Category Archives: Transportation

Library, rezonings, water main, road abandonments @ LCC 2019-02-11

On the

agenda
for this morning, with voting Tuesday evening,
$18,250.00 of $73,000.00 to

bore under US 84 for a water main to we don’t know who
(see also
LAKE videos of previous Regular session),
and
$7,500.00 paid in full by GDOT to

close the CSX railroad crossing at Dasher-Johnson Road and to improve the crossing at Good Hope Road.
Also final Public Hearing to

abandon part of McLeod Road (see also previous Regular Session),
first consideration of
Abandonment of Doyle Kelly Road.
Plus

reappointment of
attorney Karl Osmus to the
Lowndes County Library Board,
the three
rezonings
from the recent
Planning Commission meeting,
an
MOU with City of Remerton to provide Fire Inspection and Plan Review Services,
and
Lowndes County Historic Courthouse Architect Selection,
4.5 years since the

Courthouse Preservation Committee Meetings.


Historic Lowndes County Courthouse

Gretchen is heading to the Commissioner meeting now with the LAKE video camera.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2019, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2019, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos: All aye, Simpson Road paving, taxes, alcohol, emergency, roads, and law @ LCC Regular 2019-01-22

They approved everything that Tuesday evening that they discussed
that same morning, including
a

special tax assessment rate.


Special Assessment Rate

No item took as long as two minutes.
There were no special reports and no citizens wishing to be heard.
The whole thing took 16 minutes and 44 seconds.

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Videos: Annual Planning @ LCC Plan 2019-02-07

Here are the LAKE videos of the first day of the two day Annual Planning Meeting
of
Lowndes County Commissioners and staff.
Gretchen is back down there today, videoing the rest.


Below are links to each LAKE video of each item,
with a very few notes,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also
previous post
for the agenda (which was not posted publicly)
and a few previous comments.

Annual Planning @ LCC Plan 2019-02-07

Lowndes County Commissioners and staff are meeting for two days
to discuss strategy, as they do every year.


Commissioners and senior staff, Participants

They didn’t post an agenda on
lowndescounty.com,
but Gretchen photographed the one they had at Chairman Bill Slaughter’s pond house,
so here it is:

Lowndes County

Georgia

lowndescounty.com

Annual Planning Meeting

6926 Simpson Road ~ Hahira

February 7-8

8:30 a.m.


Agenda


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Annual Retreat, Valdosta Mayor and Council @ VCCSummit 2019-03-15

Not on Valdosta’s online calendar yet,
but we got this email notice from City Council Tim Carroll,
indicating Valdosta wastewater is first on his list to discuss.
His number 4 about Internet speed and access is also of interest
throughout the county and beyond.
As are his other items.

All,

I hope each and everyone of you are having a great start to 2019. As
we kick the year off, it is time to begin preparing for the cities
annual Mayor and Council retreat.

It will be held March 15 & 16 at the Women’s Building.

When:
All day, Friday-Saturday, March 15-16, 2019

Where:

The Woman’s Building,

1409 N. Patterson St.,
Valdosta, GA 31602

What:
Annual Retreat, Valdosta Mayor and City Council





The Woman’s Bulding

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Videos: Mystery Simpson Road paving, taxes, alcohol, emergency, roads, and law @ LCC 2019-01-22

They vote 5:30 PM this evening on what they discussed this morning.
Longest at two minutes was

5 g. Abandonment of McLeod Road,
followed by

5 i. Speed Zone Ordinance (apparently something was not right at exit 2),
and then at just under a minute:

6 a. Paving on Parker Road and Simpson Road.
Will Scruggs or Reames get the $2 million-plus contract for paving?
(Hint: Reames is the low bidder.)


Oops, sorry: the unscripted

7. Reports – County Manager
actually came in second at 1 minute and 44 seconds.

Finally, after

9. Adjournment,
there was a reminder of some mystery swearing in at 5PM.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
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Mystery Simpson Road paving, taxes, alcohol, emergency, roads, and law @ LCC 2019-01-22

Due to Monday being Martin Luther King Jr. Day,
both the Work Session and the Regular Session will be on Tuesday, January 22, 2019,
at 8:30 AM and 5:30 PM.
Last time they approved paying for right of way on Simpson Road.
This time they’re approving
Paving on Parker Road and Simpson Road.
Why does Simpson Road get this exception to their decade-long custom of never paying for road right of way?
Will Scruggs or Reames get the $2 million-plus contract for paving?
(Hint: Reames is the low bidder.)


Qpublic-lowndes,


Simpson Road in Lowndes County Tax Assessor Maps.

Meanwhile, the county apparently borrowed money for paving,
and is tinkering the
Special Assessment Rate for 2019
from 6.5% to 7.5%.

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Videos: County paying for road right of way @ LCC 2019-01-08

They added two items to the agenda they didn’t even mention
in the previous morning’s Work Session:

purchase of some real estate on Davidson Road near Moody Air Force Base,
and

“just compensation” for right of way on Simpson Road.


Wait a minute!
For ten years we’ve been told the county no longer buys rights of way:
if you want your road paved, you have to donate the right of way.
So why this exception?
And why sneak it in like this?

Will

Kamisha Martin
get paid for right of way if the county paves Black Road?
Will

Rev. Berlinda Hart Love
get paid for right of way if the county paves
Williams School Road?
They were the two citizens who were heard.

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Videos: Retreat! Appointment to Development Authority, Abandon Reed Road, Ed Hay Lease, Forestry Speaks @ LCC 2019-01-07

Longest Monday morning was

Chief Ranger Stephen Spradley’s Georgia Forestry report,
a copy of which, scanned by Gretchen, is

on the LAKE website.


Second longest was

Chairman Bill Slaughter’s comments,
in which he listed four upcoming events: Continue reading →

County and city setbacks @ ZBOA 2019-01-08

Setbacks are requested by in the county and in the city for ZBOA tomorrow afternoon.

[Conceptual Lot Layout Plan]

Conceptual Lot Layout Plan

The agenda packet is

on the LAKE website,
courtesy of ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman.

Here is the agenda:

Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

Matt Martin,
Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator

300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 259-3563

Carmella Braswell,
Lowndes County Zoning Administrator

327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 671-2430

AGENDA

January 8, 2019

2:30 p.m.

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