I’ll give them an A for effort, including branching out: from tires to agribusiness this month, and Valdosta North Rotary today, too. That Community Ecomomic Developmeent Meeting is still on for tomorrow, at the Conference Center.

And they are talking about spec[ulative] building, such as they liked when they saw it in Douglas and Valdosta Mayor Gayle liked in Vidalia.

Here’s the agenda.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:30 p.m.
Development Authority Conference Room
103 Roosevelt Drive
Monthly Meeting Agenda

General Business

• Call to Order
• Invocation
• Welcome Guests

Minutes

• Regular Meeting, July 15, 2014
• Executive Session, July 15, 2014
• Special Called Meeting. August 13, 2014
• Executive Session, August 13, 2014

Financial

• Review Compiled Balance Sheet and Income Statements for July 2014

Marketing and Community Relations Update-Meghan Duke

• Public Relations & Marketing Opportunities
  • Press Release
    • July 24, 2014: Georgia Power’s South Vice President, Terri Lupo Appointed to Valdosta-

      Lowndes Development Authority’s Board of Directors

    • Project Announcement, July 30, 2014: Fussell Tire & Services Invest in Logistics/Distribution Support Facility
  • Community Economic Development Meeting (August 20): Guest List, Invitation, Conference Center arrangements
  • Valdosta North Rotary Program (August 19)
  • Business After Hours arrangements (August 28)
  • Great Promise Partnership
  • Global Agribusiness Opportunity Symposium
  • Wiregrass Georgia: Early Education Empowerment Zone
  • GDEcD and GEDA Small Business Rockstar Nomination

Project Report-Allan Ricketts

• Project Color
• Project Maroon

Existing Industry-Allan Ricketts

• Existing Industry Visits
• Existing Industry Expansion Projects
  • Express Scripts
  • Project Treadway (Fussell Tire & Service)
  • Project Loaf
  • Project Cold
  • Project White Cadillac
  • Project Patient
• Community Business and Industry Partnership
  • International Agribusiness Symposium (October 2014)

Building Committee Update

VLCIA Officer Nominating Committee Update

• Slate of Officers for Consideration

Executive Director’s Report- Andrea Schruijer

• Proposed Budget Review
• Community Meeting Regarding Econmic Development-August 20, 2014
• Request for Support Letter from Brooks County Development Authority for Elec-Tech
• Private/Public Partnership Regarding Speculative Building

  Attorney Report

Citizens to Be Heard

Adjourn General Meeting Into Executive Session

Adjourn Executive Session into General Meeting

Adjourn General Meeting

Mission of the Valdosta Lowndes Development Authority
“Create an environment to attract new industry and promote the growth of existing industry to drive job creation and capital investment.”

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