The Lowndes County Commission approved everything as fast as they could hear each item read and vote, at their fifteen-minute Regular Session of May 24, 2022.
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Below are Continue reading
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Videos: Two Valdosta items, Walkers Crossing Roundabout, Reports @ LCC 2022-05-23
Update 2022-06-16: Videos: Everything unanimously approved in fifteen minutes @ LCC 2022-05-24.
Not even two minutes on any business item at the most recent Lowndes County Work Session.
![[Attorney, Utilities, Engineering, Manager]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2022-05-23--lcc-videos/many.jpg)
Attorney, Utilities, Engineering, Manager
The answer to which roads on the LMIG item is that Continue reading
$1.6 million road resurfacing, 2 appointments, subdivision streets, Walkers Crossing Roundabout, Valdosta extraterritorial water and sewer @ LCC 2022-05-23
Update 2022-06-02: Videos: Two Valdosta items, Walkers Crossing Roundabout, Reports @ LCC 2022-05-23.
Update 2022-05-23: 9:00 AM Budget Work Session.
They propose to approve $1.6 million for resurfacing some roads, it’s not clear which ones, at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session Monday morning and voting Regular Session Tuesday evening.
![[Quarterman Estates, Walkers Crossing Roundabout]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2022-05-23--lcc-packet/many.jpg)
Quarterman Estates, Walkers Crossing Roundabout
They will also pretend that this will not cost the county money down the road for street maintenance: Continue reading
Videos: Mayor announces first trash trap, committees for ARPA funds @ VCC 2022-05-19
Update 2022-06-23: Videos: Process for non-profit applications for ARPA funds 2022-05-27.
Update 2022-06-21: Valdosta Watergoat installed in Sugar Creek 2022-06-21.
Council Sonny Vickers was welcomed back warmly after abscence due to illness (I welcomed him before the meeting). Later, he thanked staff and council for their assistance.
![[Collage]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/valdosta/2022-05-19--vcc-videos/many.jpg)
Mayor Scott James added two council members each as observers to each of the ARPA fund disbursment committees, for non-profits and for for-profit businesses.
After Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman asked for action about trash, Council Andy Gibbs and Mayor James vied for who would get to announce what the city had already done. Mayor James in Council Comments announced the city had ordered Continue reading
Videos: One Valdosta-Lowndes funding, Hayden Park rezoning @ LCC 2022-04-26
At their Regular Session, Chairman Bill Slaughter pulled 7.a. One Valdosta Lowndes Community-Wide Initiative up front on the Lowndes County Commission agenda, because at least one of the OVL VIPs had another meeting: One Valdosta-Lowndes Co-Chairs VSU President Dr. Richard Carvajal and Georgia Power’s Scott Purvis, as well as Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber President Christie Moore. At least one of them left immediately after the Commissioners approved $200,000 total over five years to the Chamber to support OVL.
The County’s audio feed in the back of the room was again not working, so audio is whatever the LAKE video camera could pick up.
![[OVL, Hayden Park rezoning]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2022-04-26--lcc-videos/many.jpg)
Commissioners discussed the one rezoning, Continue reading
Video: New County Planner, Juvenile Justice, TIA Old US 41, Two Oaks at Bemiss, Hazard Mitigation @ LCC 2020-05-12
Video has appeared on lowndescounty.com of the May 12, 2020 Regular Session, and the minutes. It is 11:48 long, of which 10:48 was actual business. The video reveals there is a new County Planner, J.D. Dillard. We also learn from the video (but not from the minutes) the extent of the Old US 41 widening.
Below are a few notes with timestamp links into the county’s video. See also the agenda and the board packet. Here again is what they said they spent:
| Cost | What | |
|---|---|---|
| $330,854 | CJCC Funding | FY 2021 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Application Regular Session DATE OF MEETING: May 12, 2020 |
| $20,000.00 | FEMA | Lowndes County Hazard Mitigation Request for Proposal Regular Session DATE OF MEETING: May 12, 2020 |
| $350,854 | Total |
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, May 12, 2020, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
*To comply with the guidelines of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in regard to the Coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic and social distancing, face coverings (masks) are required for all meeting participants.
- Call to Order
At 0 minutes. Chairman and all five Commissioners were present and sitting up front. Staff, including the County Manager, were sitting in the audience, where they could hardly be heard when they spoke. Portable microphones would be useful for this arrangement. Continue reading
Packet: Juvenile Justice, TIA Old US 41, Two Oaks at Bemiss, Hazard Mitigation @ LCC 2020-05-12
Update 2020-06-05: Lowndes County video has appeared, revealing several things not in the minutes.
LAKE did not video the May 12, 2020, Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission, due to pandemic. There was no telephone dial-in and no facebook live. The last Lowndes County Commission video of its own meeting was February 25, 2020. So the only record will be the Minutes, which we may or may not see before their next meeting, which is this Tuesday.
We get a location map but no indication of future county tax-paid costs of upkeep for the infrastructure for Two Oaks at Bemiss.
![[Location Map]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2020-05-12--lcc-packet/May-12-2020-Meeting-Packet-0042.jpg)
Yet we get evaluations by three different people of three proposals for the Lowndes County Hazard Mitigation RFP; winning bid $20,000.
The packet contains only the agenda sheet and a signature page for a resolution for the GDOT TIA Old US 41 Widening; the actual Resolution is missing. Continue reading
Juvenile Justice, TIA Old US 41, Two Oaks at Bemiss, Hazard Mitigation @ LCC 2020-05-12
Update 2020-06-05: Lowndes County video has appeared, revealing several things not in the minutes.
Update 2020-05-23: Packet: Juvenile Justice, TIA Old US 41, Two Oaks at Bemiss, Hazard Mitigation @ LCC 2020-05-12. There are no videos.
The lightest agenda for Tuesday’s Lowndes County Commission Regular Session that I’ve seen in a while will be voted on Tuesday in the Commission Chambers with masks. No teleconference. Presumably the County will be videoing and putting that on YouTube, as they usually do with Regular Sessions. There is no Work Session.
Also less expensive than most Commission meetings:
| Cost | What | |
|---|---|---|
| $330,854 | CJCC Funding | FY 2021 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Application Regular Session DATE OF MEETING: May 12, 2020 |
| $20,000.00 | FEMA | Lowndes County Hazard Mitigation Request for Proposal Regular Session DATE OF MEETING: May 12, 2020 |
| $350,854 | Total |
Even on the least expensive item this time, Lowndes County Hazard Mitigation Request for Proposal, “Lowndes County recently requested pricing proposals from qualified contractors…” The RFP is on the county’s website.
Unlike the more expensive stream monitoring project of last month’s meeting, for which there was no RFP and no bids.
This item has no cost cited, but will cost the taxpayers for road maintenance in the future: Adopt Resolution accepting Infrastructure for Two Oaks at Bemiss.
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Case Point (Two Oaks at Bemiss)
Map:
Lowndes County Tax Assessors
All the agenda sheet says for where is “located on Case Point, off Old Pine Road.” I’m guessing that includes Continue reading
Videos: End-of-calendar-year wrapup and Remerton SPLOST Resolution @ LCC 2019-12-09
Remerton can’t use SPLOST VI funds for an office building, since the old mill building intended for that has been torn down. That was the longest item in the Lowndes County Commission Work Seesion of December 9, 2019: 7. Reports – County Manager – Remerton SPLOST Resolution.
Then Commissioner Clay Griner moved to go into Executive Session to discuss personnel. Chairman Bill Slaughter reminded him the Commission has only one employee. Griner agreed, and they went into Executive Session. The one employee is the County Manager.
They breezed through everything else their last meeting of calendar year 2019.
Below are LAKE videos of each agenda item, followed by a LAKE video playlist. See also the Continue reading
Packet: End-of-calendar-year wrapup @ LCC 2019-12-09
In its last meeting of calendar year 2019, the Lowndes County Commission had many items to wrap up, as you can see in the board packet, on the LAKE website. We don’t know why the county sent this packet in black and white.
LAKE videos of the Work Session and Regular Session will follow.
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LAKE sent an open records request Continue reading