Last night, while the Lowndes County Commission
unanimously approved
their
resolution against the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline,
the Valdosta City Council
discussed a supporting resolution at its Work Session.
Council Tim Carroll
said Valdosta had added
a clause about the Floridan Aquifer.
Council Robert Yost said he didn’t think such a resolution was something
the City of Valdosta should be doing, and he would not vote Thursday.
No other Council members expressed any reservations.
Council Sonny Vickers said he thought it was worth doing to show unity.
Mayor John Gayle remarked, “We all live in Lowndes County.” Continue reading
Board packet: Trash, Pipeline, Tourism + KLVB appointments @ LCC 2014-12-08
The text of the
Resolution Opposing the Sabal Trail Pipeline,
the
Commission meeting schedule,
the
budget calendar,
and the
proposed sign for the G. Robert Carter Law Enforcement Complex,
plus maps for all those special tax lighting districts
and details of budget and requests,
all in the
board packet
for the
8 December 2014 Work Session
and
the
9 December 2014 Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.
The County Clerk once again provided this packet only on paper
and only in black and white.
The
request to the County Clerk asked for
electronic copy, but once again she chose not to honor that part of the request.
There’s no change in that after the Open Government Symposium of 21 November 2014. Also, this request was sent shortly after the previous Commission meeting, and with more than three weeks notice the county only made this latest packet available at 4:35 PM the Friday before the meeting, when they close at 5PM.
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Videos: Trash, Pipeline, Tourism + KLVB appointments @ LCC 2014-12-08
Who could have foreseen that
ADS wants a rate hike?
The Resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline
they already sent to FERC is
on the agenda for voting along with everything else tomorrow, 5:30 PM, Tuesday 9 December 2014.
Congratulations again in advance for doing that!
Update 2014-12-09: board packet.
Staff wants to rename the Sheriff’s complex for former Sheriff and former Comissioner G. Robert Carter. And a bunch of appointments, contracts, calendars, and special tax lighting districts. in a very full agenda. Other county commissions, such as Thomas County, list potential appointees in their agenda. If Lowndes County did that, we wouldn’t have to google to figure out how to spell names of appointees. And without this LAKE video, you wouldn’t know who was being considered, unless you skipped work to go to that 8:30 AM Work Session.
Here’s the agenda. The videos are below in the order events transpired, followed by a video playlist.
Continue readingSabal Trail opposition at Thomas County Commission @ TCC 2014-12-09
Thomas County citizen Alton Burns, who already
wrote to FERC,
is
on the agenda
to speak against the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline
at the
Thomas County Commission tomorrow morning, 9AM Monday 9 December 2014 in Thomasville.
Remember, Sabal Trail’s route Alternative 3 would run through Thomasville, and FERC could pick any route, no matter which one Sabal Trail prefers. Plus, with Lowndes County about to vote on the resolution wanting Sabal Trail out of Lowndes County it already sent to FERC and with Valdosta scheduled to vote Thursday night on a resolution of support for Lowndes County’s opposition, the only proposed Sabal Trail route through Georgia that doesn’t go through Lowndes County is that Alternative 3 through Thomasville. Thomas County could do what Dougherty County and Albany already did, and Lowndes County and Valdosta are about to do: pass an ordinance saying no pipeline in this county, and no pipeline in the state of Georgia.
Also note the agenda lists names of potential appointees to seven different boards. Other county commissions could list such names on their agendas.
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Board of Commissioners
Agenda
3rd Floor Historic Courthouse
225 N. Broad Street
December 9, 2014, 9:00 a.m.
ADS wants a trash collection rate hike: who could have forseen? @ LCC 2014-12-08
Who could have forseen the rate hike ADS requested Monday morning at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session? Maybe anybody who noticed that ADS’ bid was 40% more than its quickly-acquired subsidiary Veolia’s bid.
Update 2014-12-10: No report from ADS in the board packet. Joe Adgie reported on this topic in the VDT 10 December 2014, Advanced Disposal wants price increase.
8.a. Advanced Disposal —Steve Edwards (work session)
Video. ADS wants to amend the exclusive franchise for solid waste collection due to “lost revenue and unanticipated costs”. And their number one reason: competition with “another hauler”, in other words Continue reading
Board of Elections @ Elections 2014-12-09
They usually have Citizens Wishing To Be Heard first and they let citizens converse with them during the rest of the meeting. They meet 4:30 PM Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at the Lowndes County Elections office, 2808 N Oak St., Valdosta, GA 31602. There’s no posted agenda that I can find, and no posted list of board members. I’ve sent them an inquiry.
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Lowndes County Elections
Deb Cox
SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONSMadlyn Hightower
CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF
ELECTIONSLOWNDES COUNTY ELECTIONS
LEGAL NOTICE Continue reading
Anti-pipeline ordinance resolution + 3 more ordinances @ VCC 2014-12-09
As
promised,
item 5.c) on the agenda for Thursday’s Regular Meeting and Tuesday’s
Work Session of the Valdosta City Council:
Consideration of a Resolution in support of the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners regarding the Sabal Trail Project.
Has staff found the digital copies of the maps for CU-2014-11 Normal Life of Georgia? If the county put agenda packets for the Planning Commission online, staff wouldn’t have to worry about that.
Here’s the agenda, thanks to images from Council Member Tim Carroll.
3:26 PMContinue reading
120514 Agenda Packet.pdf
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, December 11, 2014
Valdosta proposes resolution against Sabal Trail pipeline @ VCC 2014-12-09
A draft resolution in support of
Lowndes County’s resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline
will be discussed by the Valdosta City Council at their
Work Session Tuesday 9 December and very likely voted on at their
Regular Session Thursday 11 December.
This is according to
Valdosta City Council Tim Carroll, who has
seen the draft resolution.
This would be a very good idea, not just since Valdosta is the county seat of Lowndes County, but also because three alternative routes would go right down I-75 through Valdosta.
Both Valdosta City Council meetings are at 5:30 PM at Valdosta City Hall, 216 E Central Ave, Valdosta, GA 31601. Yes, that means the City’s Work Session is at the same time as the County’s Regular Session when the county proposes to vote on their own resolution Tuesday 9 December 2014.
Another very bad PR week for Spectra, what with Continue reading
Pipeline resolution, Trash report, Tourism + KLVB appointments @ LCC 2014-12-08
The Resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline they already sent to FERC is on the agenda for voting. Congratulations in advance for doing that!
Advanced Disposal is back
to report on their trash disposal.
Did they turn in their required written report this time?
How about that
recycling?
ADS’ Steve Edwards scheduled to report is the same who
couldn’t forsee any further acquisitions
before they
bought three more companies.
And a bunch of appointments, contracts, calendars, etc.
in a very full agenda.
Shortly after the previous Commission meeting, almost a month ago, I filed an open records request for the board packet. Today at 4:35PM I got a call saying it’s ready. It takes me 30 minutes to get there. They close at 5PM.
Here’s the agenda.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERSContinue reading
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor
Valdosta recognized for solar power, LED lighting, wastewater improvements
City of Valdosta PR today 5 December 2014, Valdosta Named “Smart Energy Municipality of the Year”,
The City of Valdosta was named “Smart Energy Municipality of the Year” by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) on Dec. 4, at an awards banquet held at the Georgia Tech Wardlaw Building in Atlanta, Ga. The event recognized successful individuals, businesses and municipalities who have shown dynamic leadership over the past year in Georgia’s large and growing Smart Energy sector.
Sixty nominations were received collectively in the three categories. In the municipality category, which includes cities, counties and state government agencies, the City of Valdosta was one of two finalists and the overall recipient of the award ” the other finalist was the Georgia Department of Corrections.
“We are extremely honored Continue reading