A citizen expressed concerns about lack of transparency in SPLOST, at the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session 2013-10-22.
Video.
He remarked that Commissioner Joyce Evans was the only one he knew,
all the rest were new.
He said he would also talk to the Valdosta City Council that Thursday. (Later I told him they had cancelled that meeting due to lack of agenda items; he did speak at the following Valdosta City Council meeting.) He said he wanted the city to say the Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant was their first priority, and he attested that when he used to crop tobacco on that site it was underwater then when it flooded.
He especially didn’t like that the county didn’t list what projects it was going to fund with SPLOST. I agree with him about that part.
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