The longest item was not on the agenda:
a
Health Fair Update in the County Manager’s Report.
They breezed through everything else including
5 a. Lowndes County Public Facilities Authority Appointment,
although the Chairman did have another name to propose.
Below are links to the LAKE video of each item,
plus a very few notes,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also Continue reading
Appointments to the board that floated bonds for the county palace,
REZ-2017-10 Laurel Run Homes, and two road abandonments,
to be considered this morning at 8:30 AM and voted on Tuesday evening.
What is the Lowndes County Georgia Public Facilities Authority, which issued
the bonds
548757BE2
and
548757BG7
“Refunding Judicial Administration Complex”?
According to
the county’s website
it’s a Continue reading
23 minutes last night to approve 3:2 with many conditions rezoning the
6c. REZ-2017-09 Robert A. Register Estate,
with no shouting afterwards like there was at at the previous evening’s Planning Commission meeting,
yet a lot of grumbling at the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session,
especially since they seem to have forgotten the greenspace condition.
I would like to commend the Commission for the amount and depth of discussion in this meeting, especially in the unscheduled
10. Commission Comments and Recognitions and Meeting Adjournment, which was mostly about Clay Griner’s idea of having
a county-wide utility authority including all the cities in the county.
Update 2017-10-20: moved the rest of this utility authority commentary down to the video item below.
Also not on the agenda was
Chairman Slaughter comments on community response to Hurricane Irma
(which were mostly about county staff; well-deserved especially for Ashley Tye) and
Georgia Power Representative recognizes county hurricane response.
While it’s great that Georgia Power came to compliment the county,
does that electric utility rep. reside in or pay property taxes in Lowndes County, and why was he not required to state his name and address?
Ditto the software salesman for Continue reading
Yesterday morning, most lengthhy at 6 minutes was
6c. REZ-2017-09 Robert A. Register Estate,
followed at 2 minutes by
7 a. Amended Motorized Cart Ordinance.
Below are links to each LAKE video of the Work Session of 25 September 2017.
See also the previous notes with
the agenda.
For the three rezoning cases, see also
the LAKE videos of the Planning Commission meetings of
28 August 2017
and
25 September 2017.
This morning, 8:30 AM, all of the items from
the previous cancelled meeting
are back on
the agenda, for voting Tuesday 5:30 PM.
Plus four more:
HISTORY, FACTS, AND ISSUES: The certified Lowndes County fatality
rate: 2006-14, 2007-14, 2008~19, 2009-16, 2010-18, 2011-15,
2012-11, 2013-7, 2014-14, 2015-19, 2016-20. Any traffic
fatality in Lowndes County is too many. For numerous years, the
county has been plagued with an unacceptable fatality rate.
Consistently for ten years between 2006 and 2016 we suffered with as
much as nineteen people dying annually in crashes. In April 2012 the
Sheriff created the SPEED team which joined forces with the Valdosta
Police HEAT team. Together both agencies diligently fought to reduce
the fatality rate. In 2013, Lowndes County recorded an unprecedented
lowest rate of the decade with seven fatalities.
Photo:
Valdosta Daily TimesSoon after, the
police department lost their HEAT team which contributed to a Continue reading
The Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission
is cancelled.
There is no notice of this on lowndescounty.com because
county offices are still closed today and power is still out
in parts of the county, according to Commissioner Scott Orenstein.
He responded to an inquiry from Gretchen Quarterman
after no county business numbers answered this morning.
2017-09-11 5PM Cone of Probable Path of Tropical Storm Irma,
National Hurricane Center, NOAA.
Lowndes County Emergency Management did include a notice of cancellation
of yesterday’s Lowndes County Work Session in its PR of Continue reading
Approved by the voters on the SPLOST VII ballot,
plans discussed in
a town hall meeting April 14, 2016,
bids approved
May 9, 2017,
and
below are the LAKE videos Gretchen took of the Naylor Community Center Ground Breaking, August 16, 2017.
Of the two Commissioners in whose district is this project,
Joyce Evans was there, but Demarcus Marshall was not,
because they held it at 10AM when they know he cannot attend due
to his day job.
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Bids for an emergency repair!
This could be a first, instead of their usual sole source approve-it-right now method.
See
the County Manager’s Report, in which County Engineer Mike Fletcher
describes bids incoming from both Scruggs and Reames for temporary
repair to Rocky Ford Road.
Below are links to each LAKE video of yesterday morning’s Work Session with a few notes, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also
the agenda with notes about appointments and millage.
And see also
the 5 PM today Millage Rate Meeting.
This is all she wrote on Lowndes County’s web pages: no agenda, no draft documents.
Lowndes County Millage Rate Meeting
Date:
August 22, 2017
Time:
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location:
Board of Commissioners Administration Building
Address:
327 N. Ashley Street
2nd Floor
Valdosta, GA 31601
Still from WWALS video of
Millage Public Hearing @ LCC Millage 2016-08-23
Rummaging around in the
agenda sheet
for
6.a. Adoption of Millage on the 5:30 PM Regular Session agenda,
we find: Continue reading
Maybe the county would have enough applicants their Work Session,
Monday morning at 8:30 AM,
if they advertised for applicants for open board seats,
such as on the Development Authority of Lowndes County,
And if they posted the application sheets for the applicants they did get,
such as for the Lowndes County Library Board,
we’d have some idea of who they are.
They could even say whether the millage is going up or down.
According to the
agenda sheet
for the appointment to the
Lowndes County Library Board,
There is a vacant seat on the Lowndes County Library Board. The
Board of Trustees of the South Georgia Regional Library System
respectfully requests the appointment of Mr. Gene Toffolo to fill the
vacant seat.
They don’t say who applicant Gene Toffolo is.
According to the South Georgia Regional Library
he’s a 2016 Friends of the Library Board member:
Front Left to Right: Kay Scott, Janet Toffolo, Mary Helen Watson (President), Merrilee Casady,
Sarah Smart (Vice President), Robert DeVan (Treasurer)
Back Left to Right: Gene Toffolo, Patricia Marks, Riley Howard, Karl Osmus, John Swiderski (Secretary)
The county’s agenda and agenda sheet for the Lowndes County Library Board
don’t say whose seat expired or maybe somebody resigned.
The county’s
web page for this board
is no more helpful, listing these members and expirations,
none of which expires in 2017: Continue reading
