The two longest items were proclamations, for the
Teen Explosion Youth Action Group
and for
Telecommunications Week.
Everything else sailed through.
Below are links to each LAKE video, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See previous post
for Continue reading
You can’t see the
Special Presentation by Attorney Haynes Studstill on Opioid Litigation (Work Session)
because Gretchen was not there with the LAKE video camera yesterday morning,
and
the agenda
says it’s only in the Work Session.
Lowndes County does video its own County Commission meetings,
but they haven’t posted the video of that yet.
Meanwhile, the City of Valdosta did
decide to join a lawsuit against big pharma about opioid addiction.
Another county legal item for tonight is
FY2019 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Program Request for Proposals (RFP).
They’re doing an
Update to the Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan, which is for:
Road Map,
2009 Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan.
HISTORY, FACTS AND ISSUES: The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners
first adopted the Thoroughfare Plan in 1983. Since then, the
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Everything passed: yes, Valdosta is joining a lawsuit against big pharma about opioid addiction,
yes, The Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church can expand,
and yes resolutions passed supporting the Withlacoochee and Little River (WLRWT) and the Alapaha River Water Trail.
There was amusement about Council members joining the BIG Little River Paddle Race,
and maybe writing a song for the Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest.
Two citizens had complaints.
Valdosta City Council members had praise for departing Public Information Officer Sementha Mathews and also for each other.
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Well, they spelled that wrong, as “Where are we now?”
Maybe for the video narrator from California who showed
a picture of lily pads when he said “River”.
But to be fair, this website and
the video from the Development Authority
organized by
VisionFirst whom Lowndes County paid $25,000,
presumably matching Valdosta,
also adopted by
SGRC,
does work hard to show a positive vision of the local area.
Oops, I forgot the hospital and the Chamber, and, most importantly,
Georgia Power, listed in the FAQ:
Who is the leading the effort?
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The Valdosta City Council
plans to sue big pharma over opioid addiction.
The
Thursday agenda also includes two rezonings (one
withdrawn), and two water trail resolutions:
one for the
Alapaha River
and one for the
Withlacoochee and Little Rivers.
For the rezonings, see
the LAKE videos of the preceding Planning Commission meeting.
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, April 5, 2018
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL
The Planning Commission had a large crowd,
including County Commissioner Joyce Evans and Chairman Bill Slaughter
visible lower left, and that may be Commissioner Mark Wisenbaker in front of them.
Most of them
left after the
North Oak Street
planned development, excuse me, rezoning,
took almost an hour.
See the notes on that item below for a spoiler for what happened to it later.
Second longest at almost fourteen minutes was the
Lakeland Highway rezoning, in which the current owners
apparently were trying to fix a problem left them by previous owners.
Third at almost seven minutes was a tie between
the
CR Ventures (Camp Rock again) rezoning on Rocky Ford Road
and
the
Kaylyn Gill Tucker rezoning on Enoch Lake Road,
carving out a plot for a single house from a planned development.
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Jeff Bezos sent his biographer to find the graphs; that’s when I learned about this.
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon,
Paperback, August 12, 2014, by Brad Stone
(PDF,
google book)
Intrigued by Shaw’s conviction about the inevitable importance of
the Internet, Bezos started researching its growth. A Texas-based
author and publisher named John Quarterman had recently started the
Matrix News, a monthly newsletter extolling the Internet and
discussing its commercial possibilities. One set of numbers in
particular in the February 1994 edition of the newsletter was
startling. For the first time, Quarterman broke down the growth of
the year-old World Wide Web and pointed out that its simple,
friendly interface appealed to a far broader audience than other
Internet technologies. In one chart, he showed that the number of
bytes—a set of binary digits —transmitted over the Web
had increased by a factor of 2,057 between January 1993 and January
1994.
Internet Resource Discovery Services by Bytes,
John S. Quarterman, Matrix News 4.2, MIDS, February 1994.Another graphic showed Continue reading
Just as
four years ago I projected solar growth ten years ahead,
a quarter century ago I projected Internet growth ten years into the future:
Graph:
A Naive Projection of the Growth of the Internet,
John S. Quarterman, Matrix News 2.2, MIDS, February 1992.
From 7.7 million Internet users in 1992, I projected the exponential
growth of the previous few years ahead a decade, to about
3.8 billion people in 2002.
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An
Executive Session for pending or potential litigation:
are they going to sue Deep South Sanitation again?
Some of them sure seem to want to find any excuse
not to re-approve
DSS’s franchise, which was the longest item at three minutes.
Second longest was two minutes for the
Bid for Mini Excavator for the Utilities Department.
Slow morning at the County Commission.
Below are links to each LAKE video with a very few notes,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also
agenda.
They vote this evening at 5:30 PM. Continue reading
This
CR Ventures rezoning on
the agenda for tonight
is two doors down on Rocky Ford Road from
the recent
Camp Rock rezoning, again for a Watkins,
and again represented by Jack Langdale.
Coincidence, or related?
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
Lowndes County
City of Valdosta
City of Dasher
City of Hahira
City of Lake Park
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
AGENDA
Monday, March 26, 2018 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue
