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CLOSED CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY BUFORT COUNTY.
[1. CALL TO ORDER: Alice Howard, Chair]
LIKE TO CALL THE MEETING OF A SPECIAL COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER.UH, PLEASE RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
OKAY, I'D LIKE TO CONFIRM WITH, UM, MS. SARAH THAT THIS WAS DONE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.
[4. APPROVAL OF AGENDA]
ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA.I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CUNNINGHAM.
AND SECOND BY COUNCILMAN BARTHOLOMEW.
UM, AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO MAKE, I'D LIKE SOMEONE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE GO IN EXECUTIVE SESSION PERSUADED TO SOUTH CAROLINA CODE SECTIONS 30 DASH FOUR DASH 70 A TWO AND 30 DASH FOUR DASH 70 A ONE TO RECEIVE LEGAL ADVICE ON MANNERS COVERED BY THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE AND TO DISCUSS, UH, ISSUES RELATED TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF A PERSON REGULATED BY COUNSEL.
I THINK WE NEED TO GO BACK AND, AND VOTE ON THE APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA.
WE JUST HAD A MOTION TO SECOND.
ALL IN FAVOR OF THE APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA BY SHOW OF HANDS.
[5. EXECUTIVE SESSION]
MOTION TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.COUNCILMAN CUNNINGHAM, A SECOND BY VICE CHAIR TABER NECK.
UH, I JUST READ WHILE WE'RE GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION, THERE MAY OR MAY NOT BE MATTERS ARISING OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION.
MOTION WE NEED TO VOTE ON IT TO GO IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
ALL IN FAVOR BY SHOW OF HANDS.
AND, UH, WE WILL GO INTO THE OTHER ROOM.
UM, I, WE ARE OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION.
UM, DO WE NEED A MOTION? WE HAVE NOTHING.
MAY I MAKE A COMMENT BEFORE WE GO? NO.
WELL, I'M GOING TO ANYWAYS, POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE.
UM, I JUST WANNA PUT IT ON THE RECORD THAT I DISAGREE WITH US NOT MAKING A DECISION TODAY AND COMING OUT WITH ANY STATEMENT.
THIS SHOULD NOT BE ENDING WITH NO ACTION TAKEN AFTER THIS MEETING.
IS THERE ANY OTHER, UM, COMMENTS BEFORE I ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN? NOPE.
THIS IS NATALIE HEFTER FROM THE COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM, AND THIS IS YOUR BEAUFORT COUNTY MOMENT.
TRUCK FARMING WAS INTRODUCED IN SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1868 UP NEAR CHARLESTON, BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL THE MID 1870S WHEN THE PORT ROYAL AUGUSTA RAILROAD RAN THROUGH THIS REGION.
THE TRUCK FARMING BECAME A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF OUR ECONOMIC INDUSTRY HERE.
OUR FARMERS HERE IN BEAUFORT COUNTY RELIED UPON THIS LONG GROWING SEASON THAT WE HAVE TO GROW PRODUCE THAT WAS NEEDED IN URBAN AREAS AND PARTICULARLY UP NORTH.
AS THESE FARMERS GREW THEIR POTATOES, TOMATOES, CORN, BROCCOLI, ASPARAGUS, AND LETTUCE.
LETTUCE WAS ACTUALLY AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR CROPS HERE.
AT ONE TIME, BEAUFORT WAS EVEN KNOWN AS LETTUCE CITY.
AS YOU TRAVEL PARTS OF BEAUFORT COUNTY AND SEE LARGE SCALE FARMS TODAY, REMEMBER THAT THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN IMPORTANT PART OF BEAUFORT COUNTY'S HISTORY.
THIS IS NATALIE HEFTER FROM THE COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM, AND THIS HAS BEEN YOUR BEAUFORT COUNTY MOMENT.
TO SEE MORE BEAUFORT COUNTY MOMENTS GO TO THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY HOMEPAGE AND CLICK ON THE LOCAL HISTORY TAB.