The most exciting thing last month was the

new fire truck, on display outside,
seen here driving off with its lights flashing:

See

LAKE video.

This was the most recent Regular Session, because the Lowndes County Commission meetings for the end of August were cancelled.

County Manager Joe Pritchard again said he wanted

higher staff approval limits for items in the budget.

There was some question about campaign contributions on the

Hahira rezoning and annexation; they didn’t know, but they approved it anyway.
The longest discussion was on the

Intrado phone system,
which will have Lowndes County be the first south of Atlanta with text to 911.
A suprising number of and variety of Commissioner questions on

the 911 radios.
The only question on the three utilities items was

whether they were in the budget; they are.
As usual, they rubberstamped

the three Valdosta State Prison work details,
with the only question being whether they were getting enough for the money.
A: Yes, because prisoners work cheap.

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