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Beaufort County caucus authorizes amendment to King Street and Wilmington Street purchase-sale agreement
Summary
After an executive session at the Dec. 8 caucus, Beaufort County council authorized the county administrator to execute an amendment to the Feb. 16, 2024 purchase-sale agreement for properties on King Street and Wilmington Street; council also discussed sending a cure letter to Justice Square Association LLC.
A council member moved and the council approved a motion authorizing the Beaufort County administrator to execute an amendment to the purchase-sale agreement for properties on King Street and Wilmington Street, the council announced after emerging from executive session Monday.
The motion, read into the public record by a council member, said the original purchase-sale agreement was dated 02/16/2024 and that an amended date of 12/17/2024 would apply "in accordance with the terms and conditions as [discussed in] executive session." The council member who moved the action stated, "I move that council authorize the county administrator to execute an amendment to the purchase sale agreement for the King Street and Wilmington Street properties dated 02/16/2024 and that the amended, date dated 12/17/2024 in accordance with the terms and conditions as executive session." The statement is recorded in the transcript as spoken by the council member who led the motion.
The chair asked for a second; the transcript records a second by Councilman Cunningham. The chair then called for a show-of-hands vote. Immediately after, one participant questioned whether the vote had been unanimous; the chair affirmed that it was unanimous by the chair's account in the public record.
The transcript shows the council also discussed authorizing the county administrator to send a cure letter to Justice Square Association LLC informing the association it was in default. That motion appears in the transcript but the record is not explicit in the public portion about whether that particular motion was adopted or what the precise vote tally was; the transcript shows the proposed cure-letter motion was raised and then the council member restated a separate motion regarding the purchase-sale agreement.
Before executive session the chair read the stated justifications for the closed meeting, citing South Carolina Code sections as read aloud in the record ("30 dash 4 dash 70" and "30 dash 4 dash 78 2") to allow discussion of legal advice related to negotiations, a proposed settlement and an application related to Pine Island Golf LLC, and a requested amendment to the Justice Square purchase-sale agreement.
After the votes and brief clarifying remarks about the county's prior involvement in the property transaction dating to 2022 and coordination with the City of Beaufort, the caucus adjourned and the county moved into its regular meeting.
The transcript does not record final, detailed terms of the amendment, the full text of any cure letter, nor an explicit public vote tally for the cure-letter proposal; those items were discussed in executive session or were not specified in the public portion of the transcript. The council did not announce additional public steps or deadlines for implementing the amendment at the time the caucus adjourned.
