Will the recent increase in solar requirements by GA PSC on Georgia Power produce any more solar projects in Valdosta? And what’s in the VLCIA annual report? Maybe a list of jobs created?
Here’s
the agenda.
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Agenda, Tuesday July 16, 2013 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson Street
Content two months running
in VLCIA agendas!
And the potential project list is up from six to nine.
Here’s the agenda:
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Agenda, Tuesday June 18, 2013 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson Street
Names of projects!
Lists of PR and marketing items!
Is this a new trend from our Industrial Authority?
Or will it be like
the last time I complimented them on an agenda with content
and was told later that one was an accident.
Here’s the agenda. Sure, the project names are codewords, but that’s how they talk to prospective companies without revealing all their cards to the competition. And this one has a name:
Georgia Power Company Advanced Solar Initiaitve (GPASI) Projects
Maybe we’ll hear more about those two megawatts of solar power. Maybe even more are scheduled for Lowndes County.
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Agenda, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson Street
Interesting stuff (audit and internal controls,
many meetings,
2 megawatts of solar power,
searching for and
finances of a new office
from
a mysterious seller)
in the items missing from the posted agenda yet presented anyway,
while two staff were elsewhere.
Here’s the agenda with a few notes and some links to the videos. * marks items that were not in the posted agenda.
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Agenda
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson Street
Water issues strongly affect economic development, so I talked about
the new WWALS Watershed Coalition at the
16 April 2013 Board Meeting
of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority.
The VDT declined to speak, so I did. After apologizing for no okra today, I commended the Authority for talking about the missing agenda items and for mentioning due diligence and flood control.
Mostly I talked about the new WWALS Watershed Coalition, www.wwals.net, incorporated in June 2012, which is about watershed issues such as flooding, water quality, and invasive species related to the Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, and Little River System. I mentioned arsenic in some local well water, which the Department of Health has finally said should be tested, three years after Janet McMahan discovered it was a problem. I invited VLCIA board and staff to two upcoming WWALS events: Continue reading
The Industrial Authority was very forthcoming
about everything about their new office purchase
except who they were buying it from;
this was at the
16 April 2013 Board Meeting
of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority.
The seller turns out to be a household name hereabouts.
Chairman Roy Copeland talked about the at least five year process
for finding “a new home” for VLCIA.
He noted that before he joined the board they were considering
buying a property he and his wife own.
He and former Lowndes County Chairman Ashley Paulk looked
at another property near the Courthouse.
VLCIA even toured the historic Lowndes County Courthouse
but concluded it couldn’t be renovated for their purposes.
Jerry Jennett noted the search had gone on even longer than five years.
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One megawatt at DuPont and one megawatt at Valdosta’s Mud Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant: that’s two more megawatts of solar power coming to Valdosta and Lowndes County! This was revealed at the 16 April 2013 Board Meeting of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority.
Project Director Allan Ricketts was on a speaker phone,
so Executive Director Andrea Schruijer gave the
Existing Industry and Project Report.
She thinks maybe three existing industry expansions in second and third quarter 2013.
They’ve continued working with a pharmaceutical company about locating here;
more on that later.
Continued work with three renewable and sustainable energy companies,
and Georgia Power is cooperating.
We did receive notification that two of those advanced solar initiatives have been approved by Georgia Power Company.
One of them is a megawatt solar expansion at DuPont. The other is a megawatt solar expansion at the City of Valdosta’s Mud Creek Wastewater Plant.
She didn’t mention that in most states such projects wouldn’t have to be approved for doled-out quotas by a power company.
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So many things the Industrial Authority is doing that they could be promoting!
Some of them came out at their
16 April 2013 Board Meeting.
Maybe they even took notes about the Georgia Logistics Summit putting all its presentations on its YouTube channel.
In her
Marketing Report, Meghan Duke said
branded materials were now available and in use.
Valdostalowndesprospector.com has new feature for comparison of features
by county, city, etc. for any community in the world.
Several recent guests, including
Georgia Power South Region,
whom VLCIA took on a tour of their industrial parks and Steeda Autosports.
VLCIA hosted Board of GA Dept. of Economic Development at Moody AFB.
She didn’t say, but GDEcD Board of Directors says:
Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Board of Director’s meeting will be held in February 21st, 2013 at Moody AFB, 1800 Moody Road, Valdosta, GA 31601. Due to security on base you will need to have a government (state, federal, etc.) issued ID, such as a driver’s license, with you before you can enter the base. A background check with need to be ran prior to the meeting day so please contact Carrie Bisig & she will let you know what information the base will need.
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The agenda is different for today’s Industrial Authority meeting!
It has even less information than usual:
no reports about PR or marketing or existing or new projects;
nothing about business parks, and no executive director’s report.
It does list an attorney report and an audit update.
Here’s the agenda.
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority
Agenda
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson StreetGeneral Business
- Call to Order
- Invocation
- Welcome Guests
Minutes
- Regular Meeting, March 8, 2013
Financial
- Review Compiled Balance Sheet and Income Statements for March 2013
- Audit Update
Attorney Report
Citzens Wishing To Be Heard
Adjourn General Meeting
Mission of the Valdosta Lowndes County Industrial Authority is to
lead economic development in our community by supporting existing industries
recruiting industries through capitalizing on opportunities for collaboration.-jsq
Wanting to go to the Industrial Authority meeting tonight? Oops, you missed it: they held it 11 days ago. Did you want to speak there? Nope, no Citizens to be Heard on that agenda, and not much else, either.
To find that agenda on VLCIA’s website: Home → About Us → Industrial Authority → Meeting Schedule,
There will be a Special Called Meeting of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority on Friday, March 8, 2013, 11:00 am at the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority Offices. This Special Called Meeting will also serve as the Regular March 2013 Meeting.
Agenda (PDF) There will be no meeting on Tuesday, March 19, 2013.
I don’t know when they put that on their website, but they announced the same thing on their facebook page on March 4th. Much of the usual agenda boilerplate is replaced by an executive session, and the agenda doesn’t even say for what. I seem to recall the Industrial Authority’s attorney on several occasions reminding the Chair that before going into executive session it was necessary to say for what purpose. As the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG) puts it:
Continue readingWhat is the procedure for going into and holding an “executive session” or “closing a meeting”?