The first speaker in CTBH asked for the city to
rebuild streets in the Highland subdivision.
He said there had been insufficient engineering and lack of maintenance of streets, including for water flow.
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Finance Director Stephanie Black said due to the
Property Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights,
if the tax digest (total assessed property value in the county)
goes up, the county has to reduce the millage (tax per $1,000 of property value),
or announce the difference as a tax increase and hold three public hearings,
so they’re rolling back the millage rate slightly: 0.126 mills,
down from 11.064 for 2018 to 10.938 for 2019.
That’s Georgia Senate Bill 177, Act 431, signed April 30, 1999, effective January 1, 2000.
Here is the millage resolution they adopted half an hour later,
in the
board packet, which LAKE only received after this millage meeting and after the Commission voted on this millage change:
She showed some quite informative slides, which for unknown reasons do not
seem to be on
the Finance Department’s web page.
For example, she had a nice summary slide of the five chunks of sales tax these days:
4 cents to the State of Georgia,
1 cent to Local Option Sales Tax (LOST),
split between county and its cities for property tax reduction,
1 cent to Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST), split between county and its cities for capital improvements,
1 cent to Educational Special Local Option Sales Tax (E-SPLOST),
split between the county and city school systems for capital improvements
1 cent to Transportation Special Local Option Sales Tax (T-SPLOST),
regionally approved, and split between the county and its cities for transportation capital improvements.
Billed on the lowndescounty.com calendar as
Millage Meeting,
5PM, Tuesday, 27 August 2019, in Commission Chambers before the voting Regular Session,
as usual almost nobody attended, and nobody from the public spoke.
Lowering the Millage Rate
Millage Meeting, Lowndes County Commission (LCC Millage),
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, August 27, 2019.
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This agenda brought to you by Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
because mighty Valdosta’s new website forgot all its agendas and minutes
since last October.
No doubt they will get that fixed soon.
Still from LAKE video of CUP-2019-03 at the preceding Planning Commission meeting.
As usual, the county did not publish the applications the applicants turned in, nor any information about them.
You could file an open records request for those,
but three days from when the agenda is posted on Friday
is after they vote on Tuesday.
You do still have time to turn in your own application if you want to be on one of these boards.
So the Monday morning Work Session will probably last less than ten minutes.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2019, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Six minutes, almost as long as the preceding Work Session, for this special hurry-up real estate item that couldn’t wait
one day for tonight’s Regular Session.
Lowndes County Project Manager Chad McLeod explained the easement.
Commissioner Mark Wisenbaker asked wasn’t there an existing implied easement.
Real Estate Agent Tom McCall said there wasn’t,
although what he described sounded awful like that.
However, he pointed out they had no idea Continue reading →
910 N Patterson Street, Valdosta, GA 31601,
previously listed for rent for $8,206/month by RealLiving Real Estate, as
“Landmark Professional Office Space available on centrally located Patterson Street. This red brick office stands out in terms of craftsmanship, quality, and location. Built-ins throughout with (16) private offices, (10) work stations, multiple conference rooms, break room, mechanical rooms, storage closet, fireproof rooms and over 2,000 SF unfinished 3rd floor open space storage. From the well appointed receptionist area to the functional layout this property was designed with the professional in mind and is sure to impress your clients.”
Special Called Meeting
Monday, April 8, 2019
A special called meeting will be held for consideration of an
agreement between Coleman Talley and Lowndes County for a mutual
easement. *There could be a slight delay if the work session runs
longer than expected.
They expect this Work Session to take less than 15 minutes,
since they have
a Special Called Meeting at 8:45 AM:
“There could be a slight delay if the work session runs longer than expecte.”
Why they couldn’t wait one day to vote on that also in tomorrow’s
Regular Session is mysterious.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2019, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Subtract out the invocation, pledge, and approval of minutes (which you couldn’t hear anyway because
the county’s sound system wasn’t working) and the
Chairman’s ending comments on Youth Leadership,
and your elected Commissioners spent about six minutes on the business of the county,
including spending some unknown amount of money on road services.
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