Lake Park City Council meeting and special election


Former Council Member Jeff Spradley in the audience
At their 3 May 2011 meeting, the Lake Park City Council acknowledged that one of their number had moved out of the city limits and resigned, so they had to decide whether to hold a special election or just wait until the November regular election. After long deliberation, which seemed to be decided by the precedent of Dasher going ahead with a special election, Lake Park decided this:

Mayor Walter K. Sandlin, Council Member Ronald Carter, Council Member Eric Schindler, City Attorney Rob Plumb, Mayor Pro-Tem Council Member Paul Mulkey
Due to the resignation of Council Member Spradley
a Special Election will be held
September 20, 2011 to fill the vacancy.
Qualifying period will open on June 1st and end
12 noon on June 3rd.
There is a qualifying fee of $54.00.
We have no wards. All positions are “at large”.
For more information please contact us at
229.559.7470
So if you live in Lake Park and you want to run, you need to qualify by noon today. Mayor Sandlin predicted there would be multiple qualifiers. We’ll see how it goes.

Incidentally, the entire council is up for election in November, including whoever wins the special election will have to run again in November if they want to stay on the council.

In that and other business, it is quite interesting watching this city council interact rather informally with citizens, yet taking some care

to ensure that nobody monopolizes the conversation. Other local city councils might want to watch and take notes.

Here are two playlists for the council meeting in which this and other things were decided. Camera 1 is the same camera LAKE has been using for most Lowndes County Commission and Valdosta City Council meetings for years.


Regular meeting, Lake Park City Council, 3 May 2011, Lake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

Camera 2 is a new camera that zooms and has better sound, although we’re still getting used to it.


Regular meeting, Lake Park City Council, 3 May 2011, Lake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia.
Videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

-jsq