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Videos: Jury, Paving, and GEFA in Work Session @ LCC 2019-09-23

The Lowndes County Commission spent nine minutes yesterday morning discussing spending $124,454 and borrowing $1,734,000.
They vote this evening at 5:30 PM.


The county has now gotten up to not just demanding landowners give road right of way to the county, but also

condemning property if they don’t get it donated.

The longest item at less than two minutes was

6.d. Request for Professional Engineering Services Proposals – CDBG.
As Gretchen remarks in the notes, apparently this is in support of Arglas,
the Japanese glass products manufacturer locating on Rocky Ford Road.

Second longest was

7.b. Bid for a Breathing Air System for the Fire Department,
due to a question by a Commissioner.

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Jury, Paving, and GEFA in LCC Packet @ LCC 2019-09-23

Lowndes County staff are proposing to spend
$124,454,
according to all the “BUDGET IMPACT”s board packet:
$48,500 for a

Jury Management System,
$1,469.00 for

Condemning ROW for Howell Lane Paving Project,
$3,500.00 (approx.) for

Second Modification of GEFA Loan Agreement,
and for the Fire Department
$29,195.00 for

a 1/2 Ton Truck and
$41,790.00 for

a Breathing Air System.

[Survey plat: Revised County RoW for Howell Lane]

Survey plat: Revised County RoW for Howell Lane

They propose

to borrow $1,734,000 from the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA).

The Lowndes County Commission discusses Monday morning at 8:30 AM. They vote 5:30 PM Tuesday.

[Project Budget]

GEFA Loan Agreement Project Budget

For the first time ever! Lowndes County has returned the board packet before the Work Session.

LAKE sent an open records request Tuesday, and the county actually supplied the packet Friday, with this note: Continue reading →

Videos: Proclamations, Thoroughfare Plan, RR bridge, resurfacing four roads, opioids @ LCC 2018-04-10



The two longest items were proclamations, for the

Teen Explosion Youth Action Group
and for

Telecommunications Week.
Everything else sailed through.

Below are links to each LAKE video, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See previous post
for Continue reading →

Still inconsistent, but has speed humps: Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan 2018

The little-known
Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan
drives development in Lowndes County.
With no public notice and no public hearing.
the Commissioners voted on it Tuesday, April 10, 2018.
Probably you only heard that would happen if you looked at their
agenda late last week,
or you happened to read
what I wrote about it Monday.


Lowndes County Road Map

Obtained through open records request, it’s on

the LAKE website now.

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Thoroughfare Plan, RR bridge, resurfacing four roads, opioids @ LCC 2018-04-09

You can’t see the
Special Presentation by Attorney Haynes Studstill on Opioid Litigation (Work Session)
because Gretchen was not there with the LAKE video camera yesterday morning,
and

the agenda
says it’s only in the Work Session.
Lowndes County does video its own County Commission meetings,
but they haven’t posted the video of that yet.
Meanwhile, the City of Valdosta did

decide to join a lawsuit against big pharma about opioid addiction.
Another county legal item for tonight is
FY2019 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Program Request for Proposals (RFP).

They’re doing an
Update to the Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan, which is for:


Road Map, Maps

Road Map,

2009 Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan.

HISTORY, FACTS AND ISSUES: The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners
first adopted the Thoroughfare Plan in 1983. Since then, the
Thoroughfare Plan has been revised numerous times Continue reading →

Videos: Rocky Ford Road, Sharp Family, C-G Bemiss Rd @ LCC 2018-02-13



Again like in the

previous morning’s Work Session
the lengthiest regular item was the

rezoning on Rocky Ford Road
for the
church-proposed Camp Rock,
mostly with attorney Jack Langdale speaking for,
including that a “wilderness camp” for unfortunate children doesn’t need
a buffer, and any future buyers of neighboring property beware.

The

Sharp family said for seven years they have been trying to
get somebody to do something about stray dogs,
only to discover Animal Control doesn’t work weekends anymore,
and the Sheriff’s office won’t do anything, even though one
of their family had been killed by the dogs and another bitten, and the dogs
are now into their second and third generations running loose.

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Videos: Turner Center presentation, VAWA, Rocky Ford Road @ LCC 2018-02-12



It was Art
(12 minutes of
4. State of the Arts by Cheryl Oliver, Director, Turner Center of the Arts)
Law
(10:46 of

7.c. Solicitor-General’s Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Grant Application
and
1:31 of

Introduction of new Probation Officer, which was not on the agenda),
and
Development
(
6.b. REZ-2018-02, E-A and C-C to E-A and PD-R, 4391 Rocky Ford Rd, ~72 acres)
this morning at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session.
Actually, all of those items were about law enforcement one way or another.
The Commissioners vote Tuesday evening at 5:30 PM.

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Turner Center for the Arts presentation @ LCC 2018-02-12

After a decade
as Director of the Turner Center for the Arts,

Cheryl Oliver announce last month she is resigning,
and she is
on

the agenda
for this morning at 8:30 AM at the Lowndes County Commission with
"State-of-the-Art Center" Presentation.


Cheryl Oliver

Plus three well and septic public hearings,
one road abandonment,
subdivision roads,
utility relocation for I-75 exits 2 and 11,
and an annual judicial grant application.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2018, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2018, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos: Jerry Wallace reitrement, ZBOA, Verizon, abandonment, landfill @ LCC 2016-08-09

The engineering department utlity player, Jerry Wallace, is retiring.

Jerry Wallace

They approved everything they discussed at the previous morning’s Work Session.
See also

the LAKE video of the Zika and mosquito control report
from that Work Session.

Below are links to the LAKE videos plus a few notes
for the Regular Session, August 9th 2016, of
the Lowndes County Commission.
They vote again tonight.

Here’s

a video playlist:



Videos: Jerry Wallace reitrement, ZBOA, Verizon, abandonment, landfill

Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, August 9, 2016.

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Broadband top priority, education, jobs, quality of life —Angela Crance @ VLCIA 2013-02-19



Angela Crance,

Special Assistant to the President of
Wiregrass Georgia Technical College,
told

the Industrial Authority 19 February 2013:

I’m here for Wiregrass, and
we just want to thank you for bringing this up and making it a top priority
for the community [looking at

Lowndes County Commission Chairman Bill Slaughter]
and

the Industrial Authority….

 

 

It’s definitely a priority for us….
Only 14% of our citizens have a college degree
and we need 70% to have a college degree within ten years.
To be able to accomplish that we’d better have

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