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Videos: Trash disposal renewals, regional T-SPLOST, another lift station pump, Dasher Streets @ LCC 2017-03-27



More than four minutes yesterday morning on

Residential Solid Waste Franchise Renewal: maybe it’s still contentious
because they still don’t have a good model.
Maybe not everybody wants to have their trash picked up at the end of their
driveway like they lived in town.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM, and they agreed
add an agenda item amending the ordinance to change insurance requirement from $5 million to $1 million.
As of this writing at 8AM, they have not yet changed their online agenda.
We’ll see how it eventually changes from

the agenda already blogged.

They spent more than three minutes on

Regional T-SPLOST; follow the link for details.
Another
Lift Station Pump

lift station pump
needs replacing
And

Dasher wants the county to maintain a couple of dirt streets.

Below are links to each LAKE video, with a few notes, followed by a video playlist.
See also the agenda. Continue reading →

Trash disposal renewals, regional T-SPLOST, another lift station pump, Dasher Streets @ LCC 2017-03-27


Regional T-SPLOST is on the agenda this morning.


Back in 2012 we all voted down a statewide T-SPLOST (Transportation Special Sales Tax).

As we learned at the

February Lowndes County Commission Planning Session Day 2,
on 28 February 2017 in Waycross there was a “public hearing” about a possible regional T-SPLOST.
When I asked SGRC about that, they sent the Waycross agenda, saying
“This is
not a public meeting and was not advertised as such, however it is open
to the public.”
Apparently something happened at that meeting, since T-SPLOST is on the
Lowndes County Commission agenda now, with this in the attached document:

HISTORY, FACTS AND ISSUES: According to House Bill 170, counties within a Regional
Commission District have the option to institute a Regional T-SPLOST. The Georgia
Department of Transportation is requesting action to be taken by April 1, 2017, either in
favor of or opposed to a Regional T-SPLOSI’. If ten (10) of the eighteen (18) regional
counties fail to get support for a Regional T-SPLOST, then individual counties can initiate an
independent T-SPLOST’.

.

After Lowndes County spent unknown hundreds of thousands of dollars suing Continue reading →

Four board appointments, animal tethering, bus, trash, homeland security, mutual aid, and housing @ LCC 2016-03-21

Work Session 8:30 AM this morning,
and Tuesday evening finally voting on the
Animal Services Ordinance
including tethering, and (who knew about this?)


appointing Christina Bennett to the Animal Control Board.

Renewing the annual
Section 5311 Rural Transportation Program Capital Contract
for the MIDS bus service is on
the agenda, as is
appointing three people to the
Valdosta Lowndes County Metropolitan Planning Organization (VLMPO) out of these
four:
Ronald Skrine, Tammy Greenway, Floyd Rose, Bob Wilburs.
As usual, how were people supposed to know?
And where are the applications of those named? Continue reading →

Videos: Regular Session GEFA, road abandonment, bids, and water @ LCC 2015-05-26



Attorney had to remind Commissioners that

a road abandonment such as for Buck Cato Road
requires a public hearing.
They declared the

solid waste equipment surplus to be leased to “prospective franchisees” such as DSS;
County Manager said
“we have the lease agreement here”, but did not put it on the county’s
website for the public to see.
County agent arrived just in time to hear the Langdale bid accepted for

a truck for the Extension Service.
They accepted

the Lee Office Supply bid for Emergency Operations Center tables and chairs.
And of course they approved the

Interconnection of North Lowndes and Kinderlou Water Systems
and the

GEFA Loan Modification
for the Alapaha Water Treatment Plant.
They started
a minute late. At the end, after

the County Manager
had no report
and no citizens wished to be heard,
as usual they adjourned without a vote.

This was all at the
afternoon Lowndes County Regular Session.
For background and more details, see Continue reading →

Videos: GEFA, road abandonment, bids, and water @ LCC 2015-05-26



The County Manager said it’s “in the hands of the clerk, if you’d like to look at it” for at least two documents, so not only did

the agenda on the web lack even the one-sheet agenda item writeups,
Commissioners weren’t provided copies of contracts they were being asked to approve.
They vote this same evening, and the
Planning Commission also meets 5:30 PM Tuesday.

The GEFA Loan Modification
turns out to be about Continue reading →

Videos: Justice, Trash, Telephones, Investment, DUI, Liquor @ LCC 2015-04-27



They vote tonight at 5:30 PM on what you can see them discussing yesterday morning in these videos.

They got a
Deep South Sanitation, LLC Application for Franchise
for trash collection, including use of the county’s collection facility at

345 Gil Harbin Industrial Blvd.
Commissioner Demarcus Marshall asked what about recycling;
Chairman Bill Slaughter said there would be recycling at the collection centers.
Which means yes ADS’ price went up and service reduced since no curbside
recycling collection anymore.

County Manager Joe Pritchard asked County Engineer Mike Fletcher
to report and to be added to the Regular Session emergency

Nankin Road Repair due to a water-eroded box culvert.
And it’s a single-source no-bid, this time for Rountree Construction.

Commissioner Mark Wisenbaker had a few remarks about

the letter to support plans to

“renovate Arbor Trace II Apartments in Lake Park” by Investment Management Company of Valdosta, Inc.

The
body armor request from two weeks before got Continue reading →

Justice, Trash, Telephones, Investment, DUI, Liquor @ LCC 2015-04-27

Finally on the agenda for the meeting right now this morning:
Deep South Sanitation, LLC Application for Franchise.
That’s some improvement in the ongoing county trash situation previous
versions of the County Commission caused.



If the Commission can

sign a letter to support plans to

“renovate Arbor Trace II Apartments in Lake Park” by Investment Management Company of Valdosta, Inc.,
maybe it can sign a letter of support for expanded
public transportation in Lowndes County.
Arbor Trace is low income housing.
Bus systems typically include many low-income riders.

Even the agenda item PDF doesn’t say, but
FY 2016 HEAT Grant
for the Sheriff’s Department
is about

Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic “to combat impaired and aggressive drivers,” with the purpose of reducing traffic fatalities.
And the Juvenile Court wants to continue with its
2015 Request for Proposal (RFP) Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Program.

Also on the agenda is

saving money with an

AT&T telephone discount
and
a
Wine and Liquor License – VHS Corporation – 2418 Rocky Ford Road
liquor license.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 27,2015, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Videos: Hasty waste meeting @ LCC Waste 2015-03-16



See the

LAKE video below,
the WALB story by Colter Anstaett
including interviews with Cary Scarborough of Deep South Sanitation
and Steve Edwards of Advanced Disposal Services.
The county
actually posted
the resulting

Solid Waste Ordinance on their
County Ordinances web page (although I don’t see the updated franchise agreement anywhere),
and they even posted the results of that meeting.
Neither the county’s results summary nor WALB mentioned Commissioner Marshall’s
question about recycling glass nor Chairman Slaughter’s response that glass
can be disposed of as ordinary trash, which means they’re not going to recycle it.

Here’s the paper agenda from the meeting and

the county’s results summary: Continue reading →

Hasty waste meeting this afternoon @ LCC Waste 2015-03-16

On their

calendar,


but no

agenda,
it’s another

Special Called Meeting-Solid Waste Management.
Will they talk about

illegal trash dumping?
Why can’t they wait until their regular meetings next week?
Equally mysterious is why
it took almost two months to get back to this after the
two meetings
in
January.

Here’s

their announcement of the meeting this afternoon: Continue reading →

Videos: Solid Waste Special Called Meeting @ LCC Waste 2015-01-26



Videos of the 9:15 AM 26 January 2015

Special Called Meeting on Solid Waste Management
by the Lowndes County Commission.
There’s another such meeting
today 2-4 PM.

Both
ADS
and

Deep South Sanitation spoke Monday morning,
which is a welcome change from

the county suing the one on behalf of the other.
Rather than give ADS the raise it wants,

let’s not forget there is a termination clause in that exclusive franchise. Continue reading →