Audio feed was still not available so what you hear, is what I hear at the back of the room… -gretchen
Here’s the agenda, with links to the videos and a few notes by Gretchen.
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PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Who’s applying to be appointed Tuesday evening?
The Commission doesn’t tell you.
Come to the Work Session Monday morning and maybe you’ll be able
to hear the County Manager mumble the names, if he names them.
Those
library board applicants from two weeks ago are finally
on the agenda.
Also
an appointment to Parks and Rec,
three liquor licenses, and many other items,
but nothing about solid waste or trash.
Here’s the agenda:
Continue readingLOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Update 2013-07-08: Changed to a google+ page
You can add
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to your google+ circles.
All LAKE blog posts are automatically posted to g+.
(They’re automatically posted to LAKE’s
facebook page, too.)
-jsq
All it takes is the will to get it done, and Apple is doing it:
from 35% renewable energy in 2010 to 75% in 2012, and 100%
at all Apple data centers.
Cost? They’ll save more than they spent.
Time for Georgia Power and Southern Company to stop dragging their feet
and help us get on with it in Georgia.
Peter Burrows wrote for Bloomberg Thursday that Apple got nudged:
Continue readingIs there a County Commission Work Session this morning at 8:30 AM? Can't find out from the county's website: it's down again. Is this a good way to demonstrate that Internet access is "one of the number one issues"?
First noticed about 7AM,
http://www.lowndescounty.com/
not responding, same as
three weeks ago.
Once again I also tried it from somewhere far away geographically and on another
ISP, with the same results as last time.
Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
So it looks like the Lowndes County Commission's website is down. Speaking of far away, why does it seem to be hosted in Dallas, Texas?
Well, let's see if there's any information on their facebook page. Nope; still content-free.
Here's a response Gretchen got from County Clerk Paige Dukes when she inquired after the last outage:
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First noticed about 1PM, still down at 3:30PM, for
http://www.lowndescounty.com/
Safari can’t open the page
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.lowndescounty.com/” because the server unexpectedly dropped the connection. This sometimes occurs when the server is busy. Wait for a few minutes, and then try again.
Similar results with Firefox and Google-Chrome.
I even tried it from somewhere far away geographically and on another ISP, and got this with lynx:
Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
Can’t Access `http://www.lowndescounty.com/’
Alert!: Unable to access document.
So it looks like the Lowndes County Commission’s website is down.
Have you seen their facebook page? Here’s the entire contents of it:
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Last week I went to the Rainwater Conference Center to attend the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center & Tourism Authority Board
Meeting.
I had discovered the time and date of this meeting by asking at the information booth at the Conference Center one day when I was there for another event.
I arrived slightly before the 8:00 appointed time and was greated
warmly by
Councilman Tim Carroll
and
Conference Center Director Tim Riddle.
Being the Conference Center, they served a hot breakfast
(other morning boards have fruits and sweets but this was something
that you might get up for).
As 8:00 came there was apparently not a quorum, so calls went out to missing members to see if one more could be attacted. At 8:15 it was clear that there would be no additional members coming so no formal meeting was held, no votes were taken but an informal review of the agenda was performed:
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Both
Meghan Duke (PR and Marketing)
and Andrea Schruijer (Executive Director)
invited comments and additional information for the new website.
They were speaking to their board at its meeting last night, but in the Industrial Authority’s
new conversational spirit,
maybe they’ll take suggestions from the rest of the community, as well.
Both Allan Ricketts (Project Manager)
and
J. Stephen Gupton (Attorney)
said the Hahira well site work was going well.
They’ve got a new intern,
and I reminded them about
the need for fast Internet access.
It was a long meeting by County Commission standards,
yet short for Industrial Authority
meeting: about half an hour.
Here’s the agenda, with links to the videos, and a few notes.
-jsq
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The Industrial Authority has a spiffy new website under a new domain,
buildlowndes.com,
and with their new logo, formerly only on their
facebook page.
Their
meeting agenda for tonight, however,
is the same old recycled content-free placeholder.
I sure don’t miss the old hexagon menu, the new menu is up top and usable before they waste a bunch of space with stock photos. The Our Team page even links to the Linkedin profiles of Andrea Schruijer and Meghan Duke. While Allan Ricketts does have a Linkedin profile, it’s not very fleshed out and they don’t link to it.
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While Southern Company and Georgia Power pour money down that nuclear pit by the Savannah River and Progress Energy can’t afford to fix its Crystal River nuke, Google’s wind and solar projects are already online on time, all for less than the cost overruns so far at Vogtle or the fix-it price at Crystal River.
David Goldman wrote for CNN Money 10 January 2013, Google invests $200 million in Texas wind farm,
“We look for projects like Spinning Spur because, in addition to creating more renewable energy and strengthening the local economy, they also make for smart investments,” Kojo Ako-Asare, Google’s senior manager of corporate finance, said in a blog post.
Ako-Asare added that wind farms offer “attractive returns relative to the risks.”
Which is the opposite of nuclear’s huge risks relative to the apparently negative returns. So how much wind and solar energy does Google generate?
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