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Videos: CDBG, Seago retracted, road crossing closures, CDBG, GEMA, and public safety radios @ LCC 2017-01-24



It’s great they’re talking early about the

CDBG grant for Habitat for Humanity and maybe some others,
but they can’t get any state or local grants until the county finishes
feuding with all the cities in the county about tax distribution.
They spent second most time on

the Kinderlou Road CSX RR crossing closure.

Seago rezoning was withdrawn by the applicant.
For Emergency Manager Ashley Tye’s report on tornado damage, see the

videos of the previous morning’s Work Session.
See also

the agenda.

Below are links to each LAKE video of the 2017-01-24 Regular Session,
with a few notes, followed by a LAKE video playlist. Continue reading →

U.S. House rules privatize records of sitting Congress members

I don’t think those words mean what they think they mean.
“Official duty” and “personal property” generally are opposites,
but the U.S. House this month defined them to be the same.



Proposed by

Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy [R-CA-23],
and
passed 4:02 PM 3 January 2017
by

a straight party-line vote,
it’s

H.Res.5 – Adopting rules for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress.

“(b) Records created, generated, or received by the
congressional office of a Member, Delegate, or the Resident
Commissioner in the performance of official duties are exclusively
the personal property of the individual Member, Delegate, or the
Resident Commissioner and such Member, Delegate, or Resident
Commissioner has control over such records.”.

Privatizing official records of Congress; what will they think of next?
This is Continue reading →

1 Hahira, 4 Valdosta, 2 County one wants to go backwards @ GLPC 2017-01-30

Nine cases (Hahira, Valdosta, Lowndes County) and one of the county cases

wants to go “backwards” to agricultural zoning,

Parcel 0167 098A
on tonight’s Planning Commission agenda.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

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

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Videos: Seago back again, road crossing closures, CDBG, GEMA, and public safety radios @ LCC 2017-01-23



Lowndes County had no fatailities or major injuries from the recent storm,
but our neighbors to the west and north were not so lucky,

reported Emergency Management Director Ashley Tye.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM on
is no longer on
the agenda,
but not on the

Seago rezoning,
because the applicant withdrew it.
They can talk about
CDBG funding,
because of “all the circumstances”, namely that the county is feuding
with all the cities in the county about tax distribution,
and can’t apply for any state or federal grants until that is resolved.
They

adjourned to executive session to discuss litigation:
does that mean they’re going to sue the cities about tax distribution
all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court again?

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Videos: Turnberry, Seago, and Branham back again, 3 alcohol, and budget @ LCC 2017-01-10



The three rezonings back
the agenda
after being tabled were

approved,

tabled again,
and

denied.
They meet again this morning at 8:30 AM to consider

that tabled rezoning and other matters.

See also Continue reading →

Seago back again, road crossing closures, CDBG, GEMA, and public safety radios @ LCC 2017-01-23



This morning at 8:30 AM
we’ll probably hear a storm report from Emergency Management Director Ashley Tye.
And back on the agenda for the third time,

REZ-2016-21 Seago, 4678 US Hwy 41 S,
still trying to buy a bit of adjoining land to get up to the minimum acreage:
see
the LAKE videos of the previous regular session, which link to all the previous stuff.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2017, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2017, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Pipelines companies don’t detect corrosion or stop explosions

A reminder of why to stop pipeline companies from burying investors’ money in the ground and get on with solar power:
the pipeline that exploded in Texas last week was
half owned by Spectra Energy,



the pipeline company behind
Sabal Trail, AIM, Penneast, and numerous other fracked methane invasions
and behind thirty years of undetected corrosion resulting in leaks, explosions, property damage, and deaths.
The pipeline company didn’t detect it and couldn’t even turn it off quickly.
Want to bet that it,
like Spectra’s Pennsylvania explosion last spring, was corrosion?

A very Texas report said “no people or cattle were injured”
and also notice: “The fire is under control and will burn itself out.” Continue reading →

Videos: Turnberry, Seago, and Branham back again, 3 alcohol, and budget @ LCC 2017-01-09



They vote tonight at 5:30 PM, and yesterday morning they reviewed
the three rezonings back
the agenda
after being tabled

last month.
County Manager Joe Pritchard

said staff would be sending Commissioners
a list of upcoming board apointments so they could think of candidates.
He didn’t say anything about showing that list to the public.

See also
the LAKE videos of last November’s Planning Commission meeting
for those three rezonings.

Below are links to LAKE videos from each item yesterday morning,
with a few notes,
followed by a video playlist. Continue reading →

Videos: Turnberry, Branham, Peterson Road Lift Station, and Commissioner Comments @ LCC 2016-12-13



24 minutes on
REZ-2016-19 Turnberry at Thompson E-A to R-21 which changed to R-1
at the last minute,
14 minutes on
Bill Branham’s

REZ-2016-23 Copeland Road development,
4 on
REZ-2016-24 Martin< 3 on REZ-2016-25 Cain’s Creekside RV Park,
and
3 on the

Peterson Road Lift Station Rehab,
plus
almost 5 minutes of

Chairman and Commission Comments!
Real discussion and revealing their opinions in public?
What’s gotten into them?
Did they see in advance

the VDT’s Sunlight on the horizon?

Yet the Chairman said nobody could ask the audience to stand up on

REZ-2016-19 Turnberry at Thompson
and while they were waiting for the room to clear before

the next item could start, Continue reading →

Turnberry, Seago, and Branham back again, 3 alcohol, and budget @ LCC 2017-01-09



Three rezonings are back from

last month
on
the agenda for the Lowndes County Commission Work Session
this morning at 8:30 AM.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2017, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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