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Grinding by Valdosta and Nashville, FInances, Audit, Officers Election DSSWA 2021-01-20

Should be interesting.

The Deep South Solid Waste Authority (SSWA) Board packet is on the LAKE website:


http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/dsswa/2021-01-20–dsswa-packet/

If you want to attend, which you can do remotely, please contact
Elizabeth Backe, AICP,
Planning Director,
Southern Georgia Regional Commission,
229-333-5277 ext. 146,
ebacke@sgrc.us.

[Attorney Tommy Coleman]

Photo: John S. Quarterman for LAKE of DSSWA 2020-11-18 meeting

Meeting of the Board of Directors

Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority

January 20, 2021

6:00 PM

Southern Georgia Regional Commission

Valdosta, Georgia

AGENDA

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Deep South Solid Waste Management Authority after privatized landfill

Local counties and cities
sold off one landfill in Lowndes County in the late 1990s,
and a second one in 2005 through the Deep South Solid Waste Management Authority.
Yet in 2007 the


Deep South Municipal Regional Solid Waste Management Authority (WMA),
with the same county and city member governments,
was still active, discussing a regional recycling station.
And it is still active today, including some of the same board members
the entire time since 2005,
such as

Valdosta City Manager Larry Hanson.
Hanson was not present last week

when Valdosta Mayor John Gayle said
Valdosta does not control the landfill, or perhaps he would have
mentioned that Valdosta through its longterm seat on the WMA board
does have some degree of control over the landfill’s operations.

I notice quite a few of the Valdosta City Council’s own minutes

record discussions and votes related to that WMA
including this item from

their Regular meeting of 4 October 2014, which was called to order by Mayor Gayle:


  1. Boards, Commissions, Authorities, and Advisory Committees

    1. Consideration of an appointment to the Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste
      Management Authority. — Appointed Richard Hardy, Public Works Director (7-0 Vote).

There must be some advantage to the City of Valdosta to have two members
(Hanson and Hardy) on the WMA board.
Certainly the average citizen or organization does not have that.

Bill Roberts, VDT, 5 December 2005,

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Sabal Trail newspaper assertions contradicted by Spectra corporate documents and FERC filings –John S. Quarterman to FERC



“I ask you and FERC to stop Sabal
Trail from telling newspapers things that Spectra
Energy’s own corporate documents refute, and to start
paying attention to multiple requests by county commissions
and other affected parties.”

Back in December, Spectra’s Andrea Grover and Brian Fahrenthold were
“not familiar” with Spectra’s lengthy safety rap sheet (see above picture).
Yesterday’s VDT had
Sabal Trail: Eminent domain accusation ‘hard to believe’
by Joe Adgie. Meanwhile, the Moultrie Observer has picked up
the VDT story.
Maybe some newspapers will also publish better information
than what trained pipeline PR people seem not to remember or believe, despite
copious evidence of the actual facts.

Filed with FERC

19 November 2014 accession Number: 20141119-5232. The attachments are in the PDF, and they’re all in the links in the HTML version below. -jsq Continue reading →

SONAT pipeline break in Berrien County, GA on offshoot of same line Sabal Trail proposes to parallel –John S. Quarterman to FERC


300x225 The break in the ditch across from 986 Bradford Road, in Berrien break, by John S. Quarterman, 6 November 2014
“The SONAT pipeline that broke in
Berrien County, Georgia was only a 9- or 10-inch line,
I’m told at 800PSI. Sabal Trail proposes a 36-inch
line, at much higher pressure. I’m no expert, but that
seems like at least twenty times the explosive capacity. I
don’t want that risk for any of my neighbors anywhere.”

Filed with FERC 15 November 2014 (PDF),
posted by FERC

17 November 2014 as Accession Number: 20141117-5040. Continue reading →

South Georgia Farmers Workshop on Solar Power


Bryan Zulko gave me this information about a workshop Thursday
in Nashville, Georgia.
I don’t know if there’s a fee; none is mentioned on the flyer.
Presumably the contact listed can tell you. -jsq



Learn How To:

  • Eliminate Your Electric Bill
  • Create an Additional income stream
  • Use Government Grants and Tax Credits
  • Access Grants Support & Financing

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Valdosta MSA does OK in nationwide ranking



Valdosta #51 of 379!
Closest MSAs as green on

the map are Auburn-Opelika #37,
Atlanta #41, Charleston #11, and
Nashville, TN at #14.

Highest weighted components are for
growth in jobs, wages, and salaries,
so apparently there has been some improvement in those areas.
Here are the rank components from
the PDF report,
plus the corresponding scores from
www.best-cities.org:

Rank Job Growth Wage Growth Short-Term
Job Growth		 High-Tech
GDP
Growth		 High-Tech
GDP
LQ		 Number of
High-Tech
Industries
Change 2012 2013 2007-12 2011-12 2006-11 2010-11 7/2012- 7/2013 2007-12 2011-12 2012 with LQ≥1
2012
50 101 51 128 33 73 133 84 15 4 76 13
Score 97.36 100.68 102.32 97.65 109.89% 129.20 119.63 0.56 6.0

The five job growth components are weighted 1/7th each,
and the four high-tech components are weighted half as much,
1/14th each.
The first four scores appear to be relative to 100 for the entire U.S.
Where exactly
Milliken Institute
got their data is not clear,
especially for

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Solar Music City Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Valdosta has a larger solar installation than Nashville, Tennessee,
but Valdosta’s is hidden away at the Mud Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant
while Nashville’s biggest is on its new

Music City Center.
Which do you think shows the most leadership,
and will attract the most business?



In Lightwave Solar’s May 2013 newsletter,

LightWave Completes Music City Center Solar Project,

LightWave Solar recently completed the installation of a 211
kilo-watt (kW) solar system for the Music City Center, and it is the
largest solar installation in Nashville.

Installed within the guitar shaped structure on the roof, the system
consists of 845 solar panels and four inverters weighing 1,800
pounds each. The system will generate approx. 271,000 kilowatt-hours
per year, enough electricity to power the electric vehicle charging
stations and lighting for the building. Over 25 years, the clean
electricity will offset nearly 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide
emissions, the equivalent of taking 920 cars off the road.

“This project shows great leadership on behalf of the city,” said
Steve Johnson, President of LightWave Solar. “We applaud the mayor’s
vision in making Nashville a more sustainable city with a bright
future.”

And leadership can extend even beyond solar into water and habitat:

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No Private Prisons at CCA headquarters, Nashville, TN, 10 December 1011



Visiting CCA HQ in Nashville, Tennessee the other day, Gretchen said:

Here we are at CCA, Corrections Corporation of America.
They think that they’re patriotic; they have a U.S. flag.
And they have a Corrections Corporation of America flag
and it says Excellence in Corrections.
We don’t think too much of private prisons.




No private prisons.

No CCA.

Here’s

the video.



You can help stop CCA right here at home.

We don’t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.
Spend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education instead.
Follow

this link
to petition the Industrial Authority.

-jsq

Georgia and Florida Railway (GFRR) – Valdosta to Willacoochee Rehabilitation $6.25 million T-SPLOST

Now here’s a T-SPLOST project I like:
upgrading the railroad that runs


from Valdosta to Moody AFB
and on to Ray City and Nashville in Berrien County,
and Willacoochee in Atkinson County.
This proposal is to aid freight, but with this upgrade to the track,
the same track would be even more readily usable for passenger rail.
That same track was used for passenger travel up into the 1950s.
My mother used to catch the train at Barretts (just north of Moody) to go visit her relatives in Pearson (a bit east of Willacoochee).

It’s true the project sheet talks about “potential customers in the region”:

This project will provide for more efficient train operations along
the rail corridor to accommodate the increase rail traffic serving the
existing and potential customers in the region.

However, rail promotes development in existing population
centers and at stations, unlike all along automobile roadways.

This project is also another example of how
the economic area of Moody AFB includes

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Bike sharing in Nashville, Tennessee



WTVF Channel 5 Nashville says that

Nashville’s Bike Sharing Program Kicks Off Friday:

Nashville’s newest program to help residents stay healthy got underway Friday. “Bike Share Nashville” allows anyone, ages 18 and up, to borrow a bike and ride it around town for free. The only catch is you have to bring it back.

And they’re going to expand it next year, from two locations in Nashville
to ten locations throughout Davidson County.

Sure, Nashville is bigger than Valdosta, but bike-sharing in town
is getting easier all the time,
and if Nashville can get grant money to do it, Valdosta could apply, too.

Meanwhile,

at Vanderbilt University:

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