Tag Archives: DBHDD

Videos: DBHDD appointments, VAWA, Juvenile Justice, Naylor Tower Top Amp, LMIG Resurfacing @ LCC Regular 2025-04-22

It is mysterious why

7.b. Val Del Rd and N. Valdosta Rd. Intersection improvement was only

added in this Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.
They’ve been leading up to it for a long time.
Apparently the two bids were only opened the previous day;
I thought bid openings were scheduled.


[Collage @ LCC 21 April 2025]

Collage @ LCC 21 April 2025

In this meeting, they talked about that intersection for almost seven minutes,
which is very long for this body.
The intersection will completely close starting May 27,
probably for most of the summer.
It will end up with two lanes going north, and three lanes going south: one left only, one left or straight, one right only.

The old US 41 North facebook group has renamed itself to follow this development

https://www.facebook.com/LowndesCoHwy41WideningRoadProjectUpdates

Second longest was Continue reading →

Videos: DBHDD appointments, VAWA, Juvenile Justice, Naylor Tower Top Amp, LMIG Resurfacing @ LCC Work 2025-04-21

Update 2025-04-29:
Videos: DBHDD appointments, VAWA, Juvenile Justice, Naylor Tower Top Amp, LMIG Resurfacing @ LCC Regular 2025-04-22.

It took 14 minutes, the Monday morning Work Session.
Much of that the Lowndes County Commission spent on the LMIG road resurfacing item
and on the two court grant items.

They voted this evening at 5:30 PM: LAKE videos to come.


[Collage @ LCC 21 April 2025]

Collage @ LCC 21 April 2025

At the Work Session, Lowndes County Commissioner Michael Smith volunteered for one of the two posts
available on

5.a. Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD),
with Juliana Powell having already applied for one of them.

Commissioner Demarcus Marshall wanted to know whether there were any problems
with DEI on the

6.a. Acceptance of the VAWA Continuation Grant Award for 2025.
Nobody seemed to know, or to address the question.

Commissioner Marshall asked a similar question about

6.b. FY2026 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Application.
County Manager Paige Dukes said basically that with things changing daily
in the federal goverment, nobody knows.
Commissioner Michael Smith had a question about service areas.

There was some chit-chat about

6.c. Emergency Purchase – Naylor Tower Top Amp Replacement.

There was some discussion of districts, specific roads, and state funding,
after
Commissioner Wisenbaker asked to have the list of roads being repaved read out for

7.a. 2025 LMIG Resurfacing Bids (Project #: ENG 2025-01).

Here are LAKE videos of each agenda item, with a few comments by Gretchen Quarterman,
followed by a LAKE video playlist. Continue reading →

Packet: DBHDD appointments, VAWA, Juvenile Justice, Naylor Tower Top Amp, LMIG Resurfacing @ LCC 2025-04-21

Update 2025-04-22:
Videos: DBHDD appointments, VAWA, Juvenile Justice, Naylor Tower Top Amp, LMIG Resurfacing @ LCC Work 2025-04-21.

It’s a pretty light agenda for the Lowndes County Commission Work Session
Monday morning, April 21, with voting the Regular Session Tuesday evening, April 22.

Two posts are open with only one applicant for appointment to the
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD).

There is a regular court grant renewal and an application for another.

Lightning caused the
Emergency Purchase – Naylor Tower Top Amp Replacement.

And there are road resurfacing projects using state and SPLOST funds.


[Collage @ LCC Packet 2025-04-21]

Collage @ LCC Packet 2025-04-21

Of those projects, two are mostly or completely reimbursed from funds outside the county.
So it is hard to add them up in a simple table like this.

Cost What
$-36,776.00 Emergency Purchase – Naylor Tower Top Amp Replacement (Capital funding)
$-342,493.00 FY2026 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Application (reimbursed by CICC)
$-1,478,673.94 2025 Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant (LMIG) Resurfacing Bids (Funding: SPLOST/LMIG)
$-1,857,942.94 Total

Here is the

agenda.

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

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2025, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2025, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Packet: DBHDD appointment, Street Lighting, Beer and Wine, Language Access Plan @ LCC 2022-02-21

Kelley Saxon wants to be reappointed, and Carlton Richard is applying for a vacant position on the board of the
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD),
on the agenda for
this morning’s Lowndes County Commmission Work Session, to be voted on Tuesday evening.

[Maps: Decorative Lighting, beer and wine, Language Access Plan]

Maps: Decorative Lighting, beer and wine, Language Access Plan

Two subdivision developers want to add to their
Basic Decorative Street Lighting Districts: that’s a special tax district for each.

Two beer and wine licenses are up for consideration, and a
Language Access Plan and Resolution for Federally Funded Grants and Programs.

First, staff get a budget award from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA).

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

Consent agenda, DBHDD appointment, utilities trucks, executive session @ LCC 2018-02-27



The previous morning

they invented a consent agenda, such as Hahira and many others use all the time,
but the Lowndes County Commission

didn’t call it that.
As expected,

they appointed Kelley Saxon to DBHDDB.
And they

adjourned into an executive session.

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Videos: Retreat was good, DBHDD appointment, computers * 4, utilities trucks @ LCC 2018-02-26



Chris Yarborough resigned from the
Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities Board (DBHDD) and

Kelley Saxon has applied;
she spoke about her qualifications.
There are
For Consideration
four computer purchase items
and only one bid for two
1 Ton Dual Wheel Truck with Service Body for the Utilities Department.

Below are links to each LAKE video of yesterday morning’s Work Session, with a few notes,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also the
agenda.
Gretchen is on her way with the LAKE video camera
to the 5:30 PM voting session. Continue reading →

Agenda: DBHDD appointment, computers * 4, utilities trucks @ LCC 2018-02-26

The missing agenda
finally

showed up sometime around when the Work Session started yesterday.



Chris Yarborough resigned from the
Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities Board (DBHDD) and

Kelley Saxon has applied.
There are

four computer purchase items
and one bid for two
1 Ton Dual Wheel Truck with Service Body for the Utilities Department.


LAKE videos of the Work Session will follow shortly,
and Gretchen is on her way with the LAKE video camera
to the 5:30 PM voting Regular Session.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, February 26, 2018, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, February 27, 2018, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos: 3 no-bid lift station pumps, BHDD Appointment, USGS GA 122 Little River gage @ LCC 2016-09-27




Citizen Delores Matchett wanted to know why Howell Lane isn’t paved when all the streets around it are; she mentioned several new subdivisions.
She said Commissioners had no idea how fast people drive on that dirt road.

Commissioner Demarcus Marshall noted (as a different Commissioner did
Monday morning) that

the three lift station pumps are no-bid.
The agenda sheets for them said because of some unexplained county policy.

Below are links to each LAKE video, followed by a video playlist.
See also the LAKE videos of yesterday morning’s Work Session
and
the agenda.

Continue reading →

Videos: 8.5 minutes, Appointment to BHDD, USGS GA 122 Little River gage, 3 lift station pumps @ LCC 2016-09-26

Update 2016-09-29:

Videos: 3 no-bid lift station pumps, BHDD Appointment, USGS GA 122 Little River gage @ LCC 2016-09-27.

They vote Tuesday night at 5:30 PM. In these LAKE videos of Monday morning’s
8.5 minute Work Session, you can see they are buying



three new lift station pumps, and for each:
“This pump has not been bid due to it being a sole source item in accordance
with the County’s standards and specifications.”
One commissioner did ask about that.
Where can we see these no-bid standards and specifications?
In other water news, they are likely to approve the annual renewal of the

USGS Little River GA 122 stream gauge, which they started paying for after the 2009 floods.

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Packet: Appointment to BHDD, USGS GA 122 Little River gage, 3 lift station pumps @ LCC 2016-09-26

Update 2016-09-26:

Videos: 8.5 minutes, Appointment to BHDD, USGS GA 122 Little River gage, 3 lift station pumps @ LCC 2016-09-26.



They actually named an appointee in the agenda!
Dr. Wilhelmenia Howell for Georgia Department Of Behavioral Health And Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD).

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2016, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2016, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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