Tag Archives: Valdosta

Videos: Mike Allen, Anti-Tethering, Budget, Surplus, Abandonment, Evidence, Workers Comp, Manhole @ LCC 2015-01-27



The room was packed as

the Chairman commented on

Dr. Amanda Hall’s proposal
for an

anti-tethering ordinance,
as did
four citizens
(realtor Alan Canup,
veterinarian Jeff Creamer,
LCDP Chairman Tom Hochschild,
and
Carol Kellerman),
plus

Chairman Slaughter again.
Citizen

Frenchie DePasture
commented on trash,
at Tuesday evening’s Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.
Mike Allen, Utilities Director until last Friday,
got an offer he couldn’t refuse from Hilton Head, South Carolina
and

a presentation from County Manager Joe Pritchard.
Finance Director Stephanie Black

read from the agenda
about

a budget award (or

passing grade) received by Lowndes County for the ninth year in a row,
as one of 1400 awardees this year.

No rezonings, but Continue reading →

Videos: 1 church, 2 small, 1 subdivision @ GLPC 2015-01-26



Videos of the Planning Commission recommending Monday 26 January 2015.
The Central Avenue Church of Christ wants

to rezone 5.6 acres to Downtown Commercial,
while the two small rezonings are on

Old Pine Road
and

Skipper Bridge Road,
plus

Devine Subdivision
on Tillman Crossing.

See
the agenda.

Videos: Solid Waste Special Called Meeting @ LCC Waste 2015-01-26



Videos of the 9:15 AM 26 January 2015

Special Called Meeting on Solid Waste Management
by the Lowndes County Commission.
There’s another such meeting
today 2-4 PM.

Both
ADS
and

Deep South Sanitation spoke Monday morning,
which is a welcome change from

the county suing the one on behalf of the other.
Rather than give ADS the raise it wants,

let’s not forget there is a termination clause in that exclusive franchise. Continue reading →

Another Solid Waste Special Called Meeting @ LCC Waste 2015-01-29

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 Building

Address: 327 N. Ashley Street

3rd Floor

Valdosta, GA 31601

-jsq

Videos: Anti-Tethering, Budget, Surplus, Abandonment, Evidence, Workers Comp, Manhole @ LCC 2015-01-26



Mike Allen, former Utilities Director,

no longer works for the county as of last Friday, according to
County Manager Joe Pritchard.

Dr. Amanda Hall
proposed an

anti-tethering ordinance.
Both at yesterday morning’s Work Session of the Lowndes County Commission.

Lowndes County won

an award for its budget as “a policy document, a financial plan, an operations guide and a communications device.”


All good except: as a communications device?
They’d probably have to publish drafts of it before they passed it for
that to be true.
Unless they mean as in a public telling, not a public hearing.
They won last year, too,

along with 45 other winners in Georgia,
including Valdosta.
Award, or passing grade?
They’ll

present it tonight
at the Regular Session.

No rezonings, but

surplus computing devices,
abandonment of

Deloach Road E (CR 95),
more on the
never-ending juvenile justice Evidence Based Associates topic,

Workers Compensation Insurance Renewal,
and

sewer gasses corrode manhole covers. I wonder how much gases
corrode pipelines?

See the agenda.
Videos are linked below, followed by a video playlist.

Continue reading →

1 church, 2 small, 1 subdivision @ GLPC 2015-01-26



The Central Avenue Church of Christ wants

to rezone 5.6 acres to Downtown Commercial,
while the two small rezonings are on

Old Pine Road
and

Skipper Bridge Road,
plus

Devine Subdivision
on Tillman Crossing.
This meeting already happened tonight.

Thanks to Lowndes County for starting to

post Planning Commission agendas
including

this one. -jsq

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 26, 2015 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

Continue reading →

Break the Chains: anti-tether ordinance @ LCC 2015-01-26

Their ordinance is

the agenda


for Monday morning’s Work Session, and
a local organization called

Break the Chains
is sponsoring a

facebook event
to get people to show up for Tuesday evening’s Regular Session
at 5:30 PM 26 January 2015
to recommend the Commission should pass it.

Joe Adgie, VDT, 24 January 2015,
Anti-chain ordinance in future? Continue reading →

Videos: Packets, paving, safety, trash, education, appointment, jail, taxes, water @ LCC 2015-01-13



Teri Lupo

reappointed to VLDA
and almost all the Commissioners asked questions at some point during the
at the Tuesday 5:30 PM 13 January 2015
Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission, at which

two new Commissioners got to vote.
Several citizens spoke, on

getting board packets on the web,
on

getting their road paved,
on

safety on Val Del Road and reopening some of the waste collection sites,
and
the

National Council of Negro Women;
the

Chairman weighed in on a couple of topics.

They meet again Monday morning 26 January 2015 plus a
Special Called Meeting on Waste Management that same morning.

The

Alapaha River Water Trail resolution,
according to the Chairman before the meeting, is waiting until
they’re ready to dedicate the new boat ramp at US 84, which
is waiting until the river water goes down enough to pour concrete.
Maybe some time this spring.

See the agenda
for details on what they were considering, and see
the

videos of the previous morning’s Work Session for background.
Below are links to the LAKE videos of each agenda item, followed
by a video playlist.
See also

the county’s own much more professional one big long video.

Continue reading →

Videos: VLDA appointment, jail, taxes, water @ LCC 2015-01-12



Teri Lupo was available for questions about

being reappointed to VLDA at the Monday 8:30 AM 21 12 January 2015
Work Session of the Lowndes County Commission.
There were no questions, but
Commissioners Demarcus and one other (I think Mark Wisenbaker) had compliments.
The Chairman asked for a motion to appoint, but was reminded this was
a Work Session, so wait until the next evening for that.

The agenda item for the resolution in support of

the Alapaha River Water Trail,
according to the Chairman before the meeting, is waiting until
they’re ready to dedicate the new boat ramp at US 84, which
is waiting until the river water goes down enough to pour concrete.
Maybe some time this spring.

See the agenda
for details on what they were considering.
Below are links to the LAKE videos of each agenda item, followed
by a video playlist.
See also

the county’s own much more professional one big long video.

Continue reading →

TVA needs to listen to former chair S. David Friedman about solar power

Will you bet on the blinkered money-only policies of the current
TVA Chair, or the accurate clean solar future predictions of former
TVA Chair S. David Friedman?

Seven years ago S. David Friedman wrote:


“As a substitute for oil, coal, and nuclear energy, the sun can
replace the three poisons with inexhaustible fuel.”

The former TVA Chairman wrote that in 2007 his boook

Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How,
which also says (page 4):

There are breakthroughs in new technology that promise to make
the cost of solar power as low as that of coal, nuclear, and oil.
Almost simultaneously in South Africa and the Silicon Valley in the
United States, companies are building huge new solar factories to manufacture
a paper-thin solar coating that can generate electricity that could
actually lower our electric bills.
These breakthroughs promise solar power at 75 percent less than today’s price. Continue reading →