If voters knew what they were voting for with SPLOST VII,
maybe they’d be more likely to vote for it,
noted Gretchen Quarterman
at the

13 August 2013 Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.

Gretchen Quarterman said she was happy about the work the county
had done with the cities to figure out SPLOST VII, but:

Last year we didn’t do a good job in the county about getting
the county residents to go and vote for SPLOST
so now we’re in this gap.
Thank you for figuring out how to
fill the gap; if we do that, that’s good.

One of the things that I think would really help us would be if
citizens could have complete and easy access to information about the SPLOST.
So you did the little presentation that says
$26 million for roads
and
$17 million for sewer and something.
But that’s not the
level of information
that at least I’m looking for.



This lady [Anita Armstrong, who had just spoken]
would like to know that her road is going to get paved.
Or that there’s going to be help for

Val Del [as in traffic in and out of REZ-2013-09 Moody Family Housing],
or something.

So I really think the more information
that we can make freely available
to people
without making them have to ask for it, the easier our job will be.

Here’s

the video:

Access to information about SPLOST

Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 13 August 2013.

-jsq