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MINUTES FROM TOWN COUNCIL MEETING AT COTTAGEVILLE TOWN HALL
MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008 AT 7:00 P.M.

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Mayor White called the meeting to order, explained the sign-in sheet, led the
Pledge of Allegiance and called the roll.

Members present were Mayor White, Council Member Cook, Council Member Eutsler,
Council Member Thomas and Council Member Strickland.

The following takes place in open session.

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Terri Crosby, Town Clerk

MAYOR WHITE: I’ll entertain a motion for the approval of the special town
council meeting which was held on February 25 at 6:00 and also on our regular
town council meeting for April 7, 2008, if you’ve all had a chance to review
them.

COUNCIL MEMBER COOK: Make a motion for that to be approved.

COUNCIL MEMBER STRICKLAND: I second.

MAYOR WHITE: All in favor?

(All council members indicated yes.)

MAYOR WHITE: Ayes have it.

Go in to the mayor’s report.

One thing I want to mention to you, I know that what we’ve done on the agenda
this month, we basically have minutes given for each item and we’re gonna try to
hold that so we — so people will know how long the meeting is actually gonna
run and we’re gonna try to stay, stay to the agenda, make everybody’s life a
little bit easier and I’ll go ahead and go in to the mayor’s report.

We have the trash-pickup schedule we the board of disabilities. That’s gonna
start tomorrow and run through next Monday and they’ll start out on 17A, will be
the first section of road that they’re gonna do. Paul’s gonna assist with that
and, you know, we — What we’ve done is we’ve cleaned up the fire department. We
have some picnic tables out there so they, they can go ahead and eat their lunch
out there. We’ll provide them restroom facilities and, and we’ll see how this
first month runs and then we’ll, we’ll evaluate it after this first weekly
cycle.

Charles Williams and myself met today on the — Well, Frank Brockington was
here, also, on the T21 grant for — We’re gonna go ahead and try to get that in
on May 16. We’re gonna do — try to do some signage for each end of town and
some new streetlights so we’re gonna go ahead and try to get everything in place
by May 16. We have a — kind of a harsh deadline with Terri being out but we’re
hoping that we’ll be able to meet that deadline.

We’ve cleaned around the fire department to get rid of the trash, the debris
and, hopefully, the snakes and I, I think that we cleaned it up to the property
line. We’ve had it surveyed so it looks a lot nicer around the building and
hopefully I can approach y’all about getting that building painted before too
long.

We had the first budget meeting the other night, receiving preliminary
figures. We’ll base our budget on an 8,000 — I mean an $800,000.00 revenue.
Some of the main expenses will be public safety, which is the police department;
technology and matching funds for grants.

This current fiscal year result should have us within ninety days on all
bills. This included assessments. All other bills are normally paid within
ninety bills. Our normal sheet — Our normal unpaid-bill sheets are normally
within ninety — are within thirty days but the assessments, because of what
we’ve had to do to catch up but we should be within ninety days on all of them.

This is really a — It’s really a big accomplishment and I feel like if we’re
able to hold them within ninety days we won’t have to go — I feel like, really,
as far as assessments, we’ll be pretty well current with assessments other than
the 2003-2004 year, while that will be handled under — as soon as I hear from
the state treasurer on that but the other good news is we should have — By the
end of this fiscal year we should have $15,000.00 in an account for matching
funds, $50,000.00 in the victims advocate fund, 35,000 of which is in CD’s

This financial picture is very different from fourteen months ago. We’re very
fortunate to have the staff that we have. Paul and Terri’s worked extremely hard
on the finances and they’ve, they’ve brought us to this point.

I don’t have anything posted as far as the finances. I just did — I just
wanted to touch on one thing, is our revenue figures were about $69,000.00 for
the month and we paid two assessments, which that, the assessment charges were
about $37,000.00 this month and that brings us to a net income of negative 10
percent. It’s right on the goal of trying to get our assessments in to line. I
think that’s still — We’re doing very well on our finances. I know that’s a
negative 10 percent but I did want to get up — I mean negative 10,000.

I did want to get us within that goal of the ninety days by the end of the
fiscal year but we still — Our finances still look very sound. We’re running
about a hundred thousand dollars in our accounts so I can’t complain about
anything there and is, really, all I have for the mayor’s report.

I’ll go right in to the clerk’s report.

I guess everyone knows that Terri is out and she’s had surgery this past week
but she did leave me a report.

She received her CMC which is Certified Municipal Clerk and I’ll go ahead and
make the presentation to her next meeting.

This was something for the town that is — It’s pretty well unheard of for a
small town to have somebody that has their Certified Municipal Clerk
certification so when she’s here I’ll actually present her with her plaque.

She has on here that we paid two assessments last month. Dawn and her
attended the MCAA in Columbia, the — for the municipal court. She sent out late
notices on all business licenses, worked on the budget preparation and she
helped Charles with the T21 grant, started the town on the biweekly payroll and
she’s been working on the employee evaluation sheets.

Also, we have the drop-box in place now for the tickets and we’ve had a grand
total of what? Three drops and one missing but, other than that, we’ll get the
bugs worked out of that.

Just to inform council, there’s — your mail boxes are inside of the little
anteroom there on the — If you go right past the window, they’re on the wall
there so if you go ahead and check that, she’ll put — have your mail in there
each week.

Let’s see.

Also, she wanted to let y’all know that the annual meeting will be July 20 –
I mean July 17 through the 20th. Registration will come — actually start next
Friday so you can go on the website and look but she needs to know who is
planning to attend. It is the annual meeting for the municipal association in
Charleston so it’s — and that’s July 17 through the 20th and she found out that
registration will be the last week of this month. I think it’s actually the
twenty-seventh, is when they’ll open it up so she needs to have some
information, who’s planning to attend by that period of time.

It’s very good. If, if anybody hasn’t been to it before, it’s, it’s well
worth going to and that is all I have and at this point I’ll go in to the police
report.

CHIEF OF POLICE HAASE: Good evening, everybody.

April was a busy month for the police department pretty much. Reports went to
sixty-two, twenty-seven arrests, 851 property checks. We assisted twenty-five
agencies, answered a hundred and eighty-four complaints and worked one small
accident.

We weren’t able to visit any schools back in April due to a lot of outside
training that the department had to go to, firearms, driving, et cetera; class
on bombs, how to — get a bomb threat, SLED came and taught us how to take care
of it.

We will be in the schools starting tomorrow. It’s the last month, full month
with the schools so we’re gone concentrate on safety for the kids for summer
rules, about swimming, et cetera, riding bikes, and most important thing, read
during the summer. I know Mr. Naugle would like to hear that.

Mr. Butterfield, the reserve officer, he’s — saw him today. He’s gone be
back with us, hopefully, next Tuesday. He’s gone work out a little bit here with
us on court and I’ll ask him to be slow by doing it and ride with either me,
myself, one of the other officers to gradually get back in it but he’s beat the
cancer so it’s, it’s good news.

Dawn’s gone touch on letter court during her presentation and I attended a
hurricane task force meeting. I’ll touch on that when Mr. Strickland presents
his stuff.

Also, I’d like to present to Mr. — the mayor the police department, this Law
Enforcement High Risk Policy and Procedures Manual went in to effect on May 1,
2008, for police department; also, the police department evals that I was asked
by you and the council to do on the employees. That’s the police department
evaluation performance for you, if you’d like to turn that in to Terri.

I know I’ve only got five minutes. Just three things I need to touch one. One
thing is recreational vehicles, like four-wheelers, golf carts, jet skis, make
sure they’re covered under your home insurance policy. Some people think because
it’s at my house it’s covered. We have a resident in town that had his
four-wheeler stolen; when he went to check his home insurance policy, it’s not
covered so make sure you check your homeowner’s policy on, on small stuff like
that.

I know I saw a commercial on TV just over the weekend, GEICO actually offers
that insurance by itself so check in to that.

There are a lot of thefts going around. I think we’ve only had one in the
town limits for four-wheelers but around the county part of Cottageville there’s
been a lot of thefts. We’re working in conjunction with the sheriff’s office and
got a couple of leads over the weekend while I was working. I give them to the
sheriff’s department to follow up on but keep that in mind.

Any type of traffic complaints, you know, call me, call me on my cell, stop
by and see me and we’ll, we’ll take care of that.

We’re trying to get the litter control under, under wraps. The mayor’s got
this group coming in and we’re even riding the back roads and last week I rode
the back road and stopped a car. He wasn’t littering but, I mean, I got drugs
off the street and he had no license so, you know, we’re still doing our part on
the back roads but if there’s anything we can do as the police department please
let us know.

That concludes my report.

MAYOR WHITE: Okay, and, you know, did you mention about the business checks?

CHIEF OF POLICE HAASE: Oh, I’m sorry.

Business checks. Back in January couple of police officers had come to me
wanting to change the business-escort procedures. We tried it out but it’s not
really working but I put a memo back out after speaking with the mayor and the
police officers are gone be back around the businesses making sure they’re
closed up properly.

They’re actually required to physically check most of the businesses in town
on Sunday nights and do the churches on Saturday but, you know, they are doing
the property checks during the week, might not get a card on your door but I
know I left cards at the churches Saturday night and I left the cards at
businesses on Sunday this past weekend but if there’s any type of problem, I
know the small businesses like bed and breakfast, if you ever need us for any
reason, escort to the bank, let us know, unless you’re burying that money out
back somewhere, right?

But, other than that, you know, that pretty much covers it.

MAYOR WHITE: One last thing, home invasion, want to mention anything about
that?

CHIEF OF POLICE HAASE: Sorry.

Home invasion. The Press did a good job on the article. Officer Rozier
(phon.) went down to assist the county on home invasion on Jacksonboro Road,
Gloverville area, and he was first on scene and he was able to identify the
get-away car. The deputies got the, the — The deputies got the car stopped on
Jacksonboro and locked up one.

Time Officer Rozier ran around the, the building two people ran out back.
Sheriff department came in and we caught one in the woods and last suspect was
caught over here on Stonewall Hill but all three were arrested that night. You
know, without the fast thinking of Officer Rozier I don’t think — we might not
have caught nobody that night. He did — He did an outstanding job that night.

Also, one other thing I notice in my note is the pit bull situation. We have
– Down in Jessico (phon.) had a house down there that had around seventeen pit
bulls. There’s no ordinance says what he can do but back in September, back in
September we went down there and cited him or he made agreement with the town
and the courts not to have — only three pit bulls on his property.

We started getting complaints again. I went down there with the animal
control, same pit bulls were back so I cited him; could’ve wrote him twenty-five
tickets for each violation. There was three different violations. I just wrote
him one, one ticket for each violation and maxed the fine out. He came in, judge
found him guilty and ended up paying over $4,000.00 worth of fines.

I’ve got to go back there and do an inspection because, you know, he’s under
judge’s rules, three pit bulls and that’s it so — But anything like that y’all
need help with we’ll be glad to help you.

MAYOR WHITE: Please let us know, too, if you see anything like that going on
in town, you know, I mean our, our staff is small and we definitely could use
the tips and the information.

(Mr. Naugle made a presentation to the police department.)

MAYOR WHITE: At this time we’ll have the judicial report by Dawn Boren.

MS. BOREN: This month I have been receiving a lot of phone calls from
citizens inquiring about summer activities in Cottageville and most of the
people that’s been calling has been out of town and they really want to know
what’s going on in Cottageville this summer.

People have been mentioning the website when they call in about the citations
so I want to thank Rick for posting my information on there because people are
visiting the website.

This month the chief and I have started on letter court. The first letters
were issued in the beginning of April advising people who have bench warrants or
arrest warrants to come in and take care of their warrants before the court date
that we both issued. So far it’s been very successful. I’ve collected funds for
three arrest warrants and seven bench warrants.

The actual letter court will be held tomorrow and we expect a great turnout
and I’ll update everybody on tomorrow’s outcome but the arrest warrants, it went
back to, like, before we’ve had people come and pay and Citizens Opposed to
Domestic Abuse, which is also known as CODA, has sent me new information and
referral forms for their batterers intervention program.

CODA is a liaison program for court-ordered batterers intervention treatment
for Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper counties. Miss Peggy introduced me to
them awhile ago. What? Last year?

And I have seen some of their programs. They have a program that’s
coordinated for perpetrators of domestic violence in South Carolina and they,
they have a treatment protocol following assessment by a counselor. It’s
mandatory attendance at a participation and a twenty-six week — weekly cycle
educational program, counseling sessions with a specified curriculum that is
focusing on physical, sexual and psychological violence and holding a
perpetrator accountable for their violence problems and I’m gone take advantage
of the program if we have anybody in Cottageville that needs it.

MAYOR WHITE: Thank you.

At this time we’ll go to the council committee reports. Carlisle Strickland,
emergency preparedness.

COUNCIL MEMBER STRICKLAND: On Saturday, May 31 the Colleton County emergency
preparedness is having the Increase Awareness program, numerous methods
available to prepare people for severe weather and learn about family and home
safety. They gone have a get-together on the thirty-first from nine to one in
the Colleton County parking lot which is right across from the courthouse on
South Jeffries and it’s gone — They gone have exhibits, local meteorologists,
demonstrations, refreshments, displays and all of — a lot of stuff that’s gone
be very interesting to people that want to go and participate and see what they
have to offer and Chief is passing out some fliers now I had picked up today but
there’s also gone be a CERT program, Colleton County CERT – the Community
Emergency Response Team – and I have some brochures here on that.

If anyone is interested in, in getting, getting, set up with the CERT team
pick up one of these and it gives you the number where to call up at Colleton
County emergency preparedness to get hooked up on that program but here’s the
fliers on the other one.

I talked to Miss Suzanne Gant this morning, who is the head of emergency
preparedness, and she said this is gone be a very informative session that
they’re gone have in the parking lot on this emergency preparedness and that she
would like to see people attend because it’s gone be something that, that they
haven’t been able to do before and that she’d like to see a — you know, a large
participation in it.

That’s all I have.

CHIEF OF POLICE HAASE: in regards to something real quick, Mr. George.

I attended the task force meeting on April 30 at 11:00. Just going on what
Mr. Strickland said, there’s gone be above average season, that’s what they’re
predicting for the hurricanes, if y’all seen on the news.

We’re still gone be part of the evacuation route. If something’s coming in
where the evacuation route opens up police department will be covering 17A, 651
and also Highway 61, 651. That was confirmed again for the evacuation route just
in case any cars get through here where they’re supposed to funnel down 61.

There was one other thing.

They’re having a statewide practice exercise on June 4 and 5. We’re — We
won’t be — We won’t be shutting no roads down that day but they’re going
through some other things but just like on this right here, like Suzanne said,
if you get a chance there’s a lot of information you can learn from this here.

That’s all.

MAYOR WHITE: Okay. Thank you.

Charlie Cook, public works.

COUNCIL MEMBER COOK: We have no lights that are in need of repair nor were
there any, any new installed.

MAYOR WHITE: Okay. Thank you.

Rick Eustler, technology.

COUNCIL MEMBER EUSTLER: I spoke again with Dale Coble (phon.) at Palmetto and
we’re probably three to four weeks out, I guess, on getting that server in here.

I did find out that they’re not only donating the server but also the
configuration setup which is worth to the tune of about 700 or $800.00 so that’s
a real plus.

With regards to the website, obviously, I met with you and Terri and we’re
gonna move forward but what I need from all those involved in, in the community
as well is data. I need material to hand to Sue that she can put up on the site
and I will work with her to get the procedures in place so that at any point the
town’s staff could take that over but that’s something that, as I mentioned with
Terri, I know that Dawn had a request for the — Somebody was hoping to see the
agenda online. I need that material e-mailed to me. To retype everything is, is
not something I’m — I mean I can do it if it’s necessary but it’s not –
definitely not the direction I want to go and, Dawn, if you have any information
that we can post on the judicial side of things, whatever you e-mail us, you
know, we’ll go through it and get it up there.

Same with your report and Terri’s report. If there’s other things, just get
it to us and we’ll get it up there. I need — I need the information. I — You
know, that’s the big thing. Get me data, it will get up.

MAYOR WHITE: Okay. Thank you.

You know, I did talk with Dale, too, about the, the server. I thought that
sounded real good.

Let’s see.

Peggy Thomas, revitalization.

COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS: As many of y’all know, we had the Great American
Cleanup on the twelfth of April and we had some participation from Cottageville
and, and it covered the whole county. We had a lot of participation out in the
rural areas around Cottageville, like Spring Hill and Good Hope Road and
McDaniel Road, all down there and for the whole county I think we had about 400
volunteers. I have about 400 names of people that volunteered to pick up trash
that day and I think all together we picked up about 100 bags of trash which
covered, the best that I can make out, about forty miles so you can see, we’re
pretty trashy.

But, anyway, it was great participation and, and we had great results and we
appreciate all that and we will be doing it again so, so I’ll be getting back in
touch with everybody and, you know, letting you know and we hope that we’ll do
bigger and better this time and even get more people involved so we’re, we’re
looking forward to having another one.

And at our last meeting I said we had changed our camellia show to the last
Saturday in January but when we went to the Coastal Carolina Camellia Society
last week I spoke with Miles Beach, who’s the president of that, and he said
that he felt like we needed to move it back to the second of — to the second
Saturday in January because it just so happens this year — next year January’s
got five Saturdays but there may not every year so we decided we’d better stick
with a Saturday that would always be there, not depend on a fifth so we’re going
back to the second Saturday in January.

And then at our last meeting, we’re planning on getting the school and we’re
planning on having a lot of community events and we’re open to suggestions about
community events. We have one suggestion that we’re following up on and think
that we’re probably gonna be able to, to have that in maybe, like, the spring of
next year but if you can think of anything that you think would, would improve
the community and give our youth and people something to do here in Cottageville
rather than having to go out of town to do everything get in touch with the
revitalization committee or call Dawn or Terri here at town hall and we’re open
for suggestions and we’re also open for members so we’d like to see more people
involved because the more people you have involved the more ideas you have.

So our Taste of Cottageville will be on the eleventh of October. We’ve
already got the judges lined up for that. I’ve already got the chairs reserved
and our revitalization committee is making a list of people in the community to
call and ask them to participate where we’ll be sure we have enough food and
we’re gonna do things a little different this year. Instead of having, like –
We had talent the times before but we’re not gonna do that this year. We’re
gonna have vendors and I think that’ll draw in more people than, maybe, the
talent so we’re looking forward to that and if you get a phone call asking you
to cook something please do and we look forward to seeing all of you there.

MAYOR WHITE: Thank you.

COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS: Oh, wait a minute, George, one thing.

Yes, this is historical and preservation. Remember I told you we had sent off
the paperwork to Columbia to see if we could get the school on the national
register? I got a package in the mail last week saying that our school
qualified. They qualified on education and they qualified on structure so we’ve
talked to Mr. Gale (phon.) about it because we’ve got that much paperwork to do
but he said that he would work with us on that so we’re gonna get that package
up to him and try and get that in and that goes to the national register and,
you know, and that should seal it, when we get that in so we’re really excited
about that.

Tore down a school like that in Smoaks but, that’s what I say, we’d had two
if they hadn’t torn that one down because it was the same as Cottageville.

MAYOR WHITE: Well, I actually talked to Frank and Charles about that today
and —

COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS: Oh, did you?

MAYOR WHITE: — you know, they were saying about the grants that are
available once that does come to terms so that will be great.

Okay.

Going in to unfinished business. Ditch concerns. Frank and myself talked
about this for awhile today. He did have his engineer and him trying to come up
with a plan as far as to alleviate the main ditch that runs through town.
Probably either the end of this week or next week we’ll be talking to, to the
attorney in Mount Pleasant about that.

The water update, the, the data’s been given to a firm that Frank Brockington
recommended and he said that we should have some information at least by the
next meeting. He asked me also to try to get the 2007 ground water data so I’m
gonna try to do that this coming month.

The last thing is Colleton County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs.
They’re real excited about doing the trash pickup out here. They’re planning on
starting, as I said, tomorrow and work through next Monday. I hope that it goes
will. I know that on some of the areas it’s pretty clean but I know that on a
lot of the back roads it’s, it’s pretty rough so we’ll see how it goes and if
you see these people please speak to them. I mean they — They’re very excited
about having the chance to be working in this area and I, I think that it will
be good for the town and the community.

At this time I’d like to call for a motion to go in to executive session for
planning commission and the board of adjustments. We’ll limit it to fifteen
minutes and I’ll try to hold to that, even though we’re a little bit ahead of
schedule and at this time I’ll entertain that motion.

COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS: I make a motion we go in to executive session
concerning planning commission and board of adjustments.

COUNCIL MEMBER COOK: I second.

MAYOR WHITE: All in favor?

(All council members indicated yes.)

(Council went in to executive session at 7:25 and returned to open session at
7:50. The following takes place in open session.)

MAYOR WHITE: I’ll go ahead and call for a motion to come out of executive
session.

COUNCIL MEMBER COOK: I make a motion for the town council of Cottageville to
come out of executive session.

COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS: I second.

MAYOR WHITE: All in favor?

(All council members indicated yes.)

MAYOR WHITE: Going in to new business, at this time I’d like to ask Charlie
Cook to go ahead and make a recommendation for the planning commission and the
board of adjustments.

COUNCIL MEMBER COOK: I have applications here for the board of adjustments
and the planning commission. I think there’s four seats that need to be filled
on the planning commission and two on the board of adjustments.

What we basically did, we did it very simple, we just took first come first
serve on the planning commission, sit here and looked at this and Miss Mary
Crosby, Miss Ester Wombel – if I’m not mistaken, who is still — who is on the
planning commission now, Debbie Macmillan and Miss Debra Hardwick will serve as
planning commission.

For the board of adjustments we would like to ask Miss Sylvia Crane and Mr.
Carl Null to fill those two positions.

If you have any objections please let us know because these two — these –
You know, all these seats have to be filled so we can move forward.

Are there any objections that anybody knows of that they would not have any
reason not to serve?

(No response.)

COUNCIL MEMBER COOK: I take that as a good-to-go.

MAYOR WHITE: Okay.

At this time I’ll call for a motion for the recommendations by Charlie Cook
to council for the planning commission and the board of adjustments.

COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS: I make a motion that the planning commission and board
of adjustments as read by Charlie Cook be approved.

COUNCIL MEMBER EUSTLER: Second.

MAYOR WHITE: All in favor?

(All council members indicated yes.)

MAYOR WHITE: Okay.

Thank you very much. I appreciate y’all serving on these commissions.

I’ll entertain a motion for the chairman of the planning commission.

COUNCIL MEMBER COOK: I make a recommendation that Miss Sandra Addison be
named chairman of the planning commission.

COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS: I second.

MAYOR WHITE: All in favor?

(All council members indicated yes.)

MAYOR WHITE: Okay. Thank you.

Moving on to citizens agenda. Miss Sylvia Crane. Miss Sylvia Crane for the
public participation as far as traffic?

MS. CRANE: Oh. Well, I talked with Paul. It’s already been . . .

MAYOR WHITE: Okay. Thank you.

Miss Sandra Addison.

MS. ADDISON: I just wanted to talk about litter a little bit. On April 16 -
Wasn’t it the sixteenth, Peggy?

COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS: Twelfth.

MS. ADDISON: Twelfth, April 12 my husband and I picked up trash on 17A from
our house to the town limits. Now, if you think about it, if — it’s like a mile
and six-tenths total down and back. That’s not the dirtiest part of town, and
all. I mean you don’t — You don’t come in to the town limits and say, gosh,
this place looks awful. We still managed to pick up four bags of garbage, to the
brim, and I just wanted to share one thing we you which surprised me a little
bit.

With the exception of Aunt Dot’s yard and the Baptist church yard, there was
a beer can in every other yard, including my own. When I came back to mine there
was one sitting there.

You know, we might be missing the boat here on this litter thing because we
could get them for littering, we could get them for open container and more than
likely, they’d be speeding at the same time but the town may very well be
missing the boat by not pursuing this giving citations for littering and the
other thing, the other litter that concerns me and all the walkers, and I know
this seems minute, the horses use the sidewalks and that’s fine; it’s the
deposits they leave behind that’s not so fine and we haven’t had enough rain to
wash them away.

It would be nice if we could look in to some — something that would persuade
them to use the little grass patch beside the sidewalk instead of on the
sidewalk itself.

MAYOR WHITE: I agree with you because I’ve had to clean it up in front of my
house and I don’t like it one bit.

MS. ADDISON: And you’re walking like this, trying to get around it because if
you’re out just walking for the exercise it’s miserable. It’s just miserable.

MAYOR WHITE: Well, we’ll see what we can do about that.

And, also, I do want to add about the trash pickup on the eleventh that I
don’t know whether you really looked at the cans or not but I was — I picked up
three crack pipes from the stretch that I did on 651 which was from 17A to the
town limits and we got eight, eight bags of trash and three crack pipes so I
know it’s out there and it’s bad and, you know, Paul and myself have discussed
it so we are aware of it.

And Mr. Null.

MR. NULL: Yeah. I have just three things here to touch on. One was the
sidewalk, that we, we went to the expense of putting those sidewalks in but the
owners of the property in front of them aren’t bothering to trim the edges.
You’ve got grass growing halfway over the sidewalk and seems to me we put it in,
they can be responsible for at least cleaning it and keeping that grass cut off
of it.

CHIEF OF POLICE HAASE: There is a city ordinance that says —

MR. NULL: Fine them.

The other one was, is the town liable when we have buildings and businesses
on the main street with windows broken out? What’s gonna happen when some child
gets in there, gets hurt or gets molested or killed? Been over a year, nobody’s
done anything about that.

You’ve got vehicles parked on the sidewalks up there so pedestrians can’t
even walk up through there. Didn’t think we allowed that.

I believe over a year and a half ago money was allocated to get the patrol
cars marked. Are we in the business of stopping bad behavior or we’re gonna
ticket it after they do it? In other words, let the horse get out of the barn
then we go give them a ticket or we gonna — You know, marked car is a deterrent
from people throwing trash down, all this other stuff, and I thought that money
had been allocated once before.

And then the third thing was I wanted to thank the chief. A 9-1-1 call came
in, wasn’t my granddaughter for a change. Something went wrong with the phone.

Anyhow, he came in and did his thing and I wanted to thank him for that
because I‘d been, whatever, I don’t know but I wanted to thank him, you know,
they did their thing. That was great.

That’s it.

MAYOR WHITE: Okay. Thank you.

Miss Lisa Carter.

MS. CARTER: The only thing I was wondering is what’s the status on the
shopping center. I mean we saw it cleared off but we just didn’t know the status
of it.

MAYOR WHITE: I talked to Mr. Sego (phon.) today and he is — He has to draw a
test well next week. He is still planning on moving forward with, with his work.
He’s been contacting — He told me that he’s right now talking with SCE&G and
Palmetto Rural as far as getting their services in there so that’s where it
stands at right now.

MS. CARTER: One, one person that was supposed to sell is putting it on hold.

MAYOR WHITE: But I don’t think that – now, now, this is just in conversation
with him today – that that’s really gonna affect his plans a whole lot as what
he had planned to do up there.

MS. CARTER: Do you know what it might be? You just have to wait; you don’t
know?

MAYOR WHITE: I don’t know. He said that he would let me know.

Well, he actually called me to let me know what was going on today and where
he was at because I did tell him that I wanted to hear before next meeting so if
there was questions but I’ll let you know just as soon as I know anything.

And no one has anything else for the good of the town I’ll go ahead and call
for a motion to adjourn.

COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS: I make a motion we adjourn.

COUNCIL MEMBER STRICKLAND: I second.

MAYOR WHITE: All in favor?

(All council members indicated yes.)

MAYOR WHITE: Okay.

Thank you very much for coming this week.

– Meeting adjourned at 8:55 p.m. –

I, the undersigned Donna Hartley, Official Court Reporter and Notary Public,
do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, accurate and complete transcript
of record of all the proceedings had at the Town Council Meeting for The Town of
Cottageville, South Carolina at Cottageville Town Hall on Monday, February 4,
2008.

I further certify that I am neither of counsel nor kin to any person
attending this meeting nor am I interested in any manner of its outcome.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-fourth
day of May, 2008

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