In
the 10 September 2012 Lowndes County Commission Work Session,
Aaron Strickland of
Keep Lowndes-Valdosta Beautiful (KLVB)
said there were two applicants for appointement to the
KLVB board: Emily Preston and Deanna Wagner.
They did not speak;
Emily Macheski-Preston and Deanna Wagner.
Ms. Macheski-Preston spoke (included below); Ms. Wagner did not;
maybe tonight.
He gave a brief verbal report, which he said
was a summary of a report he submitted last week
(which we the taxpayers haven’t seen).
He said at their Rivers Alive event last year
they had a record number of sites cleaned: seven.
Great American Cleanup, KLVB’s signature event
used to be 1 day, but this year was 3 days.
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Valdosta asked for help with a creek project.
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Helped emergency management after the
tornadoes,
through
Ashley Tye and a group called Vision 388(?).
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Traditional cleanup day in Valdosta, Lowndes County, and Lake Park.
He read some
statistics on numbers of volunteers and things cleaned up.
He listed some
future events.
There’s more in the video.
Commissioner Richard Raines wanted to know how much time commitment was involved.
Answer: an hour per board meeting and helping out with events and committees.
Here’s
the video: video of Aaron Strickland’s aural report:
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