Chairman Paulk notes the sheriff has a very difficult job in
trying to find the younger Eunice in the Ocean Pond.
He asks people also to keep the Eunice family and Joyce Evans in mind
since her niece was recently murdered.
The Commission adjourns.
This second version is both noisier and perhaps somewhat easier to hear.
He remarks that the county has contracted with an arborist
to prune a tree on the courthouse property the next day,
but don’t be alarmed; they’re not cutting any trees down.
He thanks volunteers and agencies throughout the state
who have participated in searching for the missing person in the lake.
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First time speaker
Dr. William Fuller refers to a paper copy he got from the City of Valdosta
of the
charter of the Industrial Authority.
He says it allows them to make contracts, and he asks
for someone to check to see the unelected members
of the Industrial Authority don’t contract with relatives.
He notes that the charter says their main purpose is to
promote the general welfare of the people of Lowndes County, and the proposed biomass
plant won’t do that.
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Chairman Paulk says
he got a very good email from Susan Wehling,
who said she could not be here tonight.
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She says she has asked the Industrial Authority
who in our local community has done studies on the environment
and our health?
She says she understands that they have constituents who are not from here,
but who locally can do some investigating
that specifically cares about Lowndes County,
who has the environmental expertise?
Chairman Paulk thanks her for their earlier conversation,
and says: “I will seek an answer.”
Two cameras and the sound is bad in both, although for other speakers
it’s fine. I attribute it to the microphone being too far away from her,
and when Chairman Paulk speaks to the audience he leans around his laptop
and thus away from his microphone.
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Karen Noll, co-presiden of WACE,
notes that the proposed biomass plant would burn
human waste, which is animal waste, so there may be a conflict
with the requirements the County Commission made when it rezoned
the land for the plant.
She asks biomass oponents to stand; many do.
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Frenchie points out that there are other biomass plants
in the county, and
he even helped set one of them up.
He wonders if biomass opponents know that.
(Yes, VLCIA has mentioned it enough times.)
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I thank County Clerk Paige Dukes for making the text of the new
Policies and Procedures
available, and refer it to as as sterling example of local
government transparency.
Then I remark that I can’t be quite as complimentary about
their content, which is in some parts too vague and in others too strict.
I offer to provide written comments.
And in my personal opinion local government should not suppress
but rather celebrate citizen participation!
Since at least one commissioner did ask for them,
I sent them the written comments yesterday;
they will follow in a separate post.
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A
bit better reception than
he got last time.
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Chairman Paulk reminds us of the Eunice child still missing
and informs us that Joyce Evans’ niece was murdered,
and asks us to keep them in mind.
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