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Videos: Four Citizens, Permitting and Inspections Ordinances and fees, Water main extension, Service contracts, court grants, and a fire truck @ LCC Regular

The July 25, 2023, Lowndes County Commission Regular Session took half an hour,
only because four citizens spoke:
one about

tax assessments,
one about

youth advisory council,
and

two about

voting machines.


[Collage @ LCC 25 July 2023]

Collage @ LCC 25 July 2023

Commissioners approved every item unanimously, spending
more than $10 million, mostly on

7.a. Exit 13 Touchton Road Water Main Extension.

The only discussion was when Commissioner Scottie Orenstein asked if it was the original
Engine 10
and Commissioner Wisenbaker asked how the exhaust could fail.

Commissioner Demarcus Marshall was absent.

County Manager Paige Dukes

8. Reports – County Manager
praised staff for the new

Permitting and Inspections Ordinances,
but did not say where they might be found on lowndescounty.com.
She also extolled the rollout of the new county website at the same URL.
Maybe permitting is on there under Services, which leads to

Technical Standards under Engineering.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.

See also the
LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session and
the
agenda and board packet. Continue reading →

Videos: Probate, Permitting and Inspections Ordinances and fees, Water main extension, Service contracts, court grants, and a fire truck

Update 2023-08-07:
Videos: Four Citizens, Permitting and Inspections Ordinances and fees, Water main extension, Service contracts, court grants, and a fire truck @ LCC Regular 2023-07-25.

By far the longest item at yesterday morning’s Work Session
of the Lowndes County Commission was

4. Recognition of Pretrial, Probation, – Parole Supervision.
That item accounted for about five minutes of the sixteen-minute meeting.

They vote tonight at 5:30 PM.


[Collage @ LCC 24 July 2023]

Collage @ LCC 24 July 2023

They didn’t say where the

Permitting and Inspections Ordinances
might be found on lowndescounty.com.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.

See also Permitting and Inspections Ordinances and fees, Water main extension, Service contracts, court grants, and a fire truck @ LCC Packet 2023-07-24. Continue reading →

Permitting and Inspections Ordinances and fees, Water main extension, Service contracts, court grants, and a fire truck @ LCC Packet 2023-07-24

Update 2023-07-25:
Videos: Probate, Permitting and Inspections Ordinances and fees, Water main extension, Service contracts, court grants, and a fire truck 2023-07-24.

No rezonings, but something much more pervasive at this week’s Lowndes County Commission meetings:
Permitting and Inspections Ordinances
and
a Building Permit Fee Schedule.


[Collage, LCC Packet, 2023-07-24]

Collage, LCC Packet, 2023-07-24

And $10 million in expenditures,
mostly on a water main extension.

Cost What
$9,754,718.88 Exit 13 Touchton Road Water Main Extension
$489,310.00 Motorola SUAII (Evergreen)

$346,372.00 Acceptance of FY24 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Funding
$64,205.17 Fire Rescue Engine 10 Emergency Repair
$50,000.00 Approval of FY24 Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Grant Application
$28,892.56 Vertiv Service Contract for the Liebert UPS at the 911 Center & the Four Tower Sites

$10,733,498.61 Total

Here is the
agenda.www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2023-07-24–lcc-packet”>on the LAKE website.

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, JULY 24, 2023, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2023, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Videos: Bonds, Val Del Road, GLPC appointments, 1/2 million to Motorola @ LCC 2019-09-10

The longest item at 2:23 was

the Val Del Road rezoning case,
for which one Commissioner recused himself. The others passed it unanimously.


Second longest was

the GLPC appointments.
No surprise, Ed Hightower was reappointed, and the second appointment was….

Third longest was

the Chairman’s unscheduled recognition of Leadership Lowndes and advertisement for a 9/11 ceremony.
If he’s going to do this every time, maybe it could be put on the agenda.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
with Continue reading →

Videos: Surprise Bonds, Val Del rezoning, GLPC appointments, 1/2 million to Motorola @ LCC 2019-09-09

Apparently more was shown on the screen yesterday morning that we finally
received this morning
in

the board packet,
such as this picture of the Nelson Hill subdivision on Val Del Road.


They also added

7.b. Refunding Revenue Bonds by South Region Joint Development Authority for VSU ASRE,
which makes no sense until you can see details in the

board packet.

After the agenda items, the Chairman made

unscheduled announcements of a Continue reading →

Packet: Surprise Bonds, Val Del Road rezoning, GLPC appointments, 1/2 million to Motorola @ LCC 2019-09-10

After four days, but before the Commission votes at 5:30 PM in its Regular Session this evening, the county sent the packet, at 10:50 AM this morning.
Three is more than the statutory 3 days in the Georgia Open Records Act (GORA).
The packet is

on the LAKE website.

Now we can see who are the applicants to the Planning Commission.

[Survey Plat]

Survey Plat

Now we can see
where is the Val Del rezoning:
from the trailer park south to the power line.
There’s also this interesting flood map: Continue reading →

Val Del Road rezoning, GLPC appointments, and half a million to Motorola @ LCC 2019-09-09

Two new GLPC members, half a million dollars to Motorola for some unexplained acronym,
and the

Val Del Road rezoning, which
breezed through the preceding Planning Commission meeting with no opposition,
is on
the agenda
for the Work Session Monday morning and the voting session Tuesday evening of the Lowndes County Commission.

[Notice of Public Hearing]

Notice of Public Hearing

The
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission will have

two new members soon: Continue reading →

Videos: budget, baords, and approvals @ LCC 2014-06-24



None of the appointees spoke, but all were appointed unanimously,
and they unanimously approved

a landfill expansion item without ever seeing a site plan.
Ray Devery and Barry Barr to the

Library Board,
Sheila Wakeley to the

South Georgia Community Service Board,
and
John Sineath to the

Valdosta-Lowndes County Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals,
even though Valdosta’s web page says he’s a city appointee.

They also unanimously approved everything else: a

grant for help getting a grant,
re-evaluation of

all rural agricultural tax assessments,
the annual

mosquito testing contract with VSU,
and the

landfill public hearing clarification item
about the hearing of the

public notice already posted for 17 July 2014.

Here’s
the agenda, with some notes, and links to the videos.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Videos: 5 board appointments, budget, and 4 For Approval @ LCC 2014-06-23



The county’s

response to the weekend storms (straight-line event, not tornado)
was less confused than its proposed board appointments.
They vote Tuesday evening at 5:30 PM, including on the
budget.

Likely return of Ray Devery to the

Library Board as Chairman,
and reappointment of Barry Barr.
Sheila Wakeley for the

South Georgia Community Service Board,
but even the Commissioners had no bio for her.
John Sineath for

Valdosta-Lowndes County Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals,
even though Valdosta’s web page says he’s a city appointee.
None of the applicants spoke.

A

grant for help getting a grant,
re-evaluation of

all rural agricultural tax assessments,
the annual

mosquito testing contract with VSU,
and the

landfill public hearing clarification item
apparently is about the hearing of the

public notice already posted for 17 July 2014.

Here’s
the agenda, with some notes, and links to the videos.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

5 board appointments, budget, 4 For Approval incl. Landfill @ LCC 2014-06-23



The second and last

Budget Hearing is 5PM Tuesday 24 June 2014, just before the Regular Session.

But first, at
the Monday morning Work and Tuesday evening Regular Sessions,
4 appointments to 3 boards,
and four obscure For Consideration items about a grant,
a schedule,
a contract,
and a landfill public hearing that may or may not be the one of the

public notice already posted for 17 July 2014.

Here’s
the agenda.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

Continue reading →