Update 2024-09-08: Videos: Animals, Library Board, Lighting, Mosquitoes, Prisoners, Stormwater @ LCC Regular 2024-08-27.

Four minutes is all yesterday morning’s meeting took, the Work Session of the Lowndes County Commission.

Vice Chair Demarcus Marshall chaired the meeting in the absence of Chairman Slaughter.

Collage @ LCC 26 August 2024

The only questions were about 7.b. Annual Contract Renewal with the State of GA Department of Corrections. Public Works Director Robin Cumbus explained that the county only pays when the work details are used and that no qualified inmates have been available for some time, however having the contract in place makes it possible to use the inmates, should any become qualified.

The County Manager’s Report may or may not have been requested. In any case, she didn’t report. She usually saves that for the Regular Session.

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 the board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request.

• 1. Call to Order and overview of agenda
  

  Video.

• 4. Minutes for Approval
  

  Video.

• 5.a. Appointment – South Georgia Regional Library Board
  

  Video.

• 7.a. Annual Contract Renewal with VSU for Mosquito Identification and Testing
  

  Video.

• 6.a. Public Hearing – Basic Decorative Street Lighting Districts
  

  Video.

• 7.b. Annual Contract Renewal with the State of GA Department of Corrections
  

  Video.

  There were a couple of questions and Robin Cumbus explained that the county only pays when the work details are used and that no qualified inmates have been available for some time, however having the contract in place makes it possible to use the inmates, should any become qualified.

• 8. Reports – County Manager, 10. Adjournment
  

  Video.

  It seemed to me that the county manager report was not requested but because the agenda item numbers and titles were not read out, it was hard to tell.

Here is the LAKE video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiEHIe3DN7wZXLpIZ8TVlwe1&si=d0CziW4tZbe_v82f

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