2026-09-15 - Committee on Public Safety

Summary

Built from the posted agenda and the video's auto-generated captions; names and numbers may be misheard. The recording is about three minutes long.

  • The August 27, 2026 minutes were approved by voice vote with no opposition.
  • Items 3 and 4 were taken together on a motion from Councilman Brady, with the mayor also moving and seconding: the Police Department school resource officer agreements with the Charleston County School District and with James Island Charter High School. Both were approved by voice vote with no opposition stated. See School Resource Officer and University Law Enforcement Agreements.
  • The chair adjourned and members left for the State of the City address at West Ashley High School.

Agenda

  1. Moment of silence
  2. Minutes: August 27, 2026
  3. Police Department: school resource officer memorandum of agreement with the Charleston County School District, 2026-2027 through 2028-2029 (School Resource Officer and University Law Enforcement Agreements)
  4. Police Department: school resource officer memorandum of agreement with James Island Charter High School, 2026-2027
  5. Adjournment

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Transcript

00:00All right, whenever you're ready,

00:01Jasmine, I'm ready.

00:04>> Say I'm ready now.

00:05>> Okay.

00:06All right, well, good afternoon,

00:07everybody. Thank you for joining us for

00:10our public safety committee meeting

00:13for September 15th, 4:00 p.m. And uh

00:17we

00:18I will call this meeting to order now.

00:21Let's start off with a moment of

00:22silence, if you would, please.

00:30Amen. Thank you. All right, next on our

00:32agenda, we need to approve the minutes

00:34from August 27th, 2026.

00:36>> So moved.

00:38>> We have a motion to approve those

00:40minutes. Can I get a second?

00:48I will second the minutes. Um

00:53So we have a motion to approve and a

00:55second. Any additions, deletions, any

00:57questions on those minutes?

00:59Hearing none, all in favor of approving

01:01those minutes, please say I. I.

01:03>> I.

01:05>> Any opposed? The eyes have it.

01:09>> Mr. Chairman, I would move that we take

01:10items three and four together and move

01:12their approval.

01:13>> Okay, we can certainly take items three

01:15and four. Both of those are uh

01:17approval requests from the police

01:19department for school resource officer

01:21memorandum of agreement with Charleston

01:23County School District um and with James

01:26Island Charter High School for the

01:282026-2027,

01:30the 2027-2028,

01:33and the 2028-2029

01:35school years.

01:38Can I get a motion on those?

01:39>> Mr. Chairman, I would

01:40move for approval. This is the mayor.

01:43>> Okay. We have a motion to approve. Can I

01:46get a second?

01:47>> Second.

01:48>> Okay, and this is taking both items

01:50three and four

01:52together. Any questions or any further

01:54discussion?

01:56Hearing none, all in favor, say I'm

01:58sorry.

01:59>> Well, for clarity was it to take

02:00together and approve?

02:02>> Yes, that was correct.

02:04>> Okay.

02:05Thank you, sir.

02:05>> Yeah.

02:06>> Okay. Okay, so the original motion was

02:08made by Councilman Brady.

02:11Did we have a second on that?

02:14>> I

02:14>> I made the motion to approve both.

02:17>> Yeah, I

02:19just as a point of order, I had made the

02:21initial motion to approve, so we can

02:22take your

02:24um

02:25ascendant

02:26uh thought there, Mr. Mayor, as the uh

02:28second and we can just uh and that was

02:30for moving and approving.

02:33>> Okay.

02:33>> So, take them together.

02:35>> So, we had the motion to approve to take

02:37both together and for approval from

02:40Councilman Brady and then Mayor Cogswell

02:43>> I second.

02:44>> also made that motion, so we're going to

02:46take his as the second. Okay?

02:49>> Right.

02:49>> Any any further questions? Any comments?

02:54Hearing none, all in favor of approving

02:56three and four,

02:58please signify by saying I. I.

03:01>> I.

03:02>> I.

03:03>> Any opposed? All right, the eyes have

03:05it.

03:06So, if there's nothing else to come

03:07before this committee, um we stand

03:09adjourned. I'll see you gentlemen in

03:11just a little while at West Ashley High

03:12School for the State of the City

03:14address.

03:14>> see y'all too. See everybody at the high

03:16school.

03:17>> Look forward to it, guys. Take care.

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