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Videos: Grants, Budget, Tax, Bonds, Parks, Land, Water, Waste, 911 @ LCC 2018-06-26



The most interesting items were not on
the agenda
of the Regular Session two weeks ago of the Lowndes County Commission Work Session.
The County Engineer had

One more thing: Loch Laurel Bridge Work and Closure 7/16 – 7/23,
Commissioner Demarcus Marshall

reminded everyone the Georgia hands-free driving law was going into effect,
and the Chairman announced

swearing in of the newly un-privatized Probation Officers the following morning.

The longest scheduled item at almost 3 minutes was

New Consoles For 911 Dispatchers,
followed by

Contract With Parks And Recreation Authority,
because both had questions from Commissioners.

The two grant items added the previous morning, for

Accountability Court
and

DUI Court,
sailed through, as did the

Francis Lake Lift Station Repair
and the

LAS Storage Pond Improvements.

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Videos: Budget, Tax, Sewage Pump Station, Road Abandonment, Zika @ LCC 2017-06-26



Tonight at 5:30 PM they vote on what they discussed
yesterday morning at the Lowndes County Commission.
But you won’t hear the
Zika Presentation by Ken Lowery;
that was only in the Work Session.
It was by far the longest item, at seven minutes, longer than all the rest of the meeting, which took less than six minutes.
The second longest item at almost a minute and a half was

abandonment of a portion of Ponce de Leon Trail (CR 374).

You will see them

adopt the Fiscal Year 2018 budget.
See the

previous post for more background about the budget requests
that the county almost all denied.

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Budget, Tax, Sewage Pump Station, Road Abandonment, Zika @ LCC 2017-06-26

They’re going to

adopt the county budget Tuesday, after talking about it
this morning at 8:30 AM, after complaining that nobody showed up at
a budget hearing they didn’t announce.
Also after refusing budget requests due to revenue continuing down for several years,
and not being willing to adjust taxes.

The VDT summarized,
Thomas Lynn, VDT, 23 May 2017, County Manager: Proposed budget austere; Most new funding requests denied.
And Thomas Lynn, 22 June 2017, Public absent from county budget hearing.
No wonder, since

the county didn’t even post the meeting online until that same morning, with no agenda.
The VDT wasn’t there most of the time, but Gretchen was, with the LAKE video camera.


LAKE video by Gretchen Quarterman of Harrison Tillman and Stephanie Black about Budget at the Lowndes County Annual Planning Meeting Day 1 @ LCC 2017-02-16

Photo: Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE of

Harrison Tillman and Stephanie Black about Budget at the Lowndes County Annual Planning Meeting Day 1 @ LCC 2017-02-16

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