County Manager Joe Pritchard said Finance Director Stephanie Black has
received a millage report from the Tax Commissioner.
He and she will prepare something from it for the Lowndes County Commissioners for a later meeting.
The board packet is
on the LAKE website,
in response to a LAKE open records request.
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The resolution to reimpose the SPLOST tax as
SPLOST VIII,
was not included with
the agenda for the tax-paying public to see.
LAKE has filed an open records request for the entire board packet.
Perhaps the county will supply it before they vote tomorrow.
Four bids were received for
LAS and Pump Station Improvements
with the high bid at $3.3 million, and the low at $2.5 million,
but apparently the county negotiated the low bidder,
Doyle Hancock & Sons, down to
$1,520,858.00.
This is “for improvements to the LAS [Land Application Site, aka wastewater spray field], Bevel Creek, Francis Lake, and Coleman Road lift stations.”
The LAS is between Grassy Pond and Pike Pond, a few thousand feet from the GA-FL line, in the Withlacoochee River watershed. Continue reading
Planning? Prisons aren’t for planning!
David Crary wrote for AP today,
In corrections systems nationwide, officials are grappling with
decisions about geriatric units, hospices and medical parole as
elderly inmates – with their high rates of illness and infirmity –
make up an ever increasing share of the prison population.At a time of tight state budgets, it’s a trend posing difficult
dilemmas for policymakers. They must address soaring medical costs
for these older inmates and ponder whether some can be safely
released before their sentences expire.The latest available figures from 2010 show that 8 percent of the
prison population — 124,400 inmates — was 55 or older,
compared to 3
percent in 1995, according to a report being released Friday by
Human Rights Watch. This oldest segment grew at six times the rate
of the overall prison population between 1995 and 2010, the report
says.“Prisons were never designed to be geriatric facilities,” said Jamie
Fellner, a Human Rights Watch special adviser who wrote the report.
“Yet U.S. corrections officials now operate old age homes behind
bars.”
No, they were designed to be profit centers for prison profiteers.
Look at this sob story:
![[Land Application Site]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2019-08-12--lcc-packet/map-las.jpg)
