Tag Archives: Service Delivery Strategy

Videos: Motorola, Library, SDS, Leadership Lowndes @ LCC 2021-09-28

Two weeks ago, the Lowndes County Commission approved everything unanimously,
except

6.c. Consideration of Service Delivery Strategy Agreement Language,
for which Commissioner Clay Griner voted against.
He didn’t say why.

[Motorola, Library, SDS, Leadership Lowndes]

Motorola, Library, SDS, Leadership Lowndes

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also the

agenda and board packet,
and the
draft minutes of the
previous morning’s Work Session
and of this
Regular Session.

SDS county road agreement, library, Georgia Forestry @ LCC 2021-09-27

At least part of the long-contentious Service Delivery Strategy (SDS)
has been resolved between Lowndes County and the City of Valdosta.
The county has agreed not to fund county roads using property taxes from incorporated taxpayers, that is, taxpayers within city limits of
any of the five cities in the county.

Plus the county is spending a million dollars on communications equipment,
road graders, and an architect for a library addition.

[County roads not to be paid out of city property taxes]

County roads not to be paid out of city property taxes

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Cities and Lowndes County settle service delivery dispute @ LCC 2020-01-08

Update 2020-01-10: Not quite settled. Valdosta still has to agree to it.

These must be golden words indeed, to have been worth the hundreds of thousands of legal fees expended over them:

  1. In regards to water and sewer services:

    The Parties’ current water and sewer service areas are delineated on
    the service area maps attached to the DCA Forms for water and sewer
    services approved herewith.

    All existing intergovernmental agreements of the Parties regarding
    the provision of water and sewer services shall remain in effect.

    Any request for an extraterritorial extension shall be negotiated by
    the requesting Party and the affected Party. Approval of the
    affected Party shall not be unreasonably withheld.

The wording is
“based on trust,” said Commissioner Clay Griner.
“Where’s the document?” responded Commissioner Mark Wisenbaker?
“It’s on your ipad,”
clarified Chair Bill Slaughter.

As the County Clerk proceeded to hand out paper copies, Griner elaborated:

And it’s all based on trust.
It’s us trusting, the County Commission trusting the City Council,
whichever municipality it is, to do the right thing.
The city council has to trust the County Commission to do the right thing.
And the citizens to trust all of us to sit down and do the right thing.

After the county didn’t put anything for the citizens to see on the county website
about this Wednesday morning meeting until Continue reading →

Videos: Service Delivery Strategy (SDS) Meeting: Lowndes County and cities @ SDS 2019-02-04

The longest topic was

water and wastewater, when
elected officials from Lowndes County and its cities, Valdosta,
Lake Park, Dasher, and Hahira (but apparently not Remerton),
gathered on neutral ground to discuss tax revenue allocation,
in a public meeting.
Curiously, the Chairman and the Mayors were not invited.
It’s not clear whether omitting them helped or not.
There was actually mention that

growth close to existing services is better than sprawl.

Below are links to each WWALS video Gretchen took,
with a few notes,
followed by a WWALS video playlist.
See also

the meeting announcement.

Service Delivery Strategy (SDS) Meeting: Lowndes County and cities @ SDS 2019-02-04

Update 2019-03-04: WWALS videos.

At least some elected officials from at least Lowndes County and Valdosta
will be gathering Monday on neutral ground to discuss tax revenue allocation.
Apparently this is a public meeting which anyone can attend.

In its usual laconic manner, this is all the county says

in its online calendar:

SDS Meeting

Date:
February 4, 2019

Time:
5:00 PM

Location:
Valdosta- Lowndes County Parks and Recreation Authority Offices

Address:
1901 North Forrest Street

Valdosta, GA 31601


Street View, Image

Google Street View,
VLPRA, 1901 N. Forrest Street, Valdosta, GA 31601

A usually reliable source says this meeting is for voting Council and Commissioners, and the Mayor and Chairman were not invited.
I don’t know if elected members of Council would only be from Valdosta,
or also from
Remerton, Lake Park, Hahira, and Dasher.
If a quorum of any Council or Commissioners for any of these elected
bodies is present, Georgia law requires it to be an open meeting
which the public may attend.
I can’t imagine the county would have posted it publicly if it wasn’t.

The offices of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Parks and Recreation Authority (VLPRA)
are neutral ground, because Continue reading →