25th Semi-Annual Alapahoochee Historic Farm/Heritage Days will take
place April 10-11 from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Located at
202 Bethel Church Road in Echols County.
Here’s their flyer on their facebook page. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Lake Park
Return to agriculture, historic preservation, and personal services @ GLPC 2015-03-30
While
Vallotton Farms wants to revert to Estate Agricultural,
Vickers
and
Edward Jennings LLC want denser zoning.
It’s not clear what the
Valdosta historic preservation case
or the
Lake Park personal services case
are about, since the county still doesn’t publish board packets.
Note that Vallotton Farms (both the part outlined in red
that appears to be the subject of the rezoning and the bigger part west of Bemiss Road) is on Cherry Creek, upstream from the dam,
and upstream from Cherry Creek Sink on the
Withlacoochee River, which leaks into our drinking water in the Floridan Aquifer.
Better agriculture upstream from that than other possibilities.
Here’s the agenda. Continue reading
HB 170: counties vs. cities? @ LCC 2015-02-10
Yesterday a Georgia House subcommittee did exactly what Valdosta
urged it not to do about distributing HB 170 funds.
Given that LMIG mismatch between cities and counties
to replace the previous mismatch of forced double taxation
on cities and counties, is the legislature trying to cause
dissension between counties and their cities, or is it just that inept?
We know Valdosta’s position.
What will the Lowndes County Commission do?
Valdosta City Manager Larry Hanson wrote to bill’s sponsor: Continue reading
HB 170 voted out of subcommittee; what will Lowndes County Commission do? @ LCC 2015-02-06
How long will the Lowndes County government and ACCG wait to act,
while the Georgia legislature moves on
its stealth transportation
tax hike for Atlanta that would defund local school boards and city
and county governments?
A House subcommittee has made some changes to the bill,
but it would still force local governments to raise taxes,
and it adds an unrelated repeal of an electric vehicle tax credit
to its boondoggle for trucking companies and Atlanta.
Do we want our local public schools to be defunded like
wildlife programs were through the state’s wildlife license plate revenue
tax taking?
If not, now’s the time to lobby against HB 170, before
the full House Transportation Committee meets Thursday.
Yet there’s still nothing about HB 170
on the county’s agenda for this evening’s voting Regular Session.
Valdosta has already Continue reading
Videos: Hospital, transportation, water, incarceration, taxes, Internet, and military @ LCC 2015-02-06
Commission and staff followed up on
safety on Val Del Road that
John Page brought up in Citizens Wishing to Be Heard
a month ago.
Appointed board and agency openings: they have a list, but you can’t see it,
for the Bad Dog Board or any other.
The Chairman had “support” for a referendum to appoint Tax Assessors,
although “this is not a vote”.
About Internet access,
County Manager Joe Pritchard discussed a map of a “skeletal framework”
of city and county, VSU, SGMC, Georgia Military College, Wiregrass Technical
College, “the outlying cities”, as well as the industrial parks,
for DSL, cable modems, etc.
This discussion has come a long way in the year since
Chairman Bill Slaughter said “We have broadband”.
They seem to want the county to be Continue reading
Video: SPLOST Facility Update with boatramp @ LCC 2015-02-05
The Naylor boat ramp might be finished this fall,
and here’s a list of other SPLOST expenditures, from
yesterday’s Lowndes County Commission Annual Planning Meeting.
County Manager Joe Pritchard asked Chad McLeod Project Manager and Mike Fletcher County Engineer to come forward, saying “Turn in your book to that tab….” A book you, the taxpaying public reader, do not have. The county can publish board packets on their new website if they want to.
McCleod presented current facilities for SPLOST VII, after a long introduction by Pritchard, who said McLeod was the county’s liaison with Parks and Rec (VLPRA) and the Sheriff’s Department and other offices. McLeod said VLPRA projects are built by the county and turned over to VLPRA for administration, except for two projects at Freedom Park, which are being managed by VLPRA due to House Bill 489. He listed dollar amounts. I couldn’t catch all of them, but here are some of them: Continue reading
The rest of the videos @ LCC 2015-02-05
The rest of the videos from Thursday are up,
as they meet again this morning at 8:30 AM.
The new videos are about
Revenue and Tax Update,
SPLOST Facility Update (including boat ramp),
Budget Management,
Solid Waste Management,
Litter Control,
and an unscheduled
Closed Session.
All yesterday’s videos are added now to the original post.
-jsq
Videos: Audit report and finance @ LCC 2015-02-05
Update2 2015-02-06:
Why HB 170 is bad –Harrison Tillman
Update 2015-02-06:
The rest of the videos from Thursday are up,
as they meet again this morning at 8:30 AM.
The new videos are about
Revenue and Tax Update,
SPLOST Facility Update (including boat ramp),
Budget Management,
Solid Waste Management,
Litter Control,
and an unscheduled
Closed Session.
Videos are already up for the
audit report and
finance from day 1 of the
Lowndes County Commission Annual Planning Meeting.
More to come.
Meanwhile, see also Gretchen’s notes about
the new boatramp on the Alapaha River
and
illegal trash dumping. Continue reading
Illegal trash dumping @ LCC 2015-02-05
I’m shocked, shocked, to discover there’s illegal dumping going on in Lowndes County! County staff assured us all two yeas ago that wouldn’t be a problem, while telling us all we had no choice about waste disposal. Yet today at the county’s retreat they showed this map of illegal dumping locations throughout the county.
(If the county published Continue reading
Alapaha Boat Ramp progress @ LCC 2015-02-05
They’ve been working with Dr. Acree on land aquisition, and with GA-DNR
on flow levels and ramp placement, as well as anticipation of survey and
final designs, they said during the SPLOST agenda item,
reports Gretchen from the
Lowndes County Commission retreat.
No word of when they anticipate completing the boat ramp,
and it sounds like they haven’t actually purchased the land yet.
-jsq