Really; those are the names of two of the organizations they spoke before:
Great Promise Partnership and Leadership Lowndes.
And what is the mystery Project XX2?
Here’s
the agenda:
Valdosta — Lowndes County Industrial Authority
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson Street
With
a bare quorum of 3 out of 5, VLCIA
Chair Mary Gooding
said they had finally purchased their own office space
and would henceforth pay neither lease nor rent
using our tax dollars.
I’d like to congratulate them for a thorough public bid review.
Project Manager Allan Ricketts reviewed the project
including the bids on “the second document in front of you”
that the taxpaying public didn’t get to see.
He did summarize the bids, and they even showed them
on a slide:
| $273,595 | Cauthan |
| $232,445 | Kellerman |
| $274,900 | Quillian Powell |
| $262,557 | Taylor |
| $244,000 | True North |
A board member wanted to know if the bids were all local.
Ricketts said they were.
Mr. Matt Hart, with IPG, project manager on the project,
clarified Continue reading
The Industrial Authority’s
new office is urgent enough for a special called meeting.
Inquiring reporter Gretchen is going to see what the fuss is about.
Maybe it’s just because this office search has had
more episodes than Star Wars.
Before Roy Copeland was appointed to the VLCIA board, they were
considering buying the old Board of Elections site from him.
Now he’s even been Chairman twice and given that up, and they
still don’t have a new office.
Or maybe it’s something to do with
who owns 103 Roosevelt Drive.
Interestingly, HG Pinnacle Properties, Inc. also owns the much larger surrounding lot,
2318 N Patterson Street,
on which
a Valdosta Electric trailer has been parked
across from the hospital for so long it shows up on Google Maps.
On VLCIA’s website
and
facebook page
(although oddly not in their
current news page:
There will be a Special Called Meeting of the Valdosta-Lowndes
County Industrial Authority 12 noon Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority Offices.The purpose of this meeting is to review bids regarding the
renovation and construction of 103 Roosevelt Drive.
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More good news at Valdosta’s other wastewater treatment plant, Mud Creek,
where more solar is being installed;
more about that at tonight’s meeting of the Valdosta-Lowndes County
Industrial Authority.
Mud Creek
was already upgraded in 2012 to handle expected wastewater flow.
Here’s
tonight’s agenda:
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 5:00 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson Street
Agenda
One hopes all this PR and marketing pays off in jobs.
Remember, the Industrial Authority has kept its cushy
1 mil of property tax throughout the economic downturn.
Four new industry projects are on the agenda this time,
plus more solar power at Valdosta’s Mud Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Much better PR than
Valdosta Fire Dept. helping put out Perma-Fix on fire.
Here’s
the agenda
in a slightly broken PDF on the VLCIA website
and extracted below.
Verizon won’t be the only 4G LTE access in Valdosta anymore:
AT&T has turned theirs on.
It’s not clear how far out of town that extends (looks to me
like I still need to go stand by my west gate if I want on),
but at least it’s a start of competition, and maybe T will
get around to increasing
its coverage (see next post).
If
Softbank + Sprint + Clearwire comes here, as well,
maybe we’ll see something like a competitive market.
It’s not clear even that will be enough to get fast affordable
access everywhere in south Georgia.
For that, maybe our local elected and appointed officials
will continue with
the advocacy they started back in February.
As mentioned at the Industrial Authority yesterday evening by
Executive Director Andrea Schruijer (video to come), here’s
AT&T’s PR of 2 July 2013,
AT&T 4G LTE Available In Valdosta:
Customers to benefit from nation’s fastest 4G LTE network on the latest devices,
VALDOSTA, Ga., July 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — AT&T* has turned on
the nation’s fastest 4G LTE network** in Valdosta, bringing
customers the latest generation of wireless network technology.
Watch here to see several of the benefits AT&T 4G LTE provides,
including:
- Faster speeds. LTE technology is capable of delivering mobile
Internet speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G***. Customers can
stream, download, upload and game faster than ever before.- Cool new
devices. AT&T offers several LTE-compatible devices, including new
AT&T 4G LTE smartphones and tablets.- Faster response time. LTE
technology offers lower latency, or the processing time it takes to
move data through a network, such as how long it takes to start
downloading a webpage or file once you’ve sent the request. Lower
latency helps to improve services like mobile gaming, two-way video
calling and telemedicine.- More efficient use of spectrum. Wireless
spectrum is a finite resource, and LTE uses spectrum more
efficiently than other technologies, creating more space to carry
data traffic and services and to deliver a better network
experience.“Wireless infrastructure investment is critical to Georgia’s future
and I am very pleased to see AT&T investing in Valdosta and Lowndes
County and bringing LTE service to our community,” said Andrea
Schruijer, Executive Director of the Valdosta-Lowndes County
Industrial Authority. “Advanced technology like LTE will help
stimulate our economy and provide new tools and services that we
need to compete for business.”“We continue Continue reading
Will
the recent increase in solar requirements by GA PSC on Georgia Power
produce any more solar projects in Valdosta?
And what’s in the VLCIA annual report?
Maybe a list of jobs created?
Here’s
the agenda.
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority
Agenda, Tuesday July 16, 2013 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson Street
Content two months running
in VLCIA agendas!
And the potential project list is up from six to nine.
Here’s
the agenda:
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority
Agenda, Tuesday June 18, 2013 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson Street
Names of projects!
Lists of PR and marketing items!
Is this a new trend from our Industrial Authority?
Or will it be like
the last time I complimented them on an agenda with content
and was told later that one was an accident.
Here’s
the agenda.
Sure, the project names are codewords, but that’s how they talk to
prospective companies without revealing all their cards to the competition.
And this one has a name:
Maybe we’ll hear more about those
two megawatts of solar power.
Maybe even more are scheduled for Lowndes County.
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority
Agenda, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson Street
Interesting stuff (audit and internal controls,
many meetings,
2 megawatts of solar power,
searching for and
finances of a new office
from
a mysterious seller)
in the items missing from the posted agenda yet presented anyway,
while two staff were elsewhere.
Here’s
the agenda with a few notes and some links to the videos.
* marks items that were not in the posted agenda.
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority
Agenda
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson Street
