In an unusual move, Valdosta Engineering and Stormwater Departments jointly
wrote half a page proposing a different parking arrangement than the applicant asked for from ZBOA, on the agenda for this Tuesday afternoon.
Engineering & Stormwater Department:
While this development has
the minimum amount of parking required; the business is continually
starved for parking and drive-thru stacking during peak business
hours. (Breakfast, lunch and dinner) A few years ago they Continue reading
Here’s the
agenda,
and here are videos of the meeting as it proceeded.
They meet again tonight at 5:30 PM.
I talked about the Water Trail that WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc.
is developing on the Alapaha River with a tiny grant from the
Georgia River Network, and how that was a plus for local economic
development that wouldn’t cost VLCDA a dime.
They seemed to like that, at the
19 August 2014 Regular Meeting of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority.
Here’s
the video, followed by some pictures, links, and notes:
They (maybe) finally settled on their new name:
Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority; see
Minutes.
Interesting discussion about
Express Scripts,
and some details about presenters at the next day’s
Community Economic Development meeting.
I talked about the Alapaha River Water Trail.
And they are talking about
spec[ulative] building,
such as they liked when they saw it in Douglas and Valdosta Mayor Gayle liked in
Vidalia.
Here’s
the agenda, with a few notes, and links to the videos.
Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:30 p.m.
Development Authority Conference Room
103 Roosevelt Drive
Monthly Meeting Agenda
The big item tonight is the update on their local economic development meeting
last month, plus election of officers and the usual project and
marketing updates.
Here’s the
agenda, with a couple of formatting typos fixed (not sure I got it right, either).
Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 5:30 p.m.
Development Authority Conference Room
103 Roosevelt Drive
Monthly Meeting Agenda
I’ll give them an A for effort, including branching out:
from tires to agribusiness this month, and Valdosta North Rotary today, too.
That Community Ecomomic Developmeent Meeting is still on for tomorrow,
at
the Conference Center.
And they are talking about
spec[ulative] building,
such as they liked when they saw it in Douglas and Valdosta Mayor Gayle liked in
Vidalia.
Here’s
the agenda. Continue reading
Well,
the agenda says the Invocation was “For the purpose of discussing real estate”; it doesn’t say what the Executive Session was for.
Maybe they’ve got a customer for one of those empty industrial parks
Brad Lofton talked them into building before he left the state.
Maybe they’re going to build some of those spec buildings they and Valdosta Mayor Gayle admire in Vidalia
and Douglas.
Maybe they’re still negotiating with Continue reading
They’re aiming at
20 August 2014 for a meeting with local educational
and business leaders.
After mulling it over for more than two years,
VLCIA waited until somebody in Atlanta told them to, and finally
added a trading name of Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority (VLDA),
which two board members immediately said wrong.
Still, much actual thought, discussion, investigation and potential
courses of action was presented, especially in the
Executive Director’s Report
and in the answers to
Alvin Payton’s questions.
Only three board members attended
VLCIA’s first meeting in its new office near the hospital:
Roy Copeland, Vice-Chairman Jerry Jennett (presiding), and new member
Georgia Power VP Terri Lupo, who
was just appointed to VLCIA by the Lowndes County Commission.
They did not have the
expected officer nominating committee report, because
Chairman Mary Gooding and Tom Call were not there;
they barely had a quorum with 3 out of 5 board members.
Also attending were Lowndes County Chairman
Bill Slaughter,
Valdosta Mayor
John Gayle, and Valdosta City Council
Alvin Payton.
All three spoke in Citizens To Be Heard, as did I, delivering
the traditional welcome gift.
This move uptown leaves their old building to
Sabal Trail and its proposed fracked methane pipeline.
Has VLCIA ever developed an opinion on
that boondoggle?
Here’s
the agenda, with links to the videos, followed by
a video playlist.
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
103 Roosevelt Drive
Monthly Meeting Agenda
Six years in the making!
Finally VLCIA meets in its new office near the hospital.
Georgia Power VP Terri Lupo
was just appointed to VLCIA by the Lowndes County Commission
(without ever showing up and speaking).
On this VLCIA agenda is the annually expected officer nominating committee report.
Plus “Proposed VLCIA Name Change”.
How about SolarTown?
Hm, this move uptown leaves their old building to
Sabal Trail and its proposed fracked methane pipeline.
Has VLCIA ever developed an opinion on that boondoggle?
Here’s
the agenda. Continue reading
The Industrial Authority is having a Special Called Meeting Tuesday at 4:45 PM,
the agenda for which goes straight into Executive Session for no stated reason.
Is that even legal, as
I’ve asked before about a VLCIA executive session?
Also, why is
G. Norman Bennett still listed as a board member and Vice Chairman, even though according to the VDT
he resigned from VLCIA 13 March 2014?
I asked him about that in Hahira
a month ago today
and he said he’d talk to VLCIA.
Somebody didn’t follow through.
Here’s
the agenda,
which says they’re having an invocation for the purpose of discussing real estate
and gives no reason for the Executive Session.
Also from the
Georgia Open Meetings Act of 2012, 50-14-3(b)(1): Continue reading
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