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| The following summary minutes have not been approved by Simpsonville City Council. An official copy of the minutes will be available after adopted by City Council at City Hall 118 NE Main St. Simpsonville. Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, notice of this meeting date, time, place and Agenda was posted on the bulletin board at City Hall and faxed to the newspapers, radio stations, television stations and any concerned citizens. |
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SIMPSONVILLE CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS SESSIONJuly 8, 20086:30 p.m. City Council Chambers- 118 N.E. Main St.
CALL TO ORDER: Mayor: Call the July Business meeting of Simpsonville City Council to order. I’d like to welcome you all here. Its good to see this big crowd, there must be something controversial going on but we are glad to have you.
ROLL CALL: Mayor: Mrs. Bridgeman would you call roll please?
Mrs. Bridgeman: Councilmember Bridges: Here Councilmember Garrett: Here Councilmember Sanders: Here Councilmember Bagwell: Here Councilmember Curtis: Here Councilmember Larson: Here Mayor Waldrop: Here
Mayor: Thank you very much.
INVOCATION Mayor: Anyone here who would like to ask blessings on this meeting in your own personal way? Ms. Sanders would you ask blessings on this meeting in your own personal way.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mayor: Will you all join us now in the Pledge of Allegiance to our Flag.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF 6-10-2008 Mayor: Councilmembers you have in your packet the minutes for the June 10 th , 2008 meeting, which is the last time we got together since we didn’t have a workshop meeting last month. I am sure you have all reviewed those and I will entertain a motion in that regard.
Mr. Curtis: Mr. Mayor, I make a motion to accept the meeting minutes for June 10 th , 2008.
Mayor: Thank you Mr. Curtis, do I hear a second?
Ms. Bagwell: Second
Mayor: Thank you Ms. Bagwell. Any corrections or additions, comments or anything regarding these? Hearing none I will call the vote. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous, the minutes are official.
REVIEW OF MONTHLY REPORTS Mayor: I am sure you have all also reviewed the monthly reports. This month we got them by way of email. That was a nice touch Mr. Hawes or whoever was responsible for that, thank you. Thank you to the department heads for giving us reports of what you are doing out there. We are interested in all of that. Sometimes, we may want to talk to you about it.
CITIZEN COMMENTS Mayor: All right this is the portion of our program where we invite citizen comments. This is our business meeting so anyone who hasn’t been here, I will tell you the rules. Those who signed up to speak tonight and will listen to anything you have to say. However, we will not interact with you. We do that at a workshop meeting. If you want us to do that or argue with you, come back to the workshop meeting or of course you can talk to us after the meeting. If you called ahead to be placed on the agenda, we will give you four minutes to speak, if you signed up when you walked up in the door, we will give you two minutes. I will be generous with that as long as you are interesting. We didn’t have anyone sign up on the agenda. Now we will go to the sign ups. We do have some people who signed up tonight. We will be happy to have you come up to the podium and speak to us. The first on the list is Ms. Aleta Benner. All right, if you would come forward Ms. Benner. If you will speak into the microphone and start with telling us your address just for the record, then you may begin.
Ms. Benner: 217 Harts Lane. Thank you for letting me speak. I am happy to be here. I don’t live in the City of Simpsonville but I was born in the town of Simpsonville. What I am here for tonight is to thank a lot of people for a lot of things. First I would like to thank the Fire Chief and his crew who was at the celebration on Thursday night and we had a little minor incident to happen and they took care of that in record time and we appreciate them being there. The next thing I would like to say is that I would like to thank the council and whoever else was involved in the celebration down at the park on Friday night. It was awesome, we thoroughly enjoyed that. I would also like to thank you for finally getting some flags up on the polls, I appreciate that very much and I hope next year we can have them all down the street. The next thing, the last thing is, it should have been the first thing. I want to thank Robbie and his crew down at the Senior Action Center , which is a wonderful place. My dad who is going to be 95 years old, that is the one of the reasons he is still around today I think because he loves to go there, he interacts with so many people, its just been a life saver for him. I just appreciate all the staff down there and they look after him for me. When I need a ride for him to come home, there is never a problem, they are right there to do that. If you have not been there on Friday morning at 10:00, I would suggest to make it a point to so you can listen to the group of seniors sing cause it will give you a blessing. It is just a wonderful thing, and I just want to thank you for all these things.
Mayor: Well some of these people up here are senior citizens so they could come on down. Thank you so much for all of those kind remarks. I can give you about 10 more minutes if you want.
Mayor: Next is Mr. Jack Cox. If you will state your address you may begin, and follow her lead, which was kind of nice
Mr. Cox: I am Jack Cox at 707 Davenport. I, too am thankful and grateful for all of the work that you are doing. My topic tonight is Davenport Road. I am excited that you folks are going to rework that and do some things. When we did this petition up and down the street, we had a bunch of passion and lots of opinions. What we are looking for that is a safer road. Thanks to Tammy Bagwell for her time and attention. I learned some new information that this is not going to be intended as a residential street. It is not very pleasing to hear that but the facts are the facts. That is the purpose of that petition, is to slow folks down. The police are wonderful; they can’t give enough speeding citations there. Maybe stop signs or whatever it takes. One of the suggestions that I didn’t put in the petition is some kind of signage. You would probably know more than me about this but something like ‘Children at Play’, anything along those lines to make people aware that people live here. That this isn’t the big freeway you’re going down, we live here. The number one complaint we had was backing out of the driveway. So whatever we can do to slow the people down really appreciate it. I understand that there is a right of way that the city is going to have to negotiate with homeowners. Again people are coming to assumptions, maybe they are false, and maybe they are right on. There is just a lot of lack of information. So if the City Manager, if he does that, maybe tell people what’s going on. There’s lots of passion, lots of misinformation and people are talking amongst themselves and they never talk to you to get a straight answer. That’s it. Thank you for what you are doing for our street.
Mayor: Thank you. Those are our only folks who signed up to speak with us tonight. We will move on to the rest of the agenda now.
CITY ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT Mayor: Next on the agenda is the City Administrator’s Report. Mr. Hawes are you geared and fired up to get ready to go?
Mr. Hawes: Yes, absolutely Mayor. Council, first of all in response to Mr. Cox’s request for information. The company that is doing the right of way acquisition and plans for the city is planning to do a public information meeting at Calvary Baptist Church, probably by the end of this month. As soon as the plans are complete, they will be able to put them up on the wall and show people exactly how their properties are going to be impacted so that will minimize the rumor mill and so forth. We certainly want to make sure the information is out there and that it is accurate. This is why we have had to wait until the plans were complete to get to that point.
Mayor: May I suggest that we staple on trashcans to show that the meeting is coming instead of waiting saying that we are having a meeting. Be patient, we will give you an opportunity to be heard.
Mr. Hawes: We can do that. In regards to my City Administrator’s Report. I am going to read right off my Blackberry here because it didn’t make it in the packet for whatever reason.
Mayor: He is just trying to impress us that he has a Blackberry.
Mr. Hawes. Yeah. The downtown streetscape project is finishing up. Medians were placed in the last few weeks and soon the pavement markings and stamped out crosswalks will be installed. At that time, lane configuration will be finalized. The traffic light actuators will then provide protective left turns at N.E. and S.E Main Street, at both Curtis Street and College Street. Pavement marking work will begin, it says July 9 th , but we just got word from the construction company that they are stuck down in Greenwood on a project, so they are going to come on Monday instead of July 9 th . July 9 th is tomorrow, so we are looking at Monday instead of then. With regard to Independence Day at Heritage Park, the city’s first annual, hopefully annual presentation of Independence Day at Heritage Park with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra on July 4 th , was an unqualified success. I think every City Council Member was there, I believe and we were glad to everybody there. We had over 10,000 people attend this great moving patriotic salute to our country. The symphony was very happy with all aspects of the event and has indicated the desire to do it again next year. The logistics of the event went very smoothly and there may be a possibility in extending our relations with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra to include GSO Pops in the Park Series next summer as well. We are thrilled about the direction that this can take and hopefully all City Council will feel the same way. Movies in the Park Series is also been an unqualified success. Crowds in excess of 2200 per show were showing up to see these movies at the beautiful amphitheater. The atmosphere is incredible and the kids are everywhere. They enjoy the park, they run around before the show and the parents sit down and take it all in. its just a great atmosphere, very enjoyable for anybody who comes out. We invite anybody, it’s an absolute free event and we have two more movies. One of them was going to be tonight, Madagascar. But that movie is going to be postponed because of weather and possibility of such later tonight. That will be postponed until the 22 nd of July and Jurassic Park will show next week. With regard to current economy and budget matters, I just want to report to city council that we do continue to track and analyze continuing fluctuations in development related revenue streams of the city and the continual increase in fuel costs. The past week I met with all department heads to discuss the dealings with these costs at the departmental and citywide levels. We continue to consider efficiencies in all aspects of operations and the implementation of strategy should continue. Our next meeting of City Council is the workshop on July 22 nd and the Municipal Association Annual Conference is July 16-20. I am open to any questions and comments in the Council Comments section of the agenda.
COUNCIL COMMENTS Mayor: Thank you Mr. Hawes. We are going to move to the Council Comments, in which you can ask questions about his report or say whatever else you want to.
Mr. Bridges: I just want to reiterate what Ms. Benner said. We did have an exciting fire. One of the rockets fell of the stand and set a pretty big blaze. The guys got to it and did a great job. I wanted to also say that they Symphony Concert was marvelous, I don’t remember anything I’ve enjoyed that much. We need to keep doing those if we can.
Mayor: Thank you. Anyone else?
Mr. Curtis: I have a couple things for the City Administrator. I’ve recently received several versions of a petition from a Ms. Janice Brown who’s worked hard to try and get some names together. She has pointed out that there is a problem with the traffic in the Brentwood subdivision. Based on the signatures on the petition, I would say that a lot of the people of that neighborhood, in full disclosure it just happens to be my neighborhood, they’re in agreement with that. I would like to ask the City Administrator have the appropriate department evaluate what type of traffic common might be suited and get back to us on that. Second, in conjunction with the traffic, it has also been noted that a large percentage in the neighborhood feel that the Brentwood Way and several of the cross streets which were not repaved in this last repaving, are in great need of repaving. I do realize that the city’s budget is tight and we do not have extras funds in it this year for repaving but in the event that additional funds do become available, we would like for those streets to be given consideration.
Mr. Hawes: Absolutely.
Mayor: Thank you Mr. Curtis.
Mr. Larson: I had some conversations with some folks over on Davenport and also some other folks in Brentwood about the traffic and the speed of the traffic. I just had a question for Mr. Hawes. Have we had any feedback on the speed humps on Westwood Drive and is there any feeling towards three or four way stops versus speed bumps?
Mr. Hawes: To answer your first question, yes we have had some feedback on that. Most of it has been positive, there are some folks who dislike them but as far as that, the correct steps were taken. As far as the evaluation of the appropriateness of the traffic device in any particular situation, there are a number of criteria that need to be evaluated. There are manuals on traffic controlling devices, standard manuals that identify warrants for certain types of devices and certain types of situations. Traffic load, density of housing along the road, what type of classification of the road, is it a connector or collector? What is the City’s Councils feeling towards the roads purpose is in regard to the traffic that it is carrying now? Is it a purpose that is different than what the road was intended for? All of the things along those lines would configure into the ultimate decision of speed control device that is identified. There are devices that are not used in this area such as chicanes and traffic circles that are possibilities if the situation is correct for them. I’m not aware of those really needing a particular situation in Simpsonville right now. What we look at for traffic calming is typically speed humps or stop signs. Those are the two primary considerations that we get. If we were to encounter something that was in need of another type we are certainly open to that but consideration is always given in the analysis here for what is appropriate and we will do that with whatever case is brought before us.
Mr. Larson: I also had another question about the streetscape. Is there a reason that the left turn arrows cannot be functional at this point? Do we have to wait for the other sections to be completed?
Mr. Hawes: Yes. There is a reason while it is under construction it is not allowed by SCDOT to change a signal pattern and this is a state highway. When construction is complete then they will turn the signal to the ultimate setting, which will allow protective left turn.
Mr. Larson: I want to finish up with echoing your comments and Mr. Bridges comments that the 4 th of July ceremony was outstanding. I can’t remember having a better time. I haven’t heard anything but vast overwhelming praise. My family and I have been to every one of the movies at the park and it is just awesome too, the kids love it. Those are two things we can continue to keep doing.
Ms. Bagwell: First of all, wow, I have to reiterate what they have said, Friday night was phenomenal. Greenville Symphony Orchestra did an amazing job but you and all those who worked with you to pull that together, that was phenomenal. Tim Brett of Brett Communications, they did a jam up job. Movies in the Park, we’ve been to see them when were in town, to the extent that my child said she wants my husband to take her tonight since I was here. Thank you for that for bringing that in. the concerns about Davenport. I just wanted to make note that I did give you that petition that Mr. Cox had brought to me. I believe he can nod and let me know that this is accurate. If there is another form of traffic calming device that would be more appropriate than four way stops in that area that those residence would be happy to see those in effect. Their greatest concern is obviously the safety issues and I know that a lot of mailboxes have been taken down and I am hoping that the widening of the road and the shoulder will fix that. Thank you.
Mayor: Anyone else?
Mr. Bridges: I want to address the turn lanes, I come home that way everyday about five o’clock and I have actually gotten through that traffic light quicker than I ever did. It is working fine and I am expecting it to get better.
Mayor: I just want to add to that I think I have talked to a lot of doubters but I’m sure that its going to work but I won’t give you all the details but Russ and I have a book that was published after we made the decision to do this that provides a theory traffic movement and they try to sell what we are doing out there. So someone else thinks it’s a good idea and is going to work. Of course July 4 th was a wonderful event for this time and you’ve all said it. Only thing I can add, only thing I can add is that I talked to some of the people from the orchestra afterwards and the Mistro. I think I understood that he was ecstatic and they were all excited about being here. It was a great venue for what they do and they are looking forward to coming back. I think it will be an easy sell for the to establish a home here July 4 th . I would personally like to see it and I am sure everyone else would also. Those are the only things I have to say about that other than to add to what Tammy said, there were a lot of people involved in putting that together and making that happen. There were a lot of people behind the scene that never get credit and are never seen but a couple of ladies that work at Brett Communications were just, I think they lost about 10 pounds during the whole thing because they were the ones doing the leg work and putting things together. I’m not going to name names, but I want to thank them publicly and everyone else and we will be thanking them more appropriately later. I had one other thing but I can’t remember. If I remember it later I will acknowledge it. Anyone else? Thank you very much that will conclude council comments unless I remember what I had to say and we will come back.
NEW BUSINESS • KUDZU ART GUILD- USE OF THE ARTS CULTURAL CENTER Mayor: Next on the agenda is New Business. First is the Kudzu Art Guild- Use of the Arts Cultural Center. Diane Lippert, does that mean we will have a presentation. Well, come forward, I’m a little confused of how the agenda is laid out.
Ms. Lippert: We submitted a letter through Mr. Hawes to you and he said it would be in your packages. We formally requested the use of one of the classrooms at the Arts Cultural Center, since we understand that it is ready to be used. It’s a safe cohabitation for the kid’s stuff. What we would do in the room is we’d establish permanent presence. We have been moving place to place to have our meetings. We have them in the community building quite a long time. Then there was a conflict of dates and things like that so we would have to move it back. It would be more conducive for us to use our energies towards promoting Simpsonville rather than finding a place to meet. So we would use it for our meetings, for our workshops and we can hold classes there, we would store our equipment there and generally use it for painting sessions and things of that nature. We have worked with a lot of different departments in the City, the Recreation Department, Chamber of Commerce, we have conducted art shows at festivals, we’ve taught at the Senior Activity Center in exchange for the use of the community building and we have generally done a lot of things to bring recognition to Simpsonville as an art center. We purchase a date in the park in Greenville every year and we also do the festival of trees and this past year we had one of the primary tress because they liked our design so they asked us to do it in a larger scale and gave us a primary spot. We have tried to promote the arts in Simpsonville as the center for us. We would ask to have use of one of the rooms and it would please us very much to take very good care of it.
Mayor: Well I am very excited that one of the Arts Groups in Simpsonville want to get involved in the arts and what we got going on over there. I would ask the City Administrator to put this on the workshop, which will be in two weeks so we can fully discuss it. I am sure there will be a lot of questions we will need to ask you and perhaps some that we will need to ask us. So if you could come back and have some of your members to come back if you feel like you have others who would have impute and answer questions. Let’s put this on the workshop and talk about it. How’s that?
Ms. Lippert: We can do that. That’s wonderful.
Mayor: Thank you so much for coming tonight.
Ms. Lippert: Thank you.
B- GREENVILLE COUNTY RECREATION DISTRICT: NEW TAXATION IN THE CITY
Mayor: Mr. Hawes you are going to talk to us about the Greenville County Recreation District: New Taxation in the City.
Mr. Hawes: Mr. Mayor and Council, over the past couple of weeks word has made it to our ears about a state law that was passed that will allow the dissolution of Greenville County Recreation District in simulation of the operations of the county. Very quietly on the last day of the legislative session, the State Legislator passed into law that allows Greenville County Recreation District holdings and operations to merge into the county. This might appear to be an innocuous transition but it is anything but innocuous. The new law was moved through with no public discussion of its implications in Greenville County. It allows by a simple 2/3rds-majority resolution of the county legislative delegation and recreation district of the county to assume recreation services and facilities of the district. The resolution if passed will resolve in new county tax currently 4.4 mils imposed on the City of Simpsonville. GCRD’s dissolution and simulation into the county’s operations will result in the milage that is currently collected in the unincorporated areas of the county now being collected in the City of Simpsonville. Now this mean that 4.4 mils will be added to the Simpsonville residence tax bills. There are currently no plans for how the funds are collected in this city or any of the cities that will be used or if any collected here will benefit the city or how that will be determined, etc. there will be a public hearing on this very important matter at 6:30 at county square. I know that the Mayors will be there to convey their city’s profound concerns. It is imperative that specifics such as how much funding will be raised at the expense of city residence, how the funds will be distributed and how the future plans of the district or county will benefit tax payers of this city. It will be presented clearly before I can recommend your support of any aspects of this change. All the city of Greenville County has huge amounts at stake. Our staff will begin discussions with the district and county staff immediately to hopefully clarify all of the points of great concern. The Legislative Delegation was set to vote on this matter Monday the 14 th , which is next Monday. I understand that is vote will be delayed until after the county and district act on it. That is expected in the month of August. This gives us a little over a month to see how the City of Simpsonville fits into their plan if there is one. This is for your information right now. I have great concerns for the implications of further tax being collected on the residence of the City of Simpsonville, where we currently have recreation operations that benefit our citizens and are being taxed for currently within the city and they are receiving direct benefit, this is basically a double taxation with minimal representation.
Mayor: Well you are right. Let me just report to council that I have talked to Gene Smith who is the Director of the Greenville County Recreation District, I have talked to many members of Legislative Delegation and many members of county council and the recurring theme I have been hearing is that this happened so quickly, no one really understands it, that no one knows how this is going to work. They tell us there is going to be a 4 ½ mil tax on the residence of the city for operations throughout the county but they can’t tell us what we will get for that and they can’t tell us if there is a plan in place. I have expressed concern about us. A little history, many years ago, in 1996 I believe it was, the cities of Mauldin and Simpsonville were allowed by the Legislative Delegation and county council to withdraw from the Greenville County Recreation District because at that time they refused to share their funding with us. Robbie was here; he remembers all of this. We fought a pretty good battle with them trying to, let me add we tried to be cooperative but they just refused to help and so the Legislative Delegation and County Council recognized that so they allowed us to withdraw. From that time forward, with good folks like Robbie and good council people and Administrators, not only us but the City of Mauldin has developed two of the finest recreation departments including facilities in the state of South Carolina and its my belief that we don’t have much of a need of what they have to offer. There’ a lot of questions that still need to be answered so we need to take an active part in this as Russ mentioned, the Mayor’s Association has taken part in this and we are going to make some presentations and contacting folks. I reminded all the people I talked with that this council just finished the budget process and we worked real hard and denied some of our departments some of the things they needed in order to not have a property tax increase cause we believe that the folks out there who are paying more for gas and more for food and some loosing their jobs and people struggling don’t need an additional tax for the sake of having a few more things that we think we need. So now the county is going to come into our city and propose a 4 ½ mil tax increase on our residence with no assurance of where that money is going to go. We should be upset about this and our citizens should be upset about this and should pay close attention to this and we will be talking about this much more publicly and we want to make our concerns known. We want Greenville County to succeed ever since the first day that we opened Heritage Park. We have said as a Greenville County facility and we want everyone in Greenville County to benefit from that. We don’t deny any of the residence of Greenville County or any other county the use of our facilities or expect them to pay for that unless they use certain facilities that everyone pays for. I think we are cooperating and we are providing services to Greenville County that we don’t have to provide and we haven’t tried to tax anyone in the county unless you come and buy a hot dog maybe. This doesn’t appear to be a two way street to me and some of us are pretty concerned.
Mr. Bridges: You say some are pretty concerned. The mayors I’m interested in. How does all the other cities feel? Same way or are there some of them that don’t really care?
Mayor: There are two cities, Travelers Rest and Fountain Inn that have a lot of investment in their programs by the recreation district and have a contract with them. While they are concerned, they have expressed concern about control issues and people imposing taxes, they are still pretty satisfied. I will tell you the other cities, City of Greenville, City of Greer, City of Mauldin and City of Simpsonville of course have great concerns about it because of our programs and some have suggested to these folks that we can still accomplish this togetherness that they are talking about, we can work together contractually. In example, Greenville, you probably read in the paper yesterday that they are trying to develop a little league facility at the old memorial stadium. They are contracting with, I think they approved it in the City Council meeting yesterday with the Greenville County Recreation District to have an agreement. So they both put up money and both put up things. City of Mauldin is doing that with a swimming pool facility. So it can be done, we can all cooperate and provide recreation of all members of the county without relinquishing control of our programs and taxation of our citizens. I hope that the Legislative Delegation and County Council will see the wisdom of not imposing those things on us and those Mayors that I mentioned and their Councils by the way feel pretty strongly about this.
Mr. Bridges: One more thing, how did this come about? Who’s responsible for this?
Mayor: I’m not going to call names, lets just say the members of the Greenville County Legislative Delegation sponsored these bills and the house in Columbia. If you are really interested you can find out who they are. At this point, because we are trying to show them the heirs of their ways we don’t want to talk about them in public. I am sure this is going to appear on our agenda at many more times.
OLD BUSINESS: A. ORDINANCES- 2ND Reading 1. AXZ-2008-06 Kellet Property County R-12 to City C-IN
Mayor: Next on the agenda is Old Business and David Dyrhaug and company, and family. David I think it is imperative that you introduce the people who are accompanying you tonight before you begin your presentation.
Mr. Dyrhaug: Well as I left this evening. I had someone who was stuck on me that wouldn’t let go so I brought my daughter, Miley and my wife, Jeabri.
Mayor: And a lovely wife and daughter they are. Welcome we are happy to have you here.
Mr. Dyrhaug: I hope you recognize me with out a laser pointer and a show on the wall tonight. We just have one item for second reading so I didn’t think it was critical that we have a show on the wall. This request is for a second reading for an annexation request at 905 West Georgia Road. This entails two properties that the city has grown around. It is near the intersection of West Georgia Road and Neely Fairy Road. Its right next to the daycare and across the street from where the new CVS was just built and opened up. These two properties are in total a little over an acre in size. They are currently zoned as R-12 within the county and the property owner has requested they be rezoned to C-1N, which is a neighborhood commercial zone. We held a public hearing for this item at the Planning Commission meeting on June 3 rd and there was no expressed opposition for this request. The Planning Commission voted unanimously, 5-0, to recommend the rezoning of this property to C-1N. Staff also lends it support.
Mayor: Thank you Mr. Dyrhaug. I will entertain a motion in this regard
Mr. Larson: I make a motion that AXZ-2008-06 be changed from County R-12 to City C-1N and accept the recommendation.
Mayor: Do I hear a second?
Mr. Curtis: Second
Mayor: OK, I have a motion and a second. Any discussion?
Mr. Homes: I just want to make a note that this motion includes an adoption for annexation as well.
Mr. Larson: Correct. I meant to say that.
Mayor: Correct. I think I heard him say that. I’ll remind the council this is second and final reading. I will call the vote. All I favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, its unanimous. You do quick work when you have the family with you. You’re welcome to come back with him at anytime. He’s a lot shorter when you’re with him.
Mr. Hawes: I can take a moment to introduce a new employee before we adjourn the meeting.
Mayor: I think that’s a great idea and I’m sorry I overlooked that so why don’t you do that.
Mr. Hawes: I would like to introduce the City of Simpsonville, City Council, Mayor of the City of Simpsonville to our new Human Resource Coordinator and City Clerk, Ms. Melinda Zeller . She is resident of City of Simpsonville, she has a Masters in Human Resource Management. We have an eminently qualified for the person in that position and we look forward to working with her for many years.
Mayor: Sounds like she’s smarter than all of us. I happen to know that she’s a long time resident of Simpsonville and her parents live on a fine street just a few houses up from a fine gentleman who just so happens to be Mayor of this town but that had nothing to do with the selection.
EXECTUIVE SESSION Mayor: Next item on the agenda is that we have a need to have an Executive Session to discuss a legal matter and a contractual matter. So I will entertain a motion in that regard.
Ms. Sanders: I vote that we adjourn the meeting to executive session.
Mr. Holmes: Can I change the wording of the motion that there is a motion to go into Executive Session to receive legal advise and to discuss contract matter?
Mayor: I think that’s what she said. And do I have a second?
Ms. Bagwell: Second.
Mayor: I’ll call the vote. All I favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, its unanimous. We will be in recess to go into Executive Session.
ADJOURNMENT At 8:12 it was reported that no action was taken. Ms. Sanders made a motion to adjourn the meeting and Mr. Garrett seconds the motion.
Respectfully Submitted,
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