No water on
the agenda,
but there’s a WWALS event
for those who want to speak about water issues.
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, March 9, 2017
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL
- Opening Ceremonies Continue reading
We learned why Lowndes County has gotten religion about Internet access and speed:
Moody AFB wants it.
Commissioner Scottie Orenstein made the case for
board packets and agendas in electronic form
instead of the paper packets they currently use.
Maybe they’ll even reveal them to the public before their meetings,
like real MSAs do.
Meanwhile,
Community Engagement
means marketing, as in telling people what the county did,
not listening to the citizens.
They talked about
interconnecting (almost) all of the county’s water systems,
about
routes to get trucks out of downtown Valdosta.
The
water-sewer ordinance is in ten or twelve pieces,
and the county is all for expanding water and sewer throughout the county
as long as it doesn’t cost developers money.
There’s
a regional T-SPLOST meeting in Waycross by SGRC Feb 28 2017,
but Lowndes commissioners and staff said nothing Continue reading
According to FERC’s own figures from 2012 and 2016,
my solar projections from 2013 (and former FERC Chair Jon Wellinghoff’s) were pretty good,
and more U.S. electricity will still come from solar power by 2023.
Since coal and nuclear are already crashing, and natural gas isn’t
increasing even as fast as formerly projected, solar could win even faster.
I constructed
table below from the 2012 and 2016 summaries of total U.S. electric
power generation from all sources, by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
Look at the 2012 column:
only coal and natural gas generated more than 25% of total U.S. electricity.
But in 2016 it’s only natural gas, because coal’s growth rate actually
turned negative: utilities are shutting down coal plants, not building them.
Back in 2013 I did not predict that to happen so quickly.
Now look at
the growth rates,
both Continue reading
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
Tuesday Chairman Bill Slaughter did say
there will be a retreat Thursday and Friday this week, but he didn’t say where or what time of day.
Yesterday afternoon they finally put on their website that
it starts 8AM this morning at Quail Branch Lodge.
Here’s hoping Commissioner Joyce Evans is well enough to attend.
In a refreshing change of procedure, Continue reading
They vote 5:30 PM today. The longest item at yesterday morning’s Work Session was
6b. REZ-2017-02 Calles, Alexandria St, R-10 and CON to E-A, Well and Septic, 0213 acres,
which also got the longest discussion of any county case at the recent
Planning Commission meeting, where GLPC voted to recommend denial.
All parties want the other rezoning,
6a. REZ-2017-01 Cone/Malone, tabled.
The second longest item yesterday morning was
7c. Request for Relief for Tuscany Palms Utility Tax District,
which had a long list of staff involved in it.
They did name the three
three candidates for two VLMPO vacancies,
but none of them were present.
At least one wasn’t even aware he was actually a candidate.
Below are links to each Continue reading
On
the agenda for 8:30 AM this morning,
three candidates for two VLMPO vacancies,
and none of the candidates are
incumbents, according to
Valdosta
or
Lowndes County.
Rezonings on
Madison Hwy
and
Alexandria St,
both probably uncontroversial; see the
LAKE videos of the preceding GLPC meeting for those two items.
Yet again
Approval of Elected Officials Using County Issued Purchasing Cards and Credit Cards
and as usual a
Beer License.
Three water items:
Bevel Creek Lift Station Automatic Transfer Switch,
Professional Engineering Services and Environmental Permitting for Jumping Gully Road Bridge Replacement,
Drainage Improvements – Valencia Street.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2017, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Nine cases (Hahira, Valdosta, Lowndes County) and one of the county cases
wants to go “backwards” to agricultural zoning,
on tonight’s Planning Commission agenda.
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
AGENDA
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue
Monday, January 30, 2017 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
A reminder of why to stop pipeline companies from burying investors’ money in the ground and get on with solar power:
the pipeline that exploded in Texas last week was
half owned by Spectra Energy,
the pipeline company behind
Sabal Trail, AIM, Penneast, and numerous other fracked methane invasions
and behind thirty years of undetected corrosion resulting in leaks, explosions, property damage, and deaths.
The pipeline company didn’t detect it and couldn’t even turn it off quickly.
Want to bet that it,
like Spectra’s Pennsylvania explosion last spring, was corrosion?
A very Texas report said “no people or cattle were injured”
and also notice: “The fire is under control and will burn itself out.” Continue reading
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM, and yesterday morning they reviewed
the three rezonings back
the agenda
after being tabled
last month.
County Manager Joe Pritchard
said staff would be sending Commissioners
a list of upcoming board apointments so they could think of candidates.
He didn’t say anything about showing that list to the public.
See also
the LAKE videos of last November’s Planning Commission meeting
for those three rezonings.
Below are links to LAKE videos from each item yesterday morning,
with a few notes,
followed by a video playlist. Continue reading
