Tag Archives: Moody AFB

Videos: Calles again, Val North PD Water Sewer, Habitat CDBG, Sewage Valves, Stone Creek Antenna, Sheriff, Alcohol @ LCC 2017-03-13



Maybe more will show up at 5:30PM today for the Regular Session
than the Chairman and only two Commissioners at yesterday’s Work Session
(Joyce Evans and Mark Wisenbaker).

Chairman Bill Slaughter

revealed why he had been missing from the meetings two weeks before:
he had been attending an America’s Defense Community event in in San Antonio, Texas about Moody AFB.
Follow

the link
for more about this.
He complimented Vice-Chair Joyce Evans for running the meeting better than usual
in his absence.
She did beat his former record of five minutes by holding a
three-minute Work Session.

The returning
REZ-2017-02 Calles rezoning now
wants to split half conservation and half R-A.
Apparently the other rezoning,
REZ-2017-03 Val North Dr, Stewart Circle, PD Amendment and Conditions Removal, Water & Sewer, ~9 acres
had been heard before and was now being reconsidered because
a road had been paved.
Remember that when they try to claim roads don’t drive development.

Below are links to each LAKE video of the 13 March 2017 Work Session of the Lowndes County Commission, with a few notes, followed by a video playlist.
See also

the agenda, and the LAKE videos of the 27 February 2017 Greater Planning Commission meeting. Continue reading →

Videos: Annual Planning Meeting Day 2 @ LCC 2017-02-17



We learned why Lowndes County has gotten religion about Internet access and speed:

Moody AFB wants it.

Commissioner Scottie Orenstein made the case for

board packets and agendas in electronic form
instead of the paper packets they currently use.
Maybe they’ll even reveal them to the public before their meetings,
like real MSAs do.
Meanwhile,

Community Engagement
means marketing, as in telling people what the county did,
not listening to the citizens.

They talked about

interconnecting (almost) all of the county’s water systems,
about

routes to get trucks out of downtown Valdosta.
The

water-sewer ordinance is in ten or twelve pieces,
and the county is all for expanding water and sewer throughout the county
as long as it doesn’t cost developers money.

There’s

a regional T-SPLOST meeting in Waycross by SGRC Feb 28 2017,
but Lowndes commissioners and staff said nothing Continue reading →

Videos: Jerry Wallace reitrement, ZBOA, Verizon, abandonment, landfill @ LCC 2016-08-09

The engineering department utlity player, Jerry Wallace, is retiring.

Jerry Wallace

They approved everything they discussed at the previous morning’s Work Session.
See also

the LAKE video of the Zika and mosquito control report
from that Work Session.

Below are links to the LAKE videos plus a few notes
for the Regular Session, August 9th 2016, of
the Lowndes County Commission.
They vote again tonight.

Here’s

a video playlist:



Videos: Jerry Wallace reitrement, ZBOA, Verizon, abandonment, landfill

Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, August 9, 2016.

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Investigative reporting costs money, for open records requests, copying, web hosting, gasoline, and cameras, and with sufficient funds we can pay students to do further research. You can donate to LAKE today!

Videos: Mosquitoes! ZBOA Reappointment, Verizon tower, Strong abandonment, closed landfill @ LCC 2016-08-08



Most controversial and not on the agenda:

Zika and mosquito control in the County Manager’s report.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM.

The county wants to operate and maintain water treatment, wastewater,
and three swimming pools

at Moody AFB.
Are they changing the

speed limit on your road?
And the county is

re-evaluating its job descriptions.

Also on

the
agenda: Continue reading →

ZBOA Reappointment, Verizon tower, Strong abandonment, closed landfill @ LCC 2016-08-08

Are they changing the

speed limit on your road?
The county wants to operate and maintain water treatment, wastewater,

Option 1 Summary Maintain WWTP
and three swimming pools

at Moody AFB.
And the county is

re-evaluating its job descriptions.

Also on

the
agenda
for this morning at 8:30 AM (they vote Tuesday evening at 5:30 PM):
reappointing Mac McCall to ZBOA,
the

Verizon tower from the previous Planning Commission meeting,
Abandonment of Strong Road (CR 250),
and
Execution of the Resolution for the Hazardous Waste Trust Fund
for the closed landfill:
yes the same one they signed an easement for the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline to go through. Continue reading →

Why people don’t speak up: they owe their soul to the company store



Some of our elected officials wonder few people ever speak up around here.
It’s simple: they owe their soul to the company store.
If you don’t go along, you don’t get business.

As

Tennessee Ernie Ford sang in that old Merle Travis song:

You load sixteen tons, what do you get

Another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go

I owe my soul to the company store

Continue reading →

Videos: Surprise boat landing, MAZ, WWTP, tax lighting, civic center, court, insurance, hazardous waste @ LCC 2015-12-08

County Manager Joe Pritchard asked the Lowndes County Commission

to spend the funds the citizens of Lowndes County approved on the SPLOST VII referendum for the Naylor Boat Ramp:


Motion by Commissioner Demarcus Marshall
We are proposing for the purchase of
4.35 acres of property on the Alapaha River designated for the purpose of a boat ramp.
You have the documentation there before you, the warranty deed.
And as you are aware, this also reserves for an easement by the current owner,
a proposed easement, and the appraisal is for
$24,000, as is the purchase price,
and that is the consideration for the proposed easement.

Commissioner Scottie Orenstein asked: Continue reading →

Videos: MAZ, WWTP, tax lighting, civic center, court, insurance, hazardous waste @ LCC 2015-12-07



Here are videos from Monday morning’s Work Session.
They already met again to vote this evening.
See also the
previous Planning Commission agenda
with the packet materials obtained by LAKE for the

Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) condition changes,
the

Moody Activities Zones (MAZ) changes to the ULDC,
and
the

Orchard at Tillman Crossing
and

the LAKE videos of that meeting.

Here’s

the Lowndes County Commission agenda,
which also includes many other items, such as
the obscurely named
Execution of the Resolution for Hazardous Waste Trust Fund,
which is about the closed landfill at Clyattville.

Here’s

a video playlist:



Videos: MAZ, WWTP, tax lighting, civic center, court, insurance, hazardous waste

Work Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 December 2015.

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MAZ, WWTP, tax lighting, civic center, court, insurance, hazardous waste @ LCC 2015-12-07



This morning at 8:30 AM, then for voting Tuesday evening at 5:30 PM,
the

Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) condition changes,
the

Moody Activities Zones (MAZ) changes to the ULDC,
and
the

Orchard at Tillman Crossing
from the
previous Planning Commission agenda
are on this morning’s very long
Lowndes County Commission agenda,
along with many other items.
Among them, the obscurely named
Execution of the Resolution for Hazardous Waste Trust Fund
is about the closed landfill at Clyattville.

See also the LAKE videos of the 30 November 2015 GLPC meeting,
and this morning’s agenda is below.

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LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, December 7, 2015, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, December 8, 2015, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Videos: MAZ, Tillman Crossing, Withlacoochee River WWTP, 7 * Valdosta @ GLPC 2015-11-30

Still invisible: the change to Valdosta’s

Withlacoochee River Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Documents related to all the other items are

inked into the agenda in a previous post.


Moody AFB speaking about proposed Lowndes County MAZ ULDC text amendments

Moody AFB speaking about proposed Lowndes County MAZ ULDC text amendments

Continue reading →