Finally received on February 6, 2025, the board packet materials are on the LAKE website for the January 27 and 28, 2025, Lowndes County Commission meetings.

Packet: Collage @ LCC 2025-01-27

See also the agenda and the LAKE videos of the Work Session; Regular Session up soon.

Lowndes County included this note with the board materials:

The January 27-28, 2025 meeting packet is attached. We did not receive the email on January 25th. Thank you for resending it.

As I mentioned in response:

One way to avoid any issue of not getting mail would be to publish the board packet on lowndescounty.com along with the agenda, under the pulldown that says Packet.

Or put the packet on bluesky, make it public, and publish the link.

The bluesky I mean here is bluesky.lowndescounty.com, where they put the January 27, 2025, board packet at this URL:
https://bluesky.lowndescounty.com/index.php/s/3a6dJHrFQCRL6n9

Which you can’t read, because the county password protected it.

It has been mysterious for many years why Lowndes County does not simply publish their board packet materials on their own website for the tax-paying and voting public to see.

-jsq

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Agenda 2025-01-27-28

PROPOSED AGENDA
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GFOA Distinguished Budget Presentation Award

There are over 1,700 participants in the award program throughout the United States and Canada. Lowndes County has received this award for nineteen consecutive years.
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Appointment to the Board of Tax Assessors

Candidates Gretchen Quarterman and James Michael Tanner
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Valdosta-Lowndes County Land Bank Authority

Reappoint Commissioner Joyce Evans.
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Beer, Wine & Liquor License – Lisa Ash of Lisa’s Billiards and

Change in ownership.
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Special Assessment Rate for 2025

The current prime rate is 7.5%; therefore, the rate for special assessments should be set at 9.5%. The prime rate was 8.5% in 2024, 9.5% in 2023 and 5.25% in 2022.
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Approval of Elected Officials Using County Issued Purchase

requests from Clay Guess, Tax Commissioner and H. Burke Sherwood, Probate Judge for county issued purchasing cards.
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Approval of the Solicitor General’s FY2025 VAWA Continuance Grant Application

BUDGET IMPACT: $26,371 Cash Match
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January-13-2025–Minutes

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January-14-2025-Regular-Session-Minutes

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