A million dollar loan wasn’t worth scheduling on the regular agenda for the May 9, 2023, Lowndes County Commission Regular Session?
Apparently not, since Chairman Bill Slaughter added it after the previous morning’s Work Session. Commissioner Demarcus Marshall wanted to know Continue reading
Big news: One Valdosta-Lowndes has hired an Executive Director, Mary Beth Brownlee, previously with ACCG. See 8. Reports.
Almost three minutes on 5.c. REZ-2023-06 Wild Adventures, 3766 Old Clyattville Road, P-D amendment was the longest at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session yesterday morning. They vote tonight at 5:30 PM.
In her 8. Reports, County Manager Paige Dukes said for the tire amnesty starting that day (yesterday), people could take tires to either the county or city locations. Ordinary vehicle tires, not for tractors or semi-trucks.
She said the tax assessment notices will go out mid-May. There will be some increases, since Continue reading
Update 2023-05-09: Videos: Wild Adventures glamping, AB Motorsports withdrawn, a road abandonment and RoW purchase, Clyattville Community Center, plus alcohol @ LCC 2023-05-08.
Update 2023-05-09: Videos: ULDC Updates, AB Motorsports withdrawn, Wild Adventures glamping @ GLPC 2023-04-24.
A Wild Adventures rezoning for glamping will be at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session Monday morning at 8:30 AM and at the voting Regular Session Tuesdahy 5:30 PM. Plus a $50,000 road project to Wild Adventures’ front door is on the agenda.
![[Collage @ LCC Packet 2023-05-08]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2023-05-08--lcc-packet/many.jpg)
Collage @ LCC Packet 2023-05-08
The AB Motorsports rezoning was “withdrawn by Continue reading
The Lowndes County Commission took seventeen minutes to do the people’s business at its Regular Session, Tuesday, August 9, 2022.
![[Collage]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2022-08-09--lcc-regular-videos/many.jpg)
The Flannigan rezoning was withdrawn by the applicant. Perhaps they thought that without a more complete plan, the rezoning would be denied and then they couldn’t come back for a year. By withdrawing, they do not have to wait to come with a new, more complete proposal.
The Boring Pond Lane abandonment actually had a speaker for, who Continue reading
Update 2022-08-22: Packet: Walkers Crossing @ LCC 2022-08-08
Update 2022-08-22: Videos: Rezoning, Roads, Communications, Water leak @ LCC Regular 2022-08-09.
Here is the board packet for the August 8, 2022, Work Session and the August 9, 2022, Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission, received in response to a LAKE open records request.
![[Rezoning, Roundabout, Abandonment, Subdivision]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2022-08-08--lcc-packet/many.jpg)
Rezoning, Roundabout, Abandonment, Subdivision
The packet is on the LAKE website.
See also the agenda and the LAKE videos of the Work session.
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Eighteen minutes for the whole meeting, mostly consisting of reading out the agenda sheet text for each item. The longest item was 7b. Accept Gaines Lane Quit-Claim Deeds, apparently because of a need for a title search and to prepare a plat, and who would pay for it, the county or other.
Here are the costs found in the agenda sheets for each item, most expensive first:
| Cost | What |
|---|---|
| $399,414.00 | Bid for a 3,000 Gallon Tanker for the Fire Department |
| $28,327.04 | Request to Purchase New Firefighter Turnout Gear |
| $19,167 | Solicitor-General’s Office 2020 VAWA Grant Award Activation |
| $4,836.00 | Approval of Clyattstone Rd.-Simpson Ln. ROW Purchases |
| $451,744.04 | Total |
Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a very few comments, followed by a LAKE video playlist. See also: Continue reading
The board packet for the March 9 and 10 Work and Regular Sessions of the Lowndes County Commission is on the LAKE website, received 3:00 PM Tuesday, March 10, 2020, in response to a LAKE open records request. I did not have time to process it before the Regular Session 2.5 hours later.
Here are the costs found in the agenda sheets for each item, most expensive first:
| Cost | What |
|---|---|
| $399,414.00 | Bid for a 3,000 Gallon Tanker for the Fire Department d |
| $28,327.04 | Request to Purchase New Firefighter Turnout Gear d |
| $19,167 | Solicitor-General’s Office 2020 VAWA Grant Award Activation d |
| $4,836.00 | Approval of Clyattstone Rd.-Simpson Ln. ROW Purchases d |
| $0 | Abandonment of Unopened Right of Way – Hart Road d |
| $451,744.04 | Total |
Of course, all those dollar figures are immediate costs. They do not include future costs such as road paving related to new subdivisions.
See also the LAKE videos of the preceding Planning Commission meeting. That GLPC meeting’s item 3. REZ-2020-03 Wetherington Property, Val Del Road RA to PD, re-appears on this Lowndes County Commission agenda as 6.b. REZ-2020-03 Wetherington Property, Val Del Rd. R-A to P-D, County Water and Sewer, ~72.54 acres Districts 2 and 5.
And see also Continue reading
The Val Del Road rezoning for a subdivision on the Wetherington Property near Nelson Hill is on the agenda for this morning’s Lowndes County Commission Work Session, to be voted on Tuesday evening at the Regular Session.
Probably not coincidentally, Right of way purchase for Clyattstone Road is also on the agenda.
![[Wetherington watershed]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/glpc/2020-02-24--glpc-packet/wetherington-watershed.jpg)
Lowndes County Property Appraiser,
Wetherington watershed
The Bids for Fire Department equipment previously tabled and discussed at length in the recent all-day planning sessions are back on the agenda.
Frank Morman doesn’t want to be reappointed to the Continue reading
The longest item at 2:23 was the Val Del Road rezoning case, for which one Commissioner recused himself. The others passed it unanimously.
Second longest was the GLPC appointments. No surprise, Ed Hightower was reappointed, and the second appointment was….
Third longest was the Chairman’s unscheduled recognition of Leadership Lowndes and advertisement for a 9/11 ceremony. If he’s going to do this every time, maybe it could be put on the agenda.
Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with Continue reading
Apparently more was shown on the screen yesterday morning that we finally received this morning in the board packet, such as this picture of the Nelson Hill subdivision on Val Del Road.
They also added 7.b. Refunding Revenue Bonds by South Region Joint Development Authority for VSU ASRE, which makes no sense until you can see details in the board packet.
After the agenda items, the Chairman made unscheduled announcements of a Continue reading
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![[Collage @ LCC 8 May 2023]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2023-05-08--lcc-work-videos/many.jpg)
![[Zoning Location Map]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2020-03-09--lcc-packet/March-9--10-2020-Meeting-Packet-0016.jpg)