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I'D LIKE TO CALL, UH, THE SPECIAL CALLED FINANCE ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE.
IF EVERYONE COULD RISE TO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
WHERE'S THE FLAG? WHERE'S THE FLAG? OH WOW.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG.
THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC, WHICH IT STANDS.
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.
UM, AND SARAH, THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTED AS A SPECIAL MEETING WITH IN COMPLIANCE WITH FOIA.
IF I CAN ASK FOR SOMEONE TO APPROVE OUR AGENDA MOTION.
IS THERE A SECOND PLEASE? I'LL SECOND THE MOTION.
UM, AND MOVE APPROVE OF AGENDA.
WE'RE GONNA APPROVE WITHOUT OBJECTION.
IS THERE ANY OBJECTION? SEE NO OBJECTION.
UM, LET'S MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE TODAY MS. SARAH, WHO WAS WANTING TO SPEAK DURING OUR PUBLIC COMMENT? ALRIGHT, NO ONE HERE IS ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK SEEING NOBODY.
WE THEN WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD AND, UM, UH, MOVE ON TO NUMBER SIX ON OUR AGENDA.
AND THIS IS A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR TO ENTER INTO A MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT WITH OTHER GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES FOR THE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF VEHICLES EQUIPMENT AND ASSOCIATED PARAPHERNALIA PER PERIPHERAL, EXCUSE ME, I DID IT LAST TIME TOO.
UM, AND MR. ROBINSON, UM, CAN YOU PLEASE COME AND JUST REAL BRIEFLY LET US KNOW WHAT THIS IS.
I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO OH, THAT'S RIGHT.
IS THERE A SECOND PLEASE FOR US TO DISCUSS THIS? I SECOND ALL THANK YOU MS. BROWN.
UM, SO WE OPEN THIS UP FOR DISCUSSION AND MR. ROBINSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
SO WHAT'S BEFORE YOU IS A, IS A RESOLUTION THAT REQUESTS, UM, THE ADMINISTRATOR BE AUTHORIZED TO ENTER INTO, UM, INTER GOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS OR THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING THAT'S ATTACHED FOR, UH, OUTSIDE GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES.
SO FLEET SERVICES AS OF JULY ONE, WILL BECOME AN INTERNAL SERVICE FUND.
THE PART OF WHAT THE INTERNAL SERVICE FUND IS ALLOWED TO DO IS PROVIDE SERVICES TO OTHER GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES AND AN MOU IN, IN THE RESOLUTION YOU'LL SEE IT SAYS AN MOU AS ATTACHED OR SIMILAR TO UH, WHAT'S ATTACHED WOULD BE, UM, AN EXAMPLE OF THAT AGREEMENT.
UM, AS WE HAVE OTHER OUTSIDE ENTITIES THAT ARE INTERESTED IN DOING SERVICE WITH BEAUFORT COUNTY.
UM, AS WELL AS, UM, A POTENTIAL AGREEMENT WITH THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, WE WOULD DO A SIMILAR AGREEMENT WITH THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA THAT WOULD ALLOW OUR FLEET SERVICES TO DO WORK ON, UM, THEIR VEHICLES, THEIR EQUIPMENT AND VEHICLES.
SO THIS IS A, UH, RESOLUTION WHICH WE'LL GO TO, UH, COUNTY COUNSEL FOR, UM, APPROVAL.
UM, AND IS THERE ANY MORE DISCUSSION? CAN WE GO AHEAD AND APPROVE THIS WITHOUT OBJECTION SEEING? NO OBJECTION.
WE WILL GO AHEAD AND APPROVE THIS AND MOVE THIS TO COUNTY COUNCIL.
ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON TO NUMBER SEVEN.
UM, ON OUR AGENDA, A CONTRACT AWARD TO OMNIA FOR LIGHTING REPLACEMENT PACKAGE ONE.
AND THIS HAS A FISCAL IMPACT OF $237,500.
UM, ALL RIGHT, FIRST I HAVE A MOTION TO DISCUSS THIS OR I NEED A MOTION, PLEASE.
UH, MR. GLOVER AND THEN SECONDED BY MS. HOWARD.
UM, AND, UH, OBVIOUSLY, UM, WE HAD AWARDED ANOTHER CONTRACT TO OMNIA JUST RECENTLY, I THINK SO, UM, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION OR ANY, ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS? IF NOT, ALRIGHT.
WE WILL APPROVE THIS WITHOUT OBJECTION.
IS THERE ANY OBJECTION? I SEE NO OBJECTION.
THIS ALSO THEN WILL BE, UH, APPROVED, UM, THE CONTRACT, UH, TO OMNIA FOR THE LIGHTING REPLACEMENT PACKAGE.
ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON THEN TO NUMBER EIGHT.
AND THIS IS AN MOU WITH THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOR NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION.
UH, GRANT AWARD NUMBER 84 63 4.
AND AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR TO EXECUTE THE MOU BETWEEN BEAUFORT COUNTY AND THE COLLEAGUES OF CHARLESTON, ADMINISTRATING THE $153,345 IN GRANT FUNDS TO COMPLETE THE LIVING SHORELINE MAPPING AND MATRIX ACTIVITIES APPROVED BY THE NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION GRANT.
AND I THINK, UH, MS. HARRIET, UM, IS ONLINE.
CAN I HAVE SOMEONE PLEASE, UH, MAKE A MOTION TO, TO, UM, THIS I,
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I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO.IS THERE A SECOND PLEASE? I'LL SECOND.
ALRIGHT, THANK YOU MR. GLOVER.
SO THIS HAS BEEN, UM, UH, UH, FIRST AND SECOND MOTION FOR THIS.
UH, WE'LL OPEN UP FOR DISCUSSION AND WE'LL FIRST HAVE MS. HARRIET, UM, TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT THIS BEFORE WE OPEN IT UP FOR MORE DISCUSSION.
UM, IF YOU RECALL BACK IN MARCH, I BELIEVE WE RECEIVED THIS GRANT THAT WAS WRITTEN BY OUR PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT.
AND, UM, AT THE TIME WE DID NOT HAVE THE MOU REPAIRED.
SO WE DO NOW, UH, HAVE EVERYTHING CONFIRMED WITH COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON, UH, TO MEET THE GRANT REQUIREMENTS.
SO AT THIS POINT, WE'RE BRINGING THE MOU FORWARD.
UH, THE RESOLUTION WAS SIGNED BACK IN MARCH.
IS THERE ANY, I BELIEVE IT'S IN, IT'S IN THE BACKUP.
ANY, ANY QUESTIONS FROM MR. HARRIOT? CAN I, CAN I ASK A QUESTION? YES, GO AHEAD.
I DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU CAN OR NOT MS. PINKY, BUT, UM, THE RESULTS, RESULTS FROM THIS PROJECT, UH, IS GONNA BE SHARED WITH THE COMMUNITY.
UH, UM, ROB MERCHANT, I BELIEVE IS SITTING IN THE AUDIENCE, BUT WHATEVER WE FINISH UP THE GRANT, WE'LL HAVE A, WE CAN HAVE A PRESENTATION WITH THIS AND THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS THAT THE COMMUNITY WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE SOMETHING AS A GUIDE THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY DO THEIR OWN PERSONAL PRIVATE PROPERTY RESILIENCE AS WELL.
UM, I WOULD'VE TO GET JULIANNA TO SPEAK TO THE DETAILS OF THIS GRANT, BUT I BELIEVE SHE'S THE ONE WHO WROTE THIS GRANT AND PRESENTED IT.
I CAN MARCH, BUT IT IS A, A COASTLINE FOR RESILIENCY PROGRAM.
I GUESS WE SHOULD WAIT ON THE RESULTS TO SEE IF IT'S SUCCESSFUL.
ROB IS RAISING HIS HAND, SO I DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO YEAH, IT'S ROB, PLEASE MR. MECHA, IF YOU'D LIKE THAT, PLEASE COME FORWARD.
UM, SO THIS GRANT IS TO MAP, UH, TO, TO ANALYZE OUR SHORELINES AND MAP THOSE AREAS THAT ARE MOST APPROPRIATE FOR THE USE OF LIVING SHORELINES.
'CAUSE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF PROMOTION FOR LIVING SHORELINES, BUT THEY'RE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR ALL TYPES OF SHORELINES, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON WHETHER IT'S A GENTLE SLOPE, A, A, A BLUFF.
AND SO THIS IS GONNA FURTHER ANALYZE THAT SO THE INFORMATION WILL BE READILY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.
AND THE GOAL IS TO ENCOURAGE IF A PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER IS INTERESTED IN A, YOU KNOW, BEFORE THEY CONSIDER A BULKHEAD OR RIP WRAP, SOME SORT OF HARD SURFACE TO CONSIDER THIS IF THE, THEY HAVE THE APPROPRIATE TYPE OF SHORELINE FOR THIS STABILIZATION.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MR. MERCHANT? SEEING NO QUESTIONS? UM, WE WILL THEN GO AHEAD AND APPROVE THIS WITHOUT OBJECTION.
IS THERE ANY OBJECTION? SEEING NO OBJECTION.
UM, THIS WILL BE APPROVED AND OBVIOUSLY THIS HAS NO FISCAL IMPACT ON US.
AGAIN, THIS GRANT, UM, IS COMING TO US.
UH, SO PINKY, I KNOW THAT, UM, YOU HAVE SOME PERSONAL TIME.
THANK YOU FOR, FOR COMING TODAY, UM, AND TAKING TIME OUT TO, TO BE ON FOR, FOR US, UH, TODAY.
UM, IS, UM, IS THERE, SO AGAIN, THAT WILL BE APPROVED WITHOUT OBJECTION.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT NEEDS TO COME BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE TODAY? SO AGAIN, I WANNA THANK EVERYONE AND THIS WAS A SPECIAL CALL MEETING SHOWING UP EARLY TODAY FOR US TO DO THIS, TO GET THESE COUPLE THINGS, UM, UH, TAKING CARE OF, UH, BEFORE THE, UM, UH, FISCAL YEAR STARTS JULY 1ST.
APPRECIATE TIME STAFF FOR BEING HERE EARLY, SETTING UP, AND I KNOW TAKING THIS CIRCUS ON THE ROAD ISN'T AS EASY AS WHAT IT LOOKS, BUT YOU GUYS MAKE IT LOOK VERY EASY.
SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR, FOR THAT.
UM, THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.