All candidates were invited; most of the Democratic ones came and spoke;
most of the Republicans did not.
Here are links to each LAKE video of each candidate, followed by a video playlist. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Clay Griner
Public Hearing at private law firm for VSU bond to private LLC 2016-10-21
Why is a public hearing for VSU bonds being held at a private law firm?
Is there no parking at VSU for the public to hear about this
$58,805,000 bond issue?
There is free parking at the county palace for which we the people footed around $51 million in bonds.
For that matter, why are bonds for a public university being held by a private LLC? Why are they being issued to that private LLC by the shadowy South Regional Joint Development Authority, to which the Lowndes County Commission just appointed Commissioner Clay Griner this May, even though County Manager Joe Pritchard couldn’t tell Griner when that Authority meets?
Can’t the Lowndes County Commission provide this bond Public Hearing with a public place to meet?
In the Valdosta Daily Times yesterday, October 5th 2016, and not online anywhere I can find it, was this Public Notice. Gretchen scanned it, and I OCRed it and formatted the lists to make it more legible. Continue reading
Road paving and Alapaha BoatRamp in Naylor Town Hall @ LCC 2016-04-14 @ LCC 2016-04-14
Most people wanted to know which roads would be paved when,
in Bemiss, to Alapaha Subdivision, and next to the new Civic Center.
They did also talk about the
planned new civic center and the
Alapaha Boatramp they’re building.
I thank the Chairman for clarifying his remark about paving every road in the county. He and other county officials also went on about safety being a big concern, which is news to me, on my road the county insisted on paving that became a drag race track. And what’s this about Continue reading
Open Government Symposium @ LCC 2014-11-21
Not the Onion: VDT front page Saturday 15 November 2014, County plans open government meeting Friday,
VALDOSTA — An Open Government Symposium this Friday in Valdosta will be hosted by the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners.
Valdosta Daily Times Editor Jim Zachary, director of the Transparency Project of Georgia, will be joined by Hollie Manheimer, executive director of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation, for the open government training event.
Lowndes County leaders approached Zachary and Manheimer about bringing the symposium to Valdosta after they attended the first in a statewide series of open government training sessions held in Macon at the Center for Collaborative Journalism Oct. 17.
The article noted that Commissioner Clay Griner was among the attendees at the previous symposium in Macon and had asked for this local meeting.
All the events are Continue reading
Lowndes County officials at Open Government Symposium @ OGS 2014-10-17
Gretchen reports from Macon that Lowndes County Commissioner Clay Griner (District 5), Paige Dukes (County Clerk), Joyce Evans (District 1), Scott Orenstein (District 2-elect), and Valdosta City Clerk Theresa Bolden (not pictured)
are all at the
VDT Open Government Symposium in Macon.
Congratulations, Jim Zachary and the VDT, on getting them to show up! Continue reading
Primary election tomorrow, 22 July 2014
From County Commissioner to Georgia School Superintendent
and U.S. Senate, you can vote in the primary election tomorrow,
if you haven’t already voted.
If I forgot any runoffs, please let me know.
Lowndes County Commission District 5
Nonpartisan Runoff:
Continue readingCrazy Qualifying Season Finally Completed
Update 31 March 2014: Withdrawals of Thomas Sims and Don Thieme from Lowndes County Commission District 3 and of Crawford Powell from House 174. See also school board election.
Additional entries in County Commission Districts 3 and 5,
plus a swap and a withdrawal,
continued the
musical chairs in local qualifying.
Plus three out of four County Commission seats up for election
will actually be decided in May, not November.
And one state House seat and the state Senate race are hotly contested.
The three County Commission seats that will be decided May 20th are: Continue reading