Tag Archives: 2017

Videos: West Mims Fire, Water Trails, Transportation, Construction Board, 3 tax lighting districts, mosquitoes, no-bid contract @ LCC 2017-08-08



“There’s nobody that can tackle something like that alone,”
said Emergency Management Director Ashley Tye in a

West Mims Fire Special Presentation

with firefighters from all over Lowndes County and its cities,
including a resolution from the Charlton County Commission.

Citizen

Gretchen Quarterman spoke about WWALS and trash and cameras at the
Naylor Boat Ramp site, and about Boy Scouts at the GA 133 Boat Ramp
.
Citizen Jim Parker

poked them about public transportation and renewable energy
.

They’re settling on
“Wiregrass Georgia Technical College Road to Success”,
but when did Commissioners decide on that between the previous morning’s
open meeting and this one?
But wait: Continue reading

Videos: Construction Board, 3 tax lighting districtcs, mosquitoes, radios, roads, and truck @ LCC 2017-08-07



Emergency Management Director Ashley Tye gave

a preview of the
West Mims Fire Special Presentation

that will be tonight at 5:30 PM by someone from the Charlton County Commission.

Looks like another

no-bid special contract award
,
this time to Lovell Engineering,
without even the excuse of an emergency.

They have signs made for

Wiregrass Technical College Highway
.
Two out of three (not Creekside)

Special Tax Lighting Districts

may be ready to vote on tonight.

If you have any other plumber to propose for the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals,
get that name to them before tonight; they’ve already got one name.

A month ago there was Continue reading

Videos: Appointments to Hospital Authority and Parks and Rec + well pump @ LCC 2017-07-11



Two Regular Sessions back,
they started with a moment of silence for Mike Everett, recently deceased employee
of the Public Works department.
The

obituary in the VDT
, 14 July 2014,

Michael Thomas Everett, a senior heavy equipment operator with
Lowndes county and long time resident of Berrien County, GA, died
unexpectedly on July 9, 2017 at the age of 58 at his home. Mike was
born in Miami, Florida on December 29, 1958 to Hermon J. Everett and
Mary C. Everett both deceased and is survived by his loving
Step-Mother Nora N. Everett. Mike also known as Mr. Mike to many of
his close friends and co-workers was an avid race car fan, loved
cooking, enjoyed tending to his many gardens. He also loved music
and often played guitar with family and friends. He was a magnet for
all dogs taking great care of any that showed up on his doorstep.
Mike was a very kind and generous man who will be deeply missed by
his family, close neighbors, friends, co-workers and all who knew
him. There is no service scheduled at this time.

No surprise on the

pump
or
for the

Hospital Authority
,
but news about Ashley Paulk and

VLPRA
.
They approved everything else unanimously, as they usually do.

Below are links to each LAKE video, with a few notes, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also the agenda.
There are no LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session,
because, they moved it half an hour early and didn’t send a notification.
But there is a blog post about one Commissioner’s response to that.
The county apparently does video its work sessions, but not that one,
and not this Regular Session, either.

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West Mims Fire, Construction Board, 3 tax lighting districtcs, mosquitoes, radios, roads, and truck @ LCC 2017-08-07

The most interesting item this morning at 8:30 AM at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session
is the Special Presentation by someone unnamed
about the West Mims Fire in the Okefenokee Swamp.
Apparently they sent some assistance.


The agenda sheet for the appointment to the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals
says:

Mr. Mike Vickery’s term on the Valdosta-Lowndes County Construction
Board of Adjustments and Appeals expired on June 30, 2017, leaving a
vacant seat. Mr. Tripp Howell has expressed interest in being
appointed to the board.

Here is the agenda: Continue reading

Videos: alias for Val Tech Road, Moody, Library, KLVB, DFCS, Construction Board @ LCC 2017-07-25

They actually spent the most time on the

fire pages
,
but
the biggest item was

renaming Val Tech Road
:
they decided not to do that, rather to designate “a portion” of it as
Wiregrass Technical College Way or something like that.

For two boards,
KLVB
and
DFCS,
they didn’t have an application for one seat,
so they left it until the next meeting.

The meeting lasted more than fifteen minutes, so they’ll probably have
to pay staff overtime!
Below are links to the LAKE video for each item in the
agenda,
for yesterday morning’s Regular Session, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also
the LAKE videos of hte previous morning’s Work Session.

Videos: Moody, Library, KLVB, DFCS, Construction Board, renaming Val Tech Road @ LCC 2017-07-24

Below are links to the LAKE video for each item in the
agenda,
for yesterday morning’s Work Session, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

Videos: Budget, Tax, Sewage Pump Station, Road Abandonment @ LCC 2017-06-27

They unanimously approved everything except the one

withdrawn item
,
and except for the

Executive Session
,
the whole thing took 9 minutes.
They meet again

8:30 AM Monday morning 24 July 2017
.

Below are links to each LAKE video of the 27 June 2017 Lowndes County Commission Regular Session,
with a very few notes, followed by a video playlist.
See also the

LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session

including the

Zika Presentation by Ken Lowery
;
and the

agenda
.

Air Force lobbyists, appointments to four boards, renaming Val Tech Road @ LCC 2017-07-24

The agenda still says 8:30 AM Monday morning for the Work Session,
and they have only half an hour left to change it and still comply with state law.

In case anybody has forgotten Moody AFB is by far the biggest employer in these parts, the county wants

to hire for $36,000 a year a pair of lobbyists to the Air Force
:
Parker and Lucy Greene,
“to provide consulting services on behalf of Lowndes County to enhance
relationships with the Air Force and Department of Defence regarding Moody AFB.”


Parker and Lucy Greene

Kari L. Sands (R.I.P.), VDT, 22 June 2007,

Parker Greene honored with award
, Continue reading

You missed it: Appointments to Hospital Authority and Parks and Rec + well pump @ LCC 2017-07-10

They moved the meeting half an hour earlier, to 8AM.
Gretchen, who is signed up to the county’s alert system yet never got any alert about this time change,
got there at the usual time and it was over already.
It’s listed in their calendar as “8:00 AM – 8:35 AM” but she got there
with the LAKE camera before 8:30 and it was already over.


Look closely: 8:00 AM, not 8:30 AM

And on the agenda:
two county appointments for the same Hospital Authority that hired a CEO for five years,
fired him without cause after two years, and now: Continue reading

Videos: Budget, Tax, Sewage Pump Station, Road Abandonment, Zika @ LCC 2017-06-26



Tonight at 5:30 PM they vote on what they discussed
yesterday morning at the Lowndes County Commission.
But you won’t hear the
Zika Presentation by Ken Lowery;
that was only in the Work Session.
It was by far the longest item, at seven minutes, longer than all the rest of the meeting, which took less than six minutes.
The second longest item at almost a minute and a half was

abandonment of a portion of Ponce de Leon Trail (CR 374)
.

You will see them

adopt the Fiscal Year 2018 budget
.
See the

previous post
for more background about the budget requests
that the county almost all denied.

Below are Continue reading