Here are the LAKE videos of the first day of the two day Annual Planning Meeting
of
Lowndes County Commissioners and staff.
Gretchen is back down there today, videoing the rest.
Below are links to each LAKE video of each item,
with a very few notes,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also
previous post
for the agenda (which was not posted publicly)
and a few previous comments.
Lowndes County Commissioners and staff are meeting for two days
to discuss strategy, as they do every year.
They didn’t post an agenda on
lowndescounty.com,
but Gretchen photographed the one they had at Chairman Bill Slaughter’s pond house,
so here it is:
Lowndes County
Georgia
lowndescounty.com
Annual Planning Meeting
6926 Simpson Road ~ Hahira
February 7-8
8:30 a.m.
Agenda
Audit Continue reading
Not on Valdosta’s online calendar yet,
but we got this email notice from City Council Tim Carroll,
indicating Valdosta wastewater is first on his list to discuss.
His number 4 about Internet speed and access is also of interest
throughout the county and beyond.
As are his other items.
All,
I hope each and everyone of you are having a great start to 2019. As
we kick the year off, it is time to begin preparing for the cities
annual Mayor and Council retreat.It will be held March 15 & 16 at the Women’s Building.
When:
All day, Friday-Saturday, March 15-16, 2019
Where:
The Woman’s Building,
1409 N. Patterson St.,
Valdosta, GA 31602
What:
Annual Retreat, Valdosta Mayor and City Council
My current list includes: Continue reading
A brief agenda was handled quickly by Mayor Pro Tem Sandra Tooley
last night at the Valdosta City Council,
even with two Citizens to Be Heard and a bunch of Council Comments.
The longest item, at almost six minutes, was
4.b-i) Bids for vehicles,
because it was eight items rolled into one.
Second longest, at almost four minutes,
was
Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, who came from Florida to speak in
CBTH about
Florida effects of Valdosta Sewage.
Ms. Tooley stopped her precisely at three minutes, but
City Manager Mark Barber took most of a minute thanking her
for coming to speak.
Council Tim Carroll
and
Ms. Tooley
also thanked the Florida speaker in Council Comments.
Third longest was probably me (jsq) inviting
them to paddle and discussing sewage.
City Manager Barber before the meeting said he would be sure
he would get to Council the information I presented about
Valdosta spills over time.
Council Vivian Miller-Cody spoke about a Continue reading
A brief agenda for the Valdosta City Council,
mostly consisting of bids for equipment,
mostly for the Police Department,
plus some for Utilities, Engineering, Fire, and Public Works.
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, January 24, 2019
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL
The same Val Del Road subdivision
on today’s agenda for the third time
was
tabled at the applicant’s request the second time it came up,
a month ago.
The longest item was
6 h/i/j Tyler Technology Repository/Processing/E-filing,
in which Georgia is catching up to Florida.
Below are links to each LAKE video of the 13 November 2018 Regular Session,
with a few comments.
See also
the agenda, the
LAKE videos of the 12 November 2018 Work Session,
and the
LAKE blog of the county’s own videos of its 9 October 2018 Regular Session.
Video.
Planning Technician Molly Stevenson said the applicant asked to table until Continue reading
The same Val Del Road subdivision
on today’s agenda for the third time
was tabled the second time it came up,
a month ago.
Here
it is in the LAKE videos
in the Work Session of November 12, 2018,
when the applicant hadn’t even responded to the Commissioners’ previous request to consider 1.5 acre lots.
By far the longest thing that day, at half an hour,
was
7. Reports – Special Presentation ABM Industries Inc..
Below are links to each LAKE video of the 12 November 2018 Work Session,
with a few comments.
See also Continue reading
Back on
the agenda
for Monday morning
is
the subdivision that does not match any of the criteria
the Lowndes County Commission is supposed to consider,
so will they approve
REZ-2018-17 The Settlement North, 5999 Val Del Road?
The Planning Commission recommended denying that one, but has since
recommended approving this one:
REZ-2018-18 Knights Landing, Phase III, 3982 Bemiss Knights Academy Road.
County staff want
ABM to help reduce energy costs.
How about add some solar panels to the roof of the county palace
and over its parking lot, while you’re at it?
As ABM says:
With the cost of solar installations rapidly declining, and the
number of government and utility incentives increasing, solar has
undergone a radical evolution from a feel good environmental story
to a source for businesses to gain a financial advantage over their
competitors.
See
ABM Energy Vice President Ted O’Shea,
Leveraging Solar to Gain a Competitive Financial Advantage:
Why go Solar at Your Facility: White Paper.
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On the agenda for this morning,
a public hearing for a beer, wine, and liquor license for
Roy E. Taylor Sr.,
with merely “For Consideration” for
for beer and wine licenses for
Daniel K. Smith.
and
Kalpeshkumar B. Patel.
Also continuation of the
Solicitor-General's VOCA Continuation Grant
and
Bid on Two Motor Graders with Rome Sloper for Public Works.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2018, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2018, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
The county held
a ceremony for departing Lowndes County Planner Jason Davenport.
I asked the person sitting in his former seat,
Engineering/Planning Technician Molly Stevenson,
if she was confirmed yet.
She would only say it was confirmed that she was sitting there right then.
They also had a
911 CALEA Re-Accreditation Presentation
and the Chairman recognized
Leadership Lowndes.
Citizens
Bob Harlan
and
Fred E. Blanton Jr
complained about road conditions.
I
thanked Utilities Director Steve Stalvey for sending
information about recent Lowndes County sewage spills (two in July),
and I thanked him advance for sending the NPDES-permit-required followup testing
(not yet received).
On
the REZ-2018-16 Stovall rezoning,
the applicant revealed the reason for the previous restriction
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