Sworn in:
re-elected
Sandra Tooley (District 2) and
new members
Eric Howard (District 4)
and
Andy Gibbs (District 6),
plus Sandra Tooley again as
new Mayor Pro Tem.
The vote on Mayor Pro Tem
split evenly with the Mayor voting,
between Sandra Tooley and Tim Carroll,
so they ended up having Judge Tunison draw one of the two names out of a box.
Employee of the month was Continue reading
New members top the agenda for tonight: Eric Howard (District 4) and Andy Gibbs (District 6).
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, January 11, 2018
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL
Congratulations, Larry Hanson.
Valdosta, PR, 1 November 2017, City Manager Larry Hanson Retires From Valdosta with Exceptional 42-Year Career: Hanson has been named the Georgia Municipal Association Executive Director
Larry Hanson will retire from the City of Valdosta, effective Dec. 8 after 42 years of public service, 22 of which he served as the Valdosta City Manager. Hanson will assume his new role as the Georgia Municipal Association Executive Director, where he will oversee the advocacy, training and various programs for more than 500 Georgia cities.
Hanson is the 10th and longest-serving city manager for the City of Valdosta, where he oversees Continue reading
Last Thursday the Valdosta City Council
asked “every police officer, civilian and sworn”
to come up front for
2a. Special Presentation of the CALEA Law Enforcement Accreditation Award,
which took more than 15 minutes.
That item alone was longer than
yesterday’s entire Lowndes County Commission meeting.
Like the County Commission, the City Council apparently thinks silence is acclamation, at least for their minutes. They did at least actually vote on going into executive session to discuss real estate.
They did not vote on the Loitering Ordinance amendments because there will be a third reading. There will also be a third VPD Community Forum to discuss Proposed Curfew Ordinance, 8PM, Thursday, October 12, 2017, at Morningside Baptist Church. They have gotten some feedback already. They got more from a citizen who wished to be heard. Sorry I didn’t get her name: the city’s sound is very muddy. She seemed to recommend after-school programs and jobs intead of a curfew. She said we need to support the parents. Roy Taylor Sr. said something similar. John Robinson recommended building the community with jobs and activities. Elsie Napier talked about community grants.
Unlike the county, the city uses Continue reading
The big item is the controversial teen curfew, first discussed in August, twice, and negotiated in September between the police chief and the city manager, according to WALB.
According to WCTV, it was Valdosta Police Chief Brian Childress who originally proposed this curfew, but apparently the city manager had more draconian ideas.
Here’s the agenda. Continue reading
Valdosta State University gave the American Association of University Women Powell Hall for this candidate forum last Thursday, September 21, 2017. Why they held it in a dark room with bad acoustics, I don’t know, but at least you can see the candidates and other speakers.
Here are links to each LAKE video, followed by a LAKE video playlist. Yes, you may use one of these videos or clips in your political ad, provided you cite the source: Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE). See also the announcement in the VDT.
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There was shouting last night at the end of
REZ-2017-09 Robert A. Register Estate,
because some people didn’t like a recommendation for rezoning
even with numerous conditions attached.
That one took almost an hour, far longer than all the rest of the agenda.
Tonight at 5:30 PM this rezoning in Lake Park
goes to the Lowndes County Commision for the actual
decision;
they
already discussed it yesterday morning.
Below are LAKE videos of last night’s Planning Commission meeting. See also Continue reading
On the closed landfill across from Valdosta State Prison on Val Tech Road, what looks like maybe a megawatt of solar panels by the City of Valdosta.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange, 1 September 2017
They meet again
tonight.
The longest case last month at the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission was:
5. VA-2017-11 Tombrooks LLC 316&318 Eager Road PD in R-10 at almost 56 minutes.
Together with its companion
4. VA-2017-10 Tombrooks LLC 318 Eager Road R15 to R10
at 27 minutes,
those two took longer than the
pair of
Jon Nijem
Baytree Road rezonings
and the Hahira
Wilby Coleman Stanfill Street rezoning
put together.
That last one is apparently since Hahira is getting redesigned so much by
the exit 29 reworking and a new ball park that
anybody nearby might as well try to do something with their property.
Below are Continue reading
In agendas for the governmental group which supposedly has oversight of the landfill in Lowndes County, Georgia, there is no mention at all of coal or coal ash. Thanks to Julia Shewchuck of SGRC, those agendas for the Deep South Solid Waste Authority (DSSWA) are on the LAKE website.
![[April 18, 2007 Agenda]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/dsswa/agendas/small/2007-04-18--Agenda--4-18-07-Meeting-0001.jpg)
Back in 2006 the proposed
Brooks County Landfill
is on the
the proposed April 19, 2006 agenda,
and
the June 21, 2006 agenda
said there was
a public hearing June 29, 2006.
An update was on the
October 18, 2016 agenda.
2007 starts with one meeting with no mention of the landfill, but the April 18, 2007 meeting has “5. Discussion of Onyx/Langdale Proposed Land Swap”. I don’t see any further mention of the Brooks County landfill after that, and apparently it never happened.
Curiously, these mentions of the Brooks County Landfill on the DSSWA agenda are all months after these VDT stories: Continue reading
