You could hear this after
Matt Flumerfelt spoke in the previous post,
but let’s pull it out separately here.
This is Ashley Paulk recommending that people come in and talk
to their commissioners, and he says:
“I’m here every morning.”
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Matt Flumerfelt
compliments the commission on the good reception he’s gotten previously
and objects to the item in the
new rules
about the commission being able to close subjects.
He notes there is always resort to the law, but he hopes
things won’t come to that.
He concludes:
“The road of respect goes both ways.”
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Gretchen Quarterman applauds Chairman Paulk for increasing
the transparency of the government in the last few years,
then says:
I’m concerned that a barrier to dialog is getting higher, rather than lower. When the citizens make the effort to come to a meeting after a long day of work, or maybe they come in the morning when they don’t actually get to talk, it’s important for them to get a chance to be heard.She describes how the Zoning Board of Appeals (on which she is a county appointee) does it:
When you’re done saying stuff new, then everybody else that has something to say, they just raise their hand.And her main point:
I’d like to sort of suggest that hou have some dialog about this resolution that you just made. Maybe it could be modified so that people could continue to come, rather than three people could come.
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The Lowndes County Commission Tuesday
voted in
and
Chairman Paulk announced
new
Policies and Procedures for Citizens Wishing to Be Heard
Interestingly, since the Commission rushed through these new rules after the last meeting, there was no time to completely implement them, so the first thing the Chairman did was to set them aside for this meeting.
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5. Resolution Establishing Policies and Procedures for Citizens Wishing to Be Heard and Consideration of Lowndes County Board of Commissioners Policies and Procedures for Citizens Wishing to Be HeardToday I went by the county palace (hey, they call it that, too!) and asked Paige Dukes, the County Clerk, what was in the old resolution and what’s in the new draft resolution. She said there was no old resolution, and a bit later she sent me the new draft resolution, which is in the PDF below.
It’s a PDF of a scan of a paper page, so I don’t have the plain text. If somebody wants to type it in and send it to me, have at it.From: “Paige Dukes” <paiged@lowndescounty.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:32:35 -0500
To: “John S. Quarterman” <jsq@quarterman.org>
Subject: Resolution Draft 1.24.2011.pdf – Adobe Acrobat Professional
See you 5:30 PM tomorrow evening (Tuesday 25 Jan 2011) at 327 N. Ashley Street, Valdosta, GA 31601. They start on the dot or slightly early, and it’s a light agenda, so be on time and don’t blink or you’ll miss it.
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This has happened several times before. Paige Dukes is the County Clerk.
PUBLIC NOTICE
COMMISSION MEETING
WORK SESSION CANCELLED
Due to the lack of agenda items requiring additional information or discussion, the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners Work Session on Monday, January 24, 2011, has been cancelled.
The regular session meeting is still scheduled for
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street
Valdosta, GA
For questions please call Paige Dukes at 229-671-2400.
See the previous post for the one unusual item on the agenda, about policies and procedures for Citizens Wishing to be Heard.
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left to right: Ashley Paulk (Chairman), Joyce E. Evans (District 1), Crawford Powell (District 3), Richard Raines (District 2). |
5. Resolution Establishing Policies and Procedures for Citizens Wishing to Be Heard and Consideration of Lowndes County Board of Commissioners Policies and Procedures for Citizens Wishing to Be Heard
It also has the regular item:
7. Citizens Wishing to be Heard Please State Name And AddressThis item is for the regular session, not the work session, although in the work session the Chairman sometimes notes somebody is there wanting to talk and asks them to say what they want to say. Conversely, in the regular session we don’t usually hear much from this one:
8. Reports-County ManagerThe county manager often gives a longer report in the work session.
By “very brief” I mean work sessions typically run about 15 minutes, with the record being something like 8 minutes. And they start on time, or a minute early. Be there or miss what you want to hear or say.
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:05:59 -0500Continue reading
From: noll_family
To: apaulk@lowndescounty.com, jevans@lowndescounty.com, rraines@lowndescounty.com, cpowell@lowndescounty.com CC: noll_family@bellsouth.net, kay.harris@gaflnews.com, “John S. Quarterman” <jsq@quarterman.org>
Subject: Re: Tuesday’s MeetingDear Chairman Paulk and Commissioners.
I again would like to extend my invitation as President of WACE to the upcoming event this Thursday (see attachment).
The issue of the proposed biomass incinerator is far from over and concerned citizens of Lowndes County and Valdosta will use their constitutional rights to (respectfully) speak up at future meetings, as they have done in the past.
What
Gary Minchew said at the end of his last Valdosta-Lowndes County
Industrial Authority (VLCIA) meeting as a board member:
He said he’s brought over 200 jobs a year to the area. He also said he organized getting the 1 mil of dedicated tax money for VLCIA. Continue reading