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Videos: Appointment to Land Bank Authority, Mutual Aid Agreement, SetterPointe Subdivision, grants, offsite alcohol, data center switches, and failed land sale @ LCC Regular 2024-04-23

With no discussion, the Lowndes County Commission unanimously appointed James Miller to the

Land Bank Authority. Gretchen note, “I’m guessing that this was pre-discussed because there was no discussion at either the work session, nor at this meeting. How do they decide? It’s a mystery.”

At that same Regular Session of April 23, 2024, they also
approved everything else unanimously.

There was some discussion of how many single-parent families would be affected by the

6.a. FY 2025 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant.

Commissioner Clay Griner asked where are the

6.g. North Lowndes Data Center Switches.
Answer from Aaron Kostyu: “I would be happy to discuss that with you offline,
but it’s probably not best for us to discuss data center locations in a public meeting.”


Jeff Hardy asked in Citizens Wishing to be heard about the timeline for replacement of the Frank’s Creek Bridge on Shiloh Road and about emergency services.
The Chairman said he would speak to him after the meeting.
Seems to me more citizens would like to know the answers.

No rezonings were on the agenda.


[Collage @ LCC 23 April 2024]

Collage @ LCC 23 April 2024

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.

See also the

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

agenda and board packet. Continue reading →

Videos: Appointment to Land Bank Authority, Mutual Aid Agreement, SetterPointe Subdivision, grants, offsite alcohol, data center switches, and failed land sale @ LCC Work 2024-04-22

Update 2024-05-10:
Videos: Appointment to Land Bank Authority, Mutual Aid Agreement, SetterPointe Subdivision, grants, offsite alcohol, data center switches, and failed land sale @ LCC Regular 2024-04-23.

At their Work Session Monday morning, April 22, 2024,
the Lowndes County Commission did not reveal which of three applicants they
favor to appoint to the Land Bank Authority.

They breezed through everything else, with few questions,
mostly wanting to know if there would be any surprises, to which the answer was always no.

This one was not anticipated in the original agreement:

5.d. TIA Supplemental Agreement for Hightower Road/Cooper Road NE.

No rezonings were on the agenda.

They voted the next evening.


[Collage @ LCC 22 April 2024]

Collage @ LCC 22 April 2024

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.

See also the

agenda and board packet. Continue reading →

Packet: 3 applicants for Land Bank Authority, Mutual Aid Agreement, SetterPointe Subdivision, grants, offsite alcohol, data center switches, and failed land sale @ LCC 2024-04-22

Update 2024-05-10:
Videos: Appointment to Land Bank Authority, Mutual Aid Agreement, SetterPointe Subdivision, grants, offsite alcohol, data center switches, and failed land sale @ LCC Work 2024-04-22.

At their Work Session Monday morning and voting Regular Session Tuesday evening,
the Lowndes County Commission this week will mostly consider the three applicants
to the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Land Bank Authority
and a variety of grants, plus renewing a
Statewide Mutual Aid Agreement Between Lowndes County and the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, as well as with all the other Georgia counties.


[Collage, Lowndes County Commission Board Packet, April 22,23, 2024]

Collage, Lowndes County Commission Board Packet, April 22,23, 2024

No rezonings are on the agenda.

The one subdivision infrastructure acceptance is as usual listed as Continue reading →

Four board appointments, animal tethering, bus, trash, homeland security, mutual aid, and housing @ LCC 2016-03-21

Work Session 8:30 AM this morning,
and Tuesday evening finally voting on the
Animal Services Ordinance
including tethering, and (who knew about this?)


appointing Christina Bennett to the Animal Control Board.

Renewing the annual
Section 5311 Rural Transportation Program Capital Contract
for the MIDS bus service is on
the agenda, as is
appointing three people to the
Valdosta Lowndes County Metropolitan Planning Organization (VLMPO) out of these
four:
Ronald Skrine, Tammy Greenway, Floyd Rose, Bob Wilburs.
As usual, how were people supposed to know?
And where are the applications of those named? Continue reading →

Defibrilators from Homeland Security @ LCC 2014-04-07



The

KLVB presentation told us up to three states dump in
the Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County,
for which the county gets some unspecified amount of tipping fees,
which go to fund KLVB.
An appointment to
KLVB was added to the agenda,
although nobody deigned to reveal who was “that individual that has
requested to serve on that board”.
The

Homeland Security grant application turned out to be for defibrillators.

Here’s
the agenda, with a few annotations and links to the videos.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

AMENDED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Mutual Aid at Lowndes County Commission 2012 02 27,28

The Lowndes County Commission will consider



6.c. Statewide Mutual Aid Agreement

at its work session Monday morning and will vote at its
regular session Tuesday evening.
This is about emergency response calls, such as for the fire
in Remerton, when Remerton called Lowndes County, which called
Valdosta, which sent fire trucks to Remerton.
Why the indirect time-consuming call while a fire doubles in size every minute?
Remerton didn’t have a mutual aid agreement with Valdosta, but
did with Lowndes County.

This is the same Commission that went on for 11 minutes
in the
21 February 2011 work session
about a Homeland Security grant for an emergency vehicle,
worring that the county might have to pay to maintain it and might
have to share it with other municipalities.
And then rejected it the next day, if I recall correctly.
What will they think of this mutual aid agreement?

Here’s

the agenda.

-jsq


LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Private prisons unaccountable —ACLU

Found on the
ACLU blog of rights.


Azadeh Shahshahani wrote for the AJC 11 June 2009,

Private prisons for immigrants lack accountability, oversight



On March 11, a 39-year-old man held in detention at the Stewart Detention
Center, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in
southwest Georgia, died at a hospital in Columbus.

That’s in Lumpkin, west of Americus, south of Columbus.

To this day, the immediate cause of Roberto Martinez Medina’s death
remains unclear (a press release pronounced the cause of death as
“apparent natural causes”).



Last month, Leonard Odom, 37, died at the Wheeler County Correctional
Facility in south-central Georgia.

That’s in Alamo, GA, between Macon, Tifton, and Savannah.

Both facilities are operated by Corrections Corp. of America, which
has a contract with the Department of Homeland Security to operate the
Stewart center and one with the Georgia Department of Corrections to
operate the one in Wheeler County.

So, what happened?

Continue reading →

DHS grant for emergency vehicle, LCC work session, 21 Feb 2011



Here’s video of the explanation by county staff
the proposed DHS grant application for an emergency vehicle.
It includes questions and statements from commissioners,
and goes on for almost 11 minutes.
This was at the work session of 21 Feb 2011.

The sound would be better if the county used their own equipment,
which is already purchased and in place in that same room,
to record their own sessions and make them available over the web.

Here is

the LAKE video.
Maybe somebody would like to make a transcription.





Work session, Lowndes County Commission, 21 February 2011.
Video by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

Video of this topic at the regular session of the next day will follow.
This is one of the grants Ken Klanicki referred to in his LTE in the VDT
the other day about a steep learning curve.

-jsq