For our rural multi-civic center meeting, and as always, with our meetings, we'll start out with the invocation and the pledge of the flag.

And we all stand, please.

Praise God.

Heavenly Father, we're thankful, dear Lord, that we might be able to gather once again and work for the people of this county.

Help us, oh dear Lord, and encourage our hearts and watch over us.

Touch and bless each and every household and family that is represented here today, so that all things will be done for your glory.

Amen.

Please do the flag.

One nation under God and the visible justice for all.

Thank you all for being here.

And so we're gonna we're gonna turn it over to Brandon, but uh but uh I would like to recognize uh uh Mr.

Archie Howe here.

He is the one that helped us obtain this land to start with, and he's in he's in our presence today and stuff, and I just want to extend that.

And uh he's been very um involved.

He calls me and texts me often to find out where and what we're doing and stuff because uh uh he's helped us, we're gonna help him, and he's gonna help us some more.

So all right, Brandon.

Okay, take it away, buddy.

So since our last meeting was in March of 2024, so it's been a while since we've sat down together.

Uh since then, some progress has been made on putting some different layout options together.

Uh I have our master planning consultants with us, Charlie Johnson from Johnson Consulting and Margaret Butler from MHM Architecture.

Uh today we're going to be going through those different layouts for the arena, uh looking at some different price points for those.

They've uh developed to say you know, we've got all these concepts.

So with that, I want to turn it over to Johnson Consulting and the Master Planning Consultants.

All right.

You guys can get started whenever you're ready.

Yes.

Are you ready for us to proceed?

Yes, sorry, Charlie.

All right, thank you.

Um I want to make sure everybody can hear us, and then Margaret is has some material we like to say.

And first we want to thank you for the time today.

Um this has been a process that we've gone through.

Um, I think when we first started, we began um thinking more rodeo and equestrian.

And as we got along, that becomes critically important to retain the capability, but this became more multi-purpose.

And we think that that's the right answer for the uh the U County and Myrtle Beach.

Um you're a dynamic market.

I think it's very important to future proof these types of buildings.

And so when Margaret talks about the options that we're going to talk about, and does Jay uh reviews the site plan, I think that'll give you some discussion points of why um the options exist and what the consequences uh and opportunities are of the different options.

So with that, I wanted to say, are there any opening comments that you want to make uh Brandon and David?

Uh we did, Charlie.

I think you might have been on mute, but we can go ahead and proceed with the presentation.

Perfect.

Okay, great.

All right, so these are the topics we're going to um discuss.

Jay's going to start off talking and reminding people about the site and what the opportunities are, and then we're going to go through the um different um options.

And we're going to remind people about the building uses and then talk about the cost summary.

All right.

So Margaret, I think you're driving the bus.

Jay.

You're up.

You may want refresh the memory of who you are.

Yeah.

Can everyone hear me okay?

Yeah.

Okay.

Um, so Jay Rankins with MIG.

Uh, we're a planning planning design firm supporting uh Charlie and team.

I'm at Johnson and have been in a smaller role in the feasibility study and uh played a larger role in the state planning for uh the master plan development.

So what you're seeing on the screen here is the an illustrative of a potential full build out of the overall site.

Some of the key considerations that we had in developing this was thinking about efficiency, but also thinking in effectiveness, but also thinking about sort of the arrival experience and multiple ways to enter to exit, thinking about multiple uses happening on the site, perhaps at once.