Tag Archives: juvenile court

Videos: Trash collection, drainage, reports, candidate @ LCC 2022-03-22

A rare split vote on a bid, in

7.a. ENG 2021-02: Repairing 3 Box Culverts
.


ADS wants to raise its trash colleciton rates
but can’t do that without an ordinance change, which was not on the table this time.

Ashley Tye gave a weather report as part of the
County Manager Reports.

A candidate for Superior Court Judge spoke in

Citizens Wishing to Be Heard
,
which is an interesting change of policy; previously the Commission
didn’t allow candidates for office to speak in CWTBH.

[Trash, Drainage, Reports, CWTBH]

Trash, Drainage, Reports, CWTBH

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a few notes,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also the Continue reading

Packet: 0.277 acres for a county detention pond @ LCC 2022-03-21

Update 2022-03-22:
Videos: Trash collection, drainage, reports, candidate @ LCC 2022-03-22.

The replacement for the built-on detention pond on Little Viking Road turns out to be 0.277 acres horse-shoed around it.
That’s what was quit-claimed to Lowndes County Tuesday.

[Waste collection and water retention]

Waste collection and water retention

[EASEMENT]

EASEMENT

This is at the request of Rubber Tire, LLC, Franklin Bailey, Member/Manager.

[Signed, sealed,* and delivered]

Signed, sealed,* and delivered

The board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request,
is

on the LAKE website
.
See also the Continue reading

Videos: Delinquency, water, roads, and subdivisions @ LCC 2022-03-21

Update 2022-03-22: Packet: 0.277 acres for a county detention pond @ LCC 2022-03-21.

Update 2022-03-23:
Three LAKE videos inadvertently omitted are added back to this blog post and the LAKE playlist:

6.d. Advanced Disposal Services Residential Solid Waste Franchise Renewal
(9,500 customers),

6.e. Deep South Sanitation, LLC, Residential Solid Waste Franchise Renewal
(6,200 customers),
and

6.f. Little Viking Road Drainage Easement and Quit Claim Deed
.

Yesterday morning they read out the items with almost no discussion,
at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session,
which lasted 13 minutes.
They vote this evening at 5:30 PM.

The only item to get more than one question was

6.c. FY2022 Delinquency Prevention Grant
.

The audio feed in the room is still not working, thus the second or so of no sound at the start. For the thousands of dollars they have spent on the system, it would be nice if the sound in the room worked.

[Lighting, TIA, Juvenile delinquency, box culverts]

Lighting, TIA, Juvenile delinquency, box culverts

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also the agenda.

Road paving TIA agreements, ADS ands DSS waste renewawals, 3 water items, street lighting @ LCC 2022-03-21

Update 2022-03-22:

Videos: Delinquency, water, roads, and subdivisions @ LCC 2022-03-21
.

More road building TIA projects to promote more sprawl,
a redot to

let a developer off the hook for not doing drainage as required
,
a subdivision special tax lighting district,
several water projects in already-developed areas,
a grant to prevent juvenile delinquency,
and the annual renewal of permits for both waste collection companies,
all on

the agenda

for this morning’s Lowndes County Work Session, for voting Tuesday evening.

Funny how they never count the later cost of box culverts and water main extensions when they approve rezonings for subdivisions,
but here some of those are later.

Cost What
$448,621.14 Exit 22 Water Main Extension
$296,726.73 ENG 2021-02: Repairing 3 Box Culverts
$0.00
Deep South Sanitation, LLC, Residential Solid Waste Franchise Renewal
, March 31, 2023
$0.00 Advanced Disposal Services Residential Solid Waste Franchise Renewal
$-41,500.00 FY2022 Delinquency Prevention Grant
$703,847.87 Total

That

former detention pond site
is actually parcel 0144 205A now,
and it’s at
4115 Little Viking Road.
They also don’t tell we the taxpayers and voters where the new detention area is.

HISTORY, FACTS AND ISSUES: Map 0144 Parcel 205 owned by Rubber Tire,
LLC was originally designed for the entire lot to be one of the
detention areas for Roswell Place Subdivision and has been the
detention area since the subdivision was built. Rubber Tire, LLC had
the detention area redesigned, approved, and constructed so the lot
could become a buildable lot. Lowndes County will need to Quit Claim
the existing detention area back to Rubber Tire, LLC and accept a
drainage easement for the new detention area from Rubber Tire, LLC.

The agenda is below.
The board packet will follow when LAKE gets it.
My fault this time: I didn’t send the open records request.
Although it is still mysterious why Lowndes County doesn’t put the board packet
on its own website like many counties larger and smaller have been doing for years in Georgia and Florida.
The rudimentary expanded agenda with one-sheet agenda items is on the LAKE website.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2022, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos: Juvenile Court, County Extension, Aiport, Tax Appraiser, Budget Requests (3 of 3 days) @ LCC 2017-03-29



The

Tax Appraiser
finally showed up, and got the longest discussion
at half an hour,
with

County Extension
clocking in at 22 minutes,

Juvenile Court
at 15, and the

Airport Authority
at almost 13 minutes, in the last of three days
of budget requests to the Lowndes County Commission.

Here are links to each of the LAKE videos of this day 3 of 3 budget meeting,
followed by a video playlist. Continue reading

Videos: Day 2 of Budget Hearings @ LCC Budget 2015-03-04



Maybe Georgia should fund mental health facilities instead of

local jails having to act as mental hospitals
.
On a positive note,

Agriculture is an $81M industry in Lowndes County.

Law, taxes, and education, in the second day which was only in the morning,
of the
three days of
“Budget Hearings” which aren’t really hearings because nobody from the
public can speak and they don’t have a budget to hear yet.
See yesterday for
the agenda.
Here are links to videos of each item with some notes by Gretchen,
followed by a video playlist.
And one more day to go today. Continue reading

Videos: trash, appointment, GEMA, juveniles, mowing, and wellness @ LCC 2013-05-28




Trash
wasn’t on the agenda, but it was the biggest issue.
Like

last Regular Session

a Commissioner who happens to be a Christian minister
prayed for one thing
while

the Commission does the opposite
.
Commissioners and staff also seemed confused about
a mowing contract but we don’t know why,
since none of us have seen what they were looking at.
A Board incumbent was reappointed without discussion.
In good news, county employees have lost 600 pounds.

Here’s

the agenda
, with a few notes and links to the videos.
See also

the Work Session of the same morning
.


Lowndes County Commission

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Judging appointments, grants, and bids @ LCC 2013-05-28



Fast as a speeding “next” until the juvenile court judge
showed up and asked for help getting a grant to save money
by putting fewer children in jail.
One candidate for a board showed up (late) to speak,
and I continue to predict

he’ll be reappointed tonight
:
that’s when they vote:
tonight at 5:30PM in the Regular Session.
Meanwhile, here are videos of this morning’s
Lowndes County Commission Work Session.

Here’s

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

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Juvenile Justice grant would reduce costs more than the grant –Judge Council @ LCC 2013-05-28



Would you rather spend upwards of $91,000 a year to lock up
a juvenile offender or spend less money to prevent that?
Juvenile Court Judge Council advocated the former at this morning’s

Lowndes County Commission Work Session
.



6.a. 2013 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Program Application

This is about a potential new grant Emergency Director Ashley Tye said
he had been working on with Judge Council, applying to the

Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Program

which was approved by the legislator and governor this year.
(Governor’s Executive Order of 16 April 2013
directing the assembly of the Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Funding
Committee to allocate to counties the
funding of $5 million approved by the legislature
.)
Lowndes County would act as the applicant agent or grant administrator
on behalf of the juvenile justice department,
and Judge Council would serve as the implementing agency,
working with several groups such as LODAC
(
Lowndes Drug Action Council, Inc.
).
If the grant is accepted, it will be awarded quickly, running
from June to June.
It’s a reimbursement grant: make the expenses, submit a report, and
get reimbursed from the grant.


Judge James F. Council, Jr.

(who Continue reading