this item originating at the County Clerk’s office.
This may or may not be what the Commission voted on Tuesday. It’s not signed by any of the voting Commissioners or the County Clerk.
It says it’s a NOTICE. Is a Notice an ordinance?
It’s still not on the County’s website list of ordinances.
So many questions!
Cynics might have still other questions.
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It’s now been a week since the Lowndes County Commission passed an ordinance for no stated reason, not on the agenda, and not read to the public. It’s still not on the county’s online list of ordinances. Gretchen was covering an event Friday at which she saw Commissioner Crawford Powell; she asked him to send her a copy of the ordinance. Five days later, nothing has arrived.
So, our only clues are Commissioner Raines’ remarks that it had something to do with videoing and photographing. And his remarks that he believed that the Chairman could do it on his own, but he’d like to make a motion for the Commission to approve it.
So we have to guess it had something to do with
Ashley Paulk’s outburst of the previous morning,
in which he
flattered me
by addressing me and only me by name,
even though there were at least two video cameras recording the meeting.
This is what he was going on about:
The County Commission wishes from this day forward that any filming be done from the media area in the back corner of the room.He didn’t say anything about still photography, or for that matter
about digital videoing, so I don’t know whether what he said
had anything to do with whatever it was that
Commissioner Raines moved Tuesday and the Commission approved.
Nor does anybody else know.
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