IT WAS FOR MOTION IN THE SECOND A DISCUSSION THE DISCUSSION ALL IN FAVOR SAY I ANY HE OPPOSED MOTIONS UNANIMOUS WE HAVE NUMBER TWO IS REGARDING PERSONNEL MATTERS AND THAT IS GOING TO BE POSTPONED TILL JUNE TOWN COUNCIL WITH THE MAYOR WILL BE WITH US AND WE'LL ALL BE HERE TOGETHER SO.

THANK YOU FOR THAT ONE. THE THIRD ONE IS A MOTION RELATIVE TO A FOI REQUEST REGARDING THE GENIE AND THE DATA TO THIS FREEDOM INFORMATION ACT.

I NEED A MOTION FOR THAT PLEASE . I'M I'M THE TOWN COUNCIL AND THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON WAIVE THE ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE RELATED TO THE SUMMARY REPORT FROM FINGER MELNICK THE BRUCE P.A. DATED APRIL SEVEN, THOUSAND 25 CONCERNING THE INVESTIGATION OF THE AFFIDAVIT OF SHAWN TO JEANNIE DATED COVID 19, 2024 I HAVE A MOTION EVERY SECOND OF A MOTION IN HIS SECOND. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION HEARING NONE ALL IN FAVOR SAY I I OPPOSED UNANIMOUS. THANK YOU AND I ASK FOR COUNSEL FOR A MOTION TO ADJOURN THEY WILL DO

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