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Rescheduled, Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority 2018-02-07

Julia Shewchuk updated January 19 2018: “The regular meeting of the DSSWA has been rescheduled from January 17, 2018 to
Wednesday, February 7, 2018.”
The agenda is the same before rescheduling, as below.

Thanks to Larry Hanson, new member to replace him, officers, and audit
are on
the agenda for next Wednesday for the Deep South Solid Waste Management Authority.

Single page, Agenda
Still nothing about coal ash from Georgia, Florida, or elsewhere.

See previous post
for who’s on this Authority and who gets its grants.

DEEP SOUTH

REGIONAL MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

Meeting of the Board of Directors

Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority

January 17, 2018

February 7, 2018

6:00 PM

Southern Georgia Regional Commission

Valdosta, Georgia

AGENDA

  1. Welcome and Introduction

  2. January 2018 Election of Officers

    • Report by Nominating Committee and Motion:w
  3. January 2018 Nomination of New At-Large Member by Board of Directors

    • Report by Nominating Committee and Motion
  4. Minutes of October 18, 2017 Meeting

    • Draft attached for Review and Motion
  5. Financial Reports Oct — Dec 2017

    • Review and Motion — to be distributed at meeting
  6. Presentation of Annual Audit Report —Denise Rackely

  7. Discussion to decide on a recognition for Larry Hanson for his Services to DSSWA

    • Discussion and Motion
  8. Other Business

  9. Adjourn

Next regular scheduled meeting will be on April 18, 2017, at 6 p.m.

Fax: (229) 333-5312

Phone: (229) 333-5277

327 West Savannah Avenue

Valdosta, Georgia 31601

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Agenda, Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority 2018-01-17

Update 2018-02-07:
Rescheduled to February 7, 2018.

Thanks to Larry Hanson, new member to replace him, election of officers, and annual audit
are on
the agenda for next Wednesday for the Deep South Solid Waste Management Authority.

Single page, Agenda
Still nothing about coal ash from Georgia, Florida, or elsewhere.

See previous post
for who’s on this Authority and who gets its grants.

DEEP SOUTH

REGIONAL MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

Meeting of the Board of Directors

Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority

January 17, 2018

6:00 PM

Southern Georgia Regional Commission

Valdosta, Georgia

AGENDA

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Agenda, Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority 2017-04-19

Grants to participating local governments are mostly what’s on
the agenda for next Wednesday for the Deep South Solid Waste Management Authority,
sent today by Julia Shewchuck of SGRC (PDF).


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On the telephone yesterday she clarified that the grants
from this Authority mentioned in

the Lowndes County Commission Goals meetinng
are exclusively available to the seven local governments
participating in this Authority.
They are:
Berrien County, Lanier County, Lowndes County, City of Nashville, City of Lakeland, City of Valdosta, and Echols County CG.
She also noted that Echols County was one of the original participants in the authority, even though it had dropped off for a while, and had been added back in a recent year (2014).

DEEP SOUTH

REGIONAL MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

Meeting of the Board of Directors

Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority

April 19, 2017

6:00 PM

Southern Georgia Regional Commission

Valdosta, Georgia

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Videos: regional T-SPLOST tabled, Trash disposal renewals, another lift station pump, Dasher Streets @ LCC 2017-03-28

They

tabled T-SPLOST until their next meeting
because they got a complaint from the Chamber about process,
and also from others.
Remember, even if it gets on the ballot, it can still be voted down again, like in 2012.


Meanwhile, John Stephen, VDT, 7 April 2017,
T-SPLOST headed for referendum,

Even though the Lowndes County Commission delayed a vote on the
regional T-SPLOST at its last meeting due to local confusion on the
one-penny sales tax, enough counties in the area now support the tax
(10 out of 18 were needed) to move it forward to a public vote even
without the commission’s approval.

In the coming weeks, a regional roundtable of government
representatives will determine Continue reading →

Videos: Trash disposal renewals, regional T-SPLOST, another lift station pump, Dasher Streets @ LCC 2017-03-27



More than four minutes yesterday morning on

Residential Solid Waste Franchise Renewal: maybe it’s still contentious
because they still don’t have a good model.
Maybe not everybody wants to have their trash picked up at the end of their
driveway like they lived in town.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM, and they agreed
add an agenda item amending the ordinance to change insurance requirement from $5 million to $1 million.
As of this writing at 8AM, they have not yet changed their online agenda.
We’ll see how it eventually changes from

the agenda already blogged.

They spent more than three minutes on

Regional T-SPLOST; follow the link for details.
Another
Lift Station Pump

lift station pump
needs replacing
And

Dasher wants the county to maintain a couple of dirt streets.

Below are links to each LAKE video, with a few notes, followed by a video playlist.
See also the agenda. Continue reading →

Trash disposal renewals, regional T-SPLOST, another lift station pump, Dasher Streets @ LCC 2017-03-27


Regional T-SPLOST is on the agenda this morning.


Back in 2012 we all voted down a statewide T-SPLOST (Transportation Special Sales Tax).

As we learned at the

February Lowndes County Commission Planning Session Day 2,
on 28 February 2017 in Waycross there was a “public hearing” about a possible regional T-SPLOST.
When I asked SGRC about that, they sent the Waycross agenda, saying
“This is
not a public meeting and was not advertised as such, however it is open
to the public.”
Apparently something happened at that meeting, since T-SPLOST is on the
Lowndes County Commission agenda now, with this in the attached document:

HISTORY, FACTS AND ISSUES: According to House Bill 170, counties within a Regional
Commission District have the option to institute a Regional T-SPLOST. The Georgia
Department of Transportation is requesting action to be taken by April 1, 2017, either in
favor of or opposed to a Regional T-SPLOSI’. If ten (10) of the eighteen (18) regional
counties fail to get support for a Regional T-SPLOST, then individual counties can initiate an
independent T-SPLOST’.

.

After Lowndes County spent unknown hundreds of thousands of dollars suing Continue reading →

Videos: Annual Planning Meeting Day 1 @ LCC 2017-02-16



Two newly-elected officials spoke at the Thursday session:

new Tax Commissioner Rodney Cain
who was full of praise for his staff,
and

new-old Sheriff Ashley Paulk,
who said he had more important things to do than to go get undocumented
workers out of the fields.
“I tell ICE come show me a warrant.”
Here are LAKE videos of that day, and stay tuned for Day 2!

Total 2016 revenue was Continue reading →

Four board appointments, animal tethering, bus, trash, homeland security, mutual aid, and housing @ LCC 2016-03-21

Work Session 8:30 AM this morning,
and Tuesday evening finally voting on the
Animal Services Ordinance
including tethering, and (who knew about this?)


appointing Christina Bennett to the Animal Control Board.

Renewing the annual
Section 5311 Rural Transportation Program Capital Contract
for the MIDS bus service is on
the agenda, as is
appointing three people to the
Valdosta Lowndes County Metropolitan Planning Organization (VLMPO) out of these
four:
Ronald Skrine, Tammy Greenway, Floyd Rose, Bob Wilburs.
As usual, how were people supposed to know?
And where are the applications of those named? Continue reading →

Videos: Deep South Sanitation litigation resolution, Animals, MAZ, Water, School @ LCC 2015-06-09



Not on the agenda for the 9 June 2015 Regular Session:

settlement agreement for the county’s unnecessary
lawsuit against Deep South Sanitation.
Commissioners had no questions, but I have two:

  1. how much did the county spend on the lawsuit?
  2. how much did the county end up paying DSS?

Also unscheduled:

Recognition of Leadership Lowndes Attendees.

Citizen

Billy Rowland
had some comments about road grading and wondered how Animal Control
could come take his dog from his posted property yet not do anything
when he reported barking dogs.

They approved a Scruggs Co. contract for

Paving on Coppage Road, which includes curb and gutter to
save some of the tree canopy.
They approved a

Bid for Bemiss Road Mowing even though it’s a state highway, plus
a

Bid for a Zero-Turn Mower for the Public Works Department from Nashville Tractor.
They
approved the

Bid for a Fire Pumper for Lowndes County Fire Rescue
and the

LCSO Patrol Car Laptops Lease Purchase and
tabled the

Lowndes Middle School Utility Service from Valdosta utilities.

Via LAKE open records request,
see the

board packet item
for the complicated

Moody Activity Zones
Text Amendments to the Unified Land Development Code
that were tabled for more time at the Tuesday June 9th 2015 Regular Session
of the Lowndes County Commission.
See the LAKE videos of the Planning Commission
meeting that considered the MAZ and the rezonings on this agenda.
The

Shiver
and

Kinsey
rezonings were
were approved unanimously
with no speakers from the public and no Commissioner comments.
The

Orchard at Stone Creek
rezoning discussion about a retirement home lasted for 14 minutes, including updated maps
that were only provided to LAKE on paper, despite a request for
electronic copy.
See also the
agenda
and the
LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session.

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Videos: Regular Session GEFA, road abandonment, bids, and water @ LCC 2015-05-26



Attorney had to remind Commissioners that

a road abandonment such as for Buck Cato Road
requires a public hearing.
They declared the

solid waste equipment surplus to be leased to “prospective franchisees” such as DSS;
County Manager said
“we have the lease agreement here”, but did not put it on the county’s
website for the public to see.
County agent arrived just in time to hear the Langdale bid accepted for

a truck for the Extension Service.
They accepted

the Lee Office Supply bid for Emergency Operations Center tables and chairs.
And of course they approved the

Interconnection of North Lowndes and Kinderlou Water Systems
and the

GEFA Loan Modification
for the Alapaha Water Treatment Plant.
They started
a minute late. At the end, after

the County Manager
had no report
and no citizens wished to be heard,
as usual they adjourned without a vote.

This was all at the
afternoon Lowndes County Regular Session.
For background and more details, see Continue reading →