The Goose Creek City Council held its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, at 6:00 PM in Council Chambers. The meeting included public comments, a report from the Mayor's Leadership Council, approval of minutes, recognition of Christmas card design winners, Citizen Fire Academy graduates, and outgoing Councilmember Hannah Cox, as well as several legislative items and administrative actions. The meeting adjourned at 7:55 PM.
All right, we're gonna start here in a second, even if the technology isn't working. I don't like to not do this on time. Okay. Very good. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. I want to call this meeting to order. I appreciate everybody we have a coming out. We have a very nice crowd tonight, uh, which means we're doing some fun stuff because I like fun stuff. Y'all don't stay for the hard stuff, the fun stuff happens, everybody gets out, and then we gotta go through the hard stuff. But I very much appreciate appreciate you all coming. Uh today is Tuesday, December 9th. This is our regularly scheduled council meeting. And at this time, Gerald Stenson with the helping hands of Goose Creek will lead us in prayer, and we will follow that by the Pledge of Allegiance. Father, we come this evening to give you thanks. Hello, we want to bless every citizen of Goose Creek, especially around the holiday season. There's some that may be going through some struggles. Some when they look around the table, there's loved ones missing. Lord, we ask you to give them peace beyond all understanding. And again, we just want to thank you for just being God. We want to thank you for all you've done. We ask you to touch everyone is here, every feminist representative. Bless them in the name of Jesus. We pray this prayer in your name. Amen. I pledge the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God. Thank you so much. I appreciate that very much. Uh um Kelly, I don't have any people that have signed in to speak. Okay, well, we do have one that would like to speak that I'm going to use some mayoral privilege. Huh? You have that on your agenda. Um that's a second reading, and it's not a public comment. If we're talking about the same thing. No. Yeah, I don't think we are. Um John, I I know you wanted to you wanted to come and say a few words, so I'd like to give you the opportunity to do that. So I was told I didn't need to sign up for public comment. It's okay. I would have gladly signed up. Um, John Techlenburg, and I wanted to thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council members, for your understanding on the uh matter of the rezoning over on um Etawan Drive. But also uh it turned out I was the applicant for that, uh helping out my son who's in the real estate business. But mostly I just wanted to come and uh thank you for your service, because I do understand that serving in municipal government, both as staff and uh as elected official, um, is is truly public service. By the way, your staff was great all the way through this matter, and again, I thank you for your understanding and wish you happiest holidays you could ever have this year. Thank you so much. Thank you, John. And I knew he was going to commend our staff, so that's why I wanted to bring him up to do that. And I also can't wait to uh maybe retire from here and let my hair grow out. That's gonna make me very happy.