010322 Council Mtg Agenda
PUBLIC POWER HOUR
January 3, 2022 – 5:30 p.m. - Municipal Center – 100 Georgia Avenue, 3rd Floor - Council Chambers
AGENDA: CITY OF NORTH AUGUSTA REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING
January 3, 2022 – 6:00 p.m. – Municipal Center – 100 Georgia Avenue, 3rd Floor - Council Chambers
The Public Power Hour and regular City Council meeting will be streamed for public viewing online at:
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CITIZEN COMMENTS: Citizens may speak to Mayor and City Council on each item listed on this agenda. The Mayor will call
for comments prior to Council’s discussion. Speakers shall give their name and address in an audible tone of voice. Speaker
Forms are provided on the credenza at the entrance for speakers desiring that the minutes indicate that they addressed Council
on a specific topic. The form will be included as part of the minutes of the meeting. Citizen comments are limited to five
minutes.
CITIZEN ASSISTANCE: Individuals needing special assistance or sign interpreter to participate in the meeting, please notify the
Administration Department 48 hours prior to the meeting.
1. CALL TO ORDER:
2. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE:
3. ROLL CALL:
4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Regular City Council Meeting minutes of December 20, 2021
5. COMMUNITY PROMOTION: Recognition of the Winners of the 2021 Mayor’s Writing Contest
6. PERSONNEL: Bruce Meigs, Retirement – Recognition of Service to the City of North Augusta
7. PERSONNEL: Walton “Buddy” Satcher, Retirement – Recognition of Service to the City of North Augusta
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
8. CITY PROPERTY: Ordinance No. 2021-26 – To Convey a Portion of Tax Parcel 005-13-06-004 to the
Wando Woodlands Property Owners Association, Inc.; Ordinance – Second Reading
NEW BUSINESS
9. LAW AND JUSTICE: 2022 Jury Box – Motion to Accept
10. PARKS, RECREATION AND TOURISM: Resolution No. 2022-01 – Authorizing the City of North Augusta
to Enter into a Contract for Tourism Website Development and
Hosting
11. ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC WORKS: Resolution No. 2022-02 – Accepting an Emergency Watershed
Protection Program Grant from the Natural Resources
Conservation Service for the Pole Branch Watershed
Remediation
12. ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC WORKS: Resolution No. 2022-03 – Authorizing a Professional
Engineering Services Contract for the Pole Branch Watershed
Remediation
13. ANNEXATION: Ordinance No. 2022-01 – To Change the Corporate Limits of the City of North Augusta
by Accepting the Petition Requesting Annexation by the Landowner and Annexing
±0.26 Acres of Land Located at 331 Belair Road and Owned by Nex Ventures Realty,
Inc.; Ordinance – First Reading
14. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS
15. PRESENTATIONS/COMMUNICATIONS/RECOGNITION OF VISITORS:
A. Citizen Comments - At this time, citizens may speak to Mayor and City Council regarding matters not listed on
the agenda. Speakers shall give their name and address for the records. Speaker Forms are provided on the
credenza for speakers desiring that the minutes indicate that they addressed Council on a specific topic. The
form will be included as part of the minutes of the meeting. Citizen comments are limited to five minutes.
B. Council Comments –
16. ADJOURNMENT
Thank you for attending tonight’s meeting of the North Augusta City Council.
To assure every citizen’s privilege to speak to City Council and to maintain proper decorum
the following sections of the City’s Code of Ordinances are reprinted.
Sec. 2-57. Order and decorum generally
(a) By council members. While the council is in session, the members must preserve order and decorum, and a member
shall not, by conversation or otherwise, delay or interrupt the proceedings or the peace of the council, or disturb any member
while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the council or its presiding officer, except as otherwise herein provided.
(b) By other persons. Any person making personal, impertinent, or slanderous remarks or who shall become boisterous
while addressing the council shall be forthwith, by the presiding officer, barred from further audience before the council, unless
permission to continue be granted by a majority vote of the council.
Sec. 2-58. Sergeant-at-arms
The public safety director or such members of the public safety department as the director may designate, shall be sergeant-
at-arms of the council meetings. They shall carry out all orders and instructions given by the presiding officer for the purpose
of maintaining order and decorum at the council meeting. Upon instructions of the presiding officer, it shall be the duty of
the sergeant-at-arms, to place any person who violates the order and decorum of the meeting under arrest, and cause such
to be prosecuted under the provisions of this Code, the complaint to be signed by the presiding officer.
Sec. 2-62. Addressing council--Permission required; exceptions
Any person desiring to address the council shall first secure the permission of the presiding officer so to do.
Sec. 2-63. Same--Procedure
Each person addressing the council shall step up in front of the rail, shall give such person's name and address in an audible tone
of voice for the records, and unless further time is granted by the council, shall limit the address to five (5) minutes. All remarks
shall be addressed to the council as a body and not to any member thereof. No person, other than the council and the person
having the floor, shall be permitted to enter into any discussion, either directly or through a member of the council, without the
permission of the presiding officer. No question shall be asked a council member except through the presiding officer.
Sec. 2-64. Persons authorized to be within rail
No person, except city officials or their representatives shall be permitted within the rail in front of the council chamber without
the express consent of the council.