Category Archives: Transportation

Videos: Appointment to Tourism Authority, Roads and Towers @ LCC 2018-09-24

“You have an appointee information sheet in your packet,”
said County Manager Joe Pritchard, and that’s all we learned about
Michael Smith, who did not appear to speak, either,
at yesterday morning’s Work Session.
County Chairman Bill Slaughter did encourage the Commissioners
to send in information sheets on any other nominees they might come up with

for the Tourism Authority
before tonight’s 5:30 PM voting Regular Session.
He did not encourage the public to apply.
But if you want to, here is
the application form.


Also apparently

the Internet really is made of pipes.
It’s durious how the county

can help a private company with television (that was the longest item at just under 2 minutes)
but can’t use
its plethora of towers to help with citizen Internet access.

And the county

discussed in executive session buying real estate.
The whole meeting before that took just under 8 minutes.

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Appointment to Tourism Authority, Roads and Towers @ LCC 2018-09-24

Why does the county leave us guessing and not just name who resigned,
and say who Michael Smith is?
Maybe they’ll say at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session this morning at 8:30 AM,
or maybe when they vote tomorrow at 5:30 PM.


“Mr. Michael Smith has expressed interest in being appointed to” the
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River Hill Cemetery 2018-07-21

Here are pictures of a cemetery at the end of Baytree Road, just east of I-75
and slightly south of the Withlacoochee River.


Stones, Cemetery

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Videos: Grants, Budget, Tax, Bonds, Parks, Land, Water, Waste, 911 @ LCC 2018-06-26



The most interesting items were not on
the agenda
of the Regular Session two weeks ago of the Lowndes County Commission Work Session.
The County Engineer had

One more thing: Loch Laurel Bridge Work and Closure 7/16 – 7/23,
Commissioner Demarcus Marshall

reminded everyone the Georgia hands-free driving law was going into effect,
and the Chairman announced

swearing in of the newly un-privatized Probation Officers the following morning.

The longest scheduled item at almost 3 minutes was

New Consoles For 911 Dispatchers,
followed by

Contract With Parks And Recreation Authority,
because both had questions from Commissioners.

The two grant items added the previous morning, for

Accountability Court
and

DUI Court,
sailed through, as did the

Francis Lake Lift Station Repair
and the

LAS Storage Pond Improvements.

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Budget, LMIG, tractor, truck, 3 sewer items @ VCC 2018-06-21

On the

Valdosta City Council agenda this Thursday,
a budget public hearing (no agenda nor draft budget linked for that),
and a bunch of bids, including three about the sewer system,
ioncluding
sewer lines on Iola Drive,

manhole rehabilitation,
and

the Cured-In-Place-Pipe (CIPP) Lining Project.
Here’s the Invitation to Bid for CIPP.


Maybe this kind of

Sewer System Imprrovements
is why Valdosta has not had a major spill in a hear and a half,
while
Tifton continues to spill.
Also, over on the Flint River,

Albany recently spilled quite a bit.
Don’t worry: if Valdosta spills again, you’ll hear about it.

AGENDA

REGULAR MEETING

OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL

5:30 PM Thursday, June 21, 2018

COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL

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Two rezonings, bids, contracts, and alcohol @ LCC 2018-06-11



Last week while we were out of town, the Lowndes County Commission considered
two rezonings, one with

a Union Road, Hahira address,
by far the longest,
with Judge Arthur McLane speaking against,
the applicant Stacy Stubbs speaking for,
and quite a bit of discussion among Commissioners and staff,
after which they approved it 3:2 with the two conditions proposed by the Planning Commission.
The other rezoning has

a Valdosta address, which they approved unanimously;
for both see also
the preceding Planning Commission meeting.
Plus a third transportation item,
GDOT Option for Right of Way at Exit 11.
A bid, a bunch of contracts, and an alcohol license; pretty routine.
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Videos: Opioid Attorney, Soccer, Airport Authority, Probation, Ankle Monitoring, Wetlands, Hay, GEFA, Pump @ LCC 2018-05-08



Two weeks ago, they spent the most time (5.5 minutes) on the
two
sections of

5. Proclamation Presentations for National Drug Court Month.

They spent 2.5 minutes on

bids
and almost 2 minutes (almost 5.5 total) on the

wetland credits
for the
North Lowndes Park Soccer Complex.

Third most time was 4.5 minutes on

recognizing retiring volunteer firefighter
Scott Caldwell(?).
The speaker was Chief Ashley Tye, so I guess he’s now the regular county Fire Chief.

They tabled the

Airport Authority appointment
waiting for more information.
Maybe they noticed George Page had also asked the City of Valdosta
to appoint him.

The alleged County Attorney, with his microphone three feet from his face
and pointing 90 degrees away, muttered something about the

mysterious Wisconsin bond issue.

The

Probation agreement
and

Electronic Monitoring Contract
got more than three minutes total.
They spent a bit more than a minute voting on

a law form for the opioid litigation.

The

Hay Lease Agreement Amendment
is a water item, because it’s about the county’s
spray field, also known as its Land Application Site (LAS).
And the

Bevel Creek Lift Station Pump that feeds it.
Final water item:
dates of completion for the

GEFA Loan Agreement; they did provide a clue what that loan was for.

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Videos: Opioids, Soccer, Airport Authority, Probation, Ankle Monitoring, Wetlands, Hay, GEFA, Pump @ LCC 2018-05-07



Opioid litigation will be added to the agenda
for this evening, although not for voting, as
8.i, Selection of Legal Firm for Opioid Litigation:

Select legal firm,

The Studstill Law Firm and the Blasingame, Burch, Garrard &
Ashley Law Firm have both submitted proposals to represent Lowndes County
in the opioid litigation.

That was the longest agenda item at the Monday morning Work Session.
The

Probation Resolution and Services Agreement,
which

had been tabled two weeks before,
got almost two minutes,
including questions about cost.
Add the minute and a half for the

Electronic Monitoring Contract
and those two items with the same presenter got the longest total.

The two North Lowndes Park Soccer Complex items,

Wetland Credits
and
Bids,
that will massively change Hahira, did not get a total of two minutes.
The

Hay Lease Agreement Amendment
is another water item, because it’s about the county’s
spray field, also known as its Land Application Site (LAS).
And the

Bevel Creek Lift Station Pump that feeds it.
Final water item:
dates of completion for the

GEFA Loan Agreement, whatever it’s for.

The mysterious

Wisconsin Public Finance Authority Bond Issue
is to finance a project on Old Statenville Road in the Valdosta City Limits.

They’re going to reappoint Steve Everett to the

Valdosta-Lowndes County Airport Authority; he did not speak.
And George Page would also like to be considered.

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Soccer, Airport Authority, Probation, Ankle Monitoring, Wetlands, Hay, GEFA, Pump @ LCC 2018-05-07

What was on

the agenda
for yesterday morning at 8:30 AM
and for voting this evening at 5:30 PM.


Parcel 0024-003, Tax Assessors Map
They’re going to reappoint Steve Everett to the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Airport Authority.
At the end, the thing that will massively change Hahira:
4.c. North Lowndes Park Soccer Complex – Bids: five of them, ranging from $6.5 to $8.3 million dollars.
From the Invitation to Bid:

The bid package is for

construction of North Lowndes Park Soccer
Complex including all work shown on the Bid Set of Plans, issue date
February 1, 2018, and Specifications, issue date February 1, 2018,
to include but not be limited to the following items: Site clearing
and other items as noted on the plans in order to construct and
install a new 8 soccer field complex with concession and restroom
pavilion, and maintenance building. Additional items to be
constructed include, entrance road extension from the existing park,
parking lot, signage, concrete pavement, fencing, site and field
lighting, utilities, storm drainage structures and basins,
irrigation, landscaping, and furnishings.


Detail Map, Tax Assessors Map

Map: Lowndes County Tax Assessors, of

Parcel 0024-003, Lowndes County Parks & Recreation Authority.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2018, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos: No Opioid No Probation Military Utility @ LCC 2018-04-24

They would have managed less than four minutes,
even with

chatting with Leadership Lowndes in the audience,
including 45 seconds on the only substantial
agenda item,

6 a. Grant Of Easement for Utility Right of Way Moody-Azalea Commons
(aka Moody Family Housing).


2013-07-29 GLPC Packet-007 REZ-2013-09 Moody Family Housing


2013-07-29 GLPC Packet-007 REZ-2013-09 Moody Family Housing

Note the big sinkhole in Phase 2.

But

citizen Jacinta Howell talked about traffic safety.
Let’s remember the immortal words of

former Chairman Ashley Paulk
during a rezoning near Bemiss Road:

I’m not going to argue Bemiss Highway, it’s not a pertinent fact.

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