Lots of interesting detail; room for improvement in marketing and high level presentation: Valdosta-Lowndes Prospector website. S. Meghan Duke gave a lengthy presentation of the GIS website Valdosta-Lowndes Prospector, at the 19 June 2012 VLCIA meeting. Chairman Roy Copeland wanted to know (5:21) whether it showed at the top the industrial parks VLCIA has spent […]
The first 100% VSEB contract, local industry expansion, new prospects, a bank lost a bond, and new Georgia sunshine laws require attention. Here are videos of the entire 22 May 2012 meeting of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA) board. Here’s the agenda. Guests included a camera crew from VSU, one of whom was Cameron […]
New Georgia sunshine law explained by VLCIA attorney J. Stephen Gupton. Some highlights include: Open meetings now include any time a quorum discusses business, even if there was no scheduled meeting. Committees now fall under open meetings. Executive sessions have specific requirements. Increased penalties from $500 to $100 for violating open meetings, plus potential criminal […]
The very first 100% VSEB contract! In a welcome change of pace, Allan Ricketts announced at the 22 May 2012 Industrial Authority meeting that staff had accepted a proposal to have local conctractors plant native local grasses as part of landscaping Westside Business Park. VSEB is the Valdosta Small Emerging Business program. He identified the […]
Market study advisory panel forming up! Chairman Roy Copeland asked whether “Industrial” in VLCIA’s name is positive or negative for PR? Executive Director Andrea Schruijer made sure to announce a date change for a board meeting a month in advance. All that and much more! Here are videos of the entire 17 April 2012 regular […]
Likely new industry, private prison really cancelled, strategic planning, and trees in the median! Here are videos of the entire March regular meeting of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA). Here’s the agenda. It’s good that they approve minutes after emailing them to each other. Maybe someday we the taxpayers will get to see those […]
Andrea Schruijer, Executive Director of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA), made a presentation to the Lowndes County Commission at their Work Session 26 March 2012. VLCIA Board member G. Norman Bennett was also present. Congratulations to VLCIA on proactively getting the word out about what they are doing! Here's a playlist: Industrial Authority presentation […]
Here are videos of the February 2012 Industrial Authority meeting. Apologies for the poor sound. The room turned out to have very echoey acoustics, and no placement of the camera seemed to alleviate that. Also it’s in three chunks, the first of them quite long. In the interests of moving along and catching up on […]
We learned yesterday from Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA) Executive Director Andrea Schruijer that we can expect an opinion from the VLCIA board at tomorrow’s 2PM board meeting about Project Excel, the CCA private prison whose contract expires March 13th unless VLCIA gives it a third extension, which they haven’t so far. Tom Call Norman […]
Col. Ricketts reminded VLCIA board members at their most recent regular meeting (2012 01 17) that he had asked them for input about trees for Miller and Westside Business Parks. We have identified trees from a nursery, Select Trees, in Athens, Georgia, with a special five year warranty on those trees, that meet our landscape […]