Tag Archives: Special Local Option Sales Tax

Videos: LAS, TIA, Chiller, Ian @ LCC 2022-09-26

Update 2022-10-24:
Videos: LAS, TIA, Facilties, Emergency @ LCC 2022-09-27.

A

report on Hurricane Ian by EMA Director Ashley Tye (could be here by Wednesday) took eight minutes of the eighteen minutes of yesterday morning’s Lowndes County Commission Work Session.

LAS, TIA, Chiller, Ian @ LCC 2022-09-26

Nonetheless, there was a surprising amount of discussion of other items, especially on

5.c. Transportation Investment Act (TIA) Old Clyattville Road Widening
and on the $1,364,736.00

5.d. Comprehensive Facilities Energy Savings Project Amendment,
which everybody agreed should not have needed so much fixing so soon.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a few notes,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also agenda and board packet. Continue reading →

Packet: Sewage LAS expansion testing, Old Clyattville Road widening, Replace county palace chiller @ LCC 2022-09-26

Update 2022-09-27: Videos: LAS, TIA, Chiller, Ian @ LCC 2022-09-26.

This week the Lowndes County Commission will spend $1.4 million, mostly on fixing faulty chillers on their meeting building,
but also $45,460 on the South Lowndes Land Application Site (LAS) which handles the county’s sewage.

Their Work Session is 8:30 AM this morning.
They vote at their Regular Session, 5:30 PM tomorrow evening, September 27, 2022.

Cost	What
$1,364,736.00	Comprehensive Facilities Energy Savings Project Amendment Resolution
$45,460.00	South Lowndes LAS Expansion Assessment and Testing
$1,410,196.00	Total

Plus some amount of previously-authorized funds to widen Old Clyattville Road.

And there’s a beer and wine license.

Collage Lowndes County Commission Packet 2022-09-26

The board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request,
is
on the LAKE website.
Here is the
agenda:

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2022, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Valdosta Chamber Candidate Forum 2019-10-08

Meet the Candidates 2019,
organized by the Valdosta Lowndes Chamber of Commerce:
no questions from the audience, but Gretchen Quarterman videoed for LAKE
the few minutes each candidate for Valdosta Mayor, City Council, or Valdosta Board of Education held forth.
Plus

seven minutes about SPLOST, the Special Local Option Sales Tax,
the only thing voters in the unincorporated parts of Lowndes County get to vote on this election season.

Below are links to each LAKE video Gretchen took,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.

Continue reading →

SPLOST deal?

All over the news today:

Lowndes County Chairman Bill Slaughter on radio 105.9 this morning;

Lowndes County Board of Commissioners and Valdosta City Council
reach a SPLOST deal (VDT).

The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners and the City of Valdosta
reached an agreement Monday on how to divide the seventh cycle of
the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, which both entities will
push to appear for a second time on November ballots after its
defeat in 2012.

Last week, the city requested that State Rep. Amy Carter withdraw
the bill that would have allowed Valdosta to put a MOST or Municipal
Option Sales Tax on the ballot, which would have earned a penny in
sales tax for the city, who would not be required to share that
money with Lowndes County or other cities.

After negotiations over the phone and via email, County Commission
Chairman Bill Slaughter and Mayor John Gayle signed an official
agreement for SPLOST VII Monday afternoon.

How could this be?