Record low attendance, not record but very short session time,
even with a full agenda;
at least you can see last month’s last Lowndes County Commission Regular Session in these LAKE videos.
They meet again 8:30 AM this morning.
See also the LAKE videos of the May 23rd Work Session. In the May 24th Regular Session, there were still no questions yesterday from Commissioners about that $55,979.00 in two no-bid items.
Commissioner Demarcus Marshall did ask Continue reading
Will they take longer to vote this evening at 5:30 PM than the
8 1/2 minutes for yesterday morning’s Work Session with
a full agenda?
No questions yesterday from Commissioners about that $55,979.00 in two no-bid items, although the County Manager did say “quotes” about the . lift station pump. The County Manager’s Report did say he’d received an annexation request from Hahira for the W. Main St. property and he indicated no grounds for the county to protest.
The only question from a Commissioner was about which one of them might be picked to serve with “Ms. Andrea Schuijer” on the South Regional Joint Development Authority. Answer: maybe Clay Griner. Nobody asked why the county’s web page on that Joint Authority says Andrea Schruijer is already on it. Is this a reappointment? And which slots are vacant? Also, what does this Joint Authority do?
For the Southern Georgia Area Agency on Aging, yes it’s Commissioner Joyce Evans for reappointment.County Engineer Mike Fletcher said the Beaver Lane closing previously came up in 2002 and was denied, but now some of the opponents from then are for it. Tonight is not the public hearing: merely a determination on scheduling a public hearing. Continue reading
This morning’s 8:30 AM $45,600.00 for new grounds for four radio towers: was it in the budget, or is this another emergency no-bid item? Ditto the $10,379.00 for the Kinderlou Lift Station Pump? Each item names only one company quoting.
After
abandoning Beaver Lane, will the county vote to fix it as a private road,
like they did with
Carter Way?
And from whom did the county receive the abandonment request?
Will the
County Manager’s Report
include
the Hahira W. Main St. annexation?
Also on the Lowndes County Commission agenda for discussion Monday morning and vote Tuesday evening, appointing “Ms. Andrea Schuijer and a Commissioner” to the Continue reading
Multiple attorneys (ka-ching!) were needed
to negotiate access for the county to fix private Carter Way,
which the Lowndes County Commission approved unanimously at its 10 May 2016
Regular Session.
This is the same Commission that signed an easement with Sabal Trail
because they didn’t want to spend attorney fees to defend a lawsuit.
The same Sabal Trail that wants to put its three-foot pipe only three feet deep
just downhill from where Carter Way washed out.
County Planner Jason Davenport showed an updated site plan for 6.a. REZ-2016-10 Freedom Heights, 4301 Bemiss Rd, C-H to P-D, but as usual it’s not posted on the county’s website, and you had no way of seeing it before the meeting unless you filed an open records request three days before.
Commissioner Clay Griner remembered flooding, fence, and forgot the third thing a constituent asked him for about 6.b. REZ-2016-11 Creekside West Subdivision, 7551 GA Hwy 122 W. Developer Young Tillman said the changes were because Continue reading
The County Manager asked for Carter Way to be on the agenda for tonight’s
5:30 PM Regular Session.
At yesterday morning’s Work Session
the County Attorney reminded us that
in a previous episode (March 25th Work Session) we learned
that the Loretta B. Moore irrevocable living trust owns half of the access
to the damaged part of the road.
Since then he’s learned that the trustee is
the Loretta Anne Ruth, who lives in Panama City, Florida.
He has contacted her, and has a copy of the trust formation document.
He says Ms. Ruth has signed an agreement with the county, and
he expected Charles Cowart of Cowart and Sons to sign an agreement that same morning.
Below are LAKE videos of yesterday morning’s Work Session, followed by a video playlist. See also the agenda and the LAKE videos of the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting at which the two rezoning cases were discussed. The County Commission votes tonight at 5:30PM. Continue reading
This morning, coyly considering appointing “an elected official” (I’d bet Joyce Evans) to the
South Georgia Community Service Board
and reappointing Mr. Shamb Purohit,
at the Lowndes County Commission, 9 May 2016.
A 7-acre subdivision
REZ-2016-10 Freedom Heights, 4301 Bemiss Rd
and a 173-acre subdivision
west of Hahira on Franks creek,
and a
pump fo the
Hwy. 84 Lift Station,
all also
on
the agenda
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They meet again today.
Here are videos of when they voted last, after apparently already deciding
before the meeting how they would vote, plus
one citizen spoke for several
in the audience who want their road paved (Black Road near Naylor), even though the Chairman said
“we kind of minimize that dialog”.
County Manager Joe Pritchard again
reminded of the
Annual 9/11 Memorial Service to be held 10AM Friday at Historic Courthouse,
Indeed they did not vote on the Roundabout Support. There was a bit of discussion on the water main to Lowndes Middle School to fend off suspected Valdosta annexation. Everything else they breezed through as fast as they could move, second, and unanimously vote, including the church rezoning and the two lift station pumps, on Bevel Creek and Coleman Road.
See also Continue reading
They vote 5:30 PM today, after this morning’s six-minute 8:30 AM
Work Session, in the LAKE videos below.
No vote tonight on the Roundabout Support, Chairman Bill Slaughter made pretty clear. Annual 911 Memorial Service to be held 10AM Friday at Historic Courthouse, reminded County Manager Joe Pritchard.
See also Continue reading
They vote tonight 5:30 PM, after this morning’s 8:30 AM Work Session.
LAKE did what the county staff didn’t:
turned a mound of paper into electronic format and
posted it.
The added material is for the
Shiloh Road Roundabout (county has to maintain lighting and landscaping)
and
the bids for the
Bevel Creek
and
Coleman Road lift stations.
Except there’s no bid from Xylem for replacing the Coleman Road pump.
Did they not bid, or did the Clerk’s office not supply that bid?
See previous post for the agenda and other notes.
Also today: Development Authority 10AM, Chamber members to be Heard 3:30 PM, and Board of Elections 4:30PM, and the County Commission votes 5:30 PM.
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Both LCC meetings Tuesday, plus Development Authority 10AM, Chamber members to be Heard 3:30PM, and Board of Elections 4:30PM, before the Commission votes 5:30 PM.
Update 2015-09-08: LAKE did what the county staff didn’t: turned a mound of paper into electronic format and posted it. The added material is for the Shiloh Road Roundabout (county has to maintain lighting and landscaping) and the bids for the Bevel Creek and Coleman Road lift stations. Except there’s no bid from Xylem for replacing the Coleman Road pump. Did they not bid, or did the Clerk’s office not supply that bid? (Also updated links to other meetings in first line of this post.)
The Lowndes County Commission
will consider a
church rezoning on Mullins Road
that’s so close to a county water line near the Lake Alapaha development
on the Alapaha River that the County staff felt they had to warn the applicant.
Bid awards for the utilities extension to Lowndes Middle School is on the agenda as
South Perimeter Road Utility Extension,
and it appears staff may have outsourced this million-dollar decision to Lovell Engineering.
Utilities also wants
$38,930.50 for Bevel Creek
and
$35,144.20 for Coleman Road
for new Wilo lift station pumps.
Their one-paragraph writeups sound like a good deal with substantial savings,
but they reference multiple quotes which were not included.
Where are those quotes? (They were on paper; see above.)
The county staff also wants wants a roundabout for Shiloh Road! Next they’ll be wanting speed humps on county roads they’ve made unsafe by paving (don’t hold your breath).
Here’s what LAKE got online for the commission packet and the Lowndes County Commission agenda. See also the LAKE videos of the preceding Planning Commission meeting.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor