This agenda finally showed up on the county’s website
less than 24 hours before the meeting.
No doubt their excuse would be they informed the newspaper 24 hours in advance.
Nevermind the taxpaying public.
I wonder what “Citizen Engagement” means? It’s on the agenda for 2PM tomorrow.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
2017 Commission Annual Planning Meeting
Quail Branch Lodge
7601 Zeigler Road, Lake Park, GeorgiaThursday, February 16 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.
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The controversial case was
Georgia Park LLC with VA-2017-03 and VA-2017-04 at an hour and a half,
plus
a five minute break for the room to empty afterwards.
GLPC recommended denial with one abstention.
Second longest at 17 minutes was the county case
10. REZ-2017-02 Wilmer Calles on behalf of Rosa Calles 13.6 acres.
Here are links to each LAKE video, followed by a video playlist. See also the Planning Commission agenda. The two county rezonings are on the Lowndes County Commission agenda this morning and tomorrow evening. 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
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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
Back in May 2015, Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning and Georgia Power
CEO Paul Bowers both told me “If we can’t do coal, we have to do pipelines”.
A year in the making, Southern Company bought pipeline company AGL Resources.
Turns out AGL Resources is also an LNG export company,
exporting through Jacksonville by LNG containers on trucks.
And the plot thickens with
the pending corporate takeover
of CSX Railroad by the former CEO of Canadian Pacific,
given that CSX depends a lot on carrying coal, which remember
is what Southern Company is rapidly getting away from.
Could CSX want to carry LNG?
Meanwhile, LNG containers are already rolling
down I-75 and I-10 to Jaxport,
apparently through Atlanta, Macon, Valdosta, and Lake City.
Southern Company PR, 1 July 2016, Southern Company and AGL Resources complete merger, create a leading U.S. energy company, Continue reading
2:30 PM today:
one county case,
VAR-2017-01
north of Clyattville,
on a very light
agenda
for the decision-making Zoning Board of Appeals.
Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals
Matt Martin,
Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator
300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 259-3563Carmella Braswell,
Lowndes County Zoning Administrator
327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 671-2430AGENDA
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February 7, 2017
2:30 p.m.
CSX stock went up 29% in January on rumors of a corporate takeover.
The same CSX that let a plume of toxic chemicals leak below its
Rice Rail Yard in Waycross, including into the upper Suwannee River watershed.
It’s not clear a corporate takeover would do anything to stop that,
or other possible contamination in for example Valdosta.
John Burr, WJCT, 6 February 2017, Business Brief: CSX Board To Consider Possible Takeover Friday, Continue reading
It’s great they’re talking early about the
CDBG grant for Habitat for Humanity and maybe some others,
but they can’t get any state or local grants until the county finishes
feuding with all the cities in the county about tax distribution.
They spent second most time on
the Kinderlou Road CSX RR crossing closure.
Seago rezoning was withdrawn by the applicant.
For Emergency Manager Ashley Tye’s report on tornado damage, see the
videos of the previous morning’s Work Session.
See also
the agenda.
Below are links to each LAKE video of the 2017-01-24 Regular Session, with a few notes, followed by a LAKE video playlist. Continue reading
Received 31 January 2017:
From: “Ariel Godwin” <agodwin@sgrc.us>
Subject: Brooks County Comp Plan Workshop – Feb 7 @9:30am
Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 4:03 PMReminder:
The next workshop for the Brooks County Comprehensive Plan will be:
Thursday, February 7th, 2017
9:30 a.m
Brooks County Commission Offices
610 South Highland Street, QuitmanIn this workshop we will work on the Land Use Maps and Character Areas.
We are inviting you to participate to ensure Continue reading
I don’t think those words mean what they think they mean. “Official duty” and “personal property” generally are opposites, but the U.S. House this month defined them to be the same.
Proposed by
Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy [R-CA-23],
and
passed 4:02 PM 3 January 2017
by
a straight party-line vote,
it’s
H.Res.5 – Adopting rules for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress.
“(b) Records created, generated, or received by the congressional office of a Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner in the performance of official duties are exclusively the personal property of the individual Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner and such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner has control over such records.”.
Privatizing official records of Congress; what will they think of next? This is Continue reading
