Sworn in:
re-elected
Sandra Tooley (District 2) and
new members
Eric Howard (District 4)
and
Andy Gibbs (District 6),
plus Sandra Tooley again as
new Mayor Pro Tem.
The vote on Mayor Pro Tem
split evenly with the Mayor voting,
between Sandra Tooley and Tim Carroll,
so they ended up having Judge Tunison draw one of the two names out of a box.
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For two out of three boards, they came up with one name between
Monday morning and Tuesday evening.
No one applied for the
Lowndes County Development Authority;
instead they appointed Gary Moser who applied to be on Planning Commission.
They reappointed
Franklin Bailey, head of homebuilders association, to the
Planning Commission, plus
they appointed Ed Hightower to finish the unexpired term of Brad Folsom.
They appointed Dr. Frances Brown to the
Lowndes County Board of Health.
And the County Manager
recognized Public Works
for their good work during the recent storms.
Below are links to each LAKE video of each item,
with a few notes, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also the Continue reading
New members top
the agenda for tonight:
Eric Howard (District 4)
and
Andy Gibbs (District 6).
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, January 11, 2018
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL
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.
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 AUTHORITYMeeting 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
County Manager Joe Pritchard
thanked county staff for their performance during the recent storms
and the public for mostly staying off the roads.
It will cost
$450 to qualify to run for County Commissioner.
No, we don’t know what was wrong with the sound.
We will try to get it better tomorrow evening.
No applicants for the
Lowndes County Development Authority
Board of Health,
and many for the
Planning Commission.
Below are links to each LAKE video of each item,
with a few notes, followed by a video playlist.
See also the
notes on the agenda. Continue reading
Where did they advertise for applications for the three
boards on the agenda for tomorrow morning, voting Tuesday evening?
Who was the mysterious term expiration on the
Development Authority of Lowndes County (not the same as the Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority, VLCIA)?
If we assume the county’s web page for the Lowndes County Development Authority
is the relevant one, it doesn’t say what term expired nor who was in that slot,
it just says “Vacant”.
However, we can deduce that the missing board member is Jeff Reames,
whose seat expired June 8, 2017. When they appointed six members
to that board the next month, they did not appoint anyone to that slot,
even though Commissioner Mark Wisenbaker asked about that at the time.
Brad Folsom quit the
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
to join VLCIA.
Five people want to be appointed:
Keven Bussey, Gary Moser, Ed Hightower, and Bart Davis.
Also, Franklin Bailey wants to be reappointed.
“Mr.” Myron Faircloth (I thought he was a doctor)
resigned from the Board of Health, and
nobody is mentioned as wanting to be appointed.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, JANUARY 8, 2018, MONDAY, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION,JANUARY 9, 2018, TUESDAY, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
The added agenda item
6e. Emergency Repairs to Rocky Ford Road
got a couple of bids (unusual procedure; different from their
usual no-bid emergencies) passed.
The Chamber sent
Gary Wisenbaker to speak in Citizens Wishing to Be Heard
to ask for (after a very long preamble by John Page)
apparently money from GDOT for a long list (in a letter the taxpayers
did not get to see) of
transportation projects to help “the business community”,
apparently including the truck bypass.
They only appointed six of the seven members of the
Development Authority of Lowndes County,
although a Commissioner did ask about that.
It’s also curious they said all the terms expired right then,
since the Wayback machine has a snapshot of 4 April 2017, which shows three expiring in June 2017 and four already
expired in December 2016.
Apparently they just didn’t bother to appoint anybody to the four slots
that expired in December 2016 until eight months later,
and then they didn’t appoint anybody to one of the 2017 slots.
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You might think these solar panels covered with snow weren’t generating anything:
But they are.
Not much, true, but they are generating: Continue reading
You can also write a letter of support. Please send it today before
the
sentencing hearing 9AM December 18, 2017.
Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange
3338 Country Club Road #L336, Valdosta, GA 31605
www.l-a-k-e.org
lakesubmissions@gmail.com
229-242-0102
December 17, 2017
Hon. Senior Judge Martha Christian
Dawson County Judges Office
25 Justice Way, Suite 4202
Dawsonville, GA 30534
C/o Catherine Bernard
catherine@bernardlawoffices.com
Your Honor,
Nydia Tisdale is an inspiration for everyone who is in favor of the
First Amendment, especially citizen journalists such as ourselves.
Her years of educating local governments about Georgia’s open
meetings laws by handing out materials, and of shining a light on
local government activities by videoing their meetings, are
exemplary and should be emulated, not punished.
Photo: John S. Quarterman for LAKE, 14 October 2016.
The misdemeanor conviction of Nydia Tisdale makes no sense, since Continue reading
They vote this evening on what you can see them discussing yesterday morning in
these LAKE videos of the Lowndes County Commission Work Session.
The longest business item was not even a minute and a half on
REZ-2017-12 West Ridge Business Park.
By far the longest item was not on the agenda:
11. Reports – County Manager a. Steve Gupton- LODAC Presentation,
about a local drug counseling organization, originally private,
but for long now funded by Valdosta and Lowndes County plus grants.
As one of the presenters noted, probably only Commissioner Joyce Evans
was thoroughly familiar with LODAC.
Below are Continue reading