The Horry County Public Safety Committee met on September 9, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. in the County Council Conference Room. Chairman Danny Hardee called the meeting to order, followed by an invocation and pledge of allegiance. The committee unanimously approved the agenda, the minutes from the August 12, 2025 meeting, and several resolutions, including a late-added resolution recognizing the National Day of Remembrance for Homicide Victims. The main discussion centered on a comprehensive update from the Behavioral Services Department, featuring presentations from multiple public safety and treatment programs highlighting significant progress in mental health, substance use, and juvenile services.
Committee members noted that written reports from Police, Fire/Rescue, Animal Care Center, Emergency Management, 911, Sheriff’s Office, Detention Center, and EMS Write-Offs were included in their packets. No questions were raised.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you'll please stand Gracious Heavenly Father, thank you for the opportunity to live in Oreg County. Dear Father, thank you for this room full of people who were working to uh better society. Your father, we ask for wisdom, patience, guidance. Dear father, please continue to bless our first responders and all those who work to uh take care of us. In your name we pray, amen. Attention to the flag. I pledge of allegiance of the United States of America. One nation under God with liberty and justice for all. No public input. Yes. Review and legit approval agenda content. I'd like to make a motion that we add a resolution recognizing National Day of Remembrance for our homicide victims. Second. And approval of the minutes for August. Well, 2025. So moved. All in favor? All right. Thank you. Motion carried. Chief Town or Designation. Designating October 5th to the 11th. Well, good morning. So we do every year. We look for fire prevention. We come up in October 5th to the 11th this year with a theme of charge into fire safety lithium ion batteries in your home. We know that's a little prevalent thing every day. Councilman, you keep asking about battery disposal. We're working with our community members here in the future of how we dispose of those batteries better. We'll push that out as well too. But it is a big issue for us. Um more things every day, more manufacturing facilities part of use with batteries around, and everybody's home has them now. So that's going to be our theme this year for Parkman. Okay. Excellent. That's it. All right. Motion. So moved. Seconded. Right. All right. The X is a resolution honor of firefighter ENC Merrick Groziski. Um we're going to commend him in front of council in a resolution. Uh he had a life save in December 2024 from a house fire. Uh this life saver result can be recognized by the South County Firefighters Association in 2025, but we're charged award for life saving fire service. And so we're going to bring it before council and do that in the next council meeting. So we'll do that. Excellent. Okay.