Former Chairman Ashley Paulk may say he didn’t tell Cory Scarborough
of Deep South Sanitation that
any contract by the county for curbside pickup would be non-exclusive
(VDT 30 May 2013),
but David Rodock reported for the VDT from Ashley Paulk’s guest house
at a Lowndes County Commission retreat chaired by Ashley Paulk that:

Commissioners decided that getting out of the “trash
business” was best and that a non-exclusive agreement with
current curbside pickup companies (which about 12,000 citizens
already employ) would provide service without putting any people out
of business.

The VDT reported
(
Commission tackles key issues:
Waste management, tax lighting districts and SPLOST discussed at retreat
by David Rodock, 31 March 2012)
Commissioners “decided”.
Yet there is no vote recorded, in contravention to Georgia open meetings law
and a recent
Georgia Supreme Court decision.

How is this doing

“the people’s business”?
Maybe if they took a vote and recorded it properly we’d all know what they said.

-jsq