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Rescheduled, Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority 2018-02-07

Julia Shewchuk updated January 19 2018: “The regular meeting of the DSSWA has been rescheduled from January 17, 2018 to Wednesday, February 7, 2018.” The agenda is the same before rescheduling, as below.

Thanks to Larry Hanson, new member to replace him, officers, and audit are on the agenda for next Wednesday for the Deep South Solid Waste Management Authority. Single page, Agenda Still nothing about coal ash from Georgia, Florida, or elsewhere.

See previous post for who’s on this Authority and who gets its grants.

DEEP SOUTH
REGIONAL MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

Meeting of the Board of Directors
Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority
January 17, 2018
February 7, 2018
6:00 PM
Southern Georgia Regional Commission
Valdosta, Georgia
AGENDA

  1. Welcome and Introduction
  2. January 2018 Election of Officers
    • Report by Nominating Committee and Motion:w
  3. January 2018 Nomination of New At-Large Member by Board of Directors
    • Report by Nominating Committee and Motion
  4. Minutes of October 18, 2017 Meeting
    • Draft attached for Review and Motion
  5. Financial Reports Oct — Dec 2017
    • Review and Motion — to be distributed at meeting
  6. Presentation of Annual Audit Report —Denise Rackely
  7. Discussion to decide on a recognition for Larry Hanson for his Services to DSSWA
    • Discussion and Motion
  8. Other Business
  9. Adjourn

Next regular scheduled meeting will be on April 18, 2017, at 6 p.m.


Fax: (229) 333-5312

Phone: (229) 333-5277
327 West Savannah Avenue
Valdosta, Georgia 31601

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Agenda, Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority 2018-01-17

Update 2018-02-07: Rescheduled to February 7, 2018.

Thanks to Larry Hanson, new member to replace him, election of officers, and annual audit are on the agenda for next Wednesday for the Deep South Solid Waste Management Authority. Single page, Agenda Still nothing about coal ash from Georgia, Florida, or elsewhere.

See previous post for who’s on this Authority and who gets its grants.

DEEP SOUTH
REGIONAL MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

Meeting of the Board of Directors
Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority
January 17, 2018
6:00 PM
Southern Georgia Regional Commission
Valdosta, Georgia
AGENDA

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No coal ash on a dozen years of DSSWA agendas (but Brooks County Landfill)

In agendas for the governmental group which supposedly has oversight of the landfill in Lowndes County, Georgia, there is no mention at all of coal or coal ash. Thanks to Julia Shewchuck of SGRC, those agendas for the Deep South Solid Waste Authority (DSSWA) are on the LAKE website.

[April 18, 2007 Agenda] Back in 2006 the proposed Brooks County Landfill is on the the proposed April 19, 2006 agenda, and the June 21, 2006 agenda said there was a public hearing June 29, 2006. An update was on the October 18, 2016 agenda.

2007 starts with one meeting with no mention of the landfill, but the April 18, 2007 meeting has “5. Discussion of Onyx/Langdale Proposed Land Swap”. I don’t see any further mention of the Brooks County landfill after that, and apparently it never happened.

Curiously, these mentions of the Brooks County Landfill on the DSSWA agenda are all months after these VDT stories: Continue reading

Agenda, Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority 2017-04-19

Grants to participating local governments are mostly what’s on the agenda for next Wednesday for the Deep South Solid Waste Management Authority, sent today by Julia Shewchuck of SGRC (PDF).

DSSWA-Agenda--04192017-0001 On the telephone yesterday she clarified that the grants from this Authority mentioned in the Lowndes County Commission Goals meetinng are exclusively available to the seven local governments participating in this Authority. They are: Berrien County, Lanier County, Lowndes County, City of Nashville, City of Lakeland, City of Valdosta, and Echols County CG. She also noted that Echols County was one of the original participants in the authority, even though it had dropped off for a while, and had been added back in a recent year (2014).

DEEP SOUTH
REGIONAL MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

Meeting of the Board of Directors
Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority
April 19, 2017
6:00 PM
Southern Georgia Regional Commission
Valdosta, Georgia
AGENDA Continue reading