They unanimously approved everything except the one
withdrawn item,
and except for the
Executive Session,
the whole thing took 9 minutes.
They meet again
8:30 AM Monday morning 24 July 2017.
Below are links to each LAKE video of the 27 June 2017 Lowndes County Commission Regular Session,
with a very few notes, followed by a video playlist.
See also the
LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session
including the
Zika Presentation by Ken Lowery;
and the
agenda.
†What do you want? The planet Venus? The current degraded Earth? Or a better world we know how to create?
†Joel Pett, Lexington Herald Leader, 18 March 2012,
The cartoon seen ’round the world
Mostly I post about solar and wind power winning, which is what I think is happening.
But sometimes it’s worth a reminder of what could happen if we do nothing about
climate change, and I posted on my facebook page a story about that.
Which actually didn’t go far enough to the real worst case.
Nonetheless, that story has been attacked by numerous parties of all political
and scientific and unscientific stripes for being too doom and gloom.
Yet none of the attackers bothered to mention a best case beyond
“the same world we have now”.
I have news for you: the world we have now is an ecological catastrophe,
and we can do a lot better.
So here’s the real worst case,
the current case, which is far from the best of
all possible worlds,
and the real best case, as I see it.
Plus
what we can do to head for the best case.
First, the story I posted:
David Wallace-Wells, New York Magazine, 9 July 2017,
The Uninhabitable Earth:
Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change
could wreak — sooner than you think.
Notice that word “could”, which a lot of his critics seem to have ignored.
He didn’t say “will”, and he clearly labeled what he was presenting
as worst case scenarios.
In case anybody thinks he was making any of that stuff up,
Wallace-Wells has also linked to an annotated version
with footnotes for every substantial assertion.
The annotated version notes at the top: Continue reading
Tom Fanning, our genial CEO host,
said some things I’ve never heard him say before like
Southern Company is
“pivoting towards wind”
and SO’s board soon has to decide whether to go forward with Plant Vogtle
“or not” probably by August.
Fanning gets the
first and
last word in this blog post,
plus a complete transcript of what
I asked and
Tom Fanning’s response,
along with summaries of the other questions and answers.
Please hear me!
I think renewables are exceedingly important in the future.
— Tom Fanning, CEO, Southern Company
In SO’s own
meeting video
of the
25 May 2017 Stockholder Meeting,
you can see
much praise about solar power and wind and R&D and a smart grid,
along with stockholders wondering: Continue reading
Tonight at 5:30 PM they vote on what they discussed
yesterday morning at the Lowndes County Commission.
But you won’t hear the
Zika Presentation by Ken Lowery;
that was only in the Work Session.
It was by far the longest item, at seven minutes, longer than all the rest of the meeting, which took less than six minutes.
The second longest item at almost a minute and a half was
abandonment of a portion of Ponce de Leon Trail (CR 374).
You will see them
adopt the Fiscal Year 2018 budget.
See the
previous post for more background about the budget requests
that the county almost all denied.
Below are Continue reading
They’re going to
adopt the county budget Tuesday, after talking about it
this morning at 8:30 AM, after complaining that nobody showed up at
a budget hearing they didn’t announce.
Also after refusing budget requests due to revenue continuing down for several years,
and not being willing to adjust taxes.
The VDT summarized,
Thomas Lynn, VDT, 23 May 2017, County Manager: Proposed budget austere; Most new funding requests denied.
And Thomas Lynn, 22 June 2017, Public absent from county budget hearing.
No wonder, since
the county didn’t even post the meeting online until that same morning, with no agenda.
The VDT wasn’t there most of the time, but Gretchen was, with the LAKE video camera.
Photo: Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE of
Harrison Tillman and Stephanie Black about Budget at the Lowndes County Annual Planning Meeting Day 1 @ LCC 2017-02-16
Gretchen also videoed Continue reading
They
welcomed
Ross Berry,
the new CEO of South Georgia Medical Center,
and he spoke briefly.
Last minute agenda addition:
6.f. Lowndes County Accountability Court Grant and Match
Citzen Judy Havercamp
spoke about the animal shelter.
Citizen Shirley Garlan spoke for her neighborhood,
asking to connect to county water.
They spent by far the longest time (almost 20 minutes including public
participation) on the
New Statenville Highway rezoning for a Dollar General,
which they finally approved with conditions, including what
County Planner Jason Davenport said was an unprecedented condition on lighting.
For this item, see also the
the LAKE videos of the
preceding Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting.
Second longest at more than five minutes was Continue reading
Update 2017-06-18:
Videos: Paving, animals, speed zones, prison work details, fees @ LCC 2017-06-13.
A rare event this morning at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session:
neither Scruggs nor Reames bid on the
Resurfacing of Five County Roads and Two Alternate Projects,
and the Commissioners don’t like the bids they got.
What will they do Tuesday evening?
Accept none and try again later?
They also
went into an executive session about pending litigation.
See the agenda.
See also Continue reading
Here’s
the agenda
for this morning’s Work Session and tomorrow evening’s Regular Session.
See also
the LAKE videos of the previous Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting
for
the New Statenville Highway rezoning.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2017, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Update 2017-06-26: the rest of the LAKE videos of this meeting. They’re discussing this budget this morning and voting on it Tuesday 27 June 2017.
“You have the packets that have been provided for you in regards budget,”,
said County Chairman Bill Slaughter, but the taxpayers do not have that packet
for this meeting that was not on the county calendar until this morning, had no agenda, and only popped up
online also that same yesterday morning of this Budget Work Session.
This is the summary given by Continue reading
Six minutes and ten seconds yesterday morning
to breeze through the
agenda for the Work Session;
the Lowndes County Commission votes tonight at 5:30 PM.
Also,
the Chairman announced
the
Budget Work Session to start at 9AM,
which didn’t match the posting about that time put on the county’s website.
Tonight they will very likely
reappoint Jeff Sikes to the
Airport Authority,
increase
“convenience fees for online and telephone payments to $2.50 per transaction”, some
I-75 exit work, and a
swimming pool at Moody Air Force Base.
Plus a
beer and wine license due to the usual change of ownership,
and an
HVAC maintenance contract.
Video.
Jeff Sikes had a letter of endorsement from the Airport Authority,
and the county Chairman said a few words for him.
If Sikes was present, they didn’t mention it.
Below are links to each LAKE video of yesterday morning’s Work Session plus a very few notes, followed by a LAKE video playlist. Continue reading
