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Hartsville council approves Ordinance 4485 as amended, contingent on manager's approval of finalized plat
Summary
At a Dec. 17 special meeting, the Hartsville City Council approved the final reading of Ordinance 4485 after amending it to make passage contingent on the city manager's approval of a finalized plat by Dec. 31; the public hearing drew no speakers.
The Hartsville City Council approved the final reading of Ordinance 4485 at a special meeting on Dec. 17, 2024, after amending the ordinance to require the city manager's approval of a finalized plat by Dec. 31 before the ordinance takes effect. The public hearing on the measure drew no public speakers.
The meeting opened with an invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. The presiding official announced the public hearing and final reading of Ordinance 4485 and invited public comment; no one came forward to speak, and the hearing was closed.
A council member initially moved to approve the final reading of Ordinance 4485 and a second was received. During discussion, a council member said the plat drawing previously shown to the council was hand-drawn and that the official plat later supplied to the manager differed. To address that discrepancy, the council member moved to amend the ordinance by adding language to a "whereas" clause making approval contingent upon "city manager approval of finalized plat by December 31." The presiding official said, "I would like to make a motion to amend 4485 to add language to the fifth whereas line of the ordinance to add to the end contingent upon city manager approval of finalized plat by December 31st." The motion to amend was seconded and approved by voice vote.
Following the amendment, the council voted by voice to approve the final reading of Ordinance 4485 as amended. The presiding official declared the ordinance approved as amended; no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript. The council then concluded the special meeting.
What changed: the council inserted a contingency requiring the city manager's signoff on a finalized plat by Dec. 31 before the ordinance is considered finalized. Specifics about the plat (such as parcel identifiers or changes in boundary lines) were not detailed in the transcript and therefore are not specified.
Next steps: the ordinance was approved as amended and the transcript records the contingency deadline of Dec. 31 for the manager's approval.
