Emily Davenport, Valdosta Stormwater Manager, sent a letter 2 June 2014
to attendees of the 6 May 2014 Army Corps of Engineers presentations,
with paper materials attached, and a note that they are also online at
Stormwater Division, Regional Flooding. [Not there anymore, but see updated first bullet item below. 2018-01-28 -jsq]
This one is just the presentation by the Corps.
See also: Continue reading
They vote tonight on their
opaque selection of auditing services
and to buy
an unnamed firewall replacement
among other things for unknown amounts not revealed in yesterday morning’s Work Session.
Maybe somebody should bring that up at the not-yet-scheduled
county Budget Hearings.
They will also vote on
their Luke Bryan musical neighbor balancing act
and on
reappointing Lonnie Denton for a sixth five-year term to the
Lowndes
Division of Family and Children Services (he will speak tonight)
and reappointing Willie Houseal and Gretchen Quarterman each
to a third three-year term to the
ZBOA (they spoke yesterday morning as you can see in these videos).
Also Public Hearings for
well and septic
and
a special events change to the ULDC.
The
Hahira annexation
recommended against by the Planning Commission
is still waiting for signatures from the applicants under
For Consideration,
along with a request from Finance to declare items surplus and several purchase requests
from Finance and IT.
Here’s
the agenda, with links to the videos and a few notes.
See also the
videos of the 27 May 2014 Planning Commission meeting.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor
Almost unanimous against the
Hahira
rezoning
and
annexation,
even though the
reduction from 66.1 to 58.09 acres
was to exclude Hagen Bridge Road and obviate the
paving issue.
A
county ULDC amendment request for Special Events and such
and a Valdosta
LDR amendment request.
A
county
rezoning
to agricultural
and
three
Valdosta
use changes:
daycare,
fraternity,
and
commercial office.
Here’s
the agenda, with some notes and links to the videos.
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
AGENDA
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue
Tuesday, May 27, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
He also called to be sure LAKE got this,
and the Public Hearings
Tuesday
and
Wednesday at 5:30 PM are in the City of Valdosta’s
online calendar,
plus there’s
a much briefer story in the VDT today, and see the millage table from last year’s budget hearings. -jsq
From: Tim Carroll <tcarroll@valdostacity.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 14:33:35 +0000
Subject: FY 2015 BudgetHey everyone,
It is that time of year when your city government prepares its’
budget for the upcoming fiscal year. As we have experienced over the
past four years, this year’s budget presents many challenges.
Revenues continue to decline while expenses keep going up. Fuel
alone for the city now runs around $1.7M per year and the power bill
to run the city for a year is now at $3.4M. Like you have seen in
your homes and businesses, these and other costs continue to rise.
Major revenue sources such as the LOST tax (our largest revenue
source for the General Fund) continue to decline. And the list goes
on. The city has now tapped over the past several years all the
reserve funds in or der to balance the budget. Those reserve funds
are now gone.
I say all this to illuminate the difficult choices that are present
in this year’s proposed budget. While Continue reading
An appointment to the
Lowndes
Division of Family and Children Services
and two to
ZBOA.
Public hearings for
well and septic
and
a special events change to the ULDC.
The
Hahira annexation
recommended against by the Planning Commission
is under
For Consideration,
along with a request to declare items surplus and several purchase requests.
Here’s
the agenda.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor
Two
Lowndes County
cases (
road frontage and
tree protection),
and two
Valdosta
Valdosta cases
(daycares on busy streets
and
Wal-Mart parking).
The county cases are both variances from the
Unified Land Development Code (ULDC)
and the city cases are both variances from Valdosta’s
Land Development Regulations (LDR),
and both the ULDC and LDR are supposed to be consistent with the
Comprehensive Plan.
Here’s
the agenda.
The City of Valdosta puts ZBOA agendas and minutes
online in real PDFs.
Valdosta -Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals
Matt Martin, Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator Carmella Braswell, Lowndes County Zoning Administrator 300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia 327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia (229) 259-3563 (229) 671-2430
AGENDA
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
2:30 p.m.
Chairman Bill Slaughter started this morning’s budget session as
“the first of our two public meetings on the budget before that
budget will be adopted; basically a work session to go over the budget.”
Does that mean it is a Public Hearing?
If so, why do the county’s front page and calendar link to
a blank page for a “Budget Session”,
and there’s no Public Notice, even though there were
Public Notices for
the two road abandonments on the agenda for the Work Session and Regular Session?
How can it be a Public Hearing if it’s not announced as such
and the public doesn’t know about it?
Gretchen says that near the end they clarified that this was not a
Public Hearing, and there would be two actual Public Hearings
before the budget was adopted, although when is still a mystery.
Here’s
a video playlist, followed by links to the individual videos.
There are no links to an agenda, because the county didn’t publish an agenda, nor a draft budget.
Nevermind the County Engineer said about the Cat Creek Road bridge,
“All construction will take place during the months of June and July”
(Work Session 2014-03-24),
it was closed when Gretchen was headed for this morning’s Work Session,
so she had to go by Moody AFB on Bemiss Road, and was a few minutes late.
That’s why there’s no video for the first few agenda items,
and the videos are handheld.
They vote 5:30 PM this evening at the Regular Session,
is the same time as the Planning Commission meeting.
The smaller acreage for the
return of the Hahira Annexation request
is because it no longer has frontage on Hagen Bridge Road,
only on GA 122, thus removing
the county’s previous grounds for objection
(but it’s also on
the Planning Commission agenda at 5:30PM today, same time as the Regular Session).
There is an appointment to the
Hospital Authority
and two reappointments to the
shadowy Lowndes County Public Facilities Authority
that approves bonds.
Two Public Hearings for road abandonments, of
Old Statenville Road
and
of
Excess Right of Way on James Road and Riverside Road.
All that plus a
GEMA Sheltering Memorandum of Agreement
and a
beer license,
plus
Poll Manager Recognition.
Here’s the
agenda,
with links to the videos and a few notes.
See
videos from the previous Regular Session for context on the
Public Hearings
and on the
James Road Subsidence.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor
The
Hahira Annexation request is back
(while on
the Planning Commission agenda the same day),
and there is an appointment to the
Hospital Authority
and two to the
shadowy Lowndes County Public Facilities Authority
that approves bonds.
Two Public Hearings for road abandonments, of
Old Statenville Road
and
of
Excess Right of Way on James Road and Riverside Road.
All that plus a
GEMA Sheltering Memorandum of Agreement
and a
beer license,
plus
Poll Manager Recognition.
The county’s front page and calendar link to
a blank page for a Budget Session Tuesday.
Guessing by previous behavior, that may mean at 5PM
before the Regular Session at 5:30 PM,
which in turn is the same time as the Planning Commission meeting.
The Work Session is also Tuesday, at 8:30AM, due to Memorial Day Monday.
Here’s the
agenda.
See
videos from the previous Regular Session for context on the
Public Hearings
and on the
James Road Subsidence.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor
In a
Special Presentation to Thomas Smith on retiring from the 911 center,
we saw a rare use of the county’s video camera to display the podium
at the front of the room.
Escalated from contingency fund to SPLOST payment (we still don’t know how much):
fixing the
James Road 10-inch drop in 48 hours
in front of Westside Elementary School due to faulty road construction in 2008.
Also due to that same hasty 2008 James Road widening and realignment
for the
James Road second mall and massive subdivision mega-project
that never happened,
they scheduled a Public Hearing for abandoning
Excess Right of Way on James Rd & Riverside Dr.
And they voted
to fix three discrepencies MIDS, Inc. found in its contract of last year.
They voted for the low bid on the
lift station pump without ever saying what the other bids were.
They reappointed
Airport Authority Chairman Steve Everett
for another four-year term; he did not appear.
They approved the
911 Center surplus item sale.
They scheduled a Public Hearing to abandon part of
Old Statenville Road SE
because they say only seven cars a day, no, now it’s ten cars a day,
use it and there are no houses on it.
Nobody had any questions about the
a beer license.
And the County Manager said
a quarantine on the Animal Shelter was being lifted and
the next Work Session would be Tuesday (27 May 2014)
because of the holiday (Memorial Day).
Here’s
the agenda.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, MAY 12, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor
