The main Work Session took six minutes this morning,
followed by an executive session,
which turned out to be about
easements for the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline,
which they’re adding to the agenda to vote on tomorrow evening at 5:30 PM.
See also the agenda. Below are links to each video, followed by a video playlist.
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Did you know there were openings on three boards?
Probably not, since the county didn’t post anything in public.
Now the day before they’re appointed, we learn
“Dr. Lynne Feldman resigned from the Hospital Authority, leaving a vacant seat on the board.
Dr. Steven Brian Dawson, Dr. John W. Devine, and Dr. John D. Roan have all been recommended for the position.”
County Manager Joe Pritchard did not say who recommended them, or how they knew to apply.
Similarly, on the
Lowndes County Division of Family and Children Services Board (DFCS),
somebody unnamed didn’t want to be reappointed, and “Elsie C. Napier has been recommended for the position.”
And on the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center and Tourism Authority Board,
David Motley wants to be reappointed.
At least we know how he knew.
There’s more on the agenda.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
You have to live in Lowndes County, but not necessarily in Valdosta, to volunteer to serve on one of these appointed boards. City of Valdosta PR 14 January 2016, Six Opportunities to Serve in New Year,
Valdosta-Lowndes County residents who have made serving their community a New Year’s resolution have until Wednesday, Feb. 3, to apply for one of six city appointments to serve on a board, commission, authority or advisory committee.
The Valdosta City Council will vote on the new appointments at their Feb. 11 City Council meeting to fill the following vacancies:
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The vote was unanimous for
the resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline
at the Lowndes County Commission Tuesday,
to be followed tonight by the Valdosta City Council voting on
their resolution of support for Lowndes County against Sabal Trail,
including
an additional clause about protecting our drinking water in the Floridan Aquifer.
This follows a long string of
county and city resolutions against that unnecessary,
destructive, and hazardous pipeline boondoggle.
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The text of the
Resolution Opposing the Sabal Trail Pipeline,
the
Commission meeting schedule,
the
budget calendar,
and the
proposed sign for the G. Robert Carter Law Enforcement Complex,
plus maps for all those special tax lighting districts
and details of budget and requests,
all in the
board packet
for the
8 December 2014 Work Session
and
the
9 December 2014 Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.
The County Clerk once again provided this packet only on paper
and only in black and white.
The
request to the County Clerk asked for
electronic copy, but once again she chose not to honor that part of the request.
There’s no change in that after the Open Government Symposium of 21 November 2014. Also, this request was sent shortly after the previous Commission meeting, and with more than three weeks notice the county only made this latest packet available at 4:35 PM the Friday before the meeting, when they close at 5PM.
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Who could have foreseen that
ADS wants a rate hike?
The Resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline
they already sent to FERC is
on the agenda for voting along with everything else tomorrow, 5:30 PM, Tuesday 9 December 2014.
Congratulations again in advance for doing that!
Update 2014-12-09: board packet.
Staff wants to rename the Sheriff’s complex for former Sheriff and former Comissioner G. Robert Carter. And a bunch of appointments, contracts, calendars, and special tax lighting districts. in a very full agenda. Other county commissions, such as Thomas County, list potential appointees in their agenda. If Lowndes County did that, we wouldn’t have to google to figure out how to spell names of appointees. And without this LAKE video, you wouldn’t know who was being considered, unless you skipped work to go to that 8:30 AM Work Session.
Here’s the agenda. The videos are below in the order events transpired, followed by a video playlist.
Continue readingThe Resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline they already sent to FERC is on the agenda for voting. Congratulations in advance for doing that!
Advanced Disposal is back
to report on their trash disposal.
Did they turn in their required written report this time?
How about that
recycling?
ADS’ Steve Edwards scheduled to report is the same who
couldn’t forsee any further acquisitions
before they
bought three more companies.
And a bunch of appointments, contracts, calendars, etc.
in a very full agenda.
Shortly after the previous Commission meeting, almost a month ago, I filed an open records request for the board packet. Today at 4:35PM I got a call saying it’s ready. It takes me 30 minutes to get there. They close at 5PM.
Here’s the agenda.
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PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor
Dave Hetzel from Tifton will appear via video at the Tourism Authority Tuesday morning to talk about the Alapaha River Water Trail that WWALS Watershed Coalition is preparing. Here’s the agenda, sent by VLCCCTA board member Tim Carroll. -jsq
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CONFERENCE CENTER & TOURISM AUTHORITY
MEETING
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
8:00 a.m.
AGENDA
What’s a “Presidio Change Order”? (Not like those change orders in DeKalb County, let’s hope.) A GEFA loan application for what? What’s going on with the Moody AFB Library?
Apparently Nottinghill is going to have a community water system, since it’s on the agenda for a trust deed, but you wouldn’t know that unless you’d followed other trust deeds, such as the one for Raisin’ Cane approved in December.
At least we know they’ve been itching to turn Cat Creek
Road into a highway at least since
they put widening it on their T-SPLOST list in 2012,
and on this agenda is
replacing the old bridge on Cat Creek Road.
The agenda actually says the final item is only in the Work Session. Maybe this will avoid the kind of confusion that happened with the Sabal Trail pipeline presentation in November and December.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERSContinue readingPROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor
Once again the big topic was trash, and it wasn’t on the agenda.
The Chairman made up a rule to limit citizen speakers to
15 minutes total.
After five citizens managed to speak anyway, all to applause, and
the owner of Deep South Sanitation
got a standing ovation,
the Commissioners offered
nothing but excuses.
Here’s the agenda, plus links to the videos and a few notes. See also the videos of the previous morning’s Work Session.
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PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor