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Board Packet @ LCC 2014-11-11

Here is the

board packet for the
11 November 2014 Regular Session
and
10 November 2014 Work Session of the Lowndes County Commission.



Although the County Clerk once again provided this packet only on paper
and only in black and white, we got via CD-ROM color maps for

REZ-2014-17 Grand Bay Estates
and
REZ-2014-18 White
from County Planner Jason Davenport in response to a separate Open Records Request.
The request to the County Clerk also asked for
electronic copy, but once again she chose not to honor that part of the request.

But who can say?
Perhaps things will be different after

the Open Government Symposium this Friday, 21 November 2014.

Meanwhile, I have already filed an Open Records Request for the board packet
for the next County Commission meeting, which is in December.

-jsq

Videos: Pipeline, agriculture, lighting, appointments, and parks @ LCC 2014-11-11


300x111 Full house, in Lowndes County Commission Regular Session, by Gretchen Quarterman, 11 November 2014
Update 2014-11-17: board packet.

Three

citizens

spoke

against
the unnecessary and hazardous Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline.
Several Commissioners even spoke up in

Other Business,
turning it into de facto Commisioner Comments.
But none of them called for a resolution or ordinance against the pipeline.

The

subdivision rezoning
still got no objections,
while the

rezoning for agricultural use
got massive objections and a compromise solution.

The

emergency security monitor replacement
is, you guessed it, Continue reading →

Videos: 9 consideration, 6 tax lighting, 4 appointments, 2 rezonings, 1 proclamation @ LCC 2014-10-27 LCC 2014-11-10


REZ-2014-17 Grand Bay Estates, in Lowndes County Commission Work Session, by John S. Quarterman, 10 November 2014
They vote tonight on what they discussed yesterday morning in these videos. A

subdivision rezoning
gets no objections
while a

rezoning for agricultural use
gets massive objections.
Also few if any of those objectors have said anything about

the Sabal Trail pipeline.
Do priorities around here seem odd?

The

emergency security monitor replacement
is, you guessed it, a no-bid contract with the same company that
originally installed them.
Which fits with the no-bid

Alapaha Water Plant Expansion,
back this time for property acquisition after twice failing to get
a setback variance at ZBOA.

The state changed the qualifications Continue reading →

9 for consideration, 6 special tax lighting, 4 appointments, 2 rezonings, 1 proclamation @ LCC 2014-11-10

Only one emergency expense this time, and it’s not for a road or water treatment!


It’s for

security video monitors for their own palace.
Presumably those are different from

the big monitor behind their podium
that very rarely we see in use.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Pipeline, road repair, Bailey, water, and Commercial Tax Schedules @ LCC 2014-10-28



They finally made a decision onG

the Bailey rezoning:
the one the applicant liked least.
They accepted

the Creekwood Subdivision detention ponds;
and the

Glen Laurel infrastructure;
will all that be maintained any better than the one at Hamilton Circle?
Dr. Michael Noll

spoke for WACE against the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline.

Agenda item

6.i. is changed in the county’s

online agenda from Rural to Commercial without the agenda being
marked as amended.

See
agenda,
the LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session,
and

the board packet obtained via open records request by LAKE and scanned and posted on the LAKE website.
Here are videos of events as they transpired, followed by a video playlist.

Continue reading →

Board Packet @ LCC 2014-10-27



Surprisingly, when asked for this packet Monday morning,
the County Clerk agreed to provide it later that same day, and did.
However, she delivered it on paper.
Processing time for that interleaved with other tasks took LAKE
until now.
Here is the

board packet
for the
27 October 2014 Regular Session
of the Lowndes County Commission.
It answers many questions that the public board meeting left hanging,
such as
what land does the county plant to acquire for that booster pump.
If the county would put these board packets on their own website
before their meetings, the citizens who pay their salaries
would be able to see what they were talking about.

-jsq

Videos: Emergency road repair, grandfathered business, water, and Rural Land Agricultural Improvement Schedules @ LCC 2014-10-27


More detail and issues with

Bailey REZ-2014-16
after
much discussion last time.
Almost ten minutes on

6a. Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention.
Numerous things incomplete or just FYI such as drug seizures in the

financial report, none of which the citizens could see.
This was in the Work Session Monday morning.
They vote Tuesday 5:30 PM in the Regular Session.



They

actually named the multiple bids for a water item,
unlike the
single-source price-not-quoted pump replacement last time.
And they’re buying some property (at some place unnamed)

for a booster pump.

The

Rural Land Agricultural Improvement Schedules
was actually for Commercial land.
We learned why

Shiloh Road needs emergency repairs.
Nothing about that on

the new county Lowndes411 twitter account,
and the county still doesn’t publish its own board packets.

I can understand why the Commission needs to approve

a juvenile justice grant,
a

GEFA loan application,
to

accept quit claim deeds for a subdivision’s detention ponds,
and to

accept infrastructure for a subdivision, not to mention

a CDBG agreement.
But to

replace batteries in a UPS?

See

the agenda.
Here are links to the videos of the items as they transpired this morning. Continue reading →

Emergency road repair, grandfathered business, water, and Rural Land Agricultural Improvement Schedules @ LCC 2014-10-27


Bailey’s back
after
much discussion last time.


This time they’re

actually going for multiple bids for a water item,
unlike the
single-source price-not-quoted pump replacement last time.
And they’re buying some property (at some place unnamed)

for a booster pump.

What’s this mysterious

Rural Land Agricultural Improvement Schedules?
Why does

Shiloh Road need emergency repairs?
Nothing about that on

the new county Lowndes411 twitter account,
and the county still doesn’t publish its own board packets.

I can understand why the Commission needs to approve

a juvenile justice grant,
a

GEFA loan application,
to

accept quit claim deeds for a subdivision’s detention ponds,
and to

accept infrastructure for a subdivision, not to mention

a CDBG agreement.
But to

replace batteries in a UPS?

Here’s

the agenda.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Work Session Minutes @ LCC 2011-01-10

Ordinance or policy?
That question comes up for at least two items,



Special assessment
and

Speed control devices,
in the

minutes of the 10 January 2011 Work Session
of the Lowndes County Commission.
-jsq

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

MINUTES

WORK SESSION

Monday, January 10, 2011

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Videos @ LCC 2012-12-11



Moody and the Chamber won, rural residents got wasted,
and taxpayers still didn't get to see a single thing the Lowndes County Commission
voted on last night in 45 minutes (very long for them)
in front of the biggest audience I've ever seen there.

They

appointed John "Mac" McCall to ZBOA.
They revised the

alcohol ordinance with some unspecified "changes to the fee schedule",
and added another alcohol restriction to the
Lake Park rezoning
before approving it.

They approved the

solid waste ordinance and granted a waste collection monopoly to

a company from New York City
despite all known public input being against it.
Two
more people
spoke
against it
in Citizens Wishing to Be Heard.

Gretchen Quarterman recommended adding
all the appointed Boards and Authorities to the county's calendar.

Commissioners accepted applicant's withdrawal of

the rezoning request near Moody AFB
and tabled indefinitely the related

zoning code amendment.
They
approved rezoning for the
Naylor Dollar General.

Commission approved four Decorative Lighting Special Tax Districts (forgetting it was supposed to be a
public hearing),
and a refund for one that wasn't.

Danny Weeks got approved a new netclock
and new phones for the 911 center,
and he and his staff got an award.
The library railroad continues,
the bonds renegotation was approved with
about $2 million savings and some legal questions,
the Annex has asbestos but they'll deal with it,
and after Friday's demolition ceremony
there will be a going-away reception for Chairman Paulk,
and Bill Slaughter will be the new Chairman.

You missed all that and more at yesterday's Commission meeting.

Here's

a video playlist of the Regular Session,
followed by the agenda with the videos linked into it.

Update 2014-04-09: Fixed embedded video link.


Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 11 December 2012.

For reference here are the

videos of
yesterday morning's Work Session.
And here is

the agenda with links to the videos and some notes.

Continue reading →