The big item at Tuesday’s Lowndes County Commission Regular Session was, same as at Monday’s Work Session, the waste management railroad, terminating in a decision. Other topics included citizen Karen Noll speaking against the charter school amendment.

Here’s the agenda with links to the videos and a few notes, or links to separate posts. Apologies for the poor sound on the first videos; we didn’t have the usual camera. Of course, if the Commission did its own videoing and posting, that problem would be unlikely to occur.

1. Call to Order
2. Invocation
3. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag
4. Minutes for Approval
   1. Work Session — September 24, 2012
   2. Regular Session — September 25, 2012
5. Public Hearing — REZ-2012-15 Glenn O’Neal, Pecan Plantation Rd. & US Hwy 84 W E-A to C-H, County Water & Septic, ~4.5 acres
6. For Consideration
   1. Bevel Creek Lift Station Pump Repair
   2. Alapaha Waterline size Increase
   3. Beer License — Naylor’s Pantry — 8777 E. Hwy 135
   4. Refunding Revenue Bonds
   5. Solid Waste Management Request for Proposal
7. Reports
   1. Community Planning Month Proclamation
      Plus recognition of two planners from Moody AFB.
   2. Employee Health Fair
   Chairman Ashley Paulk interjected not on the agenda
   • some comments about recently deceased former VSU president Hugh C. Bailey,
   • and noted the fire chief had a new fire truck, which was parked outside.
8. Citizens Wishing to be Heard Please State Name And Address
   • Karen Noll spoke against the charter school amendment, saying it would implement taxation without representation Karen Noll @ LCC 2012-10-09 and would take more tax dollars from our public schools to give twice as much money to special charter school students.
   • Ken Klanicki never actually even approached the podium. After being asked by the chairman to come to the podium or leave the room, he wandered to the back of the room and was escorted out by a deputy sheriff. He called me by name as he left, but I have no idea what he was trying to accomplish. He called me later, but when I asked him that, he had no explanation.

Here’s a video playlist. It shifts from the first camera (good video, poor sound) to the second camera (video with no closeups, good sound) in the middle, when I arrived with the second camera. The rest of the first camera videos are tacked onto the end. Next time we’ll attempt to have the good camera.

Video Playlist
Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 9 October 2012.

-jsq