On July 6, 2026, the Town of Mount Pleasant held a series of committee meetings including Bids & Purchases, Finance, Special Town Council, Public Services, Planning, Flood Resilience, and additional committees. The sessions covered contract awards for infrastructure projects, updates on stormwater and traffic improvements, discussions on affordable housing zoning, a proposal to make the Green Commission permanent, and public comments on regional transportation and land use issues.
All right, good morning, everybody. Let's uh get committee day started. Hope everybody had a great 4th of July and that you woke up on Sunday with a love for America, your family and friends, and most importantly, 10 fingers still on your hands. Um this is uh bids and purchases uh 815 agenda item number one call to order, which we've just done. Number two is approval of minutes from the June 1st, 2026 meeting. So move. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. And those minutes are approved. Uh item number three is public comments. Is there anybody who would like to speak to this board? Going once, twice. All right, public comment is closed. Item number four, award of a contract for the design of intersection improvements at Vening Road and Hungry Neck Boulevard. Ms. Harness. Okay, it looks like we have a jumble of the slides in here. Sorry. No problem. Um, I think we're on the public services committee on the board. There we go. That doesn't make sense. No, it doesn't. Sorry, one second. Thank you. All right, appreciate it, Noah. All right, item number four, award of a contract for the design of intersection improvements at Vening Road and Hungry Neck Boulevard. Ms. Harness. Yes, thank you. Good morning. Uh the bids and purchases committee previously approved the establishment of agreements with consultants to perform various types of transportation, engineering and development services on an on-call basis. Design services are needed for the vending road and hungry neck boulevard intersection projects. This project includes field surveys to determine accurate elevations and locations of existing facilities, the development of preliminary plans and construction plans to illustrate the alignment, grades, cross sections, construction limits, relevant dimensions, and location of existing features and proposed improvements, traffic signal design, and plans. Additionally, it includes the development of drainage calculations, a stormwater design report, stormwater pollution prevention plan, and erosion control plan is necessary to facilitate permitting of the construction plans for this project. The time required for design and permitting is approximately 365 days. Staff have determined that this project will require the services of HDR Engineering Incorporated of the Carolinas to design the intersection improvements for this project. Therefore, staff recommend contracting with HDR Engineering Incorporated of the Carolinas and the amount of 133, 720.68 cents to provide the design services. Thank you. Let's get a motion and get this on the table and approve. All right, so we've got it on the table. Any questions from committee members? No, I just like to make one comment. As I was coming in this morning after July 4th wicked weekend, I realized how uh fortunate we are and grateful that we live in a town and this had previous leadership and uh the staff that allow us to be able to pass on programs like this. There's many times in meeting of the municipal government that uh there's plenty of places that don't have the good fortune to do that. So we're we're blessed and should be grateful that we have the opportunity. Miss Crosby, anything? Yes, I just wanted to note um I think this would be uh a significant improvement for this intersection.