Tag Archives: Georgia

VLCIA bonds for what? Airport Authority, Opioids @ LCC 2018-05-21

What are the Industrial Authority (excuse me, Development Authority)

bonds for?
Maybe they’re finally going to finance solar power for people here,
since VLCIA has a budget surplus?


Steve Everett at LCC 2018-07-14

VLCAA Chairman Steve Everett and Executive Director Jim Galloway asking for the county to fix its shortfall in funding the Airport Authority, July 14, 2015.

Since George Page got appointed to the Airport Authority by the City of Valdosta,
I suppose they’re going to

reappoint Steve Everett.
They last reappointed him

May 13, 2014.
By the way, he’s the

Chair of VLCAA.

Apparently they’ve

picked an attorney for the
Opioid Litigation
in their

previous meetings two weeks ago,
and now they’re down to signing the agreement.

Here’s
the agenda, which has the dates off by one. Continue reading →

Videos: Signs, frontage, parking, recreation, setbacks, shops, homes @ ZBOA 2018-05-05



This was a very long meeting and three of the cases were tabled to a future meeting:

APP-2018-03 — Federal Heath & Advantage Permits,

VAR-2018-09 — Indo American Cultural Society of South,
and because the Candidates Forum
was schedule in the same room, the very long

AAD-2018-01 — Cothron (5310 Tucker Road, Valdosta).

Three items were approved unanimously:

VAR-2018-08 — Graham (4544 Loch Laurel Road, Valdosta),

VAR-2018-10 — Loch Laurel Club (Loch Laurel Road, Valdosta),

and
VAR-2018-12 — Ramos (2703 Highway 41 South, Valdosta),
while

VAR-2018-11 — Lucia Marrero (5594 Shiloh Road, Hahira)
squeaked by on a split vote.

Below is Continue reading →

Candidates Forum, Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber 2018-05-01

The Chamber held its usual
Candidates Forum for people running in the May election,
which will be Tuesday, May 22, 2018, with early voting already ongoing
down at the Lowndes County Board of Elections, 2904 N Oak St, Valdosta, GA 31602.


Call to Order

Here are LAKE videos of each candidate, who spoke at the Valdosta
City Hall Annex on May 1, 2018, starting with
Lowndes County Board of Education
and statehouse district 175,
for which we just already had a special election.

Statewide candidates speaking are running for
Governor,
Lieutenant Governor,
Secretary of State,
Insurance Commissioner,
and
State School Superintendent
Georgia Labor Commissioner.

Opposing viewpoints were aired on
T-SPLOST:

Valdosta Mayor John Gayle for,
and

Nolen Cox against.

Here are LAKE videos of each candidate’s speech, followed by a
LAKE video playlist. Continue reading →

Videos: Opioids, Soccer, Airport Authority, Probation, Ankle Monitoring, Wetlands, Hay, GEFA, Pump @ LCC 2018-05-07



Opioid litigation will be added to the agenda
for this evening, although not for voting, as
8.i, Selection of Legal Firm for Opioid Litigation:

Select legal firm,

The Studstill Law Firm and the Blasingame, Burch, Garrard &
Ashley Law Firm have both submitted proposals to represent Lowndes County
in the opioid litigation.

That was the longest agenda item at the Monday morning Work Session.
The

Probation Resolution and Services Agreement,
which

had been tabled two weeks before,
got almost two minutes,
including questions about cost.
Add the minute and a half for the

Electronic Monitoring Contract
and those two items with the same presenter got the longest total.

The two North Lowndes Park Soccer Complex items,

Wetland Credits
and
Bids,
that will massively change Hahira, did not get a total of two minutes.
The

Hay Lease Agreement Amendment
is another water item, because it’s about the county’s
spray field, also known as its Land Application Site (LAS).
And the

Bevel Creek Lift Station Pump that feeds it.
Final water item:
dates of completion for the

GEFA Loan Agreement, whatever it’s for.

The mysterious

Wisconsin Public Finance Authority Bond Issue
is to finance a project on Old Statenville Road in the Valdosta City Limits.

They’re going to reappoint Steve Everett to the

Valdosta-Lowndes County Airport Authority; he did not speak.
And George Page would also like to be considered.

Here are links to Continue reading →

Soccer, Airport Authority, Probation, Ankle Monitoring, Wetlands, Hay, GEFA, Pump @ LCC 2018-05-07

What was on

the agenda
for yesterday morning at 8:30 AM
and for voting this evening at 5:30 PM.


Parcel 0024-003, Tax Assessors Map
They’re going to reappoint Steve Everett to the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Airport Authority.
At the end, the thing that will massively change Hahira:
4.c. North Lowndes Park Soccer Complex – Bids: five of them, ranging from $6.5 to $8.3 million dollars.
From the Invitation to Bid:

The bid package is for

construction of North Lowndes Park Soccer
Complex including all work shown on the Bid Set of Plans, issue date
February 1, 2018, and Specifications, issue date February 1, 2018,
to include but not be limited to the following items: Site clearing
and other items as noted on the plans in order to construct and
install a new 8 soccer field complex with concession and restroom
pavilion, and maintenance building. Additional items to be
constructed include, entrance road extension from the existing park,
parking lot, signage, concrete pavement, fencing, site and field
lighting, utilities, storm drainage structures and basins,
irrigation, landscaping, and furnishings.


Detail Map, Tax Assessors Map

Map: Lowndes County Tax Assessors, of

Parcel 0024-003, Lowndes County Parks & Recreation Authority.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2018, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Southern Company Stockholder Meeting 2018-05-23

This year the Southern Company
annual report says increased energy revenues were “primarily due
to increases in renewable energy sales”, yet Southern Power is selling off
a third interest in its solar facilities.
Why? To pay off debt from its failed Big Bet on Plant Vogtle nukes,
and its new Big Bet on stranded assets in natural gas pipelines.
I don’t think the future lies that way, Tom Fanning, abandoning solar power
and getting in bed with Sabal Trail.

When:
10AM Wednesday, May 23, 2018

9AM breakfast

Where:
The Lodge Conference Center at Callaway Gardens,

4500 Southern Pine Drive, Pine Mountain, Georgia 31822

What:
Southern Company Annual Stockholder Meeting


Facilities in Operation or Development as of March 20, 2018, Annual Report

Facilities in Operation or Development as of

March 20, 2018, Annual Report

Why would Southern Company sell off the assets that generated the most increase in revenue? On page 46: Continue reading →

Food Trucks on Agenda @ Hahira 2018-05-03

They are also talking about water tanks and treesand the work on I-75
Exit 29,
including what the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT)
hasn’t covered that may have to be picked up in SPLOST VII.




Photo:

WTXL ABC 27 News.

But the main topic, with a Public Hearing, is food trucks.
That Zoning Text Amendment didn’t fare very well with
the Planning Commission Monday.
But of course GLPC is only advisory, and Hahira can decide whatever it wants.
Expect at least the same speakers tonight as you can see in the

LAKE videos of that Planning Commission meeting.

Thanks to Hahira City Clerk Lisa Mashburn for Continue reading →

Videos: Senior living, pool, Hahira food trucks @ GLPC 2018-04-30

Yes, it was food trucks Hahira wants

to change in its Zoning Ordinance,
and that was the long item, at 42 minutes in Monday’s Planning Commission
meeting.
Neighbors Barry Robinson and Gretchen Quarterman spoke about it at the
Planning Commission,
as did the food truck owner,
and I bet on all of them being at the
Hahira City Council tonight, especially given that the Planning Commission recommendation was not favorable.


The Planning Commission spent less than 18 minutes on the

two rezonings
for

a senior living residential housing complex in Valdosta.
The request for

a Planned Development on Gornto Road took about as long.

Below are Continue reading →

Signs, frontage, parking, recreation, setbacks, shops, homes @ ZBOA 2018-05-05

Six variances in Lowndes County and a Valdosta LDR change,
on

the ZBOA agenda
for today.


One page, Agenda

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Senior living, pool, food trucks @ GLPC 2018-04-30

Could it be food trucks Hahira wants

to change in its Zoning Ordinance?
In Valdosta,
a request for

a Planned Development on Gornto Road,
and

two rezonings
for

a senior living residential housing complex which would
have access on Ashley Street, Emory Street, and University Drive,
based around the site of China Garden.


China Garden, Ashley, Emory, and University

Map:
Lowndes County Tax Assessors.

Red outline of affected parcels: drawn by John S. Quarterman for LAKE.

All on

the agenda
for 5:30 PM tonight at the Planning Commission.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission


Lowndes County


City of Valdosta


City of Dasher


City of Hahira


City of Lake Park



REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA



Monday, April 30, 2018 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
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