Update 2023-03-27: Packet: Howell Road rezoning, Trash colleciton centers, Windstream Broadband map @ LCC 2023-03-27.

Commissioner Wisenbaker asked this morning whether they could table 6.a. REZ-2022-10 Campus Transitional Care Facility 2193 Howell Road, E-A to P-D. He was concerned that Commissioner Clay Griner will not be present, so once again the Chairman may have to break a tie, as happened last year in the vote that they later had to rescind because they did not give proper notice of the Public Hearing.

Answer from Chairman Bill Slaughter and the Attorney: yes, Commissioners can move and vote to table.

Does this mean they’ve all already made up their minds before they even listen to the Public Hearing tomorrow evening?

Collage @ LCC 27 March 2023

Both DSS and ADS asked for a trash pickup fee increase from $20 to $25/month, and deposit center hours changed from 7AM to 7PM to 8AM to 6PM. According to the Chairman, those things will not change yet, rather they will be addressed in the retreat. Also, Deep South Sanitation has 6,900 customers and Advanced Disposal Services has 9,000.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

See also the agenda and agenda sheets.

• 1. Call to Order 4. Minutes for Approval
  

  Video.

• 5.a. South Georgia Community Service Board
  

  Video.

• 5.b. Valdosta-Lowndes County Land Bank Authority
  

  Video.

  No applicants?

• 6.a. REZ-2022-10 Campus Transitional Care Facility 2193 Howell Road, E-A to P-D
  

  Video.

  Apparently Commissioner Griner is not going to be at the meeting tomorrow evening. Commissioner Wisenbaker asked if it would be OK to table so that all the board members could vote and not put a vote onto the Chairman, should there be a tie.

  Last time Commissioners Griner and Wisenbaker voted for approval. Commissioners Evans and Marshall voted against. Commissioner Orenstein was absent. The chairman broke the 2-2 vote voting for the rezoning. That vote was nullified on a technicality.

  So, the question is, have they all made up their minds already this time or will they actually take what the public (or their lawyers) have to say into account at the meeting, before the vote?

• 7.a. Resolution Agreeing to Participate in the National T Opioid Settlements
  

  Video.

  Basically, it’s complicated, but more lawsuits are in the future.

  How the settlement money will be spent is also unclear.

• 7.b. Lowndes County DUI Court Technology Supplemental Grant Award
  

  Video.

• 7.c. Adult Accountability Court Technology Supplemental Grant Award
  

  Video.

• 7.d. Acceptance of the FY2023 VAWA Continuation Grant Award
  

  Video.

• 7.e. Deep South Sanitation, LLC Residential Solid Waste Franchise Renewal
  

  Video.

• 7.f. Advanced Disposal Services Residential Solid Waste Franchise Renewal
  

  Video.

• 7.g. Windstream Build Agreement
  

  Video.

• 7.h. PowerPhone Emergency Medical Dispatch with CAD Integration
  

  Video.

• 8.a. A New Headquarters for Second Harvest of South Georgia
  

  Video.

  Grant money (CDBG money) available 18M
  Second Harvest will pay the rest.
  One bidder at 24M. Chad McLeod did get work with bidder to get bid lower by modifying some items.

• 9. Reports – County Manager
  

  Video.

  County Manager asked for an executive session for the purpose of discussing real estate.

Here’s a LAKE video playlist:

Videos: Howell Road Halfway House @ LCC Work 2023-03-27
Work Session, Lowndes County Commission, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, March 27, 2023.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).

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