Chairman Jerry Jennett is asking for an accounting of the land
VLCIA has bought
using their $3 million a year in dedicated 1 mil property tax
and $15 million in bonds that Lowndes County guaranteed for them.
And it seems that much of it is in lots too small to be useful.
While the VLCIA board was approving minutes for their 17 May 2011
regular meeting, Chairman Jennett said this:
On the last page, where we’re talking about the industrial park acreage,
this is real good the way you’ve presented this,
it shows
Azalea West 17 acres
Lake Park 10,
Hahira 10,
[?] 165,
Miller 220,
West Side 155.Let me ask you that in future you do one more thing.
That you tell me
how many 100 acre sites you have,
how many 50 acre sites you have,
and how many 25 acre sites you have,[Col. Ricketts made some response.]
Then I’m going to assume that everything else is ones, fives, and tens.
And my point would be that we track those,
and that when someone comes with a project that and they need 200 acres,
we can’t do it.
But I think there might be room for at least one and maybe two 100s.
I think that’s important when we think about people….
It’s good Chairman Jennett is having Col. Ricketts keep track of all this
land VLCIA has acquired.
He started on this project at Brad Lofton’s last board meeting,
when he asked Lofton about lot sizes.
I look forward to the results.
Incidentally, while that list Chairman Jennett read does add up
