We were actually waiting on Councilwoman Smith to make her way here.

If you haven't noticed her running style coming down the aisle, it's a sight to see.

Hey guys, and welcome to the City of Spartanburg City Council meeting.

Uh on our agenda, we have a moment of silence, and then we have a pledge of allegiance.

Um just uh remember, of course, the Reverend uh Jesse Jackson passing and uh all he has meant to the upstate Greenville, uh born and raised, and all that he's done to the United States, you know, across the world as as you really think about it.

But just a tremendous person and uh will truly be missed and just be mindful of his family during this time.

All right, stand for a moment of silence.

Thank you.

Anyone that opposed, I have it.

Item four, approval of the agenda for the February twenty-third, twenty twenty-six city council meeting.

All in favor?

Anyone opposed?

We have public comment.

And the way it works now, we don't have to get your address per se, but I will call you up by your last name and give us your full name, and you can speak as follows.

And of course, Mr.

Dandy couldn't be here.

He was here this weekend, but he's at the NFL combine.

And so I am here to present Kim Moultrie with the last and final installment, which is a check for $10,000 to provide youth services here in Sparmbury County, where our mission is to equip the youth for skills to succeed in life uh through different community partnerships.

And so we want to thank you all.

Uh, I can't say enough about Miss Moultrie Brown.

She has done a phenomenal job and and keeping us updated with uh all the work uh that you all have done for the youth and being able to have Mr.

Dandy come in and speak to the youth.

The last meeting we had was at CC Wilson, I believe, and he came up and he was out.

We got started late, and I was like, Tori, you gotta come in, you gotta get in, you gotta get in here.

The youth are waiting on he was in his big Rolls Royce.

And um, not knowing that he was actually on the phone negotiating uh contract for his uh Mr.

Lamb, C D Lamb.

City Lamb.

Yeah, and so and then he actually came in and spoke to the students and actually did a FaceTime with one of his players.

He is looking to get back, and and we uh hope that we will we revisit this uh once he comes back this summer for some things we have planned.

And I also want to give a shout out to Mitch Kennedy for uh keeping us updated on what we can do for Spartanburg.

You do an excellent job here in the city, keep doing great work that you do and stay motivated.

And I want to thank you all for having me and Kim would do I hand this to you.

Uh thank you all and have a good meeting.

Cam is being very modest back there, but thank you.

And uh tell uh Tory thank him for all that he does.

And I did see the video of the kids talking to CeeDee Lamb last summer, and it was just blowing uh blowing us away.

It was actually an adult in the audience doing more talking than the kids.

So but no, telling thank you, uh local guy, hometown guy right there in Woodruff, South Carolina, just truly appreciate him and all he's done and did see him this weekend at the Sneaker Ball and was giving to us bro mentor.

So thank you.

There's more to come, y'all be patient.

Mr.

Hawkins.

Hello, y'all.

My name is Liv Hawkins.

Uh I work at Wafford.

I'm also a member of the city's bicycle and pedestrian committee.

Uh last week I had an issue that I ran into on Memorial Drive, which wraps uh next to the Spartan Auditorium, kind of wraps around Wafford's campus of uh students starting to park in the bike lane there.

Um if you're unfamiliar with the conditions there, that road is just and just hilly enough and just windy enough to where I think uh people tend to speed down there.

Uh and that bike lane is right up against oncoming traffic.

So sometimes when you have a car in the lane, it makes seeing around it kind of difficult and it feels very dangerous, especially when you have to veer into the vehicular lane, and you have like a line of four cars and you can't quite see it.

So that was an issue that I uh ran into getting back to campus for my lunch break the other day.

I'd like to thank Councilwoman Brown on uh her help on that.

I had posted about it, she uh commented on that, and I had a sack meeting uh during my lunchtime a little bit after, and already are the campus safety representative from Wafford there like provided an update on it, and that was really good.

Um I hope to see continued improvement to make that bike lane safer um for people who use it.

I've seen runners on it, I've seen uh e-scooters are really popular on campus.

If you've ever been on Wafford's campus, using them everywhere and bikes like myself.

Um, whether that is plastic bollards, better signage, uh a mixture of approaches, better enforcement, more consistent enforcement.

Uh, and I just hope to, you know, see more bike lanes like that because uh it really is a good route for me to get back to campus after you know going and getting lunch or a coffee downtown during my break.

But yeah, thank y'all.