Last week I went to the Rainwater Conference Center to attend the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center & Tourism Authority Board
Meeting.
I had discovered
the time and date of this meeting by asking at the
information booth at the Conference Center one day when I was there
for another event.
I arrived slightly before the 8:00 appointed time and was greated
warmly by
Councilman Tim Carroll
and
Conference Center Director Tim Riddle.
Being the Conference Center, they served a hot breakfast
(other morning boards have fruits and sweets but this was something
that you might get up for).
As 8:00 came there was apparently not a quorum, so calls went out to
missing
members to see if one more could be attacted. At 8:15 it was
clear that there would be no additional members coming so no formal
meeting was held, no votes were taken but an informal review of the
agenda was performed:
- Call to Order—Chairman—Rob Evans
- Approval of the Minutes from the November 28, 2012 meeting
- November and December 2012 Financial Report—Tim Riddle
- Indeminfication Agreement—Tim Riddle
- Authorization Changes on Money Market Accounts—Tim Riddle
- Award Landscaping Maintenance Bid—Tim Riddle
- General Manager's Report—Tim Riddle
- Closing Comments—Chairman Rob Evans
Next Meeting scheduled for February 27, 2013.
The information presented at this "not a meeting" was informative.
There was a detailed presentation and discussion of the financial
statement along with discussion about needed updates to the website
visitvaldosta.org and the new conference center focused site which
is under development (and not currently available)
rainwaterconferencecenter.com.
From my point of view, a troubling thing was that there was a bid
award that needed to be made and no vote could be taken.
After the meeting, I asked Tim Riddle if I might obtain a copy of
the packet that the board members had and he said yes. I picked up
the packet as lunch time when I was back at the Conference Center
for another meeting.
-gretchen