Apparently there was a budget hearing last week that no one attended.
I don’t see it on the county calendar.

We know it happened though because

the paper reported on it.

The second budget hearing is scheduled for June 28 at 5:00pm and is on
the Lowndes County web site calendar.

At the work session this morning, I asked Ms. Stephanie Black if she
could e-mail me a copy of the budget and she said yes. Ms. Paige Dukes
said that Ms. Black should not e-mail me the document, but I could look
at a paper copy. A paper copy could be provided to me for $0.25 per page.
I asked if there was an electronic copy and Ms. Dukes said that this document
was not available in an electronic form.

Given that the document is neatly typed and clearly is generated from a spread
sheet, I think that it is not true that this document is unavailable in an
electronic format.

I asked if I could photograph it instead and Ms. Dukes said

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