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Help fix land revaluation: come to Farm Bureau –Board of Equalization

Come to the Farm Bureau in two weeks to hear
Tax Assessor staff present their updates and provide your input

Contents
for changes to the
rural land revaluation, this time taking into account rivers, aquifer recharge zones, and uniformity.
Maybe the Tax Assessors actually don’t want more flooding in Valdosta;
both the City of Valdosta and GA-EDP have already shown interest in attending
about that point.

At an appeal on my property valuation,
the Board of Equalization stopped short of actually ordering the Tax Assessors to redo last year’s rural land revaluation, because staff volunteered Continue reading →

Monday August 10th deadline to appeal tax valuations –VLCoC

Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce members just got a message from
Bruce Allred, Government Affairs Council Chairman,
saying:


MONDAY IS DEADLINE TO APPEAL PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENTS!

You can look up your property on the Tax Assessors’ website:
www.qpublic.net/ga/lowndes.


See also the

LAKE Videos: Rural revaluation meeting at Farm Bureau 2015-08-04.

That Chamber message includes this useful information: Continue reading →

Videos: Rural revaluation meeting at Farm Bureau 2015-08-04



See for yourself the Tax Assessor response to local landowners, in these
LAKE videos of

last night’s meeting at Farm Bureau.
Do you think there’s a problem?
If so, what do you think we should do to fix it?

The attendees appointed Gretchen to take notes. Here are her notes,
followed by the videos.

Accessibility is not about access, it’s about geographic location…. That was done by one of our appraisers on staff. —Chief Appraiser Silas Hrobar

Rural and commercial land owners got surprises in the mail in July
when they received the updated assessments of their properties.
Lowndes County Assessors engaged a contractor last year to help with
the reassessments of approximately 10,000 properties. Rural
properties were categorized as small (under 20 acres) and large
(over 20 acres) but complaints were the same, inconsistent and
confusing application of criteria.

On Tuesday evening, Farm Bureau hosted Continue reading →

Primary election tomorrow, 22 July 2014


From County Commissioner to Georgia School Superintendent
and U.S. Senate, you can vote in the primary election tomorrow,
if you haven’t already voted.
If I forgot any runoffs, please let me know.

Lowndes County Commission District 5

Nonpartisan Runoff:

Continue reading →

Candidate Forum at Hahira Historical Society 6PM tonight



Tonight is the first open candidates forum of the election season,
for all candidates running for offices voted on by residents of Hahira,
at the Hahira Historical Society,
116 E. Lawson Street,
in the old Smith Hospital Doctors Building in Hahira,
6PM April 26th 2014.

That includes:

Georgia General Assembly

  • State Senate District 8:
    Ellis Black (R switched from House 174),
    John Page (R switched from County Commission District 5),
    Bikram Mohanty (D ran last time and placed well),
    and
    Richard Raines (R not running again for County Commission District 2). Continue reading →

Crazy Qualifying Season Finally Completed

Update 31 March 2014:
Withdrawals of Thomas Sims and Don Thieme from Lowndes County Commission District 3 and of
Crawford Powell from House 174. See also
school board election.



Additional entries in County Commission Districts 3 and 5,
plus a swap and a withdrawal,
continued the
musical chairs in local qualifying.
Plus three out of four County Commission seats up for election
will actually be decided in May, not November.
And one state House seat and the state Senate race are hotly contested.

The three County Commission seats that will be decided May 20th are: Continue reading →

Musical chairs in local qualifying

Three out of five voting County Commissioners are not running again,
and one has already vacated his seat,
plus you have to have a playing card to keep track of who’s
running for the state Senate and House.



We already knew

State Senator Tim Golden was not running again,
and now we know who’s running for that seat:
Richard Raines (R),
who had said
two months ago he was not running again for
County Commission District 2,
Ellis Black (R) currently House 174, Bikram Mohanty (D) who ran last time and came close,
and John Page (R), who thus vacated County Commission District 5.

Because Ellis Black is running for Senate, and even though he
qualifed for his House District 174 seat Monday,
when he qualified for Senate Wednesday, he left his House seat open.
Running for District 174 are Crawford Powell (R), currently
County Commissioner for District 3,
Jessie Smith (D), and John L. Corbett (R).

The incumbents qualifed for the other House seats,
each with no challenger.

As for the three (3) County Commission seats now open,
here, read

Gretchen’s explanation.

And remember, more changes can still happen, because

qualifying has reopened for County Commission District 3,
and will have to reopen for District 5.

-jsq

Secret meeting of Lowndes County Commission and state reps @ LCC 2013-12-20


Dexter Sharper (District 177)
The VDT report doesn’t say when or where, and doesn’t say whether
Dexter Sharper (District 177) wasn’t invited or chose not to attend.

There’s nothing about this meeting in the online

agendas
or

calendar,
even though that calendar lists

Pictures with Santa at the Historical Courthouse (12/19/2013).

There is this undated

public notice with no agenda:


Paige Dukes, Lowndes County Clerk
The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners will meet with members of
Lowndes County’s Legislative Delegation on Friday, December 20,
2013, at 4:00 p.m. in the Commissioner’s Conference Room located on
the 3rd floor of the Judicial-Administrative Complex, 327 North
Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia.

K. Paige Dukes, County Clerk

pdukes@lowndescounty.com 229-671-2400


Tim Golden (District 8)
Matthew Woody wrote for the VDT 22 December 2013,

Commissioners host local delegation,
oddly omitting the when and where and much of the why from
the traditional

who, what, when, where, and why of journalism.


Amy Carter (District 175)
The Lowndes County Commission hosted Continue reading →

Tim Golden and Amy Carter at Chamber Legislative Lunch @ VLCoC 2013-12-04





The event posting (noon today at Wiregrass Tech)
doesn’t say, but I’m told state

Senator Tim Golden (District 8) and
state

Rep. Amy Carter (R 175) will be there.


Continue reading →



Event Name:
State Legislative Lunch


Event Type(s):
Chamber Calendar
Community Calendar
MetroOne


Description:
A luncheon featuring a program presented by State Legislators on issues on top for the upcoming State Legislative Session. Tickets are $15 for Chamber members and $20 for non-members. Seating is limited!

SpectraBusters Informational Meeting 2013-11-16



Standing room only while

Ellis Black (GA Dist. 174),
Bill Slaughter (Lowndes County Chairman),
and
Tim Carroll (Valdosta City Council) spoke after
Gretchen Quarterman
gave an introduction
at the

first SpectraBusters Informational Meeting last Saturday.
A second meeting is scheduled for

this Saturday morning at 10AM at the Valdosta City Hall Annex.



Video.

Gretchen asked if there were any representatives from the pipeline
company present.
Nobody spoke up.
Several affected landowners did speak:
Beth Gordon from Levy County, Florida
and Larry Rodgers and Carol Singletary from Lowndes County, Georgia.




Video.

Elected officials spoke.

Bill Slaughter (Lowndes County Chairman) said Continue reading →