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Cancelled due to lack of agenda items: Valdosta City Council meeting @ VCC 2013-10-24

The internal email from the City Clerk (see below) has a bit more detail
than the

website notice.


From: Teresa Bolden

Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 4:26 PM

Subject: COUNCIL MEETING CANCELLED

Good afternoon — I just wanted to let you know that the
Council Meeting scheduled for October 24th
has been cancelled due to a lack of Agenda Items.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Thanks! Teresa

Teresa S. Bolden, CMC

City Clerk

P. O. Box 1125

Valdosta, GA 31603-1125

Phone: (229) 259-3503

Fax: (229) 259-5411

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Health, insurance, library, and alcohol @ LCC 2013-10-21

The county is considering
an

insurance plan
(
Section 125 or cafeteria or flexible benefit),
presumably related to the
health plan
they’re also considering.


They may



abandon Green Lane.
The only family living on Green Lane appears to be

Alphonso Simmons Jr.

Here’s

the agenda.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos, AAUW Candidates’ Forum @ AAUW 2013-10-15



Water was a popular topic, as you can see in these
videos of the

Candidates’s Forum by AAUW.
Same location (VSU Continuing Education Building)
as the one

Chamber held,
but this time the audience got to ask questions.
Yes, Virginia, they do all live in their districts, and some of them have widely divergent views about what cities or school boards should do.

Local

AAUW President Diane Holliman gave a welcome, and then
Dr. Luke Fowler moderated.
Here’s

the list of qualified candidates.
Here’s

Matthew Woody’s writeup in the VDT.


Valdosta City Council District 2

John Hogan and Calvin Graham Sr. were present; Sandra J. Tooley was not.


John Hogan pointed out that a road issue could really be a drainage issue,
so it’s necessary to look at context.


Calvin Graham Sr.
said he was retired military, lived in the district, and had
been spending a lot of time volunteering.
He indicated the Continue reading →

Raisin’ Cane Ribbon Cutting

The Lake Park Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Department of
Agriculture, local elected officials, and community members helped
celebrate the opening of the Corbett family’s most recent endeavor.

Raisin’ Cane held a ribbon cutting on Thursday, October 17th
at their new facility at the corner of
US41S and Newsome Road.

Ken Corbett welcomed those gathered and thanked family, friends, contractors
and more for helping to bring the vision to completion. Continue reading →

OK LOST status quo –Valdosta City Council @ VCC 2013-10-17

Yes we’ll take the 2002 percentages

offered by Lowndes County, voted the
the Valdosta City Council this morning at a Special Called Meeting.

The vote result is from Council Tim Carroll, who says they will revisit the percentages
after the Georgia legislature does whatever it’s going to do about LOST in January.
Here’s

the notice of the meeting on Valdosta’s website:


Notice of a Special Called City Council Meeting

Posted Date: 10/16/2013

The Valdosta City Council has scheduled a Special Called City Council Meeting for Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 8:00 a.m. at City Hall, 216 East Central Avenue, Council Chambers. The purpose of this Special Called Council Meeting is to discuss the Local Option Sales Tax (LOST).

For more information, please contact Teresa S. Bolden, City Clerk, at 259-3503 or tbolden@valdostacity.com.

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Videos of Special LOST Lowndes County Commission Meeting @ LCC 2013-10-15



In a highly irregular 4 to 1 vote with the Chairman voting,
the Lowndes County Commission voted to stick with
58% for the county, 42% for the cities from
LOST,
the same as the county’s

original position
from

April 2012.


No real agenda was posted by the county,
so below I’ve made one up to match the videos.


  1. Call to Order

    and immediate adjourn to executive session
    for attorney-client privileges.


    County Manager Joe Pritchard shooed
    the Commissioners,
    the alleged County Attorney, the County Clerk,
    the Finance Director, and one or two other staff into the back room.




  2. Reconvene into open session

    Chairman Bill Slaughter divulged the purpose of the meeting so they could
    vote on it.
    The decision was
    58% of SPLOST for the county and 42% for the cities,
    to be divided among the cities as they see fit.
    The vote was 4 to 1.
    Which is rather odd, since you can clearly hear Chairman Bill Slaughter voting ”
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    and raising his hand. Continue reading →

Lowndes County LOST like Hall @ LCC 2013-10-15

Gretchen reports
LOST was the topic at today’s

special called meeting of the Lowndes County Commission.
And yes, they went into executive session.
Rumor has it that it’s not

120 days to come to an agreement,
rather this week is the deadline.
That’s what seems to be happening over in Hall County.

Sarah Mueller wrote for Gainesville Times today,

Hall commissioners to consider new local option sales tax certificate,




Hall County Administrator Randy Knighton said the special called
commission meeting today at 4 p.m. at the Hall County Government
Center in Gainesville was in response to a suggestion from the
Association County Commissioners of Georgia. ACCG has talked with
the Department of Revenue and the Georgia Attorney General’s Office.

“(ACCG) has advised us that each county who has been engaged
in the LOST arbitration proceedings submit a new LOST certificate to
the Revenue Department this week,” Knighton said.

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Special Called Lowndes County Commission Meeting @ LCC 2013-10-15

Could that pending litigation be

the county’s lawsuit against

Deep South Sanitation
about
that

exclusive franchise
that benefits

ADS investors in New York City?
Will they go straight into executive session?

On the county’s

online calendar, with nothing on their
front page,
and nothing in the online VDT public notices.
Here’s the county’s

PDF and here’s the text:


Lowndes County Commission logo
Lowndes County, Georgia

Board Of Commissioners

SPECIAL CALLED MEETING

A Special Called Meeting of the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners will be held on Tuesday, October 15, 2013, at 3:00 p.m.
The meeting will be held in Commission Chambers, located on the second floor of the Lowndes County Judicial‐Administrative Complex, 327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia.
The Special Called Meeting is being held for attorney client communication regarding pending litigation.

Office of the County Clerk

K. Paige Dukes

229‐671‐2400

pdukes@lowndescounty.com

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No contracts for tenants of Leila Ellis Building @ LCC 2013-10-07



Two, four, six, many:
that’s how Lowndes County counts tenants.
It’s great the county is providing space for organizations
that help the needy,
but it’s kind of curious that the county didn’t seem to know
who or how many organizations were using the Leila Ellis building,
and had no lease agreement with them.
Not to mention it took twenty questions from Commissioners to get
staff to admit that lack of contracts,
at Monday morning’s

Lowndes County Commission Work Session.

6.b. Leila Ellis Building-Available Space

Kind of like they have

no contract with the alleged county attorney.

Chad McCleod at one point said
two organizations are currently in the building,
LAMP and Cash Prosperity.
He said the County let LAMP use it, and LAMP let Cash Prosperity use it.

In response to a question from Commissioner DeMarcus Marshall,
County Manager Joe Pritchard said under normal circumstances
any organization would need to come to the Commission to ask for space.
They currently have more applicants than space.

Commissioner Crawford Powell wanted to know if the county was going
to set up guidelines for who could lease.
Pritchard said they could, and they couldn’t lease to a private business.

Commissioner Richard Raines wanted to know if annual leases were the practice
of this board.
Pritchard, not actually answering the question asked,
said “That would be my suggestion.”




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Rotating vice chairmanship @ LCC 2013-10-07



Six minutes on who will be
Vice Chairman and when,
a ceremonial position, as far as I know.
13 minutes on a parade of organizations that want to rent space in the
Leila Ellis.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM.

The storm that wasn’t was the subject of
Ashley Tye’s report.
They tabled
Nottinghill
like the Planning Commission did.
They vote tonight on letting
Barrington subdivision
sprawl into the county.
Did Commissioners ever get that list of roads for
striping?
Do we have enough
evidence yet for juvenile justice?
Or will we continue to concentrate on
fining people coming off of I-75?
All that and a

group photo.
At least the Work Session yesterday morning
had some actual discussion in it for a change.

Here’s

the agenda with links to the videos and a few notes.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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