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Videos: Valdosta City Council 2022-08-11

Council Sandra Tooley brought up some interesting issues
in the last five minutes of the August 11, 2022, Valdosta City Council meeting.

[Council Sandra Tooley requests Executive Session about personnel and trash]

Council Sandra Tooley requests Executive Session about personnel and trash

The Mayor said they had a request for an Executive Session, and asked for a motion.
Council Tim Carroll wondered why.

Council Sandra Tooley explained,
“Citizens have come to me, and they have this thing they like to say,
that we do not have enough staff, that we’re short on staff, that we’re not getting things done.”

See for yourself in
this excerpt of
Valdosta’s own

facebook live video of the meeting. Continue reading →

Okefenokee resolution, Planning Commission, Airport, Sewer system, Road renaming moratorium @ VCC 2021-11-11

With a packed agenda, the Valdosta City Council
passed eight resolutions,
approved five bids or purchases,
and appointed people to four boards,
yet the longest discussion was after all that.

[Mayor, Howard, Gibbs, WWTP, Manager & Tooley, Suwannee Riverkeeper]

Mayor, Howard, Gibbs, WWTP, Manager & Tooley, Suwannee Riverkeeper

Perhaps the most far-reaching item
was one of the briefest, presented by Mayor Scott James Matheson:

3.f. Resolution in Opposition to a proposed strip mine near the Okefenokee Swamp,
opposing the proposed Twin Pines Minerals (TPM) strip mine or any others within ten miles of the Swamp,
asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reverse its abdication of oversight,
asking GA-EPD for a moratorium on all mining permits until effects are settled of the recent court overruling of 2020 Clean Water Act changes,
as well as to reject the TPM permits, or at least to review those applications as thoroughly as the Army Corps would, and
asking the Georgia legislature to prevent such strip mines near the Swamp or any blackwater rivers in the Suwannee River Basin. Continue reading →

Videos: New Member and blood bank @ GLPC 2018-07-30



The big news is that

Lowndes County Planner Jason Davenport is leaving his position at the county for another opportunity.

GLPC

welcomed its new member, Calvin Graham, Sr., who only said “Thank you,”
to replace Celine Gladwin, who declined to be reappointed.
See
previous post for some background.

The one case,

CU-2018-05 LifeSouth3. Community Blood Centers – 301 Woodrow Wilson,
was presented by City Planner Matt Martin, and after three times
addressing one question, Continue reading →

New Member and blood bank @ GLPC 2018-07-30

Since Celine Gladwin declined to be reappointed,

GLPC has a new member, Calvin Graham, Sr.,
who ran for Valdosta City Council District 2 in 2013, when he said

he was an Army veteran who subsequently worked for the Department of Defense.
Sandra Tooley

won, and is still on the Valdosta City Council.


Calvin Graham Sr. campainging in 2013

That leaves the Planning Commission with no female members and no architect.

There’s only one case on
the agenda for this evening: Continue reading →

Videos: New Valdosta City Council members, resolution to stop state fee diversions @ VCC 2018-01-11



Sworn in:
re-elected

Sandra Tooley (District 2) and
new members

Eric Howard (District 4)
and

Andy Gibbs (District 6),
plus Sandra Tooley again as

new Mayor Pro Tem.
The vote on Mayor Pro Tem

split evenly with the Mayor voting,
between Sandra Tooley and Tim Carroll,
so they ended up having Judge Tunison draw one of the two names out of a box.

Employee of the month was Continue reading →

30 Club Candidate Forum @ 30Club 2013-10-21



The candidates were almost unanimous on

SPLOST VII and

how to prevent JK situations,
but more varied on other questions.

Roy Copeland, billed as “Valdosta attorney”
(but perhaps known better to LAKE readers as VLCIA board member and former Chairman)
was the moderator,
assisted by
Valdosta Fire Chief and



Thirty Club member

J.D. Rice.
They took questions from the audience and recognized their host,

Pastor Floyd Rose of Serenity Church.
You may wonder as I do why city council candidates were answering
about graduation rates.

Matthew Woody wrote for the VDT 21 October 2013,

‘Let the games begin’.
Here’s the list of
qualified candidates.
As usual, nobody showed up from the smaller cities, although at least one Valdosta candidate,
Richard Miller,
spoke up for the smaller cities about SPLOST.


Valdosta City Council District 2

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