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Two rezonings, contractors for personal property assessments and water tank cleaning @ LCC 2021-03-08

In addition to the big ticket items of $1.5 million
approved this week by the Lowndes County Commission,
one rezoning will probably actually cost the county nothing,
and the other will most likely eat up more tax dollars down the road.

The inexpensive one is
REZ-2021-02 on Loch Laurel Road,
where Nancy Hobby is returning some land to Estate Agriculture (EA) zoning.
The pricey one is
REZ-2021-01 Knights Landing Subdivision, Phase 5,
where most likely the county will end up paying for road maintenance
or fixing utilities or something else down the road,
plus fire trucks and school buses.

[Two rezonings and $252,000 for contractor, personal property assessment]

Two rezonings and $252,000 for contractor, personal property assessment

Cost What
$1,322,274.00 Tank Maintenance Contract
$252,000.00 Deen’s LLC Contract
$1,574,274.00 Total

The agenda packet item says that the
Deen’s LLC Contract
for personal property appraisal costs $84,000,
but that is per year, and the contract is for three years,
so the real price is $252,000. Continue reading →

Videos: River Gauges, Roads, Alcohol, and Fire @ LCC 2019-10-22

The longest items at last month’s voting Regular Session were 3 minutes on 5.b. 2020 Census Resolution (due to discussion about the new initially online methods),
two minutes on 5.l. Tax Assessment for the Lowndes County School District Bonds (it’s about debt service on ESPLOST),
and 1:44 on 5.k. Industrial Authority Bond Issue and Funding (it’s complicated).


The

5.a. FY2020 USGS Joint Funding Agreement,
which adds county funding for the Skipper Bridge Withlacoochee River USGS Gauge
to the Hahira Little River Gauge the county has been funding since 2009,
breezed through.

Below are Continue reading →

Videos: River Gauges, Roads, Alcohol, and Fire @ LCC 2019-10-21

Surprise bonds for the Development Authority and Lowndes County Schools,
and a turn lane for Wiregrass Tech, plus a new Forestry Ranger about fire,
in these LAKE videos of yesterday morning’s Lowndes County Commission Work Session.

The longest item was five minutes about

funding the Skipper Bridge Withlacoochee River USGS Gauge
in addition to the Folsom Bridge Little River Gauge,
by
EMA Director Ashley Tye.
Valdosta apparently discovered that Skipper Bridge is not in the city limits, so Valdosta will no longer fund that gauge.
But the former funding from the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) plus more from Lowndes County will cover it,
if the Lowndes County Commissioners vote for it at 5:30 PM Tonight,
after their discussion yesterday morning.


Georgia Forestry Ranger Randy Spell talked about the use of a vehicle
in the

Rural Fire Defense Cooperative Lease Agreement And MOU.

Second longest was the extremely vague Continue reading →

Packet: River Gauges, Roads, Alcohol, and Fire @ LCC 2019-10-21

Lowndes County is adding funding for the Skipper Bridge Road Withlacoochee River gauge to its traditional since 2009 funding of the Folsom Bridge GA 122 Little River gauge.
That’s $8,300 and $14,200, respectively, with another $5,900 for the Skipper Bridge Gauge from the Suwannee River Water Management District.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) puts in $900 towards each gauge, or $1800 total.
Valdosta still funds the North Valdosta Road US 41 Withlacoochee River Valdosta gauge, and USGS completely funds the US 84 Quitman Withlacoochee River gauge.

[OPTIONS: 1. Approve the FY 2020 Funding Agreement]

OPTIONS: 1. Approve the FY 2020 Funding Agreement

PDF

Details are in the Board Packet now on the LAKE website, received Friday, October 18, 2019, in response to an open records request.

The rest of the Lowndes County Commission
agenda for Monday and Tuesday is dominated by roads:
a resolution on criteria for taking private roads into the county public road system,
and resolutions taking in roads within several subdivisions: Continue reading →