One appointee bowed out, architect selection and public defender to the courthouse were clarified, and dog kennels were discussed, in these LAKE videos from yesterday morning’s 11 May 2015 Work Session
of the Lowndes County Commission, with a few notes.
See also
the agenda, plus a
new item
6 f. Server Replacement/Network Core Replacement. Continue reading
Tag Archives: J. Glenn Gregory
Bottled water, prisoner details, board appointees, and Easter Seals @ LCC 2015-05-11
Picture by Michael Rivera, CC
Why is the county accepting
Bids for Bottled Water Service?
If its own water, or Valdosta’s, is good enough for the taxpayers,
shouldn’t it be good enough for Commission and staff?
They’ve also got a
Bid for Coffee Service,
but we don’t grow coffee here, as far as I know, so that’s not the same issue.
With many local people needing jobs, why does the county continue to renew an
Annual Contract Renewal for Prison Work Details?
Looks like Joseph G. Stevens will be reappointed to the
Lowndes County Public Facilities Authority.
Both G. Norman Bennett and incumbent Anthony Payton want to be appointed to the
one slot opening on the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Airport Authority.
Their applications were not included with the agenda, so who can say
which one is most qualified?
I guess they didn’t decide
to relocate the Public Defender’s Office into
the historic Lowndes County Courthouse,
since on the agenda is a three-year
Lease Agreement for the Public Defender’s Office at its present location.
Looks like J. Glenn Gregory will provide the
Architectural Services for the Lowndes County Civic Center Renovations
and the
Architectural Services for the Naylor Community Center, both funded via SPLOST VII.
Both apparently without competitive bids.
Here’s
the agenda, which also has
Declaration of Surplus Items and Authorization for Sale/Disposal
and
Easter Seals Southern Georgia Presentation (Work Session Only).
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, MAY 11, 2015 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Challengers made statehouse incumbents work in south Georgia
Hardly-funded insurgents led by Haley Shank put a scare into turncoat south Georgia statehouse
incumbents.
What would happen with well-funded candidates?
As we’ve already seen,
in new district 177 Dexter Sharper (D)
won 2 to 1 over opponent J. Glenn Gregory (R).
(All election data in this post is from
GA Secretary of State.)
Conversely, Jason Shaw (R-176) ran unopposed, perhaps because
he is the least offensive of the incumbents (he voted
against HB 1162
that put
the Atlanta-power-grab “charter school” amendment on the ballot,
although
he did vote for HB 797
that will funnel more of your local tax dollars to charter schools
imposed by Atlanta even if your school board doesn’t want them).
Other south Georgia statehouse incumbents, all Republicans, had
challengers, all Democrats.
All the challengers opposed Amendment 1.
Haley Shank did best, in District 173 against Darlene K. Taylor,
8,324 to 12,048 (40.86% to 59.14%).
Next was
The power of going solar —John S. Quarterman
My op-ed in the VDT today. Remember
to vote today or Tuesday.
-jsq
This spring,
the University at Buffalo turned on 750 kilowatts of
solar electricity.
Rutgers U., in New Jersey, installed 1.4
megawatts in 2009 and started on 8 MW this summer. Down here with a
lot more sun, how about solar panels on VSU parking lots?There’s
plenty of private solar financing available. Also in New
Jersey, a company installed 6 MW of solar on high school land and
leased the power to the school supplying most of its needs win-win.
You can go see a solar farm already working fine here,
200 kilowatts at Mud Creek Wastewater Plant.
Why not do the same
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at Lowndes High School, where all the world on I-75 could see,
attracting business to our community?
Why not?