Did you know the Valdosta-Lowndes County Convention Center and Tourism Authority
was meeting this morning?
Well, if you happened by the Convention Center you would find this
Announcement on the door:
Picture by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 27 February 2013.
Most boards post an actual agenda on the door, but this one is just
an announcement.
If they posted that on their
website
or their
facebook page
I can't find it.
Gretchen says they did have a quorum
(
unlike last month)
and they were quite welcoming of her and the LAKE video camera.
However, they did not provide her with an agenda.
She says they didn't give anything to the VDT reporter, either.
Last week I went to the Rainwater Conference Center to attend the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center & Tourism Authority Board
Meeting.
I had discovered
the time and date of this meeting by asking at the
information booth at the Conference Center one day when I was there
for another event.
I arrived slightly before the 8:00 appointed time and was greated
warmly by
Councilman Tim Carroll
and
Conference Center Director Tim Riddle.
Being the Conference Center, they served a hot breakfast
(other morning boards have fruits and sweets but this was something
that you might get up for).
As 8:00 came there was apparently not a quorum, so calls went out to
missing
members to see if one more could be attacted. At 8:15 it was
clear that there would be no additional members coming so no formal
meeting was held, no votes were taken but an informal review of the
agenda was performed:
Update 2013-01-23 8:46 AM:
They did at least part of the minimum and posted a notice on the door.
How do we know the Valdosta Lowndes County Conference Center
and Tourism Authority (VLCCCTA) meets this morning at 8AM?
Gretchen asked when she
picked up a list of its current board members.
And did I get the right Rick Williams in that picture?
That one is
Pastor of Northside Baptist Church.
Is he the same Rick Williams who is Vice Chairman of VLCCCTA?
(Google didn’t find any pictures for Chairman Rob Evans.)
If it’s an honor and a privilege to serve on an Authority, shouldn’t
the Authority tell us who is serving, instead of making us guess?
Stopped by the main desk of the Conference Center Wednesday.
I asked for a list of the current members of the board
and was provided a photocopy of a February 2012 list.
See also
LCC 2012-11-13.
-gretchen
Board of Directors
February 1, 2012
Commissioner Joyce Evans
Lowndes County Board of Commissioners
Term Expires: December 31, 2014
Councilman Tim Carroll
Valdosta City Council
Term Expires: December 31, 2015
Andy Anderson
Lowndes County Board of Commissioner Appointment
Term Expires: December 31, 2014
Rick Williams – Vice Chairman
Valdosta City Council Lodging & RV Appointment
Term Expires: December 31, 2012
The County Commission continues to do the peoples’ business in secret.
The solid waste exclusive franchise agreement was tabled for a month,
due to some mysterious new information,
and two citizens pleaded with the Commission to reconsider the whole thing.
The developer who got to speak at Monday’s Work Session
asked for his development to be tabled for a month, and the Commission did so.
After the meeting, three people from Moody AFB trooped into a side
room with the Chairman.
Also, if it’s a privilege to serve and an honor to be appointed,
why does the Lowndes County Commission not tell us who they are appointing?
In the
Work Session
they muttered some proposed names unintelligbly,
and in the Regular Session they didn’t say anything about who some of the
new appointees are, and none of the appointees spoke.
As near as I could tell, only one bothered to show up: VLCIA
reappointee Mary Gooding.
Update 2012-11-20: Jody Hall reminds me he was there as an appointee. He says he was ready to speak, but nobody asked him to.
Video playlist
Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 13 November 2012.
Here’s
the agenda again,
this time with links to the videos plus a few notes.
Monday morning the Lowndes County Commission considers and
Tuesday evening votes on members of five appointed boards.
Who are the candidates?
The agenda doesn’t say.
The two rezonings are the same ones
the Planning Commission recently considered.
Presumably the solid waste ordinance has something to do with
the recent privatization decision.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
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Who is on the Tourism Authority Board, and why do they have
such rapid changeover in executive directors?
The Commissioners considered Monday 9 January and made Tuesday 10 January
three appointments to the Tourism Authority:
Commissioner Joyce Evans (reappointment),
Jerome “Andy” Anderson (reappointment),
and Greg Charbeneau apparently to replace
Linda Jenson (who had been appointed to fill a vacancy for ? Montgomery).
5.a. Valdosta/Lowndes County Conference Center and Tourism Authority
County Manager Joe Pritchard said at the Tuesday Regular Session that
Greg Charbeneau is a Vice President at Wild Adventures.
Here’s
video of that session:
3 Appointments to VLC Conference Center and Tourism Authority LCC 2012 Jan 10
Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 January 2012.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
We learned a little more at the Monday Work Session, but not much.
Here’s
video:
3 Appointments to VLC Conference Center and Tourism Authority LCC 2012 Jan 9
Work Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 9 January 2012.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
or
the public hearing they didn’t hold
or
why they picked Veolia’s highest bid
or
ADS buying more companies when its spokesman said that wasn’t forseen
or
how much the Commission forsees waste collection fees going up
or
suing a local company
at the Lowndes County Commission.
Wasterwater is on the agenda twice,
which is good after that
sewer spill into the Withlacoochee River,
but nothing about
a five-year action plan.
Let’s listen to what the preacher Commissioners pray about:
that’s usually a clue to what’s on their minds,
even if they proceed to do the opposite.
