Here are videos of the candidate forum at Serenity Church last Sunday.
Anyone can use these videos provided they attribute Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
There’s another candidate forum tonight at VSU.
And if you haven’t heard John Robinson sing, you really ought to listen to this. Plus Roy Taylor says he didn’t do it.
Every Valdosta City Council seat up for election is contested,
a couple of Valdosta School Board seats, one Hahira City Council seat,
and five people are running for four Lake Park City Council seats.
Although this is a nonpartisan election, all candidates are invited to speak tonight at the Lowndes County Democratic Party (LCDP) monthly meeting, 6PM Monday 14 September 2015, at Mama June’s Home Cookin’, 3286 Inner Perimeter Rd., Valdosta, GA. Around 20 of them will speak, so here’s your first opportunity to hear directly from most of the candidates.
Here’s the list of candidates who qualified for this election, according to the Lowndes County Board of Elections, formatted the way they sent it. Continue reading
Dean Poling, VDT, 17 June 2015, Hahira’s ‘first lady’ a friend to all,
Even in the years after her late husband stopped being this Lowndes County town’s mayor, Nancy Parrott remained the first lady of Hahira until her passing last weekend.
She was known for her smile, her wit, her grace and her always having a kind word. She never saw station. She saw people.
She died Sunday. She was 80 years old….
2013 Obituary of Dr. J. Lyle Parrott.
Obituary, VDT, 15 June 2015, Nancy Rutledge Wainer Parrott,
Nancy Rutledge Wainer Parrott, 80, of Hahira, Ga., widow of Jesse Lyle Parrott, MD, passed away peacefully on Sunday, June 14, 2015 at her home surrounded by her two sons and her “daughters-in-love.”
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They’re meeting again today, and last month
the
baseball diamond west of Hahira was approved with conditions 4-1.
The water connection variance on
Jumping Gully Road,
was approved 5-0,
and the electric company parking variance on
Norman Drive, tabled
the previous month,
was withdrawn by applicant (before the meeting),
all according to
ZBOA’s own Summary of Results.
See also the agenda for the 7 April 2015 Zoning Board of Appeals meeting. Here’s the LAKE video of the meeting:
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Today at 2:30 PM, the owner of the
baseball diamond west of Hahira is not expected to appear, because he’s working.
If you want to see him, try
Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York, tomorrow evening.
There’s a water connection variance on
Jumping Gully Road,
and the electric company parking variance on
Norman Drive in Valdosta tabled
last month
has been withdrawn.
Here’s the agenda, which oddly is not yet on the City of Valdosta website. Continue reading
We’ve got a little list, a spreadsheet as a list,
please don’t take this as a diss, we think they have been missed….
Unlike Ko-Ko’s in the Mikado,
this list is of things previously
missed that are slowly being found (or created),
so local governments can tell the citizens what fine things they’ve
been up to, and so citizens can decide what they need to deal with
and what topics they can provide input on.
Here’s the
LAKE sunshine list for local government.
The Lowndes County Commission just got some additions, with its new website, by posting videos of its own meetings, and by posting agendas and minutes for the Planning Commission.
The Valdosta City Council does pretty well, with its website, its agendas and minutes, and the agendas and summaries and minutes for ZBOA. Valdosta does not (yet) video and post its own meetings, but it does have what appears to be a complete list of its ordinances with links to their text. Dasher also has its ordinances online.
Meanwhile the Lowndes County Commission has only Continue reading
Withdrawn:
the county’s never-ending no-bid Alapaha Water Treatment plant.
Tabled:
Dr. Urbonas’ solar parking variance
because if he connects the structures to his building maybe
they don’t need a variance.
Approved: a single-family design variance near Hahira an accessory structure near Valdosta, and a sign variance in Valdosta.
Here’s the agenda, with results added from the meeting summary, followed by a video playlist.
Continue readingValdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals
Matt Martin, Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator Carmella Braswell, Lowndes County Zoning Administrator 300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia 327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia (229) 259-3563 (229) 671-2430 AGENDA
September 9, 2014
2:30 p.m.
Last seen at ZBOA 2013-03-05 about a sign,
Macedonia First Baptist Church
now wants to expand in a residential neighborhood.
One applicant wants to rezone
from R-10 to Estate Agriculture.
All that and more two weeks ago at the Planning Commission.
Continue readingGreater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC)
Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
AGENDA
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue
Monday, October 27, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
Here’s the
agenda,
and here are videos of the meeting as it proceeded.
They meet again tonight at 5:30 PM.
Yay open government symposium!
But why in Macon, why not in Valdosta,
if it’s organized by the new VDT editor?
Sure, Macon is the geographic center of the state, but it’s only
about an hour from Atlanta, and one thing most people in Atlanta don’t
understand is how big Georgia is, so asking them to drive four hours
to Valdosta would be educational for them.
And if the VDT is so interested in government transparency,
why doesn’t it investigate the county’s lawsuit against local business Deep South Sanitation
at the expense of the local taxpayers that benefits nobody but
“exclusive franchise” ADS and its investors in New York City?
Why is the VDT’s front page story that gave a platform for
Spectra’s Andrea Grover no longer online, especially now that
the Sabal Trail deadline she announced has been busted?
Let’s see the VDT lead the way.
Here’s a first test:
Gretchen is going to Macon with the LAKE video camera.
Will the VDT let her video?
Unsigned article, VDT, 11 October 2014, VDT leading way in open government, Continue reading
