They meet again tonight with
a bylaw amendment scheduled, which is probably for extending officer terms to two years as Roy Copeland proposed.
(He first suggested that at least several years ago when he was re-elected Chairman.)
And their nominating committee nominated

the same officers again.

Lots of

dials showing targets and where they are in reaching them,
which is good, because I keep getting questions about what
they’re doing with all that tax money and are they doing enough
to justify it.

One citizen asked about the

airport
and another (OK, me) handed out
Alapaha River Water Trail brochures and once again suggested

solar panels at the airport
to turn that otherwise-unusable space into profit.

Here’s the

agenda
and below are LAKE videos, followed by a playlist. Continue reading →

Late o

tonight’s agenda but big on their minds, and described and pictured by
Stuart Taylor, VDT, 31 May 2015,


as consisting of:

• Georgia Department of Economic Development — Michelle Shaw
• Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce — Myrna Ballard
• University of Georgia’s Small Business Development Center — Lynn Bennett
• Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority — Stan Crance
• Georgia Department of Labor, Valdosta Career Center — Jamon Williams
• Wiregrass Georgia Technical College — Bill Tillman
• Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute — Art Ford
• Georgia Power Company — Scott Purvis

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority’s Business Retention Action
Team, or BRAT, brings together a number of local and state
organizations to offer services, information, solutions and contacts
that a company might need.

“We’ve always had an existing industry program,” said
Meghan Duke,VLDA marketing and community relations. “These
organizations have always worked together, but now we’re formalizing
it.”

Here’s

the agenda:

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, June 16, 2015 5:30 p.m. Continue reading →