Thursday’s Industrial Authority
retreat and board meeting are both open meetings, which the
public can attend.
And at the 2PM board meeting apparently there will be news about
Project Excel, CCA’s private prison.
VLCIA Executive Director Andrea Schruijer clarified on the telephone just now
that
Thursday’s 9AM-2PM board retreat
is an open meeting; the public can attend.
She said the agenda was made by the facilitator, and she had not seen it.
The purpose of the retreat is for board members to talk about their experiences
and roles as board members.
The retreat is not for discussing specific projects.
Regarding the 2PM board meeting Thursday, she said she thought the agenda
was on VLCIA’s web pages.
When we looked and found it wasn’t there,
she said apparently there was some confusion due to the rescheduling
of the meeting, and the agenda would be there soon.
I asked her whether the Project Excel
Project Excel, the CCA private prison, she said the
Preliminary Specifications
(
see section 1.6.1)
had been received.
She said they had been received,
and they were simply a site diagram, a copy of which was
hanging on VLCIA’s office wall.
From discussion with her, it appears to be this site plan:
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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:
