Hazard Mitigation Public Hearing (10/17/2011)
PUBLIC HEARING ON
HAZARD MITIGATION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011
6:00 P.M.
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
327 N. ASHLEY STREET
COMMISSION CHAMBERS – 2ND FLOOR
For more information please contact EMA Director, Ashley Tye, at 671-2790.
Make your taxes go up, and you’ll end up paying more taxes.
This is just one way
that people making minimum wage are going to lose their home.
Don’t be fooled!
If you’re a voting resident of Valdosta,
vote no on November the eighth on school unification.
Thank you.
Picture of Sam Allen at MLK Monument in Valdosta
by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange
Vote No on Unification —Sam Allen @ MLK Monument
We are the 99%,
Marching to Occupy Valdosta, Occupy Valdosta,
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 October 2011.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
Police encounter! @ Occupy Valdosta
We are the 99%,
Marching to Occupy Valdosta, Occupy Valdosta,
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 October 2011.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
OK, these words might:
Thanks to the Valdosta Police for being completely professional
and courteous throughout!
The occupy wall street movement that’s spreading around the country
arrived in south Georgia.
That’s her with the big camera in front of the palm tree,
come to see what democracy looks like.
More than 100 demonstrators marched through the streets
of Valdosta Friday.
They’re protesting issues from corporate greed to unemployment all the
way down to local issues including school consolidation.
There you have it: WALB links school consolidation to corporate greed.
How’s this for an ad linked to Martin Luther King Jr.?
Sam Allen says Vote No School Consolidation at the Martin Luther King Monument
Videos and pictures of Occupy Valdosta by John S. Quarterman
for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange
Erin Hurley spoke for Occupy America to Bank of America.
It’s national Take Your Money Out of Bank of America Day.
Who got bailed out?
They did!
Who did it?
We did it!
All right!
[laughter]
They are the 1%; we are the 99!
Take your money out of Bank of America Day –Occupy Valdosta Part 1 of 2:
We are the 99%,
Marching to Occupy Valdosta, Occupy Valdosta,
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 October 2011.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
Take your money out of Bank of America Day –Occupy Valdosta Part 2 of 2:
We are the 99%,
Marching to Occupy Valdosta, Occupy Valdosta,
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 October 2011.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
Make the Industrial Authority be accounted —Tony Daniels at MLK Occupy Valdosta
We are the 99%,
Marching to Occupy Valdosta, Occupy Valdosta,
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 October 2011.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
Mario Bartoletti stood up at the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument in Valdosta and said to Occupy Valdosta:
I’m just shy of 79
and I’ve been out here marching all the way today,
and I’ll tell you why.
When I was your age, we were marching for civil rights.
We made it.
Now we’re marching for another kind of rights,
and I guarantee we’re going to make it!
I want you to promise, when you’re my age,
you’re going to be leading a demonstration
for those who march for those kinds of rights.
Marching for rights —Mario Bartoletti @ MLK Monument Occupy Valdosta
We are the 99%,
Marching to Occupy Valdosta, Occupy Valdosta,
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 October 2011.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
Tony Daniels and Freddie Richardson carry the Occupy Valdosta banner
They marched more than
three miles from Drexel Park to Bank of America, where they noted
BoA got bailed out and we got left out and recommended withdrawing
your money.
Then to MLK Park, where many people spoke on a variety of subjects
ranging from stand together, to make the Industrial Authority be accounted,
to vote No on School Consolidation on November 8th,
to if MLK was alive he would be here today,
to marching for rights for a lifetime,
to no private prison,
to tax the rich,
and and of course
come back here (MLK Park) tomorrow (Sat 15 Oct) at 11AM!
Then to the VDT (where the Assistant Managing Editor was surprised by a cheer) and the Chamber (where the President didn’t care for a thesaurus lesson); more on all those stops later.
Marching to Occupy Valdosta, 14 October 2011:
Drexel Park, Bank of America, MLK Park, VDT, Chamber of Commerce.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman and John S. Quarterman
for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
Videos are still uploading, so check back later.
I’ll also blog more about specific events along the way.
In other words, we can offer a great education, provide incentives for
students to perform, make modifications to education to help students
succeed, and provide technical help, but if the child is homeless,
left home alone for long periods of time, living in a high crime area,
living in a home with substance abuse, or just downright defiant, there
is only so much the school can accomplish in helping these students
succeed. Good parental, home and community environments are critical to
the success of underprivileged children.
Therefore, CUEE and the Chamber of Commerce’s efforts are focused on
the wrong methods of improving our school statistics. Unification will
not accomplish any of their stated goals, but will create an enormous
financial burden on the community and its families during this time of
recession and high unemployment. The business community and volunteer
organizations should instead focus on providing educational awareness
and success clinics in low income areas. They should organize efforts
to reduce poverty by bringing in industry with good wages and sponsoring
basic community literacy and vocational training and tutoring. They should
focus on programs to promote the value of education. They should organize
drug awareness and rehabilitation programs in low income areas. They
should focus their efforts in decreasing poverty. They should focus on
encouraging community diversity. If they will do this, the educational
problems will take care of themselves in good systems like Valdosta
and Lowndes.
However, CUEE and the Chamber have insisted on pushing forward with their
unification agenda despite the certain negative effect it will have on
the community and the education of our children. They deny there will be
any negative effect, but they have no personal accountability if they are
wrong. They ignore all relevant studies and dismiss the results as being
misleading. Then they state their own misleading and false assertions
and claim them to be FACTS.
The latest Lowndes County Lunch and Learn
was yesterday, with County Clerk Paige Dukes
answering the top 50 questions the county receives.
Code Red! Road paving! Tax Assessment! CHIP grants!
Some of these things affect all of you, and many of them could help you specifically.
Gretchen was there and videoed most of it, as well as asking some followup questions.
Among other surprising answers was that the new Commission districts
as shown on the maps on the county website have still not been approved by the Department of Justice.
All of the Commissioners and several of the staff travelled to Atlanta
a few weeks ago to tweak the lines.
Paige assured us that tweaking would be completed in time for next year’s Commission elections.
Hazard Mitigation Public Hearing (10/17/2011)
