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Packet: Clyattstone Road rezoning yet again, Decorative lighting, Transportation, Alcohol, Taxes, Law, Cybersecurity, Pandemic @ LCC 2021-01-25

After discussion Monday morning, on Tuesday evening the Lowndes County Commission will approve spending $2 million tax dollars, mostly in $1.6 million on

Lake Park Bellville Road, including relocating water and sewer lines.
There’s another $90,000 on
Hightower Road and Cooper Road NE, Right of Way Purchases.

Cost What
$1,655,975.00 Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) Contract Item Agreement/Memorandum of Understanding Lake Park Bellville Road
$280,193.75 FY 2020 Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant Application
$90,670.31 Approval of Hightower Road and Cooper Road NE, Right of Way Purchases
$29,400.00 Cybersecurity Maturity Tier 1
$12,500.00 Agreement with SGRC to Develop 2021 Lowndes County Comprehensive Plan Update
$20,000.00 FY 2020 Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Grant (to be fully reimbursed)
$2,068,739.06 Total

REZ-2020-20 Ballyntyne 6712 Clyattstone Road
is back yet again, this time probably to be improved.
The agenda sheet says no cost for that rezoning,
but remember last time we added up more than $3 million the county
has already spent on Clyattstone Road and water and sewer infrastructure.

The least expensive item with dollars listed is
FY 2020 Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Grant, because it will be fully reimbursed.

Also inexpensive and probably cost-effective is
Agreement with SGRC to Develop 2021 Lowndes County Comprehensive Plan Update.

[Subdivisions in northwest Lowndes County, GA]

Subdivisions in northwest Lowndes County, GA

Listed at no cost to the county is
Addition to Basic Decorative Street Lighting District – Creekside West, Ph. 6 & 7 and Val Del Villas,
which includes maps of subdivisions in northwest Lowndes County,
allowing you to see the extent of sprawl so far in that direction.

The board packet is on the LAKE website, received Friday in response to a LAKE open records request.


http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2021-01-25–lcc-packet/

We look forward to board packets being on the county’s own website along with

the agenda.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2021, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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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, Bonds, Parks, Land, Water, Waste, 911 @ LCC 2018-06-25



Videos of the Lowndes County Commission Work Session two weeks ago.
See
agenda post for background.
The budget got no comments from Commmissioners.


County Manager Joe Pritchard asked for
addition of two grant agenda items, for

Accountability Court
and

DUI Court.
Proponents of each spoke, and both items were added to the agenda
for the next day’s Regular Session.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
with a few notes,
especially about the

Hotel/Motel Tax
and the still-mysterious

Wisconsin Public Finance Authority Bond Issue,
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Budget, Tax, Bonds, Parks, Land, Water, Waste, 911 @ LCC 2018-06-25

A

busy morning’s agenda
starts with approving

a new annual budget and related

hotel and motel taxes.
Plus a
Contract with Valdosta Continuing Land Bank Authority.

Parks and Rec is negotiating a $3 million loan from Ameris Bank for improvements to Freedom Park and wants

the county to guarantee its 1.25 mil tax base.

Utilities wants

about $20,000 for impellers and wear rings for the pumps in the

Francis Lake Lift Station and about $275,000 to improve the

Land Application Site (LAS), where they spray sewer waste onto a field
which they then rent out for hay production (the county does not have a wastewater treatment plant).
See also WWALS blog post.

The mysterious

out-of-state apartment bonds
actually get an explanation this time:

The Board of Commissioners is requested to adopt the attached
revised Resolution approving the issuance of bonds by a Wisconsin
Public Finance Authority. A portion of the proceeds of the bonds
will be used for a project located on Old Statenville Road. The
project is a 204-unit multi-family affordable housing development
known as Brittany Woods & Park Chase Apartments.


1110 and 1150 Old Statenville Road, Map

1150 Old Statenville Road, Parcel 0159D 014,

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