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From YouTube: Aiken City Council Meeting: February 23, 2015
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A
A
This
time
on
february,
23
2015
I'd
like
to
call
our
city
council
meeting
to
order
and
we're
glad
that
our
citizens
are
here.
We
appreciate
you
being
here
and
as
we
go
through
our
agenda,
if
you'd
like
to
speak,
you
can
certainly
do
that.
Just
come
to
the
podium
and
we'd
like
for
you
to
keep
your
thoughts,
your
comments
to
no
more
than
five
minutes.
If
you
will,
and
by
the
way,
since
I
said
that
we
have
something
new
up
in
the
corner
of
everybody,
it's
a
five
minute
clock.
A
B
A
Many
council
members
have
not
even
had
anything
to
do
with
this,
yet
as
far
as
putting
anything
on
paper,
I
I
put
some
thoughts
together
this
weekend
and
so
it's
a
work
in
progress,
but
I
thought
we
would
we
would
we
would
at
least
use
the
main
points,
perhaps
in
some
way.
So
let
me
read
what
I
what
I
have
for
years
now
as
we've
begun
our
city
council
meetings.
I
have
been
announcing
that
those
present
may
speak
about
any
item
on
the
agenda,
but
please
hold
your
comments
to
three
to
five
minutes.
A
The
purpose
of
this
is
not
only
to
allow
the
opportunity
for
everyone
who
wishes
to
address
counsel
to
do
so,
but
to
allow
enough
time
to
say
what
they
need
to
say
within
the
five-minute
period
time
period
in
council
council's
opinion.
That
should
be
enough
time.
In
most
cases,
if
the
speaker
has
prepared
their
statement
before
coming
to
the
podium.
A
A
A
As
a
result
of
these
interruptions
and
distractions,
council
has
agreed
that
we
will
not
accept
this
kind
of
attendee
response
in
the
future,
if
necessary.
Those
who
do
this
will
be
asked
to
leave
or
be
escorted
out
of
the
building
note
there
will
be
obvious
times
when
clapping
is
appropriate,
such
as
special
presentations,
special
guests,
etc,
etc.
A
A
A
We
have.
We
have
what
we
call
welcome
to
your
aiken
city
council
meeting.
We've
had
it
for
years,
it's
out
of
date,
the
picture's
up
to
date
now,
but
the
wording
needs
to
be
needs
to
be
changed
a
little
bit,
and
so
we'll
we'll
be
proceeding
to
to
work
on
this
over
this
next
next
week,
and
I
don't
want
you
to
think
that
it's
because
you're
here
that
I
decided
to
do
this-
that
we
decided
to
do
this
council
decided
some
time
ago
that
it
was
needed
to
be
done.
A
B
C
A
A
A
Flag,
most
gracious
and
sovereign
god,
we
humbly
come
into
your
presence
this
evening
with
praise,
gratitude
and
love
in
our
hearts,
for
who
you
are
and
the
many
blessings
you
have
bestowed
on
our
community
you've
greatly
blessed
us.
We
give
you
thanks
for
the
opportunity
you've
given
us
to
serve
our
city.
A
A
D
Mr
mayor,
the
only
thing
I'd
say
you
made
some
good
suggestions
on
how
the
council
and
council
attendees
needed
to.
I
think
it
would
be
good,
maybe
by
the
next
meeting,
if
we
could
go
ahead
and
have
a
draft
to
that
or
revise
this.
I
think
we
need
to
do
that.
Just
for
the
reasons
you
said.
So
it's
not
a
so
I
just
say
for
the
next
meeting.
We
do
that.
A
Right
absolutely-
and
I
know
sarah's
working
and
several
people
working
on
it
and
and
we
can-
we
can
certainly
have
a
draft
for
that,
and
also
while,
while
we're
talking
about
this
again,
I
well
you
know,
we
never
know
that
we'll
have
the
same
group.
We
probably
won't
have
the
same
group,
so
council
be
thinking
about
whether
or
not
I
need
to
mention
this.
A
D
A
D
A
A
A
B
A
E
Yes,
yes,
well,
just
for
all
the
council
members.
I
wanted
you
to
know
that
each
year
the
south
carolina
commission
on
disabilities
and
special
needs
recognizes
one
city's,
exemplary
support
of
services
for
individuals
with
disabilities
and
special
needs
and
in
the
prevention
of
disabilities,
and
it
was
great
pleasure
this
year
that
tri-development
center
and
the
county
board
of
disabilities
nominated
you
guessed
it.
E
First
of
all,
it's
provided
numerous
work
opportunities.
The
city
contracted
with
tri
development
center
for
the
periodic
cleaning
of
homes
in
aitkin
that
the
city
has
renovated
and
offered
to
low-income
households
for
sale.
We
go
in
and
clean
those
up
make
sure
they're
very
presentable,
because
we
know
that's
what
the
city
wants.
E
E
These
opportunities
provide
limited
work
for
25
individuals,
of
whom
three
work
at
or
above
minimum
wage,
with
average
wage
for
the
rest
of
the
workers
being
369
per
hour.
It's
based
on
their
productivity,
tdc's,
ground
maintenance
services
are
used
by
the
city
for
the
upkeep
of
the
stoney
gallman
apartment.
Complex,
operated
by
the
housing
authority
of
the
city
of
aitkin
services
are
provided
one
day
each
week
and
20
of
our
workers
over
the
past
year
have
participated
in
this
contract,
10
of
whom
are
paid
at
minimum
wage
or
higher.
E
E
E
E
E
E
The
city,
you
know,
but
it's
not
just
work
opportunities.
The
city
provided
emergency
assistance.
A
few
of
you
probably
remember
that
great
ice
storm
we
had
a
while
back.
Thank
you,
the
city
provided
about
80
people.
We
served
with
shelter
at
the
smith
hazel
facility
for
several
days
when
last
winter's
ice
storm
resulted
in
many
of
the
30
homes
we
operate
in
aitkin,
county
being
without
power,
and
this
assistance
included
allowing
us
to
use
the
kitchen
facilities,
which
believe
me
was
a
lifesaver.
E
E
E
You
know
together
we
participated
in
safe
kids,
halloween
trick
or
treat
on
pendleton
street,
and
then
also
your
workers
have
helped
us
with
our
safety
fairs.
Bicycle
rodeos,
child
safety,
passenger
fittings
clinics,
those
kinds
of
things,
but
again
they
they
come
over
and
visit
with
us
and
do
other
things
such
as
serving
as
an
instructional
resource
talking
to
our
people,
about
good
citizenship.
E
Talking
about
fire
safety,
talking
about
stranger
danger
and
other
types
of
community
safety.
For
that
we're
very
grateful
and
then,
finally,
something
a
lot
of
people
probably
would
leave
out
of
this
little
presentation
but
like,
unlike
his
present
in
some
areas
of
the
state,
our
office
of
public
safety
has
been
very
responsive
when
sled
vets
to
them
cases
involving
allegations
of
abuse
of
vulnerable
adults,
and
this
quick
response
from
investigators
benefits
both
victims,
possibly
innocent
people
being
allegations
are
being
made
against
and
as
well
as
the
agency.
E
So
the
city
of
a
can
obviously
sees
us
and
those
to
whom
we
provide
necessary
supports
as
partners
in
serving
our
area.
Citizens
with
and
without
disabilities
and
such
partners
are
key
to
our
service
areas,
discovering
abilities
and
preventing
disabilities.
So
again,
thank
you
to
our
city's
leaders
and
staff
for
helping
us
to
increase
the
inclusiveness
present
here
in
our
community.
So
this
is
for
the
work
in
2014.
E
E
A
A
Thank
you
for
your
letter
that
you
wrote
on
our
behalf
as
well,
and
we
appreciate
it
so
much
and
I
said
to
several
people
when
I
was
up
there
that
to
me
this
is
probably
the
most
important
award
that
we
could
we
could
get
because
it
is
truly
helping
people
helping
people,
especially
those
who,
who
need
it
the
most,
and
so
we
thank
you.
So
thank
you
so
much
for
that
and
all
these
folks
that
are
working
and
doing
doing
wonderful
things
for
our
leaders.
E
F
F
But
having
served
on
both
the
board
of
disabilities
and
now
onto
our
development,
I
can
tell
you
they
never
have
a
problem
find
the
new
board
members
because
they
have
board
members
that
are
so
committed.
They
come
back
again
and
again
and
again
we
sort
of
just
rotate
them
on
and
off,
and
we
get
paid
every
month
in
cookies.
F
A
G
We
have
one
reappointment
tonight,
the
energy
environmental
committee
made
by
mayor
cavanaugh
and
that's
the
only
one
that
we
have
several-
that
we
hopefully
will
get
some
commitments
for
in
the
next
couple
meetings.
So
for
your
okay
approval
tonight.
Is
this
reappointment,
with
david
frost
with
the
energy
environment.
F
A
H
A
G
A
G
G
Council
accepted
this
proposal
for
thirty
two
thousand
dollars
to
maintain
the
home.
That's
there
and
the
rest.
The
property
would
allow
us
to
extend
christie
into
the
public
shopping
center.
So
council
can
prove
this
ordinance
on
first
reading
at
the
february
9th
meeting.
This
is
the
second
reading
and
public
hearing
of
an
ordinance
to
sell
911
murr
avenue
to
snc
properties.
Okay,
thank
you,
sir.
Do
we.
A
G
Met
with
them
in
fact
today,
and
we
had
two
representatives
from
atlanta,
one
representative
from
out
of
chicago
the
they
had
some
concerns,
and
it
was
good
meeting
with
them.
We
thought
that
they
owned
the
entire
shopping
center
out
there.
That
actually
has
two
owners
out
there,
so
we
may
have
to
deal
with
the
second
one.
Now
they
are
looking
at
our
proposal.
Their
major
concern
is
how
do
we
restrict
traffic
from
going
behind
publix,
which
is
a
loading
unloading
area,
so
we
gave
them
some
thoughts
on
it?
G
They
have
a
number
of
thoughts,
they're
taken
back
to
their
folks
back
in
chicago
and
they're,
going
to
get
back
to
us.
Meanwhile,
we're
looking
at
do
we
need
the
other
property
or
not.
One
thought
we
had
is
the
vast
majority
of
the
traffic
that's
going
to
go
into.
The
center
is
going
to
be
entering
into
publix
and
especially
during
the
day.
Very
few
are
probably
going
to
exit
out
of
publix
because
it's
almost
impossible
to
turn
left
from
christie
onto
dougherty
road.
G
C
You
I
wouldn't
assume
that
cars
wouldn't
come
out
of
wouldn't
leave
by
that
route.
I
mean
number
one.
A
lot
of
people
would
like
to
avoid
whiskey
number
two
people
turn
left
onto
whiskey
coming
out
of
that
shopping
center,
not
from
the
light,
but
otherwise
I
know
what
you're
saying,
and
so
I
think,
you'd
see
some
demand
for
for
two-way
traffic
on
that
road.
At
all
times
of
the
day,.
D
D
D
G
C
Surprising
to
me
that
we
didn't
know
that
there
were
two
property
owners
involved.
I
mean
we
are
where
we
are
now,
but
I
think
we
that
would
have
been
something
that
we
should
have.
We
could
have
easily
figured
out
early,
but
well
we're
going
to
do
we
have
to
do.
I
mean
if
the
point
of
it
is
to
relieve
traffic
and
pressure
on
whiskey
and
for
that
matter
the
intersection
of
whiskey
majority.
I
I
G
J
G
A
G
Sir,
I'm
going
to
read
this
by
its
title:
it's
an
ordinance
authorizing
the
city
of
aiken
to
convey
real
property
to
the
south
carolina
department
of
transportation.
They
need
this
property
to
widen
silver
bluff
road.
The
majority
of
this
is
a
driveway
going
into
one
of
our
facilities
and
we
don't
need
it
they're
willing
to
give
us
twelve
thousand
five
hundred
fifty
dollars
for
a
tenth
of
an
acre
and
we're
recommending
council
to
approve
this.
You
did
pass
this
at
first
reading.
F
A
G
on
july
12,
2004
city
council,
annexed
this
property
and
one
of
the
conditions
for
annexation
was
the
road
or
driveway
leading
out
of
this
property
would
align
itself
with
the
road
opposite
on
town
creek
road.
They
found
out
that
a
piece
of
property
that
they
thought
they
had
purchased
was
not
really
part
of
this
annexation
or
property.
They
have
not
been
able
to
find
the
owner
of
it.
They've
worked
with
the
county
for
some
period
of
time
and
so
they're
requesting
that
the
condition
would
change
and
that
they
could.
G
D
K
You'd
have
to
file
a
quiet
title
action
if
that
was
available
to
the
person
that
wanted
to
own
the
property
and
it's
a
process
it
takes.
You
know
several
months
to
go
through.
You
have
to
assume
that
errors
would
be
involved
and
you
have
to
appoint
a
guardian
at
light
them
to
represent
them.
It's
a
it's
about
a
three
to
five
thousand
dollar
process
in
order
to
go
through
that
in
six
months
and
no
guarantee
that
you
get
the
result
when
you
get
through
with
it.
K
D
G
A
G
Yes,
we
have
a
recommendation
from
our
engineering
and
utility
department
that
we
accept
the
sanitary
sewer
and
the
storm
sewer
in
this
development.
They've
been
out
there,
they
looked
at
it
and
they
are
recommending
acceptance
of
this
deed
of
dedication
from
kroll
and
company
in
theodore
plantation.
J
L
A
G
G
We
should
be
well
over
6
000
meters
during
this
fiscal
year,
because
that
we
need
some
additional
meters
and
we
want
to
make
sure
that,
as
we
enter
into
the
next
year,
there's
enough
meters
to
continue
the
process
through
the
beginning
of
that
fiscal
year.
So
we
are
asking
that
we
amend
our
budget
by
410
thousand
dollars.
The
water
replacement
buzz
budget
funds
would
be
taken
from
the
water
and
sewer
depreciation
account
and
upon
your
recommendation
or
approval.
We
will
have
this
a
second
reading
public
hearing
at
the
next
meeting.
F
Mr
mayor,
I
hate
to
interrupt,
but
we
had
a
group
of
boy
scouts
that
came
in
earlier
tonight
and
they've
been
sitting
here
and
we
didn't
recognize
them.
I
know
because
some
of
them
are
not
in
uniform,
but
it's
the
school
night,
so
they
were
getting
ready
to
rush
out
of
the
building.
But
I
did
want
us
to.
A
M
Recognition
we
appreciate
that
support
we
get
in
the
community.
It
allows
these
young
men
and
others
likely
to
have
the
opportunity
to
give
to
the
community.
So
it's
a
great
relationship
that
we
developed
this
county-
and
this
is
just
a
small
portion
of
our
group.
We're
working
on
a
citizenship
in
the
community
merit
badge.
B
N
A
H
A
A
G
G
I
list
it
this
way,
so
we
can
get
a
discussion
starter
tonight
and,
if
council
so
desires,
then
we
will
go
ahead
and
I
believe
gary.
We
decided
to
make
this
into
an
ordinance
for
the
next
meeting
and
so
tonight
we're.
Let
me
go
over
what
we're
suggesting
and
then
council
could
decide
how
they
would
like
to
go
ahead
and
if
they
agree
with
us
or
what
changes
you'd
like
to
see
in
the
2004
cpst
projects,
we
had
money
listed
under
ballot
order.
G
Currently
that's
what
we
did
on
the
portion
from
centennial
drive
back
up
to
pine
log
road
in
the
mid
2000s.
When
we
started
the
process,
the
highway
department
wanted
to
see
some
detention
ponds
built.
They
wanted
to
enlarge
the
pipes
by
a
couple
different
sizes,
and
it
went
from
just
a
few
hundreds
of
thousands
of
dollars
to
several
millions
of
dollars.
G
G
G
G
G
We
know
that
the
40,
some
thousand
dollars
that
we
currently
have
available
is
not
enough
to
put
in
the
necessary
landscaping
and
lighting
and
arbor
way
structures.
So
we
were
going
to
add
a
hundred
thousand
dollars
of
whiskey
road
project
to
here,
or
it
could
also
come
from
the
former
landfill
that
originally
was
considered
to
have
a
recreational
facility
at
that
location
and
we're
now
looking
at
just
securing
it
and
spending
a
couple
hundred
thousand
dollars
there
and
taking
that
money
and
moving
it
primarily
to
the
north
side
recreation
project.
G
Again
it
could
go
towards
the
downtown
streetscape
if
you
want
to
keep
all
the
money
in
the
whiskey
road
and
then
increasing
the
funding
for
the
north
side
recreation.
So
what
we
have
done
here
and
again,
you
could
change
this
and
probably
let's
talk
about
this
one
and
then
we'll
go
to
the
next
page.
G
H
G
H
Wait
wait.
Can
we
finish
this?
Oh
I'm
sorry,
we
finished
the
one.
I
don't.
I
don't
know
how
council
would
feel
about
using
that
money
for
a
walking
trail,
I
mean
that's
george's.
Pawn
is
a
major
challenge
for
the
city.
Obviously
we
it's
gonna,
take
what
a
well
over
a
million
dollars
a
couple
million
dollars
to
to
do
that.
I
mean
that
was
a
project
that
we
probably
shouldn't
ever
bought
bought
george's
porn.
H
G
H
G
G
G
G
H
Well:
okay,
I'd
be
interested
to
see
what
the
city
attorney
says
about
our
obligations
under
the
under
the
contract,
but
I
I
certainly
am
not
inclined
to
I'm
one
of
seven,
but
I'm
certainly
not
inclined
to
want
to
put
a
walking
trail
in.
I
can't
imagine
anybody
going
over
there
to
walk
okay.
Thank
you.
F
H
Know
the
challenge
steve
as
you're,
trying
to
say
in
2010
you're
trying
to
outline
and
you're
saying
this
really
in
maybe
20
2009,
because
you're
going
to
vote
on
in
2010
and
you're
talking
about
things
you're
not
going
to
do
till
2017
or
18,
it's
impossible
for
us
to
to
know
the
environment.
I
mean
that's
just
the
best
case.
G
G
D
And
at
this
point
we
need
to
leave
the
the
full
amount
of
money
in
there,
whether
we
use
it
for
george's
pond
or
other
areas
and
there's
some
drainage
issues
with
ladd
bridge
property
and
td
property
that
drains
into
this
same
whiskey
group.
If
you
want
to
say
so,
I
think
we
need
to
leave
that
money
in
that
particular
line
item
and
review
it
whenever
we
do
this
again
in
six
months
or
a
year,
there's
a
ditch
back
there
and
eventually
the
ditch
winds
up
in
the
whiskey
road
water.
D
G
One
of
the
things
that
council
has
talked
about
for
the
last
several
months
is
trying
to
have
a
source
of
funds
to
encourage
business
development
within
our
community,
and
this
is
one
way
of
doing
that.
We
have
not
gotten
involved
in
having
some
incentives
for
business
to
come
to
our
area,
and
I
know
I've
talked
to
the.
G
G
H
Well,
the
fact
is
it
was:
it
was
money
designated
to
a
project
that
we're
not
going
to
be
able
to
do
it's.
It's
stretching
it
to
say.
Well,
we
can't
do
the
water
project
here.
So
let's
do
it
over
at
this
place
or
that
place
or
what
have
you,
but
I'd
I'd
be
more
inclined
to
want
to
use
it
for
that
purpose
than
than
not
certainly
more
more
to
use
it
for
that
purpose
than
to
build
a
walking
trail.
H
G
G
G
So
we're
going
to
be
digging
up
the
vast
majority
of
that
asphalt
that
you
see
out
there
right
now.
The
undergrounding
will
pay
for
all
that
coming
on
up
water
and
sewer
will
come
out
of
another
account.
So
the
only
thing
that's
remaining
is
street
lights.
Landscaping
are
we
going
to
go
with
paver
bricks
and
we're
going
to
go
with
some
kind
of
other
surface
on
it?
Are
we
going
to
put
an
arbor
way
a
metal
arbor
way
on
either
end
of
it?
G
J
J
Want
to
make
a
statement
regarding
the
proposed
park,
landfill
and
the
decrease
and
we're
repurposing
some
of
those
dollars
from
the
landfill
and
moving
it
to
the
northside
regional
park
and
we're
leaving
three
hundred
thousand
dollars
to
help
with
some
future.
I'm
going
to
use
an
emergency
rod
to
describe
it
as
that
or
what
no.
G
It's
just
to
finalize
the
closure
of
the
landfill.
Again,
I
don't
think
it's
going
to
take
all
300
000.
I
believe
we're
much
less
than
that-
probably
more
like
150
to
200,
but
I
rather
have
more
money
in
here
right
now
than
go
back
and
say:
let's
come
back
to
the
landfill
within
a
year,
we
should
have
that
completed.
J
And
my
reason
for
pointing
this
out,
as
we
move
into
other
areas,
that
the
voters
approved
on
the
ballot
with
products
that
we
are
to
fund,
that
we
don't
look
at
reducing
some
of
these
other
projects.
We
continue
to
reduce
and
before
we
know
it,
we
don't
have
enough
to
do
what
we
plan
to
do,
and
that
is
a
north
side
facility
or
whether
it's
other
things
we
plan
to
do,
there's
always
a
need
we
can
think
of
for
products
to
support
in
this
community.
J
J
That
that
was
discussed
years
ago
in
terms
of
both
items
being
on
the
on
the
ballot
and
none
of
us
felt
comfortable
about
building
a
recreation
facility
on
a
former
landfill,
so
that
was
planned
to
repurpose
the
funds.
It's
just
that
reggie
wanted
to
formalize
it
some
time
ago,
in
terms
of
saying,
let's
repurpose
some
of
these
funds
and
let's
document
it.
H
Well,
I
think
the
best
case
scenario
that
we
were
dealing
with
at
that
time,
as
I
recall,
is
the
expectation
that
that
would
be
mitigated
and
obviously
a
lot
of
folks
realize
that
would
never
happen.
It
was
a
pipe
dream,
but
I
mean
that
was
the
basis
on
which
we
put
it
in
that
category
at
least
correct.
D
Okay,
we
do
have
a,
I
think,
I'd
like
the
city
attorney
to
look
at
the
definition
of
the
the
bottom
line
when
we're
talking
about
two
million
dollars.
It
says
north
side,
recreation
and
I
think
that
you
need
to
to
look
at
what
the
voters
voted
on
they.
They
voted
for
future
construction
and
capital
improvements
of
a
northside
recreation
park
and,
as
I'm
not
complaining
about
the
com
combination
of
the
money,
but
I
think
we're
also
going
to
purchase
land
out
of
that
money
correct.
D
K
K
I
don't
think
well,
you
can
make
these
as
specific
as
you
want
to,
or
I'm
being
a
little
careful
here.
I
don't.
I
don't
think
you,
I
don't
think
you
can.
I
don't
think
you
don't
have
to
have
the
ability
to
buy
the
park
by
the
land
for
the
park
simply
because
you
didn't
say
we're
going
to
buy
land
for
the
north
side
regional
recreational
park
and
then
we're
going
to
develop
the
north
side
regional
park.
Well,
just.
D
Suggest
you
read
the
what
the
was
in
the
on
the
ballot
and
I
think
it's
okay,
but
it
specifically
said
construction
and
capital
improvements,
so
you
could
do
anything
with
it
for
north
side
recreational
park.
Do
those
other
words
need
to
be
there
or
is
that
enough?
And
I
think
you
just
need
to
look
at
it
and
say
yeah
or
nay.
Yes,.
G
So
what
I'm
hearing
on
the
cpst
2
is
that
the
whiskey
road,
curb
and
gutter
will
keep
that
money
as
it
was
579
801.94
that
we
will
increase
the
alley
by
a
hundred
thousand
or
not
the
alley,
the
downtown
streetscape,
and
that
we
will
reduce
the
landfill
recreational
site
from
the
2553
to
300
000
and
that
the
majority
of
that
money
will
go
into
the
north
side.
Recreation.
G
Okay
on
the
next
page
is
the
cpst3
and
there's
really
only
two
changes
and
those
two
changes
then
affect
two
other
changes.
The
the
one
change
is
pretty
simple:
we
had
project
number
16
and
number
19.
One
was
for
the
public
safety
headquarters.
The
other
one
was
for
the
training
ground
facility,
so
we'd
like
to
combine
those
two
into
one
project,
so,
instead
of
nine
hundred
thousand
and
one
and
one
point,
five
million
the
other
project
number
fifteen,
now
just
the
four
public
safety
headquarters
of
2.4
million.
G
G
A
shooting
range
was
in
there
and
other
improvements
so
that
money,
as
was
stated
earlier,
when
you
vote
on
this,
you
decide
what
you're
going
to
do
in
2009
and
you
don't
get
to
the
projects
until
2016
or
17
or
18.
Things
do
change.
So
charles
chief
mentioned
that
let's
combine
those
two
projects
together,
so
we're
not
really
changing.
The
dollar
amount,
we're
just
combining
the
two
together.
G
So
we
do
not
need
that
money
at
this
point
in
time.
For
that
project
we
took
the
3.9
million
dollars
and
again
we
could
keep
it
there,
but
we
went
ahead
and
split
it
between
the
water
system
and
sewer
system
and
added
just
basically
divided
the
3.9
million
between
those
two
projects
and
increased
it.
G
A
A
G
Instance,
silver
bluff.
Road
is
the
next
project
to
be
completed
with
arts
and
the
city
is
not
contributing
any
local
funds
for
silver
bluff.
Road,
okay,
right
same
thing,
when
we
did
pine
log
road,
I
know
that
north
augusta
is
doing
some
projects,
so
when
a
project
is
done
or
completed
under
arts,
arts
is
funding
that
100.
G
G
C
C
B
D
D
And
since,
though,
that's
not
there,
then
the
whole
thing
goes
away.
There's
no
requirement
that
was
not
a
requirement
of
scdot
to
put
money
in
that
was
requirement
of
sib
to
get
a
forgivable
loan
to
do
the
work
and
might
have
to
get
jim
hot.
Jim
holly
is
a
one
that
puts
those
agreements
together,
yeah,
but
my.
C
Point
is
if
arch
was
on
board
with
that
project
and
we
had
the
other
13
million
dollars
and
all
that.
Why
were
we
needing
our
money
and
sib
money
anyway,
I
mean
if
arts
normally
does
these
widening
projects
and
we
were
on
the
list
and
it
was
a
capacity
driven
analysis
and
they
had
approved
the
project.
C
H
The
hitchcock
widening
was
developed
years
ago.
It
languished
as
in
the
process
of
going
from
the
bottom
to
the
top.
We
had
two
people
on
the
council
at
that
point
in
time.
Maybe
they
can
tell
us
why
we
put
our
money
into
it.
I
suspect
it
might
have
been
as
an
incentive
to
get
to
get
more
money
from
outside
sources,
but
we
we
guessed
years
ago
with
how
much
that
was
going
to
cost
and
as
we
got
closer
to
the
completion
yeah.
C
H
C
I
understand
I'm
not
talking
about
the
difference
between
the
corridor
safety
improvements
and
the
ride
I'm
talking
about
you
know.
I
haven't
been
on
council
long
enough
to
why
to
do
anything
to
any
roads,
but
if
normally
a
state
road
gets
widened
with
non-local
money,
then
why
were
we
looking
at
having
to
put
non-local
money
into
this
road?
I
mean.
Why
would
we
have
to
look
at
putting
local
money
into
this
road?
C
I
mean
we
were
told
very
clearly
that
you
know
the
county's
not
putting
in
theirs,
so
we've
got
to
cover
them
plus.
If
this
thing
goes
over,
which
everybody
fully
expected
it
to
do,
that
we'd
be
on
the
hook
for
everything
over,
and
I
mean
now
I'm
hearing
that
most
no,
no
municipalities,
no
local
governments
have
to
fund
any
of
it.
C
We
were
at
the
point
where
we
were
gonna
be
funding
more
than
half
of
it
if
we
had
to
cover
any
shortfalls
and
everything
else
cover
the
county
side
and
all
that
we'd
had
10
11
12
million
dollars
in
it
by
the
by
the
time.
It
was
all
done,
and
I
mean
I'm
just
wondering
why
we
were
in
that
position
in
the
very
first
place.
J
I
don't
know
that
we
would
have
been
caught
at
the
very
end
on
the
hook
for
the
money,
given
the
time
that
the
project
would
have
started
and
given
what
mayor
the
arts
council
that
you
and
dick
serve
on
by
the
time
we
got
around
to
building
that
road.
My
personal
feelings
is
that
there
would
have
been
enough
money
in
the
account
to
pay
for
everything
if
we
had
to
put
the
8
million
or
10
million
dollars,
but
that's
down
the
road.
J
A
Very
simply
we
didn't
have
the
money
was
not
there,
and
even
if
we'd
have
phased
it,
we
would
have
to
say
how
we're
going
to
have.
How
are
we
going
to
finish
the
second
phase
and
where
are
you
going
to
get
the
money
for
the
second
phase
yeah?
Where,
where
were
we
gonna,
get
it
eight
million
dollars
with.
G
J
H
Well,
the
three
million
dollars
isn't
a
guarantee
to
go
to
the
city.
That's
three
million
dollars
available
to
the
to
the
area
I
mean
north
augusta
has
projects
that
they
want
to
do.
We
have
projects
we
want
to
do
there.
There
are
projects
elsewhere
within
the
sphere
of
influence
of
the
art
subcommittee,
so
we
don't
get
that
three
million
dollars
automatically.
My.
G
That
I
said
arch
has
not
required
in
the
past
okay.
This
is
a
new
and
again
I'm
speaking
with
not
the
greatest
knowledge,
because
I
wasn't
here
when
that
was
all
approved,
but
other
communities
have
supported
these
projects
with
local
dollars
in
arts.
To
my
knowledge,
there
has
not
been
any
other
projects
that
north
augusta
has
completed
or
aikens
completed,
that
we
had
to
support
with
local
dollars.
G
As
we
all
know,
13
million
dollars
was
not
enough
to
even
come
close
to
doing
all
the
work
on
hitchcock
parkway.
That's
when
I
guess
in
2011
or
2012
sib
came
along
and
said:
hey.
We
can
go
ahead
and
contribute
towards
this,
so
you
could
do
more.
You
could
do
the
whole
length
if
we
contribute
and
the
city
contributes
and
the
county
contributes.
We
could
come
up
with
what
we
believe
would
be
enough
to
complete
the
full
six
miles.
G
I'm
sorry
we're
taking
this
gap
off
this
wound
again,
but
again
we
don't
have
to
go
ahead
and
move
any
of
this
money.
If
you
don't
want
to
there's
enough
money
in
water
and
sewer
for
a
while,
but
we
do
know
that
we're
going
to
move
university
parkway
up
ahead
of
this,
because
we
do
have
the
full
funding
for
that
and
we're
ready
to
move
forward.
It
then
became
if
you're
going
to
move
one
up
you're
going
to
move
the
other
one
down.
G
G
A
G
G
H
H
C
H
Let's
not
move
it
out
of
that
line,
that's
the
danger
of
moving
it
up
as
you're
playing
a
game
with
a
priority
list
and
what
we
did
to
submit
it
to
the
voters.
This
is
the
way
this
is
a
priority,
we're
going
to
do
it
and
if
we
take
that
hitchcock
woods,
money
and
move
it
up-
and
it
obviously
needs
to
it-
would
be
very
well
used
in
in
the
water
and
sewer,
but
we're
only
going
to
get
probably
33
million.
I
would
I'd,
spend
the
money.
C
Spend
the
money
we've
already
got
allocated
water
and
sewer.
First,
I
mean
we
can
reallocate
this
every
two
weeks
all
year,
so
I'd
spend
the
money.
We've
already
got
allocated
first
and
then
decide
after
we've
also
seen
what
progress
is
made
through
arts
and
through
the
through
dot
on
the
planning
of
the
enhancements
to
hitchcock
parkway.
But
I
wouldn't
go
ahead
and
have
this
spent
and
gone
because
we
don't
know
when
and
what
we're
going
to
need
this
money
for
relative
to
hitchcock
parkway.
C
Million
decrease
it
to
zero
and
take
that
3.9
million
and
he's
splitting
it
evenly
with
the
water
and
sewer
funds
above
it,
and
I
just
I'm
kind
of
afraid
on
this
I'd
I'd
like
to
at
least
hold
it
in
that
category.
As
long
as
we
can
until
we
till
we
know
more
about
what
we
can
can't
do,
what
we
are
and
aren't
going
to
do,.
D
None
of
these
loans
and
everything
were
ever
approved.
We
voted
on
with
city
council,
but
the
record
copy
that
we
have
that
miss
right
out
has
was
not
signed
by
sib.
It
was
not,
and
none
of
that
paperwork
ever
got
approved
in
2011
and
2012..
So
that's
one
reason
it
died
and
I
think
we,
mr
holly,
is
very
familiar
with
it
because
he
writes
the
paperwork.
So
if
we
need
these
questions
answered,
he'd
be
the
appropriate
one
to
do
it
well,.
C
J
D
No
I'm
just
saying
what
y'all
talking
about
the
money
was
never
approved
by
sib
for
hitchcock
parkway.
None
of
the
legal
paperwork
ever
got
cleared.
It's
the
money
here.
This
money
here
was
in
was
part
of
that.
Sib
agreement,
okay
and
the
county
was
part
of
that
agreement
to
3.3
million,
and
we
were
4.
D
D
J
D
J
I
I
support
that,
but
also
I'd
like
for
us
to
talk
with
a
few
of
our
all
the
delegation
members
too,
and
have
a
joint
meeting
with
them.
I
don't
think
that
we
ever
sat
down
with
them.
We
speculated
that
they
were
not
in
support
as
the
mayor
of
the
widening
of
the
apartment,
based
on
a
letter
that
was
sent.
That's.
A
F
A
C
A
A
G
We
could
leave
it
by
repositioning,
putting
university
parkway
first
and
then
hitchcock
parkway.
Second,
knowing
that
we're
not
going
to
receive
the
full
42
million
that
we
originally
had
thought
we're
going
to
receive.
It
means
that
hitchcock
parkway
will
have
2
million
880
thousand
dollars
approximately
in
it.
G
As
far
as
what's
happened
with
hitchcock
parkway,
that's
gone,
I
mean
we
could
talk
to
the
delegation.
We
could
talk
to
jim,
but
that's
that's
a
dead
issue.
That's
basically
a
dead
issue.
You
know
we're
now
looking
at
corridor
improvements
for
hitchcock
parkway
and
that's
what
art's
working
on
right
now.
G
We
increased
our
funding
for
university
parkway
and
for
dougherty
road.
Sarah
have
we
got
that
back
from
them
yet
have
they
signed
it?
Okay,
they
only
meet
like
once
or
twice
a
year.
That's
one
of
the
problems
of
getting
it
signed
by
them,
but
I'll
go
ahead
and
contact
jim
and
see
where
that
issue
is
at.
G
G
H
H
G
D
L
The
contractor,
mike
rogers
with
in
the
name
of
his
official
company,
is
just
slipping
my
mind.
He's
the
contractor
I'll
look
at
my
my
it's
not
important
what
the
name
is
yeah,
but
he's
he's
a
local
contractor
and
he's
he's,
finished
vincent
summers
and
we're
starting
on
schroeder.
We've
finished
a
part
of
aldrich
because.
L
Resurfaced,
yes,
all
of
them
all
of
the
ones
that
we're
talking
with
the
sewer.
We
we
wanted
to
make
sure
that
happened,
because
the
the
some
of
the
roads
are
literally
crumbling.
You,
you
dig
a
trench
and
you're
trying
to
keep
it
this
wide
and
then
it's
just
it
just
falls
apart.
The
subgrade
is
so
poor
in
some
areas,
some
areas,
it's
very
fine.
You
have
a
nice
little
straight
narrow,
cut
and
patch
and
then
other
areas
it
just
kind
of
keeps
expanding,
and
we
have
to.
I.
B
L
L
That's
what
we'll
be
matching
up
to
now?
That's
different
money
for
for
funding
to
complete.
In
fact,
I
had
a
conference
call
today
with
the
state
believe
it
or
not
we're
down
to
like
five
comments.
We've
been
going
back
and
forth.
Well,
since,
before
I
started
working
for
the
city,
this
has
been
going
on,
so
we're
actually
down
to
the
very
final
amounts
those
they
want
us
to
have
everything
into
them
by
march
23rd
to
kind
of
meet
their
schedules.
So
that's
our
goal
to
have
everything
wrapped
up
by
the
23rd.
L
At
that
point,
then
they
would
be
able
to
review
it
come
back
say:
yes,
you
everything's
good
you've
got
the
money,
and
then
we
would
start
the
we
would
try
to
complete
the
project
during
the
summer
season.
When
you
know
school
is
out,
the
paving
is
also
part
of
our
allocation
for
our
you
know
with
the
state
contract,
it's
a
different
area,
so
you
know
both
constructions
have
to
be
completed,
they'll
be
too
independent.
L
L
L
D
If
you
go
back
in
time,
this
goes
back
since
I've
been
on
council.
This
goes
back
three
or
four
years
ago.
All
this
money
was
approved
and
these
grants
were
approved
for
that
and
then,
for
you
know,
they
didn't
nothing
happened
to
them
for
two
or
three
years
and
we
got
close
to
losing
some
of
them
and
when
george
came
on
board
he
picked
them
up
and
got
them
back
in,
but
most
of
this
is
other
than
the
cpst
it's
grant
money,
and
we
also
said
that
the
95
thousand
dollars
for
road
work.
D
M
G
G
In
this
pure
case,
we
originally
thought
that
300
000
was
going
to
be
enough
for
the
fencing
at
citizens
park.
They
have
found
a
few
other
items
that
need
to
be
completed
here,
so
we
are
asking
that
this
change
order
that
we
currently
have
for
the
funds.
Again,
we
have
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
allocated.
In
cps3,
we
increased
from
three
hundred
thousand
to
three
hundred
forty
nine
thousand
dollars.
We
still
have
151
thousand
dollars.
That
would
be
left,
but
we're
coming
back
to
you
stating
that
we'd
like
to
make
this
change
now.
G
We
originally
had
this
as
a
loan,
but
as
we
discussed
earlier,
we
got
two
million
dollars
cash
on
hand,
so
we
got
plenty
of
money
to
pay
for
it.
So
we're
not
asking
that
you
increase
the
loan
since
there's
money
on
hand,
but
we
do
want
to
go
ahead
and
ask
council's
approval
to
allow
us
to
spend
up
to
349
thousand
dollars.
G
C
G
There's
five
hundred
thousand
five
well
right
now
until
we
totally
complete
the
project,
just
we're
not
ready
to
repurpose
that
hundred
and
fifty
one
thousand,
but
once
that
project
is
totally
completed
and
kim
coleman
says:
okay,
we've
got
all
the
fencing
taken
care
of
then
we'll
be
coming
back
to
council
at
some
point
in
time
and
saying
we
have
151
000,
that's
not
needed
here.
Let's
repurpose
it
amongst
some
of
these
other
projects.
G
D
I'm
going
to
defend
the
prt
and
our
that
this
goes
back
at
least
a
year
two
years
ago.
This
all
started-
we've
been
before
council
before
and
was
supposed
to.
The
original
plan
was
to
change
all
of
the
fencing
out
because
it
was
some
of
it's
been
there
since
87
and
rusty,
and
some
of
it
was
falling
down
and
for
some
reason,
as
time
went
on
and
change
has
been
made,
we
didn't
get
there,
so
this
should
get
us
there.
Okay,.
A
G
G
G
G
Probably
the
one
that
reggie's
brought
up
to
me
more
than
once
is
an
ordinance
that
was
passed
in
2009,
where
the
council
had
authorized
us
to
borrow
money
from
utilities
to
pay
for
improvements
at
carlson
park
that
it
was
supposed
to
be
paid
back
three
hundred
thousand
dollars
every
year.
So
over
a
five-year
period
of
time
between
2009
and
2014,
it
had
been
paid
off.
G
G
G
The
question
is
going
to
be
who's
going
to
make
sure
that
we
follow
these
ordinances,
I'm
going
to
recommend
that
it's
going
to
be
falling
on
two
individuals:
hands
number
one:
the
city
manager,
that's
their
primary
purpose
is
to
follow
these
things,
but
the
city
manager
is
failable,
and
so
we
have
right
over
there.
Our
purchasing
agent
is
stuart,
and
so
between
stuart
and
the
city
manager.
D
Yeah
the
reason
I
brought
that
up-
usually
we
do
basically
financial
and
operational
type
ordinances
and
I
think
the
the
ones
that
we
do
on
the
finances
and
most
of
them
get
to
be
hundreds
of
thousands
or
several
millions
of
dollars
and
they
spread
over
several
years
and-
and
I
think
we
need
to
be
more
diligent
of
that,
and
it
also
should
be
showing
up
in
our
in
our
finance
department
too
in
there.
If
we've
got
these
loans
in
there,
they
show
up
in
the
audit
every
year.
D
F
H
D
D
H
Well,
if
you're
expecting
me
to
say
anything,
I
guess
I'll
say
something.
First
of
all,
I
don't
appreciate
the
raising
of
the
issue.
I
didn't
and
I
didn't
insult
the
public.
I
didn't
insult
anyone.
Quite
frankly,
I
made
a
comment
that
many
people
viewed
as
inappropriate.
It
probably
was
inappropriate
and
what
I
have
done
between
me
and
the
individual
involved
is
between
me
and
the
individual
involvement.
That's
all
I'll
say
I
do
have
some
items
from
the
issues
and
answers
that
I'd
like
for
sure
item
number
four.
H
G
G
G
H
M
L
L
A
C
G
B
H
If
and
in
all
honesty
could
be
could
be,
it
could
be
reflected
as
a
betrayal
to
the
people
of
the
counties
in
the
cities
throughout
the
state.
They
they
promise
to
provide
that
local
fund
and
they
have
selectively
reduced
it,
and
now
we've
come
up
with
a
scheme
that
will
not
restore
it.
They've
never
provided
what
they
originally.
A
H
The
business
a
couple
of
bills
on
business
license,
taxes
that
are
would
have
serious
impact
to
us.
There
is
a
bill
that
I
don't
quite
understand,
as
a
telephone
tax
increase
apparently
seems
to
me
to
be,
and
I
need
to
get
more.
Information
would
increase
fees
if
you've
got
a
landline
and
and
not
so
much
if
you've
got
mobile
mobile
phones,
which
more
people
have
these
days,
but
there's
still
a
lot
of
us
that
have
land
lines.
H
H
They
there's
a
freedom
of
information
act
that
was
passed,
and
that
was
fine,
but
it
still
protected
the
members
of
the
legislature
and
it
and
if
you
believe,
the
policy
council,
it
set
up
some
procedures
where,
if
you
used
it
too
much,
you
could
be
called
a
nuisance
and
so
forth
and
categorize
that
way.
So
we
just
need
to
stay
close
to
the
municipal
association,
because
some
of
these
things
have
a
major
impact
on
us.
Do.
J
G
I'm
not
aware
you
know
every
year,
there's
a
fight
on
the
local
accommodation
or
local
money
that
comes
back
to
us
when
they
passed
this
back
in
the
80s.
There
was
supposed
to
be
100
percent.
I
think
one
or
two
years
was
100
and
then
they've
been
drawing
down
and
it's
been
a
fight
every
year
on
trying
to
get
even
what
we
got
the
year
before.
G
G
Another
one
is
just
eliminate
them
pretty
much
altogether
for
us
that
would
be
somewhere
between
2.2
and
2.3
million
dollars
lost
in
the
budget
and
for
the
larger
cities.
We're
number
13
in
the
state
for
the
12
cities
larger
than
us.
It's
even
more
money,
so
it's
it's
a
major
major
issue.
I
know
that
the
chamber
of
commerce
invited
these
legislators
to
a
meeting
a
couple
of
weeks
ago
and
even
the
chamber
was
not
very
favorable
because
they
asked
questions
like
well.
How's
the
cities
and
counties
going
to
make
up
the
money.
G
There's
they
haven't
gone
very
far
with
these
bills,
but
every
year
the
state
meets
just
like
at
the
federal
level.
Sometimes
you
just
wish
that
they
would
not
be
in
session
anymore,
but
it's
it's
a
constant
fight.
If
you're
not
receiving
information
from
the
state
on
a
weekly
basis,
they
can
email
you.
They
have
a
basically
from
the
dome,
giving
a
report
on
all
these
different
issues,
and
we
can,
I
think,
you're
all
receiving
is.
G
G
C
A
bill
in
colombia
and
it
actually
getting
passed
by
both
houses
and
and
passed
by
the
governor.
So
I
mean
I,
I
don't
think
we
should
ignore
it.
I
think
you're
right
dick,
but
at
the
same
time
I
don't
want
to
suddenly
you
know
be
the
boys
that
cried
wolf.
You
know
to
our
state
delegation
on
too
many
things
too
often
you
know
overreact
too
soon.
Maybe
you
know
I
don't
know
what
will
happen
with
this
business
license
tax
thing,
but
but
I
think
there's
a
long
way
to
go
before.
A
C
Well,
the
funding
you're
talking
about
the
state
fund
thing,
that's
different
than
the
business
license
tax
thing,
but
I
I
think
you're
right
about
that.
I
don't
disagree
that
if,
if
they
are
more
successful
with
this
business-like
thing,
I
mean
you
got
to
ask
yourself
who
do
you
want
your
state
legislators
to
be
accountable
to
you
want
to
be
accountable
to
the
the
municipal
governments?
You
want
to
be
accountable
to
those
taxpayers
and
business
owners
throughout
the
state
and
they're.
That's
what
they're
asking
themselves.
C
So
you
know
right
now:
they're
listening
to
those
business
owners
and
taxpayers
throughout
the
state.
You
know
at
some
point
we'll
weigh
in
and
they'll,
hopefully
listen
to
us
as
well,
but
I
mean
I
just
don't
know
that
that
how
many
bills
are
there
three
right
now
in
the
business
yeah
I
mean
and
there's
always
two
or
three
anybody
can
write
anything
down
on
a
piece
of
paper
and
call
it
a
bill
and
that
doesn't
make
it
something
that's
going
to
pass.
Okay.