Yes, the Industrial Authority is meeting today at 5:30 PM
about BRAT, South Georgia Alliance, and
National Manufacturing Day,
before it meets
tomorrow at 11:00 AM about VSU bonds.
Here’s today’s agenda:
Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority
Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 5:30 pm
Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive
Monthly Meeting Agenda
Authority under budget, Nature Nate’s ahead of schedule, USPS contentious, manufacturing week, and WWALS water trails: all packed into a brief meeting last Tuesday of the Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority.
CPA Tom Davis said the Development Authority is
under budget but tax collection is also slow, with no new funds expected until January.
Existing Industry Coordinator Stan Crance announced that
Nature Nate’s is beyond projections, now up to 25 jobs and $3 million capital investment and needs more parking.
They’d also like to move their postal mail delivery from a downtown post office box to a local mailbox.
But Nature Nate’s is the only tenant of Miller Business Park,
and USPS requires central box units for any business park.
This would require modifying the roundabout “just in case any other businesses were to locate out there”.
Some Development Authority board members found this USPS requirement to be a contentious situation, “worse than Continue reading
It’s again 5:30 today. The day before yesterday
they changed it to noon,
and yesterday
they changed it back to 5:30 PM,
but they didn’t fix that in
the online agenda.
Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority
Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 12 noon
Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive
Monthly Meeting Agenda
That could be good because it makes them focus on existing industries.
Here’s the agenda.
Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 5:30 p.m.
Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive
Monthly Meeting Agenda
Tonight at 5:30 PM they welcome
new marketing person
Meghan Schunhoff, whose
linkedin profile
says she also works for
The Triangle Furniture Football Friday Night Radio Show- Black Crow Media
and she previously worked for
South Georgia Medical Center.
She is listed on the Development Authority’s Our Team web page as Marketing & Research Manager, with no picture or other information yet.
Maybe it’s her job to put that there….
Meanwhile, thanks to Lu Williams for posting
the agenda.
FYI, they didn’t meet last month.
Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority
Tuesday, July 19, 2016 5:30 p.m.
Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive
Monthly Meeting Agenda
Record low attendance, not record but very short session time,
even with a full agenda;
at least you can see last month’s last Lowndes County Commission Regular Session in these LAKE videos.
They meet again 8:30 AM this morning.
See also the LAKE videos of the May 23rd Work Session.
In the May 24th Regular Session, there were
still no questions yesterday from Commissioners about that $55,979.00 in
two no-bid
items.
Commissioner Demarcus Marshall did ask Continue reading
Will they take longer to vote this evening at 5:30 PM than the
8 1/2 minutes for yesterday morning’s Work Session with
a full agenda?
No questions yesterday from Commissioners about that $55,979.00 in
two no-bid
items, although the County Manager did say “quotes” about the .
lift station pump.
The
County Manager’s Report
did say he’d received
an annexation request from Hahira for the W. Main St. property and he indicated no grounds for the county to protest.
The only question from a Commissioner was about which one of them
might be picked to serve with
“Ms. Andrea Schuijer”
on the
South Regional Joint Development Authority.
Answer: maybe Clay Griner.
Nobody asked why
the county’s web page on that Joint Authority
says Andrea Schruijer is already on it.
Is this a reappointment?
And which slots are vacant?
Also, what does this Joint Authority do?
For the
Southern Georgia Area Agency on Aging,
yes it’s Commissioner Joyce Evans for reappointment.
County Engineer Mike Fletcher said
the Beaver Lane closing
previously came up in 2002 and was denied,
but now some of the opponents from then are for it.
Tonight is not the public hearing: merely a determination on scheduling a public hearing. Continue reading
This morning’s 8:30 AM
$45,600.00 for new grounds for four
radio towers:
was it in the budget, or is this another emergency no-bid item?
Ditto the $10,379.00 for the
Kinderlou Lift Station Pump?
Each item names only one company quoting.
After
abandoning Beaver Lane, will the county vote to fix it as a private road,
like they did with
Carter Way?
And from whom did the county receive the abandonment request?
Will the
County Manager’s Report
include
the Hahira W. Main St. annexation?
Also on
the Lowndes County Commission agenda
for discussion Monday morning and vote Tuesday evening,
appointing
“Ms. Andrea Schuijer and a Commissioner”
to the Continue reading
On tonight’s Development Authority agenda,
I’m guessing GEDA is
Georgia Economic Development Association.
Nature Nate, you may recall, is the first occupant of Miller Business Park.
I continue to suggest the Development Authority put solar panels on much of that
unused business park land and turn the business parks into profit centers instead
of continual money sinks to service all those bonds that funded them.
Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 5:30 p.m.
Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive
Monthly Meeting Agenda Continue reading
Is the mysterious Project Max a glass container plant as everyone seems to think?
It’s on
the agenda that suddenly appeared on the Development Authority’s website
this afternoon after Gretchen called to ask where it was.
She will be there with the LAKE video camera.
Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:30 p.m.
Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive
Monthly Meeting Agenda Continue reading