[8.a. Consideration of an Ordinance of the Town Council of the Town of Hilton Head Island amending Municipal Code Section 2-5-60 Committees of Council - Second Reading - Shawn Colin, Assistant Town Manager ]

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. UNFINISHED BUSINESS. WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE SECOND READING OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION DASH 5 TO 60 COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL. THIS ORDINANCE WAS APPROVED ON FIRST READING IN JUNE 17 TOWN COUNCIL MEETING WITH CHANGES MR. COLON THANK YOU MR. MAYOR. TOWN COUNCIL TOWN MANAGER I'LL TRY TO MOVE THROUGH THIS BRIEFLY. TOWN COUNCIL CONSIDERED RECOMMENDATION FROM THE FINANCE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE AT THEIR MEETING AND JOHN JUNE 17TH ON THERE WERE A COUPLE OF ADDITIONAL REQUESTS THAT ARE ON FIRST READING TO BE ADDED THE INTO THE REVISED ORDINANCE AND SO THEY'RE OUTLINED HERE AS YOU RECALL THE OPTIONS FOR TOWN COUNCIL OR COMMITTEE TO TAKE ACTION WERE TO APPROVE, TO DENY OR TO NOT MAKE A RECOMMENDATION . THERE WAS A CLARIFICATION FROM COUNCILMEMBER ALFORD AND CONFIRMED BY OUR TOWN ATTORNEY THAT YOU CAN AFFORD A RECOMMENDATION PROVIDED CERTAIN CONDITIONS ARE ARE MET AND SO ITS APPROVAL WILL CONDITIONS AND THEN THERE WAS CLARITY ON THE THE COMMITTEE CONDUCTING BUSINESS OF COMMITTEE WAS NOT IN A POSITION TO TAKE ACTION AT A PARTICULAR MEETING THEY COULD PROVIDE TOWN STAFF CLEAR DIRECTION AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT THEY WOULD LIKE OR REVISIONS WOULD LIKE TO SEE.

AND THEN THE ITEM WILL COME BACK TO THE NEXT SCHEDULED OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE.

I DO HAVE A RED VERSION BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING TO SHOW THOSE CHANGES AND SO WE'VE ADDED THIS ITEM B FORWARD THE ITEM TO TOWN COUNCIL THE RECOMMENDATION AND WHERE THE CONDITIONS IT DID MOVE A COUPLE OF ITEMS SO THESE AREN'T REAL CHANGES JUST MOVE MOVE THAT DOWN AND THEN ITEM R ARTICLE WHATEVER IT IS E ON THIS PAGE IS THE CLARITY ABOUT THE ITEM TO STAFF FOR REVISIONS AND BRINGING IT BACK TO THE NEXT STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING AND THEN THE COMMITTEE HAS OPTIONS A THROUGH D TO TAKE ACTION AND FORWARD THAT ON TO TOWN COUNCIL AND. THEN THERE WAS A FEW OTHER REVISIONS THAT WERE RECOMMENDED BY OUR TOWN ATTORNEY JUST CLARIFYING THE LANGUAGE THAT WAS IN ARTICLE TWO AT THE BOTTOM AND I'LL I'LL READ THE FINAL WORDING BUT FOLLOWING COMMITTEE ACTION AND RECOMMENDATION ON ANY ITEM FROM THE STANDING COMMITTEE TOWN STAFF SHALL PRESENT A STAFF

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REPORT WITH THE TOWN COUNCIL SUMMARIZING THE STANDING COMMITTEE'S ACTION AND RECOMMENDATION AND THEN FOLLOWING RECEIPT OF THE STAFF .

TOWN COUNCIL MAY REQUEST ADDITIONAL CHANGES PRIOR TO THE ITEM BEING PLACED ON AGENDA FOR COUNCIL ACTION. SO JUST CLEAR CLEARS UP AND MAKES THE CHANGES THAT COUNCIL HAD A FIRST READING I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT COUNCIL HAS BEFORE THEY CONSIDER SECOND AND FINAL HERE I HAVE A MOTION EMOTIONAL YES I'LL MOVE IT SO THAT WE CAN HAVE DISCUSSION JUST ON THE LAST LINE AND YOU ARE IN PARAGRAPH TWO YOU'RE ADDING A OOPS I'M SORRY I WONDER WE'LL START ON RECEIPT OF THE STAFF REPORT LINE AND COUNCIL MAY REQUEST I QUESTION HOW DOES THAT SHOW UP WHEN IT GETS TO COUNCIL I'M GOING TO ASK OUR TOWN ATTORNEY. HE'S THE ONE THAT PROVIDED THAT CLARIFYING IN ARTICLE TWO AND TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ARE AND I THINK YOU'RE REFERRING TO ONE HIGHLIGHTED HERE I THINK THE WELL LOOKING AT IT NOW I'M NOT SURE I THINK RIGHT I THINK THE INTENTION THERE WAS TO CLARIFY THAT COUNCIL WHEN COUNCIL RECEIVED THIS AND CAN SUGGEST ADDITIONAL CHANGES TO THE TEXT ONCE IT GETS THAT SO THAT CLARIFY THAT FAIR TO SAY I'M HAVING A HARD TIME HEARING YOU I'M SORRY IF YOU SPEAK UP SORRY I DON'T THINK THE TEXT IS QUITE RIGHT.

I THINK THE INTENTION WAS TO JUST CLARIFY THAT ONCE THE MATTER ARRIVES ON COUNCIL'S DESK COUNCIL HAS THE ABILITY TO REQUEST MAKE FURTHER CHANGES TO IT THROUGH COUNCIL'S ACTION.

I WOULDN'T THAT BE IN AN INFORMAL MEETING RATHER THAN PRIVATELY CORRECT? I THINK THE E THAT I'M NOT COURTEOUS COULD WE JUST DELETE THE FINAL THE FINAL SENTENCE YOU CAN YOU CAN DELETE THE FINAL SENTENCE BECAUSE COUNCIL CAN DO THAT I THINK THE ERRANT LANGUAGE MAYBE THE PRIOR TO IT GOING ON AGENDA BUT YES YOU CAN DELETE THE FINAL SENTENCE BECAUSE COUNCIL CAN ALWAYS MOVE TO AMEND SOMETHING WHEN IT'S ON COUNCIL'S DESK ANYWAY.

SO WITH THAT ADVICE I'VE DELETED THE FINAL SENTENCE AND IF THAT IS WHAT COUNCIL WELL DOES THAT BUT FOLLOWING UP ON MY YES OKAY FOLLOWING UP ON WHAT CURTIS HAD TRIED TO INSERT THERE I THINK WHAT I WAS THINKING IT MEANT IS WHAT WE'VE DONE TRADITIONALLY WITHOUT QUESTION WHICH IS TO A BRIEFING AS A COUNCIL AND THEN BE ABLE TO ASK QUESTIONS, OFFER SUGGESTIONS ETC. AND DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT IT SHOULD GO BACK FOR FURTHER REVIEW.

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT WAS REFERRING TO ARE WE NO LONGER DOING THAT IS STILL IS THAT NO LONGER AN OPTION IF YOU WOULD CLARIFY THAT I'LL TRY TO CLARIFY.

I DON'T THINK WE NEED A LEGAL INTERPRETATION SO THERE IS THE ITEM WHERE IF COUNCIL OR I'M SORRY THE COMMITTEE IS NOT IN A POSITION TO TAKE ACTION AND SOMEHOW I HAVE DELETED THE HEAD OF THE COMMITTEE IS NOT ABLE TO TAKE ACTION AND NEEDS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THEN THAT'S COVERED UNDER THIS ITEM HERE. BUT FOLLOWING COMMITTEE ACTION AND RECOMMENDATION OF STAFF REPORTS SUMMARIZING THE COMMITTEE'S ACTION AND RECOMMENDATION AND PROVIDE THAT THE COUNCIL ONE WHEN IT GIVES THE COUNCIL COUNCIL THE ABILITY TO TO APPROVE TO DENY, TO ADD ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, TO SUGGEST REVISIONS AND SO I DON'T THINK THE SECOND PART OF THIS IS IS REALLY NEEDED IN ORDER TO ADD IT TO AN AGENDA WE HAVE SAID THAT ALL COMMITTEE ITEMS THAT NEED OFFICIAL ACTION MUST COME TO COUNCIL.

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SO I ELIMINATING THAT LAST SENTENCE JUST CLEARED THAT UP SO IT GIVES THE COMMITTEE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEND IT BACK TO STAFF FOR BASED OFF OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEN BACK TO COUNCIL THE FACT THAT THAT I UNDERSTOOD JUST MAKING SURE THAT I UNDERSTOOD FIRST WAS IT'S NOT QUITE FAIR. YES. HAVING NO BEFORE WE DID CONVERSATION WAS IS ONCE IT CAME OUT OF COMMITTEE THERE'D BE A STAFF REPORT BEFORE IT WENT ON THE COUNCIL'S AGENDA AND THAT'S WHAT THAT TEXT WAS SUPPOSED TO DEAL WITH IN OTHER WORDS WOULD COME OUT OF COMMITTEE WOULD COME UP THERE'D BE A STAFF REPORT PRIOR TO IT ACTUALLY BEING AN ACTION ITEM AND THAT POINT COUNCIL COULD HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT WAYS TO DO THAT. JUST THE AS MR. DESMOND WAS GETTING READY TO SPEAK OKAY AS FAR AS SOME AND THAT'S THE PARAGRAPH ON THE SENTENCE THAT I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT AS WELL THANK YOU MR. ALFRED FOR RAISING THAT. I DON'T THINK IT'S NECESSARY BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT TODAY'S AGENDA WE HAVE FOUR ORDINANCES ON FOR FIRST READING AND AND IF THAT LANGUAGE SOMETHING LIKE THAT WAS KEPT IN THERE IT WOULD THAT WE COULD NOT HAVE IT ON THE AGENDA TODAY IN SINCE THIS WAS ADOPTED ON FIRST READING INTERPRETING THAT LANGUAGE WOULD APPEAR MEAN THAT WE WOULD FIRST HAVE TO HAVE A STAFF PRESENTATION TODAY AND THEN FIRST READING WOULD BE ON THE NEXT AGENDA. SO I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE REMOVING THAT SENTENCE. ADDITIONALLY, THAT'S THE WAY WE'VE ALWAYS DONE IT.

JUST FOR THE RECORD OTHER COMMENTS I AGREE AS WELL ABOUT THE LAST SENTENCE.

IT WAS ONE OF THE ITEMS I HAD LISTED AS WELL AND SO LOOKING FORWARD I'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE IDENTIFY THE ALTERNATES FOR THE COMMITTEES AS QUICKLY POSSIBLE AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE WORK ITEMS TO DO TO TAKE OUR STRATEGIC AND DIVIDE THOSE ACTIVITIES BETWEEN THE TWO COMMITTEES AND THEN RENAME THEM . SO MAKING SURE THAT WE GET THAT DONE QUICKLY. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. I WANT TO BELABOR IT BUT I THINK TO MS.. TANNER'S COUNSEL IN TURNING POINT WHEN WE FIRST DISCUSSED THIS WAS THAT ON FIRST READING IT'S HARD FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T ON THE COMMITTEE TO HAVE HEARD AND BEEN ABLE THINK THROUGH ANALYZE WHAT HAPPENED. SO THAT BRIEFING THE PURPOSE OF IT WAS TO GIVE THIS WHOLE COMMITTEE BROAD VIEW AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS SO THEY COULD THEN TAKE THE TIME TO PROPERLY ANALYZE AND ENSURE THAT THEY WERE COMING TO THE CORRECT CONCLUSION WHEN THEY TOOK THEIR VOTE AND NOT BE HURRIED THROUGH IT BUT I DON'T AGREE WITH ALL CHANGE AND I DON'T THINK I AGREE WITH THIS CHANGE JUST FOR THE RECORD I THINK THAT WAS THE LOGIC WAS BEING SHARED. THAT'S THE HISTORY BEHIND HOW WE'VE DONE THINGS IN THE PAST AND I THINK IT'S SERVED US WELL.

SO CUTTING OUT THAT STEP MAY HAVE DETRIMENTAL IMPACTS ON DECISION MAKING IN THE FUTURE THAT SOME MAY REGRET. I WANT TO I WANT TO BE CLEAR ON THIS BECAUSE I THINK WE MAY HAVE GOTTEN OFF JUST A LITTLE BIT SHORT ON OUR WE'RE STILL PRESENTING TO COUNCIL BEFORE IT GOES FOR A VOTE. IS THAT WHAT THIS IS SAYING WE WILL BRING FORWARD ACTION FROM THE COMMITTEE. WE'RE NOT DOING A SEPARATE COUNCIL ON THE MAKEUP.

WE WEREN'T DOING A SEPARATE SEPARATE PRESENTATION OF THE ITEM BEFORE BRINGING IT TO.

TOWN COUNCIL COUNCILMAN BECKER IS CORRECT THAT THE PROCESS IN THE PAST BEEN THAT IF A COMMITTEE TAKES ACTION THEY PROVIDE A BRIEF IT'S DELAYED SOME WORK BECAUSE IT'S A BRIEF.

THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING AND THEN COMES FORWARD FOR ACTION. WE'VE PIVOTED AWAY FROM THAT TO INVITE ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS TO THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS SO THAT THEY CAN PROVIDE INPUT AND HEAR THE INFORMATION AT THAT TIME AND HAVE THE COMMITTEE REPORT NOW LOOK FORWARD TO SAY HERE'S WHAT'S COMING UP ON THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN THIS TOPIC, PLEASE COME AND LISTEN AND SHARE YOUR VIEWPOINT AND SO AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW, AN ITEM COMES OUT OF TOWN COUNCIL COMMITTEE WILL COME FORWARD WITH YOUR APPROVAL MEASURE AT THE NEXT AGENDA THAT YOU FEEL IS APPROPRIATE AND THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR ON THIS OR ANY OTHER COMMENTS. ALL RIGHT. SO ANYBODY SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS AGENDA ITEM? YES, I HAVE ONE JOHN SMARTLY, MR. MAYOR TOWN COUNCIL MR.

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ORLANDO MY NAME IS JOHN MAAZEL. I LIVE A PLANTATION. I GREATLY APPRECIATE THE CURRENT COUNCIL'S TO BRINGING ALL TOPICS AND ISSUES DELIGHT IN A PUBLIC FORUM TO DEBATE.

HOWEVER I'D LIKE TO MENTION ONE VERY IMPORTANT MISSING INGREDIENT FROM THE TOWN CODE TO 560 PART B AND 1330 FOR THAT MATTER AND THAT IS ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY CLAUSE FOR CITIZENS FROM THE BEGINNING THE FORMATION OF OUR TOWN'S GOVERNMENT TO TODAY FOLKS WITH LUCRATIVE CONTRACTS EMPLOYEES OF A CONTRACTED BUSINESS OR CITIZENS WITH NEWLY FOUNDED NONPROFITS SEEM TO ALWAYS FIND THEIR WAY A SEAT ON ONE OF THE MANY LATEST AND GREATEST COMMITTEES ONCE ON ONE OF THESE COMMITTEES CAN WE BE ASSURED THAT THEIR VOTE WAS NOT SWAYED BY THE CONTRACT OR THE EMPLOYER OR WILL THEY RECUSE THEMSELVES FROM A VOTE WHILE ABDICATING TO OTHER MEMBERS? THIS IS ONE OF THE OLDEST TOWN TRADITIONS AND HOPE IT STOPS.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA CREATED THE ETHICS ACT 1991 SOUTH CAROLINA CODE EIGHT 1375 FOR STATE COMMITTEE MEMBERS I THINK WE SHOULD FINALLY DO THE SAME.

THIS WILL BE A SMALL STEP TO LESSEN THE PERCEPTION OF CORRUPTION MANY FOLKS HAVE OF OUR LOCAL THANK YOU. THANK YOU ARDSLEY ALL RIGHT. SO WE'VE GOT A MOTION ON THE TABLE AND I THINK THAT MOTION NEEDS TO BE AMENDED BECAUSE WE REMOVED THE LAST PARAGRAPH LAST SENTENCE LESS AND LESS I'M SORRY LAST SENTENCE. SO WHAT YOU DO IS JUST MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE WITH THE REMOVAL OF THE LAST SENTENCE MR. WOULD YOU AMEND YOUR I HAVE AMENDED MY MOTION TO REMOVE THE LAST SENTENCE ON THE EXHIBIT BEFORE WAS PRESENTED BY MR. COLEMAN PARKER WILL YOU SECOND THAT IF YOU WERE THE SECOND CHAIR OF AM SCROLL UP TO MAKE SURE THAT'S BEEN DELETED THANK YOU. OKAY IT'S DELETED.

ALL RIGHT. SO MR. ALMEIDA, MOTION THIS BECKER A SECOND AND SHALL WE CALL FOR A VOTE? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY RAISING YOUR RIGHT AND OPPOSED

[9.a. Consideration of a Resolution of the Town Council of the Town of Hilton Head Island to Adopt the Fiscal Year 2026 - Fiscal Year 2028 Strategic Action Plan for the Town of Hilton Head Island - Shawn Colin, Assistant Town Manager ]

A7070 YES. MOVING ON TO NEW BUSINESS WE HAVE A CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION TO ADOPT THE FISCAL YEAR 2026 FISCAL YEAR 2028 ACTION PLAN FOR THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND TOWN COUNCIL HAVE HELD A STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKSHOP FEBRUARY 26 AND 26 AND ANOTHER TOWN COUNCIL STRATEGIC WORKSHOP PLAN WAS HELD ON JUNE 24TH TO CONFIRM DIRECTION AND DRAFT CONTENT FOR INCLUSION, INCLUSION AND THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.

MR. COHEN THANK YOU MR. MAYOR. TOWN COUNCIL TOWN MANAGER AGAIN SHAWN CONNORS IS IN TOWN MANAGER OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES SO THIS IS SOMETHING I'M EXTREMELY PROUD OF AND HAD THE PLEASURE THE PRIVILEGE AND PLEASURE TO WITH OUR TEAM WITH THE TOWN COUNCIL MAYOR TOWN COUNCIL TOWN MANAGER TO DELIVER THE THIS THE THIRD VERSION ARE THE THREE OF THE TOWNS STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN I DO WANT TO POINT OUT A COUPLE OF THINGS THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN THAT'S IN THAT'S ON THE SCREEN AND WHAT ASKING FOR CONSIDERATION FOR ADOPTION ALIGNS NOW WITH FISCAL YEARS PREVIOUSLY AND IN LINE WITH THE CALENDAR YEAR.

SO WE TALK ABOUT HOW THE STRATEGIC PLAN INFORMS BUDGET AND AND AND THE OTHER WAY AROUND AND SO THIS NOW ALIGNS WITH OUR FISCAL YEAR FOR FISCAL YEAR 26 SEVEN AND EIGHT REMINDER TO THE FOLKS THAT ARE WATCHING AND IN THE CROWD HERE THAT FISCAL YEAR START JULY ONE AND RUNS THROUGH JUNE 30 OF EACH SO WE ARE WE ARE TWO WEEKS AND A DAY INTO FISCAL YEAR SIX AND I WISH WE HAD HALF THE DONE ALREADY BUT AND I KNOW YOU DO TOO BUT WE HAVE A GREAT FOUNDATION AND FRAMEWORK SO I'M GOING TO RUN THROUGH A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT GOT US HERE AND THEN AND RUN THROUGH THE PLAN WE DID RECEIVE FEEDBACK FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS AND A COUPLE OF ADJUSTMENTS AND REVISIONS AND I WANT TO HAVE FEEDBACK FROM THE FULL TOWN COUNCIL BEFORE WE MAKE ANY OF THOSE. SO FOR THE BENEFIT COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY TOWN COUNCIL TOWN MANAGER AND STAFF COMMITTED A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF AND BACKGROUND WORK AND THEN ALSO A TWO DAY WORKSHOP IN FEBRUARY WHERE WE REVIEWED THE CALENDAR YEAR 23 TO 25 STRATEGIC ACTION

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PLAN OF THE TOWN TO SHOW PROGRESS I KNOW OUR TOWN MANAGER WENT THROUGH A LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND AND I COULDN'T EVEN BELIEVE HOW MUCH WE HAD DONE HEARING IT OUT LOUD . BUT YOU'VE GOT A GREAT TEAM HERE AND AND THEY'RE ACTIVELY WORKING TO ACHIEVE THE PRIORITIES. THE COUNCIL OUTLINE WITH WITH MARK SO WE WENT THROUGH WHAT WHAT'S DONE WHAT'S IN PROGRESS WHAT IS MAYBE NO LONGER A PRIORITY TO IDENTIFY THOSE ONGOING INITIATIVES NEEDED TO CARRY INTO THIS NEW STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN AND THEN ALSO TALKED ABOUT SOME OPPORTUNITY NEW INITIATIVES THAT WE NEED TO PLAN AND PURSUE OVER THE NEXT THREE FISCAL YEARS. SO WE GOT A REALLY GOOD OUTCOME IN FEBRUARY WE CAME OUT WITH EIGHT PRIORITIES WHICH WE IDENTIFIED AS GOALS THE TOWN MANAGER I WORKED WITH OUR TEAM TO REVIEW THAT INFORMATION WITH OUR CONSULTANTS AND WE THOUGHT WE WERE LACKING A COUPLE OF AREAS. ONE WAS AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABILITY AND ONE WAS AROUND THE AND RECREATION PROJECTS AND PROGRAM ARE REALLY ESSENTIAL THROUGH OUR OUR MASTER PLAN ALL OUR OUR PARTNERS WITH ISLAND REC AND OUR IN OUR COMMUNITY THOUGHT PARKS AND RECREATION WAS SUCH A KEY COMPONENT THAT WE INCLUDED TWO ADDITIONAL ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION. AND SO IF YOU AS YOU RECALL ON JUNE 24TH TOWN COUNCIL HELD ANOTHER WORKSHOP TO TALK THE DRAFT STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN TO INCLUDE THOSE TEN GOALS AND I'LL COVER THEM IN JUST A SECOND AND THEN WE RECEIVED FEEDBACK AND DIRECTION TOWN COUNCIL AND WE HAVE TAKEN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS TO TAKE YOUR FEEDBACK AND DIRECTION AND TO PROVIDE THIS DRAFT PLAN WHICH I THINK CAPTURES YOUR YOUR INFORMATION. AND I HOPE THAT YOU'RE PROUD OF IT.

AND IF WE NEED TO MAKE A FEW ADJUSTMENTS CERTAINLY TO DO THAT TO GET THIS MOVING FORWARD AS I MENTIONED THE STAFF ALREADY WORKING ON A LOT OF THE STUFF THAT'S IN HERE SO WE HAVEN'T BEEN WAITING ON THIS AND SO I'M GOING TO COVER JUST BRIEFLY THE PLAN.

WE CAN COVER ANY ADJUSTMENTS WE WANT TO MAKE AND I DO WANT TO SHOW AV1 STRATEGIC ACTION DASHBOARD ON THE HUB TO SHOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO COMMUNICATE THIS INFORMATION ON A ON A DAILY BASIS INCLUDING TRACKING PROGRESS AND HOW IT'LL TIE INTO OUR YEAR END ANNUAL REPORT.

SO I WORK FOR FREEMA OKAY I'LL END AT THE END AT THE END OF THIS I'M GOING TO ASK FOR COUNCIL APPROVAL RESOLUTION ADOPT THIS PLAN. OKAY.

SO I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH AND IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL DO YOU WANT US ON THOSE SPECIFIC ITEMS YOU WANT US TO ADDRESS AT THAT POINT IN TIME? DOES THAT MAKE IT EASIER FOR YOU? YES.

AND SO AND SO YOU KNOW, I DO HAVE I HAVE THIS DOCUMENT THAT INCLUDES SOME SOME COMMENTS IF IF COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT PROVIDED INPUT JUST TO GIVE US INPUT ON THE WAY THROUGH THAT I WILL HAVE TO PULL THOSE UP. BUT DO SOME FEEDBACK FROM FROM ALL OF COUNCIL BEFORE WE MAKE ANY OF CHANGES AND SO ALL RIGHT . I SAW KURTIS BARNWELL JUNIOR COMING IN TODAY. I TOLD HIM HE'S ON THE OF OUR PLAN ALONG WITH A HORSE AND I TOLD HIM HE WAS CERTAINLY THE BETTER LOOKING OF THE TWO SO HERE THERE HE IS SO ALL RIGHT LET'S GO LET'S GO RIGHT THROUGH THIS IT'S IT'S 40 PAGES LONG WHICH IS THE MINIMUM IN ORDER TO BIND HAVE A BOUND COPY SO IT'S AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE SO YOU'RE WELCOME SO ALL RIGHT SO IT'S ORGANIZED IN THE FOLLOWING THERE'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AT THE FRONT A LETTER FROM THE MAYOR.

THERE'S TOWN COUNCIL OBVIOUSLY INCLUDED A WORD FROM THE TOWN MANAGER.

WE'VE GOT OUR ORGANIZED ORGANIZATIONAL CHART THAT SHOWS THE SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM HOW WE'VE GOT TO ENSURE AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND THEN WE BUILD THE PLAN BASED ON OUR VISION AND OUR CORE VALUES. WE TALK ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN AND WE DEFINE HOW THE HOW THE PLAN IS BEEN ORGANIZED AND HOW TO USE IT.

AND THEN WE TALK ABOUT THE AND THEN THE GOAL SHEETS THAT INCLUDE THE STRATEGIES THE ITEMS AND THE KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO MEASURE SUCCESS TOWARD ACHIEVING THE GOALS. SO WE'VE GOT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOT TO GO THROUGH TOO DEEP.

I THINK OUR FIRST COMMENT FROM A COUNCILMEMBERS PAGE FIVE SO ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THE TOWN COUNCIL THE TOWN WE HAVE A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR CONSULTANT AND CONSULTANTS OF THE MRV GROUP. WE HAD ASSISTANCE IN OUR WORKSHOP IN FEBRUARY FROM THE MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION AND THE COUNTY HAS PROVIDED BROADCAST OF THE WORKSHOPS AND AS WE

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COVERED THIS ITEM WE GOT A REALLY COOL PHOTO OF THE SQUARE POPE INTERSECTION THOSE TREES A WORD FROM THE MAYOR THERE WAS A COMMENT ON THIS ANYONE WANT TO BRING IT UP OR YES I WILL.

SO IT HAS TO DO WITH WHEN WE EMERGED WITH A LIST OF TEN PRIORITIES IT DIDN'T COME OUT AT THE TWO DAY STRATEGIC PLANNING AS YOU IDENTIFIED AS YOU WENT THROUGH WHAT THE STEPS WERE. WE CAME OUT WITH EIGHT AND THEN AFTER THE FOLLOW UP WORKSHOP WE CAME OUT WITH TEN. SO JUST TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT .

I'M HAPPY TO MAKE THAT CLARIFICATION IF THERE'S NO OBJECTION FROM IT NO OBJECTION . ALL RIGHT, TOM COUNCIL PAGE ORGANIZE MAYOR MAYOR PRO TEM BUT WORDS ONE, THREE, SIX AND WE'RE SHOWING THE COUNCIL WARD MAP ON THAT PAGE TO GET TO 40 PAGES WE DID HAVE TO PUT SOME REALLY COOL IN HERE BUT I THINK IT LOOKS I THINK IT'S A GREAT PLAN. ALL RIGHT THEN THE LETTER FROM THE TOWN MANAGER NOW I KNOW THERE'S A COMMENT ABOUT HOW WE'VE CHANGED OUR OUR GOAL NUMBER ONE TO PROTECT ISLAND THROUGH MANAGING GROWTH RATHER THAN GROWTH MANAGEMENT. RIGHT HERE IS THE TERM GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND SO OUR PRIORITIES IN MANAGING GROWTH MAKE THAT CLARIFICATION AND I WOULD HAVE MADE THESE BUT I DON'T WANT TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU SAW AND SO ALL RIGHT. HERE'S OUR ORG CHART AGAIN SENIOR TEAM AGAIN GOT A COUPLE OF VACANCIES IN FINANCE AND PLANNING. THIS IS THE SENIOR ORGANIZATION TEAM THE MARK LIENS ON TO HELP GET THIS WORK DONE A LONG WAY HERE INTRODUCTION AND EXECUTIVE AGAIN AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO OUR ISLAND FIRST WHAT WE ARE AS A COMMUNITY AND HOW IT INFLUENCES THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS PLAN SETTING PRIORITIES VALUES AND AND THEN OBVIOUSLY MEASURING IN THE FUTURE I KEEP GOING THE WRONG WAY HERE WE THEN GET INTO THE VISION AND MISSION I KNOW WE'VE HAD SOME DISCUSSION AT THE EVEN AT THE JUNE MEETING ABOUT HAVING SOME DEEPER COMMUNICATION AND AND DISCUSSION WITH TOWN COUNCIL AS WE MOVE FORWARD. BUT THIS IS THE ADOPTED VISION THE ADOPTED MISSION FROM THE CORE DOCUMENTS OF THE COMPREHENSIVE OUR PLAN AND SO WE'VE USED THOSE NOW BUILD THE FOUNDATION FOR THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN THEN THE CORE VALUES TAKING TAKEN FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND SO THEY'RE LISTED HERE THE ONLY ONE THAT REALLY WASN'T A CORE VALUE IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BUT THERE'S LANGUAGE IN THE COMP PLAN ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ADDING IT WAS PARKS RECREATION AND SO THAT SHOWN UP IN ALL OF OUR STRATEGIC ACTION PLANS AND OUR AND OUR COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT WE ON THAT ISLAND WE GO BACK TO THAT OKAY IT'S EFFECTS NOW AND SO THAT OUR MEMBER OF LIFELONG TRACKERS I HAVE THIS LIFELONG RIGHT YEAH THAT'S A GOOD IDEA IF WE HAVE ONE THAT'S EASILY OBTAINED AND THAT'S GREAT THAT'S ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GOOD GOOD. OKAY.

OTHERWISE MR. ALFRED ARE GOING TO DRAW THEM ON EVERY PAGE. WELL, ALL RIGHT.

WELL, WE WILL CERTAINLY TRY TO FIND MAKE THAT CHANGE. WELL, I'M NOT PARTICULARLY CONCERNED EITHER WAY NO REQUIREMENT TO WEAR BELL BIKE HELMET BUT IT IS A GOOD PRACTICE FOR EVERYBODY TO CONSIDER. ONE OF THE COMMENTS I JUST WANT TO MAKE AND I DON'T WANT TO HOLD IT UP IS WE HAVE A LOT OF REALLY NICE LANGUAGE IN HERE THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT AND. WE HAVE OTHER DOCUMENTS. THERE'S REALLY IMPORTANT LANGUAGE WITH REGARD TO PURPOSE AND INTENT AND I DON'T WANT THE BACK OF THE PAGES OF THIS 40 PAGE BOOK TO BE THE FOCUS BUT THAT THE THE REASONS FOR IT THAT TO DO THAT FOR INSTANCE WE STAND AT A PIVOTAL CROSSROADS AND THE VERY QUALITIES THAT HAVE LONG DEFINED AN ATTRACTIVE TO HILTON ISLAND ITS LIVABILITY, CHARM AND OPPORTUNITY ARE NOW CHALLENGED.

I WANT US TO REMEMBER THAT BECAUSE EVERYTHING WE'RE SUPPOSED BE DOING AND EVERYTHING THAT OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY IS SET FORTH TO DO IT DIRECT IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE BY RETAINING AND PROTECTING AND PRESERVING THE HISTORY AND WHAT HAS MADE US GREAT AND THAT WE DON'T LOOK GET LOST IN ALL SHINY NEW

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OBJECTS AT THE BACK OF THE BOOK . OKAY.

ALL RIGHT. READY TO MOVE PAST THOSE PAGE CORE VALUES? ARE WE OKAY WITH THE FIRE TRUCKS? BE IN THAT COLUMN.

OKAY? YES. SO THEN IF YOU TRYING TO FIND MY REAL QUICK TAKE IT ALEX AND I SCREAM KEEP ON BLACKING OUT EVERY COUPLE OF SECONDS.

IT'S REALLY DISTRACTING. GO AHEAD IN ASK THE SCREEN'S BLOCKING OUT.

OKAY. YEAH YEAH. NEXT THE NEXT SECTION IS JUST OUTLINING THE PURPOSE OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN. AS I MENTIONED IT'S FOUNDATIONAL IN THE WORK THAT WE DO PROVIDES CLARITY AND DIRECTION AND SO WE'VE GOT THE PURPOSE FOR WHAT'S WHAT'S OUTLINED THERE I DON'T KNOW I KEEP GOING BACK TO THAT ONE BUT I GO BACK TO THAT ONE QUICK DEFINING GOAL STRATEGIES ACTION ITEMS AND GREAT PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AND SO WE'VE GONE THROUGH THE BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND THIS HELPS INFORM HOW THE HOW THE PLAN IS TO BE USED AS WE MOVE FORWARD. SO IT'S GOT OR THE GOAL STATEMENT STRATEGY OR WITH THE STATEMENT ACTION ITEMS PRIORITIZATION AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WE USE THESE LITTLE CHECKMARKS TO IDENTIFY THE YEARS COUNSEL HAS HELPED US DEFINE WHEN WE SHOULD BE STARTING THE WORK AND DOING THE WORK AND THEN KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO MEASURE SUCCESS. WE ORDERED THE GOALS BASED ON EXERCISE ON JUNE 24TH AND SO THEY'RE WE'RE WORKING ON ALL OF THESE BUT THEY'RE ORDERED BASED ON YOUR FEEDBACK AT THE LAST WORKSHOP THROUGH TEN AND SO I WON'T READ EACH ONE OF THEM BECAUSE WE'LL COVER THEM COVERED THE AND THE GOAL PAGE HERE IN A MINUTE BUT THEY'RE THEY'RE OUTLINED HERE AND YOU CAN SEE OUR PLAN GUIDE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN AND THEN INFLUENCES THE CONSOLIDATED BUDGET EACH YEAR AND THEN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND THEN WE GET TO THE SECOND HALF OF THE BOOK WHICH IS REALLY THE THE ACTIONABLE PART OF THE PLAN AND SO EACH GOAL IS IDENTIFIED IN ORDER SO PROTECT CHARACTER TO GROW THROUGH MANAGING GROWTH WE'VE GOT THE STRATEGY TO HELP DEFINE THE ACTION TOWARD THE GROWTH THEN THESE ACTIONS THAT WE PLAN TO TAKE WE DID ORGANIZE IT BASED HOW TOWN COUNCIL'S FEEDBACK TO SHOW A BASED ON THE YEAR THAT IT'S PROGRAMED AND STARTED AND SO YOU CAN SEE IT MOVES FROM YEAR ONE AND YEAR ONE UNTIL YEAR ONE TWO AND THREE THEN IT MOVES OUT INTO YEAR TO YEAR THREE SO IT'S ORGANIZED THAT WAY SORRY IN CHINA AS WE GO THESE GOALS WE'RE LOOKING TO SET THE BASIS AS TO WORK THAT THE COUNCIL COUNCIL AND STAFF WILL DO OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS.

IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE ADOPTING ANY OF THESE ITEMS TODAY. THAT'S CORRECT.

EACH EACH ACTION THAT IS IN HERE WILL REQUIRE AN OPERATIONAL PLAN TO AND SO WITH YOUR DIRECTION ADOPTION OF THIS PLAN IT PROVIDES THE TOWN MANAGER CLEAR DIRECTION FOR HIM AND HIS TEAM TO MOVE THESE FORWARD WITH A SENSE OF PRIORITY AND CLARITY AND THEY COME FORWARD TO COUNCIL. OBVIOUSLY MOST OF IT THROUGH COMMITTEE AND THROUGH TOWN COUNCIL WITH AGENDA SETTING WITH WHEN YOU'RE OUT THERE COME ON SOMEWHAT FURTHER ON THAT PARTICULARLY WITH REFERENCE TO ITEM ONE MORATORIUM, I THINK THERE'S BEEN SOME CONFUSION IN THE COMMUNITY TO WHAT WAS GOING TO TAKE PLACE TODAY IN TERMS OF A MORATORIUM.

THERE ARE CERTAIN ELEMENTS THAT HAVE ANTICIPATED THAT A MORATORIUM WOULD BE ADOPTED TODAY AS MR. KHAN HAS INDICATED THAT'S CLEARLY NOT THE CASE. WE'RE SIMPLY SAYING THAT THIS WOULD BE AN ITEM FOR STAFF TO UNDERTAKE AND PUTTING TOGETHER AS I UNDERSTAND IT A PLAN FOR A MORATORIUM TAKES A GOOD DEAL OF TIME EMBER MONTHS AND MORATORIUMS CANNOT BE PERMANENT BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT AS A TIME LIMITED SITUATION MORE OR LESS POINTED TO WHEN ARE WE GOING TO INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO DEAL WITH SOME OF THESE HAVE BEEN INTRODUCING LEGISLATION ON A REGULAR BASIS IN MANY OF THESE AREAS TIME AND SEVERAL ARE ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA AS IN THE ENDING THESE NEW ITEMS TO BE INTRODUCED IN THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE AND THEN

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CODE AND SO ON WILL ESTABLISH SOME IMPROVED GUIDELINES FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT A PLAN THAT WE HAVE HAVE STAFF ON RIGHT NOW HAS TO BE VERY CAREFULLY PREPARED BECAUSE WE IF NOT CAREFUL INTERFERE WITH THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY OWNERS AND COULD RESULT IN A LAWSUIT IF DOESN'T GO WELL. SO NUMBER OF THE ITEMS THAT ARE ALREADY UNDER PREPARATION AND STUDY IN TERMS OF AMENDMENTS TO THE ALAMO AND THE MUNICIPAL CODE WILL COME ALONG PROBABLY A FEW MONTHS AFTER WE GET TO THE POINT OF DOING ACTUALLY DOING A MORATORIUM.

SO THERE ISN'T THAT PRACTICAL ASPECT ABOUT IT. I'M CONCERNED ABOUT ADDING THIS PARTICULAR MATTER IS OVERBURDENING STAFF ALREADY I BELIEVE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ASKING STAFF TO DO TOO MUCH AND THIS THIS IS SIMPLY ANOTHER BURDEN THAT WE'RE PUTTING ON THEM COMES AT A TIME WHEN WE SURE TO HAVE IN A NUMBER OF KEY POSITIONS AND WE MAKE THESE COMMENTS TO POINT OUT THE MILIEU IN WHICH WE ARE OPERATING AND THE IMPACT OF WHAT WE DO WILL HAVE TAKEN AS OFTEN AS BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANYTHING BEFORE.

SO WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY WAS WITH REGARD TO A MORATORIUM WE HAVE IT IN 2026 AND THIS WAS BROUGHT UP JUST AT THE LAST STRATEGIC WORKSHOP AS AN ADDITION AND THOUGHT THE LOGIC BEHIND IT WAS TO ALLOW FOR OF A PAUSE ALL STAFF AND THE WRITERS GOT UP TO SPEED AND WITH NEW REGULATIONS NEW AMENDMENTS TO OUR LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE SO THAT WE COULD ADDRESS THOSE . AND SO THE IDEA OF A MORATORIUM VERY POPULAR WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE THE IDEA OF PAUSING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE GETTING OUR CODE INTO PLACE SO THAT WE DON'T FURTHER DO DAMAGE TO THE ISLAND THAT HAS BEEN DONE SINCE I DON'T KNOW I WON'T PUT A DATE ON IT BUT I WOULD CERTAINLY SAY THE LAST TEN YEARS FOR SURE AND SO THEREFORE LOOKING AT ASSESSING THAT IN 26 ONCE ALL OF THOSE OTHER ACTIVITIES ARE FINISHED TO ME SEEMS TO BE NOT CONSISTENT WITH THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE. SO WHY HAVE A MORATORIUM OR ASSESSMENT MORATORIUM IN 26 WHEN WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE HOPING TO BRING THAT FORWARD WHEN IT WOULD SEEM THAT YOU NEED THE MORATORIUM ALONG SIDE OF THAT. SO THAT'S JUST A GENERAL I HAVE WITH WITH REGARD TO TIMING.

SO ANYONE HAS AN ANSWER I'M REALLY ALL EARS THANKS. YES I PLEAD GUILTY TO SUGGESTING THIS AT THE JUNE 24TH WORKSHOP AND BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCE SO FAR I TOOK OFFICE IN DECEMBER OF 2022 AND THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO OUR ATTENTION WAS THE IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENT ON JANESVILLE ROAD AND IN THAT AREA AND SO THE TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDED TO TRY TO ADDRESS THAT LARGELY BY BUYING PROPERTY BUT ALSO CONCURRENTLY WE HAD THE IDEA FROM STAFF OF PROCEEDING WITH DISTRICT PLANS AND THOSE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAPPENED IN THE SUMMER OF 2023 WE'RE NOW IN THE SUMMER OF 2025 AND WE DON'T YET HAVE EXCEPT ONE DISTRICT PLAN WHICH WAS ADOPTED BY THE PRIOR TOWN COUNCIL. WE ALSO HAVE LOOKED AT SOME PROPERTY THEY'VE BEEN CALLED DIFFERENT NAMES AMENDMENTS TO THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE BUT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE SERIOUS PRESSURE POINTS, PINCH POINTS AND THOSE ARE THE ONES LISTED TIMESHARES OR INTERVAL OCCUPANCY ALSO SHORT TERM RENTALS, NEW SHORT TERM RENTALS AND MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS AND TRAVEL AROUND THIS ISLAND YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF AREAS WHERE SOMEONE HAS COME IN WITH A BULLDOZER AND CUT A LARGE SWATH LAND TEARING DOWN ALL THE TREES AND BUILDING VERY SMALL HOMES AND NOT WORKFORCE HOUSING. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS AND THAT'S INCREASED TRAFFIC AROUND THE ISLAND AND SO WHAT HAVE WE DONE? WE KEEP WAITING ON AMENDMENTS TO THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE AND RESPECTFULLY I KNOW IT TAKES YEARS. I'VE DONE IT BEFORE SO WHAT A MORATORIUM DOES AND I AGREE WITH A LOT OF WHAT MR. ALFORD SAID EXCEPT FOR IT DOESN'T TAKE A LOT OF TIME TO DO A MORATORIUM BECAUSE THE PURPOSE OF A MORATORIUM ORDINANCE IT'S SHORT AND LIMITATION USUALLY ABOUT 90 DAYS TO ALLOW YOU TO FIND OUT HOW TO ADDRESS PRESSURE POINTS OR PINCH POINTS AND THAT'S WHAT THE PURPOSE THIS IS. WE'VE SEEN IT RECENTLY DONE BY

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NEIGHBORING COUNTY JASPER COUNTY. IF ANYBODY'S TRAVELED OUT THAT WAY YOU'VE SEEN THE KIND OF DEVELOPMENT GOING ON OUT. THEY DID THAT IN ORDER TO TRY TO MANAGEMENT AND AS AS THIS GOAL IS TO PROTECT ISLAND CHARACTER THROUGH MANAGING REGS THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THIS NOT THE PURPOSE TO TRY TO DESTROY BUSINESSES THE PURPOSE OF IT IS TO PROTECT ISLAND CHARACTERS. WE IMAGINE GREG AND THIS IS A PAUSE IN CERTAIN KINDS OF USES TO ALLOW US TO FINALLY GET SOME ELMO AMENDMENTS TO ADDRESS THESE USES UNLESS AND UNTIL WE DO THAT WE'RE GOING TO KEEP SEEING THIS HAPPEN AND WHEN YOU WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS, YOU GO THROUGH DISTRICT PLANNING AND THEN YOU'RE A MANAGER TAX TO THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE AND THEN YOU FINALLY GET TO THE ZONING MAPS AND THAT'S WHERE THE RUBBER THE ROAD AND THAT TAKES A LONG TIME. IT TAKES AT LEAST A COUPLE OF YEARS. AND WHERE ARE WE NOW LAST UNTIL WE TAKE THIS PAUSE WE'RE GOING TO KEEP SUFFERING FROM THESE PRESSURE POINTS AND OUR COMMUNITY WILL KEEP SUFFERING AND THAT'S WHY I STRONGLY ADVOCATE TO INCLUDE IT AT LEAST AS AN ACTION ITEM AND TO KEEP IT IN F BY 26 AS THE AS IT STATES IT'S ASSESS ADOPTION SO IT IS NOT ADOPTING IT.

THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT NEEDS TO GO INTO UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT MEANS JUST DOWN HERE.

YES, I REACHED OUT TO MY COMMUNITY AND HAVE RECEIVED A LOT OF FEEDBACK FROM RESIDENTS AND CONSTITUENCIES AND THEY ARE VERY MUCH IN THIS ASSESSMENT OF A MORATORIUM UM BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT IT NEEDS TO BE VERY THOUGHTFULLY DISCUSSED AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE IT OUT THERE AS ASSESSED VERSUS ACTUALLY DO WE NEED TO IDENTIFY WHAT WORK WE'RE LOOKING TO ACCOMPLISH DURING MORATORIUM. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW IT WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED AND WHAT WOULD THE IMPACTS BE. THERE'S LEGAL RISK BALANCE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS VERSUS ADVERSE IMPACTS IMPACTS TO THE ECONOMY, COMMUNITY SENTIMENT. SO IT WOULD BE A LARGE AMOUNT OF WORK BUT I DID WANT TO SHARE THAT MY CONSTITUENTS ARE INTERESTED IN HEARING MORE ABOUT THAT OTHER COMMENTS NO MATTER WHAT IS INCLUDED IN COUNSEL'S DIRECTION I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THIS ONLY APPLIES TO APPLICATIONS THAT WOULD COME IN UPON ENACTMENT OF A MORATORIUM SO IT DOESN'T SOUND RETROACTIVE WOULD BE FOR NEW NEW APPLICATIONS BASED ON WHATEVER I REALLY DON'T WANT TO GET CAUGHT UP ON EACH INDIVIDUAL ITEM BECAUSE IF WE DO THAT WE NEED TO TABLE IT AND SEND IT BACK TO A WORKSHOP. THIS IS ABOUT YOU KNOW THIS WAS ONE ITEM THAT WAS EITHER ADDED AT THE LAST WORKSHOP IT'S BEING INCLUDED.

NOBODY HAS HAD TO TAKE IT OUT SOME QUESTIONS CONCERNS ABOUT THE WORK THAT GOES INTO IT.

SO I JUST YOU KNOW WE'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS ON THIS AGENDA THAT I AND AND WE NEED TO KEEP MOVING AS BEST WE CAN AND SEE THE WORK THAT GOES INTO IT AND THE TIME YES.

SO I'M PLEASED SO I'LL I'LL THROUGH THERE WAS ANOTHER THERE'S A RECOMMENDATION DUE TO OUT OF API THE MORATORIUM. MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE NOT HAVE A KPI.

I THINK IF YOU CHOOSE TO ADOPT ONE THAT WOULD BE YOUR MEASUREMENT.

OKAY SORRY WE'VE SET A GOAL TO NO COMMENT ON GOAL TWO BUT IT RELATES TO INVESTING IN STORMWATER MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE. OKAY.

MOVE ON TO NUMBER THREE. LET SOMEBODY RAISES THEIR HAND I'D SAY KEEP ON MOVING.

NUMBER THREE THERE WAS THIS ONE COMMENT ABOUT THERE'S A FEASIBLE THEORY STUDY COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF THE ISLAND TROLLEY AND BEACH SHUTTLE SYSTEM.

THERE WAS A RECOMMENDATION TO INCLUDE A KPI FOR ADOPTION OR COMPLETION OF THAT STUDY OR WE CAN ADD THAT IF THERE'S ALL RIGHT GO FOR ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY READINESS AND FACILITIES I KNOW COMMENTS ON ON THAT ITEM SIR ON GOAL FIVE THERE WAS A COMMENT AND I THINK IT APPLIES TO TWO SPOTS. THERE IS A TERM HERE AND ENHANCING TOURISM AND ONE DOWN HERE ENHANCES TOURISM. THERE WAS A RECOMMENDATION TO REPLACE THAT WAS SUPPORTING AND CERTAINLY ISSUE WITH THAT FROM COUNCIL I WOULD SAY AND THEN ONE MR. BROWN I'M SORRY BUT I MEAN I KNOW IT'S JUST WORDS ON PAPER SIR BUT THIS TOWN CONTINUES TO, EVOLVE AND ONE AROUND ONE OF OUR CORE VALUES WHICH IS EXCELLENT SO IN MY MIND EVERYTHING THAT WE DO WE

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ARE ENHANCING IT THEN SAY WE WANT TO INCREASE IT SAYS WE WANT TO ENHANCE SO I STRUGGLE WITH GOING TO SUPPORTING I THINK WE WANT TO BE IN A MAJOR ECONOMIC DRIVER HERE ON THE ULTIMATE CHANGE ARE NO CHANGE NO CHANGE WHAT WOULD THE CHANGE BE FROM ENHANCE TO SUPPORT CORRECT TO SUPPORT TRIP I'M MORE IN FAVOR AND WITH SUPPORT RATHER ENHANCE BECAUSE I DON'T WANT THERE TO BE ANY MISUNDERSTANDING THAT WHILE WE ARE A TOURISM DRIVEN ECONOMY HERE AND WE UNDERSTAND THE VALUE THAT THAT HAS FOR ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS WE ALSO ARE AT AND I DON'T WANT TO FURTHER THE THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO BRING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ON TO BEACHES NO ONE CAN SIT ON ANYMORE AND PARKING LOTS THAT ARE FULL AND OVERFULL AND I COULD GO ON SO NOT ENHANCE I UNDERSTAND WHAT MR. BROWN'S TRYING TO SAY BECAUSE IF WE ENHANCE THE ASSETS FOR TOURISM YOU IN TURN ENHANCE THE TOURIST THAT IS COMING TO THE AREA AND PROVES THAT THE I THINK IT'S YOU KNOW WHAT THOUGH BUT THAT'S WHAT WE TALK ABOUT I'M OKAY WITH SUPPORT BECAUSE WE ARE SUPPORTING IT BUT I UNDERSTAND BUT BUT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EXCELLENCE IT IS ABOUT IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF OF OF OUR LIVES IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF THE STAY THAT WHEN PEOPLE ARE HERE THAT THAT HELPS DRIVE A HIGHER END. IS THERE ANOTHER WORD THEN INSTEAD OF SUPPORT OR ENHANCE? IS THERE A WAY OF NOT THAT I'M COMING UP WITH RIGHT NOW? ALL RIGHT.

WELL, I AM JUST CONCERNED ABOUT THE IMPRESSION THAT LEAVES WITH PEOPLE AND IF WE'RE GOING TO MINCE WORDS AND PARSE THINGS OTHERWISE I WOULDN'T HAVE PICKED UP ON IT FRANKLY.

SO I'M CHANGING IT TO YEAH. YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO GET CAUGHT UP ON THAT RIGHT NOW BUT BUT YOU KNOW THE STATEMENTS. YEAH, YEAH. OKAY.

AND THEN THERE WAS A RECOMMENDATION AS IT RELATES TO THE KPI WE DO TALK ABOUT PERCENTAGE OF LOCAL RETAINED BUT THERE WAS A RECOMMENDATION TO ALSO MEASURE NEW BUSINESS GROWTH ON THE ISLAND. I THINK THAT'S CERTAINLY APPROPRIATE ONE OUT THAT YEAH I AGREE GOALS SIX RELATED TO REINFORCE ISLAND RESILIENCE WERE NO COMMENTS GOAL SEVEN PRESERVE PROTECT AND CELEBRATE GULLAH CULTURE AND HERITAGE THERE WERE TWO COMMENTS AND THEY WERE RELATED TO A KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR ON CIP SO IT'D BE ON THE 7.6 YOU KNOW I THINK WHEN YOU DEVELOP YOUR CIP WHICH IS GOING TO BE INFORMED BY THE STRATEGIC PLAN THEN BUDGET THAT THAT BE SEPARATE TO THE POWER IT WAS TO INCLUDE A KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR RELATED TO IP PROJECTS BASED ON THIS 7.6 ACTION ITEM. SO IT WOULD BE ROADS, PARKS, DRAINAGE, ALL THESE THINGS THAT WERE WITHIN THE HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS WITHIN KPI BE TO MEASURE AND TO SAY YOU DIDN'T DO THAT. YEAH IT WOULD BE IT WOULD BE A MEASUREMENT TO SAY HERE IS WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED BUT BASED ON THOSE IP CATEGORIES WITHIN THE HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS I, I WOULD I'M JUST I'M THINKING THAT THE KPI WOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE CITY BECAUSE WE DIDN'T I THINK YOU COULD DO IT THROUGH YOUR SEE IP PROGRAM AND THEN INCLUDE ABC IP FOR AN AMOUNT TO SHOW THAT. SO THAT WE'VE DONE THIS WITH OTHER KPIS FOR OTHER GOALS LIKE IT'S INCLUDED IN THE BUT WHETHER IT'S THE OPERATING BUDGET AS THE IP IS IT OTHER KPI SOMEWHERE THERE IS ONE RELATED TO STORMWATER INVESTMENT AND STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE BUT NOT SPECIFIC TO A GEOGRAPHY LIKE A GOOD MEASURE TO ME. OKAY HAVE THERE SO WE CAN LOOK AT IT OR JUMP IN.

YEAH I SUGGEST HAD IT END WE USE IT FOR ROADS WE USE IT FOR SOME OTHER THINGS KEEPING IT HERE KEEPS US ON ON THE CENTER AND THE ONE WAS RELATED TO A KPI ON THE MULTI CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PLAN SO THE ELEMENTS FOR WITHIN THAT PLAN WE COULD MEASURE AND PROVIDE A REPORT AS KPI THERE SO THERE'S NO OBJECTION WE'LL ADD THOSE KPIS UNDER GOAL EIGHT ADVANCED WORKFORCE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES THERE WERE NO COMMENTS UNDER GOAL NINE PROTECT AND ENHANCE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY. THERE WERE TWO ITEMS RELATED TO

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KPI CONSIDERATION ONE WAS RELATED ACTION ITEM 9.2 ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT IPM POLICY TO HAVE A MEASUREMENT ON HOW WE'RE DOING RELATED TO THAT I THINK THAT'S FINE. THE POLICY REQUIRES AN ANNUAL REVIEW ANYWAY SO WE CAN USE THE ANNUAL DATA TO LINK IN HERE AND THEN THE THE FINAL ONE ON THIS CALL RELATED TO MEASURING THE THE SCHOOL PROGRAM AND I THINK IT RELATES TO 9.7 HERE WHAT I WOULD OFFER IS THAT IN THIS KPI THE FIRST KPI NUMBER BUSINESSES PARTIES WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE TOWN'S ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS I THINK WE COULD HAVE THAT AS A SUBSECTION OF THAT KPI RATHER OUR NO.

ONE AND THEN IN THE END GOAL TEN WHICH IS THE GOAL THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT THE OR COMMENT ABOUT THIS FIRST ONE SO ALIGNS IP FOR COMMUNITY PARKS WITH APPROVED MASTER PLANS WITH THE FOLLOWING PRIORITIZATION AND THERE THESE ARE JUST THE ONES THAT WE THINK WE NEED TO FOCUS ON. THEY'RE NOT LISTED IN ANY IN ANY ORDER SO WE COULD WITH THE FOLLOWING PRIORITIES INSTEAD OF AS I LIKE TO SAY WITH FOLLOWING PRIORITIES TO KNOW THAT THESE ARE ALL PRIORITIES IF THAT WORKS AND THEN THE FINAL COMMENT WAS RELATED TO A KPI TO MEASURE THE USAGE OF PARKS I THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT THAT.

I'M NOT SURE HOW WE WOULD BE ABLE TO MEASURE THAT AND I WANT TO SAY THAT SOMEBODY PROVIDED TO US THROUGH THE REC ASSOCIATION THEY TELL US USAGE BUT I KNOW FOR LIKE ANYTHING THAT THEY PROGRAM OTHERS RESERVED OR THE PROGRAMS THAT THEY PROVIDE BUT I THINK IF YOU BUILD A PARK FOR AND TRY TO MEASURE DAILY USAGE AND YOU KNOW EVEN PLACE OR I WOULD YOU CAN MEASURE CELL PHONES YEAH BUNCH OF KIDS AND I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW EASY IT WOULD BE TO MEASURE THAT SO MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO LET YOUR ISLAND REC ASSOCIATION GIVE YOU ON PROGRAMING AND OUR FACILITIES TEAM PROVIDE THAT BASED ON SOME OTHER OPERATIONAL ITEMS. OKAY. ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THAT REAL QUICK OKAY. SO AS I CONCLUDE THAT IS THE OTHER THAN THE LAST PAGE SO THAT IS THE ENTIRE PLAN AND OKAY AWESOME. SO AT THIS TIME ANYBODY HAVE A MOTION ON THE ADOPTION OF THE PLAN AS AMENDED DURING THIS MEETING? OKAY. AND ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION WHICH DOES THAT OKAY.

SO WE'VE GOT A FIRST TO SECOND. IS THERE ANYBODY THAT SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS AGENDA ITEM KIM MAYOR CAN I JUST DO ONE MORE THING? I KNOW I'M JUST LOOK, LET ME JUST SHOW YOU SOMETHING. I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HECK IS GIVE ME JUST 1/2 IF YOU WOULD. I JUST TO SHOW JUST BE ONE OF THE OF THE DASHBOARD AND WE CAN SPEND LITERALLY TWO OR 3 MINUTES ON IT. SO IN CONCERT WITH DEVELOPING PLAN WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH OUR GIS TEAM TO PUT TOGETHER THIS HUB AND THEN THE DASHBOARD AND SO HERE BASICALLY THE HOME PAGE TALKS ON THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN WITH THE ADOPTED PLAN IF YOU WANT YOU TAKE ACTION TONIGHT THE PDF VERSION WILL BE AVAILABLE RIGHT HERE BY THIS LINK AND THEN IT'S ORGANIZED BY THE GOALS THAT YOU INCLUDED IN YOUR PLAN AND WE'LL USE THIS ONE. SO IF YOU CLICK ON THAT FIRST STYLE WHICH IS YOUR NUMBER ONE GOAL, WE'VE GOT THE THE GOAL STATEMENT, WE'VE GOT THE STRATEGY AND WE'RE GOING TO CLEAN UP A LITTLE BIT OF THE FONT, EVERYTHING BUT IT SHOWS YOUR ACTION ITEMS. WE'VE GOT NINE WITHIN THIS THIS GOAL AND THEN THERE'S A LINK HERE FOR THE THE ACTION ITEMS AND THE PROGRESS. SO THIS WILL LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT WHEN WE BRING IT FORWARD BUT IT'LL TALK ABOUT THE YEAR IT WAS PROGRAM IT'S IN PROGRESS NOW IT'S NOT STARTED IN PROGRESS ONGOING OR COMPLETE AND THEN IT'LL HAVE THE PROJECT MANAGER UPDATES MONTHLY SO THAT EVERYONE CAN LOOK AND SEE WHERE WE'RE AT AND THEN DOWN HERE WE'VE A LIST OF THE THINGS WE'RE MEASURING TOWARD TOWARD THAT GOAL AND WILL BE A BENEFIT REALLY AT YOUR END AS WE'RE KIND OF REPORTING BACK ON OUR ON OURSELF AND THEN MORE AND A LITTLE MORE INTERNAL BUT WE'RE GOING TO REFINE THIS A LITTLE BIT THERE IS A DASHBOARD THAT SHOWS ALL OF THE ALL OF THE

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ACTION AND THE KPIS BASED ON GOAL AND A LOT OF THE SAME INFORMATION.

THIS WOULD BE GREAT FOR OUR TEAM GOING TO MOVE KPIS OFF AND REALLY FOCUS ON ON ACTION AND PROGRESS BUT WE'RE WE WILL HAVE THIS UPDATED VERY SOON ONCE COUNCIL ADOPTS THIS PLAN AND WE CAN MAKE IT MEETS THE FINAL LANGUAGE AND ORDER THAT YOU PUT TOGETHER.

OKAY SO I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT DOING THAT BEFORE CALLED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT YOU ALL RIGHT KIM TO EVERYBODY SIGNED UP ON THIS AGENDA ITEM WE HAVE FOUR OKAY LET ME PULL MY FIRED UP.

OKAY RICHARD BUSY IT'S GOOD AFTERNOON RICHARD BUSY INDIGO RUN YOUR NUMBER ONE GOAL IN YOUR STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN IS TO PROTECT ISLAND CHARACTER THROUGH MANAGING GROWTH AND YOU'RE NUMBER ONE ACTION ITEM LISTED IN THAT DOCUMENT BEFORE YOU IS TO ASSESS ADOPTION OF A MORATORIUM LIMITED TO TIMESHARES, SHORT TERM RENTALS AND MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS AT YOUR JUNE WORKSHOP WHICH I ATTENDED TOWN STAFF WAS DIRECTED TO PREPARE A MORE ORDINANCE FOR CONSIDERATION AT TODAY'S MEETING EXEMPT WOULD BE GULLAH OWNED PROPERTY AND YET NO SUCH IS ON YOUR AGENDA TODAY A MORATORIUM BEGIN TO MANAGE GROWTH MAY BE ONE OF THE FEW ISSUES A MAJORITY OF ISLAND RESIDENTS AGREE ON. I POSTED THIS INFORMATION ON NEXT DOOR DAYS AFTER YOUR JUNE WORKSHOP AND THE RESPONSE OVERWHELMING HUNDREDS OF RESPONSES I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU SOME OF THOSE RESPONSES AND WE'LL READ THEM AS TIME PERMITS ENOUGH ALREADY THE ISLAND'S INFRASTRUCTURE ALREADY OVERLOADED I SUPPORT A MORATORIUM ACROSS BOARD. WE ASK FOR A MORATORIUM BACK IN JANUARY 23 WE WERE PROMISED THEN THAT PROTECTIONS WOULD BE PUT PLACE FOR OVERDEVELOPMENT IN 6 TO 9 MONTHS.

WE'RE STILL WAITING. THE GULLAH AT THIS POINT SHOULD NOT GET SPECIAL ALLOWANCES.

WE SHOULD ALL BE ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD TO ALLOW THAT IN THE CODE WOULD LEAVE US OPEN FOR HUGE LEGAL PROBLEMS DOWN THE ROAD. HILTON HEAD IS A SMALL ISLAND LION. OUR LAND IS LIMITED. OUR ROADS ARE FULL OF ARE STRETCHED. IF THE TOWN DECIDES FOR A MORATORIUM TO PROTECT WHAT IS LEFT THEN EVERYONE SHOULD BE PART OF THAT EFFORT. WE WERE PROMISED A FULL LIMO REWRITE OVER TWO YEARS AGO IN LIEU OF THE MORATORIUM WE STILL DON'T HAVE AN LMO REWRITE.

INSTEAD WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO FLY A PLANE CALLED THE TOWN OF HEAD ISLAND WHILE WORKING ON A FAILING ENGINE DURING A FLIGHT NO ONE GROUP OR COMMUNITY SHOULD BE ABOVE THE RULES SET OF RULES FOR EVERYONE EVERY COMMUNITY WE CAN PUT IN PLACE EXTRA PROTECTIONS TO PREVENT DEVELOPMENT THE ISLAND'S CULTURAL HISTORY AND PUT A MORATORIUM ON NEW DEVELOPMENT AT THE SAME TIME NO MORE ANYTHING THE PARKING LOT IS FULL.

I SUPPORT A TOTAL MORATORIUM THE ISLAND HAS ALREADY BEEN OVERBUILT.

CHARLES FRAZIER MUST BE ROLLING OVER IN HIS GRAVE AS YOU CAN SEE RESIDENTS ARE PRETTY VOCAL ON THIS ISSUE BUT AT THE RATE THE TOWN IS MOVING IT'S GOING TO BE YEARS BEFORE MORATORIUM IS PUT IN PLACE AND SOME WOULD ARGUE QUITE FRANKLY I HAPPEN TO BE ONE OF THOSE THAT IS PROBABLY ALREADY TOO LATE. MANAGING GROWTH HAS BEEN A HOT BUTTON ISSUE FOR YEARS NOW AND SO LITTLE HAS BEEN DONE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR. BUSY.

STEVE BIRDWELL GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M STEVE BIRDWELL, THE PRESIDENT OF SEA PINES RESORT.

I WANT MAKE A FEW COMMENTS REGARDING THE STRATEGIC PLAN. FIRST I WANT TO THANK AND CONGRATULATE TOWN COUNCIL MARK ALONG WITH SHAUN AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT FOR THEIR PREPARING TO THE PLAN. I THINK IT'S VERY WELL PREPARED AND PRESENTED AND IT WILL SERVE AS A GREAT GUIDE OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS. REGARDING GOAL NUMBER THREE ENHANCING MAJOR CORRIDORS IT'S GOOD TO SEE THE ACTION PLAN TO CONTINUE TO ADVANCE THE GATEWAY CORRIDOR. AS YOU KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A VERY LONG PROCESS BUT WE HAVE TO STAY HONEST WITH OUR STATE AND THE COUNTY BECAUSE OUR MORNING AND AFTERNOON COMMUTES ARE UNBEARABLE FOR OUR ISLAND WORKFORCE AND HAVE TO FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM.

ALSO IT'S GREAT CC BY-ND CIRCLE AS A AS A HIGH PRIORITY ITEM. AS YOU KNOW THE CIRCLES BACK IN

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ALL FOUR QUADRANTS IN MANY MANY TIMES OF THE YEAR AND WE NEED TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO THAT TRAFFIC AS WELL. THIS IS ANOTHER ROAD REQUIRES SOME COORDINATION WITH US SOME KIND OF DOG LET'S DO DIFFERENT COUNTY AND OF COURSE SEE BY AND SEE.

MY THIRD COMMENT RELATES TO ACTION ITEM 1.1 ASSESSMENT ASSESS ADOPTION OF A MORATORIUM ON SHORT TERM RENTALS MORATORIUM ON SHORT TERM RENTALS WOULD SEND A VERY NEGATIVE MESSAGE TO OUR VISITORS. IT WOULD LIKELY IMPACT PROPERTY VALUES IN MANY AREAS AND IT WOULD GREATLY IMPACT ON RESIDENTS AROUND ISLAND BUSINESSES. WE NEED CONTINUE TO EMBRACE OUR VISITORS WARMLY THEM ONTO OUR ISLAND PARADISE. THEY ARE THEY MAKE POSSIBLE ALL OF OUR GREAT RESTAURANT CHOICES. THEY SUPPORT ALL OF OUR ISLAND BUSINESSES, OUR RETAIL STORES, OUR SHOPPING CENTERS, GOLF COURSES, TENNIS AND PICKLEBALL CENTERS, OUR WATER SPORT ACTIVITIES, OUR ARTS CENTER AND OUR ARTS COMMUNITY ALL OF OUR EVENTS OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES INCLUDING THE RBC HERITAGE WE REALIZE THAT THERE WAS A POST-COVID SPIKE IN OCCUPANCY SEVERAL YEARS. THE OCCUPANCY IN THOSE YEARS IT TAXED OUR ROADWAYS.

IT WAS DIFFICULT ON INFRASTRUCTURE BUT OCCUPANCY HAS DECLINED IN THE PAST TWO YEARS AND THIS YEAR WE'RE SEEING ANOTHER DECLINE ROOM NIGHTS SO AND I'M SURE EVERYONE'S NOTICED THERE ARE FEWER CARS ON OUR ROADS AND FEWER VISITORS HERE THIS YEAR INCLUDING THIS WEEK. SO PLEASE DON'T OVERREACT TO THE AND POST AND THE OUR HAD IN IN THE POST COVID YEARS WE'D LIKE TO SEE THIS ACTION REMOVED FROM THE THE PLAN BUT IF IT REMAINS IT WILL REQUIRE A THOUGHTFUL DISCUSSION AND ENGAGEMENT FROM ALL STAKEHOLDER STAKEHOLDERS THAT WOULD BE BY THIS MORATORIUM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION THANK YOU, MR. BURWELL. DREW BROWN BROWN THANK YOU.

MY NAME'S DREW BROWN. I'M WITH MANAGING PARTNER AND, CO-FOUNDER OF ISLAND TIME HILTON HEAD VACATION RENTAL COMPANY. I AM A RESIDENT OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND HILTON HEAD PLANTATION AND. I WANTED TO SPEAK ALSO ON THE ASSESSMENT IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN. DO YOU LIKE THE WAY THE PLAN IS LAID OUT? I THINK THAT THERE ARE MANY POSITIVES.

I THINK THAT CAN SERVE AS A REALLY GREAT GUIDE. I THINK THAT THE WAY THAT THIS GOT OUT FROM TODAY'S AS YOU GUYS SAID THERE WAS SOME CONCERN ABOUT OUR RESPONSES AND OR COMMENTS YOU THAT IT IS AN EXTREMELY HOT BUTTON ISSUE. I THINK THAT PART OF THAT ASSESSMENT REALLY NEEDS TO BE GLIMPSE OF WE HAVE NOW TODAY ALL AND THANK YOU MR. BROWN FOR TALKING ABOUT THE SUPPORTS VERSUS ENHANCING VERY BIG DEAL TO US IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY BUT WE'VE SAID THAT WE'RE AT CAPACITY, WE ARE NOT AT CAPACITY.

WE ARE ACTUALLY DOWN IN OCCUPANCY CAN BE HAPPY TO SHARE ANY OF THOSE NUMBERS WITH ANYONE ON COUNCIL ANYONE THE UNDENIABLE FACT THAT CAPACITY IS DOWN WE'VE TALKED ABOUT DISTRICTING. WE KNOW THAT THAT IS THE PLAN THAT CAN HELP THESE COMMUNITIES DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT TO DO AND WE'RE NOT DOING IT. THE ALAMO REWRITE IS NOT DONE AND THAT IS ALSO A TOOL FOR WHICH WE CAN IN OUR COMMUNITIES DECIDE WHAT WE WANT TO DO.

THE RESIDENTS OF THOSE OF THE COMMUNITY. BUT WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT POSSIBLY ASSESSING A MORATORIUM THAT COULD HAVE MASSIVE LEGAL TAX A TAX GUYS, A TAX DOLLARS THIS ROOM SAYS OH THERE'S GASPS ,WE'RE FULL. YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE'S 17,000 LESS GUESTS IN ON HILTON HEAD? DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT HURTS THE BUSINESSES? THAT'S A SMALL PERCENTAGE WEEKLY THAT WE'RE SEEING OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT ARE LESS COMING TO THE ISLE. SO WE NEED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT WHEN THESE CONVERSATIONS COME UP BECAUSE THIS IS THE REACTION YOU SEE THIS REACTION FROM YOUR COMMUNITY IT DOESN'T NEED TO HAPPEN WE AS BUSINESS COMMUNITY MEMBERS LIVE HERE.

WE EMPLOY PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE. WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE GREAT EXPERIENCES THAT WE PROVIDE FOR OUR VISITORS BUT WE FORGET THAT A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THAT COME HERE HAVE BEEN COMING HERE FOR SO LONG THAT WHEN WE GO AND CHANGE THINGS WE'VE NOW GOT STORE ORDINANCES. IT'S WORKING YOU KNOW WE'VE GOT OTHER THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN PUT

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IN PLAY. THEY WORK BUT AS WE CONTINUE TO MAKE CHANGES ARE WE REALLY GOING TO THINK ABOUT AND WE NEED TO MAKE CHANGES TO KEEP OUR MAKE OUR RESIDENTS HAPPY BUT WE CAN NEVER FORGET THAT ALL OF THIS IS BASED ON THE PEOPLE THAT COME ACROSS THAT BRIDGE AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK GETS LOST A LOT OF THE TIME.

THANK YOU, MR. BROWN. BETH PETRO GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

I'M BETH PETRO WITH BEACHSIDE A 37 YEAR RESIDENT. I DID NOT PRINT THIS ON PURPOSE. I WENT TO THE WEBSITE ON FRIDAY WHEN I KNEW THE AGENDA WOULD BE POSTED AND ASKED MY COMPUTER TO PRINT THE AGENDA I ACCIDENTALLY DID PACKET BUT THIS IS THE TIMELINE THAT I'M SURE YOU AS WELL AS WE HAD TO DIGEST EVERYTHING THAT WAS GOING TO BE HAPPENING IN TODAY'S MEETING BETWEEN FRIDAY AND TUESDAY. IS THERE ANY POSSIBLE WAY TO GET SOME OF THIS RELEASED TO US PRIOR THAN JUST A FEW DAYS BEFORE ACTUAL MEETING? I OBVIOUSLY I CAME HERE TO SPEAK ON THE STRATEGIC ACTION AND WHILE I APPRECIATE THESE GOALS I KNOW THAT THESE ARE ALL VERY BIG TOPICS BUT I DO RESONATE WITH SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE. WE STILL HAVE NOT COMPLETED MOST OF THE 2023 TO 2025 STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT SHORT TERM RENTALS WHICH I'LL GET TO BUT THINGS LIKE THE PARKS MASTER PLAN FOR THE PARKS I WAS INVOLVED DEEPLY WITH THE CROSS CROSSINGS MASTER PLAN AND REVISION OF THAT AND THAT WAS SUPPOSED BE COMPLETED IN 25 AND NOW IT'S BEEN BUMPED BACK TO 28. I UNDERSTAND THERE'S MUCH MORE IMPORTANT TOPICS OF THOSE BUT IF WE KEEP NEGLECTING AND NOT FINISHING THE PROJECTS IN FRONT OF US AND MOVE ON TO NEW PROJECTS ARE NEVER GOING TO COMPLETE ANYTHING AND EXCELLENCE WILL BE NOTHING THAT WE CAN REMOTELY COME BACK TO. CHIEF AS FAR AS A MORATORIUM, I DON'T WANT TO BE THE DEAD HORSE. I THINK THAT THE COMMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE BUT IT'S OBVIOUSLY AN EXTREMELY SENSITIVE WORD AND SEEING IT WITHIN THE AGENDA WITHOUT MORE CONVERSATION JUST BETWEEN JUNE 24TH AND TODAY WAS A LITTLE JARRING AS YOU HEARD FROM OTHER PEOPLE. IT WILL DEFINITELY HAVE LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS AND I'M HAPPY TO HEAR MR. ALFORD SAY THAT IT COULD VERY WELL AFFECT PROPERTY RIGHTS.

SO THAT IS ENCOURAGING TO SEE. FINALLY I'LL SAY THIS AND IN TERMS OF SUPPORT VERSUS ENHANCE IT'S A SILLY LITTLE THING BUT JUST QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH MAGNIFY SURE THAT'S PROBABLY UNDER YOUR DEFINITION TOMORROW OF SOMETHING BUT OTHER WORDS THAT ARE VERY SIMILAR AUGMENT STRENGTHEN REFINE THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE SO JARRING THAT ENHANCE VERSUS SUPPORT TAKES IT INTO PLAY SO PLEASE CONSIDER THAT AS WE DECIDE WHERE WE'RE GOING FORWARD.

I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THE MEMORIAL MORATORIUM WAS NOT GOING TO BE VOTED ON TODAY PER SE, BUT EVEN IF THIS STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN DOES COME INTO PLACE THAT'S A VERY STRONG WORD WITH VERY LITTLE DETAIL TO BACK IT UP. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. THAT'S ALL. OKAY.

ALL RIGHT SO WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE BY MS. BRYSON TALKING ABOUT BECKER TO ACCEPT THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN WITH THE NOTED CHANGES DURING OUR DISCUSSION AND ANY OTHER DISCUSSION NOW IS MY ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION SO THOSE ARE JUST JUST QUICKLY I DO LIKE REFINE AS A WORD SO THANK YOU FOR THAT SUGGESTION AND I ALSO WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT AND CONGRATULATE SHAWN COHEN SO ENLIGHTENED OBVIOUSLY AND MARK THE ENTIRE STAFF FOR A JOB WELL DONE I KNOW SHAWN HOW HARD YOU WORKED ON THIS AND I APPRECIATE THE ATTENTION TO THE DETAILS AND, THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE ALL HAD WITH YOU AND WITH STAFF TO GET IT TO THIS POINT. IS IT PERFECT? NO.

I HOPE WE HIGHLIGHT AS I IN THE BEGINNING THE LANGUAGE AT THE BEGINNING SO THAT REST OF IT IS JUST NOT SHINY OBJECTS THAT WE'RE PUTTING A STAMP ON AS FINISHED BUT THAT WE'RE REALLY CREATING A QUALITY ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR RESIDENTS QUALITY LIFE ETC. AND A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE FOR OUR VISITORS. WELL THANK YOU TESTAMENT AND COUNCIL OUR MANAGER AND HIS TEAM WORKING TOGETHER AND PUTTING TOGETHER SOMETHING WE'RE ALL PROUD OF SO THANK YOU . ABSOLUTELY. ALL RIGHT.

SO THEN THE OTHER COMMENTS SEEN ON WE'VE GOT THE FIRST MEMBERS FIRST AND SECOND MS..

BECKER AS THE RESOLUTION AS AMENDED DURING OUR DISCUSSION ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY RAISING YOUR RIGHT HAND MOVE TO SEVEN ZERO ALL RISE NEXT THE AGENDA WE HAVE A

[9.b. Consideration of a Resolution to Adopt an Accommodations Tax (ATAX) Grant Policy, Process Update, and Allocation of Funds Procedures - Shawn Colin, Assistant Town Manager ]

RESOLUTION TO ADOPT THE ACCOMMODATIONS TAX GRANT POLICY PROCESS UPDATE AND ALLOCATION OF FUNDS PROCEDURE THIS WAS PRESENTED TO FINANCE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE ON

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JUNE 26 AND WAS VOTED TO IT WAS VOTED TO FORWARD THE COUNCIL WITH A RECOMMENDATION FOR.

THANK YOU AGAIN THANK YOU THAT'S GREAT WE HAD ME UP FOR THREE IN A ROW AND THEN MY COUNTERPART GETS TO DO I THINK FOUR I'LL MOVE THROUGH THIS PRETTY PRETTY QUICKLY SO THIS IS A COMPREHENSIVE IT'S A COMPREHENSIVE SOUTH CAROLINA AID TAX FUND DOCUMENT TO INCLUDE A THE APPLICATION PROCESS STATE REQUIREMENTS AND THEN REALLY A FUNDING DISTRIBUTION CONSIDERATION OF POLICY FROM TOWN COUNCIL.

AND SO A LOT OF THIS HAS BEEN IN IN DIFFERENT PLACES RIGHT WHAT'S BEEN IN THE STATE CODE IT'S IN APPLICATIONS THAT WE'VE DEVELOPED OR CHECKLISTS. THIS PUTS EVERYTHING ONE PLACE TO HELP ACCOMPLISH SOME GOALS. ONE IS TO HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE POLICY HERE IN ONE PLACE SO THAT STAFF SO COUNCIL SO THAT COMMITTEES WHETHER YOU'RE ON THE EIGHT THAT COMMITTEE FINANCE AN ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OR WHATEVER THE THE COMMITTEE HAS IN THE FUTURE AND TOWN COUNCIL WHAT THE ROLES ARE, WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS ARE ,WHAT HAS TO BE DONE AND WHAT DISCRETIONARY OPTIONS ARE PART OF THIS PROGRAM. SO THIS THIS ALL CAME ABOUT OF JANUARY 20TH AND JANUARY 2025. COUNCIL ASKED STAFF TO PUT THIS TOGETHER. SO WE'VE GOT I'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PURPOSE THERE. I'M GOING TO WALK THROUGH THIS PRETTY QUICKLY BUT IN SECTION TWO THERE'S AN OVERVIEW OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA ACCOMMODATIONS TAX LANGUAGE AND SO WE'VE GOT THE SECTIONS CITED HERE WHERE THIS COMES FROM OUT OF STATE CODE AND IN TITLE 12, CHAPTER 36 AND THESE SUBSECTIONS THAT BASICALLY WHAT HAPPENS AT THE STATE LEVEL THEY ESTABLISH A 2% STATE ACCOMMODATIONS TAX AND A FINAL HAS TO BE USED FOR TOURISM RELATED EXPENDITURES IF YOU RECEIVE MORE $50,000 THEN THERE'S PROVISIONS YOU HAVE TO APPOINT A COMMITTEE AND WE CURRENTLY PROPOSED TO GENERATE ABOUT OVER $12 MILLION AN ATTACK THIS YEAR AND INCLUDES ELIGIBLE USES OF RESTRICTIONS OF THE FUNDS. THERE'S A REQUIREMENT A NEW PROVISION RELATED TO USING FUNDS FOR HOUSING. I KNOW THAT'S GOING TO BE MENTIONED ON A DISCUSSION HERE AND A LITTLE BIT THAT YOU HAVE THE HOUSING IMPACT ANALYSIS.

WE HAD ONE COUNCIL ADOPTED IN APRIL OF 2024 AND THAT WAS DONE IN ADVANCE OF PROVIDING SOME TAX STATE TAX FUNDS TO THE THE CCD AND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY AND THEN THE STATE THERE'S A TOURISM EXPENDITURE REVIEW COMMITTEE TERM THAT SERVES AS OVERSIGHT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MEETING ALL THOSE PROVISIONS IN THE STATE CODE SO PERMITTED USES OF FUNDS I WON'T READ ALL OF THEM BUT THEY'RE REALLY TOURISM RELATED BUT IT COULD BE INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT TOURISM AND THEN THIS NEW PROVISION TO INCLUDE WORKFORCE HOUSING AS IN TOURISM ECONOMIES THEY UNDERSTAND HOUSING FOR WORKFORCE SUPPORTS TOURISM IN SECTION THE TAX GRANT PROGRAM AS IT RELATES TO THAT ISLAND AND THIS IS WHERE IT OUTLINES THE APPLICATION AND THEN THE REVIEW FROM THE DIFFERENT BODIES SO IT'S THE REQUIREMENTS FROM THE APPLICANT AND THEN HOW IT MOVES THROUGH THE REVIEW TO REACH A RECOMMENDATION AND SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE APPLICATIONS REQUIRED TO SUBMIT UPON SUBMITTING THE APPLICATION AND DETAIL PROJECT DESCRIPTION BUDGETS THE PROJECTED IMPACT ON TOURISM, THEIR MARKETING AND OUTREACH IF THEY'VE BEEN A PAST APPLICANT NOT AND THEN PROOF OF NONPROFIT STATUS SO THERE'S A SUBMISSION TIMELINE GENERALLY THE OPEN IN AUGUST AND WITH DEADLINES IN AND THEN THE REVIEW PERIOD THIS YEAR WILL RUN INTO DECEMBER BUT THERE'S A RECOMMENDATION FROM COMMITTEE IS TO CONCLUDE THAT IN OCTOBER ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE YEARS WHERE THERE'S A SELECTION OF COUNCIL MEMBERS SO THAT WE DON'T LOSE SORT OF CONTINUITY AND HAVE DIFFERENT COUNCIL MEMBERS REVIEW FINAL AWARDS SO MOVING WITH ADOPTION THIS POLICY WOULD APPLY IN 26 AND GOING FORWARD. SO TO REACH THAT DECISION AND TO COME TO COUNCIL IN NOVEMBER FOR ACTION. OKAY I ASK IF WE'RE GOING ALONG WHAT WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO HERE? I'D LIKE FOR THEM TO GO THROUGH THIS AND THEN ASK AT THE END IF

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WE COULD REVIEW THE SPECIFIC CALENDAR LISTED HERE BUT AUGUST 4TH THROUGH SEPTEMBER 5TH AND THEN FINAL AWARDS BY COUNCIL DECEMBER 9TH. SO WHAT HAPPENS UPON SUBMISSION OF COMPLETED APPLICATIONS OR APPLICATIONS TOWN STAFF STARTS THE PROCESS BY REVIEWING TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S THOROUGH MEETS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ELIGIBILITY, COMPLIES THE SECTIONS OF CODE THAT I MENTIONED BEFORE IT LOOKS TO SEE IF THERE'S IF THIS APPLICANT IS DUPLICATING TOWN SERVICES OR EXISTING EFFORTS IS SOMEONE ALREADY DOING THIS IN THE COMMUNITY IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE TOWN'S STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN? SEE HOW WE PUT IT RIGHT AFTER YOUR ADOPTION. SO SO GREAT.

SO WE'RE ACCOMMODATIONS TAX ADVISORY COMMITTEE YOU'RE APPOINTED COMMITTEE THEY INTERVIEW THE APPLICANTS AND STAKEHOLDERS BUT THE COMMITTEE IS MADE UP OF FOLKS FROM HOSPITALITY, LODGING AND TOURISM SECTION SECTORS. THEY REVIEW THE APPLICATIONS AND THEY ASK QUESTIONS OF APPLICANTS TO BE ABLE TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION THAT MOVES ON TO OUR TOWN COUNCIL FINANCE ADMINISTRATIVE BUT THEY RANK THESE AND RANK THEM AND THEN MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS. THE NEXT STEP GOES TO THE FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE FOR AND SO THAT COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL REVIEWS THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM TAX THEY LOOK AT A BUDGET ALIGNMENT WITH THE TOWN BUDGET POLICIES AND GOALS AND THEN THE COMMITTEE CAN MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THAT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS AND ADJUST THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS AS THEY COME FORWARD TO TOWN COUNCIL AND IT'S A HISTORICALLY WE HAVE HAD THE APPLICANT REQUEST THE ATTACK COMMITTEE RECOMMEND AND WE WILL HAVE THE FINANCE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION AND THEN TOWN COUNCIL WHICH WOULD MAKE THE FINAL DECISION AND THEN WE'LL TRACK SO WE TRACK THAT WHOLE WHOLE PROCESS AND THEN IT MOVES FORWARD TO TOWN COUNCIL FOR REVIEW FINAL DECISION AND SO WITH THAT WE FORWARD INFORMATION TO THE TOWN COUNCIL TOWN COUNCIL HOLDS MEETING TO DELIBERATE AND TO TAKE ACTION AND THEN THEN THERE'S A FINAL GRANT AWARDS APPROVED BY A MAJORITY VOTE AND AND THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ON THE PROCESS THAT WOULD USE WHEN THERE'S WHEN THERE'S CONSENSUS AND THERE'S NOT CONSENSUS. SO EVALUATION CRITERIA ARE USED FUNDING DECISIONS AGAIN THEY'RE LISTED HERE. THEY'RE ALL RELATED TO THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE MEETING THE STATE REQUIREMENTS AND AND ARE CONSISTENT IN OUR AWARD AND SO THEN POST AWARD REQUIREMENTS WHAT HAPPENS COUNCIL MAKES THEIR FINAL TAKES THEIR FINAL ACTION TOWN STAFF DISTRIBUTES AWARD LETTERS TO APPLICANTS RECEIVING AWARDS THEY INITIATE GRANT AGREEMENTS THEN PROCESSES DISBURSEMENT REQUESTS BASED ON RECEIPTS SUBMITTED AND THEN VERIFIED THEY'RE MEETING THE THE GRANT AGREEMENT PROVISIONS AND ARE ELIGIBLE FOR REIMBURSEMENT AND THEN GRANTEES THEY ENTER THAT FORMAL AGREEMENT THAT WE SEND OUT WITH THE TOWN THEY SUBMIT REGULAR PROGRESS AND THEN A FINAL OUTCOME REPORT THEY MAY NOT DOCUMENTATION AND THEY SUBMIT DOCUMENTATION TO REQUEST REIMBURSEMENT SO AGAIN VERIFIED BY STAFF AND THEN PROCESS AND THEN THEY ALSO MUST RETURN UNUSED OR ARE ONLY MISUSED FUNDS SO A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ON THE TOWN COUNCIL VOTING AND APPROVAL PROCESS BUT I'LL RUN THROUGH THIS SO ONCE IT REACHES COUNCIL THE RECOMMENDATIONS APPEAR ON THE AGENDA INCLUDE AWARD LISTS, THE COMMITTEE SUMMARIES AND THE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION EACH OF THE APPLICATIONS AND THE RECOMMENDATION THAT CAME THE TO REVIEW BODY OR FROM THE REVIEW BODIES TOWN COUNCIL A TAX CHAIR PRESENTS THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ALONG WITH THE FINANCE DIRECTOR . TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN ASK QUESTIONS OF CHAIR OR APPLICANTS IF THEY'RE THERE AND THEN DISCUSSION ABOUT PRIORITIES, POTENTIAL FUNDING OR REQUEST ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

SO AS YOU GO THROUGH AND REVIEW I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY WE HAVE ON THAT SAY 25 DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS. IF YOU AGREE ON 20 YOU COULD MOVE FORWARD THOSE COLLECTIVELY AND THEN FOCUS ON THE ONES WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE ANY OR YOU DON'T HAVE ALIGNMENT FINALIZED SO YOU CAN APPROVE THE SUBMITTED LET'S SAY ONE OUT OF 100 YOU LIKE EVERYTHING I SUBMITTED OR APPROVE THE WHOLE THING AS SUBMITTED AS I MENTIONED BEFORE YOU CAN DO A PARTIAL APPROVAL OF THOSE WHERE THERE IS CONSENSUS AND THEN GO FORWARD AND THEN DELIBERATE THOSE WHERE THERE'S NOT AND TAKE ACTION ON EACH ONE INDIVIDUALLY IF YOU CHOOSE AND THEN REJECTION OR DEFERRAL AND THIS WAS A POINT OF CLARIFICATION AT THE COMMITTEE YOU KNOW, TOWN COUNCIL MAY REJECT OR THEY MAY REQUEST ADDITIONAL AND FOR A

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REVISED RECOMMENDATION FROM THE THAT COMMITTEE RELATED TO THAT APPLICATION SO THEY COULD YOU COULD ASK THE COMMITTEE TO GO BACK TO THE APPLICANT AND SEE IF THEY WOULD CONSIDER A REVISED APPLICANT A REVISED REQUEST AND THEN YOU MAY ALSO OBVIOUSLY DEFER TO A LATER MEETING IF YOU DON'T HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR LET'S SAY A FEW OF THE OF THE APPLICATIONS THAT YOU'RE CONSIDERING AND THEN PROCEDURE FOR VOTE ROLL CALL ABOUT THE TOWN CLERK MAJORITY VOTE REQUIRED FOR PASSAGE SO FOUR OR MORE AND THEN THE RESULTS WILL BE RECORDED IN THE OFFICIAL MINUTES AND I WANT TO REQUEST THAT WAS MADE AT THE COMMITTEE WAS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THAT THAT MATRIX THAT SHOWS REQUEST RECOMMENDATION 88 RECOMMENDATION BY A COMMITTEE AND THEN THE RECOMMENDED FINAL AWARD RECOMMENDATION BY TOWN COUNCIL SO THAT THAT'S CLEAR IN THE MINUTES IT MOVED UP THROUGH THAT PROCESS AND WHERE THE FINAL AWARD ENDED UP SECTION SEVEN TALKS ABOUT THE TEMPORARY PROVISION THAT IS IN PLACE UNTIL OF 2030 UNLESS THE STATE LEGISLATURE DECIDES TO EXTEND IT BUT ALLOWS THE USE OF STATE ACCOMMODATIONS TAX TOWARD WORKFORCE HOUSING AND IT ALLOWS UP TO 15% AND AS I MENTIONED BEFORE IN ORDER TO IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO USE IT, YOU NEED TO HAVE THE HOUSING IMPACT ANALYSIS DONE WHICH WE HAVE DONE AND ADOPTED BACK IN APRIL OF 2024 EXPIRES IN 2030.

WE HAVE TO EXECUTE ALL COMMITMENTS WITH THE FUNDING IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FOR HOUSING BY THAT TIME FRAME AND THEN LIKE ALL THE OTHERS YOU HAVE TO TRACK EXPENDITURES AND ,ENSURE COMPLIANCE. MOVING ON TO SECTION NINE WHEN WE GET INTO THE PROJECTED REVENUES AND DISTRIBUTION POLICY, I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME DEEPER DISCUSSION IN THE SECTION MAYOR IF WE WANT TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS ON SECTION ONE THROUGH EIGHT, I'D BE HAPPY TO DO THAT AND THEN WE CAN FOCUS OUR EFFORTS GOING FORWARD THE NEXT SECTION 1 TO 8.

SO JUST SOME SOME LANGUAGE BACK ON PAGE THREE APPLICATION REQUIREMENT I REALLY FEEL STRONGLY THAT THE APPLICANTS SHALL SUBMIT MUST SUBMIT WE SHOULD BE NO NO DIFFERENT FROM ALL AND AND SO I THINK MESSAGE SHOULD BE CHANGED TO SHALL AND THEN UNDER THEIR BUDGET AND SPECIFIC FUNDING REQUEST I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT BUDGET IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE FUNDING REQUEST NOT THEIR OVERALL ORGANIZATION BUDGET AT SPECIFIC BUDGET FOR HOW THEY'RE GOING TO USE THE FUNDS REQUESTING. YEAH.

SO THE THE THE APPLICANTS THE ORGANIZATIONS THEY WILL SUBMIT THEIR THEIR COMPLETE BUDGET TO INCLUDE THE AMOUNT THEY'RE REQUESTING AND AND ACCOMMODATIONS TAX GRANT AWARD SO THEY MAY HAVE A $1,000,000 BUDGET AND ASK FOR $50,000 OF STATE AID TAX ACCOMMODATIONS THROUGH THE TOWN COUNCIL THE TOWN PROCESS WITH TOWN COUNCIL APPROVAL DO WE SEE HOW THOSE 50 THAT IN YOUR EXAMPLE THAT 50,000 IS APPLIED WITHIN THEIR BUDGET OR IS IT JUST YEAH AS OF THIS SO THE BUDGET AND THE SECOND PART OF THAT AND SPECIFIC FUNDING REQUESTS THEY HAVE TO SHOW HOW THEY'RE USING THE STATE ACCOMMODATIONS TAX MONEY THE GRANT AWARD TO GENERATE INCREASE OR IMPROVED DELIVERY OF TOURISM AND TO HELP GENERATE ADDITIONAL TAX FUNDS SO THEY HAVE TO SAY EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE USING THE GRANT MONEY.

YES. OKAY. I JUST WANTED TO GET THAT MONEY LOST WITHIN THE THEIR BIGGER BUDGET SO THOSE WOULD BE AND ALSO UNDER SECTION B APPLICANTS TYPICALLY OPEN APPLICATIONS TYPICALLY OPEN IN AUGUST DEADLINES IN EARLY SEPTEMBER AS THERE ARE MULTIPLE DEADLINES OR ONE DEADLINE JUST A TYPO WITH THE S OR I MEAN WE CAN DO A WORK FOR US BUT IT'S ON I THINK YOU CAN ADD SOME CLARITY TO BY JUST LOOKING AT THE THIS YEAR'S SCHEDULE BELOW RIGHT AUGUST AND I SEE I SEE IT IN THERE BUT I JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S NO ONE WHO COMES BACK AND SAYS WELL I THOUGHT THAT MY DEADLINE WAS DIFFERENT THAN SOMEBODY ELSE'S ON PAGE FOUR AND ACCOMMODATIONS TAX ADVISORY COMMITTEE DO WE GET A OVERALL

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SO REVIEWS APPLICATIONS AND MAY REQUEST PRESENTATIONS I'M JUST CONFUSED WHY THERE'S AN OPTION I TO MAKE A PRESENTATION. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT EVERYONE WHO'S INTERESTED IN TAKING GRANT MONEY UNDER THE THEY SHOULD BE HERE AND MAKING A PRESENTATION AND NOT OPTIONAL MAKES SENSE FOR THEM TO DO IT OBVIOUSLY BUT I THINK THE STRONGLY THAT EVERYONE WHO'S INTERESTED IN TAKING OR MANAGING PUT IN THE TO SHOW UP AND SAY WHY AND ANSWER QUESTIONS SO THAT'S ANOTHER AND SO UNDER THE EVALUATION CRITERIA I ASSUME AND I SAW IN OTHER DOCUMENTS AS THE RUBRIC THAT'S USED TO SCORE AND SO WHAT HAPPENS UNDER POST AWARD REQUIREMENTS WHEN YOU A REGULAR PROGRESS AND FIND FINAL OUTCOME REPORT WHAT IF SOMEWHERE ALONG THAT LINE THE TARGETS IN THEIR APPLICATION AREN'T BEING MET ARE WE DOING IS THERE ANYTHING ANYONE HELD ACCOUNTABLE ACCOUNTABLE IS THERE ANOTHER DISCUSSION OR DO WE JUST WAIT TILL THE END TO FIND OUT THE TARGETS WEREN'T MET AND THE PROGRAM WAS UNSUCCESSFUL FULL SO I MEAN WE DON'T WE DON'T MONITOR AND TRACK THAT EACH EACH INDIVIDUALS AND WHAT WE DO IS WHEN THEY SUBMIT REQUESTS FOR REIMBURSEMENT THEY HAVE TO MATCH WHAT THE GRANT THE AGREEMENT WAS UPON THE AWARD THAT COMES WITH THE AWARD OF THE MONEY AND SO AS LONG AS THEY'RE USING THE FUNDS FOR WHAT THEY THE ORGANIZATION SAID THEY WERE GOING TO USE THE FUNDS FOR WILL ENSURE COMPLIANCE THEY'RE JUST QUESTIONING NOT TOUCH CONTROLS I'M SURE THAT MATTERS ANXIOUS AND WANTS TIME AND WE ALL ARE BUT ON PAGE FOUR IT SAYS GRANTEES MUST SUBMIT PROGRESS AND FINAL OUTCOME REPORTS. SO WHEN THOSE REGULAR PROGRESS REPORTS THAT'S WHERE MY MY QUESTION IS AT THE REGULAR PROGRESS REPORT DOESN'T DEMONSTRATE THAT GOALS ARE BEING MET ETC. YEAH I THINK IT'S JUST PROGRESS TOWARD UTILIZATION OF THE GRANT BASED ON WHAT THEY APPLY THAT THEY'RE SPENDING MONEY NOT NECESSARILY THAT THEY'RE ACHIEVING ANYTHING . SO I JUST TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT I THINK WE HAVE IN THIS DOCUMENT PAGE FIVE THE DELIBERATION PROCEDURE WAS AGAIN TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS MAY ASK QUESTIONS OF STAFF. THEY HAD CHAIR OR APPLICANT IS PRESENT I WOULD IMAGINE IT WOULD BEHOOVE ALL OF THEM TO SHOW UP AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE DOING THEIR BEST TO CONVINCE US THAT THEY AND THEY SHOULD RECEIVE THOSE DOLLARS.

TOWN COUNCIL MAY REJECT AND REQUEST DOWN ON NUMBER THREE A REVISED RECOMMENDATION FROM 810 I'M A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED I MEAN IS THAT ON SPECIFIC ITEM OR THAT'S THE ENTIRETY OF THE RESULTS? YEAH, THAT'S JUST AN ITEM. SO IF IF THERE'S AN APPLICATION OR A RECOMMENDATION FOR AN AWARD TO AN APPLICANT AND TOWN COUNCIL WOULD LIKE WHETHER IT'S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR CLARITY THEY CAN ASK THE AZTEC CHAIR TO WORK WITH THE APPLICANT TO BRING TO THEY CAN BRING BACK REVISED AND REVISED INFORMATION TO COUNCIL AND HAVE A GOOD REASON TO SHOW UP RIGHT SO THAT WE CAN ASK THOSE QUESTIONS IN PERSON RATHER THAN HOLDING UP THE WHOLE AND THEN WAS NUMBER EIGHT INCLUDED IN AND OUR CONVERSATION HERE IS THAT FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS 12813 OKAY AND THEN SO BEFORE I GO TO NUMBER EIGHT SO AS THAT IS THE BIGGEST HOT BUTTON WAS THIS SUBMITTED TO THROUGH THE INTENT COMMITTEE FOR THEIR REVIEW AND APPROVAL SO THAT'S GREAT QUESTION AND IT CAME UP DURING OUR FINANCE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OUR APPROACH BASED ON COUNCIL ASKING THE MANAGER AND STAFF TO BRING FORWARD POLICY REQUEST CAME FROM JANUARY 2025. WE WANT TOWN COUNCIL'S DIRECTION. SO LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT THE STATE RIGHT? WE DON'T HAVE FLEXIBILITY OVER THAT UNLESS WE WANT BE IN TROUBLE WITH THAT TERK THAT COMMITTEE SO AS TO BRING FORWARD REQUIREMENTS OF THE STATE LAW THAT WERE OUR PROCESS AS HAVE KNOWN IT AND AND CAN APPROVE IT AND PUT IT IN ONE PLACE SO WE WANT TO GET TOWN COUNCIL'S DIRECTION AND POSITION AND THEN WE DO HAVE A MEETING SCHEDULED COMING UP

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LATER THIS MONTH WITH THE FULL COMMITTEE TO GO THROUGH THIS POLICY.

I DID MEET WITH SOME FOLKS IN FINANCE ALONG WITH JOHN WHO IS THE VICE CHAIR AND AND RIGHT NOW WITHOUT OR WITHOUT A CHAIRMAN OF THAT COMMITTEE, WE WENT THROUGH THIS POLICY WITH HIM YESTERDAY. HE THINKS IT IS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, DOES PROVIDE CLARITY AND THEN EVEN THAT FUND DISTRIBUTION WHICH I DON'T WANT OPEN THAT DOOR YEAH BUT PROVIDING SO THAT EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS AND EXPECTATION OF PERCENTAGE THAT IS AWARDED TO FOR THESE GRANTS WOULD BE OF BENEFIT BECAUSE THAT'S A QUESTION THAT HAS COME UP HISTORICALLY AT THE COMMITTEE HOW MUCH MONEY DO WE HAVE HOW MUCH MONEY DO WE HAVE AND SO WITH A PERCENTAGE AND A BUDGET PROJECTION WE KNOW THE TARGET SO SO YES WE HAVEN'T TALKED WITH THE FULL COMMITTEE PLAN TO BUT I'VE TALKED TO THE SEE THE VICE CHAIR ACTING AS THE LEADER OF THAT GROUP YESTERDAY I'M FAIRLY CERTAIN AND CURTIS CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG I'M FAIRLY CERTAIN WITHIN THE STATE STATUTE THAT THE ACCOMMODATION COMMITTEE HAS TO RECEIVE IT AND REVIEW IT AND APPROVE IT ALONG WITH US THAT. WE MAY BE INFORMING THEM AFTER THE FACT BUT I'M NOT SURE THAT COMPLIES WITH THE RULES BUT I'LL LET CURTIS LOOK AT THAT AND GIVE US A LEGAL OPINION ON IT AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT, RIGHT? THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT THEY INVOLVED ALONGSIDE OF US AS WE'RE MAKING THESE TYPES OF CHANGES. SO NUMBER EIGHT IS THE PIECE WHERE WE HAVE THAT 57 AND IT'S THAT'S COMING NEXT THAT'S NINE SO IT'S THE NINE. SO YEAH SO NUMBER EIGHT IS REALLY JUST LAYING OUT THE OPERATING UNITY FOR COMMUNITIES TO TAKE IT TO UTILIZE STATE TAX FUNDS OR WORKFORCE HOUSING. IT'S JUST SAYING THIS IS WHAT CREATED THAT OPPORTUNITY WE HAVEN'T GOT INTO DISTRIBUTION. YEAH THAT'S I THINK SECTION NINE, SECTION EIGHT AND IT'S SO EVEN THOUGH ACT 57 GIVES MUNICIPALITY THE OPTION OF USING UP TO 15% OF THE ACCOMMODATION TAX FOR HOUSING, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS AND WHILE I'M SURE THAT WE HAVE ADDRESSED ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS THOUGH I'M NOT SURE THAT OUR ANALYSIS AND HOUSING ANALYSIS IMPACT ANALYSIS ACTUALLY IS UP TO DATE AND PROVIDES THE TYPE OF INFORMATION I BELIEVE WHEN IT WAS PRESENTED TO I MADE THE SAME COMMENTS AND I VOTED NO WITH ACCEPTING DOCUMENT BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE THAT'S WHAT IT IS INTENDED TO DO.

SO HAVING SAID THAT AND IF I SHOULD DO THIS NOW OR IF ONE WHY DON'T WE IN THE INTEREST OF TIME WHY DON'T WE MOVE ON TO WHAT IS NUMBER NINE? WELL LET'S LET'S GO FIRST OF ALL SEE IF ANY OTHER COUNCILMEMBER WELL I'M JUST FOR MY PERSPECTIVE OKAY I'M NOT TALKING FOR ANYONE ELSE AND SO SO ONE THROUGH EIGHT ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? CONCERNS JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK NOTES. MAKE SURE THAT I DIDN'T MISS SOME AS YOU WENT THROUGH TO APOLOGIZE. I WAS TRYING TO FOLLOW YOU ALL THE WAY ROMAN NUMERAL THREE I'VE GOT AN OLDER OF THIS PAGE THREE ONE ABOUT THE TIMING YOU PULL YOUR MICROPHONE IN A LITTLE BIT CLOSER SURE I'M SORRY AND IF I MIGHT DO THIS I WAS WATCHING A MEETING THE OTHER DAY AND NOTICE THAT IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO HEAR PEOPLE SO BE CERTAIN THAT YOU SPEAK INTO YOUR MICROPHONE PLEASE OR I'LL TRY AGAIN.

THANK SO ROMAN NUMERAL THREE I THINK IT'S PAGE THREE IT HAS TO DO WITH SUBMISSION TIMELINE.

YES. THERE WE GO. SO THAT'S ONE THAT I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT AND AND WE'VE GOT THE SCHEDULE FOR THIS YEAR WHICH IS IT'S CONFUSING BECAUSE IT'S RFI 26 WHICH IS 2526 BUT ANYHOW TOWN COUNCIL APPROVAL OCCURS NOVEMBER BEFORE THE START OF THE NEW FISCAL YEAR. SO I THINK THAT CORRECTS WHAT I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT DUE TO ELECTION. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD DATE IN THERE AND THEN IF YOU'LL GO TO THE NEXT PAGE WHICH IS ROMAN NUMERAL FOR B THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS IT SAYS INCLUDE STAKEHOLDERS FROM HOSPITALITY, LODGING AND TOURISM SECTORS AND I HAD

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WRITTEN NOTE I THINK I MENTIONED THIS AT THE FINANCE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING AT A LATER CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS. SO I WE NEED TO CHANGE THAT LANGUAGE EXACTLY THE WAY IT READS IN OUR CODE ABOUT MEMBERSHIP AND I THINK IT SAYS HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY INCLUDING AT LEAST TWO FROM LODGING AND ONE FROM CULTURAL ORGANIZATION SO IF WE COULD JUST CORRECT THAT SO IT REFLECTS ACCURATELY WHAT WE'RE REQUIRING AND THAT'S NOT FROM OUR CODE THAT'S FROM THE STATE STATUTES. YEAH.

JUST QUICKLY LOOK AT OUR CODE ASSUMING IT WAS FROM THE STATE STATUTE WHATEVER THE STATE STATUTE SAYS WHAT I'M SAYING WE OUGHT TO INCLUDE THERE INSTEAD OF SOME GENERAL LANGUAGE WHICH IS NOT REFLECTIVE OF THE MEANING. THAT'S IT MAYOR AND ANOTHER ITEM THE RESOLUTION THAT WILL ASK YOU TO ADOPT THE ATTACHMENT TO THE RESOLUTION AND I'LL POINT THIS OUT THE ITEM SAYS INCLUDE STAKEHOLDERS HOSPITALITY, LODGING AND CULTURAL SECTORS. OKAY OR YOU A QUESTION ARE WE ARE WE GOING TO GO THROUGH THE GRANT APPLICATION AND THE OTHER DOCUMENTS THAT WERE PROVIDED TO US? WERE THERE CHANGES THERE THAT WE SHOULD I'M SURE WE'RE GOING THROUGH HERE BEFORE WE LEARN ANY CHANGES MADE TO THE APPLICATION ITSELF? NO, SIR.

JUST JUST IN LINE WITH WHAT WE OUTLINED HERE. I WOULDN'T, I WOULDN'T GO THROUGH THE FULL TIME COUNCIL ANSWER THE FULL TIMELINE, THE APPLICATION OR EVEN THE THE THE THE RUBRIC WHICH IS A GUIDE JUST TO HELP WITH MAKING AT THE COMMITTEE LEVEL.

I THINK I THINK WE WANT TO COVER THIS AND AND REALLY TALK ABOUT THAT FUND DISTRIBUTION CONSIDERATION. THE COUNCIL SHOULD ADOPT THIS POLICY AND OTHER COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL. ALL RIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON. I ALL RIGHT.

SECTION NINE SO WE'VE INCLUDED THIS STAFF REPORT AND THEN WITHIN THE POLICY DOCUMENT THE PROJECTED AND DISTRIBUTION POLICY FOR CONSIDERATION. AND SO WE PUT IN FISCAL YEAR 26 REVENUES SO YOU YOU COULD UNDERSTAND THE THE ACTUAL NET DOLLAR IMPACTS OF EACH OF THESE CONSIDERATIONS THE PROJECTED REVENUES FROM CROWN ESTATE TAX IN FISCAL 26 OR 12.35 FOR 5 TO $2 MILLION AND WE'VE A RECOMMENDED DISTRIBUTION POLICY FROM FINANCE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE AS FOLLOWS AS BACKGROUND INFORMATION TO HELP MAKE THAT DECISION WE PROVIDED THE HISTORICAL REVENUE TRENDS FROM FISCAL 19 THROUGH FISCAL 25 ALONG WITH THE PROJECTED 26 AND TO REACH A INITIAL POINT FOR DISCUSSION. AND SO LET ME POINT OUT THAT THE SOUTH COUNTY ACCOMMODATIONS TAX WILL GENERATE MORE THAN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THE COMMUNITY AND SO THERE IS REQUIRED DISTRIBUTION OF THOSE FUNDS PER STATE CODE AND THEY'RE LISTED HERE IN THIS SECOND COLUMN THE FIRST $25,000 HAVE TO GO TO OUR GENERAL FUND AND THEN 5% OF ADDITIONAL REVENUES GO INTO THE TOWN'S GENERAL FUND.

THEN THE NEXT 30% GO IN ARE AWARDED TO THE TOWN'S DESIGNATED MARKETING ORGANIZATION AND SO THERE IS 35% PLUS THE 25,000 ARE REQUIRED DISTRIBUTIONS THAT'S AWARDED OR TAKEN OFF FIRST AND PROPOSED DISTRIBUTIONS AND WHERE WE HAVE UTILIZED THESE FUNDS IN THE PAST INCLUDE THESE CATEGORIES HERE SO NOT THAT THE FOLKS ON THE TOP THREE BUT WE HAVE THE EIGHT TAX GRANT AWARDS . WE HAVE ADDITIONAL FUNDS TOWARD THE FUNDING TOWARD GENERAL FUND AND SUPPORT OF TOURISM OPERATING FUNDING TOWARD THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT. AND THEN HOW IS IT THE HOUSING PROGRAM FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING AS IT SUPPORTS TOURISM BASED ECONOMIES? SO WHAT WENT FORWARD TO THE TOWN COUNCIL COMMITTEE WAS A RECOMMENDATION THAT INCLUDED A TAX AT PERCENT AND SKIPPED TOWN. THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE COMMITTEE WAS TO MOVE 3% FROM THE CRB TO TAX SO WE TAKE A TAX WENT FROM 30 TO 33 SO YEP HAVE AN IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM WENT

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FROM 10 TO 7. SO THIS REPRESENTS THE COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION WHERE THERE WAS NOT CONSENSUS OF THREE COMMITTEE MEMBERS WAS AROUND AND OUR DISTRIBUTION RELATED TO HOUSING WORKFORCE HOUSING AND SO WE HAD A RECOMMENDATION OF ZERO WE HAD A RECOMMEND OF MAINTAINING THE 5% THAT WAS PRESENTED AND WE HAD A RECOMMENDATION THAT WAS OUR SUGGESTION RIGHT FROM EACH MEMBER ZERO FIVE AND 8% AND RATHER THAN SPEND A LOT OF TIME THE RECOMMENDATION WAS TO ADVANCE THIS DISTRIBUTION RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL TOWN COUNCIL AND HAVE TOWN COUNCIL MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ON WHETHER OR NOT.

HOUSING IS PART OF A TAX ON A TAX FUNDING DISTRIBUTION AND IF SO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ON THE PERCENT AWARD AND BASED ON THAT IT MAY IMPACT ONE OF THESE OTHER NUMBERS.

AND SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THE DISTRIBUTION POLICY. I'D LIKE TO HEAR COUNCIL'S MEMBERS INPUT ON ON REALLY THE HOUSING WHICH WOULD DRIVE LOW HOUSING PERCENTAGE WHICH WOULD DRIVE OTHER CONSIDERATIONS. OKAY. SO FIRST OF ALL IS THERE EMOTION ON THE TABLE BECAUSE WE NEED TO HAVE THE MOTION IN THE SECOND TO BEGIN THAT FOR DISCUSSION AND APPROVAL OF WHAT THE 5% 5% I THINK IT MUST BE SO WE'VE GOT A MOTION BY MR. ALFORD SECOND BY MR. BROWN WITH THE 5% ALLOCATION. SO ANYBODY SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS AGENDA ITEM? YES. LORIE WELLING HOF IS OUR FIRST ONE. YEAH. OKAY PLANE LOTS.

COME ON UP AND REMEMBER TO STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS PLEASE.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I'M BLAINE LOTZ AND I LIVE IN AHP. I'M URGING TO USE THE FULL 15% TAX ALLOWED ALLOTMENT FOR WORKFORCE OR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IF 5% OF ANY TAX AMOUNTS TO ABOUT 600,000 THEN MY SOMEWHAT SHAKY UNDERSTANDING OF MATH TELLS ME THAT 15% WOULD BE ABOUT 1.8 MILLION OF THE ESTIMATED TOTAL YIELDS THAT HEAD ISLAND MIGHT RECEIVE OF 12.3 MILLION. BUT REGARDLESS OF MY MATH INADEQUACIES 15% WOULD GO A LONG WAY IN PROVIDING NECESSARY INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIRED IN ANY AFFORDABLE HOUSING CONSTRUCTION. YOU'VE HEARD ME SPEAK BEFORE AS AN ADVOCATE FOR USING THE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BUSINESS MODEL FOR AFFORDABLE HOMEBUILDING.

AND BY THE WAY, I'M REPRESENTING MYSELF NOT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SOME LAND ALREADY OWNED HAS AND CAN BE PROVIDED BY THE TOWN CURRENTLY UNOCCUPIED OR DERELICT COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS COULD BE REHABBED AND RECONFIGURED INTO CONDOS HABITAT CAN OFFER BUILDING PLANS FOR SINGLE FAMILY OR TOWNHOUSE TYPE HOUSES ALONG SOME VOLUNTEER CONSTRUCTION WORKERS SUPPLEMENTED BY PROFESSIONAL ROOFERS, PLUMBERS, ELECTRICIANS EITHER ON A PRO BONO OR A REDUCED COST BASIS. IMAGINE WHAT COMMUNITY SPIRIT WOULD BE DEVELOPED THROUGH SUCH EFFORTS INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS PURCHASE OF THOSE AVAILABLE COMMERCIAL UNITS AND SUPPLEMENTS TO DEVELOPERS COULD COME FROM A DOLLARS WORKING WITH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR MANY YEARS AND NEGOTIATING WITH DEVELOPERS THROUGHOUT AND JASPER COUNTIES HAS TOLD ME UNFORTUNATELY THAT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET A LOT OF FREE OR PARTIAL SUPPORT FROM DEVELOPERS . MY THANKS AND CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE WHO DO HAVE THAT NECESSARY COMMUNITY SPIRIT. A PERSONAL COMMENT IN CLOSING AS A LONG TIME ACTIVE DUTY AIRMAN, MY WIFE I HAVE LIVED IN NUMEROUS DIFFERENT AREAS IN THE UNITED STATES AS OUR RETIREMENT HOME FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS HILTON HEAD ISLAND IS THE BEST COMMUNITY IN WHICH WE HAVE EVER LIVED. LET'S HELP MAKE IT THAT WAY FOR THOSE WHO SUPPORT US IN SO MANY WAYS BUT SO FAR ONLY HAVE THE DREAM OF HOME OWNERSHIP.

THANK YOU THANK YOU, MR. WATSON . PLEASE.

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ALL RIGHT. MICAH COOPER BAILEY. BAILEY RENE ROTH RANEY ROTH PORT ROYAL COUNCIL MAYOR MR. ORLANDO THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TODAY I'M HERE TODAY TO SPEAK ABOUT YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE TAX DOLLARS FOR HOUSING.

I'VE SPOKEN TO YOU BEFORE ABOUT SUPPORT FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US WHO LIVE ON HILTON HEAD TO HAVE PEOPLE LIVE AND WORK HERE SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THE KIND OF LIFE WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE. WE NEED NURSES, NURSES, AIDES, TEACHERS, TEACHERS AIDES, FIREFIGHTERS, SECURITY PEOPLE, HOTEL RESTAURANT STAFF ETC. IF PEOPLE ARE NOT PAID ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO LIVE HERE THEN THEY WON'T COME HERE TO WORK. THE ANSWER IS TO MAKE IT AFFORDABLE FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO LIVE HERE. THERE ARE PLENTY OF JOBS ELSEWHERE THAT THEY COULD TAKE . DEVELOPERS ARE NOT NONPROFITS THEY ARE BUSINESSES WHO WANT TO MAKE A PROFIT. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO DEVELOP HOUSING WITHOUT HELP. IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND HAVE ORGANIZATIONS LIKE CTSI AND HABITAT WHO ARE IN THE BUSINESS TO PROVIDE HOUSING.

I'M SPEAKING TODAY TO SUPPORT A TAX DOLLARS GOING TO HOUSING. IN FACT I WOULD SUPPORT BUDGETING FROM A TAX THE MAXIMUM THAT LAW ALLOWS. THAT IS NOT THE SUGGESTION YOU ARE PUTTING FORTH TODAY. SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING.

ANY TAX MONEY COMES FROM TOURISM AND TOURISTS ENJOY THE SAME BENEFITS THAT WE DO FROM LOCAL WORKERS WITHOUT WORKERS. BUSINESSES WILL CLOSE AND TOURISTS WILL COME.

KNOW MANY PEOPLE THINK THAT WOULD BE A PLUS BUT TOURISM IS OUR ECONOMY AND IT'S WHAT KEEPS US STRONG PLEASED TO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AS A COUNCIL TO SUPPORT WORKFORCE HOUSING.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. GERALD BURKE.

GERALD BURKE. JOHN SMARTLY FOR THIS. HELLO AGAIN.

I'LL BE VERY BRIEF. I'M NOT REALLY SURE THE COUNCIL BELIEVES THAT SETTING ARBITRARY BOUNDARIES MAKES SENSE. I KNOW THE COMMITTEE THINKS THAT THAT'S JOB.

I'M NOT SURE IF THIS IS TO CREATE SOME KIND OF SLUSH FUND IN THE FUTURE.

SINCE WORKFORCE HOUSING IS NOW PART OF STATE TAX WOULDN'T IT MAKE MORE SENSE TO JUST MODIFY THE COMMITTEE RUBRIC INCLUDING WORKFORCE HOUSING COMPONENT? THIS WOULD ALLOW POTENTIAL APPLICANTS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY FOR MORE TAX MONEY TAX MONEY. IT ALLOWS CURRENT TAX VETTING PROCESS TO FLOW NORMALLY WHICH TO YOUR FINAL APPROVAL. YOU GUYS DO THE FINAL APPROVAL NOW I'M IN OPPOSITION OF USING ANY TAX MONEY FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING AND I BELIEVE IN SETTING UP ARBITRARY PERCENTAGES WILL ALSO HARM ALL THE POTENTIAL FUTURE A TAX RECIPIENTS THE ARTS CENTER AND MANY OF THE OTHER NONPROFITS HERE THAT RELY ON THE TAX MONEY. EVENTUALLY YOU MAKE THE FINAL DECISION AND IT JUST SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE MAKING MORE WORK FOR EVERYONE HERE INVOLVED AND THINK YOU SHOULD JUST LET IT FALL AND LET THE RUBRIC HANDLE ITSELF. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, RICHARD. BUSY RECIPIENTS I COME BEFORE YOU YET AGAIN AS THE GAP BETWEEN WORKFORCE HOUSING SUPPLY AND DEMAND CONTINUES TO EVERY MONTH RESIDENTS WHO ALREADY CALL THIS ISLAND HOME STRUGGLE TO REMAIN HERE YET WITHOUT PUBLIC WORKFORCE SUPPORT. OUR ECONOMY'S FUTURE IS AT. THE FIRST STEP IN MY MIND IS PRETTY SIMPLE ALTHOUGH CURRENT RESIDENTS ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS TO CONTINUE HERE.

BUT ISLAND HOUSING THAT'S AFFORDABLE FOR TOURISM HEALTH CARE SERVICE SECTOR AND PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES CONTINUES TO VANISH. AS OTHER SPEAKERS HAVE SAID,

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LOCAL BUSINESS ARE INCREASINGLY AT RISK AND I CAN'T COUNT HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE URGED COUNCIL TO INVEST IN WORKFORCE HOUSING DURING THE YEARS I'VE BEEN DOING IT.

OUR 2022 WORKFORCE HOUSING FRAMEWORK LED THE LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR REAL PROGRESS.

LOCAL NONPROFITS INCLUDING CC DC AND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT THEY CAN EFFICIENTLY LEVERAGE TOWN ALLOCATED FUNDING TO DELIVER HOMES FOR WORKERS EARNING 30 TO 120% OF AREA MEDIAN. HILTON HEAD RESIDENTS STRONGLY ADVOCATED FOR USING A TAX FUNDS FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING. OUR COMMUNITY VOICE HAS BEEN HEARD AND THE LEGISLATURE.

IN 2023 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED ACT 57 ALLOWING 15% OF A TAX REVENUE TO BE USED FOR HOUSING. THE MODEL WORKS THE FUNDING MECHANISM HAS LEGISLA OF APPROVAL. THE PUBLIC DEMAND IS CLEAR. THE AND REVIEW PROCESS HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED. NOW THE DECISION COMES TO YOU. WILL YOU STAND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK HERE? IT'S YOUR TURN TO SHOW AND REPRESENT YOUR CONSTITUENTS.

VOTE TO ALLOCATE A TAX FUNDS FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING. THANK.

THANK YOU, MATT. MR. ROCCO ROCCO MARGARET JOHNSON.

GOOD AFTERNOON AND THANK FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT MY PERSONAL STORY IN SUPPORT THE PROPOSAL TO HAVE A TAX SUPPORT WORKFORCE HOUSING MY STORIES THAT WHEN I MOVED TO HILTON HEAD ISLAND MANY YEARS AGO AS A NEWLY SINGLE MOM WITH TWO ACTIVE YOUNG BOYS, I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO REMAIN HAD I NOT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MOVE IN TO STILL BE 12 APARTMENTS WHICH WAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT ALLOWED ME TO CONCENTRATE ON SEEKING EMPLOYMENT AND GROWING A CAREER WHICH I HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL AND ABLE DO AND I APPRECIATE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES WITHOUT HAVING THE DISTRACTION OF WHERE WILL I LIVE AND HOW WILL I SUPPORT MY FAMILY. I WAS ABLE TO BECOME ENGAGED IN THE COMMUNITY.

I'VE BEEN ABLE TO BE A MEMBER OF SEVERAL BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS INCLUDING BEING ON THE THIRD LEADERSHIP HILTON HEAD QUEST INCLUDING I JUST CAME OFF A THREE YEAR TERM WHILE THE ACCOMMODATION TAX COMMITTEE AND I SUBMIT THAT MY TRAJECTORY AND THE GROWTH OF MY CAREER STARTED WITH THE ABILITY TO BE HERE AT ALL AND IT STARTED WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING. SO MY STORY IS NOT AN EXCEPTION I BELIEVE IT'S AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE LOOK AT THE PEOPLE PERSPECTIVE. SO REGARDLESS THAT THE LAWS AND THE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT IF WE COULD FOCUS ON THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD INHABIT THE HOUSES.

IT'S NOT SO MUCH THE BRICKS AND MORTAR BUT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE THAT COULD BE IMPACTED BY THE PROVISION OF AFFORDABLE SO THAT THEY WE CAN THEN GROW OUR CAREERS AND ACTIVELY CONTRIBUTE TO HILTON HEAD. WE CAN ACTIVELY CONTRIBUTE BY BEING ENGAGED WITHOUT THE DISTRACTIONS OF WHERE CAN I LIVE WITHOUT THE DISTRACTIONS OF HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT A TWO HOUR COMMUTE POSSIBLY TO GET HERE AND THEN TO RETURN HOME TO BE ABLE TO ACTIVELY TO OUR COMMUNITY AND THEN ENGAGE SUCCESS WITH THE TOURISTS SO THAT WE CAN BE PERCEIVED AS A PEOPLE FRIENDLY PLACE. AND SO I GUESS IN SUMMARY SAYING PEOPLE MATTER.

SO PLEASE USE IN YOUR CONSIDERATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. STEVE BIRDWELL.

HELLO AGAIN. FOR THE RECORD, I'M STEVE BIRDWELL, THE PRESIDENT OF THE SEASIDE RESORT. WE'RE SUPPORTIVE OF THE PROPOSAL TO DO IS TAX DOLLARS FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING INCLUDING THE 5% AS PROPOSED. WE ALL KNOW THAT AFFORDABLE IS A MAJOR CONCERN ON OUR ISLAND AND IN OUR WORKFORCE. WE'RE SUPPORTIVE OF THE TOWN'S EFFORTS IN WORKFORCE HOUSING AND OF COURSE WE SUPPORT THIS 5% ALLOCATION.

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WE WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF HIGHER ALLOCATION WELL, BUT WE WOULDN'T WANT IT TO REDUCE THE AMOUNTS AVAILABLE TO TAX GRANTS GOING TO THE NONPROFIT AGENCIES.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU TO TRACY GARLAND. I'M SORRY I.

CAN'T. HI, I'M TRACY SQUARE AND I LIVE IN SHELTER COVE .

THIS IS MY EVER BOARD MEETING. I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT TO DO BUT I AM TEACHER AND I WORK WITH LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO COULD BENEFIT FROM WORKFORCE HOUSING. I ALSO HAVE A SECOND JOB AS MOST TEACHERS DO AND I WORK AT A HOTEL WHICH ALSO HAS A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM WORKFORCE HOUSING. SO THE PEOPLE WHO COULD BENEFIT I THINK THE LAST WHO SPOKE SO BEAUTIFULLY IS THE PEOPLE THE PEOPLE WHO I WORK WITH EVERY DAY WHO WOULD BE HERE AND BE AND DOING THE JOB THEY LOVE WITHOUT THE LONG COMMUTE WITH THE MORE INVOLVED WITH THEIR KIDS BEING HERE AS WELL INSTEAD OF HAVING TO GO SO FAR TO BE AT THEIR KID'S EVENTS JUST THE PEOPLE WHO I WORK WITH DAY AFTER DAY WHO REALLY ARE LIVING PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO DO SO MUCH TO LIVE HERE OR THEY HAVE TO TRAVEL SO MUCH AND THEY'RE MISSING SO MUCH OF THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE BECAUSE OF TRAVELING. IT WOULD JUST MEAN SO MUCH THE MORE YOU CAN GIVE TO PROGRAM WHEN PEOPLE ARE DELIGHTFUL. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU, COUNSEL.

THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU. MARY LATIMER CHANG BLUE BELT ALFANO GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS LOU BUFANO. I LIVE IN PORT.

YOU ALL HAVE A VERY TOUGH JOB AND I RECOGNIZE THAT AND I DO APPRECIATE THE DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT THAT YOU'VE MADE DO THE WORK TO HELP SUSTAIN OUR QUALITY OF LIFE HERE.

I SUPPORT THE USE OF AS MUCH OF THE TAX MONEY AND OTHER TOWN FUNDS IF AVAILABLE AS POSSIBLE FOR PURPOSE OF INCREASING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE WORKFORCE HOUSING.

OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS WE HAVE SEEN AN AMOUNT OF GROWTH ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS ISLAND ON THE MAINLAND. THAT'S A REALITY WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH AND IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE. WORKERS HAVE A DECENT INCENTIVIZATION TO COME ACROSS THAT BRIDGE AS A RESULT OF THAT THE AFFORDABILITY ON THIS ISLAND ALSO MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR THOSE FOLKS TO LIVE HERE. THERE'S NOT JUST ONE SOLUTION TO THIS. OF COURSE PAY MASS TRANSIT OPTIONS BUT WORKFORCE HOUSING IS ESSENTIAL AND ALL OF THOSE ARE REQUIRED TO GETTING EMPLOYMENT, GETTING WORKERS HERE TO SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES THAT WE HAVE AND IT REQUIRES ALL OF THE STAKEHOLDERS TO WORK TOGETHER TO FUND THE INITIATIVES THAT CREATE AN AFFORDABLE QUALITY HOUSING AND TO INCENTIVIZE FOLKS COME ACROSS THAT BRIDGE THE TOWN, THE STATE THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS, THE NON-PROFITS AND ALL TAX PAYERS BOTH THE RESIDENTS AS AS OUR VISITORS NEED TO WORK TOGETHER ,PROVIDE THE RESOURCES, THE LAND AND THE MATERIALS TO INCREASE THE AVAILABLE POOL LABOR POOL NEEDED TO ADEQUATE SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES OF OUR ISLAND AND SUSTAIN QUALITY OF LIFE. THE STATE HAS AUTHORIZED 15% OF A TAX FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING . PLEASE USE ALL OF IT.

I MEAN ANY IS GOOD 5% IS IS BETTER THAN NOTHING BUT OF YOU KNOW THAT THAT IS ANYTHING LESS THAN THE FULL AMOUNT AND EVEN THAT IS NOT NEARLY ENOUGH TO GET THE JOB.

IT'S TIME THAT WE ALL STEPPED UP AND AND WORKED DILIGENTLY FIX THIS PROBLEM.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. SALLY-ANN LEE HELLO I'M REASONABLY I TOOK A TRIP TO THE CARIBBEAN AND WITNESSED THE QUEST FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING CLASHING THE RISING TIDES OF TOURISM. I RUN A REGRESSION MODEL AND.

I CAN TELL YOU THAT OUR SQUARE IT HAS INDICATES A HIGH CORRELATION BETWEEN TOURISM AND THE DEMAND FOR WORKERS AND HOUSING IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO.

25,000 WORKERS SERVE THE NEEDS OF MORE THAN 3 MILLION ANNUAL TOURISTS.

THE GOVERNMENT CHAMPIONED MIXED INCOME COMMUNITIES BLENDING THE RICH AND THE POOR.

YET THE INITIATIVE CRUMBLED. AFFLUENT RESIDENTS MIGRATE WEALTHIER DISTRICTS LEAVING THE LESS FORTUNATE THE HOUSING SUBSIDIES SUBSIDIES FROM THE WELL-TO-DO ACROSS, THE SEA TO BERMUDA. WE FIND A DIFFERENT APPROACH WITH 6000 LOW WAGE WORKERS CATERING TO THE 650,000 TOURISTS. THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDES SUBSIDY

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FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS. A POLICY ALSO PROHIBITS THE NONRESIDENTS FROM PURCHASING HOMES BELOW $2.5 MILLION, PRESERVING LOCAL HOUSING STOCK. NEVERTHELESS, THE AVERAGE PRICE OF $1.2 MILLION CONTINUES TO OVERSHADOW INCOMES, DEMONSTRATING THAT EVEN ROBUST POLICIES CANNOT FULLY CONQUER MARKET FORCES. IN SOME PARTS, 200,000 HIGH END VISITORS COME TO ENJOYING THE EXCLUSIVE RESORTS AND RESTAURANTS SUPPORTED BY 3500 SERVICE WORKERS STRICT AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS LIMIT LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENTS PRESERVING ISLANDS AND LOW DENSITY CHARM. BUSINESSES BEAR THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HOUSING WORKFORCE IN DORMITORY STYLE ACCOMMODATION.

THE QUESTION REMAINS HOW LONG CAN THIS PARADISE RESIST THE ENCROACHMENT OF MASS? THIS ISLAND'S SHARE IS STORY. WHILE TOURISM ELEVATES ECONOMIES AND ERODES THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR RESIDENTS LEAVING AFFORDABLE HOUSING SCARCE FOR WORKERS HERE AT HOME WITH A POPULATION OF 30,000 A 33,000 MORE THAN 17,000 WORKERS ROUGHLY TWO RESIDENTS PER WORKER ARE NEEDED TO SERVE 3 MILLION TOURISTS. BUSINESS COMPLAINING ABOUT LABOR SHORTAGES AND THE LACK OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING. YET OVER THE LAST DECADES THE NUMBER OF RESIDENT RESTAURANTS HAVE SURGED FROM 182 OVER 300. THE REALITY IS THAT THE COUNCIL ELECTED NO MEANINGFUL POLICIES TO MANAGE THE GROWTH OF TOURISM AND TOURISM RELATED INDUSTRIES.

WITH THE TOWN'S BUDGET BORROWING FROM 79 MILLION TO 179 MILLION IN FIVE YEARS, THE ISLAND IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY RELIANT ON TOURIST DOLLARS TO STAY AFLOAT.

AS A RESULT, RESIDENTS ARE BECOMING HOSTAGES TO THE INSATIABLE DEMAND FOR WORKERS AND HIGH DENSITY HOUSING STOP USING TAX MONEY TO SUSTAIN AND GROWTH.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. JOAN CAMPBELL HI.

MY NAME'S JOAN CAMPBELL. I LIVE IN SEA PINES. NOW THAT OUR LOCAL STATE REPRESENTATIVES HAVE WORKED TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO USE A TAX FUNDS TOWARDS WORKFORCE HOUSING LET'S MAKE GOOD USE OF THOSE FUNDS. THIS INCOME COMES FROM VISITORS TO OUR ISLAND WHO ENJOY A TASTE OF THE PLACE WE CALL HOME. THE WORKERS WHO MAKE THEIR STAY ENJOYABLE AND. THE ONES THAT SUPPORT US AS RESIDENTS NEED TO HAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING AVAILABLE. I HAVE SEEN THE CONDITIONS THAT SOME OF OUR WORKERS LIVE IN AND WE CAN AND SHOULD DO THAN THAT. LET'S HAVE A7A NO VOTE SUPPORT PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFFORDABLE WORKFORCE HOUSING MEANT POSSIBLE WITH TOURIST DOLLARS.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. KENNETH KENNETH CAMPBELL.

CARLTON DALLAS DALLAS. THANK YOU. AND IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE BEFORE THE MAYOR, THE COUNCIL, THE TOWN AND ALL THE WONDERFUL RESIDENTS THAT ARE HERE TODAY.

MY NAME IS CARLTON DALLAS. I WORK IN THE BUSINESS ARENA 34 YEARS AND GLOBAL PETROLEUM.

A LOT OF THE PLACES ONE LADY MENTIONED HAVE MS.. LEE HAVING BEEN THERE I MANAGE PETROLEUM ASSETS IN THOSE THOSE THREE LOCATIONS. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANTED TO IS THAT THIS PARTICULAR ISLAND IF YOU LOOK AT THE REAL ESTATE VALUES GOING BACK BETWEEN SEVEN AND EIGHT YEARS, SOME COMMUNITIES HAVE ALMOST DOUBLED IN THE VALUATIONS.

I DID THIS RESEARCH. SO THAT MEANS THAT PEOPLE LIKE US WHO HAVE HOMES HERE HAVE BENEFITED EXPONENTIALLY ALMOST. WORKERS WE HAVE TO POSE THE QUESTION HAVE THEIR WAGES BEEN RAISED COMMENSURATE WITH THE INCREASE IN NET WORTH HERE? SO THAT MEANS YOU GET A SHORTAGE AND WHEN YOU GET A SHORTAGE WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING IS YOUR SERVICE LEVELS DECLINE.

NOW THIS IS NOT IN A VACUUM THAT THAT HAPPENS. IF YOU LOOK WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE IS DUE TO GROWTH SOME OF THIS RESHORING. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW ABOUT THE HYUNDAI PLANT, THIS SONG I 16 GOING TO ATLANTA IT IS GOING TO CREATE $7.6 BILLION IN ECONOMIC VALUE. IT'S GOING TO EMPLOY 8500 PEOPLE.

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IT IS BRINGING ONE SUPPLIERS FROM SOUTH KOREA TO HERE. THOSE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO NEED TO WORK. I ALSO AM FORTUNATE TO HAVE ACCESS TO A BUSINESS SEGMENT ON TV ONCE A MONTH IN THE MONTH OF MAY. I DO IS I RESEARCH AND SAY WHERE ARE THE ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE MONTH OF MAY FROM CHARLESTON TO SAVANNAH THE LOWCOUNTRY TO THE COASTAL EMPIRE. $600 MILLION IN INVESTMENTS ARRIVAL WERE ANNOUNCED FOR ONE MONTH. SO WE HAVE TO SEE ALL THIS GROWTH HAS TAKEN PLACE AROUND US. WE DO NOT WANT TO BE THE DONUT IN THE HOLE. THE HOLE IN THE DONUT MEANING THAT WE'RE HAVING CHALLENGES HAVING HIGHLY MOTIVATED PEOPLE COMING IN THAT CAN WORK IN OUR INDUSTRY IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AS OUR SAID. WE HAVE TO RECRUIT AND COMPETE NATIONALLY.

THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS RAISED ITS AVERAGE STARTING SALARY TO $60,000 A YEAR.

THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE STATE SOUTH CAROLINA IS 48 FIVE. IF YOU'VE SEEN GOVERNOR MACK, MASS HIS TV PRESENTATION A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO HE SAID HE STARTED THIS MEDIAN SALARY STARTING SALARY IN SOUTH CAROLINA $31,000 IS NOW 48 FIVE.

EVEN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD 60,000. WE STILL LOSE PEOPLE TO CHARLESTON BECAUSE YOUTHFUL AND THEY HAVE MORE ACTIVITIES THERE.

SO I APPRECIATE CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU, MARTIN LUSH LYNN BULLARD.

HELLO LYNN BULLARD FROM HILTON HEAD PLANTATION. I GUESS I'M GOING TO BE THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE HERE. ATTACKS WERE WORKFORCE HOUSING OCCUPANTS.

WE ARE IN UNCHARTED UNCHARTERED WATERS HERE. SO WHAT'S THE PLAN? WHAT DOES A TAX FOR HOUSING OCCUPANT SAY MEAN? WHO WILL BE COVERED AND WHAT PROFESSIONS AS TAX IS TOURISM RELATED WILL WE BE PLACING WORKERS IN CONVERTED MOTEL ROOMS OR BUYING CONDOS AND DEED THEM TO NONPROFITS FOR OWNERSHIP RENT OUT? OR ARE WE JUST BECOMING GOVERNMENT HOUSING DEPARTMENT? WHILE VETTING WILL BE DONE? WILL YOUR CREATED HOUSING CHIEF CO-OP OPERATE WITH SHERIFF TANNER AND HIS 287.

Q PUBLIC PROTECTION TOOL FOR CITIZENS. WE ARE LIVING IN VERY DIFFERENT TIMES NOW JUST APPROPRIATING FUNDS WITHOUT DEFINED REGULATIONS TO SPEND MONEY THAT COULD LEAD TO TAXPAYERS FINANCING ANY DEFICITS AS TOURISM HAS BEEN GOING DOWN WHO WILL LOSE A TAX FUNDING BECAUSE OF THIS 15% NO SPENDING SO WILL WE BE ENTERING INTO THE AGE OF GOVERNMENT FUNDING HIGH DENSITY HOUSING PROJECTS OR THIS ISLAND ONLY YOU CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION. THANK YOU LORD HICKS OR REX EXECUTIVE BEAUFORT JASPER HOUSING TRUST MR. MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. MR. ORLANDO THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SUPPORT 15% ALLOCATION OUT OF THE TAX FUNDS .

YOU LIFT UP YOUR MICROPHONE A LITTLE BIT. THANK YOU.

AFTER DOING THIS FOR 30 YEARS, I CAN TELL YOU THAT TODAY IT IS HARDER THAN EVER TO DEVELOP WORKFORCE HOUSING. THE COSTS ARE EXTRAVAGANT. IF YOU SAID 15% OF YOUR TAX ALLOCATION AND I TOOK OF IT IT WOULD AMOUNT TO ABOUT 10% OF THE AVERAGE COST OF A WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT NEW CONSTRUCTION IN THIS AREA ANYWHERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA ANYWHERE IN THE SOUTHEAST WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AN ISSUE HERE WHETHER IT IS CALLED ECONOMIC

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DEVELOPMENT, WHETHER IT'S CALLED HOUSING, WHETHER IT'S CALLED DOING THE RIGHT THING YOU ARE DOING YOU BE APPLAUDED FOR SOME OF THE UNIQUE THINGS THAT YOU ARE DOING ON THIS ISLAND WITH RESPECT TO WORKFORCE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH. IT'S NOT ENOUGH. I WOULD ADVOCATE AND ASK YOU TO STRONGLY CONSIDER THE FULL 15% ALLOCATION OUT OF YOUR EIGHT TAX FUNDS.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU DEE ANTHONY . OH, I GUESS THIS EVENING NO.

GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS DEE ANTHONY . EXCUSE ME.

I'M A RESIDENT OF JONESBORO ROAD WARD ONE AND THE MARSHALS DISTRICT.

KNOW THEVED IN GOVERNMENT HOUSING. GOVERNMENT HOUSING FUNDING.

WHY NOT GET DOWN TO THE ROOT CAUSE? SHORT RENTALS AND SHORT TERM RENTALS AND HOW UNBALANCED THEY HAVE BECOME. ACCORDING TO TOWN STATISTICS, THE MARSHALS DISTRICT AND THE MARSHALS DISTRICT 80% OF THE PEOPLE PARTICIPATE HATE IN THE LOCAL WORKFORCE. THE COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOODS MAKE UP THE DISTRICT INCLUDE MORE FULL TIME RESIDENTS LOWER MEDIAN AGE LONGER TENURE HIGHER WORKFORCE PARTICIPATION.

THE THE MARSHALS DISTRICT IS PRIMARILY ZONED RESIDENTIAL WITH MORE THAN TWO THIRDS OF THE LAND AREA DESIGNED TO BE ARMED FOR OR LOW TO MODERATE INTENSITY RESIDENTIAL OR RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT REAL PEOPLE A WORKFORCE THAT REPEATEDLY GETS OVERLOOKED LANDSCAPERS DOCTOR'S OWNERS SERVERS NURSES. POLICE OFFICERS FIREFIGHTERS SCHOOL CAFETERIA SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS SCHOOLTEACHERS ATTORNEYS CONTRACTORS PLUMBERS RESTAURANT OWNERS BOAT CAPTAINS REALTORS OUR WORK LOGISTICS. THESE PEOPLE ARE THEIR THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS THREATENED BY SHORT TERM RENTALS DUE ALL THE NEW HIGH DENSITY SUBDIVISIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED THINK ELEMENTS SINCE 2014 AS THE NEW SUBDIVISIONS HAVE BEEN BUILT DO THEY RESTRICT WHAT ARE THE RESTRICTIONS ON SHORT TERM RENTALS? DO THEY HAVE ANY? NO THEY DO NOT. THE TOWN SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT IT HAS AND THE RESIDENTIAL WORKFORCE I JUST LISTED WE'RE BEING IGNORED.

IT'S LIKE WE DON'T. WE NEED PROPER ZONING TO PROTECT CURRENT WORKFORCE.

IT'S INSULTING TO HEAR EVERYONE TALK ABOUT GOVERNMENT WORKFORCE HOUSING WHEN THE TOWN SIMPLY IGNORES ITS CURRENT WORKFORCE. THE TOWN COUNCIL AND MEMBERS WANT TO WORKFORCE THAT LIVES ON THE ISLAND. REALLY? STOP IGNORING US.

WE ARE AMONG YOU. OUR FAMILY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A VACATION DESTINATION. YOU WEREN'T. YOU'RE PUSHING THE RESIDENTS OUT. I FEEL LIKE WE'RE BEING PUSHED OUT AND PUT BACK INTO A TWO BEDROOM AND A 210 SQUARE FOOT LITTLE UNIT. WE ARE STRUGGLING TO SAVE NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING TO FIND HOUSES. WE ARE STRUGGLING TO KEEP OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, STEWART.

YOU'VE DONE SO. CURTIS BARNWELL JUST FOR THE RECORD MY NAME IS THOMAS CURTIS BARNWELL, THE THIRD IS TO ME IN TOWN COUNCIL MR. LANDO. THANK YOU ALL FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO TALK THIS EVENING. NO, I DIDN'T WRITE ANYTHING TO PREPARE ANYTHING I'M JUST GOING TO COME UP AND I'M TALKING FROM THE HEART.

15% IS WONDERFUL BUT WE NEED MORE THAN THAT. I'M ALL FOR IS HOUSING.

WE NEED THIS. AND YOU KNOW IT WAS FUNNY ME WHEN PEOPLE COME TO THE ISLAND BECAUSE MY FAMILY'S BEEN HERE FOR FIVE GENERATIONS MY GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER SAID YOU COULD GET ALL THE PROPERTY YOU WANT FOR TWO CHICKENS AND A COW.

THAT'S ALL YOU NEED TO CHICKEN TO THE COW GET ALL PROPERTY YOU WANT IT YOU COULD YOU BUILD YOU COULD GO WHEREVER YOU WANT COULD DO IT AFTER WHAT BUT PEOPLE COME NOW AND THEY COME AND SAY WELL YOU KNOW WE'VE BEEN HERE AND OH I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 30 YEARS AND I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 20 YEARS AND YOU KNOW, I JUST JUST LOVE IT BUT THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE ANYTHING CHANGE. BUT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO COME HERE, WHO WORK, WHO DON'T HAVE TO COME NOW BECAUSE THEY CAN GO TO BLUFFTON, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN STAY OUT HUNGRY, YOU KNOW, AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO COME HERE TO WORK BUT THEY WANT TO BE THEY COME HERE EVERY DAY.

WHEN I WAS A SMALL BOY WE COULDN'T GO PAST ONE CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH BECAUSE THE BOBCATS SO BAD BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING BACK THERE. OH LOOK WAS BACK IN EVERYBODY'S BACK. ANYBODY WANT TO GO BACK TO YOU KNOW YOU GO TO WEST AND ANYBODY WANT TO GO TO WEST? SO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WHAT I'M SAYING IS WE NEED THIS FOR FOLKS TO BE HERE. THEY WANT TO BE HERE. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED AND WE TALK CHANGE THE WANTS OF THE MANY SHOULD NOT OUTWEIGH THE ONES THAT ARE FEW NOW

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EVERYBODY COME HERE LIKE I SAY THEY DON'T WANT IT TO CHANGE BUT CHANGE WHEN YOU CAN SO GIVE SOMEBODY ELSE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME SO THEY CAN ENJOY SOME OF THIS AS WELL.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. LINDA HARRINGTON AND LINDA HARRINGTON INDIGO RUN, I WANT TO READ YOU SOMETHING THAT I READ ON FACEBOOK MORNING JUST THIS MORNING IT WAS POSTED 8 HOURS AGO AND IT REFERENCES LAST SAYS LAST WEEK WAS OUR FIRST AND POSSIBLY LAST TIME HERE WE FOUND IT TO BE TOO CROWDED AND INSANELY OVERPRICED. GRANTED THERE ARE A GOOD NUMBER OF RESTAURANTS TO CHOOSE FROM BUT THEY'RE TEEMING WITH PEOPLE UNFRIENDLY STAFF PRICING THROUGH THE ROOF.

WE USUALLY GO TO A BEACH IN NORTH CAROLINA AND THOUGH IT DOESN'T HAVE AS MANY DINING OPTIONS THE FOOD IS OVERALL LOWERING COST AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET A FRIENDLY SERVER THAT'S THE FIRST THING. THE SECOND THING IS I HAVE MESSAGES FROM REBECCA JEFFRIES WHO WANTS TO BE ADDED TO NO WORK OR HOUSING IN ANY WAY, ANY FUNDS SHOULD BE THROUGH PRIVATE ENTITIES. SHE'S ALSO OPPOSED TO THEY WANT TO DO ONE MORE LAND ROAD.

CHUCK SCHWARTZ FROM HILTON HEAD ISLAND JUST RECEIVED AN ASKING FOR ATTENDANCE AT THIS MEETING.

HE WON'T BE ABLE TO BE HERE BECAUSE HE'S NOT IN TOWN. HE CAN'T BUT HE WANTS TO SHARE A NOTE. HE'S AGAINST THE USE OF TAX FUNDS BEING USED TO SUPPORT WORK FOR HOUSING AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. HILTON HEAD ISLAND SHOULD NOT BE IN THE BUSINESS OF HOUSING PERIOD WE ARE NOT REALTORS WE DON'T BELONG BUILDING HOUSING AND WE ALREADY HAVE A PUBLIC PRIVATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NORTH POINT BUT EVERYBODY'S FORGETTING WE'RE ALREADY AS A FULL TIME RESIDENT DE DEFINITION SAID SHE'S NOT IN FAVOR OF USING ANY GOVERNMENT FUNDING FOR, ANY HOUSING OF ANY KIND.

KATHLEEN REDMAN A RED RAY RESOLUTION I OPPOSE THE RESOLUTION TO USE EIGHT TECH FUNDS FOR FOR WORKFORCE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND ENCOURAGE YOU TO VOTE AGAINST THIS. WHAT I'D LIKE TO KNOW IS WHO SUFFERS HOW MANY BUDGETS ARE CUT FOR NONPROFITS THAT ALWAYS GET A TAX WHO'S GOING TO MAKE THE DECISION TO SAY YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU DON'T QUALIFY THIS YEAR AND AS MS.. ANTHONY STATED THERE IS PLENTY WORKFORCE HOUSING ON THIS ISLAND. WE HAD A BIG SHORTAGE DURING THE PANDEMIC WE COULDN'T GET CHLORINE FOR OUR POOLS EITHER. SO THE PANDEMIC IS OVER.

PEOPLE ARE COMING IN DROVES AND PEOPLE ARE NOW COMPLAINING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS PLACE IS NOTHING BUT SHORT TERM RENTALS AND FAR TOO CROWDED. SO I LEAVE YOU WITH THAT.

THANK YOU. MIKE CHRISTIANSEN CHRISTIANSEN GOOD EVENING.

MIKE CHRISTIANSON IN PALMETTO BAY, MARINA VILLAS THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.

THIS IS MY FIRST TIME HERE. REASON WHY IS I'M SELF-EMPLOYED.

I'M A FULL TIME WORKER AND FOR ME TO BE HERE AT THIS MEETING GOING ON 3 HOURS MEANS THAT'S MONEY OUT OF MY POCKET. SO I COME TO YOU WITH A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE WITH A MINOR IN EDUCATION. THE REASON I BRING THAT UP BECAUSE I MOVED TO THIS ISLAND 19 YEARS AGO UPON MOVING HERE I WORKED IN A RETAIL STORE SO I HAD THE TIME TO AFFORD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET A FULL TIME AS A PRESCHOOL DIRECTOR WITH HUNDRED AND TEN KIDS WORKING WITH THE NUMBER OF UNDERPAID EMPLOYEES. I THEN WENT BACK TO SCHOOL, GOT MY DEGREE IN MASSAGE THERAPY. NOW I'M A SELF-EMPLOYED BUSINESS OWNER HERE.

AT THAT TIME THOUGH DUE TO THE NOT KNOWING IF I WAS GOING TO MAKE IT I WORKED AS A SERVER I BRING THAT UP BECAUSE I'VE WORKED WITH TEACHERS MY MOM IS A FULL YEAR ROUND EMPLOYEE AT THE HILTON. HER EDUCATION CENTER SHE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE DOWN HERE TODAY BUT SHE'S A WORK TAKING CARE OF THE NEEDS OF THE CHILDREN A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT RESONATED IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORKFORCE AFFORDABLE HOUSING AS RESIDENT HOUSING I AM A RESIDENT HERE I DO WORK HERE AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE IF NOT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE WORKED IN THE RESTAURANTS WITH ME THAT HAVE WORKED AT THE PRE-SCHOOLS TOWARD THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE FULL TIME AS CEOS AND AND PROJECT MANAGERS AND IN JOBS WHERE DO YOU WHERE DO YOU THINK YOUR KIDS GO AND THEN THEY GO THE EDUCATION IS SET HERE.

THOSE TEACHERS DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY FOR THEIR OVERPRICED HOUSING.

MY MOM'S RENT HAS GONE UP 37% IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS. SHE WORKS HER TAIL OFF TO DO

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WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE SO THAT SHE CAN WORK YEAR ROUND AS OPERATIONS MANAGER FOR THE SCHOOL SO FOR THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO BRING THEIR KIDS TO THIS ISLAND WE TALK ABOUT IT ANOTHER WOMAN SPOKE HERE EARLIER THAT THAT SAID NO TO THE HOUSING ACT I IMPLORE YOU TO SPEND THE FULL 15% IF WE'RE GOING TO SPEND 30% ADVERTISING FOR BRINGING PEOPLE IN ANOTHER 20% ON THE AMAZING OPPORTUNITIES AND AND IT WAS REALLY INFORMATIVE TO HEAR OF SOME OF THE CULTURAL THINGS AND THE COMMUNITIES WHAT THEY'VE DONE.

I'VE SEEN IT AND IT'S BEEN WONDERFUL TO SEE THE LAST FEW YEARS BUT THE REALITY IS A LOT US ARE WORKING FOR US PEOPLE. WE DON'T GET TO GO OUT THERE AND ENJOY AND SEE THAT MY COWORKERS THEY DRIVE 2 HOURS IN TRAFFIC. YOU TALK ABOUT SERVERS NOT BEING HAPPY AND FRIENDLY OR THE FLOATING CRUISE SHIP. WE HAD THIS GREAT SHOWS AND ENTERTAINMENT AND MEALS AND ALL THAT STUFF. YOU KNOW WHO IS DOING THE WORK? THE PEOPLE IN THE SLUMS THAT ARE BELOW YOU THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT BUT YOU WANT THEM TO SERVE YOU WITH A SMILE AND TO GIVE YOU YOUR FOOD AND THEN WONDER WHY THEY'RE NOT HAVING THE MONEY AND OPPORTUNITY TO. HAVE A NICE PLACE TO LIVE TO NOT WORRY ABOUT WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO MOVE NEXT SO I IMPLORE YOU SO 15% BECAUSE I CAME HERE 20 YEARS AGO WORKS AT A RETAIL SHOP AND WORKED MY OFF TO GET AN OPPORTUNITY AFFORD A HOUSE.

BUT PRICES ARE ALSO SIGNIFICANT LESS THAN AN FOUR BEDROOM HOUSE AND SEE SUPPLIES FOR A LIVING AND GOOD LUCK FINDING THAT YOU CAN MAYBE GET A GARAGE. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND I IMPLORE YOU TO 15% I DO HENRY BROWN AND RAY BROWN THAT'S ALL THAT'S THAT'S ALL.

OKAY SO WE'LL BRING IT BACK COUNCIL AND ANY DISCUSSION FROM MEMBERS PRESENT JUST AS A REMINDER WE'VE GOT A MOTION ON THE TABLE FROM MR. ALFORD SECOND AND MR. BROWN FOR THE 5% OR SO. FIRST OF ALL I HEAR A LOT FROM THE COMMUNITY AND I HOLD COMMUNITY AND I SEND OUT NEWSLETTERS AND WHEN WERE LOOKING AT THE STRATEGIC PLAN I ASKED FOLKS YOU KNOW WHAT ARE YOUR PRIORITIES WORKFORCE HOUSING WAS ONE OF THE TOP ONES AND SO I SUPPORT WORKFORCE HOUSING. I SUPPORT TOWN SUPPORTING WORKFORCE HOUSING. WE ALREADY DO IT. I MEAN SOMEONE MENTIONED NORTH POINT. YES, WE'RE INVOLVED IN NORTH POINT AND OTHER FOLKS SAY, YOU KNOW, I REALLY LIKE THE HABITAT MODEL. WELL GUESS WHAT? SO I'VE ACTUALLY WORKED ON A HABITAT HOUSE BEFORE AND. HOW WOULD WE PROVIDE MONEY FOR HABITAT IF WE DON'T USE SOME OF THE TAX FINES? HOW WOULD WE PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONVERTING BUILDINGS IF IF FOLKS IF THE DEVELOPERS ARE DOING THAT EXCITING INFRASTRUCTURE, WHERE WOULD WE GET THE MONEY FROM? WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE THE TAX MONEY TO DO THAT. I ALSO WANT TO MAKE THAT WE SUPPORT THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS WHO IN THE TOURISM AREA ALL THOSE AREAS THAT AREAS I MENTIONED BY STATUTE AND THAT I WANT TO PROTECT THOSE AS WELL THAT'S WHY DURING THE DISCUSSIONS OF FINANCE ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE WE LOOKED AT THE NUMBERS OVER THE YEARS COLLIN MENTIONED THAT FROM 2019 UP THROUGH 2024 WHAT OUR NUMBERS HAD BEEN AND THANKS TO MY COLLEAGUE MS.. TURNER WHO ACTUALLY DID THE MATHEMATICAL CALCULATIONS BECAUSE I WAS LOOKING AT I'M ASSUMING THE STAFF HAD DONE IT AND CAME UP WITH IF YOU LOOK AT ANY TAX GRANTS OVER THE YEARS 31%, 39%, 16% AND 10%, 36%, 33%, 30%.

AND SO THE RECOMMENDATION FROM STAFF WAS 30%. BUT MS..

TURNER DID THE CALCULATIONS THAT ACTUALLY IT'S 32.5% AND SHE ALSO TOOK OUT COVID YEARS THAT WE HAD AS I RECALL WAS TERRORISM NOT DOING YOUR MATH RIGHT TELL ME AND SO RECOMMENDED THAT WE GO TO 33% WHICH I SUPPORTED AND STILL SUPPORT AND THEN WE TOOK THAT FROM THE NUMBER WHICH STAFF HAD RECOMMENDED 10%. NOW IT'S 7% AS TO THE WORKFORCE HOUSING PORTION AND INTERESTING THAT I HEARD A COUPLE OF PEOPLE TODAY SAY I SUPPORT 15% BECAUSE ACTUALLY WHEN I FIRST LOOKED AT THIS I SAID WE CAN HAVE 15%. WHY NOT 15%? BUT I WAS GETTING SOME PUSHBACK FROM DISCUSSIONS OF MY COLLEAGUES HERE AND SO I LOOKED AT THE NUMBERS AND I'M GOING OKAY, HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN DOING THIS AND WHAT HAVE WE DONE OVER SEVERAL YEARS. WE'VE DONE SO THE LAST TWO YEARS 1.1 MILLION AND 1 MILLION AND THE RECOMMENDATION OF 5% IS $617,726. SO I'M NOT A MATHEMATICIAN MR. YEARS BUT I TRIED TO DO THE BEST I COULD AND I LOOK WHAT IF IT'S HOW DO YOU GET CLOSE TO A MILLION? SO 8% IS $987,641 BASED ON THE PROJECTED TOTAL AMOUNT

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OF $12,345,522. 9% IS $1,111,906.98 AND I JUST A CALCULATION ON 10% WHICH IS EVEN EASY FOR ME. SO THAT'S $12,354,522 BASED ON SORRY 1.2 MILLION BASED ON THE PROJECTION OF 12,354,000. HE'S NOT EVEN USING FOR ME AT ANY RATE WHAT I SUPPORTED AT THE FINANCE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE WAS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN EIGHT AND 9% AND I FINALLY SETTLED ON 8% BECAUSE WE WERE AT 0%, PERHAPS 5% AND I BROUGHT OUT LET'S GET CLOSE TO $1,000,000. SO MAYOR BASED ON THAT I MOVE TO AMEND THE MOTION TO INCREASE THE PERCENTAGE OR WORKFORCE HOUSING TO 8% AND TO TAKE THAT FROM REDUCING FROM 7% TO 4% THERE A SECOND TO THE MOTION BEING THAT THE MOTION FAILS UNDER CENTER.

YES. SO I AM PART OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AND AS YOU HEARD THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE OF DIRECTION AND I WILL ADMIT I WAS A 0% SO AND MY MY STANCE IS THAT TODAY BUT BEFORE I GET INTO THAT, I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO SPOKE EVERYONE DID AN EXCELLENT JOB VERY THOUGHTFUL, VERY COMPELLING AND I KNOW THIS IS AN THAT PEOPLE HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT WHETHER THEY'RE HERE EXPRESSING THEM OR THEY'RE EMAILING US OR CALLING. AND SO THERE REALLY IS A DIVERSITY OF OPINION ON THIS TOPIC. I ALSO WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT EVEN THOUGH I DON'T SUPPORT USING A TAX DOLLARS THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT I DON'T SUPPORT WORKFORCE HOUSING.

SO IT'S JUST A MATTER OF HOW YOU HOW DO YOU GET THERE AND I'M IN A DIFFERENT PLACE AND SO I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE GOING FOR US GREAT SOME GREAT EXAMPLES OF HOW WE GET THERE NOT USING A TAX MONEY AND WE'VE GOT THREE ADVANCED THREE EXAMPLES RIGHT NOW REAL LIFE EXAMPLES ARE HAPPENING SO THE FIRST ONE IS NORTH POINT AND WE'VE MENTIONED IT IT'S PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS WHERE THE TOWN IS LEASING LAND TO A PRIVATE AND THE PRIVATE DEVELOPER TAKES ALL RISK AND ALL THE INCENTIVE TO BUILD AND THEN BECAUSE THIS IS A LEASE ON THE LEASES OVER THE TOWN CAN TAKE BACK THE LAND I SUPPORT THIS I THINK THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP PARTNERSHIP PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP NOW THERE WAS MONEY SPENT TO IMPROVE THE LAND AND THAT LAND WAS THROUGH A GRANT AND SO I CHALLENGE TO LOOK FOR GRANTS TO HELP SUPPORT WORKFORCE HOUSING THINGS LIKE THE COMMUNITY BLOCK GRANT YOU KNOW WE HAVE WE'RE THIS IS OPEN RIGHT NOW TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW ARE WE GOING TO USE IT WE'VE USED IT FOR PARKS IN THE PAST MAYBE WE SHOULD USE THAT MONEY FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING IF APPLICABLE AND ALLOWED WE THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM YOU FOR JASPER COUNTY HOUSING TRUST HERE WHAT MONIES ARE AVAILABLE WITHIN THAT TRUST? I KNOW INVESTING IN WORKFORCE HOUSING AND OTHER TOWNS AND MUNICIPALITIES HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT WE ALSO HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM SO THAT'S NUMBER ONE NUMBER TWO IS NOVANT HERE'S A GREAT EXAMPLE OF PRIVATE BUSINESS THE HOSPITAL COMING IN SEEING A NEED AND INVESTING IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THE TOWN IS ALSO INVOLVED WE ARE GOING TO BE VOTING IN THE FUTURE ON ZONING TO HELP SUPPORT THAT HOUSING AND WHAT'S EVEN BETTER ABOUT IT IS THEY'RE ALREADY USING LAND THAT'S BEEN THAT HAS DILAPIDATED ABANDONED MEDICAL BUILDINGS NEAR THE HOSPITAL AND SO THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE LAND IS JUST SITTING THERE WITH EMPTY BUILDINGS AND MAKE IT INTO BEAUTIFUL HOUSING.

THAT IS ANOTHER GREAT EXAMPLE WORK THAT'S GOING ON AND THE LAST ONE IS DIAMOND COVE .

DIAMOND COVE SITS RIGHT IN MY COUNTRY OUTSIDE MY COMMUNITY RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY WARD IT WAS AN ASSISTED LIVING AND NOW THEY HAVE SIGNED AN AGREEMENT WITH THE TOWN TO CONVERT ASSISTED LIVING UNITS TO WORKFORCE RENTALS USING THE WORKFORCE DENSITY BONUS.

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SO ALTHOUGH WE MAY DISAGREE AND RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE ABOUT HOW TO FUND WITH MY PEERS AND AND THE PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE TODAY I BELIEVE THAT THESE OTHER TYPES OF OPPORTUNITIES ARE FOR US TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AND TO BUILD WORKFORCE HOUSING THANK YOU.

THANK YOU SO THANK YOU. WHO SPOKE AND THE PERSON WHO SAID THAT IT'S ABOUT THE PEOPLE, RIGHT? IT IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE. IT'S ABOUT ALL PEOPLE ON THE ISLAND AND THAT IS A STATEMENT THAT IS UNDENIABLE. WE LIVE IN A COMMUNITY WHERE THE EFFORTS THAT JUST HEARD ABOUT WITH PRIVATE PARTNER PRIVATE PUBLIC RELATIONSHIPS AND DEVELOPMENTS IS HAPPENING. WE LIVE IN A COMMUNITY WHERE PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS HAVE STEPPED FORWARD AND HAVE CREATED WORKFORCE HOUSING ACROSS THE ISLAND AND THOSE IN OUR EXISTENCE AND MORE ARE COMING AND NONE OF THAT REQUIRED THE TOWN MONEY TOWN OF HILTON HEAD IS A LIMITED SERVICE GOVERNMENT. WE ARE NOT IN THE BUSINESS HOUSING OUR OWN MAYOR SAID AT THE DAY IT'S NOT LONG AGO AND SAID AS LONG AS HE'S MAYOR THERE WILL BE NO HOUSING DEPARTMENT OR AUTHORITY HERE ON HILTON HEAD WE RELY ON THE PEOPLE OF HILTON HEAD, THE BUSINESS OWNERS AND THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING ON HILTON HEAD TO COME FORWARD, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE INCENTIVES THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE AND TO DEVELOP HOUSING THAT WORKS FOR THE WORKFORCE AND ALL OF THE COMMUNITY.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TAX FUNDING THERE'S AND IN A TAX AND I WONDER HOW WE COULD POSSIBLY EVER ACCOMMODATE THOSE REQUIREMENTS A HOUSING AUTHORITY WITHOUT A HOUSING DEPARTMENT WHO'S GOING TO REGULATE IT WHO'S GOING TO MONITOR IT? WHO'S GOING TO DETERMINE WHO LIVES THERE AND ALL OF THE REST IS ONE STEP FURTHER INTO CHANGING OUR COMMUNITY AND THAT'S NOT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO BUT MOSTLY WHEN IT LOOKS AT A TAX AND A LOOK AT THE FUNDS THAT ARE AVAILABLE, THESE NEW DOLLARS WHETHER IT'S 5%, 8%, 9%, 15% ALL OF IT AS SOMEONE ELSE HAD SUGGESTED HAS TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE AND THEY COME FROM ALL THOSE UP THERE ON THE SCREEN. IT'S NOT NEW MONEY.

IT'S NOT MONEY THAT'S FALLING OUT OF THE SKY AND WE CAN SAY OH LOOK, 5% JUST DROPPED DOWN SO LET'S JUST APPLY THAT TO HOUSING. IT'S BEING TAKEN FROM SOMEWHERE AND ALL OF YOU HAVE SAT HERE THIS EVENING FOR THREE PLUS HOURS AND YOU LISTEN TO US GO TO OUR STRATEGIC PLAN AND YOU HEARD ABOUT ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO ALL OF THOSE BRIGHT SHINY OBJECTS THAT I TALKED ABOUT AT THE END THE BOOK HOW DO YOU THINK THEY GET DONE? WHERE DO YOU THINK THAT MONEY COMES FROM AS PERSON HAS ALREADY 3% FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AND PUT IT TOWARDS CULTURAL ARTS BECAUSE SHE'S WORRIED THERE'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY THERE. SO HOW DO WE ACCOMPLISH THE THINGS WE JUST VOTED ON IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN SHE'D LIKE TO TAKE ADDITIONAL FUNDS FROM THERE AND APPLY THEM ELSEWHERE AND HOW DO THE THINGS THAT YOU WANT TO NEED AROUND THIS ISLAND DONE? THE TAX FUNDS HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED IN THE PAST WITH THE MONEYS THAT WE HAD AVAILABLE AND EVEN THAT THAT THE REQUESTS WERE MORE THAN WHAT WE HAD AVAILABLE. SO NOW WE'RE SUGGESTING THAT WE ADD A NEW CATEGORY AND TAKE MORE MONEY AWAY SO THAT THOSE WHO ARE COMING ASKING FOR FUNDS WILL HAVE LESS MONEY TO WORK WITH WHEN WE DISTRIBUTE GRANT FUNDS. SO IT'S NOT NEW MONEY.

IT'S NOT MONEY. IT'S COMING FROM SOMEWHERE AND IF YOU WANT THE CITY PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE IN THAT BOOK IF YOU LIKE THE QUALITY LIFE, IF YOU WANT THINGS TO BE BETTER ON HILTON HEAD THEN WE CAN'T KEEP TAKING FROM THE SAME WELL WE DON'T THE FUNDS AND THE TAX MONEY TO DO THIS AND EVERYTHING ELSE AND I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOU FOR JASPER HOUSING AUTHORITY CHAIR IS HERE TODAY AND I KNOW THEY'RE DOING GOOD WORK AND WE'VE GOTTEN A GREAT RELATIONSHIP STARTED WITH REGARD TO THAT AND WE PUT MONEY INTO THAT ORGANIZATION TO HELP.

SO IN THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD IS DOING ALL OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSING BUT WE'RE NOT CREATING NEW MONEY FOR NEW PROGRAMING. WHAT WE'RE DOING IS TAKING AWAY FROM THE THINGS THAT ADD TO THE QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE. WE'RE NOT CREATING NEW APARTMENTS ON HILTON HEAD OR ANYTHING LIKE I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT MAKE AN

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AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION THAT'S THERE AND FOR ALL OF THOSE REASONS AND THOSE THAT HAVE HEARD FROM MY COLLEAGUE THAT WE AMEND THE MOTION AND PUT A ZERO AND FIND OUT THE PROPOSED DISTRIBUTION FOR THE NEW TAX HOUSING CATEGORY SECOND TO THAT MOTION AND SECOND YEAH ABSOLUTELY. AND I WANT TO PASS ALONG A MESSAGE SENATOR TOM DAVIS WHO WE ALL KNOW DOESN'T ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF BENEFIT FOR THE TOWN IN A GREAT VARIETY WAYS.

FRIDAY NIGHT WE WERE BOTH AT THE OPENING NIGHT PARTY AT THE ARTS CENTER FOR THE DONNA SHOW AND I MENTIONED THAT COUNCIL WAS GOING TO TAKE UP THIS ISSUE ON TUESDAY IN TERMS OF ALLOCATING FUNDS AND THAT THERE WERE MEMBERS OF COUNCIL WHO WOULD BE FAVOR OF NOT USING ANY TAX FOR HOUSING AND DAVIS ASKED THAT I REMIND EVERYBODY HE WAS THE ONE WHO INTRODUCED THE LEGISLATION TO ACT 57 WHICH LED TO THE AUTHORIZATION OF USE OF THE TAX MONEY FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING AND HE DID THAT AT OUR IT WAS OUT OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND IT WAS THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND THAT REQUESTED HIM TO DO THAT AND HE DID AND HE WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL AND GOT IT INTO THE LEGISLATION SO HE WILL GET EMBARRASSED UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT WE WOULD NOT FOLLOW THAT OR OTHER COMMENTS IF I'VE GOT A QUESTION DO YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PROPOSED PERCENTAGE TO MAKE APPLICATION ? YOU HAVE TO HAVE A I'M SORRY AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PROPOSED DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGE MAKE APPLICATION YOUR STANDARD FOR FOR HOUSING FOR HOUSING THE STATE SAID YOU HAVE TILL DECEMBER 3030 SO I DIDN'T SAY YOU HAD HAVE A DISTRIBUTION CORRECT? CORRECT. CORRECT. OKAY.

TOWN COUNCIL WITH THESE WITH STATE AID TAX ALLOCATIONS TO NOT HAVE A SORT OF REGIMENTED OR DEFINED DISTRIBUTION POLICY IN THE PAST THIS CORRECT BUT WE DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A PROPOSED PERCENTAGE OF DISTRIBUTION FOR HOUSING. NO THOSE ARE CORRECT SO NOT SO LET ME ASK YOU THIS SO WHY WOULD WE ON A PERCENTAGE OF DISTRIBUTION OF FOR HOUSING THIS ALLOW NOT DISALLOW BUT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS IS IF YOU FIVE OR EIGHT OR THREE OR THEN YOU'RE GOING TO GET A 5% 600,000 SOME ODD DOLLARS AND WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS IS IT'S GOING TO BE NO MORE NO LESS AND THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO BE DISTRIBUTE AND THAT'S ALLOCATED FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING BUT IF YOU PUT NOTHING WHAT THERE'S THERE'S NOTHING THAT DISALLOWS SOMEONE FROM MAKING THE APPLICATION UP TO THE MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT. SO I THINK WE'RE DEFEATING OURSELVES BY TRYING TO THROW A PERCENTAGE IN HERE. ANYONE CAN MAKE AN APPLICATION AND IT'S JUST GOT TO BE A QUALIFIED APPLICATION HAS GOT TO GO THROUGH THE TAX COMMITTEE AND IT COMES TO COUNCIL AND IS VOTED UP OR IT'S VOTED DOWN SO WHY ARE WE HANDCUFFING OURSELVES ARE PROPOSING TO HANDCUFF OURSELVES? IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME. I'LL JUST RESPOND.

HANG ON, MR. ORLANDO YES I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE ASKING AND THIS IS A REALLY GOOD TABLE SOME OF IT IS AS WE'RE PREPARING THE BUDGET WHO GETS PAID FIRST WHERE DOES THE DOLLAR DISTRIBUTE FIRST WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME ASSET CODE REQUIREMENTS RIGHT I'LL CALL IT THE TOP SIDE OF THE SCREEN. THE THE STATE A $25,000 DISTRIBUTION TO GENERAL FUND IT REQUIRES 5% TO GENERAL FUND AND IT REQUIRES NON-NEGOTIABLE AT 30% GOES TO MARKETING AND THAT'S IN C CODE WHAT WE'VE FOUND IS AS THE REVENUES HAVE GONE UP RIGHT AND I GUESS I HAVE TO USE A REFERENCE PRE DURING POST COVID WHEN YOU SAW THAT REVENUE ALMOST DOUBLE THE GRANT DISTRIBUTION EXPECTATION WAS DOUBLE THE DMO 30% WAS

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DOUBLE AND SO IS THOSE COME BACK DOWN EVERYBODY STARTED TO RELY ON THOSE DOLLARS SO SO WHAT WE'VE TRIED TO PUT TOGETHER IS A DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY SO THAT WHEN WE START WORKING ON BUDGET TOGETHER THAT IT'S NOT JUST A MONEY GRAB, IT'S PLANNED AND IT'S SPECIFIC AND I WOULD SAY HOUSING YOU'RE MENTIONING APPLICATION AND I THINK I UNDERSTAND NOT NOT TO READ SHAWN'S MIND FROM ALL THE WAY OVER HERE BUT WHAT WITH THE HOUSING DOLLARS CAN BE DOESN'T NECESSARY ONLY MEAN THE NEXT C, C, D, C OR HABITAT AND YOU SAID APPLICATION OR IT'S JUST TRANCHE OF FUNDS FOR SPECIFIC USE IT COULD BE FOR MUDDY PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP.

IT COULD BE FOR SOME INFRASTRUCTURE THAT'S NEEDED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO SUPPORT AT THIS POINT WHERE DO THOSE DOLLARS COME FROM? RIGHT.

SO MUDDY CREEK GOES LIVE SIMPLY SIMILAR TO NORTH POINT OR OR NORTH POINT SURPRISES US WITH ACCESS THROUGH AND TO THE UNITED STATES POST OFFICE AND ACCESS POINT THROUGH TO COUNTRY ROAD WHERE DO THOSE ADDITIONAL DOLLARS COME FROM? I HAVE SOME SOME TOUGH DECISIONS TO MAKE BEFORE I MAKE RECOMMENDATION TO YOU ON USE OF FUNDS.

SO THAT'S WHERE THE HOUSING FUND ALLOCATION IS IS SOMEWHAT ALIGNED WITH NOT AND I JUST WANT TO KIND OF CLEAR THAT AIR JOHN RIGHT. IT'S NOT WE'RE NOT SITTING HERE PROPOSING THAT WHERE IS IT ON HERE? HOUSING $617,000 IS YET ANOTHER APPLICATION FOR EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION SOME OF IT NOT ALL OF IT BE FOR INTERNAL DISTRIBUTION AS AGREED BY YOU IN THE BUDGET. BUT HELP US UNDERSTAND YOU'RE SAYING WHEN I SEE I STILL THINK IT PUTS A IT'S A TARGET A TARGET THAT WILL BE REACHED AND I SAY IT'LL BE NO MORE IT'LL BE NO AND AND FOR ME PERSONALLY I WOULD RATHER NOT HAVE IT THERE AT ALL SO APPLICATION COULD BE MADE FOR 15% OH THAT'S JUST THE WAY I FEEL ABOUT IT.

I'M JUST WELL I MEAN CONNECT THE DOTS YOU CAN IN MY FORMS TO ME BECAUSE I'LL TRY TO DO THE MATH OUR $107 MILLION BUDGET AND THE 600 K THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE FOR THE LAST HOUR PROBABLY ABOUT AN HOUR AGO ALL SEVEN OF US RAISED OUR HAND IT WAS STRATEGIC PLAN B INCLUDES HOUSING AT A REALLY RECOMMEND TO US ALL THAT WE TAKE MARGARET'S ADVICE AND JUST THINK ABOUT PEOPLE YOU'VE ALREADY SAID AND SOLVING THIS HOUSING CRISIS NOT ONE FITS ALL APPROACH A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO DO TO MAKE IT HAPPEN PRIVATE SECTOR IS GOING TO HELP. THEY'VE STEPPED UP IN SOME CASES PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS ON THE BOOKS THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS. YES, SOME PIECES OUT THERE TOO THAT WE HAVEN'T EXPLORED EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE SOMEBODY MIGHT NEED A COUPLE OF THOUSAND DOLLARS TO HOOK US SOME SCHOOLS SO WE CAN KEEP IT MOVING. BUT YET ONE MORE UNIT ON THE GROUND. SO I THINK IT'S PRETTY EASY IF WE IF WE JUST CONNECT THE DOTS IF YOU LOOK BACK AT HUNDRED AND $70 MILLION BUDGET, YOU'RE GOING TO QUICKLY REALIZE THAT NOT A WHOLE LOT OF INCOME FROM OUR PROPERTY TAXES BUSINESSES PAY A BIG PORTION.

THE TOURISM INDUSTRY PAYS A BIG PORTION. YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE BELOW THAT TO MAKE THOSE WORK WE'VE CELEBRATED MILLAGE DECREASES IT DECREASES BUT WE'RE ARGUING OVER $600,000 TOWARD SOMETHING THAT IS SO CRITICAL TO OUR SUSTAINABILITY HERE ON HILTON HEAD. I MEAN I AM READY TO MOVE WITH NOT JUST THIS BUT THAT'S AN ITEM THAT WE JUST AGREED UPON ABOUT OUR GOAL AND OUR STRATEGIC PLAN. SO THE FUNDING THE OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE OF MY STATE'S ADDED YEARS TO START UP A FUND SO WE COULD BE IN THIS BUSINESS WE'RE IN THE BUSINESS WE'RE NOT A

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HOUSING AUTHORITY BUT WE IN THE VISITOR HOUSING ON HILTON HEAD THAT'S WHERE WE ARE IF WE WANT TO MAINTAIN OUR QUALITY OF LIFE ON HILTON HEAD IT IS A GOAL THAT WE HAVE TO BE SERIOUS ABOUT SO. MR. MAYOR, I AM NOT IN SUPPORT OF THE AMENDED MOTION FOR ZERO.

I'M GOING TO BE STEADFAST IN SUPPORTING THE 5%. THANK YOU, SEAN.

LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION. HOW LONG HAS THE TOWN BEEN TALKING ABOUT ADDRESSING HOUSING ISSUES? WELL, YOU CAN GO BACK AT LEAST TO VERSIONS OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BACK TO THE TURN OF THE CENTURY WHERE HOUSING WAS TALKED ABOUT AS A WHOLE. SO THE COUNCIL'S OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS PLUS I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT WORKFORCE HOUSING AND AND WORKERS RIGHTS, ECONOMIC THROUGH EMPLOYEES YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW THIS I'LL ASK IT WERE THERE ANY EARMARKS THAT WERE GIVEN FROM THE STATE HOUSE THIS YEAR TO MUNICIPALITIES FOUR OR ANYTHING? NO, DON'T BELIEVE SO.

BUT IN A IN A MAKING A POINT HERE IN THAT WE'RE SEEING THAT FROM THE FEDERAL LEVEL DOWN ALL THE WAY THAT THERE IS NO MONEY BEING GIVEN FOR ANYTHING. THE STATE IS NOW PUSHING THINGS DOWN TO TO THE COUNTY LEVEL TO ADDRESS THE COUNTY IS NOW PUSHING BACK TO THE TO THE MUNICIPALITY TO ADDRESS EVERY TIME A PROPERTY IS SOLD ON HILTON HEAD OR ANY ANYWHERE IN THE STATE FOR THAT FACT THERE ARE DEED STAMPS THAT ARE COLLECTED.

THEY GO INTO A FUND AT AT THE HOUSING AUTHORITIES UP UP IN COLUMBIA THAT'S UTILIZED FOR VARIOUS THINGS. SO AS YOU TALK ABOUT GRANTS, ABSOLUTELY.

THAT'S ANOTHER AVENUE FOR GRANTS THOSE ARE OUR DOLLARS THAT ARE GOING UP AND GOING OUT. RIGHT. THAT'S WHAT WE PUT MONEY INTO EVERY TIME WE SELL A HOUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ACCOMMODATIONS, TAX THAT IS COMING FROM OUR GUESTS THAT IS WAS PASSED VERY HIGHLY UP IN COLUMBIA TO BE ABLE TO UTILIZE UP TO 15% I DON'T AGREE WITH 15%. I DON'T AGREE WITH 0%.

WE'VE GOT PROGRAMS THAT HAVE BEEN IN PLACE TO BE A PARTNER IN THE PUBLIC PRIVATE OF HOUSING. YES. HAVE IT GOING ON WITH NORTH POINT AND THERE ARE ADDITIONAL FUNDS THAT ARE NEEDED THERE. I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE US POSTMASTER A WEEK AND A HALF AGO STATING THAT THEY'RE SELLING A PIECE OF PROPERTY TO THE TOWN OF HILTON AGAIN AS MR. ORLANDO JUST MENTIONED WHERE THAT MONEY COMING FROM COULD IT BE FROM THIS I DON'T SEE THIS IS SECTION EIGHT HOUSING. I DON'T SEE THIS AS LOW HOUSING . I DON'T SEE THIS AS THE NEGATIVES OF IT BEING PORTRAYED . I SEE THIS AS AN AVENUE TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES THAT WE FACE . I WOULDN'T GET A HAIRCUT TODAY JUST GOOD JOB.

FIRST TIME IN A WHILE SHE TOLD ME IT WAS HER LAST DAY AND FOR LIVE ON HILTON HEAD SHE REFUSES TO DRIVE 2 HOURS ANYMORE. THIS IS JUST A STORY THAT'S HAPPENING EVERY DAY YEAH WE CAN TALK ABOUT TOURISM SLOWING DOWN BUT TO WHAT POINT IS IT GOING TO SLOW DOWN? WE HAD THE ISSUES OF HOUSING, OF WORKFORCE HOUSING PRIOR TO THE INCREASE IN SHORT TERM RENTALS PRIOR TO COVID BACK WHEN THERE WERE ONLY 2000 UNITS.

SO I'M NOT GOING TO SUPPORT ZERO I'M NOT GOING TO SUPPORT 15 BUT I THINK THAT WE WOULD BE DOING OURSELF DISSERVICE IF WE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WE HAVE PROGRAMS IN PLACE IN THAT IF WE DON'T GIVE STAFF THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THE FUNDS TO DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO THEN IT'LL TRULY FAIL. MAY I JUMP IN THIS CONVERSATION ? SO THERE'S BEEN A OF EMOTIONAL DISCUSSION UP HERE AND EMOTIONS ALWAYS DRIVE PEOPLE GOOD PEOPLE LIKE THE PEOPLE HILTON HEAD DOWN A ROAD THAT'S NOT ALWAYS SO TO THROW A LITTLE BIT OF LOGIC BACK IN HERE NOT SPECIFICALLY BUT IN GENERAL WHEN WHEN WE HEARD THAT SENATOR DAVIS I THINK THE WORDS WERE THAT HE WAS EMBARRASSED OR SOMETHING THIS IS AND THAT THERE'S NO FEDERAL MONEY AVAILABLE OUT THERE AND WE HAVE TO RELY ON.

LET'S NOT FORGET THAT BEAUFORT COUNTY IS BEING ENCOURAGED TO APPLY FOR 200 PLUS THOUSAND DOLLARS GRANT ALONG WITH TOM DAVIS'S HELP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SO THAT WE CAN HAVE

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AN 11 LANE BRIDGE COME ONTO THE ISLAND TO BRING MORE TOURISTS SO THAT WE CAN FEED THIS BEAST THAT WE HAVE. WOULD WE BE IN THIS POSITION IF AS IT WAS REFERRED MENTIONED BEFORE IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THE OPENING OF NEW RESTAURANTS BY THE SAME ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE COMPLAINING THAT THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH WORKERS IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF THE DOG CHASING HIS TAIL, ISN'T IT? AND WHO'S GOING TO SOLVE THAT PROBLEM ON TODAY'S WORLD? THEY WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO SOLVE THAT PROBLEM WHEN WE ASKED THE QUESTION AND IT WAS A GOOD QUESTION HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN TALKING ABOUT WORKFORCE HOUSING? I JUST PICKED UP ONE OF A NEW BOOK THAT WAS OUT IN BEAUFORT WITH MY HUSBAND AND WE WERE AFTER LUNCH WALKING AROUND WENT INTO A LITTLE GIFT STORE AND I FOUND A NEW BOOK ABOUT HOW HELP HAD DEVELOPED AND I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO RUN INTO THE AUTHOR WHILE I WAS THERE.

I'VE ENJOYED READING THE BOOK AND, I RECOMMEND IT AND I'LL POST THE NAME IT BECAUSE I KNOW ESCAPES ME BECAUSE I'M FOCUSED ON NOT MISSING MY MARKS THIS BUT IN THE BOOK THEY START OUT WITH THE FACT THAT THEY FROM YORK COUNTY TO HILTON HEAD AFTER BEING HIRED CHARLES FRAZIER AND THEY WHERE DID THEY GO TO WORKFORCE HOUSING AND WHO SUPPLIED THE WORKFORCE HOUSING WHO NEEDED THE WORKERS RIGHT. AND THAT WAS THE SAME WITH SEA PINES FROM THE BEGINNING AND FROM OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHER COMPANIES FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME.

THAT'S WHERE THIS BELONGS. IT BELONGS IN THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR WHERE PEOPLE ARE SOLVING THE PROBLEMS FOR THEMSELVES. IT DOES NOT BELONG IN THE TOWN GOVERNMENT A LITTLE BIT OR A LOT. I KEEP HEARING ABOUT WELL WE CAN SLOT THIS IN THERE BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE NEEDS FOR THIS OR NEEDS FOR THAT SOMETHING ELSE. WELL THIS ISN'T THE PLACE FOR THERE'S MONEY IN THE BUDGET WHEN WE TALK ABOUT IF WE HAVE TO BUY LAND WE HAVE TO BUY THAT POST OFFICE.

WELL WHERE ELSE DO WE GET MONEY FROM? WE BUY PROPERTY.

WE CERTAINLY ARE GOOD AT IT MORE RECENTLY BETTER THAN THAN WE HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST AND I READ TREMENDOUS TAKING THAT THOSE DOLLARS AND BUYING LAND TO PUT INTO CONSERVATION BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE SLOTTED INTO THIS THOMAS TO COUNCILMAN DESMOND'S POINT THIS ISN'T AN APPROPRIATE PLACE FOR ANY OF THOSE NEEDS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

EVERYBODY'S THROWING SOMETHING OUT. WELL, THIS IS TOURISM SERVING A HOUSING PROGRAM AND AS WE READ ACT 57 IT IS FOR HOUSING NOT FOR ALL OF THIS OTHER STUFF.

AND THEN PART OF THAT REQUIREMENT IS THAT THERE'S A DISCUSSION ABOUT HOMEOWNER HOMEOWNERSHIP. SO HOW ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE HOMEOWNERSHIP AND COMPLY WITH THE RULE WHEN YOU'RE APPLYING IT TO PURCHASE OF ANYTHING OR IF YOU'RE APPLYING IT TO SOME OTHER NILLY IDEA AND I DON'T MEAN TO BE RUDE WHEN I SAY THAT BUT I'VE HEARD A LOT OF STUFF BEING THROWN OUT THERE THE DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO SAVE THIS 5% OR MAKE IT 15%.

THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS HOUSING IS IMPORTANT. PRIVATE SECTOR IS NOT THE PLACE FOR IT TO HAPPEN. IT'S THE PUBLIC SECTOR WHERE IT SHOULD BE HAPPENING.

WE ENCOURAGE IT, WE SUPPORT IT. WE HAVE INCENTIVES FOR IT AND I SAY IT BACKWARDS WELL, BE THAT AS IT MAY YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT APPARENTLY BECAUSE YOU'RE ALL MAKING COMMENT SO SO I DON'T WANT TO AND I'VE ALSO AND I'M NOT GOING TO SHY AWAY FROM THIS EITHER I HEARD A LOT ABOUT WAGES AND I KNOW FROM THE BEFORE I WAS ON COUNCIL I HAD THE AUDACITY TO STAND DURING A CONVERSATION AND SAY THAT THE EMPLOYEE HOURS ON THE ISLAND SHOULD BE PAYING MORE, THAT THEY SHOULD PROVIDE OTHER BENEFITS THEY NEED THE EMPLOYEE WE BENEFIT FROM THE LUXURIOUS THAT WE GOT HERE ON HILTON HEAD BUT IT'S THE EMPLOYERS WHO HAVE RESPONSIBILITY TO AND I DON'T HEAR ANYBODY TALKING ABOUT THAT VERY MUCH IN TERMS OF IT REALLY HAPPENING FACT JUST THE OPPOSITE. SO NO EMOTIONAL DECISIONS UP HERE.

THIS ISN'T THE RIGHT PLACE FOR ANY TAX MONEY TO BE SPENT. IT'S FROM SOMEWHERE.

IT'S COMING FROM YOUR PROGRAMING BUT WHEN WE APPROVED BY THE WAY THE SEEK THE STRATEGIC PLAN WE WEREN'T APPROVING EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THOSE ITEMS IN THERE THAT'S A LIST OF THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE THERE'S NOWHERE WHERE WE STAMP THE APPROVAL ON EVERY ITEM AND WE'RE LOOKING FOR FUNDING FOR IT.

SO SO THAT'S JUST INACCURATE INFORMATION AND I'D APPRECIATE IN THE FUTURE IF WE STAY TO THE FACTS, STAY NON-EMOTIONAL AND BE LOGICAL AND THAT'S THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO ADD TO THE

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CONVERSATION I HAVE SAT AND LISTENED TO THE LAST 10 MINUTES CALLED A QUESTION ON THE MOTION I SECOND THE QUESTION BEEN CALLED AND WE HAVE A MOTION BY MS..

BECKER SECONDED BY MS.. TURNER AND OF I WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M DOING THIS CORRECTLY.

I DO THE AMENDED FIRST JUST TO BE CLEAR. ARDERN YES YOU DID ON THE PROPOSAL AMENDMENT FIRST YES THE AMENDMENT IS TO GO FROM FROM ZERO FROM 5% TO 0%.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY RAISING YOUR RIGHT HAND OPPOSED 3 TO 4 OPPOSED NOW WE WILL GO TO THE MOTION CALL THE QUESTION ON THE MAIN MOTION THANK YOU.

MR. ALFORD MADE THE MOTION MR. BROWN SECONDED TO PASS WITH THE 5% FUNDING ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY RAISING YOUR RIGHT HAND OPPOSED AND IS 423 APPROVE SO IF WE

[9.c. Consideration of an Ordinance of the Town of Hilton Head Island to Amend Chapter 16 of the Municipal Code, the Land Management Ordinance, to Amend the Current Regulations for Tree Protection to Include Sections: 16-5- 115, 16-6-104 and Appendix C for the Town of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and Providing for Severability and an Effective Date - First Reading - Shawn Leininger, Assistant Town Manager]

PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY AND EFFECTIVE DATE WITH DIRECTION TO THE TOWN MANAGER TO BEGIN ENFORCEMENT OF THE ORDINANCE UNDER THE PENDING ORDINANCE DOCTRINE.

SECOND IS THERE ANYBODY INSIDE IT TO SPEAK ON THIS AGENDA ITEM? KIM NO SIR THANK YOU. ANY DISCUSSION FROM COUNSEL? JUST ONE THING IS TO ME I'M GOING TO BE SUPPORTING THIS TODAY BUT I DO WANT TO CHALLENGE STAFF AS WE MOVE INTO A COMPLETE OVERHAUL WHEN IT COMES TO OUR MITIGATION AROUND TREES, YOU KNOW, I STILL HAVE THESE VERY VIVID MEMORIES OF HURRICANE MATTHEW AND A LOT OF THE TREES THAT CAME DOWN WERE HOGS IN LAUREL OAKS AND THE OUT ON THE INSIDE AND MY GRANDSON WAS HERE EARLIER DURING THE ALAMO PROCLAMATION I THOUGHT IT IF MONOLOGUES EXPECTED LIFE TIME IS 50 YEARS BEING PRINCE PLANNING A TREE TOMORROW BY THE TIME HE'S MY AGE IT WILL BE HOLLOW AND FALLING DOWN SO I JUST WANT US TO DO BETTER WHEN IT COMES TO OUR RESILIENCY AS FAR AS OUR TREES THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING AS MITIGATION MY ULTIMATE IT THE OTHER DISCUSSION.

ALL RIGHT SO WE HAVE A AHEAD WELL GO AHEAD. I DON'T HAVE ANY DISCUSSION ON THE TREE PROTECTION. I THINK IT'S A GOOD MOVE. I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT CAME OUT OF COMMITTEE WITH FULL SUPPORT BUT I DO WANT TO ASK HOW AS I LISTENED TO THE MOTION THAT WAS MADE WITH REGARD TO PENDING HOW THAT NOW APPLIES TO THIS SITUATION WHERE IT DIDN'T APPLY IN OCTOBER OF 23 WITH REGARD TO THE FLOOR AREA RATIO AND YOU MENTIONED THAT OR IS THAT A QUESTION FOR THE TOWN ATTORNEY BECAUSE THE OCTOBER 2023 ORDINANCE I WAS NOT A PART OF THAT. SO WELL IN THIS CASE OCEAN TRUCKS THE MANAGER TO BEGIN ENFORCEMENT AND THAT WAS NOT CASE IN 2023 Y'ALL DIDN'T DO THAT WELL AND YOU SAY THAT I APPRECIATE THAT BUT I'M READING YOUR DOCUMENTS AS WHICH SUPPORTS WITH THE PENDING ORDINANCE ACTUALLY IS SILENT ON THAT THERE IS NO NEED TO SAY THAT THERE'S NOTHING WITHIN THE DOCTRINE THAT REQUIRES THAT AND MOREOVER IN YOUR REPORTS AND I DON'T WANT TO TO YOUR LETTERS TO US BACK IN FEBRUARY OF 23 AND SEPTEMBER OF 23 AND JUST RECENTLY ON JULY 25 HERE WHEN ASKED AGAIN THAT'S NOT A STIPULATION. WELL, MY RECOLLECTION IS THAT THE CONVERSATION WAS HAD AT THAT TIME AND THAT WAS NOT COUNSEL'S DIRECTION.

NO, IT IT WASN'T HELD AT THE DAIS. NO SIR IT WAS NOT IT WAS A VOTE IT WAS A VOTE WHERE NOT ALL OF THIS COUNCIL BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE TWO NEW MEMBERS BUT THERE WAS A VOTE OF I BELIEVE IT WAS 6 TO 1 SOMEONE CAN CORRECT ME IN FAVOR OF THE FLOOR AREA RATIO WAS THE FIRST VOTE AND BY EVERYTHING THAT I'VE KNOWN AND READ AGAIN TODAY FROM THE THREE DOCUMENT IT'S THAT'S WHAT YOU OUR TOWN ATTORNEY HAVE TOLD US IS THE REQUIREMENT THERE IS NO SPECIFIC LANGUAGE NEEDED AND SO I WANT TO KNOW WHY WASN'T I

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HAVE NO PROBLEM SUPPORTING THE TREE PROTECTION AND MAKING SURE THAT RIGHTFULLY SO THAT IT'S PENDING AS OF TODAY HOWEVER THERE'S SOME WHY WAS IT NOT WITH THE FLOOR A RATIO BECAUSE OF THAT DECISION DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE ACROSS THIS ISLAND TO RESIDENTS ACROSS THIS ISLAND WHO DID NOT GET THE BENEFIT OF THAT PENDING ORDINANCE AS I ARGUED AS YOU ALL KNOW I ARGUED ENDLESSLY IN FAVOR OF AND I WANT TO KNOW WHY NOW AND NOT THEN.

AND WITH ALL DUE RESPECT THAT'S NOT THE ITEM. BUT WE'RE IN DISCUSSION AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IS HAVE A DISCUSSION THAT I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT. OKAY. HANG ON.

I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST I DON'T HAVE THE HISTORY OF OF OF THAT ORDINANCE THAT FIRST READING THAT PERHAPS I CAN WORK OF OFFLINE WITH WITH CURTIS. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE SEEMS BE CHANGING RULES, CHANGING DECISIONS AND THAT THOSE DECISIONS THAT HAVE CHANGED HAVE BEEN AND THEY HAVE DETERIORATED THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS COMMUNITIES ON THIS ISLAND DAY AFTER DAY EVERY TIME A PERMIT ALLOWED TO BE APPROVED AND BUILT BECAUSE THAT WASN'T INSTITUTED THE PENDING ORDINANCE THE SAME PENDING ORDINANCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY WASN'T TAKEN EFFECT ON OCTOBER 10TH, 2023, OCTOBER 3RD, OCTOBER 3RD MY RECOLLECTION IS IS THAT THE VERY DISCUSSION YOU ARE HAVING NOW WAS HAD BEEN AND THE DIRECTION WAS NOT TO DO THAT AND TO RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE WITH YOU BECAUSE IT WAS DONE AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION WHERE OUR MAYOR CAME UP TO THE PODIUM AND US ALL AND SAID THAT HE WANTED US TO REVISIT IT.

HE HAD PROBLEMS WITH IT. THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. THAT'S NOT RIGHT AND IT'S DONE DAMAGE AND I DON'T THINK WE STILL HAVE IT LINGERING THERE. WE STILL HAVE A SECOND VOTE LINGERING OUT THERE THE PROPER WAY DO IT IF WE WANTED TO MAKE A NOT TO ALLOW THAT LORENA RATIO TO GO THROUGH WAS TO HAVE YOUR CONVERSATIONS BEHIND THE SCENES FIND YOUR FOUR VOTES BRING IT FOR A SECOND VOTE AND LET IT FAIL. BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED.

SO FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES BASED ON THE HERE WE ARE IN A PENDING ORDINANCE THE DATE OF OCTOBER 3RD, 2023 AND SO ALL OF THOSE PERMITS ARE INVALID. YOU CAN GO ON NOW WITH YOUR VOTE BUT I WANT THAT ON THE RECORD BECAUSE THAT SUBJECT'S NOT OVER.

I'LL CALL THE VOTE NOW MR. BROWN MADE A MOTION AS BRYSON SECONDED ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF PLACING THE FIRE BY RAISING YOUR RIGHT HAND SOME OF SEVEN ZERO.

[9.d. Consideration of an Ordinance of the Town of Hilton Head Island to Amend Title 16 of the Municipal Code, the Land Management Ordinance, to Amend the Current Design Regulations and Requirements for Open Space and Pathways in Major Subdivisions to Include Sections: 16-3-104, 16-3-105, 16-4- 104, 16-5-103, 16-5-104, 16-5-107, 16-5-115, 16-6-102, 16-10-102, 16-10- 105, and Appendices A & D for the Town of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and Providing for Severability and an Effective Date - First Reading - Shawn Leininger, Assistant Town Manager ]

MOVING ON WE HAVE A FIRST READING OF AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND TITLE 16 MINUTES THE CODE OF LAND MANAGEMENT TO AMEND THE CURRENT DESIGN REGULATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR OPEN SPACE AND PATHWAYS AND MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS PLANNING REVIEWED THIS ITEM ON MARCH 19TH WITH UNANIMOUS APPROVAL AND IT WAS COMMUNITY SERVICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE ON APRIL 21ST WITH HAS APPROVAL TO TOWN COUNCIL SO WE'RE VERY GOOD AGAIN OKAY I TO APPROVE THE FIRST READING OF AN ORDINANCE WITH THE TITLE OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE THE LAND MANAGEMENT TO AMEND THE CURRENT DESIGN REGULATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR OPEN SPACE AND PATHWAYS AND MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS TO INCLUDE SECTIONS 60 INDUSTRY THIS ONE OFF FOR 60 DAYS THREE DAYS 1 TO 560 DAYS FOR THIS ONE OR FOR 60 DAYS FIVE TO THIS 1 TO 360 DAYS FIVE DAYS ONE FOR 16 DAYS FIVE THERE'S ONE 760 THERE'S FIVE THERE'S 11566 THERE'S ONE 260 THERE'S TEN THERE'S ONE OR TWO BUT THAT'S TWICE SO 16 THERE'S ONE ZERO THERE'S 125 AND THE TENANCIES AND THE FOR THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA AND PROVIDING SEVERABILITY AND EFFECTIVE DATE DIRECTION TO THE TOWN MANAGER TO BEGIN THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE OWNERS THE PENDING ORDINANCE THAT I'M GETTING ALL RIGHT. YES AND DISCUSSION FROM COUNCIL SAME COMMENTS AS BEFORE YOU GIVE ME ROOM MY SIGN UP TO SPEAK ON THIS AGENDA ITEM NOT FOR THIS ONE.

THANK YOU. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION FROM COUNCIL SO NONE.

WE HAVE A MOTION BY MR. BROWN SECONDED BY MRS. BRYSON. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF PLACING THE FIVE ARE RAISING YOUR RIGHT HAND MOVED SEVEN ZERO NOW WE HAVE THE FIRST READING OF AN

[9.e. Consideration of an Ordinance of the Town of Hilton Head Island to Amend Title 16 of the Municipal Code, the Land Management Ordinance, to Amend the Procedures for Development Plan Reviews and Major Subdivision Plan Reviews to Include the Following Sections: 16-2-101, 16-2-102, and 16-2-103 for the Town of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and Providing for Severability and an Effective Date - First Reading - Shawn Leininger, Assistant Town Manager ]

ORDINANCE TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE PROCEDURES FOR DEVELOPMENT PLAN REVIEWS AND MAJOR SUBDIVISION PLAN REVIEWS PLANNING COMMISSION REVIEWED THIS ITEM ON FEBRUARY 19TH WITH UNANIMOUS APPROVAL AND IT WAS REVIEWED BY THE COMMUNITY SERVICES PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE ON APRIL 21ST WITH

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UNANIMOUS APPROVAL THE SWANIKER IS ME OUR MOVE TO APPROVE FIRST READING OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE PROCEDURES FOR DEVELOPMENT PLAN REVIEWS AND MAJOR SUBDIVISION PLAN REVIEWS TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING SECTION 16 AS TO THIS 1016 INDEX TO THIS ONE OR 216 DAYS TO 103 FOR THE TOWN OF HILTON ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA PROVIDING AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE WITH DIRECTION TO THE TOWN MANAGER TO BEGIN ENFORCEMENT OF THE ORDINANCE UNDER THE PENDING ORDINANCE DR. IN DISCUSSION FROM COUNCIL SAME COMMENTS IS THE FIRST IT WAS ME SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS AGENDA AND WE HAD RICHARD SIGN UP I DON'T SEE HIM.

OKAY MR. BROWN YES. JUST A MOMENT AGO IF YOU JUST FOR THE RECORD THAT THIS UH A, AMENDMENT SPEAKS TO MINOR SUBDIVISIONS GOING TO A PLANNING COMMISSION, CAN YOU JUSTIFY A MINOR SUBDIVISION FOR ME, PLEASE? SO ACTUALLY THIS OF THIS REVIEW WOULD APPLY TO NOT FOR MINOR SUBDIVISIONS FOR MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS DEVELOPED PLANS AND MINOR DEVELOPMENT PLANS UNTIL THOSE MINOR CHANGES IT'S LIKE FOR EXAMPLE SOMEONE WANTS TO EXPAND A PARKING LOT AND IT'S ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL A MINOR SUBDIVISION EXEMPTED FROM THIS ORDINANCE AS IT CURRENTLY IS AND IT REMAINS THE SAME DAY A MINOR SUBDIVISION IS ANYTHING THAT IS LESS THAN FIVE LOTS. OKAY AND THE RELATION RESIDENTIAL NEXT TO A MINOR SUBDIVISION ARE THOSE EXCLUDED AS IF IF THERE IS A AND IF THERE IS A DEVELOPMENT PLAN SO IT'S GENERALLY A DEVELOPMENT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT'S RESIDENTIAL LET'S BE NONRESIDENTIAL IF IT IS ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL THEN YES IT WOULD COME TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION SO THAT THE ADJACENT RESIDENTIAL COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CHANGE WAS.

YOU KNOW, CHANGE IS MINOR BUT THEY CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CHANGE WAS THAT WAS HAPPENING ON THE PROPERTY TO THE NONRESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES. THANK YOU.

YOUR OTHER COMMENTS I COULD POINT OUT WELL WHILE THIS CERTAINLY IMPROVES THE PROCESS AND THAT IT GIVES NEIGHBORS AN OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW MORE ABOUT A PROJECT AND TO SPEAK ABOUT IT, IT DOES NOT GIVE THE PLANNING COMMISSION ANY AUTHORITY TO DENY THE PROJECT.

I JUST WANT MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS THAT IT MAY BE SOMETHING WE LOOK AT IN.

THE FUTURE IS ONE OF THE STANDARDS FOR DENIAL AS OPPOSED TO ONLY REVIEW BUT MY IS THAT IN THAT REVIEW THOSE COMMENTS BY THE PLANNING COMMISSIONER BE TAKEN I'M GOING TO USE THE WORD SERIOUSLY TO BE TAKEN AND IMPLEMENTED IN CONTINUING DESIGN IMPROVEMENT OF THE SUBDIVISION NOT TO BE PUT ON A SHELF AND FORGOTTEN IS THAT THAT IS CORRECT TO THE TO THE EXTENT THAT THOSE THOSE COMMENTS ALIGN WITH WITH WHAT IS ALL THOSE THE EXTENT THAT THOSE COMMENTS WITH CODE AND THOSE DECISION CRITERIA THAT WE HAVE AS AS THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE CODE , YES, WE CAN TAKE THOSE INTO AND CONSIDERATION. WE'LL WORK TO IMPLEMENT THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS AND DEVELOP PLANS AND SUBDIVISIONS SUBDIVISIONS.

WHILE I'M ASSUMING THOUGH THAT IF THEY ARE ALIGNED WITH THAT THE STAFF WOULD HAVE ALREADY ASSURED THAT SO THEY DON'T THINK IT'S NECESSARILY THE CODE THAT I'M TO DRIVE AND I THINK IT'S WHAT IS THE PERHAPS THE LAYOUT THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AS, A NEIGHBORHOOD AND THOSE ELEMENTS THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY THOUGH THEY SHOULD BE AND I BELIEVE THEY ARE THE PURPOSE INTENT WRITTEN INTO CODE THAT THOSE ARE THE PARTS THAT I'M AND THAT'S CORRECT AND THAT'S THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS THROUGH THE YEARS I THINK OH YES THEY MIGHT GIVE SOME CLARITY ON THAT I CAN HOWEVER I KNOW YOU WANT TO BUT I'VE BEEN AT THIS FOR A OF MINUTES LONGER. LAST YEAR WE COMPLETED AS AN ASIDE 12 LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS THIS YEAR WE'RE ON PACE TO COMPLETE SEVEN WITH THE CODE PRETTY MUCH WRITTEN THE CODE BY THE END OF THE YEAR. MS. BECKER WHAT YOU'RE ASKING IS IS IS THE MOST ESSENTIAL QUESTION SO I'M GLAD I CAN ANSWER THAT IN ADDITION TO THE CODE AMENDMENTS THAT ARE DONE LAST YEAR, WRITE OFF CODE AMENDMENTS BY HIS STAFF AND Y'ALL AMENDED LAST YEAR ARE WE REALLY MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN OUR ABILITY TO REQUIRE CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE WANT TO SEE IN A DEVELOPMENT PLANNING COMMISSION WILL HELP US SO YEAH YOU'RE SPOT ON SITE LAYOUT HOW YOUR OPEN SPACE FUNCTIONS YOUR ROADWAY ALIGNMENT MAKING SURE THAT STAFF RIGHT IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A QUALITY FOR STAFF TOO WE DON'T ALWAYS GET IT RIGHT.

WE DON'T PLAY PERFECT EVERY SINGLE BUT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IT THE RIGHT AND THE WAY THE COLLECTIVE WHOLE IF PLANNING COMMISSION SAYS YOU KNOW THEY'RE ALLOWED 50 LOTS BECAUSE IT'S A ONE LOT PER ACRE AND THEY HAVE 50 ACRES AND IT'S 50 LOTS OF DIVISION IF PLANNING COMMISSION SAYS THAT'S TOO MANY WE ONLY WANT WE HAVE WE HAVE A LEGAL WE HAVE A LEGAL ISSUE IN THE SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT THAT'S DIFFERENTIATED AS YOU'RE

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ADOPTING THIS I DON'T WANT TO SET FALSE EXPECTATIONS THAT JUST BECAUSE PLANNING COMMISSION SAYS IT'S THREE STORIES EVEN THOUGH THE WMU DISTRICT ALLOWS 75 FEET DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE CAN GO BACK THE APPLICANT WHO'S ACQUIRED THE PROPERTY AND TELL THEM IT'S THREE STORIES I JUST WANT TO SET THAT EXPECTATION SO I HEAR WHAT SAYING AND OBVIOUSLY I AGREE WITH THAT. I'M HOPING THAT THERE'S SOME REAL VALUE IN THE TIME THAT IT'S TO BE TAKING THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO DO THIS. I HOPE THAT THOSE SUGGESTIONS THOSE OBSERVATIONS THAT ATTEMPT TO CREATE NEIGHBORHOODS INSTEAD OF YOU KNOW, STREETS LINED WITH HOUSES WILL BECOME MORE THAN OF WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE. I THINK THAT'S BEEN THE WHOLE GIST OF WHAT WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT AS WE LOOK AROUND THE ISLAND AND WE SEE THESE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE NOT NEIGHBORHOODS AT ALL. THEY'RE STREETS WITH HOUSES LINED UP AND DOWN THEM AND WE WANT SOMETHING BETTER WE EXPECT SOMETHING BETTER ESPECIALLY OUTSIDE THE GATES WHERE MOST OF THIS HAPPENS RIGHT. SO BEHIND THE GATES THERE'S ALL KINDS OF QUALITY CONTROL OUTSIDE GATES THERE'S NOT OR COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON WHAT THIS BODY APPROVES TO THE ALAMO. AND WE ASK OUR OUR COMMITTEES AND TO DO AND WE'RE FAILING AT IT LEFT AND RIGHT. IT'S OBVIOUS YOU HEAR ABOUT IT.

YOU HEARD A COMMENT PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO COME TO HELP ANYMORE.

A FRIEND OF MINE WHO JUST UNDER THE LAST CONVERSATION HAD 8000 RESPONSES TO THE POSITIVE WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY I WAS SO FRUSTRATED COULDN'T GET IT TO SPEAK WE'RE FAILING.

SO I'M HOPING THAT THIS ISN'T JUST MORE WORDS ON PAPER BUT A REAL ABILITY TO CREATE SOMETHING BETTER OUTSIDE THE GATES THAT ALREADY EXISTS INSIDE GATES.

AND ANY OTHER COMMENTS WE'VE GOT A MOTION BY MR. BROWN THAT'S ECHOED BY MRS. BRYSON ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE THINK ABOUT BY RAISING YOUR RIGHT HAND SO MOVE TO SEVEN ZERO NOW

[9.f. Consideration of an Ordinance of the Town of Hilton Head Island to Amend Title 16 of the Municipal Code, the Land Management Ordinance, to Amend Chapter 16-5, Development and Design Standards, to Add a New Section 16- 5-117 Construction Management Standards for the Town of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and Providing for Severability and an Effective Date - First Reading - Shawn Leininger, Assistant Town Manager ]

THE FIRST TREATMENT ORDERS TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE MISSOURI CODE OF LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE AMEND CHAPTER 16 DASH FIVE DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN CENTERS TO ADD A NEW SECTION 16 DASH 5-117 CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT STANDARDS THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND PLANNING COMMISSION REVIEWED THIS ITEM MARCH 1929. THERE WAS APPROVAL AND IT WAS REVIEWED BY THE COMMUNITY SERVICE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE ON APRIL 21ST WITH THE UNANIMOUS APPROVAL THE PLANNING I MEAN I MOVE TO APPROVE A FIRST READING OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER SIX AND FIVE DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN STANDARDS TO ADD A NEW SECTION 16 THIS DESPITE THIS ONE MORE SEVEN CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT STANDARDS FOR THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA PROVIDING SEVERABILITY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE WITH DIRECTION TO THE TOWN MANAGER TO BEGIN ENFORCEMENT OF THE ORDINANCE UNDER THE PENDING ORDINANCE DOCTRINES AND IT WAS MY SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS AGENDA ITEM NO YOU. DISCUSSION FROM. SAME COMMENT AS MY FIRST ANY OTHER COMMENTS? WE HAVE A MOTION BY MR. BROWN SAYING GOODBYE MR. PRICE AND ALL THOSE IN FAVOR RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. SO MOVE TO SEVEN ZERO.

[9.g. Consideration of a Resolution of the Town Council of the Town of Hilton Head Island to Oppose the Inclusion of South Carolina in the Proposed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 11th National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program - Angie Stone, Assistant Town Manager ]

LET'S SEE NOW WE HAVE CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION TO THE TOWN COUNCIL HILTON HEAD TO OPPOSE THE INCLUSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE PROPOSED BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 11TH NATIONAL OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OIL AND GAS LEASING PROGRAM.

THE STONE THANK YOU MR. MAYOR. TOWN COUNCIL MR. TOWN MANAGER IT'S MY PLEASURE TO BE IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION SOME ACTIVITY THE FEDERAL LEVEL THAT WOULD HAVE BEARING ON OUR IF WITH YOUR PERMISSION AND INDULGENCE. I'LL GO THROUGH A BRIEF HISTORY BRING YOU TO WHERE WE ARE NOW AND THEN PRESENT TO YOU A RESOLUTION THAT IF YOU CHOOSE TO PASS WOULD PUBLICLY PUT FORWARD YOUR POSITION ON THIS ON OFFSHORE DRILLING OFF OF OUR COAST. SO WHAT IS THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF.

THIS IS ALL OF AREA SURROUNDING THE UNITED STATES AND THE ATLANTIC THE GULF AND THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND FOR TO DATE MOST OF THE LEASES FOR OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT HAVE BEEN IN THE GULF OR OFF THE SHORE OF ALASKA SOUTH CAROLINA HAS NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN ANY THAT WE HAVE BEEN PART OF THE DISCUSSION TWICE BEFORE NOW. SO IN THE LAST TEN YEARS BETWEEN 2014 AND 2024 WE WERE UP AND CONSIDERED IN 2015 AND AGAIN IN 2018.

IN BOTH CASES THERE WAS STRONG BIPARTISAN OPPOSITION TO THE INCLUSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THESE OIL AND GAS LEASES CITING TOURISM, THE ENVIRONMENT AS WELL AS MILITARY OPERATIONS

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