What would you be willing to vote for in SPLOST VII this November?
There will be a presentation on the proposed SPLOST VII projects at the work session.
in Valdosta News posted yesterday Valdosta City Council Holds Work Session and Council Meeting This Week. And as an ad in the VDT Sunday:
Scan by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 July 2013.
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Not big enough, I guess:
I don’t have any interest at all in this board enforcing covenants like that.Commissioner Richard Raines said that at yesterday morning’s Work Session about a covenant the neighbors want a rezoning applicant to sign, yet it was Commissioner Raines who made the motion last fall to let an Exclusive Franchise with Advanced Disposal Services; a covenant the county is now trying to enforce by suing local business Deep South Sanitation. They said nothing about that 100 foot wide pipeline barrelling through the county. They vote tonight, 5:30 PM.
County sound still wasn’t working, going on a month now, back in the videoing pen in the back of the room, so what you hear is what we hear back there, as recorded by the LAKE camera.
Here’s the agenda with links to the videos and a few notes.
Continue readingLOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JULY 8, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
F for all three main Southern Company states:
Georgia,
Alabama,
and
Mississippi.
Florida manages a B for rank #23, presumably because
SO only covers part of the panhandle.
Coincidence?
While
SO’s tiger team studies someday maybe doing something about distributed solar,
the
Georgia Public Service Commission could double solar requirements
on Georgia Power this week.
You can clearly see those three SO states on this map by GigaOm:
Solar Power Rocks.com asked 19 June 2013 in 2013 State Solar Power Rankings,
“How do we recognize and reward legislatures for admirable solar energy policy while holding them accountable to do better?” Continue reading
More solar for Georgia must be a good thing if AFP is organizing astroturf against it. GA PSC decides Thursday. Like another speaker at GA PSC last month, I don’t think even Bubba McDonald’s proposal to double solar requirements on Georgia Power goes nearly far enough, but at least it’s a start, which is more than Georgia Power will do unless nudged by GA PSC.
Ray Henry wrote for AP yesterday,
Critics’ numbers misleading in Georgia solar fight:
Georgia panel will vote soon on power plan,
A political group founded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch wants Georgia’s utility regulators to reject a plan requiring Southern Co. to buy more solar energy, but an Associated Press review finds it has used misleading figures to build its case.
The Georgia chapter of Americans For Prosperity, founded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, wants Georgia’s utility regulators to reject a solar energy plan in Georgia. But an Associated Press review ahead of a vote on the issue finds that it has used misleading figures to build its case.
The Georgia chapter of Americans For Prosperity has said in mass e-mails that Continue reading
LAKE now has a
google+ page.
Please add
the LAKE google+ page
to your circles on g+.
Yes, I previously announced lake was on g+, but google complained we were posting too much on that individual account, so we made a business media page, and now google is complaining don’t post enough! So, send us stuff to post, eh?
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A very light agenda for the Lowndes County Commission, still avoiding topics of public interest, such as that 100 foot wide pipeline barrelling through the county and the county suing a local business to the benefit of a monopoly owned by investors in New York City.
Here’s the agenda.
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JULY 8, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
- Call to Order
- Invocation
- Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag
- Minutes for Approval
- Work Session — June 24, 2013
- Regular Session — June 25, 2013
- Public Hearing — REZ-2013-07 Leatherwood, 2402 or 2406 James Rd. R-1 and R-21 to R-10, LC Water and Sewer, ~0.71 acres
- For Consideration
- Video Arraignment for Magistrate and Juvenile Court Contract
- Enterprise and Backup Storage Solution Scope of Work
- Reports-County Manager
- Citizens Wishing to be Heard Please State Name And Address
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Stormwater Pollution Prevention by Lowndes County NPDES Program, advertisement in today’s VDT:
Scan by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 July 2013.
This information is also on the county’s website. I’m guessing they’re required by NPDES to run an ad from time to time.
While this notice is good as far as it goes, it does nothing about the massive application of pesticides to most croplands hereabouts, some of which runs off into our watersheds.
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Valdosta’s proposed SPLOST list will be presented Tuesday at the city’s Work Session 5:30PM Tuesday 9 July 2013: be there, or be blindsided by what’s on that list.
Scan by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 July 2013.
You know that if you read to the middle of the ad in today’s VDT about the Work Session and Regular Session. That’s in the paper paper; ads in the paper don’t get put online. There’s no agenda online for the Work Session. The agenda for the Regular Session says nothing about SPLOST. There’s nothing on the city’s calendar about SPLOST. There’s no PR about this on the city’s website. There’s nothing about it in any of the city’s TV videos that I can find. Don’t be surprised if nobody shows up….
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Beware that when Southern Company claims it’s doing a lot about energy efficiency it is, but SO is using it’s own definition that is much more restrictive than it could be.
SACE wrote 26 February 2013,
Southern Company: Squirreling the Energy Efficiency Debate
Southern Company has a solid track record of squirreling the definition of energy efficiency to avoid debate. And Southern Company has good reason to avoid the debate: Its utilities consistently advocate what is considered by national experts to be the “most restrictive” approach to designing energy efficiency programs.
Just how restrictive, you ask? Continue reading
Ironically,
Portland is the prime example in both
Amy Liu’s slides and
the book
The Metropolitan Revolution:
How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
by Jennifer Bradley and Bruce Katz.
Here’s Bruce Katz in the Guardian 23 April 2012, Urbanization and Inventing a Clean Economy of Place,
Portland, Oregon, is also internationally renowned for its commitment to sustainable development. The Portland metropolis has an expansive public transit system and an urban growth boundary to control development at the urban periphery. The city boasts a green investment fund to provide grants for residential and commercial building projects.
Now the city is striving, like Copenhagen, to reap the economic rewards of sustainable development through business formation, firm expansion, job growth and private investment. In February, Portland released its first regional export plan to double exports over five years by building on the region’s distinctive economic and physical attributes. A critical pillar of this strategy involves increasing the export orientation of firms in the burgeoning clean technology sector to serve growing markets in Asia, Latin America and elsewhere.
Hm, a clean economy of place; there’s an idea. Here’s one of Portland’s green investments: 12W (Indigo) Project Report, Continue reading