Below are links to the LAKE video for each item in the agenda, for yesterday morning’s Work Session, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
Category Archives: Lowndes County Commission
Videos: Budget, Tax, Sewage Pump Station, Road Abandonment @ LCC 2017-06-27
They unanimously approved everything except the one withdrawn item, and except for the Executive Session, the whole thing took 9 minutes. They meet again 8:30 AM Monday morning 24 July 2017.
Below are links to each LAKE video of the 27 June 2017 Lowndes County Commission Regular Session, with a very few notes, followed by a video playlist. See also the LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session including the Zika Presentation by Ken Lowery; and the agenda.
Air Force lobbyists, appointments to four boards, renaming Val Tech Road @ LCC 2017-07-24
The agenda still says 8:30 AM Monday morning for the Work Session, and they have only half an hour left to change it and still comply with state law.
In case anybody has forgotten Moody AFB is by far the biggest employer in these parts, the county wants to hire for $36,000 a year a pair of lobbyists to the Air Force: Parker and Lucy Greene, “to provide consulting services on behalf of Lowndes County to enhance relationships with the Air Force and Department of Defence regarding Moody AFB.”
Kari L. Sands (R.I.P.), VDT, 22 June 2007, Parker Greene honored with award, Continue reading
Videos: Appointments to Hospital Authority and Parks and Rec + well pump @ LCC 2017-07-10
Nope, there are no LAKE videos of yesterday morning’s Work Session, because, remember, they moved the meeting half an hour earlier so when Gretchen showed up it was already over. The county does not video its Work Sessions, so there is no county video, either. Since the Valdosta Daily Times apparently did not run a story (I don’t even know if they had a reporter there), this means you won’t know what the Commissioners discussed nor who else was there Monday morning before they vote this evening at 5:30 PM.
City of Valdosta PR 2017-07-10:
Valdosta City Manager Larry Hanson welcomes new 23d Wing Commander Col. Jennifer Short at the July 10 Change of Command ceremony.
Commissioner Scottie Orenstein asked, on facebook, in response to yesterday’s LAKE blog post about the moved meeting: Continue reading
You missed it: Appointments to Hospital Authority and Parks and Rec + well pump @ LCC 2017-07-10
They moved the meeting half an hour earlier, to 8AM. Gretchen, who is signed up to the county’s alert system yet never got any alert about this time change, got there at the usual time and it was over already. It’s listed in their calendar as “8:00 AM – 8:35 AM” but she got there with the LAKE camera before 8:30 and it was already over.
And on the agenda: two county appointments for the same Hospital Authority that hired a CEO for five years, fired him without cause after two years, and now: Continue reading
Videos: Budget, Tax, Sewage Pump Station, Road Abandonment, Zika @ LCC 2017-06-26
Tonight at 5:30 PM they vote on what they discussed
yesterday morning at the Lowndes County Commission.
But you won’t hear the
Zika Presentation by Ken Lowery;
that was only in the Work Session.
It was by far the longest item, at seven minutes, longer than all the rest of the meeting, which took less than six minutes.
The second longest item at almost a minute and a half was
abandonment of a portion of Ponce de Leon Trail (CR 374).
You will see them adopt the Fiscal Year 2018 budget. See the previous post for more background about the budget requests that the county almost all denied.
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Budget, Tax, Sewage Pump Station, Road Abandonment, Zika @ LCC 2017-06-26
They’re going to adopt the county budget Tuesday, after talking about it this morning at 8:30 AM, after complaining that nobody showed up at a budget hearing they didn’t announce. Also after refusing budget requests due to revenue continuing down for several years, and not being willing to adjust taxes.
The VDT summarized, Thomas Lynn, VDT, 23 May 2017, County Manager: Proposed budget austere; Most new funding requests denied. And Thomas Lynn, 22 June 2017, Public absent from county budget hearing. No wonder, since the county didn’t even post the meeting online until that same morning, with no agenda. The VDT wasn’t there most of the time, but Gretchen was, with the LAKE video camera.
Photo: Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE of
Harrison Tillman and Stephanie Black about Budget at the Lowndes County Annual Planning Meeting Day 1 @ LCC 2017-02-16
Gretchen also videoed Continue reading
Videos: Paving, animals, speed zones, prison work details, fees @ LCC 2017-06-13
They
welcomed
Ross Berry,
the new CEO of South Georgia Medical Center,
and he spoke briefly.
Last minute agenda addition:
6.f. Lowndes County Accountability Court Grant and Match
Citzen Judy Havercamp
spoke about the animal shelter.
Citizen Shirley Garlan spoke for her neighborhood,
asking to connect to county water.
They spent by far the longest time (almost 20 minutes including public participation) on the New Statenville Highway rezoning for a Dollar General, which they finally approved with conditions, including what County Planner Jason Davenport said was an unprecedented condition on lighting. For this item, see also the the LAKE videos of the preceding Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting.
Second longest at more than five minutes was Continue reading
Videos: Dollar General, speed zones, prison work details, fees, road bid fail @ LCC 2017-06-12
Update 2017-06-18: Videos: Paving, animals, speed zones, prison work details, fees @ LCC 2017-06-13.
A rare event this morning at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session:
neither Scruggs nor Reames bid on the
Resurfacing of Five County Roads and Two Alternate Projects,
and the Commissioners don’t like the bids they got.
What will they do Tuesday evening?
Accept none and try again later?
They also
went into an executive session about pending litigation.
See the agenda. See also Continue reading
Dollar General, speed zones, prison work details, fees, road bid fail @ LCC 2017-06-12
Here’s the agenda for this morning’s Work Session and tomorrow evening’s Regular Session. See also the LAKE videos of the previous Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting for the New Statenville Highway rezoning.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2017, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor