Five minutes and 46 seconds Sixteen minutes to vote on the people’s business in the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session. Where do they actually discuss things?

By far the longest item at three minutes and fourteen seconds was 5a. REZ-2019-04 Southeastern Freight 2120 West Hill Ave., C-H/R-1 To M-2,, and that only because somebody spoke in favor of the request in the Public Hearing.

Second longest at one minute and 46 seconds was the controversial 7 a. North Lowndes Spring Creek Utility Inter-connection Project Phase II, for which they made a decision about the yellow paper. They still never said who the rest of the bidders were, nor how much they bid, on this $3,889,825.23 project.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a very few notes, followed by a LAKE video playlist. See also the LAKE videos of the preceding morning’s Work Session, the agenda and the LAKE videos of the previous month’s Planning Commission.

• 1. Call to Order 2. Invocation 3. Pledge

  Video.

• 4. Minutes for Approval

  Video.

• 5a. REZ-2019-04 Southeastern Freight 2120 West Hill Ave., C-H/R-1 To M-2,

  Video. An attorney from North Carolina spoke for the applicants for the rezoning. Commissioners had no questions for him. They unanimously approved the rezoning with conditions.

• 5b. Basic Decorative Lighting Districts

  Video. Walker’s Run had been dropped from the list. Nobody spoke for or against in the Public Hearing. They approved the rest unaninmously.

• 5 c. Abandonment of Doyle Kelly Road

  Video. Nobody spoke for or against in the Public Hearing. They approved it unanimously.

• 6a. GaDOT TSPLOSt for Clyattstone Road/Simpson Lane Road

  Video.

• 6b. GADOT TSPLOST for Hickory Grove Bridge Replacement

  Video. No right of way acquisition. Two Commissioners spoke to move to approve at the same time. Commissioner Joyce Evans then made the motion, which was unanimously approved.

• 6 c. GMASS Rural Land Maintenance Contract

  Video. Chief Appraiser Silas Hrobar did speak. Very briefly, and then practically trotted back to his seat. They approved it unanimously.

• 6 d. Purchase of Real Property at 910 N. Patterson St.

  Video. They approved it unanimously.

• 6 e. First Amendment to the Row Crop Lease Agreement

  Video. Still no clue why they’re removing 71 acres. They approved it unanimously.

• 6 f. Water and Sewer Service Areas near Lake Park

  Video. They approved it unanimously.

• 7 a. North Lowndes Spring Creek Utility Inter-connection Project Phase II

  Video. They chose to consider the yellow paper a non-substantive technicality. Commissioner Joyce Evans made the motion to approve, waiving the technicality, the low bid from Legacy Water Group for $3,889,825.23. They approved it unanimously. They still never said who the other bidders were nor what they bid.

• 8. Reports (none) 9. CWTBH (none) 10. Adjournment

  Video.

Here’s a LAKE video playlist:

Videos: Taxes, water, sewer, LAS, paving, road abandonment
Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, March 12, 2019.

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