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Videos: Leadership Lowndes, VLCIA appointment, Rivers Radio @ LCC 2017-12-12



In an outbreak of transparency and due diligence in the last Lowndes County Commission of 2017,
they took ten minutes
replacing Mary Goodman
on the

Industrial Authority,
hearing from three nominees, and appointing Brad Folsom.
They took three and a half minutes to choose among three nominees
to the

Tourism Authority
to appoint
Robert Jefferson.
None of those nominees spoke, but the vote was so split
they actually had a runoff, which ended in a 3:2 final vote.
They also reappointed Joyce Evans by silent “acclamation”.


Leadership Lowndes spoke for 12 minutes (as long as three citizens get),

citizen Willie Mae Jones wanted to know what next to get her Black Road paved,
and County Engineer Mike Fletcher said the signatures were verified as 84% of the property owners on the road, so it would go on the paving list
with the 74 projects already on there.
Chairman Bill Slaughter

actually asked for Commissioner comments,
and each of them said a few words, mostly thanks to the staff and Merry Christmas.
Chairman Bill Slaughter even thanked citizens for coming to the meetings. Merry Christmas, Commissioners!

The longest rezoning public hearing was
REZ-2017-13
Quattlebaum-Meadors, N Valdosta RD, R-21 to C-H.

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Videos: Emergency road repair bids! Appointments: Library Board, Development Authority, millage @ LCC 2017-08-22



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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Videos: Tucker Rd, West Ridge Business Park, Appointments VLCCCTA, VLCIA @ LCC 2017-12-11



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.

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Tucker Rd, West Ridge Business Park, Appointments VLCCCTA, VLCIA @ LCC 2017-12-11

A very busy agenda this morning, including the
controversial
REZ-2017-14 Cothron, Tucker Rd rezoning.

They’ll probably reappoint Commissioner Joyce Evans and Gerone Anderson to the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center and Tourism Authority,
although Robert Jefferson and Ellen Hill have also applied.

Mary Gooding is retiring from the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Development (Industrial) Authority,
and four people have applied:
Ed Hightower Jr., Brad Folsom, John (Mac) McCall (currently on ZBOA) and Giovanni Panizzi.


Mary Gooding, VLCIA

Nevermind the
REZ-2017-12 West Ridge Business Park
rezoning
had nothing to do with the Industrial Authority that I know of.

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Videos: Office rezoning, Georgia Power, Alcohol, and road abandomnent @ LCC 2017-11-14



They

added and agenda item for

7.p. Solicitor-General’s VOCA Grant Renewal; yes, really, the agenda was so long that’s sub-item letter P and the meeting was 51 and a half minutes long.

Longest at seven minutes was

6a. REZ-2017-11 Arrow Engineering,
in which the County Commissioners ignored the Planning Commission’s recommendation to deny, and the County Planner’s observation the previous morning that
the applicants would accept one acre.
Instead they approved 2.5 acres with no conditions as Office Institutional (OI)
in an area with no other instances of that.

At six minutes,

7.n. Georgia Power- VisionFirst
was about putting $25,000 to hire an unnamed consultant for a joint project
for unspecified results.

Update 2017-11-22: According to Chairman Bill Slaughter, the consultant is VisionFirst Advisors out of Tallahassee.

Did they mean the sinkhole-infested Mission Creek instead of

7.k. Grant of Easement for Utility Right of Way Moody-Mission Point?

Five minutes included questions from the Chairman and resulted in a split vote
and a stern warning on

7.i. Beer, Wine & Liquor License – Liquor Barn, 3990 N. Valdosta Rd.

One of the

two road abandonments,

7.a. Abandonment of Lane Road and a Portion of Sheavette Road,
got a very rare split vote, with Commissioner Clay Griner voting alone against.

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Videos: Board of Health and an office in the woods @ LCC 2017-11-13



Quite a long Work Session yesterday morning,

more than half an hour.
Surprisingly, the longest was

Liquor Barn’s Wine & Liquor License;
apparently their state and county licenses don’t match.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM, in their Regular Session.

Below are links to each LAKE video, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also the
agenda in the previous post,
especially about

6a.REZ-2017-11 Arrow Engineering, R-A and E-A to O-I, ~2.5 acres,
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Board of Health and an office in the woods @ LCC 2017-11-13

Stafford Wright Road is getting its 12″ water main,
connecting

all the way from Spring Creek subdivision off of
Studstill Road to Val Del Road.
That’s Nelson Hill on the center left and Foxborough lower left:
subdivisions like that are what to expect on Stafford Wright Road soon.


Spring Creek Blvd. E. to Val Del Rd., VALORGIS

Map:

VALORGIS. Green is Lowndes County sewer line; blue is water mains.

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Videos: KLVB appointment, Stafford Wright Road R.I.P., GEFA, pumps, and dollars @ LCC 2017-10-23



They vote today at 5:30 PM.
At yeasterday morning’s Work Session,
Commissioner Scottie Orenstein, the current Vice Chair, presided in the absence of the Chair.
Chairman Bill Slaughter was in Atlanta on his way to D.C.
The Vice Chair said what they were not going to cover until the Regular Session,
which was unusual:
8.f. GEFA Loan Agreement.
Also at the end he mentioned Citizens Wishing to be Heard is in the Tuesday evening meeting.

Below are links to each LAKE video, with a very few notes, followed by
a LAKE video playlist.
See also

the agenda and the notes I put in that previous post. Continue reading →

KLVB appointment, Stafford Wright Road R.I.P., GEFA, pumps, and dollars @ LCC 2017-10-23

To

replace Molly Stoltz on KLVB (she moved),
they will appoint

either Adam Floyd or Kyle Rudrow,
discussing Monday morning and voting Tuesday evening.


Between Valdosta at Cherry Creek Road and the Skipper Bridge Road McDonalds, Google Map

Years ago I tried to explain to people on Stafford Wright Road that if the
county ever paved that road, it wouldn’t be for the current residents.
Now it’s getting

a water main with paving.
The county only ever runs water to places it plans to have subdivisions.
Enjoy your quiet country road while you can, old-time residents.
You’re about to be displaced for an expansion of “Central Lowndes County”
west of Skipper Bridge Road and north of Cherry Creek.

Lowndes County has been approved for a
GEFA Loan Agreement
submitted in December 2016, for upgrades at the Land Application Site (LAS)
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Videos: Naylor Boat Ramp and Appointments to Public Facilities Authority @ LCC 2017-10-10



By far the most time, almost eight minutes, on

6b. Abandonment of Portions of Old Lake Park Road and Hickory Grove Road SE,
the Lowndes County Commissioners spent two weeks ago,
involving reference to minutes they approved in that meeting
but that still aren’t on the county’s website two weeks later,
and resulting in a split vote.

More interesting: the county is finally starting construction on the

Naylor Boat Ramp.

By their customary silent “acclamation” they appointed people to the

Lowndes County Public Facilities Authority.

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