Tonight,
election results, a homeland security thermal imaging grant, and bench placement on streets.
And a
church food bank,
already heard by the Planning Commission
30 November 2015.
Here’s
the agenda.
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, January 7, 2016
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL
“If you go through with this, you stand a very good chance
of destroying this [the Floridan Aquifer] the rest of our lifetimes.
And in many lifetimes to come.”
Said Marcellus shale drilling veteran Rocky Stewart
to FERC in Lake City, Florida, October 1st 2015.
Transcript and video:
I am a homeowner in Suwannee County,
by Boys Ranch,
I currently do not live there, I live in Corpus Christi [Texas].
I’m sure some people here regard me as the enemy,
but I am in total opposition to what you all have planned.By profession, I’m what’s known as Continue reading
“What you all have proposed is total insanity….
experts lie…
The companies, they don’t care.
It’s just greed and arrogance,”
said
a Marcellus Shale drilling veteran.
Karst mitigation
won’t work
according to
Sabal Trail’s own FERC filings,
children downwind of compressor, Sabal Trail
quashing evidence
of its
unwanted, unneeded, and unsafe Sinkhole Pipeline,
and
FERC is cigarette companies pushing cancer cigarettes:
on the wrong side of history.
We
aren’t your test subjects
and we can win!
Introduction –John Peconom
Compressor #6 Reroute –Joseph Hanratty, Jeffrey Purdue
Pipeline unnecessary, unsafe, not wanted –Jim Tatum, OSFR
Pipeline risk for rivers & our mother aquifer –Pamela Smith, Pres. OSFR
Karst “mitigation” won’t work in Floridan Aquifer –Chris Mericle, WWALS
Off Withlacoochee R. in FL, now get off Suwannee & Aquifer –Deanna Mericle
Stop new fossil fuel projects; go solar –Laura Dailey, TREPO
Our children & grandchildren deserve clean drinking water –Sue Karcher
No pipeline in springs heartland –Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, OSFR
3,500 Sabal Trail: N FL, S GA fragile karst –Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, OSFR
Karst in Fossil-fuel-funded & written DEIS –Debra Johnson, SpectraBusters
BP’s Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be safe, too –Patricia Tayman
Pipeline union believes pipelines are safe –Daniel Kurzei
Retired pipeline operator says they’re trained –Larry Jordan
Sabal Trail quashing evidence, WWALS v. Sabal Trail & FL-DEP –John S. Quarterman
No unwanted, unneeded, unsafe Sabal Trail pipeline! –Harry Patterson, Green Party
No dangerous, destructive, unwanted, greedy pipeline –Billie Jo Bennett, OSFR
Ludicrous to gamble water against energy –Harry Gentes
Sabal Trail: insanity in karst aquifer –Rocky Stewart, Marcellus Shale Driller
Don’t frack Florida and no pipeline! –Victoria Machado
David Sheilds spelling
Children downwind of compressor: for somebody else’s profit–David Shields
Welcome back to Florida! –Marihelen Wheeler
See through the greed and stop Sabal Trail –Marihelen Wheeler
End of list of speakers –John Peconom
Lost a cow in a sinkhole near springs and Suwannee River –Donna Ellison
Follow Duke Energy corridor, compressor #6 Reroute –Joseph Hanratty
FERC: tobacco companies pushing cigarettes to children –John S. Quarterman
We aren’t your test subjects! –Debra Johnson, SpectraBusters
Karst filters water: oil and gas can’t speak louder –Harry Gentes
Wrapup –John Peconom
Videos from previous FERC meetings:
-jsq
Thanks to Julie Bowland for the picture of my VDT op-ed today. -jsq
The same day the Sabal Trail was quoted in the VDT August 5th as
saying it had done enough subsurface analysis on our fragile karst
limestone topography, a sinkhole opened up next to Shiloh Road.
Sabal Trail already had to move its Albany compressor station
because arrowheads had been found there. The pipeline itself is a
much bigger mistake: let’s stop it before it damages our property
values, forests, rivers, or our people.Spectra Energy’s paid staff are continue to assert that Sabal
Trail’s proposed gouge through our fields, farms, and under our
rivers will proceed according their plan to profit executives and
investors in Houston, Texas.Actually, Continue reading
The proposed MAZ changes were
tabled for 90 days,
they approved everything else, and
welcomed new Utilities Director Steve Stalvey again,
at the 5:30 PM Tuesday 28 July 2015 Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.
Valdosta City Council
Sandra Tooley
didn’t fill out a form and so didn’t get to speak,
but
another citizen asked about the
Naylor Boat Ramp (answer after the meeting: on schedule for this fall)
and about Sabal Trail (answer: none).
See also Continue reading
The proposed MAZ changes have “absolutely nothing to do with”
the 23 acres on Davidson Road that were proposed to be rezoned R-21 back in 2010,
after the county paved Davidson Road, said County Chairman Bill Slaughter at yesterday morning’s Lowndes County Commission Work Session.
County Planner Jason Davenport said he had hoped to get “on the same page with Moody”
before that same evening’s Planning Commission meeting
for the
MAZ ULDC Text Amendments,
but as yet he had nothing to report, and tabling was an option.
I don’t think that word “ultimately” means what he thinks it does.
See more
below about Davidson Road.
Not on the agenda were three, no four, reports:
Like the MAZ changes, also requiring a public hearing Tuesday evening is Continue reading
While
Dougherty County, Albany, and their state and federal reps
plan a joint opposition meeting to the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline invader, there’s nothing about that pipeline
on
Monday’s
8:30 AM
agenda of the Lowndes County Commission.
Three items on
emergency response,
emergency planning,
and
911 operations,
plus one on
liability,
but nothing about the
invading pipeline soft target.
The highly controversial
Moody Activity Zoning Districts (MAZ)
are back, despite massive opposition.
The Planning Commission will hear MAZ again Monday evening,
and because there’s only one day from then until the County Commission
can vote on MAZ Tuesday, the County Planner says: Continue reading
Even the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has finally noticed that
Entergy’s Indian Point nuke,
already famous for
falsified records,
catching fire and leaking oil into the Hudson River,
plus
being on a fault line,
not has Spectra’s Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) fracked methane
pipeline aimed at it.
Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (SAPE),
Special meeting of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on AIM Pipeline,
Nuclear Expert Paul Blanch to Present Critical New Information about
Dangerous Siting of Spectra AIM Pipeline Next to Indian Point
Nuclear Power Plant
Not on the agenda for the 9 June 2015 Regular Session:
settlement agreement for the county’s unnecessary
lawsuit against Deep South Sanitation.
Commissioners had no questions, but I have two:
Also unscheduled:
Recognition of Leadership Lowndes Attendees.
Citizen
Billy Rowland
had some comments about road grading and wondered how Animal Control
could come take his dog from his posted property yet not do anything
when he reported barking dogs.
They approved a Scruggs Co. contract for
Paving on Coppage Road, which includes curb and gutter to
save some of the tree canopy.
They approved a
Bid for Bemiss Road Mowing even though it’s a state highway, plus
a
Bid for a Zero-Turn Mower for the Public Works Department from Nashville Tractor.
They
approved the
Bid for a Fire Pumper for Lowndes County Fire Rescue
and the
LCSO Patrol Car Laptops Lease Purchase and
tabled the
Lowndes Middle School Utility Service from Valdosta utilities.
Via LAKE open records request,
see the
board packet item
for the complicated
Moody Activity Zones
Text Amendments to the Unified Land Development Code
that were tabled for more time at the Tuesday June 9th 2015 Regular Session
of the Lowndes County Commission.
See the LAKE videos of the Planning Commission
meeting that considered the MAZ and the rezonings on this agenda.
The
Shiver
and
Kinsey
rezonings were
were approved unanimously
with no speakers from the public and no Commissioner comments.
The
Orchard at Stone Creek
rezoning discussion about a retirement home lasted for 14 minutes, including updated maps
that were only provided to LAKE on paper, despite a request for
electronic copy.
See also the
agenda
and the
LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session.
Through a LAKE open records request, now
you can see
the complicated
Moody Activity Zones
Text Amendments to the Unified Land Development Code,
which affect everything from animals to retirement homes.
In these LAKE videos you can see the Lowndes County Commission
consider that and other matters at their Work Session of Monday 8 June 2015,
including
Lowndes Middle School Utility Service from the City of Valdosta,
two water well and septic rezonings on
Mt. Zion Rd
and
Touchton Rd,
and
water and sewer for 24 acres of The Orchard at Stone Creek, Tillman Crossing Rd.
Plus
Utility Relocation for the Replacement of Franks Creek Bridge on Morven Road
and
many bids, including for
Paving on Coppage Road;
staff recommends the Scruggs bid.
County Manager Joe Pritchard noted
many of the bids were
related to SPLOST in an effort
“to get those projects up and running as quickly as possible”.
Here’s the
agenda.
See also the LAKE videos of the Planning Commission
meeting that considered these rezonings and the MAZ. Continue reading
