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You can apply to serve on a board or commission



You can apply to be appointed by Valdosta to a local board or authority that
decides or recommends on issues that affect everyone:
do interesting work and serve your community.
Dealine: April 30th.
You don’t even have to live in Valdosta: anybody in Lowndes County can apply.
If you want to run for a city council or county commission
seat someday, this is a good way to start.
And if you want to run for the state legislature or higher office,
that’s the most common path to get there.

Update: 4:30 PM 24 April 2014:
And there’s the Board of Elections which is decided by a completely different process with a quicker deadline of 28 April 2014.

Winnie Wright wrote for WCTV 23 April 2014,

City Of Valdosta Looking To Fill 15 Vacancies In Boards, Authorities, and Commissions, Continue reading →

Change order, KLVB, and Pipeline @ LCC 2014-04-08




$78,892.56 for an unbid change order for Val Del Road.
The Board of Tax Assessors’

appeal to a Board of Equalizations
decision to grand PCA an unusual depreciation was approved
by the Lowndes County Commission
by a rare split decision, 2 to 1.
Greg Powell of Langdale Industries
appointed to KLVB.
And

Citizen Noll recommended the Commission pass a resolution
or ordinance about the proposed Sabal Trail pipeline.

Three voting Commissioners
(Raines was absent and Page vacated his seat)
unanimously approved
three

rezonings with nobody speaking for or against.
They granted permission to

the Sheriff’s office
and to

Emergency Management
to apply for equipment grants.
There was a

weather report,
and a report on
an animal adoption event the previous weekend.

Here’s the agenda, with links to the videos and a few notes.
See also the videos of the previous morning’s Work Session.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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Defibrilators from Homeland Security @ LCC 2014-04-07



The

KLVB presentation told us up to three states dump in
the Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County,
for which the county gets some unspecified amount of tipping fees,
which go to fund KLVB.
An appointment to
KLVB was added to the agenda,
although nobody deigned to reveal who was “that individual that has
requested to serve on that board”.
The

Homeland Security grant application turned out to be for defibrillators.

Here’s
the agenda, with a few annotations and links to the videos.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

AMENDED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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A librarian on the library board! @ LCC 2013-06-25



The political appointee was replaced by a librarian,
and the marketing guy by a marketing guy,
at

the 25 June Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.

5.a. Lowndes County Library Board

Back

on June 10th

Library Director Kelly Lenz brought
candidates
Jack Hartley, Linda Most, and Matt Lawrence,
who spoke, and

at the June 24th Work Session

County Manager Joe Pritchard not naming candidates for the library board
Commissioner Joyce Evans submitted the name of Mr. Robert Jefferson,
who did not speak.

This time County Manager Joe Pritchard mumbled behind his monitor
and did not deign to name any of the candidates, referring to “a list”
that Commissioners could see but the public could not.
He did say that the openings were for the board slots previously occupied by
Kay Harris and Ray Devery.


Kay Harris
Previous political appointee Kay Harris

failed to get the new library at Five Points approved
in

last year’s failed SPLOST VII vote
and

resigned as Library Board Chair and from that board 15 March 2013.
Here are

some related points she never seemed to discuss.
And while she and the County Commission and the Valdosta City Council
and Mayor pointed fingers about who lost SPLOST, Continue reading →

Videos: Mostly trash, plus 3 appointments, 1 rezoning, 2 wastewater @ LCC 2013-06-11

Once again the big topic was trash, and it wasn’t on the agenda.


The Chairman made up a rule to limit citizen speakers to

15 minutes total.
After five citizens managed to speak anyway, all to applause, and
the owner of Deep South Sanitation
got a standing ovation,
the Commissioners offered

nothing but excuses.

Here’s

the agenda, plus links to the videos and a few notes.
See also the
videos of the previous morning’s Work Session.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Library Board candidates set an example @ LCC 2013-06-10

Three unscheduled candidates for the Lowndes County Library Board
set examples for informative applications to an appointed board.



At the

10 June 2013 Work Session
the Chairman did clearly say library board appointments were not on the agenda
but would be at their next meeting.
He didn’t define “next meeting”, but he meant two weeks later,
when it is indeed

on the agenda for this morning and tomorrow evening.


Back two weeks ago,

South Georgia Regional Library Director Kelly Lenz
said two nominees were present for two vacant positions.
Then she named three people: Jack Hartley, Linda Most, and Matt Lawrence.

Jack Hartley’s

LinkedIn profile
says he is “Franchsie Owner of Home Instead Senior Care, Valdosta, Georgia”.
He said: Continue reading →

Emily Macheski-Preston for Keep Lowndes/Valdosta Beautiful @ LCC 2013-06-11

As usual, an incumbent on an appointed board asked to be reappointed and was.


She did show up and speak, although she said more when she was first appointed.

5.b. Keep Lowndes/Valdosta Beautiful Board



At the

10 June 2013 Work Session,
County Manager Joe Pritchard noted Continue reading →

Tipping fees: no contract, no list of fees, no details of expenses

No copy of the contract for
tipping fees from the landfill it privatized some years ago,
no list of what those fees were,
and no detailed accounting of what they were used for:
that was the answer from Lowndes County’s Open Records Officer.
She also took more than 3 days to produce this non-information, answering
the day after the recent County Commission meeting.
Here’s her answer:


2008 CAFR page 38
From: pdukes@lowndescounty.com

Subject: Open records requests

Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:42:16 +0000

Good Afternoon,

In response to your open records requests of June 6, 2013, please
find the following:

For the contract or agreement addressing tipping fees, you may
contact Regional Commission Representative, Julia ShewChuk, at
229-333-5277. Lowndes County is not the custodian of this
information. You many find fee amounts in Lowndes Countys
Comprehensive Annual Reports located on the countys website,
www.lowndescounty.com.
To access these reports, go to the
Government tab at the top of the homepage, then County Manager,
then Finance, then Financial Reports. Fees are located on page 38
for 2008, page 38 for 2009, page 38 for 2010, page 39 for 2011 and
page 36 for 2012.

To be clear, Continue reading →

Videos: 3 appointments, 1 rezoning, 2 wastewater @ LCC 2013-06-10

Update 23 June 2013:
Now with sound!

Update 24 June 2013: Added links to separate posts for the newly audible items.



Unscheduled: Emergency Director Ashley Tye said more about
the proposed juvenile justice grant;
Kevin Beals announced the winners of the county’s
Wellness Weightloss Challenge;
and three

unscheduled Library Board applicants.
You can hear starting with the third of those last, but
you can’t hear the few potential appointees for KLVB, VLCCCTA, ZBOA, because


the county’s sound system
was out (due to a consultant or lightning, depending on who you ask)
and Gretchen didn’t notice and go to the camera’s mic until a few minutes in.

They did talk about
fixing the sewer force main that spilled into the Withlacoochee River.
Nothing was said about

the exclusive franchise for solid waste services.
Maybe you’d like to come tonight and say a few words.

Here’s

the agenda, plus links to the videos and a few notes.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Three appointments, a rezoning, and 2 wastewater but no solid waste @ LCC 2013-06-10

No names for appointments (KLVB, VLCCCTA, ZBOA),
and nothing on the agenda about

solid waste collection


or

the public hearing they didn’t hold
or

why they picked Veolia’s highest bid
or

ADS buying more companies when its spokesman said that wasn’t forseen
or

how much the Commission forsees waste collection fees going up
or

suing a local company
at the Lowndes County Commission.
Wasterwater is on the agenda twice,
which is good after that

sewer spill into the Withlacoochee River,
but nothing about

a five-year action plan.
Let’s listen to what the preacher Commissioners pray about:
that’s usually a clue to what’s on their minds,
even if they proceed to do the opposite.

Here’s

the agenda.

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