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Videos: Court * 4, Boards * 2, Sewer * 4, Beer, Computers, Pest, Fire, Grounds, Road truck @ LCC 2021-06-21

They spent the most time discussing the several court funding cash match requests,
two weeks ago at the Lowndes County (GA) Commission Work Session.
At the end, Project Manager Chad McLeod had updates on the Courthouse renovation
and the Commission Chambers audio and video restoration.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also
the agenda.
The board packet is on the LAKE website, received in response to a LAKE open records request.

http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2021-06-21–lcc-packet
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Boards * 2, Sewer * 4, Court * 4, Beer, Computers, Pest, Fire, Grounds, Road truck @ LCC 2021-06-21

The biggest item on this week’s Lowndes County Commission agenda, for voting this eventing,
is

Grounds Maintenance.
Planting some native shrubbery, flowers, and trees instead of all that lawn
would reduce that cost.

Three sewage system items add up, for
Whitewater Lift Station Control Panel Emergency Repair,
Bemiss Low Pressure Sewer Main Replacement Change Order,
and
the

$2,500,000.00 GEFA Loan for the Sewer System Rehabilitation Project.
That last does not show up in the agenda sheet as BUDGET IMPACT,
but county taxpayers will pay for it over time.
However, proactive sewer system fixes are lot better than reactive
sewage spill repairs.

Four courts in three agenda items require cash match.
Plus a road work truck and pest control round out the dollar figures.

Cost	What
$158,140.00	Bid for Grounds Maintenance for County Buildings
$53,140.00	Whitewater Lift Station Control Panel Emergency Repair
$48,307.21	Compute and Storage for South Lowndes Data Center
$46,777.50	Purchase of Fire Turnout Gear
$39,135.00	Office of the Governor Criminal Justice Coordinating Council Accountability Court Lowndes County DUI Court Grant Award – State Court
$33,989.00	Bemiss Low Pressure Sewer Main Replacement Change Order
$28,074.84	Purchase of a Truck for Public Works
$23,557.16	Lowndes County Accountability Court Adult Drug Court Program – Grant (Cash Match)
$10,000.00	Lowndes County Juvenile Accountability Court – Drug Court Program – Grant (Cash Match)
$6,734.40	Bid for Pest Control Service
$447,855.11	Total

There’s a reappointment to

Children’s Services and a new appointment to the

Library Board.

And there’s a

beer license, which brings in fees of
$250 Off Premises + $150 Administration = $400.

Beer, Lawns

Here is
the agenda.
The board packet is on the LAKE website, received in response to a LAKE open records request.

http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2021-06-21–lcc-packet

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2021, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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FFA, Appointments, Liquor, Rezonings, Roads, Forestry, DUI, Holidays, Insurance, Calendar, Trucks @ LCC 2020-12-07

Update 2020-12-15: Board packet is on the LAKE website.

A million and a half dollars, mostly for insurance, on the agenda for the final
Lowndes County Commission session of 2020, and that’s not counting
the many-years-long ramifications of rezoning for new subdivisions
and acquiring right of way for a new road.

Rezonings: REZ-2020-17 3833 Inner Perimeter Road; REZ-2020-19 3435 Bemiss Knights Academy; REZ-2020-20 6712 Clyattstone Road

Cost	What
$1,240,297.00	2021 Stop Loss Insurance Coverage Renewal Through Symetra Life Ins. Company
$174,759.00	2021 ACCG Workers’ Compensation Insurance Renewal
$60,862.00	Bid for 2 – Three Quarter Ton Trucks for the Engineering Department
$27,367.00	Bid for a Sport Utility Vehicle for the 911 Center
$920.50	Georgia Forestry Commission Services [LAS prescribed burns] Agreement
$381.00	Office of the Governor Criminal Justice Coordinating Council Accountability Court Lowndes County DUI Court- State Court
$1,504,586.50	Total

Lowndes County Development Authority
Terms are up for Brooks Akins, Gary Cannon, and Jerome Tucker. Cannon and Tucker want reappointment, and the Commission almost always reappoints.

Resolution Rejection Quitclaim Deed; Affidavit Regarding Title- Branch Point.
The County has laid out the right-of-way for a county road known as Fender Road between Williams School…
Trading a parcel to William Q. Touchton, Jr. for another parcel for the road.

REZ-2020-20 Ballyntyne 6712 Clyattstone Road (0071 008) R-1 to R-10, Water & Sewer, ~40.3 acres .
For 105+ house lots. In 2006, for a more complicated plan on the same site, GLPC recommended denial 7:0, County Commission denied 2:0. What did GLPC vote this time?
And how about factoring in all the costs of paving Clyattstone Road over many previous Commission meetings? Continue reading →

Videos: River Gauges, Roads, Alcohol, and Fire @ LCC 2019-10-22

The longest items at last month’s voting Regular Session were 3 minutes on 5.b. 2020 Census Resolution (due to discussion about the new initially online methods),
two minutes on 5.l. Tax Assessment for the Lowndes County School District Bonds (it’s about debt service on ESPLOST),
and 1:44 on 5.k. Industrial Authority Bond Issue and Funding (it’s complicated).

The

5.a. FY2020 USGS Joint Funding Agreement,
which adds county funding for the Skipper Bridge Withlacoochee River USGS Gauge
to the Hahira Little River Gauge the county has been funding since 2009,
breezed through.

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Videos: River Gauges, Roads, Alcohol, and Fire @ LCC 2019-10-21

Surprise bonds for the Development Authority and Lowndes County Schools,
and a turn lane for Wiregrass Tech, plus a new Forestry Ranger about fire,
in these LAKE videos of yesterday morning’s Lowndes County Commission Work Session.

The longest item was five minutes about

funding the Skipper Bridge Withlacoochee River USGS Gauge
in addition to the Folsom Bridge Little River Gauge,
by
EMA Director Ashley Tye.
Valdosta apparently discovered that Skipper Bridge is not in the city limits, so Valdosta will no longer fund that gauge.
But the former funding from the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) plus more from Lowndes County will cover it,
if the Lowndes County Commissioners vote for it at 5:30 PM Tonight,
after their discussion yesterday morning.

Georgia Forestry Ranger Randy Spell talked about the use of a vehicle
in the

Rural Fire Defense Cooperative Lease Agreement And MOU.

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Packet: River Gauges, Roads, Alcohol, and Fire @ LCC 2019-10-21

Lowndes County is adding funding for the Skipper Bridge Road Withlacoochee River gauge to its traditional since 2009 funding of the Folsom Bridge GA 122 Little River gauge.
That’s $8,300 and $14,200, respectively, with another $5,900 for the Skipper Bridge Gauge from the Suwannee River Water Management District.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) puts in $900 towards each gauge, or $1800 total.
Valdosta still funds the North Valdosta Road US 41 Withlacoochee River Valdosta gauge, and USGS completely funds the US 84 Quitman Withlacoochee River gauge.

OPTIONS: 1. Approve the FY 2020 Funding Agreement

PDF

Details are in the Board Packet now on the LAKE website, received Friday, October 18, 2019, in response to an open records request.

The rest of the Lowndes County Commission
agenda for Monday and Tuesday is dominated by roads:
a resolution on criteria for taking private roads into the county public road system,
and resolutions taking in roads within several subdivisions: Continue reading →

Valdosta * 2, Remerton, Lowndes County * 3 @ GLPC 2019-06-24

Tonight at the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission,
presumably

REZ-2019-08 Knudson & Son Outdoor Activities
will be skipped, since last month
the Lowndes County Commission
already decided that case,
and ZBOA denied most of the applicants’ requested variances.

Context map

The only other big one (by acreage) tonight is

REZ-2019-11 Stewart,
4151 Stewart Circle, 0072 001, ±12 ac., R-1 to C-H.

Here is

the agenda.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County

City of Valdosta

City of Dasher

City of Hahira

City of Lake Park

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA

Monday, June 24, 2019 * 5:30 P.M.

Public Hearing, Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia

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Videos: One county case: Knudson & Son Outdoor Activities @ ZBOA 2019-06-04

ZBOA granted some relief on parking, but not as much as they wanted,
and not anything else: not setbacks, fencing, etc.,
to Knudson & Son Outdoor Activities, the only case on

this month’s ZBOA agenda.

This is the case before the Lowndes County Commission today,
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Videos: Outdoor sports more contentious than Tower @ GLPC 2019-05-28

More than 3/4 of an hour on

Knudson & Son Outdoor Activities,
28 minutes on

one of the Hahira GA overlay variance requests,
and
22 minutes on the

Valdosta personal care home request (before the Valdosta City Council tonight),
plus a bunch of shorter items, added up to a two-hour
Planning Commission meeting.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also Continue reading →

One county case: Knudson & Son Outdoor Activities @ ZBOA 2019-06-04

Update 2019-06-10: LAKE video of the ZBOA meeting, in which the case didn’t look nearly so good when presented.

I have to admit I like this part, on page 9 of the one variance request,
a Lowndes County case, the only case on the ZBOA agenda for today:

Requirements for variances: 9.02.03:

A. Due to the size of the property it would create a financial
hardship to tear down current natural vegetation to build a fence
around the activity area. Also one of the property lines goes
through wetlands, and runs along a creek. I would have to disturb a
considerable amount of wetlands to do a fence or wall. It would also
create a hardship with my overall goals for the property. I plan to
have it setup to where for the most part if you are standing at a
property line you wont be able to see the field area. If I have to
tear down natural buffer then it will be easier for neighbors to see
the field from their property vs natural untouched woods. If we were
also required to tear up an area to plant new trees and shrubs this
would create a few hardships. The first would be financial as it
would require several trees and shrubs due to the size of the
property. The second is that it would strain the relationships with
my neighbors as they will more than likely be able to see more of
the recreation area vs if we left the vegetation that is currently
in place.

Map of setbacks requested

PDF

The entire ZBOA board packet is

on the LAKE website,
thanks to ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman.

Here is
the agenda:

Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

Matt Martin,
Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator

300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 259-3563

Lowndes County Zoning Office

327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 671-2430

AGENDA

June 4, 2019

2:30 p.m.

Call to Order

LOWNDES COUNTY CASE:

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