* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:01] CLOSED CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY BUFORT COUNTY. ORDER. YOU MOVING HERE GUYS? WAIT. ORDER. TURN YOUR MIC ON THERE, CHRIS. RED BUTTON. RED BUTTON. THERE YOU GO. OKAY. A UH, AGAIN, [1. CALL TO ORDER] WE'LL CALL THE, UH, MEETING OF THE KEEP BEAUFORT COUNTY BEAUTIFUL BOARD. UH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8TH, 2025. CALL THE ORDER OF THE MEETING. FIRST THING ON THE AGENDA [2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA] IS APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA. WE SECOND? SECOND. OKAY. GOOD DEAL. AUGUST 14TH [3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – August 14,2025] MEETING. WE HAD, UH, THERE WAS SOME QUESTION ABOUT THE MINUTES. JUST, JUST WE NEED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES, BUT I HAVE A QUESTION. HAVE A QUESTION. OH, . SORRY. I THINK YOU'RE MUTED. JUST MAKE SURE YOU'RE, AND PULL IT DOWN. YEAH, THERE YOU GO. OKAY. UNDER BEAUTIFICATION, THE FIRST PARAGRAPH, THIS IS MY MEMORY, SO I DON'T KNOW IF I REMEMBER, I DON'T REMEMBER THE LAST LINE WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT POSSIBLE LOCATIONS FOR BALD PLANT PLACEMENT. I DON'T REMEMBER SAYING THAT. OR IT ABOUT IT WAS DISCUSSED BY, IT WAS IN GENERAL. I GUESS THAT DOESN'T SAY THAT YOU DISCUSSED IT. OKAY. IT JUST SAYS THAT WE DID DISCUSS THOSE LOCATIONS. OKAY. THAT WAS MY, I WAS LIKE, WAIT A MINUTE. OKAY. YEAH, THE COMMITTEE, IT JUST KIND OF SAYS THE COMMITTEE. OKAY. SO YOU, YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT? YES. OKAY. UM, WHAT, CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE THE, UH, MINUTES OF THE SO MOVE INTRODUCTIONS. [4. INTRODUCTIONS] EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM. START RIGHT HERE WITH FORD. FORD BARLOW FROM DISTRICT NINE. YOU JUST GOTTA PUSH THE RED BUTTON. IT'S GOT TAPE OVER. IT'S TAPED OVER. DON'T AUTOMATICALLY TURN ON. OKAY. YOU SHOULD JUST BE ABLE TO, OH, HE'S, THIS COVERED ALL THE HARDWARE. . THANK YOU. IT'S BRENDA MCFEE, DISTRICT SEVEN, JEAN UPHILL. I THINK I'M DISTRICT 11. I'M NOT SURE. 11. THANK YOU. UH, PAM FLOYD, DISTRICT THREE. AND I AM CHRIS CAMPBELL, DISTRICT ONE. AND DR. DR. JEAN IS WITH US ON ZOOM. SALLY MCLEOD, SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING. VICTORIA HOFFMAN. SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING. VALENTINA PALACIO, BEAUFORT COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS. AZE RODRIGUEZ S. WASTE AND RECYCLING. SERGEANT MATT RECOMMENDING BUFORT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE. THANK YOU. CRAIG TOSKI, BEAUFORT COUNTY BROADCASTING. CRAIG, I WANT YOU TO THANK THE LITTLE LADY OVER AT WHO, UH, DIRECTED PAM IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. WE'D STILL BE SITTING UP THERE WAITING ON EVERYBODY RIGHT NOW, BUT IT WAS YOUR CREW THAT PUT US ON THE RIGHT TRACK. THANK YOU. UM, OKAY. SUBCOMMITTEE [5. SUB-COMMITTEE UPDATES] UPDATES. UH, START WITH THAT ONE. YEAH, LET'S START THERE. SO YOU'RE GONNA START WITH PALMETTO PRIDE. YEAH. UM, WE HAD A CONFERENCE AT PALMETTO PRIDE. UH, IT WAS VERY GOOD. UH, JESUS WAS UP THERE. WE TALKED ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS. UM, THEY'RE ALWAYS ON A GOOD TRACK. UM, I HAD THE PLEASURE OF HAVING DINNER WITH, UH, UH, DIRECTOR, UM, SARAH, UH, LOWES AND SEVERAL PEOPLE. UM, AND WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'VE GOT A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH PALMETTO PRIDE RIGHT NOW. I THINK WE'RE IN GOOD SHAPE. UM, IT USUAL ALL THE, YOU KNOW, THEY, WE DON'T HAVE QUITE THE TIRE, UH, PROBLEM THAT OTHER COUNTIES DO. SO A LOT OF TIMES THAT, THAT A LOT OF DISCUSSION IS DONE ABOUT THE, UH, UM, [00:05:01] THE DISPOSAL OF ILLEGALLY DISPOSING TIRES ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. BUT, UM, BUT THE, UH, ALL OF THE LITTER AND ALL THE THINGS THAT THEY'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH US AND THEY KEEP, KEEP, UH, KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL. UM, EVERYTHING FOR US IS GOING WELL. SO WE'RE, WE'RE GOOD TO GO. THERE'S THE NEXT BULLET POINT. BEAUTIFICATION. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE PURCHASE. WE'VE GOT THE BULBS, RIGHT? I KNOW. HAVE THEY ARRIVED? YES, THEY HAVE. OKAY. THEY'VE ARRIVED. AND, UM, CHRIS AND I DROVE AROUND LAST WEEK LOOKING AT POSSIBLE LOCATIONS OF WHERE WE HAD IDEAS OF WHERE TO PLANT THEM. AND WE NEED TO MEET WITH YOU, VICTORIA AND BRADLEY, BRADLEY, AND COME UP WITH IDEAS, UM, OF, OF THOSE LOCATIONS WHERE Y'ALL THINK WOULD BE GOOD IDEAS. AND ALSO WHO IS DOING THE PLANTING IS THE QUESTION. ARE WE PLANNING, ARE Y'ALL PLANNING? WHO'S PLANTING? OR CAN WE HELP YOU PLAN IF Y'ALL ARE PLANTING? UH, SO IN A DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD WITH PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR AND, UH, JEAN AND MR. CAMPBELL, UH, WERE ALSO PRESENT. PUBLIC WORKS WILL NOT BE DOING THE PLANTING. SO THAT IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT KBCB WILL HAVE TO OVERSEE. SO WE DID A TRIAL RUN LAST YEAR WITH THE WILDFLOWER SEEDS AND IT'S JUST TOO MUCH UPKEEP FOR OUR STAFF AND TOO MUCH IN DEPTH WORK WITH BOLD PLANTING AND WATERING. UM, SO THAT WILL DEFINITELY NEED TO BE SOMETHING KBCB, UM, MAYBE HIRES A VENDOR TO DO. OKAY. OKAY. UM, WILL DEFINITELY VET AND CONFIRM LOCATIONS THAT WOULD BE IDEAL. AND THAT ALSO, UM, FALL IN, UH, COUNTY RIGHT OF WAY BEING A LITTLE BIT OF A ROOKIE IN PLANTING IN SOUTH CAROLINA. WHAT IS THE TIMEFRAME WHEN BULBS GET PLANTED NOW, NOW NOW FALL NOW. OKAY. FALL OR SPRING. YEAH. OKAY. UM, THESE ARE SPRING BULBS, SO THEY NEED TO BE PLANNED. THEY NEED TO BE PLANTED THIS FALL. IF WE CAN GET IT BETWEEN NOW AND CHRISTMAS, WE'D BE FINE. YEAH. UM, WOULD WE REACH OUT TO THE, UH, LIKE THE GREENERY OR SOMEBODY TO DO THAT FOR US? I THINK THAT'D BE OUR WHAT ABOUT, WHAT ABOUT REACHING OUT TO SOME OF THE, UM, THE GARDENING CLUBS? WELL, WE COULD DO THAT TOO. THE PROBLEM IS A LOT OF PLACES, UM, THAT WE THOUGHT WERE GOOD, UM, DO HAVE A TRAFFIC ISSUE. I MEAN, IT'S, SOME OF 'EM ARE A LITTLE SCARY. UH, SO WE'LL HAVE TO, DO YOU HAVE A LIST OF THOSE LOCATIONS? WE HAVE IDEAS, BUT WE HAVE TO, UM, MEET WITH VICTORIA AND BRADLEY TO COME UP WITH WHERE THEY AGREE IS ACCEPTABLE LOCATIONS. I THINK ONCE WE GET THAT LIST AND WE'VE, WE'VE IDENTIFIED THE LOCATIONS, THEN WE CAN START WORKING ON INCORPORATING SOME COMMUNITY PEOPLE OR BUSINESSES TO HELP PLANTING. BUT, BUT WE GOTTA IDENTIFY THOSE LOCATIONS FIRST. YEAH. WE DID A GIANT CIRCLE OF THE COUNTY. WE WENT ALL OVER THE PLACE. WE WENT DOWN, UH, TO THE BRIDGE, DOWN TO THE BLUFFTON PARKWAY. WE CAME BACK AROUND, UP PAST YOU, AND THEN ALL OVER BEAUFORT AND OUT ON LADIES ISLAND AND ALL AROUND, OUT ON LADIES ISLAND. YEAH. WE DID IT. AND, AND YOU KNOW WHAT, THERE'S HUNDREDS OF PLACES TO DO IT. DO YOU HAVE A LIST OF LOCATIONS NOW? 'CAUSE I CAN TAKE THAT INFORMATION AND GET THAT BACK TO YOU QUICKER THAN SETTING UP A MEETING WOULD BE. I'LL HAVE TO EMAIL IT TO YOU BECAUSE I LEFT THAT NOTEBOOK AT HOME. OKAY. YEAH. EMAIL ME AND THAT WOULD BE FASTER THAN TRYING TO SET UP A MEETING WITH ME AND MR. HARRIET. OKAY. AND SO ON THE, ON THE QUANTITY THAT WE ORDERED, HOW MANY LOCATIONS DO WE THINK WE CAN COVER? IT DEPENDS ON HOW WE PLANT 'EM. IF WE WANNA PLANT 'EM PRETTY HEAVY THAT, UH, WHICH I WOULD RECOMMEND, UM, PROBABLY SIX, SIX LOCATIONS. I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S CAN DO. YEAH. WE'VE GOT 1500 BOLTS. MM-HMM . SO MY ONLY CONCERN WITH, UM, TRYING TO GET VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS TO ENGAGE AND HELP US HERE, CHRIS, SAFETY, LIABILITY, IT'S SAFETY, ET CETERA. SECOND ONE IS, THESE BULBS HAVE A, UH, LIFETIME, THEY'RE GONNA EXPIRE. RIGHT. AT SOME POINT THEY HAVE TO BE IN THE GROUND. SO WE DON'T HAVE SIX MONTHS TO PLAN THAT. WE HAVE TO KIND OF GET IT GOING. NOW, ONE SUGGESTION I MIGHT HAVE IS THAT WE TAKE, WE ALLOCATE SOME FUNDS TODAY TO PAY TO HAVE IT DONE. DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN GO WRITE A CONTRACT RIGHT AWAY, GO TRY THE VOLUNTEER ROUTE. ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT THAT. BUT IF WE DON'T DO THAT TODAY, WE CAN'T EVEN MAKE A DECISION ON THAT UNTIL UNTIL DECEMBER. DECEMBER, WHICH IS TOO LATE. [00:10:01] OKAY. SO COULD, SO I WOULD SUGGEST NOT SIX SITES, FEWER SITES. OKAY. 'CAUSE EVERY SITE YOU ADD MAKES IT MORE EXPENSIVE. RIGHT. IS THERE ANY WAY, VICTORIA, YOU COULD LICK A THUMB UP IN THE AIR AND SAY, I THINK IT MIGHT COST $5,000. I MIGHT $10,000. I CAN LITERALLY TELL YOU, I HAVE NO IDEA. I CAN TELL YOU IT'S SOLID WASTE. I CAN POP OUT AND SEE IF ARD HAS ANY IDEA, BUT I HAVE NO IDEA. IT, IT'S TWO DAYS WORK. IF WE PICK, THERE'S CERTAINLY, THERE ARE A LOT OF PLACES THAT ARE SORT OF PLANT READY. UH, THE GARDEN'S CORNER SPOT IS NOT QUITE PLANT READY. IT'S GOT GRASS THAT SHOULD BE REMOVED. BUT, UM, THERE ARE, THERE ARE MANY THAT ARE PLANT READY. UH, THE, THE, ALL THE LITTLE PLANTERS GOING OUT, UH, SAM'S POINT ROAD FOR INSTANCE, THEY HAD ALL COULD, IT WOULDN'T HURT A BIT FOR THEM TO BE, UH, I THINK IT WILL DETERMINE THE LOCATION BECAUSE IT IS A BULB. SO WHAT THAT'S LIKE AT LEAST A FOOT DOWN? NO, SIX INCHES. SIX DOWN SIX INCHES. BUT IT'S NOT JUST THROWING SOME OH NO, THEY GOTTA BE PLANTED. HAVE THINK IT'LL DETERMINE THE LOCATION, WHAT THE SUBSURFACE IS LOOKING LIKE. WORST CASE SCENARIO, WE CAN PUT THEM IN COLD STORAGE IF THEY'RE DAFFODILS. YEAH, THEY'RE DILS. DO YOU DAFF COLD STORAGE? I'M FOR SIX FOOT PLANTED WHAT? SIX INCHES? INCHES APART. 10 INCHES APART? YEAH. I WANNA, I WANNA SAY IT'S BETWEEN SIX AND THE FEET. YOU GOT 350 BULBS PER SPOT. IF YOU GOT FOUR SPOTS, YOU GOT, I MEAN, YOU CAN PRETTY MUCH GUESS. YEAH. YEAH. THE SIZE SPOT SQUARE FOOTAGE DO YOU WANT, SO WE JUST DIDN'T KNOW EXACTLY. WE HAVE IDEAS, BUT WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT WOULD BE A APPROVED LOCATIONS. WHAT, UNTIL WE GET LOCATION. I DON'T THINK WE CAN REALLY, WHAT'S THE BUDGET? I DON'T, IT WOULD BE OVER $5,000. SO WE, MAYBE WE COULD GET THE, UH, PARDON ME. SHOULD BE OVER FIVE. YEAH. I MEAN, IT'S A COUPLE OF DAYS WORK. IT MEANT THE MOST. SO I, I HAVE A FRIEND THAT RUNS THE GREENERY HERE IN TOWN AND I'LL BE GLAD TO GO BY AND SEE HIM AND SEE IF HE COULD SQUEEZE IT INTO HIS SCHEDULE. OKAY. BUT DO WE WANT TO SUGGEST FIVE UP TO $5,000? I, I THINK IF, I THINK THAT'S GOOD. YEAH. I THINK THAT'S GOOD. MM-HMM . HEY, LEMME GIVE GUYS A MINUTE. YEAH, GO AHEAD. UM, GO AHEAD. OKAY. SO I SUGGEST WE MOVE TO PUT ASIDE OR APPROVE 5,000 UP TO $5,000 TO PAY FOR THE PLANNING OF THE BULBS THAT FIDEL BULBS. MANY S YOU JUST NEEDED THE VOTE ON. I JUST NEED THE VOTE ON THE AMOUNT UP TO 5,000. SO, MOVED. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. I THINK, UM, ASSOCIATED WITH THAT, MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE THAT WE MOVE $5,000 FROM THE MARKETING, THE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH LINE ITEM, WHICH NOW HAS $16,000 IN IT. WE REDUCE THAT BY 5,000 AND UP THE, UM, BEAUTIFICATION BUDGET BY 5,000. AGAIN, IT'S ONLY USE IT IF YOU NEED IT AND USE WHAT YOU NEED OF IT. UM, IF FOR SOME REASON IT'S COMES IN AT FIVE TIMES THAT PRICE. I LOVE BRENDA'S IDEA OF WE'LL PLANT WHAT WE CAN AFFORD AND THEN WE'LL CORD STORAGE THE REST YEAH. GET THEM WHAT WE GET DONE. WE WANNA GET SOME DONE THOUGH. YEAH. YEAH. I THINK WE CAN. SO DO WE NEED TO MOVE TO MOVE THE MONEY SECOND? YEAH. YEAH. YOU'VE MOVED. OKAY. SO WOULD YOU START AGAIN, PAM, WITH YOUR MOTION? I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY. YOU'RE MONEY FROM WHERE TO WHERE? UM, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH EDUCATION. THANK YOU. THAT'S, THERE'S 16 K IN THERE NOW, WHICH IS PROBABLY FLEXIBLE. UM, OKAY. THAT'S THE MOTION IS TWO PIECES. SO I HAVE THE FIRST PART OF THE MOTION, AND THEN THE SECOND PART OF THE MOTION WOULD BE TO MOVE $5,000 FROM THE EDUCATION, UM, MONIES INTO BEAUTIFICATION. ALL IN FAVOR? I. AYE. DO WE NEED A FULL SECOND? SECOND, SECOND. AYE. SORRY. AYE. MOVE. AYE. AND SOMEBODY, DID JAYDEN WAVE HER HAND OR SAY HI? SAY AYE. YEAH. OKAY. GREAT. THANK YOU JEAN. OKAY, LET'S MOVE ON. CAN I JUST MAKE A GENERAL COMMENT? SO I NOW THREE TIMES IN A ROW, I THINK HAVE WRITTEN THE, UH, COMMITTEE REPORTS. I'M COOL WRITING THE COMMITTEE REPORTS. I KIND OF PUT IT OUT THERE, BUT I WOULD LOVE SOME INPUT, UH, FOR THIS MEETING NEXT TIME. UM, AND, AND I SENT IT TO HIM. OKAY. I SENT IT TO HIM ONLINE. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. SO IT'S, IT'S GOOD. BUT, AND YOU KNOW, LET'S GIVE UPDATES OF WHATEVER WE HAVE TO NOT JUST WHAT'S ON THE PAGE. RIGHT. THIS IS A GENERAL UPDATE AND THIS IS ALREADY A MONTH OLD OR, OR THREE WEEKS OLD, WHATEVER. OKAY. SORRY CHRIS. UM, BACK TO ME AGAIN. 28 SIGN. WHY DON'T WE MOVE TO 28, SIGN BACK DOWN TO NEW BUSINESS BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA BE DISCUSSING IT. THE THING MOVED DOWN. OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT WAY [00:15:01] WE'RE KEEPING IT. OKAY. OKAY. CHRIS? YEAH, THE WHOLE ROUTE 28 SIGN IS GONNA GET MOVED TO NEW BUSINESS. WE WON'T TALK ABOUT IT NOW. WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES. OKAY. YOUR SIGNS? YES. THE 2 78 SIGNS THEY'RE GONNA BE. YEP. SO WE'RE DOWN TO EARLY DISCUSSIONS ON ALTERNATIVE, THAT BULLET POINT. OKAY. THE, THE, I I WAS PROPOSING A TRUNK SIGN AND, AND IT HADN'T REALLY WORKED OUT, BUT, UM, WE'VE DECIDED THAT IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE COULD DO THE TRUNK SOMEWHERE. MAYBE. I MEAN, UH, THE BIG DREAM WOULD BE IF WE COULD PUT IT IN THE WATERFRONT PARK IN BEAUFORT AS A MEMORIAL TO THE EARLY SETTLERS OF THIS. I THINK IT WOULD WORK. UM, SO WE'RE GONNA GO OVER AND, UH, MEET WITH THE MAYOR. I JUST TRIED TO CALL HIM A MINUTE AGO. UM, UM, AND, UH, SEE, SEE WHERE WE COULD START ON WHERE WE COULD PUT IT. BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO, UH, MOVE, MOVE FORWARD WITH, WE DON'T WANNA LOSE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD THAT TRUNK BECAUSE WE'VE DES DESIGNATED MONEY FOR IT. SO, CORRECT. MM-HMM. MM-HMM . THAT'S A, THAT'S A, IS WHAT WE'VE GOT GOING ON THE TRUNK. I THINK IT WAS VICTORIA AND BAILEY'S, UH, UH, BRADLEY'S IDEA THAT THEY PUT IT IN SOME SORT OF A PLACE THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, PARK OR SOMETHING. THANK YOU FOR THAT IDEA. I'LL TAKE THE NEXT ONE. UM, AS EVERYBODY KNOWS, 'CAUSE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR MONTHS NOW. UM, WE'VE BEEN INTERCHANGING WITH USCB. UH, WE'LL GIVE YOU MORE SIGN UPDATE IN A LITTLE BIT. BUT, UM, UH, WHILE WE WERE WALKING THE SITE TWO WEEKS AGO, UM, MET WITH THE, UM, UM, SCHOOLS MANAGER OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB. EVERY CLUB NEEDS A SPONSORSHIP. SO WE MET WITH THE SPONSOR AND, UH, WE AGREED THAT WE COULD BE ON THE AGENDA FOR THE NEXT ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB MEETING. THERE ARE ABOUT 30 PEOPLE, TYPICALLY 30 STUDENTS. TYPICALLY STUDENTS. STUDENTS. JUST STUDENTS. MM-HMM . YEAH. AND THE SPONSOR, OF COURSE, IS A EMPLOYEE OF THE, OF THE, UH, SCHOOL. UM, AND THE IDEA THERE IS TO SEE IF WE CAN'T FIND SOME PROJECTS, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER, UH, BETWEEN KEEP BEFORD COUNTY BEAUTIFUL AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB. UM, I'LL PRESENT THAT AS AN IDEA. UM, AND THEN, UM, I'M KIND OF LOOKING AT THEM AS POTENTIAL ARMS AND LEGS FOR US TO DO THINGS. LIKE IF WE HAVE A PROJECT, WE WANNA ENGAGE WITH A GROUP TO HELP US, THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, GET PEOPLE TO SHOW UP AND, AND HELP US. UM, WE'RE ALSO TRYING TO BROADEN THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SCHOOL ACROSS A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT FRONTS. UM, A COUPLE OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT, UM, INCREASING RECYCLING AT THE SCHOOL AND, AND VICTORIA IS, IS OBVIOUSLY THAT. UM, BUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB, HOPEFULLY IT COMES UP NEXT WEEK OR SO. I'LL INVITE EVERYONE TO THAT AS I TRY TO DO EVERY TIME. AND YOU'RE WELCOME TO JOIN. I'LL SEND OUT LOGISTICS AS THEY, UH, AS THEY COME ABOUT QUESTIONS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB. I THINK THAT'S A A GREAT IDEA. THE, THE, THE YOUNG, THE YOUNG ONES AT THE COLLEGE WOULD BE INTERESTING TO JUST TO GO IN THERE AND TALK TO 'EM. YEAH. SEE WHAT THEY GOT GOING. THEY CAME UP WITH THESE THINGS FOR THE SIGNS. THEY WERE PRETTY COOL. OKAY. WHAT'S OUR NEXT ITEM? I, I BE . WE DISCUSS THAT. I'LL TAKE THE NEXT ONE AFTER THAT. WHICH IS THE STATE TOOL FOR COLLECTING ONE OF THE IDEAS THAT, UM, TJ JET FROM HILTON HEAD, WHO IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER IN HILTON HEAD. HE AND I HAD COFFEE AND BRAINSTORMED WHAT MIGHT WE DO? UM, AS AN EVENT SPONSORED BY KBCB. LIKE, WE BRAND IT, IT'S OURS. WE SET IT UP, WE RUN IT, WE OPERATE IT, WE DO EVERYTHING NEED TO DO. SO WE CHATTED ABOUT IT A BIT IN A BIT, AND HE SAID WHAT HE'D LIKE TO DO IS TO COLLECT MUCH DEEPER DATA ON A SMALLER FOOTPRINT OF A LITTER CLEANUP. SO WE TALKED ABOUT THAT AND I, I WAS EXCITED ABOUT IT. I THOUGHT THAT'D BE GREAT. I THOUGHT USING THE STUDENTS AT USCB WOULD BE PERFECT FOR IT. UM, AND SO AS I DUG INTO IT A LITTLE BIT, UM, DR. JEAN SHOWED ME THE DATA COLLECTION TOOL THAT THE SOUTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM BUILT FOR LITTER. I DIDN'T KNOW IT EXISTED. UM, I THINK I'VE SENT A LINK TO IT TO EVERYONE. IF I HAVEN'T I WILL AGAIN. UM, BUT IT'S A GREAT TOOL. AND DR. JEAN ALSO SHOWED THAT THAT'S THE PROCESS THAT OUTSIDE THE OUTSIDE FOUNDATION IS NOW USING AS THEY DO LITTER CLEANUPS. IT'S A MOBILE APP OR A PAPER FORM THAT YOU FILL IN, IN PAPER, AND THEN YOU PUT IT INTO THE APP LATER. AND IT BASICALLY, UM, PROVIDES [00:20:01] A WAY TO COLLECT DATA, NOT JUST HOW MANY POUNDS OF TRASH OR HOW MANY BAGS OF RECYCLING, BUT THE CONCEPT IS YOU HAVE ONE PERSON PICKING UP AND ONE PERSON RECORDING. EVERY SINGLE ITEM IS RECORDED. THREE CIGARETTE BUTTS, THREE STYROFOAM CONTAINERS, ONE OTHER CONTAINER, HUGE AMOUNT OF DATA. AND THE SOUTH CAROLINA PEOPLE HAD DONE A TERRIFIC JOB OF DESIGNING AN APP, WHICH GIVES THEM THE DATA THAT THEY NEED TO MAKE, UH, GOOD POLICY DECISIONS. IT ISN'T, IT'S NO LONGER A QUESTION. WE'VE GOT 25 POUNDS, IT'S NOW IT'S STYROFOAM CUPS ARE A PROBLEM, AND HERE'S THE DATA BEHIND IT. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO. UM, THE OTHER VALUE IS, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALL KNOWN, WE, WE'VE ALL TALKED ABOUT WORKING ON THE LIMITING PLASTICS, UM, UH, IN THE COUNTY WITH THE NEW ORDINANCE, ET CETERA. WELL, IF WE USE THIS APP TO PICK UP, TO TRACK WHAT WE PICK UP, WE SHOULD SHOW A REDUCTION IN STYROFOAM OVER TIME. OKAY. SO THAT'S, WITHOUT THAT DATA, YOU'RE STILL JUST DOING POUNDS. SO, YOU KNOW, GENE HAS GOT IT NAILED. I THINK FOR OUTSIDE FOUNDATION STUFF, UM, WE'D LOVE TO FIGURE OUT IF WE DO GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE ARE SPONSORING A CLEANUP, THAT COULD BE PART OF IT. SO I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS I WANNA TALK ABOUT AT THE SCHOOL, AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB IS, DO YOU ALL HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT YOU WANT TO DO? DO YOU WANT TO DO A LITTER CLEANUP? DO YOU WANNA DO A TREE PLANTING? DO YOU WANT DO WHATEVER YOU GUYS WANT TO DO? WE CAN HELP WHETHER ORGANIZING, STRUCTURING, WE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY WE CAN SPEND, ET CETERA. UM, BUT I'M SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THE, UM, UH, THE APP NOW. AND I HAD A TELEPHONE CALL WITH THE SOUTH WITH THE AQUARIUM FOLKS, AND THEY'VE GOT DATA THEY'RE GONNA SHARE. THEY'VE GOT PROCESSES, THEY'VE GOT TOOLS, GOT EVERYTHING. I THINK GENE PROBABLY HAS A LOT OF IT ALREADY, BUT FOR ME IT WAS A GREAT EDUCATION. I HAD NO IDEA THAT WE AS A STATE WERE DOING THIS ALREADY AND WE JUST NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF COLLECTING THAT DATA. CAN WE DOWNLOAD IT NOW? YES, YOU CAN. YEAH. RIGHT OFF THE APP STORE. IT, IT'S AT THE APP STORE. YEP. UM, IT'S, DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT'S CALLED? YEAH. IT'S A SC AQUARIUM. IT'S CALLED JUST SEARCH LITTLE JOURNAL AND IT'LL BE SC AQUARIUM. YEAH. 'CAUSE IT'S LIKE A BIG PLATFORM THAT, UM, DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS HAVE PAGES AND THE SOUTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM HAS THEIR SPECIFIC PAGE. CAN YOU USE IT ON MOBILE OKAY. OR OH, YEAH. YEAH. OKAY. YEAH. I ACTUALLY HAVE THAT APP ON MY YEP, I HAVE IT ON MY PHONE TOO. I'LL I'LL SHOW IT TO YOU. YEAH, I'M GONNA USE IT. YEAH. YEAH. IT, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S ACTUALLY A GREAT, A GREAT WAY FOR US TO THINK BROADER THAN JUST MAINTENANCE. YEAH. RIGHT. OF PICKING UP STUFF OFF THE HIGHWAY. HOW DO WE STOP THAT FLOW OF STUFF TO THE HIGHWAY? LIKE THE TIRE PROBLEM, IF YOU HAVE A COUNTY THAT IS ANYWHERE NEAR A, A HIGHWAY, IF YOU'VE GOT THOSE BIG PROBLEMS, WE DON'T HAVE THAT PROBLEM. WE HAVE A DIFFERENT SET OF PROBLEMS. SO I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST, UM, IT'D BE REALLY COOL TO GO AND ATTEND ONE OF THEIR CLEANUPS. THE SE AQUARIUM, I THINK DOES LIKE AN AMAZING 80 OR 90 CLEANUPS A YEAR. AND I WENT TO ONE OF THEM TO JUST SEE HOW THE LITTER JOURNAL THING WORKS OUT. AND IT WORKS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN ANY REGULAR LITTER CLEANUP. UM, SO THAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO SEE IF Y'ALL COULD MAKE IT TO, MAYBE IT'S IN CHARLESTON NORMALLY AREA. UM, MAYBE Y'ALL CAN COORDINATE THAT. BUT THAT'S A REALLY GREAT WAY TO KIND OF, IF YOU DO WANNA MOVE FORWARD IN DOING THAT, GO INTO THAT AND KIND OF GET AN IDEA OF WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE. WHAT DO THEY DO WITH THE, UH, IDENTIFYING THEIR WASTE STREAM? WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING WITH THE DATA? THEY COLLECT IT ALL, AND IT'S USED IN VARIOUS WAYS. I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY DO IT FOR, BUT I KNOW THEY'VE SUPPLIED IT TO, LIKE THE CITY OF CHARLESTON WHEN THEY WERE DOING PLASTIC BAG STUFF. UM, THEY DO IT JUST IN RESEARCH, JUST TO HAVE, FOR RESEARCH AND PEOPLE QUOTE IT. LIKE, I DID A PRESENTATION AND I QUOTED, UM, THE AMOUNT OF PLASTIC BAGS THAT THEY FOUND IN THE, IN THE CHARLESTON AQUARIUM AREA FOR A GIVEN, UM, A GIVEN CLEANUP THAT THEY DID. YEAH. SO IT'S JUST LIKE, REALLY, ESPECIALLY LIKE IF WE ARE ABLE TO HAVE THIS IN THE PROCESS OF PLASTIC BAG ORDINANCE AND LIKE COLLECTING THAT DATA, THEY APPROACHED ME BECAUSE THEY'RE LIKE, WE NEED MORE DATA FROM BEAUFORT AREA. WE WANT IT TO BE SOUTH CAROLINA BASED. AND THEY HAVE SOME, SOME AREAS IN IN COLUMBIA WORKING WITH RIVER KEEPERS, UM, COLLECTING DATA. SO I THINK IT'S JUST IMPORTANT TO LIKE BACK ANY SORT OF LEGISLATION OR, UM, GREEN INITIATIVES OKAY. THAT HAVE TO DO WITH LIKE SINGLE USE LITTER AND STUFF. AND THEY HAVE AN OUTREACH PROGRAM. IF WE DECIDE WE'RE GONNA DO A CLEANUP SOMEWHERE IN THE COUNTY, THEY SAID, YOU CALL US. WE'LL EITHER BE THERE PHYSICALLY AND WE'LL TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO DO EVERYTHING, OR WE'LL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING TO TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO DO EVERYTHING. UM, SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE ANXIOUS TO INCLUDE US. UH, WE JUST HAVE TO REACH FOR THEM AND TELL THEM WHEN WE'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING. SO, UH, JEAN, DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON, UM, YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH THAT TOOL AND WHETHER YOU KNOW HOW IT'S WORKING AND WHETHER YOU'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO GO FORWARD? I MEAN, WE USE, UH, THE TOOL, UH, [00:25:01] PRIOR TO COVID IT WAS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE THE CLIPBOARDS AND THE KIND OF THE STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES THAT THEY HAVE NOW, BUT IT WAS STILL A FAIRLY COMMONLY USED TOOL PRIOR TO COVID. AND ALL OF THAT INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECTED WAS USED BY THE COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE AND OTHER GROUPS WHEN THEY WERE IN THE PROCESS OF WORKING ON THE ORIGINAL PLASTIC BAG BAND. AND SO IT WAS SUPER GREAT TO HAVE THAT PRETTY SOLID. SO WHEN WE WANTED TO GET STARTED AGAIN, UM, WE JUST BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, PHONED UP TO THE AQUARIUM AND THEY JUST MET US DOWN HERE AND BROUGHT A BAG FULL OF CLIPBOARDS WITH ALL THE SHEETS. THEY CAN SEND YOU A DIGITAL COPY OF THE SHEET SO YOU COULD MAKE COPIES. UM, BUT THEY PRETTY MUCH PROVIDE YOU WITH EVERYTHING. AND THEN ON THAT FIRST CLEANUP, THEY'LL ACTUALLY WALK YOU THROUGH THE STEPS OF HOW TO COUNT THINGS, HOW YOU ACTUALLY RECORD THEM, HOW YOU WORK IN PAIRS, SO ON AND SO FORTH. UM, YOU DO NEED ONE PERSON TO DO THE ENTRIES, WHICH CAN BE A LITTLE BIT TIME CONSUMING, BUT YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YOU MAY HAVE A STUDENT AT USCB WHO'S, WHO'S, YOU KNOW, KIND OF WANTING TO DO THAT AS, AS A COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE OR JUST FOR WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE PART OF THE CLUB. UH, BUT YOU DO NEED TO HAVE THAT. UM, BUT WE USE IT FOR EVERY CLEANUP NOW. SO IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY WE CAN, WE CAN SHOW YOU HOW, UM, IT'S DONE. IT'S, ONCE YOU GET ROLLING, IT'S, IT'S PRETTY EASY. UM, WE HAVE MOVED, UH, BEYOND THAT AS WELL WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY USING TWO DIFFERENT COLOR BAGS DURING OUR CLEANUPS. AND SO IF WE'RE DOING, FOR EXAMPLE, KIG BEACH, WE'LL ACTUALLY NOT ONLY BE RECORDING, BUT WE'LL BE ACTIVELY SEPARATING OUR, OUR RECYCLABLES. AND SO GOTTEN A LITTLE BIT BETTER GRASP ON OUR BEACH, UM, RECYCLING AND ALL OF THAT. WE ACTUALLY ARE NOW GOING THAT ONE STEP FARTHER AND ASKING, UM, OUR, UM, VOLUNTEERS TO, YOU KNOW, GRAB THE ONES AND TWOS, MAKING IT REALLY SIMPLE. BOTTLES AND CANS, BOTTLES AND CANS BOTTLES. AND IT'S ALL, ALL YOU PUT IN THAT BAG. IF THERE'S NOT A BOTTLE OR A CAN, DON'T PUT IT IN THAT BAG. BUT AGAIN, JUST ANOTHER LEVEL OF KIND OF, I THINK VOLUNTEERS JUST LOVE THAT STUFF, UM, BECAUSE THEY'RE REALLY SEEING, UH, THE IMPACT. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S REMARKABLE TO HAVE PEOPLE COUNT, YOU KNOW, LIKE CIGARETTE BUTTS. THE LAST CLEANUP WE HAD, IT WAS JUST INSANE. I MEAN, IT WAS IN THE THREE, FOUR HUNDREDS, UH, STRAWS ARE WAY UP THERE AS WELL, UM, DOWN ON NEY BEACH. SO YEAH, IT'S, UH, I, I THINK IT'S REALLY KIND OF A FUN THING TO DO AND, AND SOMETHING THAT THE STUDENTS, UM, YOU KNOW, MIGHT, I'D BE REALLY INTERESTED IN DOING. SO I'LL TALK TO THE STUDENTS AS SOON AS IT HAPPENS, HOPEFULLY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS. UM, AND I THINK IT'D BE FUN FOR US TO TAKE ONE OF THOSE ON. IT'S, PARTICULARLY IF WE'VE GOT A BUILT IN, UM, GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN EXCITED ABOUT PARTICIPATING. I HAVE, I HAVE A QUESTION. IN, IN THE CASE OF THE, THE PICKUP THAT WE SORT OF SPONSOR WITH VICTORIA, THE, UM, WHAT IS THAT EARTH DAY? MM-HMM . A LOT OF BAGS. I MEAN, CAN WE DO IT WHERE WE JUST PICK 10 BAGS AND GO THROUGH IT? OR DO WE HAVE TO DO EVERY BAG? I MEAN, CONCEPT IS, I'M ASKING EVERYBODY IN THE, THE ROOM IS TO DO, THE CONCEPT IS TO DO EVERY CIGARETTE BUTT, NOT JUST EVERY BAG. NOT A STATISTICAL SAMPLE. IT'S TO DO EVERY SINGLE ITEM YOU PICK UP. THAT'S THE CONCEPT WHAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY, IT'S NOT IT BEFORE YOU PUT IT IN THE BAG. YEAH. YEAH. SO THAT'S WHY, THAT'S WHY IT'S REALLY EASY TO DO BECAUSE AS, AS ONE PERSON IS PICKING IT UP, THE OTHER PERSON IS RECORDING. OH, I GOT, I GOT THAT. YEP. YEAH. SO THAT'S A PRETTY EASY THING. SO IT MAKES IT GO PRETTY QUICKLY. UH, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S PRETTY EFFICIENT. YEAH. AND IT MIGHT BE THREE PEOPLE PICKING UP AND ONE PERSON RECORDING. THAT'S A LOT OF VOLUNTEERS. SOMETIMES YOU DON'T GET THAT MANY VOLUNTEERS. IT, IT IS. AND THAT, I'M NOT TRYING TO BE A DEVILS ADVOCATE, THIS NO. I THINK THE, THE RUBBER HITS THE ROAD. YEAH. WHEN YOU'RE ACTUALLY TRYING TO ORCHESTRATE IT. SO THAT I AGREE. SO AS WE PULL IT TOGETHER, THEN WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW, WHAT LEVEL OF DATA DO WE HAVE ARMS AND LEGS TO COLLECT? I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA. AND DON'T, YEAH. UM, THOSE ARE ALL BUT STUDENTS, RIGHT? I MEAN, WE DON'T, WE DON'T NECESSARILY NEED TO BE SCRATCHING OUR HEAD, LET THEM SCRATCH THEIR HEADS. BECAUSE I THINK, AGAIN, AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP, AS OPPOSED TO BEING TOLD, YOU KNOW, KIND OF WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, WE CAN PROVIDE THEM WITH THE FRAMEWORK AND ALLOW THEM TO SOLVE SOME OF THESE ISSUES. UM, I HAVE A QUESTION. UM, WHAT, YOU KNOW, AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, IT MIGHT BE PRESENTED TO THEM AS, AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, TO REACH [00:30:01] OUT, UM, COUNTY WORK. UH, I HAD FRIENDS THAT ENDED UP DOING 20 HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE COULD INCORPORATE INTO SOMETHING LIKE THIS? YOU KNOW, PICKING UP, IF, IF WE WERE GONNA HAVE AN EFFORT WHERE WE'RE GOING OUT AND WE'RE PICKING OUT, PICKING UP ALONG A BEACH OR AN AREA, CAN WE WORK WITH THE COUNTY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO DO THAT KIND OF COMMUNITY SERVICE TIME? UHHUH, , I'M SURE. WELL, UH, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. I A GOOD ANSWER THAT THIS COULD PROBABLY, LEMME MAKE SURE I PUT MYSELF ON HERE. THERE. OKAY, THERE I GO. YEAH. UH, WE HAD, UH, LAST YEAR, LATER IN THE YEAR, WE HAD DISCUSSIONS PERTAINING TO THAT TO, UH, COMMUNITY SERVICE MEMBERS ARE, UH, SENTENCED BY THE COURTS TO PERFORM THESE SERVICES COMMUN OR TO THE COMMUNITY. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT BECAUSE IN SPEAKING WITH THE DA'S OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IN THE COUNTY HERE, UM, MOST OF THEIR SCHEDULING, IF IT WERE TO BE DONE UNDER US PUBLIC WORKS WOULD HAVE TO BE ACCOMMODATED ON THE WEEKEND SCHEDULE FOR THEM. FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, UNFORTUNATELY, WE'RE NOT AVAILABLE TO PROVIDE OR SUPPORT THOSE SERVICES MORE OR LESS ON THE WEEKEND BECAUSE WE DON'T WORK WEEKENDS THAT WILL BE OVERSEEN UNDER MY DEPARTMENT LETTER CONTROL. AND RIGHT NOW WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES MADE AVAILABLE FOR THAT. HOWEVER, CAN IT BE REVISITING THE FUTURE, PERHAPS, BUT THAT WOULD BE IN THE DIRECTION OF MR. HARRY AND, UH, GOING FROM, FROM THE CORRECTIONS. YEAH. OKAY. WELL, NOT JUST, NOT JUST MR. HARRY. JUST FROM THE PUBLIC WORK SIDE. AND THEN BEYOND THAT WE'LL HAVE TO INVOLVE, UH, COUNTY, THE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, AND, UH, THE, UH, THE, THE COURTS AS WELL. WELCOME. PROBABLY KEEP GOING. WHAT DO WE GOT NEXT? I'M SORRY. I CAN'T READ. UH, THE, UM, DISCUSSION WITH PUBLIC WORKS US ABOUT SCHOOLS, ENGAGING SCHOOLS. WE HAD A MEETING, UM, ABOUT A WEEK AGO WITH BRADLEY, UH, JEAN, MYSELF AND VICTORIA ABOUT GOING INTO THE, AND SALLY, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT SALLY 'CAUSE SHE WRITES EVERYTHING DOWN, UM, ABOUT GOING AND MAKING CONTACT WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND DISCUSSING, REDUCING THEIR WASTE. WE'RE NOT GETTING IN THE EDUCATIONAL SIDE OF IT. WE ARE JUST GONNA TALK ABOUT REDUCING THEIR WASTE. AND WE SAT DOWN TO COME UP WITH THE FIRST 10 QUESTIONS THAT WE WOULD ASK. UM, UM, I HAVE, AND I DON'T KNOW WHETHER WE'VE, WE'VE NOT TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE. I HAVE A FRIEND THAT, THAT, UH, WHO WAS THE CFO OF THE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND AT THE, UH, UH, AIR SHOW WHERE OUR TENTS WERE SIDE BY SIDE. AND I, AND SHE WAS SITTING THERE AND I'M GOING, TANYA, WHO WOULD I TALK TO, UH, TO COME OVER THERE AND ASK YOU ABOUT YOUR WASTE REDUCTION AND, YOU KNOW, JUST SOME GENERAL QUESTIONS. AND SHE SAID, ME. SO I'VE MADE, UM, ADVANCES WITH THAT, AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A MEETING WITH TANYA. AND SHE AND I TALKED TO HER LAST WEEK AND SHE SAYS, I'M GONNA FIND THE APPROPRIATE PEOPLE TO COME TO WHO I, I GOTTA FIGURE OUT WHO I'M GONNA BRING TO THE MEETING AS WELL. I GOTTA PICK THE APPROPRIATE PEOPLE. OKAY. SO WE'RE A GO ON THAT AND THAT'LL BE INTERESTING. WHAT DO WE PLAN TO GET DONE? UM, THEY ARE DOING SOME RECYCLING IN A COUPLE OF SCHOOLS. NOT VERY MUCH. UH, YOU, YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO TELL US MORE ABOUT THAT. BUT TANYA SAID TO ME THAT THEY WOULD BE HAPPY. THEY SOMETIMES NEED A LITTLE PUSH. AND THAT'S WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO, IS MAYBE HELP 'EM DO A LITTLE PUSH. UM, SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE COULD RE REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF GARBAGE THAT THE BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS 3000 EMPLOYEES, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY CHILDREN, I MEAN, OUR KIDS ARE IN THOSE SCHOOLS, BUT THEY FEED 'EM LUNCH EVERY DAY. I MEAN, AND EVERYTHING COMES OUT OF A CARDBOARD BOX OR 10 CAN OR WHATEVER. AND NONE OF THAT'S GOING ANYWHERE, BUT OUT TO THE LANDFILL. AND IF WE COULD SOMEHOW GET IN THERE AND REDUCE THAT, YOU KNOW, A QUARTER OF IT, A THIRD OF IT, OR A, A TINY BIT OF IT, WE WOULD BE IN A POSITIVE, MORE POSITIVE WAY OF LIFE HERE IN BEAUFORT COUNTY. UM, IT'S ALL SET UP. AND IT ACTUALLY TOOK ANOTHER TURN, UH, THE OTHER NIGHT, UM, AT THE PLASTICS MEETING WITH THE, UH, WHAT'S IT THE NAME OF THAT COMMITTEE? THE NATURAL RESOURCES, NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE MEETING WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT THE PLASTICS, WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT A LITTLE LATER. THAT [00:35:01] WENT VERY WELL. UM, I TALKED TO THE, UH, UH, COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR WHO WAS THERE, WHO HE AND I GOTTEN TO KNOW EACH OTHER. AND, UM, UH, I MENTIONED TO HIM ABOUT MEETING WITH TANYA IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND HE WAS, HE WAS EXCITED ABOUT IT. HE SAYS, THAT WAS GREAT. UM, THE ONE THING THAT CAME UP, UM, AND I SAID TO HIM, I'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO GO TO THE MEETING AND, AND PERHAPS, UH, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THEY REALIZE WE'RE SERIOUS AND THAT THEY'RE SERIOUS. AND, AND I KNOW THEY WOULD. BUT, UM, SO HE SUGGESTED THAT, UH, YOUR BOSS JAR PROBABLY GO TO THE FIRST MEETING. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? MM-HMM . I THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA. SORT OF LIKE THE GROWNUPS ARE GONNA MEET FIRST AND DECIDE, YOU KNOW, THAT IT'S OKAY, WE'RE GONNA MOVE AHEAD WITH THIS. SO, UM, WE'RE, LOOK, WE'RE LOOKING GOOD IN THAT DEPARTMENT. IT'D BE INTERESTING IF WE CAN PULL IT OFF. IT'D BE GOOD STUFF. THE LARGEST EMPLOYEE, WELL THE AIR STATION MIGHT BE LARGER, BUT THEY ARE, I MEAN, ALL OUR MONEY IS GO, ALL TAX MONEY GOES IN TO THEM. AND IN THAT CASE, YES THEY ARE. AND THEY MAKE A LOT OF WASTE. AND THEY ARE OPEN TO THIS DISCUSSION. SO THAT'S OUR NEXT MOVE. I AND I, AS WE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT IT, WE DECIDED TO GET THROUGH THE PLASTICS, WHICH WE GOT THROUGH, UH, THE OTHER DAY. AND, UH, NOW WE'RE GONNA MOVE INTO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. YEAH. OKAY. THE NEXT ONE. UM, I'VE ALREADY MENTIONED THE CONVERSATION WITH TJ JET. WE HAD NO OTHER ACTIONS OTHER THAN COME UP WITH SOMETHING BIG AND INTERESTING TO DO AND DON'T EVEN ANSWER THAT ONE YET. SO WE CAN KEEP GOING. MEANING, HELP ME AWARE. ELASTICS, NATIONAL RESOURCE, JUST WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT. OH YEAH. SO WE HAD THE, UM, AND AS I'M SURE YOU ALL KNEW, WE HAD THE, UH, MEETING WITH THE, UM, NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE TWO DAYS AGO. AND JULIANA, WE'VE BEEN PREPARING FOR THIS THING FOR A LONG TIME. YOU, YOU, WE REALLY HAVE DONE A LOT. WE'VE HAD A LOT OF MEETINGS ON THE SECOND FLOOR OVER THERE. WE, I, I'VE, I'VE LEFT EVERY ONE OF THOSE MEETINGS THINKING, WHAT A, ALL THIS GANG HERE. WHAT A WONDERFUL GROUP OF PEOPLE TO BE TAKING ON THIS. WELL, SO FINALLY, SHE, WE WROTE IT UP AND WE ALL WENT OVER HOW THE PRESENTATION WAS GONNA BE. WE HAD A WHOLE MEETING ABOUT HOW THE PRESENTATION WAS GONNA BE. NONE OF THEM LIKED MY IDEA, BUT THAT'S OKAY. . ANYWAY, I WAS JUST JOKING. UM, THEY CAME UP WITH A GREAT PRESENTATION. JULIAN PRESENTED IT TO THE, TO THE BOARD. I'M TELLING YOU ALL THE WAY ACROSS THAT ROOM, EXCEPT FOR TWO PEOPLE. WE'VE GOT THEM ON OUR SIDE. NOW, HOW IT ALL TURNS OUT IN THE END, I DON'T KNOW AT THIS POINT, BUT I DO KNOW THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF HEADS NODDING UP AND DOWN THROUGH THE WHOLE THING. SO I WAS VERY PROUD OF WHAT WE DID THERE. YEAH, I, I SAW IT ON VIDEO AND I CAN'T, I CAN'T EXPRESS HOW GREAT JULIANA DID. YEAH, THAT WAS AWESOME. UH, IF YOU ALL HAVE A CHANCE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE VIDEO, IT'S WORTH YOUR 15 MINUTES. YOU JUST GO THROUGH THE, THE DOCUMENT OR GO THROUGH THE PRESENTATION, GET ALL THE WAY TO HER, 15 MINUTES OR SO, AND SHE WAS GREAT. I'D ALSO LOVE TO GET A COPY OF IT. AND IT'S, IT'S A PUBLIC PRESENTATION, SO WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT. AND ON YOUR, EVEN IF WE DON'T, UM, EVEN IF YOU DON'T SEE THE VIDEO, LOOK AT THE PRESENTATION. IT'S WONDERFUL TALKING POINTS. IF YOU'RE, IF ANYBODY ASKS YOU, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE BOARD, HERE'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE DO. AND IT'S A GREAT PRESENTATION. SO I I AM I I DO THINK THAT WE ARE MAYBE ONE THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH THIS. I AGREE. 'CAUSE WE'VE NOW DONE THE PRESENTATION AND AS BRENDA KNOWS IT, THERE'S A LOT OF STEPS FROM 0.1 TO POINT 10 WHERE WE NEED TO GET TO. UM, BUT ONCE WE, YOU KNOW, TAKE THAT NEXT IMMEDIATE FIRST STEPS AND THEN THE DESIGNING THE ORDINANCE ITSELF AND THEN GETTING THE APPROVAL FOR IT, AND THEN IMPLEMENTATION COMMUNICATION. I MEAN, THIS IS GONNA GO ON FOR QUITE SOME TIME, BUT BOY, IF WE CAN PUT THAT IN OUR CHECKBOX AND SAY WE REALLY SUPPORTED THAT, THAT IS A HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR THE BOARD. A HUGE, HUGE AC ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR THE WHOLE COUNTY THAT, YOU KNOW, WHO WERE THE TWO PEOPLE THAT, THAT YOU DIDN'T THINK WERE TOTALLY POSITIVE? MR. CUNNINGHAM FROM BLUFFTON AND MS. BROWN FROM MOSS CREEK, AND SHE GIVES A LITTLE SLIVER OF HILTON HEAD AND IT GOES OUT. YEAH. MRS. BROWN, BY THE WAY, WAS THE MOST VOCAL AND CRITICAL, I WOULD SAY. AND CRITICAL. YEAH. AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNTY CALLED ME THE NEXT DAY AND SHE SAYS, UM, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SHE WAS LIKE THAT, DO YOU? BUT YOU CAN STILL MOVE FORWARD. WE DIDN'T GET A RED LIGHT. SO [00:40:01] THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE ORGANISM IN OUR, THAT'S A HUGE POSITIVE. OTHER NEWS, SOMEWHAT RELATED. UM, MS. BROWN, I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS, HAS STEPPED DOWN OUR, NO LONGER OUR SPONSOR FROM THE COUNCIL, AND NOW I UNDERSTAND IT'S MR. PASSMAN. AND JOE PASSMAN CAME UP TO ME AT THE MEETING AND SAID, JOE, I'M YOUR NEW GUY ON YOUR BOARD. AND HE WAS EXCITED ABOUT COMING HERE, AND HE SAYS, I CAN'T BE THERE. UH, I JUST GOT THE POSITION AND I HAD SOME PLANS FOR NEXT, FOR THIS MEETING TODAY, BUT HE SAYS, I WILL BE THERE FOR ALL THE MEETINGS AFTER THIS. I MEAN, I WAS REAL EXCITED ABOUT IT, AND I THINK HE'S A GOOD GUY. HE'LL BE A GOOD HELP FOR SUPPORT. WHAT, UM, WHAT DISTRICT IS HE IN? HE'S, I THINK ALMOST OUT TO . I DON'T KNOW THAT. YEAH, I THINK HE, IS HE, HE SUN CITY? NO, SUN CITY IS TAV. YEAH. SHE, HE'S KIND OF BEYOND THAT. AND I, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY. I MEAN, I, I DON'T HAVE A PICTURE OF THE DISTRICTS A MAP ONLINE. IF YOU GO TO COUNTY COUNCIL, THERE'S A MAP ALL THE DISTRICTS THAT EACH COUNCIL MEMBER OVERSEAS AND REPRESENTS. WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT, TELL ME AGAIN WHAT YOU JUST SAID ABOUT THE, THEY WERE ABOUT THE PLASTICS THAT THEY'RE PASSING THE, OR NOT PASSING THE ORDINANCES? NO, NO, BUT I MEAN, THEY'RE WRITING THE, WE NEVER, SO WHEN JULIANA DIDN'T ASK FOR PERMISSION, SHE SAID, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO. SO EFFORTS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO AMEND THE PLASTIC BAG ORDINANCE. NEXT STEP IS TO MODIFY THE ORDINANCE, HAVE THAT SOCIALIZED, AND THEN PRESENTED. UM, THOSE ARE IMMEDIATE NEXT STEPS. AND THEY DID NOT SAY NO. SO WE DO THE ASSUMED CLOSE, WE'RE GONNA DO THIS, TELL US TO STOP. AND THEY DID NOT TELL US TO STOP. OH. SO THAT'S GREAT NEWS. GREAT NEWS. AND WHILE I HAVE A MOMENT, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A, A LITTLE CHEERS TO ONE OF OUR MEMBERS HERE. BRENDA WROTE THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THAT AND SHE DID A GREAT JOB. AND IT STARTED EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW. THANK YOU, KIDDO. DID YOU SEE THE, UH, VIDEO OF IT? NOT YET. HUH? SO YOU'RE MENTIONED BY THE COUNCIL, BY THE WAY. SO, AND IT WASN'T BAD. THAT AND $3 WILL GIVE ME A CUP OF COFFEE. , IT'S $5 NOW, BUT YES, MAYBE SIX OR SEVEN. NO, I WAS VERY PROUD OF THAT. YEAH. MY COFFEE. ALRIGHT, SO LET'S, SO WE WE'RE GOOD. I THINK ON THE PLASTIC, UH, WE WE'RE MOVING FORWARD. GOOD JOB. YEP. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. VERY. AND REMEMBER THOUGH, TOO, EVEN, YOU KNOW, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT TIMEFRAME EVEN AFTER, UM, COUNCIL APPROVES IT, WE'RE LOOKING AT A ONE OR TWO YEAR IMPLEMENTATION. OH YEAH. NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. BUT I MEAN, YOU GOT, WE GOT, YOU GOTTA START SOMEWHERE ON ALL THIS STUFF WE'RE DOING. NONE OF WE ARE DOING THE SCHOOL THING. IT'S GONNA TAKE US 10 YEARS TO DO. WELL, WE'LL HAVE TO THINK ABOUT AND NOT, WE'LL HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT SOON. WELL, THEY GOT SO MANY. YEAH, I KNOW. IT'LL TAKE FOREVER. WE'LL HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHAT ROLE DO WE WANNA PLAY. LIKE I COULD SEE US BEING PART OF A COMMUNICATION PLAN, WE COULD, WE COULD ASK FOR SOME MONEY TO FUND DIFFERENT GRANTS OR ACQUIRE SOME, UH, BIODEGRADABLE PACKAGES AND TAKE THEM AROUND TO VARIOUS RESTAURANTS OR HAVE A SPOT WHERE WE CAN ROLE FOR US. WE CAN DEAL 'EM OUT. YEAH. THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S A ROLE FOR US. WE HAVE TO CHOOSE WHAT WE WANT. YEAH. AND THEN ASSIST IN THE IMPLEMENTATION. EXACTLY. EXACTLY. GET FUNDED TO DO IT. WE DID, I DID THAT AT BE FAIR. WE WENT FROM PLASTIC TAKE HOME STUFF AND OH, IT'S DONE. AND YOU SHOULD HEAR THE PEOPLE B******G ABOUT DON'T GET OVER IT. THEY'LL GET OVER IT. WELL, THEY, THEY'RE, THEY'RE OVER IT. BUT, UM, 10 YEARS WOULD BE LIKE, IT WAS $12,000 SAVINGS ON OUR FINANCIAL. IS THERE ANY WAY THAT YOU CAN WRITE THAT INTO A PARAGRAPH? WE, WE NEED TO GET, WE NEED TO COMMUNICATE THAT. LET, LET ME, I'D HAVE TO GET CLARENCE FROM THE BOARD, OF COURSE. GO PUBLIC WITH THEIR FINANCES, BUT, OKAY. IF I, EVEN IF EVEN JUST THAT ONE LINE ITEM, IF I CAN GET PERMISSION, IT WOULD BE HUGE IF WE COULD GET A PARAGRAPH COMING FROM BELFER. DO YOU KNOW BRENDA PERSONAL? DO YOU KNOW, UM, UM, I KNOW THE BOARD, BUT DO YOU WHAT BROWN? PAULA. PAULA, YOU KNOW PAULA PERSONALLY? MM-HMM . SHE'S THE BIGGEST, SHE'S THE HARDEST NUT TO CRACK. YEAH. SO IF YOU COULD HAVE THAT COFFEE WITH HER AND SAY, HERE'S THE IMPACT. WELL, HER HUSBAND PLAYS GOLF OVER THERE ALL THE TIME. THERE WE GO. THERE YOU GO. SO, OKAY. WE SHOULD KEEP MOVING. YEAH, KEEP MOVING. EDUCATION AND OUTREACH. I DIDN'T HEAR THAT JESSICA WAS ON THE CALL. NO. OKAY. SO I APOLOGIZE TO DO THIS TO YOU, SALLY. COULD YOU KIND OF GIVE US AN UPDATE OF WHAT, HOW THE PURCHASING IS GOING? YOU DON'T NEED VERY SPECIFICS. OKAY. JUST A GENERAL, HERE'S WHERE WE STAND. OKAY. WE HAD THREE OUTSTANDING REQUESTS FROM LAST MEETING. ONE WAS FOR THE HAND FANS, WHICH ARE HERE, AND THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL. UM, THE PLASTIC CHILDREN'S STRAWS WE HAD TO SEND BACK FOR A FEW DIFFERENT COLORS. THEY'RE BEING DISCONTINUED FROM THIS COMPANY. SO WHEN THE COLORS ARE GONE, THEY'RE GONE. SO WE'RE DOWN TO NOW, AS OF YESTERDAY, WE'VE DECIDED [00:45:01] ON PURPLE IS GONNA BE THE COLOR GOING FORWARD. THOSE ARE IN PRODUCTION RIGHT NOW. THE ADULT STRAWS, UM, THE COMPANY CANNOT REPLICATE THE SAME R LOGO ON THOSE CASES. UM, THEY, THEY DID 'EM ONCE BEFORE. THEY'VE DONE AWAY WITH SOME EQUIPMENT AND THEY CAN'T DO IT AGAIN. SO IT HAS GONE BACK TO, UM, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH FOR ANOTHER IDEA. THAT'S BEEN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. SO NOW THAT ORDER HAS CANCELED. SO WE START OVER AGAIN. SO WE HAVE TO START OVER AGAIN ON THAT ONE. HOWEVER, WE DID HAVE A DISCUSSION IN OUR LAST MEETING ABOUT BEING MORE MINDFUL ABOUT PURCHASING RECYCLABLE ITEMS INSTEAD OF ALL PLASTIC. THOSE ADULT STRAWS ARE ALL PLASTIC. EVERYTHING ABOUT THEIR COMPARTMENT, WHAT THEY'RE, WHAT THEY'RE, UM, THEY'RE SEALED IN AND EVERYTHING. SO THAT ORDER WAS CANCELED BY THE COMPANY BECAUSE OF OUR DELAY IN GETTING THEM, UH, FEEDBACK. SO YOU MAY WANT TO DROP BACK 10 A PUNT ON THAT. IT'S ACTUALLY IN THE END IT'S A GOOD THING. YES. WE, WE WANNA BUY HAND GIVEAWAYS THAT ARE RECYCLABLE, RECYCLED MATERIAL IN THEMSELVES. AND THIS GIVES US A CHANCE TO TAKE THAT CHALLENGE ON. YES, ABSOLUTELY. I, I'LL TALK TO, UH, JESSICA, AND WE'LL FIGURE OUT WHAT PLAN C IS GONNA BE OKAY. ON THAT. UM, AND GET BACK TO YOU. SO JUST GOING ON THE RECORD, THAT ONE ITEM THE ADULT STRAWS HAS NOT, THAT YOU ALL AGREED ON LAST TIME, HAS NOT BEEN ORDERED. GO THROUGH THE, WE GOTTA GO THROUGH THE PROCESS AGAIN. NO, NO PROBLEM. NO PROBLEM. UM, OTHER THAN THAT, I HAVE A QUESTION ON THAT. UHHUH, YOU SAID THAT THE ADULT STRAWS WERE PLASTIC. THE CASING THAT THEY COME IN IS AND, AND THEN THEY'RE WRAPPED IN PLASTIC AS WELL. SO, SO THERE'S SHIPPED AND SINGLE USE PLASTIC, AND THEN THE CASING THAT IT IS, UM, AND SHELVED IN IS PLASTIC, BUT SO THE POUCH WAS, BUT THE ACTUAL STRAWS ARE STAINLESS STEEL. THE ACTUAL STRAWS, I'LL GO GRAB ONE REALLY QUICK. THE ACTUAL STRAWS ARE STAINLESS STEEL, BUT YEAH, WHEN THEY'RE SHIPPED TO US, IT COMES A COUPLE FANS WRAPPED IN PLASTIC. WE GRAB SOME FANS TOO, PLEASE. YEAH, I GOT THEM ALL. BUT YEAH, WHEN THEY'RE SHIPPED TO US, WE NEED TO COOL DOWN. THEY'RE ALL INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED IN PLASTIC, WHICH YOU'LL SEE. AND THEN THE CONTAINER THAT THEY COME IN IS A PLASTIC CONTAINER. BUT THEN WHEN YOU DO TAKE IT OUT, IT'S A STRAW. SO WE'LL HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS STRAW BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THE, THE REASON THEY'RE WRAPPED IN PLASTIC, THE STRAW IS FOR CLEANLINESS, RIGHT? SAN SANITARY. YEAH. NOW WHAT DO WE DO? SO I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER THE QUESTION. IT'S, AND THAT'S WHY THE WHOLE BIG DEBATE WITH PLASTICS AND SINGLE USE IS WE CAN DO AS MUCH AS WE CAN TO TRY AND CHOOSE STAINLESS STEEL, BUT IT'S ON THE MANUFACTURERS TO REDUCE. AND THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THE BIG PUSH WITH AMAZON, WITH THEM TRYING TO DECREASE THE PACKAGING THAT THEY SEND YOU YOUR PACKAGES IN AND LESS TRIPS. WELL, WE CAN, WE LOOK AT VEN AND IT'S DIFFICULT TO, IF YOU RECEIVE IT, LOOK VENDOR WHO, WHO IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY CORRECT. THIS IS WHY THESE ARE HERE. THIS IS FROM A COMPANY CALLED PROMO LEAF. EVERYTHING FROM THEM IS RE IS IS RECYCLABLE MATERIAL OR SUSTAINABLY MADE. SO, UM, PERFECT. SO THIS IS, WE WE WE'RE USING THIS ONE, BUT, UM, THESE ARE PENS. THEY'RE PENS, THEY'RE GEL PENS. THEY'RE REALLY COOL. YES. AND YOU KNOW, THERE ARE THOSE, UM, METAL STRAW, THE, THE, THE STAINLESS STRAWS AND POUCHES. ONE OF OUR GRANTS DID THOSE AT ONE TIME. WE COULD ALL ALWAYS GO IN THAT DIRECTION. I'VE GOT ONE THAT CAME IN A CLOTH POUCH. YES. I BELIEVE WE HAVE THOSE AND IT'S WONDERFUL. AND THERE WAS, SO MAYBE, MAYBE PIVOT TO THAT. I, IT WOULD, WOULD BE Y'ALL'S COMMITTEE. JESSICA HAS THE CHARGE. SHE'S THE ONE WHO HAS TO GO OUT RESEARCH. SHE HEARD THE MESSAGE ABOUT RECYCLED PRODUCTS. WE SHOULD TRY TO ONLY BUY RECYCLED PRODUCTS. SHE'S GOT THAT MESSAGE, SHE'S GOT THE CHARGE. WE'LL EXPECT HER TO COME BACK WITH SOME SAMPLES OR IDEAS. AND THEN WE ALSO NEED, THESE ARE THE ADULT STRAWS, WHICH I DON'T THINK ARE AS BAD AS MAYBE, IN MY OPINION, THESE, BECAUSE THEY'RE MADE OUT OF PLASTIC AND IN PLASTIC. AND THAT'S A RE I DON'T KNOW, WHAT WERE WE DOING WITH THESE? THOSE WERE CHILDREN'S. HOW, HOW MUCH DID WE PAY FOR THESE PER THAT? THOSE WERE, WE, WE HAVE AN ORDER IN THAT IF WE HAD GONE THROUGH WITH THAT ORDER, IT WOULD'VE BEEN $2,000 FOR A THOUSAND OF THEM. $2 A PIECE. WE NEED TO SPEND THAT MONEY. YES, BUT YOU DON'T, YOU MIGHT NOT WANNA SPEND IT. YEAH. NOT THAT WAY. WELL, AND YOU FEEL BETTER. AND I DON'T WANNA PUT ALL OF THAT IN MY PURSE. AND YOU GOTTA WASH THE STRAW. WELL, WELL, I, MY STAINLESS STEEL, THAT'S THE POINT OF A REUSABLE STRAW. YOU GOTTA WASH IT. YEAH. THEY USE LOT OF WATER AND SOAP AND, [00:50:01] BUT I HAVE, I THINK THIS CAN WE, CAN WE MOVE ON? YEAH. THE ONLY OTHER THING I, I WAS GONNA SAY IS WE ARE STILL WAITING ON THE INVOICE FOR THE T-SHIRTS. OKAY. ONCE WE GET THAT, THE T-SHIRTS WILL BE HERE. AND THAT WILL BE SOMETHING FOR YOUR, FOR YOUR OUTREACH. BUT UNTIL WE GET AN AN INVOICE, WE CAN'T DO, WE CAN'T CUT THE MONEY. I THINK JESSICA KNOWS THAT ISSUE. YEAH. AND SHE'S WORKING IT. THAT'S JUST WHERE EVERYTHING IS. THAT'S JUST GIVING YOU THE RECAP OF WHERE ALL YOUR ORDERS ARE. EXCELLENT. OKAY. WHO, WHO MADE THAT DECISION? ANY, ANYTHING ELSE? UM, ANYTHING ELSE ON, UM, YOU GAVE ME ONE. I WOULDN'T USE IT. ANYTHING ELSE ON EDUCATION AND OUTREACH? I HAVE ONE LITTLE QUICK THING TO SAY ABOUT, UH, I THINK IT'S EDUCATION AND OUTREACH. UM, WE HAD A, WE HAD A, WE HAD AN EVENT DOWN IN BLUFFTON A COUPLE OF DAYS A WEEK AGO. UH, THEY DID A PICKUP THERE, A BIG PICKUP. THEY DO A COUPLE A YEAR. EVERYBODY'S THERE. THE MAYOR'S, EVERYBODY THERE. BUT DR. JEAN WAS THERE WITH HER WATER WAGON THAT SAYS RIGHT ON THE SIDE OF IT, KEEP BEFORD COUNTY. BEAUTIFUL. PRETTY FUNNY. SO I THOUGHT WE ALL OUGHTA SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH DR. JEAN FOR DOING WHAT YOU DO. THANK YOU FOR TUNING. THAT'S MADE IT HAPPEN. AND I, AND I HAVE, I WILL HAVE ADDITIONAL UPDATES, BUT YOU KNOW, AGAIN, IT, IT'S THE, THE QUENCH BUGGIES NOW BEEN WRAPPED AND THE SPONSORS ARE MAGNETS. UM, SO THAT'S KIND OF COOL. UM, BUT PRETTY SOON WE'RE VERY CLOSE TO HAVING, UH, THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS KIND OF SPONSORING. IF YOU HAVE AN EVENT AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUBMIT A REQUEST TO HAVE THE QUENCH BUGGY AT YOUR EVENT, UM, THERE'LL BE A FORM THAT YOU CAN FILL OUT AND THEN, YOU KNOW, BASED ON, YOU KNOW, AVAILABILITY AND OF COURSE FOR SPONSORS, YOU'RE A PRIORITY. UM, WE THEN WOULD, UM, YOU KNOW, PUT THAT ON THE CALENDAR. SEPARATE FROM THAT, THERE WILL BE ALSO AN ABILITY FOR, UH, GROUPS OR INDIVIDUALS TO SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER. AND THE VOLUNTEERING IS, IS REALLY KIND OF LESS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SETTING UP THE QUENCH BUGGY. I MEAN, WE CAN TRAIN YOU TO DO ALL THE SANITATION AND THE FILLING AND THE EMPTYING AND ALL THAT STUFF IF YOU'RE INTERESTED. AND WE DO NEED PEOPLE THAT CAN, CAN TOW. WE DO NEED PEOPLE THAT KNOW HOW TO SET IT UP, FILL IT UP, UH, MAKE SURE THAT IT'S CLEAN, DO ALL THOSE TYPES OF PROCEDURES. BUT SEPARATE FROM THAT, EACH TIME WE HAVE THE QUENCH BUGGY AT AN EVENT, IT'S JUST A GREAT TIME TO HAVE THAT ONE-TO-ONE FACETIME WITH, YOU KNOW, YOUR COMMUNITY. AND SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE ANYONE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU SEE IT, UM, ON THE SCHEDULE, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, WE'LL BE AT THE BLUFFTON SEAFOOD FEST, UM, WHICH I BELIEVE IS, IS NOT THE NEXT WEEKEND. UM, SO THE, SO THE BUGGY WILL BE THERE. I THINK THEY'VE, THEY'VE GOT SOME VOLUNTEERS SIGNED UP. BUT IT'S A, JUST A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO STAND THERE, UM, FROM OUR KIND OF LOW COUNTRY EN ENVIRONMENTAL ECO GROUP WITHIN, WITHIN THE, THE ROTARY GROUP. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE REUSABLE CUPS AND THINGS THAT WE HAND TO A PERSON AND YOU CAN HAVE THAT CONVERSATION. WE HAVE SIGNAGE TO HELP END PLASTIC SOUP. AND I'M JUST THROWING THAT OUT TO THE COMMITTEE. UM, AND TO THE GROUP, UH, AS A WHOLE THAT, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR, UH, US TO SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING IN THIS COUNTY. UM, AND THAT EVERY TIME WE CAN GET, UH, A MEMBER OF OUR GROUP THERE TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS, I THINK IT'S REALLY A WIN-WIN. AND SO, UM, AT A LOT OF THESE EVENTS, UM, YOU MAY NOT HAVE A TABLE, BUT YOU CAN CERTAINLY STAND THERE WITH SOME OF OUR ITEMS, UH, AND ASK PEOPLE IF THEY'VE HEARD ABOUT US, ASK, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO THEY THINK ABOUT THE WORK WE'RE DOING? AND, YOU KNOW, TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF REDUCING PLASTICS AND SO ON. AND SO JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE. THAT THAT'S, THAT'S ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY. AND, AND I CERTAINLY WILL, WILL BE DOING THAT IN, IN A NUMBER OF EVENTS THAT WE HAVE DOWN HERE. BUT PRETTY SOON WE'LL HAVE AN ACTUAL, UM, SIGNUP PROCEDURE. UM, AND THE CHAMBER HAS, HAS OFFERED TO SPONSOR THAT. AND, AND I'LL GET A LINK AND MAKE SURE I SHARE THAT WITH, WITH THE ENTIRE, UM, COUNCIL. THANKS, JANE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LIKED, UM, A LOT ABOUT THE, THE QUENCH BUGGY, UM, WAS THAT JEAN INSISTED THAT NO PLASTIC CUPS BE HANDED OUT ANYWHERE AT THE EVENT. SO THEY WERE ALUMINUM CUPS. SO I THINK WHAT WE SHOULD CONSIDER, UM, AND WE'LL, I'LL ASK JESSICA, WE'LL ASK JESSICA TO DO THIS. LET'S GO LOOK AT, UM, KBCB CREATING, YOU KNOW, OUR OWNS BUYING OUR OWN CUPS. YEAH. AND THEN JUST HAVE 'EM OUT FOR DISTRIBUTION. PROBABLY MORE EFFECTIVE WAY TO GET IT IN PEOPLE'S HANDS. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD, AND IT'S, THEY'RE VERY INEXPENSIVE, VERY INEXPENSIVE ITEMS WHEN YOU BUY 'EM IN BULK, PARTICULARLY. SO WE'LL [00:55:01] ASK, WE'LL ASK, UM, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET OTHER GROUPS TO SIGN ONTO THE CUP TOO. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THE COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE, I MEAN, WELL, YOU GO TO WENDY'S OR CHICK-FIL-A, THEY'LL GIVE YOU THE CUPS PROBABLY IN ORDER TO HAVE THEIR ADVERTISING OUT THERE. YEAH, YEAH. YOU CAN DEFINITELY LOOK AT A SPONSOR. UM, DO ONE SIDE, WE DID AN EVENT WHERE, YOU KNOW, LOCAL, UM, TAP ROOMS WENT WITH US AND, YOU KNOW, THEY HAD THEIR LOGO ON ONE SIDE AND WE, WE, WE WENT FOR A WHOLE WHOLE MONTH. AND THEN WE'RE, THEY'RE STILL USING IT FOR, IF YOU ORDER A 12 OUNCE BEER, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU HAVE THAT, UH, REUSABLE CUP. UM, SO BRAINSTORM THAT. BUT I THINK THERE'S GREAT POTENTIAL FOR US TO REALLY KIND OF SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING, UM, AND, AND GET THE, THE KIDS FROM, FROM USCV INCLUDED AS WELL. UM, THERE'D BE NO REASON WHY THEY COULDN'T, UH, VOLUNTEER AND GET INVOLVED AND, AND HAVING THOSE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, REDUCING THE . THAT WHOLE ENTIRE EVENT HAD, I THINK THEY HAD 300 PEOPLE SHOW UP, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE CLEANUP, WHICH WAS REALLY GOOD FOR A FALL CLEANUP. AND THEY DID, THEY DIDN'T DISPENSE, THEY, THEY GAVE OUT HOT DOGS AND HAMBURGERS AND ALL KINDS OF GREAT SNACKS AND FOOD. NOT A SINGLE, UH, PLASTIC WATER BOTTLE WAS, WAS DISPENSED ON THAT DAY. I THOUGHT THAT WAS GREAT. I THOUGHT THAT WAS GREAT. OKAY. I, I'D LIKE TO KEEP MOVING. I KNOW WE'RE ALREADY A LITTLE OVER TIME, BUT WE STARTED A LITTLE BIT LATE, SO HOPEFULLY WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF FLEXIBILITY THERE. UM, I'LL DO A QUICK FINANCE REPORT. UM, NOTHING HAS CHANGED, HAD CHANGED WHEN I SENT THESE TWO PAGES OUT. UM, SO THERE THE, THIS IS 25 SO THAT WE CAN GO PAST THAT ONE. GO TO THE NEXT PAGE IF YOU CAN. UM, THIS IS 26. UM, WE'VE NOW AGREED TO MOVE SOME MONEY AND I'LL MAKE THAT CHANGE BEFORE OUR NEXT MEETING. CERTAINLY. THE OTHER PIECE OF NEWS IS THAT OUR 50 K SHOWED UP IN THE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM. IT'S A GOOD THING. UM, YEAH, WE GOT SOME MONEY. SO OUR 50 KFY $26 ARE IN PLACE, UH, WHICH MEANS WE CAN START SPENDING IT. UM, THE OTHER THING THAT UM, I ALSO GOT RECENTLY FROM SALLY IS THERE WAS SOME EXPENDITURES SMALL THAT I HAVE TO INCORPORATE INTO OUR DOCUMENTATION. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THE COUNTY OWNS THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND WE JUST KIND OF TAKE THAT DATA, UM, BEFORE THE NEXT MEETING. I WILL HAVE THESE UPDATED, UH, WITH WHATEVER CHANGES WE AGREE TO GOING FORWARD HERE. OKAY. ALRIGHT. LET'S, I THINK THAT'S IT ON THE COMMITTEE REPORTS. MM-HMM . YEAH, I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO GO THROUGH THOSE FINANCIALS. OKAY. ALRIGHT. I'VE GOT, ARE YOU IN THE NEW BUSINESS YET? OKAY, GO AHEAD. I'M SORRY. USE THE SCREEN. CHRIS. WE HAVE A STAFF [6. NEW BUSINESS] UPDATE DISCUSSION GOING ON HERE. YEAH. SO YOU ALL RECEIVED OUR NEWSLETTER. UM, IT'S IN YOUR PACKET. I WON'T, UM, READ THROUGH IT, BUT IN THERE IT IS. UM, WHEN I CREATED THE NEWSLETTER, UH, THE ONLY, UM, EXPENDITURES THAT YOU DID HAVE WERE SOME OF THE OUTREACH MATERIALS. UH, SO YOU CAN SEE THAT ON THE FIRST PAGE OF THE NEWSLETTER AND SOME OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT VALENTINA'S SOME UPCOMING, UM, AL TALKS, NOT SURE IF IT'S IN THE PAMPHLET, BUT IF NOT WE, A COPY OF HER FLYER. I'M SORRY FOR INTERRUPTING THE PALMETTO PRIDE GRANT. UM, THERE'S LITTER PREVENTION MONEY. IS THERE STILL MONEY AVAILABLE? UM, OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I'M GOING TO SAY NO, I WANNA SAY ALL THOSE FUNDS ARE ALLOTTED TO THE ADOPT A HIGHWAY GROUPS, UH, LITTER CREWS. OKAY. UM, SO WITH THOSE FUNDS, UM, THEY PURCHASED SIGNAGE FOR LITTER SUPPLIES, UM, BAGS. AND THEN IT ALSO, UM, IT GOES TOWARDS FUNDING, UM, KAYAK CLEANUPS HOSTED BY OUTSIDE FOUNDATION. UM, BUT WITH THOSE GRANTS, WITH ANY GRANT, REALLY WHEN WE ASK FOR THE FUNDS, IT'S AN ITEMIZED, UM, EXPENSE. MM-HMM . UM, SO BASICALLY WHAT WE ASK FOR, WE NEED TO PER, I MEAN, IT ALL WENT TOWARDS THE LITTER CREW AND ADOPT A HIGHWAY GROUP. SO THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD. WE GENERALLY, OUR GROUP HAS A $10,000 A YEAR PALM TYPICALLY IF YOU APPLY TO IT. AND, AND WE HAVE RECEIVED IT. YEAH. WHEN YOU DIDN'T APPLY TO IT LAST YEAR BECAUSE YOU HAD YOUR, IT'LL BE, THEY TYPICALLY AROUND THE SUMMIT. PRIDE HAS IT ON THEIR WEBSITE. SO, SO DO, SHOULD WE KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THAT OR CAN YOU KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THAT? IF YOU WANT TO APPLY FOR IT, YES. YOU KEEP AN EYE OUT IT OUT, UH, WE'LL APPLY FOR LITTER CREW, BUT FOR KEEP BEFORD COUNTY BEAUTIFUL. IF YOU ALL WANT TO APPLY FOR THAT GRANT, IT'LL BE YOUR [01:00:01] RESPONSIBILITY. SUBMIT. YEAH, LET'S DO IT. CAN YOU DO IT AGAIN OR DO YOU WANT HELP DOING THAT? NO, IT DOESN'T TAKE, IT'S NO PROBLEM. GREAT. DO IT AGAIN. LET'S DO IT AGAIN. AND THEN IF, IF THERE IS ANY MONEY LEFT OVER IN THAT GRANT THIS YEAR, I KNOW THAT IT'S ITEMIZED. HOWEVER, WE CAN HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE ALUMINUM CUPS OR SOMETHING TEED UP FOR YOU TO BUY, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ANY MONEY COMES AVAILABLE. IT DOESN'T REALLY FALL ON THE CATEGORY OF LITTER PREVENTION. HONESTLY. LITTER PREVENTION IS MORE OF LITTER PICKUPS AND SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS THAT GO TOWARDS LITTER. OKAY. UM, THAT WOULD BE KIND OF MORE OF, I WOULD THINK, MAYBE A STATE OR RECYCLING GRANT. OKAY. OR LITTER PREVENTION REALLY IS MORE ALONG THE LINES OF LITTER CLEANUP. YOU KNOW, I CAN CLARIFY ON SOME OF THAT STUFF TOO WITH, I MEAN, I BET WE CAN GET ANY PROBLEM. OKAY. SALLY, YOU, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT BUYING MORE, UH, GROCERY BAGS. DO YOU REMEMBER? YES. I, I'VE SENT YOU ALL THE QUOTES. OKAY. AND YOU ALL, IF YOU ARE, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN DOING THAT, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO A REQUEST, A REQUISITION FORM. I DO HAVE THOSE FORMS WITH ME IF YOU NEED ONE. UM, AND I'VE ALSO GIVEN YOU A, A QUOTE FOR THE, UM, THE STICKERS AS WELL. YEP. SO I'LL GET TO, I'LL GET TO, UM, JESSICA GROCERY BAGS. ARE THEY COTTON OR ARE THEY, THEY'RE THESE THE RECYCLED, YEAH, THOSE, THEY'RE MADE OF RECYCLED MATERIAL. THEY'RE MADE OUT OF THE RECYCLED POTTY ALL THE TIME. YEAH. I LIKE 'EM. BUT I MEAN, DO, DO YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES LADIES LIKE TO GET THOSE LITTLE COTTON BAGS AND PUT 'EM IN THE TRUNK OF THEIR CAR AND TAKE 'EM? I LIKE THOSE BETTER. YOU DO. WELL, I KNOW MY WIFE HAS AN ASSORTMENT OF BOTH KINDS, BUT IF WE, IF WE WANTED TO SPEND SOME MONEY, CAN WE GET A HUNDRED OF THOSE TO GIVE AWAY AT THE 10 EVERY, SO, SO THAT, THAT BRINGS ME UP. I WAS, I WANNA TIE INTO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. IT, IT SEEMS TO ME, I KNOW THAT, UM, JESSICA'S REALLY BEEN ON TOP OF EVERYTHING AND, AND DONE A GREAT JOB. BUT I THINK AS FAR AS, AS ITEMS THAT WE'RE PURCHASING, I THINK WE NEED TO SEE THEM FIRST AND APPROVE THEM BEFORE WE PURCHASE BRENDA. THAT HAPPENED, THAT HAPPENED COMPLETELY. EVERY SINGLE ITEM WAS PRESENTED HERE. PAM, DID YOU SEE THAT? NO. NO, THOSE ARE OLD. THOSE ARE OLD. THOSE WERE PURCHASED FOR THIS YEAR. OH, OKAY. OKAY. AND THOSE ARE OLD. THOSE DIDN'T COME OUT OF OUR BUDGET. NO, NOT THIS YEAR. THESE ARE FROM LAST YEAR. OKAY. BUT THEY HAVE BEEN ORDERED, THEY WERE REQUESTED AGAIN THIS YEAR. YEAH. LIKE THE GREEN BOX. THE, THE, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GETTING. THE PURPLE, THE BLUE IN THE, AND THE BAG IS THE ONE THAT WE HAD TO CANCEL FOR BEING STALE ON OUR RESPONSE. SO THEN DEFENSIVE JESSICA, SHE'S TRYING TO GET SOMETHING DONE, AND SOMETIMES YOU OH, I AGREE. EVERY ITEM THAT SHE HAS ASKED TO BUY, THIS IS A REBUY FROM PREVIOUS, SO I, THIS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. OKAY. BUT EVERY ITEM SHE'S ASKED TO BUY, WE HAVE SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS. YOU CANNOT GET SAMPLES WITH YOUR BRAND ON IT. I HAVE NOT SEEN THOSE. YOU, THEY WERE PRESENTED IN THE MEETING, AND WE CAN GO BACK AND SHOW YOU WHERE, IF YOU WANNA SEE WHAT THOSE ALL WERE. UM, BUT YEAH, THOSE WERE ALL PRESENTED AND BECAUSE WE'RE ALL BEING SUPER CAREFUL NOT TO DO ANYTHING INDIVIDUALLY, BUT, YOU KNOW, INPUT AND CRITICISM AT THE TIME THAT WE'RE SELECTING IS ABSOLUTELY. WE NEED TO. GOOD. 'CAUSE I, I THOUGHT, THOUGHT THESE WERE FROM, FOR THIS YEAR. I MISUNDERSTOOD. SO THOSE WERE LAST YEAR. OKAY. GOOD. THANK YOU. YEAH. ANYTHING NEW AB ABSOLUTELY. ANYTHING NEW GOES THROUGH THE PROCESS OF IT GETS PRESENTED. YEAH, WE ALL VOTE. I KNEW SHE HAD DONE THAT WITH SOME THINGS AND I HAD SEEN THOSE, BUT WHEN I SAW THESE I WAS A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED, SO MY BAD. OKAY. UM, STAFF UPDATE. YES. UM, SO YEAH, I WENT THROUGH THE BUDGET, UM, SOLID WASTE EVENTS. WE'RE CONTINUING WITH OURS FOR E-WASTE AND PAPER SHREDDING. DISCUSS THE PALMETTO PRIDE LITTER PREVENTION GRANT. UM, TYPICALLY THAT GRANT PERIOD CYCLE IS OPEN SOON. DO YOU HAVE ANY? NO. OH, BUT I CAN FIND IT. I'M GOING UP THERE. IT'S TYPICALLY AROUND THIS TIMEFRAME, THE FALL. UM, AND THEN JESUS PROVIDED A LOT OF REALLY GREAT INFORMATION AND STATISTICS FROM HIS, UM, LITTER CREWS AND ADOPT HIGHWAY MEMBERS. I DO WANNA NOTE, UM, THAT, UM, JESUS HAS BEEN PROMOTED. HE IS GOING TO BE OUR ASSISTANT SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING SUPERINTENDENT. AND SO YES. EXCITED FOR, TO HAVE HIM IN THAT POSITION. UM, AND WITH THAT BEING SAID, UH, HIS TER CONTROL SUPERVISOR POSITION IS OPEN. WE ARE CURRENTLY, UM, INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES FOR THAT. UH, SO THERE WILL BE A BIT OF A CHANGEOVER IF YOU'RE AN ADOPT A HIGHWAY GROUP. UM, BUT JESUS WILL DEFINITELY STILL BE WITH SOLID WASTE, UM, AND ALSO OVERSEEING, UM, THAT PROGRAM, BUT JUST A BIT FROM A AFAR. UM, SO ANYWAY, I'LL GO AHEAD AND PASS THE BATON UNLESS VALENTINA, MR. EITHER OF Y'ALL HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY. ALL RIGHT. UM, AND THEN WE WILL GET YOU THAT, UM, FLYER. MY APOLOGIES, BUT VALENTINA DOES HAVE SEVERAL, [01:05:01] UM, OUTREACH EVENTS SCHEDULED. AND THEN, UM, THE LAST PAGE IS MS. SALLY, IF YOU WANNA GO AHEAD AND TAKE THAT OVER. WE HAVE ON THE LAST IN, IN YOUR PACKET, YOU WERE GIVEN THE, UM, THE DATES FOR THE 2026 MEETINGS. UM, EVERY ONE OF THEM WILL BE BACK IN CHAMBERS EXCEPT FOR, FOR FEBRUARY. YAY. SO HOW ABOUT DECEMBER OF THIS YEAR? DECEMBER WILL BE HERE. OKAY. BUT START, THIS IS THE VOTE FOR THE 2026 FEBRUARY MEETING WILL HAVE TO BE HERE. UM, CHAMBER, UH, COUNCIL HAS THAT FOR BUDGETING WORKSHOPS. SO THAT TRUMPED US. SO, UM, WE'LL BE, SO, UM, APRIL THROUGH DECEMBER, WE'LL ALL BE IN CHAMBERS, BUT THAT ONE FEBRUARY WILL BE HERE AT THIS CONFERENCE ROOM. SO, AND DECEMBER'S HERE ALSO. YES. DECEMBER AND FEBRUARY. IF, IF, UM, SO WE'LL NEED A MOTION FOR, UM, ACCEPTING THIS SCHEDULE. MOVE TO ACCEPT SCHEDULE SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. FANTASTIC. OKAY. AND NOW YOU'RE ONTO THE FUN STUFF. ALL YOUR PICTURES. THOSE ARE OUR NEW SIGN GUYS. SO LET, LET ME GIVE YOU THE UPDATE ON THE SIGNS. UM, I WON'T, I'M NOT GONNA GO ALL THE WAY BACK, BUT, UM, US AGREED TO RUN A COMPETITION WITHIN USCB. IT'S STAFF AS WELL AS STUDENT. SO IT'S ANYONE WITHIN USCB CAN SUBMIT. UM, WE ALSO WALKED THE SITE AND I THINK JU UM, SALLY, WERE YOU ABLE TO GET THE, UM, THAT IN, IN HERE AS WELL? YEP. CAN YOU GO TO THAT REAL QUICK OR DO YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THE PICTURES? I HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THE PICTURES AND FORGET ABOUT IT. DON'T. ALRIGHT. IT'S AT THE END OF PICTURES. AND KEEP IN MIND, WE MIGHT VOTE ON WHICH ONE WE WANT HERE. SO EVERYBODY TAKE A GOOD CLOSE LOOK. I'LL, I'LL PUT TODAY, HOPEFULLY WE NEED TO DO IT TODAY, IS WE NEED TO DO IT TODAY, IS TO PICK ONE. WE COULD PICK TWO IF WE CAN'T AGREE ON ONE. UM, WE DO NOT WANT TO TRY TO SOCIALIZE 10, RIGHT? BECAUSE THE PROCESS OF GETTING THIS APPROVED, THE COUNCIL WILL APPROVE, BUT IT'S GONNA HAVE TO GO THROUGH A COUPLE OF STEPS TO GET THE APPROVAL. UM, JUST AS AN ASIDE, THERE'S TWO WAYS TO DESIGN SIGNS THESE DAYS. THIS IS ONE, IT'S FOAM, AND THEN THEY ETCH IN THE FOAM WITH A LASER. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR THE DESIGNS WE HAVE. THE OTHER ONE IS A, UH, ALUMINUM PANEL WITH PLASTIC IN BETWEEN THE PANEL ALUMINUM ON BOTH SIDES. UM, AND THEN THEY IMPACT AN IMAGE. UH, YOU GET A LOT MORE CLARITY AND YOU GET A DIGITAL IMAGE OF HIGH QUALITY CAN GO ON ALUMINUM SIGN. IF YOU PUT IT ON THIS, AS YOU KNOW, IT'S A, IT'S A ROUTING, SO IT'S NOWHERE NEAR AS CRISP OF AN IMAGE. UM, THE LIFE LIFESPAN IS ABOUT THE SAME, ABOUT 10 YEARS, THEY SAY. BUT PLUS OR MINUS, YOU CAN WORRY ABOUT THAT LATER. UM, SO THEY, THEY, UH, CAROL WEIR IS THE WOMAN AT USCB. SHE'S IN THE ADMINISTRATION OFFICE. SHE'S ORCHESTRATED IT, SENT IT OUT, SHE WEEKS AGO, 10 DAYS AGO. I SAID, PLEASE HAVE SOMETHING SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT AT THIS MEETING. AND SHE DID. UM, AND HERE'S WHAT WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT. SO THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE LAST ONE ON THE LIST. BUT ANYWAY, HERE'S, HERE'S A DESIGN. I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION. PLEASE. PLEASE. THE, AND I KNOW YOU SAID DON'T GET INTO THE LANGUAGE AND EVERYTHING ON THIS, BUT ABOUT ABOUT HALF OF 'EM OR TWO THIRDS OF THEM, A VERY GOOD QUESTION. AND CAROL ASKED ME THE EXACT SAME QUESTION. UM, I TOOK THAT OFF THE BEAUFORT COUNTY GOVERNMENT WEBSITE. MM-HMM . IT IS THE, IT'S THE TAGLINE, IF YOU WILL. AND I, AND CAROL SAID, WHAT WORDS DO YOU WANT ON THE SIGN? AND I'M LIKE, WENT HUNTING. AND THAT, THAT POPPED THAT IS, IS ABSOLUTELY PART OF THE DESIGN CHOICE, RIGHT? SO IF WE SAID TO THE STUDENTS AND THE, THE SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, FEEL FREE TO CHANGE THINGS HERE AND THERE, BUT THE BASIC FLAVOR IS THIS IS THE BASIC FLAVOR THAT YOU WANT. UM, AND AS LONG AS IT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALREADY BEEN ACCEPTED BY THE COUNTY. IT'S USED BY THE COUNTY. IT'S NOT TOO CRAZY AND NEW. YOU DON'T WANT ANYTHING TOO CRAZY AND NEW. UM, SO LET'S GO, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT ONE. SHE'S GOTTA GO. YEP. OKAY. YES, THAT ONE. YEP. SO BEFORE YOU ALL START VOTING, I DO WANNA REMIND YOU THAT YOUR VOTE IS HERE AND YOU CAN PROPOSE TO TAKE THAT VOTE, BUT ULTIMATELY IT'LL BE COUNTY COUNCIL'S DECISION. YEP. UM, [01:10:01] SO WHICH ONE, AND THAT WILL PROLONG IT TOO. YEAH, EXACTLY. YEAH. SO YOU ALL CAN VOTE WHAT TO PROPOSE TO THEM IF YOU WANNA DO OPTIONS AND PRESENT TO THEM LIKE JULIANA DID. UM, BUT DO REMEMBER THERE'S A VOTE HERE, WHATEVER YOU WANNA SEND, BUT YOU WERE ULTIMATELY IT GOES ON UP. YEAH, IT GOES ON UP THE CHAIN. I WOULD SUGGEST A COUPLE. A COUPLE. YEAH. YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING. I WAS THINKING THREE. WHAT SIZE IS THIS SIGN GOING TO BE? CONCEPTUALLY, CONCEPTUALLY, CONCEPTUALLY. SIX FEET BY FOUR FEET. IT'S ON. THAT'S THE DT NO, THEY'RE GONNA GO ALL OVER. EVERY MULTIPLE. WAIT, WAIT. SIX, SIX FEET BY FOUR FEET. SIX FEET WIDE. FOUR FEET HIGH. IT'LL BE ON SOME KIND OF POSTS. DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS OF THAT YET. THEY'LL BE BREAKAWAY POSTS IN CASE THE CAR RUNS INTO IT. UM, THERE'LL BE, UM, WE KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THIS FIRST SIGN IS GONNA GO, AND THERE'S A PICTURE FROM OUR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE IT'S GONNA GO. IT'S REPLACING A CURRENT, UH, DOT SIGN, WHICH IS ABOUT SIX INCHES BY 12 INCHES. AND IT JUST SAYS BEAU KIND. UM, AND THIS IS THE BASIC LAYOUT. YOU KNOW, THE, THIS HAS TO BE COORDINATED WITH THE SELECTION OF THE GRAPHIC IMAGE. THAT THE SELECTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF IT IS KIND OF SEPARATE FROM THE GRAPHIC IMAGE. WE'LL FIGURE THAT OUT. THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT THE HARD PART. UM, THE SIGN ON ROUTE 2 78 IS ESSENTIALLY GOING TO BE ABOUT SIX BY FOUR. AS WE'VE TALKED TO OTHER COUNT, UH, COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBERS, SEVERAL. AND EVEN BRADLEY SAID WE WANNA PUT THE SAME SIGN ON EVERY MAJOR ENTRANCE. I THINK THERE ARE FIVE, MAYBE FOUR. DEPENDS. FIVE, I THINK. OKAY. YEAH. THEY MAY, THE SIGN MAY BE SCALED TO BE APPROPRIATE FOR THE ROAD THAT IT'S ON 2 78 AT THIS POINT, AS YOU CAN SEE, IS A SIX LANE DIVIDED HIGHWAY AT 55 PLUS MILES PER HOUR. IT'S GOTTA BE BIG. UM, BUT ON 17 MIGHT NOT HAVE TO BE THAT BIG. SO THAT, WE'LL, WE'LL WORRY ABOUT THAT LATER. HIGH SPEED LATER. YEAH, WE WILL WORRY. WE'RE ABOUT THAT LATER. YEAH. BUT THE, UM, UH, THE, THE IDEA IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE GOT THE, THE SCHOOL TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DESIGN. THEY GAVE US THESE, WE REALLY SHOULD PICK TWO OR THREE. UM, THERE'S A LOT THAT ARE REDUNDANT IN HERE. VERY, VERY MINOR CHANGES. UM, IT WOULD BE GREAT IF WE COULD KIND OF RAISE HANDS ON, SAY WHETHER OR NOT THIS ONE SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE THREE. ARE WE ALL OKAY WITH GOING FORWARD WITH THREE? SURE. NODS. OKAY. SO LET'S JUST, SALLY, CAN YOU JUST KEEP TRACK? SURE. HOW MANY PEOPLE SAY THIS SIGN, THIS DESIGN SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE THREE? DR. JEAN, SEE THIS? CAN, WE CAN? YEAH. I LIKE THAT . OKAY. I LIKE THIS ONE. AND THEN WE'LL GO DOWN EACH, WE'LL GO DOWN EACH ONE VOTED FOR THIS ONE. WE'RE, WE'RE, SO WE'RE VOTING YES. IT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THREE. THAT'S THE QUESTION. I LIKE THIS ONE. OKAY, SO SALLY, YOU GOT THAT COUNT? YEP. SO OF THE BOARD MEMBERS, IT'S 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. OH. YEP. EVERYBODY ELSE? NEXT? SHOULD THIS BE INCLUDED IN THE, IN THE TOP THREE? ANYBODY SAY YES? YES. YOU DON'T COUNT. SORRY FOR THIS CALL. OKAY. SO PASS BY THIS ONE. ANYONE FOR THIS ONE? NOPE. PASS BY THIS ONE. UH, PASS BY THIS ONE. IT'S HARD TO READ. PASS BY THIS ONE. PASS. PASS. I'M SORRY. OKAY. ANYBODY LIKE PERSON THIS ONE? YEAH, I'D SAY ONE OF THE THREE. THIS IS JAKE. I THINK ONE OF THE THREE. ONE OF HIS THREE. I LIKE, I LIKE HIS, I LIKE IT SAYING, AND THAT'S THE ONLY THING I HAVE WITH THE OTHER ONE IS IT DOESN'T SAY WELCOME TWO. IT JUST SAYS BEAUFORT COUNTY ON THE FIRST ONE. AND I, SO THANK YOU. I, I ASKED, I ASKED CAROL WEIR FROM THE UNIVERSITY, CAN WE GO BACK WITH MINOR TWEAKS? AND SHE SAID, YES, WE HAVE ALL THESE PEOPLE. WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO DO IS GO BACK 10 TIMES. RIGHT? SO I THINK WHAT WE WANNA DO IS COME UP WITH OUR THREE, LET'S SEE THE NEXT ONE. YEP. AND THEN WE CAN GO FORWARD. ALL RIGHT, THIS ONE'S THE GREEN AND THAT ONE'S CHANGED TO BLUE. AND THAT'S ALL BLUE. GO BACK TO THE FIRST ONE. I'M SORRY. IT'S CALLED JAMES JOLLY ONE. YEP. THERE'S ONE. ANY ONE OF THOSE THREE WOULD BE FINE. 1, 2, 3 OR FOUR. FOUR FOUR'S. A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ONE. LET'S GO BACK, BACK TO ONE. IT'S ALL JAMES JOLLY. YEAH. LET'S GO BACK TO ONE, TWO, AND THREE OF JAMES JOLLY. THEY'RE THE SAME SIGN WITH A COUPLE DIFFERENT COLORS. MM-HMM . OKAY. SO LET'S, LET'S SAY, DO PEOPLE LIKE THE FIRST ONE? KEEP GOING. THE GREEN ONE. YEAH. HOW MANY SAY THIS ONE IS A GOOD ONE? I'M OKAY WITH THIS. ANYBODY ELSE? 1, 2, 3. I LIKE THE BUFORD COUNTY IS REALLY BOLD. YEP. OKAY, GOOD. THE LETTERING IS ALL THE SAME. AND I THINK THE COUNTY THE NAME. OKAY. SO LET'S, LET'S LEAVE THAT ONE. THAT'S [01:15:01] NUMBER TWO. WE SELECTED. SO LET'S GO ON JAMES JOLLY NUMBER TWO. JAMES JOLLY NUMBER TWO. SO I'M GONNA NOT, DO YOU WANNA LOOK AT FOUR AND FIVE FOR HIM? NO. OKAY. NO. ALL RIGHT. BACK. WAIT, WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THIS ONE? NO. NO. OKAY. KEEP, KEEP GOING. THIS IS ALL THE JAMES JOLLY ONE. GO PAST JAMES JOLLY TO LIZ MONAHAN. SO ANYBODY SAY YES? NO, NOBODY. NEXT. IT'S ON LIZ. ANYBODY SAY YES? YES. YES. YOU GOT ONE? YES. I GOT TWO. YES. TWO YESES. IT WAS GREAT, LIZ. OKAY. UH, WHAT OTHER ONES DO WE HAVE? OKAY, CAN WE GO BACK? SURE. OKAY. SO I, I THINK I'VE VOTED FOR TWO AND I'M OKAY WITH JUST VOTING FOR TWO. I DON'T LIKE THE LAST ONE THAT WE SHOWED UP. DID YOU TWO GUYS? LIKE THAT'S FINE. YOU KNOW, WHOEVER VOTES WE GET OUT OF IT, THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. YEAH, SHE'S GOT IT. I DON'T LIKE THAT ONE AS MUCH PERSONALLY, BUT THAT'S OKAY. I MEAN, THAT'S, IT'S ANNA, JAMES, SHELLEY ONE AND TIM DEVINE. RIGHT? WELL THAT'S THAT ONE, WHICH THERE WAS ONLY TWO. PUT THAT ONE IN AS A THIRD ONE. YES. BECAUSE IT IS DIFFERENT AND THAT, YEAH. AND, AND IT, IT JUST GIVES 'EM A VARIETY. AND THE COUNCIL NO, NO PROBLEM WITH THAT. CHRIS, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH INCLUDING THIS. COULD YOU GO TO THIS, THIS ONE PLEASE STAND DIVINE. OKAY. ANY PROBLEM WITH INCLUDING THAT AS NUMBER THREE? THIS ONE RIGHT HERE? YEP. YES. NOT MY FAVORITE, BUT I, I I'M NOT, IT'S NOT MY FAVORITE EITHER, BUT THAT'S FINE. AND WHAT, GO AHEAD, JEAN. DR. JEAN. OH, I, I THINK IT'S FINE. YEAH, I MEAN, IT'S NOT MY TOP CHOICE, BUT I THINK INCLUDED IN THE THREE FINE. OKAY. SO WE'VE GOT A, THAT'S PROBABLY THE ONE THAT THE COUNTY COUNCIL WILL GET. , OF COURSE. PAULA. OKAY. OKAY. SO LET'S, LET'S, LET'S BE DONE. SO ANNA, JAMES JOLLY ONE AND TIM DEVINE ARE YOUR, OKAY, THOSE ARE THE THREE. I'M GONNA GIVE THAT FEEDBACK TO CAROL, BUT TELL HER, DON'T TELL ANYBODY YET. JUST TELL YOU, THESE ARE THE THREE WE'VE DONE SELECTED SELECTION. IT COULD BE A COUPLE OF MONTHS BEFORE WE ACTUALLY COME BACK TO HER AND SAY, WE WANNA TWEAK THIS OR THAT. SO LET ADD THE WELCOME, WELCOME TWO TO THE ANOLE AS YOUR, IF WE CHOOSE IT, IF YOU'RE, I WOULD SAY DON'T HAVE 'EM. EDIT IT BEFORE IT'S CHOSEN. I AGREE. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, DO YOU HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION SO WHERE WE CAN GET ON PC AGENDA NEXT MONTH? YES. YES. WE CAN'T GO TO S-C-D-O-T UNTIL THE COUNTY APPROVES THE DESIGN. OKAY. ONCE THAT'S, SO THAT THE, THE COUNTY APPROVAL IS THE NEXT THING. AND I THINK WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE'RE GONNA GET. OKAY. AND COULD YOU, THE NOVEMBER, IT'S TOO LATE TO GET ON THIS MONTH BECAUSE WE WOULD'VE HAD TO HAVE SUBMIT IT BY MONDAY. SO, SO, UM, BY NOVEMBER 3RD WE NEED TO SUBMIT OUR PACKET. OKAY. I'LL MAKE SURE THAT THAT HAPPENS. OKAY. YEP. I'LL LET YOU KNOW. AND WHAT'S THE DATE OF THAT MEETING, IF YOU WOULD, IF YOU COULD, SORRY, I JUST CLOSED IT OUT. NUMBER THIRD IS THE MONDAY. IS IT TWO WEEKS AFTER THAT? SO THE 17TH IS THE PUBLIC FACILITIES MEETING THAT WE CAN GET ON THE AGENDA. PAM. PAM, HOW'S, WHAT'S YOUR SCHEDULE? YOU STILL WE GOTTA WE GOTTA GET ROLLING. YEAH. WHAT TOM, YOU GOTTA BE THERE. CAN I ASK ONE MORE? HOW MR. QUIET? WELL, IF WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE, WE'RE VOTING ON IT IS BLOOD TOO. I, I HAVE ONE MORE THING THAT I'D LIKE TO DO. WE HAVE TO VOTE ON IT. UM, I KIND OF WANNA VOTE, BUT I, WE'VE GOTTA, LET ME, LET ME THROW THE IDEA OUT AND IF YOU DON'T WANNA VOTE ON IT, WE WON'T VOTE ON IT. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CHRIS AND I OBSERVED WHEN WE WENT TO THE CONFERENCE IN FEBRUARY UP IN DC WAS THERE'S A, UM, UH, CIGARETTE, UM, RECEPTACLE THAT HAS A RECYCLING COMPONENT THAT YOU CAN CHOOSE TO USE OR NOT. IDEA WOULD BE TO PUT A CIGARETTE RECEPTACLE AT EVERY, UH, BOAT RAMP RIGHT NEXT TO THE FISHING LINE RECEPTACLE. ANYBODY'S BEEN TO A BOAT RAMP. THERE'S A LITTLE, THERE'S A PVC PIPE WHERE YOU PUT YOUR FISHING LINE IN AND IT GETS REMOVED BY AT SOME POINT. UM, THIS IS WHAT THE RECEPTACLES LOOK LIKE. JUST, IT'S ABOUT THE SAME. IT'S ABOUT TWO FEET TALL, ABOUT FOUR INCHES IN DIAMETER. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE THAT AS SOMETHING THAT WE LOOK TO FUND. UM, BUT WE CAN DO IT NEXT. WE CAN DO IT IN DECEMBER IF WE WANT. I THINK WE TABLE IT. 'CAUSE WHO'S GONNA EMPTY THIS? WELL, DAVE, I'M TRYING TO GET, UM, PUBLIC WORKS TO EMPTY IT, BUT THEY HAVEN'T BEEN TOO EXCITED ABOUT IT. . SO, 'CAUSE WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T EMPTY IT OURSELVES. IT'S JUST WE, WE KNOW THAT. WE KNOW THAT. WHO EMPTIES THE, UM, FISHING LINE? [01:20:01] PAUL THE WORKS? MM-HMM . WE DO. SO THAT'S KIND OF, I'M GONNA, AND I SPOKE WITH MR. HARRIET ABOUT IT. UM, HE HONESTLY DOESN'T WANNA DEAL WITH TRAFFIC TRASH AT ALL AT THE BOAT LANDINGS. AND HE WANTS TO PULL ALL TRASH RECEPTACLES FROM, AND THE FACT THAT WE ALREADY HAVE A TRASH RECEPTACLE THAT WE EMPTY, WHICH PEOPLE CAN DISCARD CIGARETTE BUTTS THERE AND THE FISHING LINE. UH, HE WAS A DEFINITE HARD NO ON PUBLIC WORKS. I SAID RIGHT NOW LET'S NOT ADD TO AGREED. IT WAS A HARD NO AGREED. HARD NO ON THAT. OKAY. I DON'T LIKE THE IDEA OF REMOVING THE OTHER ONES THOUGH. SO HOPEFULLY HE DOESN'T, DOESN'T GO THERE. UH, 'CAUSE ANYTHING THAT'S TRASHED THERE ENDS UP IN A RIVER SOMEWHERE. RIGHT. I GONNA SAY THAT'S THE ISSUE THOUGH, IS THAT PEOPLE USE AS THEIR PERSONAL TRASH CANS, THEN IT OVERFLOWS. AND THAT'S THE ISSUE. SO IF WE REMOVE IT, WILL IT REMOVE THE ISSUE AS A WHOLE? PROBABLY NOT. BUT THEY PUT A DUMPSTER. IS THAT WHAT IT FILLS UP? NO. OH. IT'S JUST A TRASH CAN. TRASH TRASH CAN. WHY DON'T WE PUT A DUMPSTER AT EACH? UH, COST MONEY. THAT WOULD BE EVEN MORE. YEAH. EVEN MORE PEOPLE GONNA JUST TAKE THEIR STUFF. IT'S THEY DOING THAT AND THROWING IT ON THE ROAD. THEY WOULD TAKE THEIR PERSONAL SESSION. WELL, DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER AGENDA ITEMS? YOU HAD ADJUSTMENT TO FUNDING ALLOCATIONS, BUT I BELIEVE YOU'VE ALREADY TAKEN CARE OF THAT. WEVE DONE THAT. THAT'S IT. THAT WAS IT. OKAY. SO WE ARE HAVING FUNDS STILL. SO I MOVE THAT WE CLOSE THE MEETING. I A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE SHE GOTTA GO. WHERE'S YOUR APPOINTMENT AT? AT LABCORP. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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