After many years of rising sentiment, the voters in November 2019, approved changing Lowndes County from being one of only two of 159 Georgia counties that elected its Tax Assessors to appointing them, and the legislature agreed. Finally in September 2020 the Lowndes County Commission appointed three new Assessors, and on January 5, 2021, they […]
On August 1, 2020, Paige Dukes will be the new County Manager, after the 20-year reign of Joe Pritchard. Paige Dukes, County Clerk, Lunch and Learn, 2011-10-13 Chris Herbert, Valdosta Daily Times, 14 July 2020, Dukes named Lowndes County Manager, The vote was a split decision, 3-2, with commissioners Joyce Evans, Clay Griner and Scottie […]
The Lowndes County Commission did not pass a new budget, and nobody seems to know or at least be willing to say why, even though that was on the agenda for that Tuesday meeting. Instead, they’ve scheduled a “Special Called Meeting on Friday, June 26, 200, at 9:00 a.m., to consider a resolution to temporarily […]
Tuesday at 5:30 PM the Lowndes County Commission proposes to spend about $73,000 on water projects, which is a good thing. Monday at 8:30 AM they also do have a Work Session scheduled. CostWhat $71,789.00 Blue Lake Lift Station Emergency Repair Work Session/Regular Session DATE OF MEETING: June 9, 2020 $1,208.80 Approve Condemning ROW and […]
Update 2020-05-10: Lowndes County, GA, Stream Monitoring and Stormwater Permit 2020-04-28. Update 2020-05-09: Board packet. Update 2020-05-02: Gretchen’s notes on each agenda item. Was this even a public meeting? The Lowndes County Commission approved everything on its agenda yesterday, even though only really perceptive citizens could figure out how to listen to the teleconference. In […]
Twelve minutes for their first-ever dial-in Lowndes County Commission meeting. That’s longer than many of their in-person meetings, maybe because the Chairman had the Clerk call roll for the Commissioners for each vote. Both votes were unanimous with no discussion. Nobody explained why these items were important enough for a Special Called Meeting. Only two […]
Maybe it was “custom fit” that caused Commissioner Clay Griner to ask for postponement of approval of purchase of firefighting equipment until after the county’s retreat. All five Commissioners voted for tabling. More detail below in the notes on that item. Bob Dewar has discovered the county wants an 80-foot right of way to pave […]
Update 2020-01-10: Not quite settled. Valdosta still has to agree to it. These must be golden words indeed, to have been worth the hundreds of thousands of legal fees expended over them: In regards to water and sewer services: The Parties’ current water and sewer service areas are delineated on the service area maps attached […]
Remerton can’t use SPLOST VI funds for an office building, since the old mill building intended for that has been torn down. That was the longest item in the Lowndes County Commission Work Seesion of December 9, 2019: 7. Reports – County Manager – Remerton SPLOST Resolution. Then Commissioner Clay Griner moved to go into […]
Longest at four and a half minutes on November 12, 2019, was 6.e. Grant Re-Application for the Rural (5311)Transportation Program, in other words, the MIDS on-demand bus system; follow the link for more notes, including a question about where have the county funds for this been coming from. Commissioner Demarcus Marshall about the MIDS bus […]