Videos: Turnberry, Branham, Peterson Road Lift Station, and Commissioner Comments @ LCC 2016-12-13

24 minutes on REZ-2016-19 Turnberry at Thompson E-A to R-21 which changed to R-1 at the last minute, 14 minutes on Bill Branham’s REZ-2016-23 Copeland Road development, 4 on REZ-2016-24 Martin< 3 on REZ-2016-25 Cain’s Creekside RV Park, and 3 on the Peterson Road Lift Station Rehab, plus almost 5 minutes of Chairman and Commission Comments! Real discussion and revealing their opinions in public? What’s gotten into them? Did they see in advance the VDT’s Sunlight on the horizon?

Yet the Chairman said nobody could ask the audience to stand up on REZ-2016-19 Turnberry at Thompson and while they were waiting for the room to clear before the next item could start, Commissioner Clay Griner said he was taking notes on all the people who left. At the January Valdosta City Council meeting he got up and left after the item he was interested in.

The County Commissioners also reappointed Dr. Randy Smith for another six years on the Board of Health, although the public still hasn’t seen the “letter from Dr. Grove supporting Dr. Smith,” nor for that matter the quarterly financial report. If tiny Effingham County can publish its County Commission packets, mighty Lowndes County could to it, too.

They also adopted the Soil Erosion, Sedimentation and Pollution Control Ordinance and a resolution to re-apply for the grant for the rural transportation service run by MIDS.

Below are links to each of the LAKE videos, with a few notes, followed by a video playlist. Gretchen put further notes directly in the YouTube video comments. See also the agenda, and for the rezonings the LAKE videos of the preceding Planning Commission meeting. If I’m not mistaken, GLPC recommended for all of the rezonings, although the Branham one was a split 6:2 vote. And see the LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session.

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Videos: Turnberry, Branham, Peterson Road Lift Station, and Commissioner Comments
Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, December 13, 2016.

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