The Horry County Administration Committee met on December 3, 2024, at 1:00 PM in the County Council Conference Room. Chairman Tyler Servant presided. The committee reviewed updates from the Council on Aging, affordable housing initiative, independent auditor's report, local vendor preference, and food truck policy, and took action on several resolutions and an ordinance.
The meeting adjourned at approximately 2:00 PM.
Meeting to order for December the third. I can get everybody please stand. We'll do a quick invitation of the Pledge of the Allegiance. Dear Lord, thank you for all the blessings you bestowed upon us. Thank you for another opportunity to come together and do the business of the county. We ask that you inspire us and lead us as we go through this agenda. And we ask for knowledge of your will and the power to carry it out. In your name we pray. Amen. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation. Please be seated. Move right along. Is there any public input today? All right. Review and approval of the agenda contents. The motion. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Okay. Approval of the minutes from the October 21st meeting. Some of them. All in favor. Aye. New business. Moving right along. Council on Aging. The update, Miss Elaine Gore. Right. Good afternoon. In the coming year of 2025, Ori County Council and Agent will celebrate years of service to the elderly population. We will enter the upcoming years with the same mission we have followed over the past five decades to keep our senior citizens at home, living their best life with as much independence dignity as possible. To adhere to this incredible mission means more than just a meal, an activity or attending a senior center. It also means that their children may be able to go to work and know that their parents have a meal or a place to go and they don't have to worry about that so much. And that really means a lot because I take care of my parents now who are 87 and 91. So my 38 years of doing this has come around back to me. So now I understand how important what I've been doing all these years is actually. You can never find Medicaid beds if you're lucky. And most people can't afford institutional like between 4,000 and $9,000 a month. And those are hard numbers. Maybe $200 a month compared to the high cost. And that's been our goal since I've started doing this 38 years ago. Our goal was to keep people at home and out of those places, which are wonderful. We have to have them, but if we can do what we do and let them stay at home, that's what we want to do. So I'm proud of the time that since July to now we have served on 28,134 meals at the senior centers, the 11. We still have 11 right now. Our home delivery meals are 31,214. Our homemaker units is 3,990 hours of homemaker service in the home. We did get a grant for the third month transportation ban.