Longest at 22 minutes was the
second Natco subdivision on Val Del Road.
At least they’re moving back towards Valdosta, remaining within existing services
(which were run out Val Del Road for Nelson Hill).
They also recommended 7:0 approval by the various elected bodies a
Joint Ordinance, which is apparently about the operations of GLPC itself.
What’s in it is mysterious.
Why they can’t put it on the county or city website is even more mysterious.
Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with Continue reading →
Why do we have to guess what our elected and appointed boards are up to?
Would it be so hard to include a few words on that agenda item to say which Joint Ordinance?
For that matter, would it be so hard to publish the GLPC board packet
along with the agenda, like many counties much smaller than Lowndes
have already been doing for years?
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
~ Lowndes County
~ City of Valdosta
~ City of Dasher
~ City of Hahira
~ City of Lake Park
~ City of Remerton ~
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING AGENDA
Monday, September 30, 2019 5:30 P.M.
Public Hearing, Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia
The Lowndes County Commission spent nine minutes yesterday morning discussing spending $124,454 and borrowing $1,734,000.
They vote this evening at 5:30 PM.
Apparently more was shown on the screen yesterday morning that we finally
received this morning
in
the board packet,
such as this picture of the Nelson Hill subdivision on Val Del Road.
After four days, but before the Commission votes at 5:30 PM in its Regular Session this evening, the county sent the packet, at 10:50 AM this morning.
Three is more than the statutory 3 days in the Georgia Open Records Act (GORA).
The packet is
on the LAKE website.
Finance Director Stephanie Black said due to the
Property Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights,
if the tax digest (total assessed property value in the county)
goes up, the county has to reduce the millage (tax per $1,000 of property value),
or announce the difference as a tax increase and hold three public hearings,
so they’re rolling back the millage rate slightly: 0.126 mills,
down from 11.064 for 2018 to 10.938 for 2019.
That’s Georgia Senate Bill 177, Act 431, signed April 30, 1999, effective January 1, 2000.
Here is the millage resolution they adopted half an hour later,
in the
board packet, which LAKE only received after this millage meeting and after the Commission voted on this millage change:
She showed some quite informative slides, which for unknown reasons do not
seem to be on
the Finance Department’s web page.
For example, she had a nice summary slide of the five chunks of sales tax these days:
4 cents to the State of Georgia,
1 cent to Local Option Sales Tax (LOST),
split between county and its cities for property tax reduction,
1 cent to Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST), split between county and its cities for capital improvements,
1 cent to Educational Special Local Option Sales Tax (E-SPLOST),
split between the county and city school systems for capital improvements
1 cent to Transportation Special Local Option Sales Tax (T-SPLOST),
regionally approved, and split between the county and its cities for transportation capital improvements.
Billed on the lowndescounty.com calendar as
Millage Meeting,
5PM, Tuesday, 27 August 2019, in Commission Chambers before the voting Regular Session,
as usual almost nobody attended, and nobody from the public spoke.
Lowering the Millage Rate
Millage Meeting, Lowndes County Commission (LCC Millage),
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, August 27, 2019.
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