They approved everything in 10 minutes flat,
including the
Special Asessment Rate for 2018,
the
Community and Economic Development Strategy,
and yes, they added to the
agenda
and passed the
Resolution Supporting HR 158 to Stop Diversion of State Fees.
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Valdosta 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.
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The
tire amnesty went well, and
added to the agenda:
a county resolution in support of HR 158 in the Georgia legislature,
to stop state fee diversions.
The County Manager reminded them they had heard about the Community and Economic Development Strategy a few months before (apparently under another name), and there was some confusion about Georgia Power’s continued involvement.
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The big item on the agenda for 8:30 AM Monday morning is an MoU and $25,000 to fund a Community and Economic Development Strategy. Presumably this is the 2013-2018 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) that the VDT says the Southern Georgia Regional Commission (SGRC) recently adopted.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2018, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2018, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Sworn in:
re-elected
Sandra Tooley (District 2) and
new members
Eric Howard (District 4)
and
Andy Gibbs (District 6),
plus Sandra Tooley again as
new Mayor Pro Tem.
The vote on Mayor Pro Tem
split evenly with the Mayor voting,
between Sandra Tooley and Tim Carroll,
so they ended up having Judge Tunison draw one of the two names out of a box.
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For two out of three boards, they came up with one name between
Monday morning and Tuesday evening.
No one applied for the
Lowndes County Development Authority;
instead they appointed Gary Moser who applied to be on Planning Commission.
They reappointed
Franklin Bailey, head of homebuilders association, to the
Planning Commission, plus
they appointed Ed Hightower to finish the unexpired term of Brad Folsom.
They appointed Dr. Frances Brown to the
Lowndes County Board of Health.
And the County Manager
recognized Public Works
for their good work during the recent storms.
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New members top the agenda for tonight: Eric Howard (District 4) and Andy Gibbs (District 6).
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, January 11, 2018
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL
County Manager Joe Pritchard
thanked county staff for their performance during the recent storms
and the public for mostly staying off the roads.
It will cost
$450 to qualify to run for County Commissioner.
No, we don’t know what was wrong with the sound. We will try to get it better tomorrow evening.
No applicants for the Lowndes County Development Authority Board of Health, and many for the Planning Commission.
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Where did they advertise for applications for the three boards on the agenda for tomorrow morning, voting Tuesday evening? Who was the mysterious term expiration on the Development Authority of Lowndes County (not the same as the Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority, VLCIA)? If we assume the county’s web page for the Lowndes County Development Authority is the relevant one, it doesn’t say what term expired nor who was in that slot, it just says “Vacant”. However, we can deduce that the missing board member is Jeff Reames, whose seat expired June 8, 2017. When they appointed six members to that board the next month, they did not appoint anyone to that slot, even though Commissioner Mark Wisenbaker asked about that at the time.
Brad Folsom quit the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission to join VLCIA.
Five people want to be appointed: Keven Bussey, Gary Moser, Ed Hightower, and Bart Davis. Also, Franklin Bailey wants to be reappointed.
“Mr.” Myron Faircloth (I thought he was a doctor) resigned from the Board of Health, and nobody is mentioned as wanting to be appointed.
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PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, JANUARY 8, 2018, MONDAY, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION,JANUARY 9, 2018, TUESDAY, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
The added agenda item
6e. Emergency Repairs to Rocky Ford Road
got a couple of bids (unusual procedure; different from their
usual no-bid emergencies) passed.
The Chamber sent
Gary Wisenbaker to speak in Citizens Wishing to Be Heard
to ask for (after a very long preamble by John Page)
apparently money from GDOT for a long list (in a letter the taxpayers
did not get to see) of
transportation projects to help “the business community”,
apparently including the truck bypass.
They only appointed six of the seven members of the Development Authority of Lowndes County, although a Commissioner did ask about that. It’s also curious they said all the terms expired right then, since the Wayback machine has a snapshot of 4 April 2017, which shows three expiring in June 2017 and four already expired in December 2016. Apparently they just didn’t bother to appoint anybody to the four slots that expired in December 2016 until eight months later, and then they didn’t appoint anybody to one of the 2017 slots.
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