The previous morning
they invented a consent agenda, such as Hahira and many others use all the time,
but the Lowndes County Commission
didn’t call it that.
As expected,
they appointed Kelley Saxon to DBHDDB.
And they
adjourned into an executive session.
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The Industrial Authority is having a Special Called Meeting Tuesday at 4:45 PM,
the agenda for which goes straight into Executive Session for no stated reason.
Is that even legal, as
I’ve asked before about a VLCIA executive session?
Also, why is G. Norman Bennett still listed as a board member and Vice Chairman, even though according to the VDT he resigned from VLCIA 13 March 2014? I asked him about that in Hahira a month ago today and he said he’d talk to VLCIA. Somebody didn’t follow through.
Here’s the agenda, which says they’re having an invocation for the purpose of discussing real estate and gives no reason for the Executive Session. Also from the Georgia Open Meetings Act of 2012, 50-14-3(b)(1): Continue reading
Wanting to go to the Industrial Authority meeting tonight? Oops, you missed it: they held it 11 days ago. Did you want to speak there? Nope, no Citizens to be Heard on that agenda, and not much else, either.
To find that agenda on VLCIA’s website: Home → About Us → Industrial Authority → Meeting Schedule,
There will be a Special Called Meeting of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority on Friday, March 8, 2013, 11:00 am at the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority Offices. This Special Called Meeting will also serve as the Regular March 2013 Meeting.
Agenda (PDF) There will be no meeting on Tuesday, March 19, 2013.
I don’t know when they put that on their website, but they announced the same thing on their facebook page on March 4th. Much of the usual agenda boilerplate is replaced by an executive session, and the agenda doesn’t even say for what. I seem to recall the Industrial Authority’s attorney on several occasions reminding the Chair that before going into executive session it was necessary to say for what purpose. As the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG) puts it:
Continue readingWhat is the procedure for going into and holding an “executive session” or “closing a meeting”?
This is on the front page of the VLCIA website:
Notice:The Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority will hold a Special Called Meeting on Thursday, March 8, 2012 at noon, for the purpose of reviewing bids and awarding a contract for the Miller Business Park Landscape/Irrigation Project and discuss real estate transactions.Here’s the agenda. I congratulate the Industrial Authority for posting agendas!
Note the executive session. The agenda doesn’t say what the executive session is for (isn’t it supposed to, according to Georgia sunshine laws?). We can guess it’s for real estate transactions, as in the notice on the VLCIA front page.
Hm, what real estate transactions could that be? A contract for a landscaping and irrigation project isn’t a real estate transaction. Let me think… oh, the CCA private prison is a real estate transaction! Could that be what they were discussing?
The rest of VLCIA’s website is pretty thoroughly broken right now, as in
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Special Called Meeting of the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 12 noon
Valdosta Lowndes County Industrial Authority
Conference Room
Valdosta, Georgia
- Call to Order Special Called Meeting
- Invocation
Welcome Guests
Westside Business Park
- Reviewing bids and awarding a contract for the Miller Business Park Landscape and Irrigation Project
- Adjourn Special Called Meeting into Executive Session
- Adjourn Executive Session/Call to Order Special Called Meeting
- Adjourn Special Called Meeting