Lowndes County website, 17 February 2016, Commission Meetings Canceled:
Due to a lack of agenda items requiring attention at this time, the Lowndes County Commission Meetings scheduled for Monday, February 22, 2016, at 8:30 am and Tuesday, February 23, 2016, at 5:30 pm, have been canceled.
The VDT 17 February 2016 quoted County Clerk Paige Dukes: Continue reading
Gretchen
thanked them for putting most of the response to her open records request
on CDs, shortly after they had said at their recent planning session that
they wanted to promote interaction with the community.
Still nothing from the county attorney about the Sabal Trail documents, and it’s been well over three days.
I
invited them on behalf of WWALS to a workshop and a movie;
there’s more below.
See also the contested rezoning
5.d. REZ-2016-05 Union Rd Subdivision, E-A to R-A, ~114 acres
for more water issues.
Three citizens spoke explicitly about the pipeline, Jim Parker, Michael Noll, and Dr. Mario Bartoletti, as also noted in Jason Stewart, VDT, 11 February 2016, Sabal protests continue. As I noted in another post,
I go to a lot of county commission meetings in Georgia and Florida. Nowhere but Lowndes County do I see Continue reading
Is Project Max really a glass container company?
What bids did they get for the
Clearing & Grubbing RFP last Friday?
How is that going to work right next to Mud Swamp after heavy rains?
How’s Nature Nate liking being the only business in the Authority’s Miller Business Park? What about the legislative dinner and the Bird Supper? Gretchen will be there tonight with the LAKE video camera.
Here’s the agenda.
Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 5:30 p.m.
Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive Continue reading
Instead of even considering oil drilling off the Atlantic coast,
which is massively opposed by coastal communities,
how about get on with offshore wind turbines?
They’re no harder to build than deep-sea oil rigs, and if a hurricane
blows them over, they don’t leak oil, like BP did into the Gulf, which will never be cleaned up, anymore than the Exxon Valdes disaster in Alaska.
Japan is already doing it, in waters with typhoons just as strong as Atlantic hurricanes.
Wind is clean, just what we need!
Cory Dickstein, SavannahNow, 20 June 2014, Georgia Power studying possible wind turbines, Georgia’s Coast, or Tybee’s shore, Continue reading
Papers forged, fire and oil leak into the Hudson River, fracked methane pipeline planned next door, oh, yet built on a fault line,
and people are surprised
there’s radioactive tritium leaking from Entergy’s Indian Point nuclear plant?
Just like at
Plant Farley on the Chattahoochee River,
Plant Hatch on the Altamaha River and Plant Vogtle on the Savannah River?
How about surprised if there are any nukes that don’t leak tritium?
AP, 6 February 2016, Radioactive Material Found in Groundwater Below Nuke Plant, Continue reading
For an item
also on the Valdosta agenda tonight,
lack of transparency and concern for trees perplexed a prominent local citizen at the Planning Commission,
as you can see in
the LAKE video of the
25 January 2016 GLPC Regular Session.
Glenn Gregory said:
I think y’all might have a site plan, but the public does not have a site plan.
Commissioner Celine Godwin recommended Gregory take his transparency recommendation to the Valdosta City Council. We shall see, at 5:30 PM tonight. Gretchen will be there with the LAKE video camera.
Jason Stewart, VDT, 29 January 2016, Gregory opposes cemetery proposal, Continue reading
For the Valdosta
four public hearings tonight at 5:30 PM,
see first the LAKE videos of the Planning Commission Work Session and Regular Session.
That
cemetery rezoning is quite controversial.
The housing resolution may be related to proposed joint city-county nonprofit for rehab housing in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity.
Also, Valdosta has a new website, apparently as of yesterday; follow this link for more about that and an online survey.
Here’s the agenda. Continue reading
Some of our elected officials wonder few people ever speak up around here.
It’s simple: they owe their soul to the company store.
If you don’t go along, you don’t get business.
As Tennessee Ernie Ford sang in that old Merle Travis song:
Continue readingYou load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM.
At yesterday’s Work Session, there were two unscheduled reports.
Mark Stalvey of the county Housing Authority
said they’re working together with Habitat for Humanity
to form a nonprofit for collecting funds for rehabilitating
housing, and they’re asking for $5,000 each from Valdosta and Lowndes County
to get the nonprofit up and running, in return for which each would get
to appoint some board members; the rest would be elected by the nonprofit board.
Last, Tina Folsom with Lowndes Associated Ministries to People (LAMP) said their executive director left, so they don’t need their space in the Leila Ellis building. They’d like to be let out of their lease and have the funds applied to another county building they’re also renting space in.
See previous post for context and the agenda. Below are links to each LAKE video of the Work Session, followed by a video playlist. Continue reading
Following
the email announcement about the Comprehensive Plan,
I showed up late, expecting no formal presentation and
a typical SGRC tables-and-easels mill-about meeting,
and found the Planning Commission and staff in their usual seats.
Turns out they were there for their
Work Session agenda;
see the
LAKE videos.
As you can see in this video of the first part of the meeting,
there were citizen questions from Valdosta City Council Sandra Tooley and from me. Continue reading