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Nature Nates and GEDA @ VLCIA 2016-05-17



On tonight’s Development Authority agenda,
I’m guessing GEDA is

Georgia Economic Development Association.
Nature Nate, you may recall, is the first occupant of Miller Business Park.
I continue to suggest the Development Authority put solar panels on much of that
unused business park land and turn the business parks into profit centers instead
of continual money sinks to service all those bonds that funded them.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 5:30 p.m.

Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive

Monthly Meeting Agenda Continue reading →

Project Max and many others 6PM this evening @ VLCIA 2016-04-19

Is the mysterious Project Max a glass container plant as everyone seems to think?

An agenda suddenly appeared
It’s on

the agenda that suddenly appeared on the Development Authority’s website
this afternoon after Gretchen called to ask where it was.
She will be there with the LAKE video camera.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:30 p.m.

Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive

Monthly Meeting Agenda Continue reading →

Videos: Project Max and more at Development Authority @ VLCIA 2016-02-16



They said almost nothing last month about
Project Max, so we don’t know for sure if for example it is really a glass container company.
They meet again tonight. Actually, that one is cancelled; they meet next April 19th.

At the end, Gretchen

spoke about:


  1. Ham and Eggs Show     2016-02-17
  2. the WWALS Withlacoochee and Little River Workshop at VSU 2016-02-27
  3. the South Georgia Growing Local food conference went well, and led to
    a planning session led by Charlie Barnes about local food planning 2016-03-31.

Dr. Noll of WACE said he was there to “harrass” Continue reading →

Brief agenda at unusual time and day @ VLCIA 2015-09-08



The only named existing industry project is
Smith Drug, which
according to the VDT,
showed up here in 2009.

Tuesday 8 Sep 2015 at 10AM (no reason given for the odd date and time),
the Development Authority is preparing for the Chamber Economic Summit 2015-010-08
and various other events, plus the usual reports.
Here’s the

agenda.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, September 8, 2015 11:00 a.m.

Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive

Monthly Meeting Agenda

Continue reading →

Videos: Transportation and electrical presentations plus officer elections @ VLCIA 2015-07-21



They meet again tonight; here are videos from last month, when

Electrical Test Labs of Georgia was recognized, and claimed dibs on some land.


The Development Authority re-elected its same officers, after extending the term of the Chairman to two years.


SGRC’s Corey Hull presented very briefly about the 2040 Transporation Plan,
and asked for questions.
The Development Authority had none.

Lots of dials showing Continue reading →

World Trade Center Savannah and Gold Honey Bean @ VLCIA 2015-08-18

The Development Authority begins tonight with a
presentation
by



Leigh Ryan, Director of Trade Services and Foreign Trade Zone 104,

World Trade Center Savannah.
According to WTC Savannah,

A foreign trade zone is a federally approved location within the
United States, which is considered outside of US Customs territory
where domestic and foreign merchandise may be placed without formal
customs entry and without payment of duties and taxes. Subzones are
special-purpose facilities for companies unable to operate
effectively at public zone sites. Foreign trade zones are usually
located in or near Customs ports of entry, at industrial parks or
terminal warehouse facilities. Their purpose is to attract and
promote international trade and commerce.

WTC has more on that page, but never actually says where FTZ 104 is.

Mary Carr Mayle, SavannaNow, 31 May 2015,

World Trade Center Savannah expands FTZ 104, Continue reading →

Videos: Development Authority’s BRAT @ VLCIA 2015-06-16



They meet again tonight with
a bylaw amendment scheduled, which is probably for extending officer terms to two years as Roy Copeland proposed.
(He first suggested that at least several years ago when he was re-elected Chairman.)
And their nominating committee nominated

the same officers again.

Lots of

dials showing targets and where they are in reaching them,
which is good, because I keep getting questions about what
they’re doing with all that tax money and are they doing enough
to justify it.

One citizen asked about the

airport
and another (OK, me) handed out
Alapaha River Water Trail brochures and once again suggested

solar panels at the airport
to turn that otherwise-unusable space into profit.

Here’s the

agenda
and below are LAKE videos, followed by a playlist. Continue reading →

Transportation and electrical presentations plus officer elections @ VLCIA 2015-07-21

VLMPO’s Corey Hull presents today at 5:30 PM to the Valdosta Development Authority. Their agenda doesn’t say about what, but one can guess about the proposed studies for public transit and for trucking around Valdosta. Don’t forget to go to the VLMPO Open House on 2040 Transportation Vision tomorrow.

Electrical Test Labs of Georgia, located in Lake Park, will talk about themselves.

And the Authority will elect officers, which I predict will be the same ones they’ve got now since that’s what their nominating committee recommended last month, plus the bylaw amendment I predict will be Roy Copeland’s recommendation to extend officer terms to two years.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 5:30 p.m. Continue reading →

Development Authority’s BRAT @ VLCIA 2015-06-16

Late o

tonight’s agenda but big on their minds, and described and pictured by
Stuart Taylor, VDT, 31 May 2015,


as consisting of:

  • Georgia Department of Economic Development — Michelle Shaw
  • Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce — Myrna Ballard
  • University of Georgia’s Small Business Development Center — Lynn Bennett
  • Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority — Stan Crance
  • Georgia Department of Labor, Valdosta Career Center — Jamon Williams
  • Wiregrass Georgia Technical College — Bill Tillman
  • Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute — Art Ford
  • Georgia Power Company — Scott Purvis

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority’s Business Retention Action
Team, or BRAT, brings together a number of local and state
organizations to offer services, information, solutions and contacts
that a company might need.

“We’ve always had an existing industry program,” said
Meghan Duke,VLDA marketing and community relations. “These
organizations have always worked together, but now we’re formalizing
it.”

Here’s

the agenda:

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, June 16, 2015 5:30 p.m. Continue reading →

Red Robin Hood with a Gold Belt @ VLCIA 2015-05-19

And a report on



dual enrollment at Wiregrass Tech,
on the agenda today.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, May 19, 2015 5:30 p.m.

Development Authority Conference Room

103 Roosevelt Drive

Monthly Meeting Agenda
Continue reading →