Tag Archives: Moody AFB

Videos: Tower, GDOT Utilities, 2 appointments, various agreements @ LCC Work 2019-05-28

The Work Session was at 4PM on Tuesday.
The longest item was

7d. Corrections Software Solutions Probation Tracking System
.


On the

6 a. TWR-2019-01 US Hwy 84 E. E-A, New 300′ Telecommunications Tower
,
tabled last time,
staff did hear from Moody AFB that the tower was no problem for helicopter
pilots, and the FAA has said no hazard.
But they didn’t say whether Moody had issued its TERPS report.

Berinda Nwakamma did introduce herself very briefly as an applicant for the

5a. Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD)
.
County Manager Joe Pritchard said
“her information is in your agenda,”
but it was not among the
board packet documents the county sent LAKE in response
to an open records request.
What we dug up about her is below.

The Chairman had to speak for the one applicant for the

5b. Appointment – Southern Georgia Area Agency on Aging
,
since Commissioner Joyce Evans declined to say anything.

They had an

Executive Session to discuss pending litigation
.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
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Packet: Lowndes County Commission @ LCC 2019-05-28

Received in response to an open records request by LAKE.
The county supplied it onto the same USB drive with the

documents from the previous County Commission packet
.
The county charged LAKE $6.65 for that USB stick.

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GDOT to Lowndes County, Actual Cost Preliminary Engineering Agreement, Cover Letter

These documents are

on the LAKE website
.

LAKE looks forward to the county putting all these packet documents
on the county’s own website, along with the
agenda and agenda sheets.

Missing from what the county sent: Continue reading

Videos: Outdoor sports more contentious than Tower @ GLPC 2019-05-28

More than 3/4 of an hour on

Knudson & Son Outdoor Activities
,
28 minutes on

one of the Hahira GA overlay variance requests
,
and
22 minutes on the

Valdosta personal care home request
(before the Valdosta City Council tonight),
plus a bunch of shorter items, added up to a two-hour
Planning Commission meeting.


Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also Continue reading

Tower, Water, Sewer, Personal Care Home, Hahira Gateway Corridor Overlay District @ GLPC 2019-05-28

The

tabled tower on US 84E
is back.
The

Lowndes County Commission meets at the same time
.
Since the Planning Commission usually spends more than five minutes
on

Call to Order, Pledge, and reading the boilerplate about
what GLPC does
,
and the County Commission brags about having 5 minute meetings,
the County Commission could make a decision before the Planning Commission
even gets that far in its agenda.

There’s also a
Lowndes County
request for water and sewer on
Bemiss Knights Academy Road.

Valdosta has a
request for conditional use for a
Personal Care Home
.

And two requests for Variances from the
Hahira Gateway Corridor Overlay District, which is presumably the coral-colored area around W. Main St. on both sides of I-75.


Hahira overlay map, VALORGIS


VALORGIS.

Here is

the agenda
.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission


Lowndes County


City of Valdosta


City of Dasher


City of Hahira


City of Lake Park



REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA



Monday, May 28, 2019 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing


Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue

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Tower, GDOT Utilities, 2 appointments, various agreements @ LCC 2019-05-28

Both the Work Session and the Regular Session are Tuesday,
due to Monday being a holiday.
That puts the Regular Session at the same time as the
Planning Commission.

The

proposed 300′ tower
is back on
the agenda.
Its agenda sheet says they’re still waiting for Moody AFB to do a

Terminal Instrument Procedures (TERPS)
analysis,
and for a response from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
So the County Commission could make a decision and adjourn
before the
Planning Commission
even gets that far on its agenda.

Utilities has a
Standard Utility Agreement/Preliminary Engineering Agreement with GDOT that
“that covers the engineering cost of Water and Sewer Distribution
facilities relocations incurred by Lowndes County for improvements of the
interchange on CR 274/Lake Park-Bellville Road. The amount of the contract
is $49,270.00, of which the DOT will bear 100 percent of the cost.”

Two appointments:
somebody unnamed resigned from the
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) and

Berinda Nwakamma wants to be appointed
.
Naturally, the agenda says nothing about who she is,
but
linkedin
says “Program Director at Georgia Home Visiting Program”,
ResearchGate
says “Valdosta State University | VSU ยท department of social work”,
and
Great Start thanks providers,
by Daniel DeMersseman, VDT, 10 June 2017,
says “GSGL [Great Start Georgia Lowndes] supervisor.”
I’m guessing she’s the one in the front left of the picture, not holding a certificate, because she’s the one organized giving them out.





Daniel DeMersseman | The Valdosta Daily Times

Great Start Georgia Lowndes thanks social services providers at its Thank-a-Provider event.

Commissioner Joyce Evans’ term Continue reading

Videos: Two small and one large Lowndes County rezonings @ GLPC 2019-04-29

Most of the time in the relatively short April GLPC meeting was spent on

the communications tower request
, which see.


Below are links to each LAKE video of each item,
with a very few notes, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also the

GLPC agenda

and the
agenda for tomorrow’s
Lowndes County Commission Meeting
.

Solar power in Georgia 2019-03-14

How much solar power is there in Georgia?
Quite a bit, and it’s everywhere, according to Georgia Energy Data map by Southface.


Georgia, Solar


Gold disks indicate individual solar installations; green disks separate into many when zoomed.

There are three 1 megawattt (MW) solar farms in Berrien County
I didn’t know about, and more elsewhere in the Suwannee River Basin,
in almost every county. Continue reading

Videos: All aye, Simpson Road paving, taxes, alcohol, emergency, roads, and law @ LCC Regular 2019-01-22

They approved everything that Tuesday evening that they discussed
that same morning, including
a

special tax assessment rate
.


Special Assessment Rate

No item took as long as two minutes.
There were no special reports and no citizens wishing to be heard.
The whole thing took 16 minutes and 44 seconds.

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Videos: Mystery Simpson Road paving, taxes, alcohol, emergency, roads, and law @ LCC 2019-01-22

They vote 5:30 PM this evening on what they discussed this morning.
Longest at two minutes was

5 g. Abandonment of McLeod Road
,
followed by

5 i. Speed Zone Ordinance
(apparently something was not right at exit 2),
and then at just under a minute:

6 a. Paving on Parker Road and Simpson Road
.
Will Scruggs or Reames get the $2 million-plus contract for paving?
(Hint: Reames is the low bidder.)


Oops, sorry: the unscripted

7. Reports – County Manager

actually came in second at 1 minute and 44 seconds.

Finally, after

9. Adjournment
,
there was a reminder of some mystery swearing in at 5PM.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also Continue reading

Mystery Simpson Road paving, taxes, alcohol, emergency, roads, and law @ LCC 2019-01-22

Due to Monday being Martin Luther King Jr. Day,
both the Work Session and the Regular Session will be on Tuesday, January 22, 2019,
at 8:30 AM and 5:30 PM.
Last time they approved paying for right of way on Simpson Road.
This time they’re approving
Paving on Parker Road and Simpson Road.
Why does Simpson Road get this exception to their decade-long custom of never paying for road right of way?
Will Scruggs or Reames get the $2 million-plus contract for paving?
(Hint: Reames is the low bidder.)


Qpublic-lowndes,



Simpson Road in Lowndes County Tax Assessor Maps
.

Meanwhile, the county apparently borrowed money for paving,
and is tinkering the
Special Assessment Rate for 2019
from 6.5% to 7.5%.

Hm, the county “currently receives $32,770 annually” Continue reading