Videos: Tax Assessor and Land Bank appointments, Assessment rate, VAWA, alcohol @ LCC Regular 2024-01-28

Update 2025-02-11:
Lowndes County Considers Opting Out of House Bill 581 @ LCC Public Hearing 2025-02-10.

Commissioner Joyce Evans will

rotate back into the Vice Chair position.
On January 28, 2025, the Lowndes County Commission
also

reappointed to the Valdosta-Lowndes County Land Bank Authority.


[Collage @ LCC 28 January 2025]

Collage @ LCC 28 January 2025

In a break with tradition, the incumbent was not reappointed as a

Tax Assessor.
Gretchen Quarterman, the incumbent (although technically not, since
the County Commission did not do reappointments before her term expired at the end of 2024)
got a nomination and two votes.
James Michael (Mike) Tanner also got a nommination and two votes.
Commissioner Scottie Orenstein was not present for that item,
since he came in late.
That left Chairman Bill Slaughter to break the tie, and he voted for Tanner.

The previous morning,
Commissioner Demarcus Marshall said he wanted to ask questions of
the applicants for 6.a. Appointment to
the Board of Tax Assessors. Chairman Bill Slaughter said they
weren’t doing that in the Work Session because both applications
were not there, but they can do it in the Regular Session Tuesday.

Mike Tanner did not attend the Regular Session.
Gretchen Quarterman was there as usual, videoing the meeting.

The voted on the added agenda item,

8.d. Publish the intent to opt out of HB 581,
to do that.
That item and all the others were approved unanimously, except as noted above.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a
few comments by Gretchen Quarterman, followed by a LAKE video
playlist.

See also

the
agenda,
the

board packet,
and

LAKE videos of the preceding morning’s Work Session.

Here is the LAKE video playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiFCSf7SiEgPZQAHh3SSrl3S&si=xTkUiiGoluN-IboB

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