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From YouTube: Beaufort County Council - Executive Committee March 7, 2022 at 2PM

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1. CALL TO ORDER
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
3. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION OF THIS MEETING HAS BEEN PUBLISHED, POSTED, AND DISTRIBUTED IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE SOUTH CAROLINA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
4. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES- February 7, 2022
6. CITIZEN COMMENTS - (ANYONE who wishes to speak during the Citizen Comment portion of the
meeting will limit their comments to no longer than three (3) minutes ( a total of 15 minutes ) and will
address Council in a respectful manner appropriate to the decorum of the meeting, refraining from the
use of profane, abusive, or obscene language)
AGENDA ITEMS
7. DISCUSSION ON ESTABLISHING A RESOLUTION TO FORM A SUBCOMMITTEE REPRESENTING BEAUFORT COUNTY FOR THE STATE LEGISLATIONS- 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
8. RE-APPOINTMENT OF STEPHEN F. LARSON, M.D., TO THE BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR A SECOND FOUR-YEAR TERM WITH AN EXPIRATION DATE OF 2026
9. RE-APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM HIMMELSBACH TO THE BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BOARD OF
TRUSTEES FOR A THIRD FOUR-YEAR TERM WITH AN EXPIRATION DATE OF 2026
10. RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE APPOINTMENT OF ALVIN GREEN TO THE BEAUFORT-JASPER ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION FOR A FIRST-TERM WITH AN EXPIRATION DATE OF 2026
EXECUTIVE SESSION
11. PURSUANT TO S.C. CODE SEC. 30-4-70(A)(2): RECEIPT OF LEGAL ADVICE WHERE THE LEGAL ADVICE RELATES TO MATTERS COVERED BY THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE (BCSD FISCAL AUTONOMY)
12. MATTERS ARISING OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION
13. ADJOURNMENT
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Welcome to the month of meeting of the executive committee I'll call this meeting to order and ask you to please stand for the pledge of allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, under god, and indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay notice has been given of this meeting and posted and published and distributed in compliance with the south carolina freedom of information act and I'll ask for a motion to approve the agenda.

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Similarly, I need a motion to approve the minutes of february. 7 2022 have a motion.

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Second, thank you, sir, have a second without objection. We will approve the minutes of february 7th 2022. Are there any objections?

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Hearing none the minutes from february 7th 2022 are approved. Our next session is citizens comments and, based on the number of folks I see in the gallery, I'm going to guess we don't have a lot of uh sarah. Is anybody calling in or writing in or no no okay?

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So no one here to speak. Okay next item on the agenda is uh well. Let me mention we have three members who are participating virtually and six members here present. Four.

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Virtually sean is on now two four.

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Four, who did I miss mr.

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Mr herbert I didn't see him. Oh, I see him. Okay, I'm sorry! Chris, I didn't see. I just didn't see a picture, so we have someone that was participating virtually uh mr passima, mr mccown, mr herbert shawn and mr dawson, and uh it looks like mr lawson is participating virtually, but he isn't he's here.

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I don't know how he does that he gets the picture up. There doesn't matter where he is in his car right item number. Seven is a discussion only on establishing the possibility of establishing a resolution to form a subcommittee representing beaufort county for the state legislation's 250th anniversary of the american revolutionary war. Number eight is uh I'll. Do number eight and number nine together, they're reappointments to the beaufort memorial hospital board of trustees.

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uh First is dr stephen, f, larson and second is mr william himmelsbach. We have a motion to reappoint uh dr larson and mr himmelsbach to the beaufort memorial hospital board, I'll.

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Make that motion, mr.

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Chairman, I have a motion, have a second a second all right. I think I heard a second in there. Thank you without objection. We will watch in the screen here without objection. We will reappoint dr larson and mr himmelsbach to the beaufort memorial hospital board of trustees.

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uh Just fyi miss dr larson is being appointed for his second term and mr himmelsbach is being appointed or reappointed for his third term.

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Item number 10 is recommend approval of the appointment of mr alvin greene, the buick jasper economic opportunity commission for a first term with an expiration date of 2006.. So I have a motion for mr greene: no movements, jim. Thank you. Do you have a second.

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A second thank.

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You very much without objection we will appoint. We will send forward to counsel the appointment of mr alvin green to the beaufort jasper economic opportunity. Commission any objections.

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Okay, we have a need for executive session and the purpose of the executive session is to receive receipt of legal advice where the legal advice relates to matters covered by the attorney-client privilege, beaufort county school district, fiscal autonomy. Do I have a motion to go into executive session so move? Mr chairman have a second second, a second.

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Without objection, we will enter executive session for the purposes I just described. Are there any objections? No objections, your objection. Okay, here that we are, we are in executive session.

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Out of executive session, but instead of adjourning, I'm going to hearken back to item number seven on the agenda which we skipped over early on because the presenter was not available and the presenter is still not available he's here. But.

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Maybe I have them online.

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I believe they have my oh, they do okay. Yes, let me introduce you, mr thomas. Okay, thomas welcome. I am online all right. uh Give me just a second to make sure everybody's present accounted for here.

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Okay, go ahead. This is item number seven uh discussion on establishing a resolution to form a subcommittee representing beaufort county for the state legislation's 250th anniversary of the american revolutionary war. So answer.

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Thank you, uh chairman passman and somerville, and members of county council. My name is rich thomas, I'm a resident of hilton head island now for over 23 years, and I've been proud to call beecher county my home during that time.

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I am speaking to you today really on behalf of the south carolina american revolution, sesame centennial commission, which has recently voted to change its name to the south carolina american revolution, 250th commission, because no one could really figure out what sister centennial meant.

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The mission of that organization is to celebrate and promote south carolina's role in the american revolution by educating inspiring engaging south carolinians and visitors.

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It is a partnership. The commission is a partnership of the national park service, the american battlefield, trust and the south carolina battleground preservation, trust and it is being developed and rolled out in conjunction with the south carolina liberty trail, which is a collection of over 110 sites. Still in formation of significant events that occurred during the revolution in south carolina.

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The resolution draft that was submitted for your hopeful approval is one that really relates to the county level organization. Supporting the work of the state commission and the county organization's role will be to research plan organize and promote activities and observations.

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Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the various events and people of the revolution who occurred in beaufort county.

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When I talk about those they all have stories attached to them, and it is the explicit intent of the commission of the committees to tell that story, not just from the perspective of the soldiers, british and american or loyalists and patriot, but of the men and the women of african-americans native americans, bangladesh, protestants and jews who were involved in or were affected by the revolution. In any way.

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Our goals are specifically to discover and celebrate south carolina's revolutionary era at significant people, places, principles and events to interpret, preserve and make accessible revolutionary sites and scholarship.

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Third, to educate south carolinians in the world about south carolina's roles in the american revolution.

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Fourth, to support and promote research and cultural heritage, tourism by telling south carolina stories from many points of view and fifth to support and promote local 250th anniversary events, arts preservation, heritage tourism infrastructure and corresponding economic development, and I'd just like to close by saying that at the present, the committee includes 30, approximately 30 organizations from beaufort county and then another dozen or so organizations that we call liaison members of the committee who are either from adjacent counties or in the case of the savannah river from savannah itself.

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One of the reasons being that many of the events in the american revolution took place on the waterways that are in between the states now or in between counties in south carolina and many of the events that can be celebrated in the people can be done in a cooperative manner between these adjacent municipalities or geographies or political entities.

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So I am really uh here requesting today that you would approve and support the beaufort county 250th committee, as outlined in the draft resolution submitted to you. I believe you may have a copy of it or a copy, I'm sure would be available and I'll be happy to try to answer any questions you might have.

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Thank you, sir. Any questions for this presenter.

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uh We'll distribute the material that you're speaking of I have not I've not seen it, but we'll distribute it. uh One thing question.

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uh Rich, um did I remember correctly that um that we were also designated as one of the counties who they pick certain counties to take some leadership in this across the state.

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That's correct, mr rodman.

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Beauford county is really one of the first, if not the first, and would be considered for its matching grant program, which is funding that is available from the state for the commission this year and that money has already been aside ending the grant of a matching amount of ten thousand dollars from the counties that would be involved and the the proposal would be really to use those funds to begin the process of cataloging and researching all of the sites in the people that were involved in beaufort county during the revolutionary war.

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Following that, take that information and begin to use it to start planning educational activities of various times start to identify additional sites. One such site has been identified already. Beaufort county currently has two sites on the liberty trail. The first one is the battle of port royal, also known as the battle of beaufort. The battle of gray's hill that occurred up highway, 21 opposite the marine corps air station.

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The second one named the liberty trail was in hilton head island and that's the site of a skirmish between a patrol of tory uh militia from dafusky island and those from hilton head island, where patriot blood was shed.

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The third one is a place called fort balfour, which is up near um sheldon, and that site is under investigation, currently asked to determine its specific location, but the activities of the committee are going to be somewhat far reaching in in the county. uh With regard to any of the important um things that happened during the revolution here and again, you know the purpose is to educate and inspire and engage in a lot of different ways.

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A multitude of diverse interests in the revolution.

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Thank you any other questions for mr thomas all right hearing, none all matters having been brought before this body. We are jurors well.

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Just typical question: it would seem to me what they're asking for would be that we would um consider a resolution. This is just.

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I know, but what I would see is that we would send that uh it could be drafted differently by staff. Is.

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This the resolution.

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It's a draft, but we could change it to whatever we wanted. um We may have our own formula.

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For on there we'll support initiatives and we'll support before county 250 committee, um I don't have a problem uh doing support, but whenever you use words like support, you know that usually.

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That you're going to pay for whatever we need you to pay, for I want to be clear about that. Our support may not be financial so anyway,.

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Anyway, my emotion would be paul that we move a resolution forward to council for consideration to say I.

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Don't think we can on a discussion, I don't think.

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We can we can, we can it's on the table, we can make a motion.

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I'm not gonna, I'm gonna say no stu. I don't think so. This is just a discussion.

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I don't think you can have a resolution or an ordinance or anything else coming out of it.

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We have we have the right to take an item that we're talking about and and move it forward to. Council.

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I don't know that you need to move it forward to council. If you all just tell us that you would like to see this on.

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Agenda yeah: that's a lot of action. I'm fine doing.

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That that's fine, that's right!.

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Okay, we'll process it correct.

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Okay, so anyway, I got no issues with that.

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Okay, anybody disagree with it. I wanted to.

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I wanted the whole council to hear the discussion sure you could all decide.

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