Okay.

You all are alive now.

Okay.

Good to go, Ms.

Blunt.

All right.

Good evening, everyone.

The meeting will now come to order.

I'd like to welcome you all to the uh December 17th meeting of the City of Greenville Board of Adjustment.

My name is Michael Glenn, and I'm the chair of the board.

I'd like to start by acknowledging that we're using we're conducting this meeting using a remote electronic platform.

And uh we appreciate your patience as we transition between uh slides and speakers.

Uh, the Board of Adjustment is a quasi-ed judicial body that is governed by the North Carolina General Statutes and the City's code of ordinance.

We conduct evidentiary hearings on requests for special use permits, variances, appeals of administrative decisions, and interpretations.

Before we begin the evidentiary hearings on tonight's agenda, I would like to provide some important information about steps taken to ensure that each party's due process rights are protected as we proceed in this remote platform.

First, tonight's meeting will be conducted in accordance with the newly enacted statutes and session law twenty twenty-three, which allow for remote meetings and quasi-judicial hearings during declarations of emergency.

Second, each applicant on tonight's agenda was notified before being placed on the agenda that this meeting would be conducted using a remote electronic platform.

Every applicant on tonight's agenda has consented to the board conducting the evidentiary hearing on their request using this remote platform.

We will also confirm tonight at the start of each evidentiary hearing that the participant that the participants in the evidentiary hearing consent to the matter proceeding in this remote platform.

No cases proceeding tonight in which the city has been contacted by an individual who objects to this meeting being heard by way of remote meeting platform.

Third, notice of this meeting was provided to the applicants and to and to the public in numerous ways.

And each notice letter notified the recipient of the remote meeting platform.

Notice uh was also provided by posting signs on the site of each property, publishing notice in the newspaper, and providing notice on the city's website.

Each of these notice methods were also done within legal requirement to provide such notice.

The notice for tonight's meeting contained information about the means by which the public can access the meeting as the meeting occurs.

Fourth, any individual wishing to participate in tonight's evidentiary hearings was required to sign up prior to the meeting to participate.

Information about the sign-up requirement along with information about how to sign up to participate was included in the mailed notice letters sent to each property owner within 250 feet of each subject property.

This information was also included on the board's website, and among other information, a link to the board's website was included in all methods of notice.

No new documents will be presented at tonight's meeting, and all decisions of this board are subject to appeal with the Pit County Superior Court.

Finally, all individuals who signed up to participate in an evidentiary hearing on tonight's agenda were mailed a witness oath form prior to tonight's meeting.

Any individual planning to testify or submit evidence in an evidentiary hearing was notified that they must sign the oath form prior to the meeting.

We will reaffirm everyone's oath on the record at the meeting as we proceed.

All right.

Um Mr.

Clerk, if you would please uh take the roll.

Yes, sir.

Michael Glenn here.

Rodney Bullock.

Rodney Bullock here.

Ann Bellis?

Here.

Hunt McKinnon.

Christopher Lilly.

Here.

Sharon Evans?

Here.

Stephen Atkinson?

Here.

Nathan Cohen.

Dylan Godley.

John Landrine?

Here.

Mr.

Chair, you have a quorum.

And Mr.

Chair, all uh seven members present tonight are voting members.

That was my next question.

Thank you.

All right.

Let's see.