September 2025 Open Meeting Summary: Part 3
- Michelle Hatcher
- Sep 23
- 8 min read
September's meeting summary will be broken into different consecutive pages. This is a large file and the website cannot handle posting it as a single post. Below is pages end of page 11 through page 14. This is the end of the September 2025 open meeting summary.
Rebecca: But I'm just not sure that you're going to believe anything he says, because you're not listening to me, and this is my area.
Chief Hatcher: Alright, well, why don't you just get off the phone then, and we'll go from here, but I'm not gonna buy off on something just because you say it's true.
Chief Hatcher: Especially when I've been working with the Catawba people now for over 30 years.
And Catawba is the language we spoke here.
CoC Susan: she left. Do we still got a quorum? All right.
Social Media & Technology
Chell: Austin has set us up with Google Workspace
It gives us the ability to have a waccamaw.org email address
We’ll probably start with the governing body, but it will let us have around 2000 email addresses
CoC Susan: I think I finally figured mine out!
Hey, I get challenged sometimes on this stuff, and I think I got it figured out. We'll see.
Council, if you would like to have one, or any of the governing body
Glenn: absolutely for me; mine’s just haywire
CoC Susan: get with Austin, you got his email address?
And I think I told him that Buster wanted to get one, too. I don't know if he sent one to Buster yet or not, but yeah
CoC Susan: I'm sorry, you lost me
Austin: I'm sorry, I probably went a mile a minute there
Glenn: You spoke about 40,000 miles an hour for me. Yes, slow down, and it'd be nice to see something written, maybe some kind of chart; maybe we can understand it a little bit better.
Chell: Basically, what he's saying is you would you would get one that says [email protected]
CoC Susan: Well, I understand all that. But what he would have is one, I guess, connected to a seat
Austin: Say, you move to a different position. And Susan takes your place in the email. They'll come in the council seat number and would go to her.
Glenn: I'd like to have an email, let me put it that way.
Austin: we can definitely do that. If you do have… do you have my email?
Glenn: Yes, I do
Glenn: To a Hatcher, yes sir, I have. I don't know whether you're seeing or not, but I know it's Waccamaw
Chief Hatcher: people won’t lose their positions based on DNA
We still need the genealogy charts to update the master chart
It would solve the problem with blood quantum
Austin: that would be good to touch on the way… and so the format that I had come up with with Chief Cail.
I was having first name and last name, and then for titles, since titles can change person to person, there's a feature where I can add a secondary email to the same email
So what I was thinking is the base email for Chief Hatcher would be [email protected] but then we would also give him [email protected] so people could just email the Chief @waccamaw.org and it'll go to [email protected]
And then if a position title ever needs to change, then we can just move that to the next person, and the emails would get routed accordingly.
I just wanted to make sure that that was okay, or if there was any questions or concerns about that approach.
CoC Susan: I'm sorry, you lost me
Austin: I'm sorry, I probably went a mile a minute there
Glenn: You spoke about 40,000 miles an hour for me. Yes, slow down, and it'd be nice to see something written, maybe some kind of chart; maybe we can understand it a little bit better.
Chell: Basically, what he's saying is you would you would get one that says [email protected]
CoC Susan: Well, I understand all that. But what he would have is one, I guess, connected to a seat
Austin: Say, you move to a different position. And Susan takes your place in the email. They'll come in the council seat number and would go to her.
Glenn: I'd like to have an email, let me put it that way.
Austin: we can definitely do that. If you do have… do you have my email?
Glenn: Yes, I do
Glenn: To a Hatcher, yes sir, I have. I don't know whether you're seeing or not, but I know it's Waccamaw
Chief Hatcher: people won’t lose their positions based on DNA
We still need the genealogy charts to update the master chart
It would solve the problem with blood quantum
Reminder: Autumn Equinox 9/20, Youth Weekend 9/20
CoC Susan: I’m worried about the bathroom floor
We need to replace it before pauwau; it’s too spongy
So, uh, I don't know if we need to get some bids, have somebody check it out
Glenn: when you did the floor last, what material did you use?
Elder Larry: 3/4” plywood; there’s been a leak there and not fixed
Glenn: was there a subfloor?
CoC Susan: if we do replace that floor, let's just go ahead and take out that shower, because we really don't need it.
Use it for shelving, or put a closet in there or something. We really don't need it.
But we can make a closet so we can put our bathroom supplies in there.
Donnie said that his ramp is falling apart. So he wants us to do something about his ramp.
I don't know if we need to rebuild it or see if we might can find a metal ramp.
Our ramp out here might be needed to be worked on. I know it's too small at the corner where you turn to come back up on this side in a wheelchair. I know when my mother was alive, and I pushed her wheelchair up.
It was so hard to make that corner. It needs to be rebuilt and have something put over the top of it because it'd be just being rained on, it's just messing up too
We need to put some type of time frame for people that want to come out here and look at the the trail.
We need to put dawn to dust, dust to dawn, whichever way you say it or put hours out here that people can come out here, you know, like they do at parks.
So, what do you guys suggest?
Glenn: I'm good with it. But people ain't not gonna adhere to it, but I agree with it.
CoC Susan: I think when we put some kind of time instead of people just driving up whenever they want to, we can post it on our Facebook page and on our social media.
Glenn motioned to have the trail walk available from 9 am-4 pm; Susan seconded
Glenn-yes, Emily-yes, Robert-yes, CoC Susan-yes
Drive up on the grounds; walk the trail
2nd Chiefs
Coastal Giving Tuesdays: https://www.coastalgivingtuesday.org/
Andrews library presentation withHailey Davis
Chell: it’s in Georgetown County with 5 libraries, 5? different presentations
Get with AC Cheryl for exact number
Chiefs
Discussion on Judge Terms, not concisely determined in Constitution
Chell: the constitution doesn’t precisely define Judge terms, only Elders
Elder & Judge nominations
Elder Phil: didn’t we send Bernie and Ronnie to get certified?
Chief Hatcher: it's because of the state. I don't have the contacts like I used to have. I can get them again
I talked with Dr. Dillian about that today.We could probably get her appointed as a magistrate, but that would be a full-time thing
2C Alan: we had one hunka membership
Reminder: Santee PW on 9/13, PAIA PW on 9/27
Chief Hatcher
I will talk with Dr. Roberts, but I’m pretty much convinced with what we talked about at Catawba
I've been talking with the MyHeritage.com and doing DNA testing
Thought it would be easier to set up a Waccamaw database
We’d buy several kits and Council sends them in based on genealogy
Glenn: I've done my DNA, you know?
Chief Hatcher: You come back if you're one of my kids?
Glenn: To a Hatcher, yes sir, I have. I don't know whether you're seeing or not, but I know it's Waccamaw
Chief Hatcher: people won’t lose their positions based on DNA
We still need the genealogy charts to update the master chart
It would solve the problem with blood quantum
Chief Hatcher: the kits aren’t that expensive
He said that if we bought 25, for example, the highest price.that we would pay is, uh, $38 per. We would get that database set up.
I guess the major question is. Is that something we want to do?
Elder Phil: I take that back to just the core people doing it to start with, correct?
Chief Hatcher: yes, unless a noncore puts their DNA in
Elder Phil: I think it needs to be the core people now that are on the… already on the rolls
Chief Hatcher: Dr. Dillian says there are risks, like people finding out their parents aren’t who they thought they were
If you had the DNA of John Dimery, you could tell who all the relative are
Elder Larry: what happens if it comes back different than the submitted paperwork?
Chief Hatcher: people won’t lose their positions based on DNA
We still need the genealogy charts to update the master chart
It would solve the problem with blood quantum
Dr. Dillian: will it cause rifts in families?
Using it to determine kin is a valid way to use it
It needs to be thought about carefully- as a group and individually
It may also reveal health issues
Glenn: they use reverse DNA for crimes
Chief Hatcher: I’d like to do it and I still need to talk to the guy
Maybe we can narrow it to kinship
$38/ kit for 20 kits; after that, the person buys the kit
Chief Hatcher introduced Petrina (sp?) Dozier Washington
Great-grandmother was Melinda Dimery Washington (slave name)
My sister was Lorraine; I have 7 brothers and 2 sisters
I have been researching, and we have been working with a genealogist, and talking to this lady over here, a genealogist out of North Carolina
We couldn't figure out what was going on, reason why there were shells on my great-grandfather’s and my great-grandmother's grave, and our churchyard, and now I know. So, it's amazing how we were able to unfold all of the history of the family and traced it back to John Demery being my three-time great-grandfather
The DNA that you were talking about, it tells the truth
We're putting together a history book for our family, and to show how we were descendants of Native Americans and from those that were slaves
I listened to all of the things that you all shared this evening, and I'm very impressed with how you're pursuing different things.
I want to thank you for allowing me to be here tonight. I'm looking forward to our future connections.
CoC Susan: I did get a copy of the temporary right of entry permit from the Stormwater management people. I will scan it and send it out to everybody.
They put some of the, I guess, the changes in there when they're talking about the Chinners Swamp down here.
It just came in the mail, so I'll scan it and send it out to everybody, so y'all can look it over and see what you think.
2C Alan motioned to close; Glenn seconded
2C Alan (Marion)-yes, Robert-yes, Glenn-yes, Emily-yes, CoC Susan-yes
Meeting adjourned at 9:22 pm
Respectfully submitted by Michelle Hatcher on 9/18/202 at 3:41 pm.
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