Thanks to George Boston Rhynes for tracking the Valdosta City Council to the wilds of Lenox River Ranch where they meet every year in Colquitt County. Here are his videos.
The city did publish an agenda on their website.
Here’s a LAKE video playlist of George’s videos:
Continue reading
Local counties and cities
sold off one landfill in Lowndes County in the late 1990s,
and a second one in 2005 through the Deep South Solid Waste Management Authority.
Yet in 2007 the
Deep South Municipal Regional Solid Waste Management Authority (WMA),
with the same county and city member governments,
was still active, discussing a regional recycling station.
And it is still active today, including some of the same board members
the entire time since 2005,
such as
Valdosta City Manager Larry Hanson.
Hanson was not present last week
when Valdosta Mayor John Gayle said
Valdosta does not control the landfill, or perhaps he would have
mentioned that Valdosta through its longterm seat on the WMA board
does have some degree of control over the landfill’s operations.
I notice quite a few of the Valdosta City Council’s own minutes record discussions and votes related to that WMA including this item from their Regular meeting of 4 October 2014, which was called to order by Mayor Gayle:
- Boards, Commissions, Authorities, and Advisory Committees
- Consideration of an appointment to the Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority. — Appointed Richard Hardy, Public Works Director (7-0 Vote).
There must be some advantage to the City of Valdosta to have two members (Hanson and Hardy) on the WMA board. Certainly the average citizen or organization does not have that.
Bill Roberts, VDT, 5 December 2005, Authority closes on landfill deal, Continue reading
The Valdosta City Council heard from citizens about coal ash, wastewater, and toxic waste in the landfill. Mayor John Gayle offered to answer later in his office Eric Howard’s question about wastewater in his yard. The Mayor expressed his opinion that he and the council couldn’t do anything about the landfill, and read for yourself what he said about the Florida county resolutions about Valdosta wastewater. George Boston Rhynes told a droll tale about a dead cat and turkeys.
The Historic Preservation appeal was long and contentious, with the Mayor twice breaking a tie because only four City Council members were there: the appeal was approved. A citizen spoke about that afterwards, as did Council Tim Carroll.
Council Robert Yost recommended all the Hospital Authority Board should resign.
They unanimously approved both of the rezoning items; ditto the right of way maintenance bids.
And Firefighter Michael Penland is employee of the month.
Below are links to the LAKE video of each item, with a few notes (some drawn from Valdosta’s own SUMMARY OF ACTIONS), followed by a LAKE video playlist. See also the agenda.
Video. SUMMARY OF ACTIONS: Continue reading
Here are the LAKE videos for the 27 February 2017 Greater Lowndes Planning Commission,
with
Wilmer Calles on behalf of Rosa Calles
again about
going “backwards” to agricultural zoning (the neighbors don’t like it).
See
the agenda.
Plus
another county rezoning
(the county votes on those two tonight).
There were also to
Valdosta rezonings,
but Gretchen had to leave with the LAKE camera before
the first one
was finished.
The county or the city could video these Planning Commission meetings themselves. Continue reading
No water on the agenda, but there’s a WWALS event for those who want to speak about water issues.
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, March 9, 2017
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL
- Opening Ceremonies Continue reading
Back again,
Wilmer Calles on behalf of Rosa Calle
still
wants to go “backwards” to agricultural zoning and the neighbors don’t like it,
on
the agenda for tonight’s
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission,
after
a split recommendation for tabling
by GLPC a month ago,
indication of many objections at
the County Commission Work Session two weeks ago,
and being tabled the next day
at the County Commission Regular Session.
Plus
another county rezoning and
two in Valdosta tonight.
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
Continue reading
Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
AGENDA
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue
Monday, February 27, 2017 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
The controversial case was
Georgia Park LLC with VA-2017-03 and VA-2017-04 at an hour and a half,
plus
a five minute break for the room to empty afterwards.
GLPC recommended denial with one abstention.
Second longest at 17 minutes was the county case
10. REZ-2017-02 Wilmer Calles on behalf of Rosa Calles 13.6 acres.
Here are links to each LAKE video, followed by a video playlist. See also the Planning Commission agenda. The two county rezonings are on the Lowndes County Commission agenda this morning and tomorrow evening. Continue reading
Nine cases (Hahira, Valdosta, Lowndes County) and one of the county cases
wants to go “backwards” to agricultural zoning,
on tonight’s Planning Commission agenda.
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
Continue reading
Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
AGENDA
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue
Monday, January 30, 2017 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
Seven of these eleven cases are on the
Lowndes County Commission agenda this morning
after being heard by the
Planning Commission two weeks ago.
One item took almost an hour: REZ-2016-19 Turnberry at Thompson Old US41N/Thompson @ GLPC. Two others took almost half an hour each: REZ-2016-24 Martin – 3824 Newsome Road @ GLPC and REZ-2016-23 Branham Project, which was back again from last year and finally passed this time, 6-2. Those were the last of the Lowndes County cases, after which most of the crowd exited the packed house. At the end of the meeting they re-elected their same officers.
Here are links to each LAKE video of the items, in the order Continue reading
Back in 1999, Lowndes County made AP news for being
the only Georgia county to miss the deadline to file a service delivery plan and also not to file an extension.
They finally came to
an agreement in 2008 after a lot of wrangling,
The tradition of local government disagreement about
the 1997
HB 489 law requiring lack of duplication of tax-paid services
continued tonight, with a Special Called Meeting.
Caitlyn Chastain, WALBNews10, 11 November 2016,
Valdosta and Lowndes Co. leaders miss deadline for SDS agreement,
Lowndes County leaders are holding a special meeting for citizens to talk about their newest proposal for the city on November 29th.
If I’m not mistaken, they only posted the agenda yesterday. But Gretchen is there with the LAKE video camera. Until they straigten this out, none of them can apply for federal or state grants. Last I heard, Continue reading