Here are LAKE videos of (most of) yesterday’s Southern Georgia Regional Commission (SGRC) Council meeting yesterday in Pearson, Georgia.

For some of the items, I have included photographs of the first sheet of the relevant handout(s). For the rest of each handout, please contact SGRC.

Thanks to SGRC Council Chair Joyce Evans and Assistant Director Chris Strom for inviting me to come speak about the Okefenokee Swamp in my other hat as Suwannee Riverkeeper; see the WWALS blog post.

Collage: Audit; New member John Clayton (Nashville); DCA Small Cities Conference; Okefenokee Swamp Resolutions –Suwannee Riverkeeper; Jody Redding, GA Gov. Field Rep.

Here is the complete agenda.

SGRC Council Agenda 2021-12-09

Here are the LAKE videos, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

• Before
  

  Video.

• 1. Order, Invocation, Pledge
  

  Video.

• Guests & GA Ag. Sec. Gary Black
  

  Video.

• 2. Install new member, John Clayton, City of Nashville
  

  Video.

• 4. Adoption of Minutes and Revenue and Expenses
  

  Video.

  
  Minutes: roster 2021-09-23

  
  Revenues and Expenditures

• 5. Audit report and adoption
  

  Video.

• 6. Mike Beatty presentation, Part 1
  

  Video.

  
  The Beatty Team (TBT) Creating a Climate of Success

• 6. Mike Beatty presentation, Part 2
  

  Video.

• 7. AARP presentation: no video (there was a camera battery issue)
• 8. Resolution to Contract for Aging Services: no video

  
  Division of Aging Report

  
  Resolution for Aging Services

• 9. Adoption of Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Annual Update: no video

  
  Adoption of Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Annual Update

• 10. Program Activities/Updates: no video

  
  Local government dates

• 11. Questions, Comments and Announcemets included the below videoed items.
• Resolutions for Okefenokee Swamp against titanium mine –Suwannee Riverkeeper
  

  Video.

  For details, see the WWALS blog post.

  This is the map referred to: National Geographic map of the Okefenokee Swamp.

  
  Okefenokee Swamp north

  
  Okefenokee Swamp south

• DCA Small Cities Conference in Dublin; new mayor of Ocilla
  

  Video.

• Jody Redding, Field Representative, GA Governor
  

  Video.

  He referred to this Project Status List, which had been discussed earlier in the meeting.

  
  Project Status List December 2021

• 12. Adjourn: Lunch blessing and Adjournment
  

  Video.

SGRC Calendar 2022

Here’s a LAKE video playlist:

Finances and Okefenokee Swamp @ SGRC 2021-12-09
Southern Georgia Regional Commission (SGRC) Council, Pearson, Atkinson County, Georgia.
Videos by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

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