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Videos: budget, baords, and approvals @ LCC 2014-06-24



None of the appointees spoke, but all were appointed unanimously,
and they unanimously approved

a landfill expansion item without ever seeing a site plan.
Ray Devery and Barry Barr to the

Library Board,
Sheila Wakeley to the

South Georgia Community Service Board,
and
John Sineath to the

Valdosta-Lowndes County Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals,
even though Valdosta’s web page says he’s a city appointee.

They also unanimously approved everything else: a

grant for help getting a grant,
re-evaluation of

all rural agricultural tax assessments,
the annual

mosquito testing contract with VSU,
and the

landfill public hearing clarification item
about the hearing of the

public notice already posted for 17 July 2014.

Here’s
the agenda, with some notes, and links to the videos.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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Videos: 5 board appointments, budget, and 4 For Approval @ LCC 2014-06-23



The county’s

response to the weekend storms (straight-line event, not tornado)
was less confused than its proposed board appointments.
They vote Tuesday evening at 5:30 PM, including on the
budget.

Likely return of Ray Devery to the

Library Board as Chairman,
and reappointment of Barry Barr.
Sheila Wakeley for the

South Georgia Community Service Board,
but even the Commissioners had no bio for her.
John Sineath for

Valdosta-Lowndes County Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals,
even though Valdosta’s web page says he’s a city appointee.
None of the applicants spoke.

A

grant for help getting a grant,
re-evaluation of

all rural agricultural tax assessments,
the annual

mosquito testing contract with VSU,
and the

landfill public hearing clarification item
apparently is about the hearing of the

public notice already posted for 17 July 2014.

Here’s
the agenda, with some notes, and links to the videos.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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5 board appointments, budget, 4 For Approval incl. Landfill @ LCC 2014-06-23



The second and last

Budget Hearing is 5PM Tuesday 24 June 2014, just before the Regular Session.

But first, at
the Monday morning Work and Tuesday evening Regular Sessions,
4 appointments to 3 boards,
and four obscure For Consideration items about a grant,
a schedule,
a contract,
and a landfill public hearing that may or may not be the one of the

public notice already posted for 17 July 2014.

Here’s
the agenda.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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Kelly Lenz resigns as Library Director

Via AP from VDT yesterday,

Library director accepts new position,



The South Georgia Regional Library Board of Trustees announced the
resignation Thursday of Director Kelly Lenz.

Lenz has accepted the position as the director of the Middle Georgia
Regional Library System. Since 2008, she has served in various
positions with the South Georgia Regional Library.



The

Middle Georgia Regional Library System
says it is headquartered at the Macon-Bibb County Public Libraries
and serves Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Macon, Twiggs, & Wilkinson Counties.

The story says she will continue to work with SGRL until an
interim director is named, and she starts her new job in Macon 4 August 2014.

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Library Board this afternoon @ SGLB 2013-05-21

1PM-3PM today, according to

the VDT calendar.


Who’s running it now that

Kay Harris isn’t chair?
And will whoever it is welcome video cameras?

The South Georgia Regional Library Board of Trustees will be meeting
Tuesday, March 19 at 1PM in the Folsom Room of the Valdosta-Lowndes County
Public Library to conduct regular business.The meeting is open to the
public and all are welcome to attend. For more information call 333.0086.

Yes, that says March, but the calendar entry says May 21, today.
And it says “open to the public and all are welcome to attend”.
But are all welcome to record?
Or do all have to

stay inside an 8×4 foot blue rectangle next to a loud air cleaner?
Was that just Kay Harris’ policy and will it change now that she



has resigned as chair and from the board?

If there’s anything about this meeting on

the library’s website, I can’t find it.

-jsq

SPLOST, media, southside library: videos @ SGLB 2012-11-20

Here’s
a video playlist of the 20 November 2012 South Georgia Regional Library Board meeting.


And here’s

George Rhynes’ editorial on what he saw, heard, and was asked at that meeting.
He’d prefer SPLOST being spent first on sidewalks
than on moving the library where people would have
to go farther to get to it.
Also, like many of us, he’s tired of a few people controlling
the purse-strings without input from the rest of us.
He gave an example:

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SPLOST VII @ SGLB 2012-11-20


SPLOST on the ballot again? --Willis Miller @SGLB 2012-11-20
At

Tuesday’s South Georgia Library Board meeting.
a board member (his nameplate said Willis Miller)

wanted to know about SPLOST:

How we know it’s going to come up next November or at another time?

Good question.



Here’s video of the discussion as

it resumed later in the meeting:


SPLOST VII discussion at Monthly Meeting, South Georgia Library Board (SGLB),

Video by George Boston Rhynes for K.V.C.I. and bostongbr on YouTube,

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 20 November 2012.

Kay Harris said there had to be a
minimum of twelve months, so November 2013 would be the next possible time.
She said County Commissioner Richard Raines had expressed full support for the new library,
and she was talking to the other commissioners.
She was asked whether the SPLOST lists would be the same,
and said there might be some changes,
but she hadn’t heard anyone suggest that the Five Points property might be deleted.
That’s curious, because

she quoted Valdosta Mayor Gayle in the VDT 7 November 2012 as saying:

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Library Architect Submissions (part 3)

Here are the submissions from the final four architects


that were considered for the new Five Points Lowndes County Library.
This continues the series with

Library Architect Selection Documents (part 1)
and

Library Architect RFP and “Bible” (part 2)
which presents documents received by LAKE from SGRL in response to

an open records request.

The four architect submissions are linked

on this LAKE web page.
Here they are separately:

If we missed anything please let us know.


Architects: feel free to put your submissions on your own web pages
and

send us a link.

-jsq

Library Architect RFP and “Bible” (part 2)



Here is the Request for Proposals and the

“Bible” of related documents
that served as background for the architect selection process
for the new library at Five Points.
These were received on a CD as part of
the library architect selection documents in

the very organized open records response from the South Georgia Regional Library;
see

the previous post
for related agendas and minutes.

Included in

the RFP


(which was issued by the County, not by the Library Board),
is a list of fourteen numbered submittal instructions
that looks like it might have been the basis for the list of
90 items on the

Library Scoring Worksheet.

The RFP also includes this interesting section:

RESERVATIONS

Lowndes County Board of Commissioners reserves the following rights:

Rejection of any and all submittals

Negotiate changes in the Scope of Work

Negotiate services to be provided

Negotiate fee proposal

Waive any and all technicalities

That last line basically seems like it could be interpreted to mean
they could select whatever appealed to them no matter what the fit
(or not) with what was asked for in the RFP.

The “Bible” includes a cover sheet that says:

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Library Architect Selection Documents (part 1)

Thanks to a

very organized open records response from the South Georgia Regional Library,
we have available agendas and minutes of the SGRL Board and other materials
related to the selection of an architect for the new library at Five Points.
Here is a first batch of those materials,
which sheds a little light on the library architect selection process.


SGRL Minutes 2012-07-17
According to the

SGRL Board minutes of 17 July 2012
as

approved at the SGRL Board meeting of 18 September 2012,

SOUTH GEORGIA REGIONAL LIBRARY

BOARD MINUTES

July 17, 2012

…

V. Architectural (Building and Grounds Committee)

The Firm of Clemons, Rutherford and Associates (CRA)
was approved as the architectural firm for construction
of the Five Points Library.

Moved: Ray Devery Second: Wyn Miller
Ayes: All Nays: None

No further detail is provided in those minutes.


Library Scoring Worksheet
A

Library Scoring Worksheet
for the design and construction of the “Lowndes County Library”
was included in the materials received in response to the open records request
(it’s the extra item in the left edge of the picture in

the previous post).
It lists 30 topics with a potential score of 3 points each for
a total of 90 points,
grouped in categories of
“Responsiveness/Quality of Presentation/Capabilty”,
“Experience, Design Concept and Creativity”,
and
“Personal Overall Impression of the architectural team”.
However, no marked-up worksheets with scores for any architecture firm
were included.

The complete agenda packets for the SGRL board meetings of

18 September 2012
and

17 July 2012
are available

on the LAKE website where
more will be added later.

Next: the RFP.

-jsq