Hasty waste meeting this afternoon @ LCC Waste 2015-03-16

On their calendar, but no agenda, it’s another Special Called Meeting-Solid Waste Management. Will they talk about illegal trash dumping? Why can’t they wait until their regular meetings next week? Equally mysterious is why it took almost two months to get back to this after the two meetings in January.

Here’s their announcement of the meeting this afternoon:

The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners will hold a Special Called Meeting on Monday, March 16, 2015, 4:00 p.m., for the purpose of addressing solid waste management in unincorporated Lowndes County. Location: Lowndes County Commission Chambers 327 North Ashley Street — 2nd Floor Valdosta, Georgia For questions please call County Clerk, Paige Dukes, at 229-671-2400 or pdukes@lowndescounty.com

They did talk about solid waste management at their 5 February 2015 retreat, and the Chairman’s first goal the next day was Solid Waste. But neither the public nor the principal parties, Advanced Disposal Service (ADS) nor Deep South Sanitation (DSS), were permitted to speak at that retreat.

Speaking of those goals, they approved them at their 23 February 2015 Regular Session, yet when Gretchen filed an open records request for the board packet, they weren’t included in the email response and minutes for that meeting are still not on the county’s website even though they already approved them at their 10 March 2015 meeting. For that matter, there are no minutes on their website for any meeting since 29 January 2015, and no minutes for either of the two January Solid Waste Special Callled Meetings.

So, what is the Commission’s Goal for Solid Waste? What will they vote on this afternoon about Solid Waste? Why can’t it wait until next week? And why don’t they want the voting and taxpaying public to know?

-jsq