Here’s a recap of Greer City Council’s July 28 meeting.
Approved: Funding package for sports and events center furniture
Council approved spending $685,000 for a furniture package to equip the city’s Sports and Events Center currently under construction near the intersection of South S.C. Highway 14 and South Buncombe Road.
In briefing council on the package contents, Sports and Events Center Director Adam Forringer said the furniture will be purchased through state term contracts that have gone through the state’s competitive bid process.
The bulk of the items will be a variety of tables and chairs for use in the gym, community room and cafe lounge and chosen to accommodate the types of meetings and events the center is expected to attract. Other items include office furniture and movable bleachers to accommodate on-court seating for the Sports and Events Center’s multiple hardwood courts. Forringer explained that staff worked with the project’s architectural firm, McMillan Pazdan Smith, to identify the center’s furniture needs. He said initial proposals for the package were close to $1 million, but staff and MPS were able to get that cost down to the amount in the proposal before council.
Funding for the furniture package will come from the Corporation for Greer Fund.
Approved: Updated digital sign language in city UDO
Council approved first reading of an ordinance updating language in the city’s Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) related to electronic message boards and digital display signage.
The move was prompted by council discussions earlier this year related to what types of signage would be effective and appropriate for the new Sports and Events Center.
City Planning and Development Director Alex Cahill explained those discussions prompted planning staff to revisit the UDO to ascertain what was permitted and whether changes to the ordinance’s section on digital display standards needed to be made.
He said the evaluation revealed that section of the UDO was outdated and did not adequately address advances in digital display technology.
The proposed amendments modernize the city’s digital display standards and address issues of using video and animation in displays, aspects of functionality and day/night brightness caps.
The ordinance will require a second reading before the amendments take effect, and that is expected to take place during council’s Aug. 11 meeting.
