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 →