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Videos: Rivers and Pipeline, Rehab homes, LAMP Lease, Rezonings, Alcohol, public defender, paving Stafford Wright Road @ LCC 2016-02-09



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 →

Videos: Rehab homes, LAMP Lease, Rezonings, Alcohol, public defender, and paving Stafford Wright Road @ LCC 2016-02-08

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 →

Striping and citing @ LCC 2013-10-08



Catching up with the Regular Session of 8 October 2013,
why is the county going to pay

$150/month for a traffic signal
and

$2200/month for offramp lighting
(both at Exit 22, North Valdosta Road)
when they could install solar panels and batteries once and pay nothing ongoing?

They tabled
Nottinghill
like the Planning Commission did.
They voted to let
Barrington subdivision
sprawl into the county with no conditions, taking staff’s
recommendation instead of one about a fence by the Planning Commission..
They voted to rotate the mostly ceremonial
Vice Chairman position every eight months.
They decided on a price for tentants in the
Leila Ellis Building
and will get around to drawing up a lease agreement.
Commissioners finally did get that list of roads for
striping.
Fiddling changes to percentages
evidence for juvenile justice
and hardware and software for
fining people coming off of I-75.

Here’s

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

videos of the previous morning’s Work Session.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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No contracts for tenants of Leila Ellis Building @ LCC 2013-10-07



Two, four, six, many:
that’s how Lowndes County counts tenants.
It’s great the county is providing space for organizations
that help the needy,
but it’s kind of curious that the county didn’t seem to know
who or how many organizations were using the Leila Ellis building,
and had no lease agreement with them.
Not to mention it took twenty questions from Commissioners to get
staff to admit that lack of contracts,
at Monday morning’s

Lowndes County Commission Work Session.

6.b. Leila Ellis Building-Available Space

Kind of like they have

no contract with the alleged county attorney.

Chad McCleod at one point said
two organizations are currently in the building,
LAMP and Cash Prosperity.
He said the County let LAMP use it, and LAMP let Cash Prosperity use it.

In response to a question from Commissioner DeMarcus Marshall,
County Manager Joe Pritchard said under normal circumstances
any organization would need to come to the Commission to ask for space.
They currently have more applicants than space.

Commissioner Crawford Powell wanted to know if the county was going
to set up guidelines for who could lease.
Pritchard said they could, and they couldn’t lease to a private business.

Commissioner Richard Raines wanted to know if annual leases were the practice
of this board.
Pritchard, not actually answering the question asked,
said “That would be my suggestion.”




JoTaryla Thomas
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Rotating vice chairmanship @ LCC 2013-10-07



Six minutes on who will be
Vice Chairman and when,
a ceremonial position, as far as I know.
13 minutes on a parade of organizations that want to rent space in the
Leila Ellis.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM.

The storm that wasn’t was the subject of
Ashley Tye’s report.
They tabled
Nottinghill
like the Planning Commission did.
They vote tonight on letting
Barrington subdivision
sprawl into the county.
Did Commissioners ever get that list of roads for
striping?
Do we have enough
evidence yet for juvenile justice?
Or will we continue to concentrate on
fining people coming off of I-75?
All that and a

group photo.
At least the Work Session yesterday morning
had some actual discussion in it for a change.

Here’s

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

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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No Nottinghill + 3 other rezonings, 3 contracts, a bid, and vice chairmanship @ LCC 2013-10-07



Will the County Commission take up
Nottinghill
even though the Planning Commission tabled it?
Is
Barrington subdivision
now ready to sprawl into the county?
Did Commissioners ever get that list of roads for
striping?
Do we have enough
evidence yet for juvenile justice?
Or will we continue to concentrate on
fining people coming off of I-75?
Who was
Leila Ellis, anyway?
And who will be
Vice Chairman (hint: Joyce Evans is now)?
All that and a

group photo, continuing the tradition of County Commission
meetings as content-free photo-ops.

Here’s

the agenda.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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