The big item was they passed the
Resolution to support GA HR 158 for dedicated fee collections.
That and the
T-SPLOST projects and upcoming public meetings, by Mayor Gayle.
There was only one Citizen to Be Heard, which was
me, about the resolution and about public access to the Withlacoochee River
at Gornto Road in Valdosta.
Below are links to the LAKE video of each item, with a few notes, followed by a LAKE video playlist. See also the agenda.
Continue readingValdosta has a very light agenda Thursday, with a couple of bids and the same resolution in support of Georgia HR 158 to stop diversion of state fees that has already been passed by Lanier County 2018-01-08, by the City of Adel 2018-01-16, by Atkinson County 2018-01-18, and is on the agenda for Lowndes County 5:30 PM tonight 2018-01-23 and on the agenda for Hahira 6PM next Thursday 2018-02-01.
Photo:
Valdosta City Council by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange, 2018-01-11.
If you can attend one of these meetings and thank these elected officials for doing the right thing, I’m sure they would appreciate it.
Valdosta City Council Tim Carroll talked about this resolution Continue reading
My op-ed in the VDT today. Remember
to vote today or Tuesday.
-jsq
This spring, the University at Buffalo turned on 750 kilowatts of solar electricity. Rutgers U., in New Jersey, installed 1.4 megawatts in 2009 and started on 8 MW this summer. Down here with a lot more sun, how about solar panels on VSU parking lots?
There’s plenty of private solar financing available. Also in New Jersey, a company installed 6 MW of solar on high school land and leased the power to the school supplying most of its needs win-win.
You can go see a solar farm already working fine here, 200 kilowatts at Mud Creek Wastewater Plant. Why not do the same
View Larger Mapat Lowndes High School, where all the world on I-75 could see, attracting business to our community?
Why not?
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Noon until 3PM today, in Drexel Park, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia,
Occupy Valdosta will be having a General Assembly.
This is the slow, messy, talkative, oddly organized, flashy-fingered
decision-making forum descended from the direct democracy of ancient Athens.
The General Assembly method is
why Occupy Wall Street is two months old
instead of being a one-shot one-day march.
Occupy Atlanta has published a General Assembly Guide which includes this Occupy Atlanta Pledge and Guidelines derived from Occupy Wall Street: Continue reading
Continue readingRight outside of Palms Quad there’s a free speech thing, but, as you can see, uh…. [gestures around]
[laughter]
You know, like I said. If someone’s violating the law here, and creating a dangerous situation by, uh, physically disrupting the students or faculty, that’s one thing, we deal with that….But if it’s, even this gnat, we will allow this gnat to….
Yesterday’s Occupy Valdosta organizational session went faster than expected,
and resulted in adding some events to the upcoming list:
Friday 11 November 2011 (date to be confirmed): Showing the movie Inside Job in November, prob. at VSU University Center.
Here’s
Erin Hurley talking about two of those events:
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