Via the county’s notification system: Special Called Meeting-Solid Waste,
Thursday, January 29
To discuss solid waste management. No official action will be taken at this meeting.
Date: January 29, 2015 Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Location: Board of Commissioners
Administration BuildingAddress: 327 N. Ashley Street
3rd Floor
Valdosta, GA 31601
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Check it out the notification thingy from the county actually works. We got notified of a special called meeting.
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here.
A link under “News Flash” on the county’s front page leads to this slightly different version: Continue reading
Well, the agenda says the Invocation was “For the purpose of discussing real estate”; it doesn’t say what the Executive Session was for.
Maybe they’ve got a customer for one of those empty industrial parks
Brad Lofton talked them into building before he left the state.
Maybe they’re going to build some of those spec buildings they and Valdosta Mayor Gayle admire in Vidalia and Douglas.
Maybe they’re still negotiating with Continue reading
They talked about a new website; is it up yet?
Nope, according to
http://www.hahira.ga.us/cityofficials.html
Wayne Bullard is still Mayor, Rose Adams is still on the Council, and new
Council members Kenneth Davis and Mason Barfield are nowhere to be seen.
However, former Council member Bruce Cain has vanished,
even though he’s
the actual Mayor per last November’s election.
Here are some videos from the May 15th special called meeting
of the Hahira City Council where they talk about that proposed new website.
Here’s a video playlist:
Videos: fire chief, teachers, web site, and chairs
Special Called Meeting, Hahira City Council (Hahira),
Video by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Hahira, Lowndes County, Georgia, 15 May 2014.
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The Industrial Authority is having a Special Called Meeting Tuesday at 4:45 PM,
the agenda for which goes straight into Executive Session for no stated reason.
Is that even legal, as
I’ve asked before about a VLCIA executive session?
Also, why is G. Norman Bennett still listed as a board member and Vice Chairman, even though according to the VDT he resigned from VLCIA 13 March 2014? I asked him about that in Hahira a month ago today and he said he’d talk to VLCIA. Somebody didn’t follow through.
Here’s the agenda, which says they’re having an invocation for the purpose of discussing real estate and gives no reason for the Executive Session. Also from the Georgia Open Meetings Act of 2012, 50-14-3(b)(1): Continue reading
Not clear what’s so special about this meeting,
since the topics are the usual,
or where the agenda is,
or why Wayne Bullard is still listed as the Mayor on this announcement
(and on
Hahira’s own web page).
Silly me, I believed the VDT 10 January 2014 when Stuart Taylor wrote
“Newly elected Hahira Mayor Bruce Cain is sworn in Thursday by Judge Vernita Bender as his wife, Billie Cain, watches”.
Here’s the announcment, via Barbara Stratton. It lists “Web Site Recommendation”; maybe they’re going to update who’s mayor. Continue reading
It’s good they posted the detailed agenda item, but since when do tax-funded authorities hold public hearings in a private attorney’s office?
The Industrial Authority posted a meeting notice for their own special called meeting on their facebook page (a day in advance) and their website (at some unknown time). And the agenda does say what it was for:
For the consideration of the adoption of a bond resolution of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority authorizing and
providing for (a) the extension of the maturity date of its Economic Development Revenue Bond (Langdale Hospice House Project), Series 2006, in the original principal amount of $2,800,000, the proceeds of which were used to finance or reimburse, in whole or in part, the cost of the acquisition, construction and equipping of a hospice house and related facilities located in Lowndes County, Georgia, and operated by South Georgia Health Alliance, Inc., a Georgia nonprofit corporation, and (b) the execution of certain documents for such purpose.
That bond was previously discussed at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session of 23 October 2006: Continue reading
With
a bare quorum of 3 out of 5, VLCIA
Chair Mary Gooding
said they had finally purchased their own office space
and would henceforth pay neither lease nor rent
using our tax dollars.
I’d like to congratulate them for a thorough public bid review.
Project Manager Allan Ricketts reviewed the project including the bids on “the second document in front of you” that the taxpaying public didn’t get to see. He did summarize the bids, and they even showed them on a slide:
| $273,595 | Cauthan |
| $232,445 | Kellerman |
| $274,900 | Quillian Powell |
| $262,557 | Taylor |
| $244,000 | True North |
A board member wanted to know if the bids were all local. Ricketts said they were.
Mr. Matt Hart, with IPG, project manager on the project, clarified Continue reading
The Industrial Authority’s new office is urgent enough for a special called meeting. Inquiring reporter Gretchen is going to see what the fuss is about.
Maybe it’s just because this office search has had more episodes than Star Wars. Before Roy Copeland was appointed to the VLCIA board, they were considering buying the old Board of Elections site from him. Now he’s even been Chairman twice and given that up, and they still don’t have a new office. Or maybe it’s something to do with who owns 103 Roosevelt Drive.
Interestingly, HG Pinnacle Properties, Inc. also owns the much larger surrounding lot,
2318 N Patterson Street,
on which
a Valdosta Electric trailer has been parked
across from the hospital for so long it shows up on Google Maps.
On VLCIA’s website and facebook page (although oddly not in their current news page:
There will be a Special Called Meeting of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority 12 noon Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority Offices.
The purpose of this meeting is to review bids regarding the renovation and construction of 103 Roosevelt Drive.
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Yes we’ll take the 2002 percentages offered by Lowndes County, voted the the Valdosta City Council this morning at a Special Called Meeting.
The vote result is from Council Tim Carroll, who says they will revisit the percentages after the Georgia legislature does whatever it’s going to do about LOST in January. Here’s the notice of the meeting on Valdosta’s website:
Notice of a Special Called City Council Meeting
Posted Date: 10/16/2013The Valdosta City Council has scheduled a Special Called City Council Meeting for Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 8:00 a.m. at City Hall, 216 East Central Avenue, Council Chambers. The purpose of this Special Called Council Meeting is to discuss the Local Option Sales Tax (LOST).
For more information, please contact Teresa S. Bolden, City Clerk, at 259-3503 or tbolden@valdostacity.com.
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