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The Horry County Council met on October 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM in Council Chambers. The meeting included public comment, approval of a consent agenda with several amendments, recognition of employees, and second readings of three zoning ordinances. Council unanimously approved two ordinances and unanimously rejected a third after extensive public testimony.
County council October 6, 2026. We start on time, so we get in on time. And we always start the same way with the invitation tonight by Mr. Hardy, followed by the Pledge of Ilites. We led by Mr. Loftus. If I can get away, please stand. We thank you, God, for the beautiful day that you've given us. Thank you for the community that you have provided for us. We ask for your guidance and wisdom as we go through the meeting to make the best decisions that we can for the people of our county. Sometimes they're not always pleasing, but we're going to try to do the best we can. We ask you to look after all the firefighters and policemen and first responders to sound duty. And we asked all this stuff in your holy name. Thank you. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God. Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. Okay. It's Tuesday, so that means public input. We have Donna Q to signed up to talk about animal overpopulation. If you come to the podium whenever you're ready, we'll by rule you have five minutes. We have this clock here. We'll help you with your time. You know there's one minute left. Ready to stop? We're ready to hear from you. Good evening. Thank you for having me. My name is Donna Kidd. I'm a senior citizen that lives in District 10 in Orin County. A little um, I guess you would call this kind of like a village unincorporated called Greensea in the northwest part of the county. I'm here to talk about animal overpopulation, and there's a lot of issues that lead to this. I know in the past people have been here and they've spoken about spaying neutering your your pets, and what do we do about that? People complain about the costs. I'm not only here to say we do have a problem, I'm here to offer some solutions. I've been thinking long and hard about this. First, let's start at ground zero. We need to determine how many animals are there in Ory County. Does anyone here have a guesstimate how many there is? I have no idea. But I've done some research on the internet, and um I found that there are alone approximately 140,000 cats that are running around Ory County that aren't accounted for as pets. And yes, we would have wanted a trap, spay, and neuter, but we just can't go into that. That's gonna cost us a lot of money.