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
Tag Archives: Valdosta
Tiny to large, Lake Park and Lowndes County @ GLPC 2017-08-28
Tonight at the Planning Commission, a small 1.687 acres Lake Park rezoning LP-2017-08-04 Leona Register and three sizes in the county from tiny 0.84 acres REZ-2017-08 West Side Business Park to medium 6.04 acres REZ-2017-07 Tomlinson to quite large ~138 acres REZ-2017-09 Robert A. Register Estate.
Parcels 0199 212 and 0223A 001,
REGISTER ROBERT A AKA R A REGISTER AS TRUSTEE,
and
parcels
0223A 005 and 0221C, REGISTER ROBERT A & IRENE TRUSTEES,
Lowndes County Tax Assessors.
Here is the the agenda.
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission Continue reading
Videos: Crowd for three rezoning cases @ GLPC 2017-07-31
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
GDOT construction on I-75 Exit 29 2017-08-28
This is the entrance to I-75 from GA 122 that often is backed up all the way to the traffic light in Hahira in the morning, that I use all the time. It did change quite a bit way back in 2006. More concerns were raised by citizens in 2013, but “No major changes made as a result of comments received.” One archaeological site was found in a survey. The winning bid for each of the utilities relocation and the main contract was Reames.
GDOT PR, 2017-08-25, Lowndes County: Reconstruction of I-75 Exit 29 Starts Monday,
VALDOSTA — Changes that will impact traffic are coming to Interstate 75 at Exit 29 next week as Continue reading
Groundbreaking, Naylor Community Center @ LCC Naylor 2017-08-16
Approved by the voters on the SPLOST VII ballot,
plans discussed in
a town hall meeting April 14, 2016,
bids approved
May 9, 2017,
and
below are the LAKE videos Gretchen took of the Naylor Community Center Ground Breaking, August 16, 2017.
Of the two Commissioners in whose district is this project,
Joyce Evans was there, but Demarcus Marshall was not,
because they held it at 10AM when they know he cannot attend due
to his day job.
Continue reading
Videos: Bids for emergency road repair! Appointments: Library Board, Development Authority, millage @ LCC 2017-08-21
Bids for an emergency repair!
This could be a first, instead of their usual sole source approve-it-right now method.
See
the County Manager’s Report, in which County Engineer Mike Fletcher
describes bids incoming from both Scruggs and Reames for temporary
repair to Rocky Ford Road.
Below are links to each LAKE video of yesterday morning’s Work Session with a few notes, followed by a LAKE video playlist. See also the agenda with notes about appointments and millage. And see also the 5 PM today Millage Rate Meeting.
Continue readingLowndes County Millage Rate Meeting @ LCC Millage 2017-08-22
This is all she wrote on Lowndes County’s web pages: no agenda, no draft documents. Lowndes County Millage Rate Meeting
Date: August 22, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Board of Commissioners Administration Building
Address:
327 N. Ashley Street
2nd Floor
Valdosta, GA 31601
Still from WWALS video of
Millage Public Hearing @ LCC Millage 2016-08-23
Rummaging around in the agenda sheet for 6.a. Adoption of Millage on the 5:30 PM Regular Session agenda, we find: Continue reading
Appointments: Library Board, Development Authority, millage, cameras @ LCC 2017-08-21
Maybe the county would have enough applicants their Work Session, Monday morning at 8:30 AM, if they advertised for applicants for open board seats, such as on the Development Authority of Lowndes County, And if they posted the application sheets for the applicants they did get, such as for the Lowndes County Library Board, we’d have some idea of who they are. They could even say whether the millage is going up or down.
According to the agenda sheet for the appointment to the Lowndes County Library Board,
There is a vacant seat on the Lowndes County Library Board. The Board of Trustees of the South Georgia Regional Library System respectfully requests the appointment of Mr. Gene Toffolo to fill the vacant seat.
They don’t say who applicant Gene Toffolo is. According to the South Georgia Regional Library he’s a 2016 Friends of the Library Board member:
Front Left to Right: Kay Scott, Janet Toffolo, Mary Helen Watson (President), Merrilee Casady,
Sarah Smart (Vice President), Robert DeVan (Treasurer)
Back Left to Right: Gene Toffolo, Patricia Marks, Riley Howard, Karl Osmus, John Swiderski (Secretary)
The county’s agenda and agenda sheet for the Lowndes County Library Board don’t say whose seat expired or maybe somebody resigned. The county’s web page for this board is no more helpful, listing these members and expirations, none of which expires in 2017: Continue reading
Solar panels at Valdosta Airport 2017-08-16
Prominently visible as you approach the terminal from Valdosta to catch a flight:
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange 2017-08-17
VRA’s web page curiously includes no mention I can find of these solar panels, which I would think would be great advertising for the airport. Continue reading
No coal ash on a dozen years of DSSWA agendas (but Brooks County Landfill)
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