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Special Called Meeting of the Finance, Administration, and Economic Development Committee
Agendas can be found at https://beaufortcountysc.gov/council/council-committee-meetings/index.html
A
A
And
to
the
Republic
for
which
it
stands,
one
nation
under
God,
indivisible
with
liberty
and
justice
for
all
all
right.
Public
notification
of
this
meeting
has
been
published,
posted
and
distributed
in
compliance
with
the
South
Carolina
Freedom
of
Information
Act,
and
ask
for
someone
to
approve
our
agenda.
A
You
very
much
any
discussion
on
the
agenda.
Seeing
no
discussion.
We
will
approve
this
without
objection.
Is
there
any
objection
to
the
agenda?
Seeing
no
objection,
the
agenda
has
been
approved.
This
is
a
time
when
each
meeting
we
allow
citizens
comment.
Is
there
anyone
from
the
audience
or
online?
That
would
like
to
comment
and
not
seeing
anything
or
anyone
that
would
like
to
step
forward.
A
Obviously,
we
on
Monday
had
had
our
special
meeting
and-
and
these
are
the
items
that
came
out
of
our
our
our
meeting
on
Monday
and
then
we'd
like
to
address
those
items
and
start
the
the
ball
rolling
forward.
So
today
is
is
going
to
be
a
lot
of
information,
we're
going
to
try
to
get
some
answers
to
the
best
way
for
us
to
to
do
this
for
us
to
handle
those
four
items
that
we've
got.
A
So
it's
going
to
be
kind
of
a
question
and
answer
we'll
bring
up
whoever
we
can
that's
going
to
help
us
with
some
of
those
decisions,
and
everyone,
then,
would
have
an
input
on
on
how
we
how
we
move
forward
Mr
Robinson.
Would
you
like
to
like
to
introduce
you?
Obviously,
if
all
people
haven't
having
a
chance
to
meet
you
before
you've
been
on
staff
here,
but
I
guess
the
the
correct
title
is:
is
it
interim
or
is
it
acting
and
administrator?
C
A
If
there's
things
that
need
to
be
adjusted,
things
that
we
need
to
to
move
forward,
and
if
anything
that
that
you
know
we
look
at
this
and
and
everything
has
a
silver
lining.
This
gives
us
the
opportunity
to
to
go
back
through
it
and
actually
look
at
where
we
are
with
each
of
our
regulations
and
what
we're
doing
and
make
sure
that
as
we
move
forward,
we
are
doing
the
correct
thing.
A
So
again,
that's
why
we're
here
is
is
to
go
back
and
look
at
many
of
the
things
that
we've
got
and
it's
given
us
the
opportunity
to
do
that
with
the
perfect
timing.
So
we've
been
tasked
with
finding
someone
to
handle
these.
These
four
items
from
County
council's
Direction
and
first
person
like
to
bring
up
actually
is
Mr
Thomas.
If
you
would
like
to
come
up,
Dave
is
our
procurement
officer.
What's
the
what's
your
official
title,
Dave
as
as.
A
A
We
obviously
our
our
biggest
thing
is
we
want
to
do
this
in
a
very,
very
expeditious
way,
so
that
we're
we're
not
waiting
for
this
forever,
both
in
finding
someone
to
help
us
with
these
items,
but
also
in
in
getting
to
answers
that
we
need
so
and
the
floor
is
yours
and
God
just
kind
of
give
us
an
overall?
What
you're?
Thinking
after
seeing
what
we're
asking
for.
E
Thank
you,
Mr,
chairman
with
that
said,
we
basically
go
by
our
Bible,
which
is
the
Beaver
County
procurement
code,
and
it
does
authorize
me
as
your
person
director
to
a
solicit
Services,
which
the
county
committee
is
asking
for,
and
we
can
do
this
by
section
515,
which
is
authority
to
contract
for
certain
services
and
in
this
you're
asking
for
Legal
Services
to
look
at
the
scope
that
you
came
up
with
a
couple
days
ago.
We
can
do
this,
we
wanted
to
be
very
transparent.
We
could.
E
E
A
E
Could
put
a
date
on
it,
we'll
advertise
it
for
15
days
once
we
receive
it,
they
have
to
do.
They
have
to
put
in
their
response.
In
15
days
once
we
review
the
companies
we'll
do
a
selection
committee
based
on
their
qualifications,
not
on
price,
but
qualifications,
you'll
you'll
select
a
company,
that's
the
most
qualified,
okay
and
the
way
our
code
is
written
are
the
way
we
can
write
that
we
can
select
one
two
or
three
companies
to
do
different
parts,
but
it's
best
to
have
one
company.
Do
it
all?
Okay,.
E
F
Purchases
by
the
county,
from
January
1st
2023
to
the
present
contract
for
Professional,
Services,
January,
1st
2023,
the
present
review
of
the
procurement
code
and
an
audit
of
the
p-card
system
right
there
are,
my
advice-
would
be
and
I
don't
like
to
give
advice
on
TV,
but
my
advice
would
be
that
you
hire
a
law
firm
to
conduct
these
investigations
and
oversee
these
reviews
from
A
to
Z
the
entire
scope,
and
there
are
law
firms
in
the
state.
They
are
large
law
firms
in
the
state
that
do
this
kind
of
stuff.
F
I
mentioned
one
in
executive
session,
the
other
day,
I've
heard
from
others.
These
are
really
really
big
law
firms,
and
these
are
firms
that
have
experience
in
in
conducting
investigations
of
at
the
request
of
governmental
entities
into
procedures
that
have
gone
on
in
those
entities,
and
these
law
firms
are
capable
of
retaining
other
vendors
to
assist
them
as
they
deem
necessary
in
conducting
their
investigation.
So,
for
instance,
if
we
were
to
hire
a
very
large
Law
Firm,
they
would
probably
throw
three-
maybe
four
lawyers,
one
partner,
probably
several
Associates
at
these
tasks.
F
They
would
probably
investigate
these
tasks.
Contemporaneously,
all
at
the
same
time,
they
may
decide
that
they
need
to
hire
a
forensic
accountant.
They
may
decide
they
need
to
hire
a
detective.
They
may
decide
they
need
to
hire
vendors
who
have
whatever
skills
they
believe
are
necessary
to
perform
the
scope
of
the
work
that
you
have
tasked
them
with
doing.
F
They
won't
retain
these
vendors
without
talking
to
us,
because
these
things
don't
come
cheap,
but
anybody
who's
ever
worked
with
a
law
firm
and
a
lawyer
on
a
case,
which
is
what
this
is
knows
that
in
the
course
of
performing
The
Legal
Services,
they
have
to
hire
outside
vendors,
to
advise
them
and
to
assist
them
in
the
work.
That's
being
done.
The
firms
that
you
know
that
we've
been
talking
about
are
Sterling
top
of
the
line
firms.
E
F
A
to
to
reply
to
what's
called
a
request
for
qualifications
to
do
the
work
that
we're
asking
them
to
do
so
back
to
the
code.
The
code
provides
the
County
Council
and
the
County
Administrator
have
the
authority
to
hire
law
firms
and
those
retentions
are
except
are
exempt
from
the
regular
process
of
competitive
bidding
and
all
of
that
guys,
and
so
that
is
the
process
that
we
ordinarily
follow.
But
the
idea
I
think,
is
that
what
we
could
do
is
put
together
a
a
request
for
qualifications.
F
We
could
I
say
look,
we
need
a
firm
that
can
perform
the
following
and
we
would
further
detail
the
Motions
that
you
guys
provided.
We
would
try
to
define
the
scope
and
we
would
ask
firms
to
to
submit
their
resumes
and
list
of
their
professionals
that
they
would
assign
to.
We
would
advertise
in
this
through
the
South
Carolina
bar,
we
would
advertise
through
an
entity
called
the
South
Carolina
lawyer.
We
would
advertise
in
any
way
that
we
could
think
of
local
paper
State
paper.
We
could
advertise
in
the
Greenville
paper.
That's
Charleston,
Columbia
Greenville.
F
Those
are
the
big
farmers
and
the
County
website
and
other
places,
and
we
could
leave
that
open
for
as
long
as
you
want
the
longer.
It's
open
the
longer
the
delay,
but
we
could
leave
that
open
for
as
long
as
you
want
bring
forward
sift
through
I
mean
I'm
sure
we're
going
to
get
a
lot
of.
You
know
responses
from
firms
that
are
more
qualified
than
others.
We
would
probably
sift
through
that
make
recommendations
to
you
guys.
F
F
You
can
do
it,
you
can
ask
the
County
Administrator
for
anything
you
want,
that
is
in
the
County's
records
and
files.
There's
nothing
that
precludes
you
from
doing
what
you
want
to
do
in
advance
of
retaining
a
law
firm.
If
you
choose
to
do
that
or
outside
vendors
to
do
this,
the
beauty
of
having
a
law
firm,
in
my
opinion,
do
it
is
it's
all
coordinated
and
it's
all
responsible
and
you
don't
have
things
running
all
over
the
place.
F
It
just
makes
sense
in
my
mind
and
in
fact,
if
you
to
do
it
that
way,
and
if
you
look
at
there's
a
case,
we
talked
about
it's
Bradshaw
versus
Anderson
County.
It's
a
2010
case
from
the
South
Carolina
Supreme,
Court
I
believe
what
they
did.
Is
they
hired
a
lawyer
and
a
law
firm
to
oversee
the
investigation
and
then
charge
him
with
monitoring
and
shepherding
the
investigation.
D
F
D
A
B
G
G
If
we
were
to
hire
a
law
firm
to
look
at
the
contracts
and
the
purchases
and
to
drill
down
on
the
e-cards,
let's
say
on
a
monthly
basis
for
all
of
the
holders,
and
there
are
questions
to
be
asked.
I
know
we
have
no
subpoena
power
in
this
matter,
but
will
the
people
who
are
involved
in
grafting,
the
contracts
participating
in
the
contracts
or
the
purchases
or
this
or
the
spending
on
the
P
cards
have
to
be
spoken
to
as
potential
Witnesses
in
this
matter?
G
Will
we
then
probably
need
to
have
some
trained
investigators
who
are
used
to
talking
to
people
who
can
provide
information
that
will
clarify
or
confirm
what
we're
looking
at
in
front
of
us,
but
also
may
lead
us
in
another
direction
to
areas
that
we're
not
familiar
with
so
my
question
is
the
law
firm
would
have
the
ability
not
only
to
higher
layers
and
accountants,
but
they
could
also
hire
trained
investigators
to
conduct
the
investigations
of
these
matters.
Is
that
correct?
Yes,
okay,.
F
Thank
you,
I.
Don't
know
that
you
do
off
the
top
of
my
head.
It's
something
you
and
I
discussed
once
before,
but
I
haven't
had
a
chance
to
look
into
it.
I
would
I,
don't
know
that
we
can
compel
employees
to
submit
to
interviews
I,
don't
know
that
we
can
do
that,
but
I
can
find
the
answer
for
you.
Thank
you.
A
H
Hour
I
appreciate
the
what
chairman,
Joe
passman,
said:
the
urgency
to
get
started,
but
I
wonder
if
we
start
interviewing
law
firms
before
the
advertising
period
is
expired.
If
we
are
doing
pre-selection
of
the
firm
that
we
pick
so
I
would
urge
us
not
to
do
any
interviews
of
the
firms
until
the
15
days
is
up
and
then
be
ready
to
go
totally.
H
A
I
G
G
B
Going
to
ask
Mr
Thomas,
but
Mr
Kevin,
he
just
went
in
more
detail.
I
wanted
the
public
to
totally
hear
why
we
don't
have
to
go
out
to
bid
for
the
law
firms
because
we're
not
circumventing
our
procurement
code
and
Tom.
You
went
into
it
in
good
detail.
So
in
an
effort
for
transparency,
we
hope
the
public
heard
that
part.
So
somebody
said
well,
you
didn't
take
bids.
You
didn't
go
through.
So
thank
you
for
doing
that
completely.
F
I
F
Council
we
try
to
match
law
firms
up
with
matters
that
come
in,
and
so
our
code
doesn't
require
us
to
advertise
at
all.
But
it's
a
good
idea
to
do
it,
certainly
it's
transparent
and
if
any
of
the
law
firms
out
there
are
watching
this
now
or
will
watch
this
ever
you
know,
send
us
and
you
think
you're
qualified
send
us
your
your
resume.
G
And
Tom
before
you
sit
down
sorry
I
just
want
to
be
clear
on
what
we're
trying
to
preserve
here
and
I.
Think
it's
the
access
to
munis
in
particularly
where
all
of
our
records
are
being
kept
and
if,
if
the
access
is
open
and
available
to
everyone,
I'm
not
sure
we're
going
to
have
a
lot
of
success.
Preserving
the
records
that
we
may
need
to
consider
as
we
move
forward
on
this
and
I'm,
not
sure
how
we
can
do
that.
F
J
F
C
J
J
B
C
Will
work
on
that
and
I
will
address
those
access
limitations.
Munis
has
its
keystroke
logger,
that's
in
there
I'll
work
along
with
with
Patrick
and
we'll
see
how
far
back
that
data
goes
and
we'll
preserve
that
data
as
necessary,
but
our
system
normally
backs
up
data
twice
a
day
and
and
there's
lots
of
other
things
that
it
has
the
capability
of
preserving.
So
we'll
do
those
things.
K
When
we
do
munis
access,
we
usually
get
permission
from
the
Department
director
of
who,
on
his
staff,
has
access
to
munis
and
that's
restricted
to
just
what
the
department
director
has
approved
and
it's
usually
just
within
that
department
and
so
I
think,
there's
roughly
maybe
60
folks
within
the
county
staff
that
have
access
to
munis,
maybe
about
65.
But
it's
it's
tightly
controlled
based
on
their
Department.
What
they
have
access
to.
B
A
And
and
Patrick
so
that
is,
is
that
something
that
we
can
go
back?
You
said
three
months,
so
it's
something
that
if
we
said
right
now,
we
want
it
done.
You
know
July,
1st,
June,
1st
May
1st.
You
can
go
back
those
three
months
and
then
moving
forward
to
always
have
a
snapshot
at
least
once
a
month
is
that
is
that
easy
to
do?
Is
that
hard
to
do.
A
So
yeah
so
moving
forward.
We
do
an
emotion
that
that
we
are
going
to
go
ahead
and
do
the
RFQ
it'll
be
posted
for
the
15
days,
and
we
will
then
write
that
up
and
I'm
sure
we'll
look
at
that
and
and
and
as
we
get
there,
the
response
is
in
so
so
that
is
the
the
process
we're
looking
at.
So
we
need
a
motion
for
that.
Miss
Howard.
H
A
Think
that
that
was
your
recommendation.
That's
what
we're
hearing
is
that
it's
better
to
have
one
firm,
all
four
I'm,
sorry
we
and
we
look
at
that
and
think
that
we
need
to
hire
four
different
ones.
I
think
just
makes
it
more
complicated
and
takes
longer
and
will
be
a
longer
process
than
what
again
we're
trying
to.
A
B
A
Going
to
cost
yet,
but
obviously
we're
we'll
get
an
idea
of
that
whenever
we
start
to
interview
folks
and
where
we
are
so
I'm,
assuming
that
there
will
be
a
need
for
a
budget
amendment
and
that
will
be
handled
through
through
finance
committee
and
then
Council,
obviously,
for
once
we
figure
out
where
we
are
on
on
finance,
where
we
are
in
the
cost
of
of
this
well,
that
was
simpler
than
I
thought.
It
was
going
to
be
so
here
we
are
going
through
all
four
of
those.
A
Oh
oh
right,
just
assumed
that
was.
Is
there
any
objection
to
that
motion?
No,
seeing
no
objection.
We
will
then
move
that
forward
that
that
that
passes
unanimously
all
right.
So
obviously
you
want
to
talk
about
P
cards
and
then
we
can
discuss
anything
else.
Anyone
has
some
Mr
Robson
go
ahead.
I
know
that
there's
been
discussion
about
that,
especially
you
know
everyone
talking
about
about
what's
happening
with
those
and
what
we
can
do.
We
can't
do
yes,.
C
Sir,
so
I'll
just
talk
briefly
to
reassure
you
our
what
we're
doing
with
our
P
card
and
our
p-card
policies.
So
first
I'll
call
it
a
reset.
We
have
talked
with
our
purchasing
department
requested
a
reset
of
our
purchasing
of
our
p-card
policy,
meaning
that
my
expectation
is
that
all
of
our
P
cards
in
the
system
are
used
and
in
compliance
with
our
policy,
meaning
their
daily
limits
and
their
money
monthly
spending
levels.
The
exceptions
to
those
there
are
some
departments.
C
The
cards
are
used
widely
for
the
business
of
the
county,
so
we
don't
want
to
stop
doing
our
business,
but
those
exceptions
will
be
noted
by
the
purchasing
department.
We
will
document
those
exceptions
and
I
will
approve
those
exceptions.
So
we
start
on
day
one
in
accordance
with
policy
and
everything
documented.
So
the
best
we
can
do.
We
hope
to
communicate
that
to
all
staff
by
this
Friday.
A
D
A
Something
right
and-
and
it's
it's
part
of
what
we're
requesting
from
the
finance
department,
as
as
Mr
passman
had
just
reminded
me
of-
is
that
we
are
asking
now
for
a
monthly
report
of
the
P
card
and
who's
spending,
where
they're
spending
it
and
out
from
the
Department.
So
there'll
be
a
report
that
comes
out
and
not
that
that
we're
looking
over
everyone's
shoulder.
A
A
You
know
obviously,
there's
lots
of
rumors
out
there
and
people
talking
about
different
things
who
have
seen
things
and-
and
you
know
we're
still
with
regards
to
investigation
again.
There's
no
new
news
from
us
that
we
can
mention
or
give
you
but
I
want
to.
Let
every
County
employee
know
that
that,
obviously,
really
if
there
is
something
that
that
you
think
that
we
need
to
make
be
made
aware
of
there's
11
Council
people
that
you
can
go
to
any
one
of
those
11
Council
people
and
and
bring
that
to
them.
A
You
can
bring
that
to
Mr
Robinson
as
as
our
acting
County
administrator
or
anyone
else
that
you
feel
comfortable
with
and
again
it's
not
that
we're
out
looking
for
things,
but
again
the
more
things
that
that
we're
aware
of
and
again
I,
don't
as
we
move
forward
with
all
this,
with
everyone's
thinking
that
there's
there's
these
huge
things
that
that
are
out
there
that
we're
worried
about.
But
we
just
want
to
make
sure
we
cover
every
base
that
that
we're
asking
the
right
questions
that
we're
not
missing
something.
A
A
A
A
No
I
don't
think
that
to
get
legal
advice,
I,
don't
I
mean
I,
don't
I,
don't
think
I
mean
we
had
it
on
our
agenda
just
but
but,
as
you
know
before
the
main
just
mentioned
that
talking
about
different
law
firms
and
things
like
that,
so
I
don't
think.
There's
any
need
for
executive
session
I
think
we've
actually
covered
everything
that
that
we
needed
to
to
cover
today.
There's
nothing
that
is,
is
needed
for
executive
sessions.
So
I
think
we
we
are.
We
are
adjourned.