Notice appeared yesterday of a meeting at 8:30 AM this morning. A very rudimentary agenda was provided.
Special Called Meeting
Friday, August 26, 2022
Date: August 26, 2022
Time: 8:30 AM
Location: Board of Commissioners Administration Building
Address: 327 N. Ashley Street
2nd Floor
Valdosta, GA 31601
The agenda: Continue reading
Forty minutes was a long meeting for the Lowndes County Commission, at its Regular Session two weeks ago, Tuesday, June 28, 2022.
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Three citizens make a long meeting
Three Citizens Wishing To Be Heard spoke for about 13.5 minutes. 4. Animal Control Officers Recognition took six minutes. So the scheduled items took about twenty minutes, which is usual.
Chairman Bill Slaughter was absent, so the meeting was presided over by Vice-Chair Scottie Orenstein. They approved everything unanimously.
Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman, followed by a LAKE video playlist. See also Continue reading
The packet for the June 26 and 27, 2022, Lowndes County Commission meetings is on the LAKE website.
Follow this link:Packet: Construction Board Appointment, Budget, DUI Court, Water, Sewer, Paving, Cyber Security @ LCC 2022-06-27
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Update 2022-06-28: Three Citizens, budget, DUI, water, sewer, paving, cyber security, tractor @ LCC 2022-06-28.
Yesterday morning at their 11-minute Work Session the Lowndes County Commission and staff ran through everything as fast as the items could be read off.
Vice-Chair Scottie Orenstein presided in the absence of Chairman Bill Slaughter.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM.
Below are Continue reading
Update 2022-06-28: Videos: DUI Court, Cyber Security, Road Paving, Water and Sewer, and Budget @ LCC 2022-06-27.
No rezonings this week, but a board appointment, budget adoption, money shuffling for the DUI Court, and two water and sewer infrastructure adoptions that, as usual, Lowndes County pretends will not cost the taxpayers money. Plus a mower for Public Works and some cyber security stuff. All at the Monday morning Work Session and the Tuesday 5:30 PM Regular Session.
Here is the agenda. A LAKE open records request has gone in for the board packet.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2022, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
The Valdosta meeting about grants to non-profits from American Rescue Program Act (ARPA) funds consisted of a five-minute welcome by Valdosta City Manager Mark Barber, and a summary of the application process by Mike Smith of Valdosta United Way, followed by a half hour of questions and answers.
![[Chuck Dinkins, Valdosta Finance Director, and Mike Smith, Valdosta United Way ]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/valdosta/2022-05-27--arpa-non-profit-videos/sddefault.jpg)
Chuck Dinkins, Valdosta Finance Director, and Mike Smith, Valdosta United Way
The actual application is thirteen pages, yet is pretty straightforward.
Below are links to LAKE videos of those three segments, followed by a LAKE video playlist. See also Continue reading
Update 2022-06-14: Agenda, 4 rezonings, 2 xourts, 1 appointment, and a big ARPA-funded water project @ LCC 2022-06-16
An overflow crowd, some in the lobby, came for the four Lowndes County cases at the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission, May 23, 2022. Two of the Valdosta cases were also contentious. The whole meeting took more than three hours, so long there was griping about people getting hungry. The door alarm went off at 8 o’clock, but they plowed ahead with three remaining cases. When they adjourned at 8:52 PM, nobody was left in the audience but Gretchen Quarterman with the LAKE video camera.
![[Flannigan, Campus, Makesh, Pittman]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/glpc/2022-05-23--glpc-videos/many.jpg)
Flannigan, Campus, Makesh, Pittman
One county and one city case were on James Road. The county case got a unanimous recommendation to deny, moved by famously pro-development Franklin Bailey. The Commissioners really did not seem to like “speculative commercial use on the subject property.” Continue reading
Update 2022-06-23: LAKE videos.
Posted yesterday on facebook and twitter, one of the committees announced a week ago is having a presentation this morning:
City of Valdosta
@CityofValdosta
Join the City of Valdosta tomorrow at 9 a.m. as we present to the community our Non-Profit Committee application process from the ARPA allocation. @greatervaldostaunitedway @valdostachamber
When: 9 AM, Friday, May 27, 2022
Where: Women’s Building, 1409 N. Patterson St., Valdosta, GA Continue reading
No citizens showed up other than Gretchen Quarterman, behind the LAKE video camera. Commissioners did not vote, because this is presumably the first of several Budget Hearings. Or is it? It was billed as a Work Session. Anyway, it took seventeen minutes.
County Manager Paige Dukes said Continue reading
Update 2022-06-03: 4 long Lowndes County cases + 2 long Valdosta cases @ GLPC 2022-05-23, including the board packet materials for the county cases and the minutes for the previous meeting.
Everything from a pair of personal care homes to a fraternity to a church to the Salvation Army wants rezoning or variances at this evening’s Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) meeting.
The board packet materials for the Hahira and Valdosta items are on the LAKE website, thanks to City Planner Matt Martin.
LAKE has no materials for the Lowndes County items, and no copy of the draft minutes from the previous meeting, because Lowndes County has not yet sent them in response to a LAKE open records request.
Here is the agenda:
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
~ Lowndes County ~ City of Valdosta ~ City of Dasher ~
~ City of Hahira ~ City of Lake Park ~ City of Remerton ~Monday, May 16, 2022 5:30 P.M. Work Session
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Monday, May 23, 2022 5:30 P.M. Regular Session
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia
![[LOST]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2022-08-26--lcc-lost/lost.jpg)
![[Hotel/Motel Taxes]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2022-06-27--lcc-packet/many.jpg)
![[Items]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2022-06-27--lcc-videos/many.jpg)
![[Both pages of the agenda]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2022-06-27--lcc-agenda/many.jpg)
![[Flyer, Committee members]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/valdosta/2022-05-27--arpa-non-profit/many.jpg)
![[Executives and Revenue]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2022-05-23--budget-videos/many.jpg)
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