Lengthiest at more than three and a half minutes was the Bill Branham subdivision rezoning, plus a tie for second at 2 minutes 13 seconds between the new Conference Center CEO and the Virdie Mae Lyons Old Clyattvile Road well and septic rezoning, at yesterday morning’s Work Session. Gretchen is off with the LAKE video camera to the voting Regular Session tonight.

The County Manager wants more power through an ordinance that would further favor Advanced Disposal Services (ADS) over Deep South Sanitation (DSS).

Two water items: $17,500 a month, or maybe only $15,000 to replace water meters and registers, and bids for a Portable 65 KW Generator to keep lift stations from leaking.

See also the agenda, and the LAKE videos of the most recent Planning Commission meeting for all three rezoning cases, and that post also has links to videos of most of the previous appearances of the Branham Project, back for at least the third time in four calendar years.

• 1. Call to Order 5. Minutes for Approval

  Video.

• 6a. REZ-2018-04 Lyons, 1350 Old Clyattville Rd, R-A to C-H, 8.05 acres

  Video. GLPC Recommendation: Approval
  TRC Recommendation: Various

  Commissioner Mark Wisenbaker, in whose district this, had a few questions about which parts were proposed to be rezoned what.

• 6 b. REZ-2018-05 Killeen, 1228 S Main St, R-A to M-1, 27.5 acres

  Video. GLPC Recommendation: Approval with 1 Condition (Paving)
  TRC Recommendation: Various

  County Planner Jason Davenport said Lake Park owns the street in front, “but we got the property”. He said the owner, Mr. Killeen, had spent considerable effort cleaning it up and wanted rezoning to do something with it.

• 6c. REZ-2018-07 Branham Project, 2480 Copeland Rd, R-1 to R-10 18.04 acres

  Video. GLPC Recommendation: Approval with 4 Conditions
  TRC Recommendation: Various

  County Planner Jason Davenport said a few more signatures of opposition had come in.

• 7 a. Transportation Safety Improvements Agreement

  Video. County Engineer Mike Fletcher said this is about the previous decision to close the Dasher-Johnson Road CSX Railroad crossing. The county already got $7500 from CSX, and now wants another $45 for another sign.

• 7 b. Ordinance Amending 2015 Solid Waste Disposal Ordinance

  Video.

• 7 c. Water Meter and Register Replacement

  Video.

• 7 d. Beer License- Bigfoot #908 – 1255 Lakes Blvd., Lake Park, GA

  Video.

• 8a. Portable 65 KW Generator

  Video. County manager recommended the low bid with Cowart Electric.

• 4. Chris Hamilton- CEO, Conference Center and Tourism Authority

  Video. For unknown reasons, Chris Hamilton did not speak first as on the agenda, but he was summoned by the County Manager to speak in Manager’s Report. County Manager Joe Pritchard reminded everyone Commissioner Joyce Evans is on the Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center and Tourism Authority, and both she and Mr. Pritchard were on the search committee that picked Hamilton as its new CEO (not executive director). The new CEO did not give a presentation. He called for questions. The only one he got was “Where are you from?” Answer: Kentucky, and he’s been working in Ohio.

• 9. Reports (none) 11. Adjournment

  Video.

Here’s a LAKE video playlist:

Videos: Conference Center, Branham subdivision, Trash, RR crossing
Work Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, March 12, 2018.

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