Valdosta Mayor and Council had a very busy meeting on Thursday, December 11, 2025.

First, some questions for Valdosta Mayor, Council, and City Manager:

1. Why does Valdosta not publish its board packets on its own website? Since anyone can get them through an open records request, they are not secret. The board packets could go on the city’s own Agenda & Minutes web page:

   https://www.valdostacity.com/city-council/agendas-minutes

2. Speaking of which, where are the minutes since August? They’re not on that web page.
3. Why did Valdosta not do publicity about the seven (7) drinking water or wastewater improvement items on this December agenda?
4. Where is Valdosta’s video of this December meeting? If the facebook live video is the official video of the meeting, why is it not linked into the Agendas & Minutes web page?

Valdosta complains people think they’re doing nothing about fixing their wastewater problems.

Maybe that has something to do with the city actively hiding the details in unpublished board packets, as well as not doing publicity about such projects.

Collage of VCC Packet 2025-12-11

On this agenda was an ordinance copying Lowndes County in prohibiting sale of dogs and cats by retail establishments, a resolution about Valdosta City School System Refunding Bonds, and another resolution about the Georgia Historic Tax Credit Program. Plus various equipment for Engineering, Public Works, and Police.

The agenda also included the three rezonings or conditional use permits heard last month by the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC).

http://www.l-a-k-e.org/blog/?p=25373

The seven wastewater improvement items are:

• 5.e) about the Knights Academy Road and Goodyear Lift Stations,
• 5.f) also about the Knights Academy Road Lift Station,
• 5.g) about cost recovery for those same two Lift Stations,
• 5.h) about the Barack Obama Boulevard North Widening Project, with an agreement with LEA for a 16-inch water main,
• 6.b) about emergency repairs at the Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Station (WWTP),
• 6.c) about rebuilding pumps at the Gornto and Remer Master Lift Stations, and
• 6.d) about a new Decanter Unit for the WWTP.

It’s probably a good assumption that everything passed, but maybe I’ll do a followup post after I find Valdosta’s video of its December 11, 2025, City Council meeting.

They use facebook live for those meetings, so you might think they’d be under Live on their facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/CityofValdosta/live_videos

But that gets “Past live videos No videos to show”.

That December meeting is not on the Metro 17 Valdosta YouTube channel, nor are most others.

https://www.youtube.com/@Metro17Valdosta

Meanwhile, the agenda and board packet, received from a usually reliable source, are on the LAKE website, along with LAKE-generated images of each of the 185 pages of the packet.

Here I am only including images of the agenda.

Rezonings, Sale of dogs and cats, Refunding Bonds to be issued by the Valdosta City School System, Georgia Historic Tax Credit Program
PDF

Bids, Valdosta On-Demand, 3 water items
PDF

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