Tag Archives: 7 April 2014

Defibrilators from Homeland Security @ LCC 2014-04-07



The

KLVB presentation told us up to three states dump in
the Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County,
for which the county gets some unspecified amount of tipping fees,
which go to fund KLVB.
An appointment to
KLVB was added to the agenda,
although nobody deigned to reveal who was “that individual that has
requested to serve on that board”.
The

Homeland Security grant application turned out to be for defibrillators.

Here’s
the agenda, with a few annotations and links to the videos.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

AMENDED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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1 change order, 2 grants, 3 rezonings, 1 KLVB appointment @ LCC 2014-04-07

A non-competitive no-RFP un-explained change order,

this time for Val Del Road, on the agenda for the Lowndes County Commission.
Would you like to know why county staff doesn’t want to go out for
competitive bids before spending your tax money?


We can guess it’s about that

shoulder paving
they
just approved

$949,493.85 for to Scruggs Company.
But why should we have to guess if that’s it and why they need a change order for a million dollar project
at the very next Commission meeting?

We’d be able to see why if the board packets were online with the agenda,
as happens in many metropolitan areas, such as
Leon County, Florida,
or
Glynn County, Georgia,
or

Richmond County, Georgia.
Our own Lowndes County Board of Education

often links board packet items in with its agenda.

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