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Videos: 2 VLMPO appointments, 2 rezonings, 3 water + credit cards, alcohol @ LCC 2017-02-13



They vote 5:30 PM today. The longest item at yesterday morning’s Work Session was

6b. REZ-2017-02 Calles, Alexandria St, R-10 and CON to E-A, Well and Septic, 0213 acres,
which also got the longest discussion of any county case at the recent
Planning Commission meeting, where GLPC voted to recommend denial.
All parties want the other rezoning,

6a. REZ-2017-01 Cone/Malone, tabled.

The second longest item yesterday morning was

7c. Request for Relief for Tuscany Palms Utility Tax District,
which had a long list of staff involved in it.

They did name the three

three candidates for two VLMPO vacancies,
but none of them were present.
At least one wasn’t even aware he was actually a candidate.

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2 VLMPO appointments, 2 rezonings, 3 water + credit cards, alcohol @ LCC 2017-02-13

On

the agenda for 8:30 AM this morning,

three candidates for two VLMPO vacancies,


and none of the candidates are
incumbents, according to

Valdosta
or
Lowndes County.
Rezonings on
Madison Hwy
and
Alexandria St,
both probably uncontroversial; see the
LAKE videos of the preceding GLPC meeting for those two items.
Yet again
Approval of Elected Officials Using County Issued Purchasing Cards and Credit Cards
and as usual a
Beer License.
Three water items:
Bevel Creek Lift Station Automatic Transfer Switch,
Professional Engineering Services and Environmental Permitting for Jumping Gully Road Bridge Replacement,
Drainage Improvements – Valencia Street.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2017, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Video of 6 minute meeting @ LCC 2012-10-22


Here’s a single video of this morning’s entire Lowndes County Commission
Work Session.
The railroad item was neither of the ones
on which I was speculating.
The animal shelter wants a 24 hour “cooling-off period” with a submitted
animal kept at home before “evaluation” by the shelter.
The Tax Commissioner wants to refund some taxes they apparently accidentally
overcharged.
The Fire Chief has bids for equipment for the new fire truck.
And there’s going to be an animal health fair.
They vote tomorrow evening at 5PM.

Here’s

the video,
followed by

the agenda,
with links to the relevant parts of the video,
and a few notes.


Video of 6 minute meeting

Work Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 October 2012.

Thanks to Dexter Sharper for use of his video camera.

Here’s

the annotated agenda:

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Rairoad, animals, taxes, and a fire truck @ LCC 2012-10-22

Five minutes?
Or will they discuss any of the four items on
the agenda
for Monday morning’s Work Session?

What’s the CSX project?

CSX in Lowndes County
Is it this item from

the T-SPLOST constrained project list?

RC11-000071 Construction of St Augustine Road Overpass

That overpass went

from $12,000,000 to $14,627,933.04 during the T-SPLOST selection process.
On the ground down there on St. Augustine Road
it sure looks like people are preparing for an overpass.
Has the county found some non-T-SPLOST way to fund that railroad overpass?

Since it’s CSX, I’d guess it’s not

this other T-SPLOST project:

RC11-000077 Georgia and Florida Railway (GFRR) — Valdosta to Willacoochee Rehabilitation

The Commission could just post the proposed agreement along with the agenda,
and then we’d all know.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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St. Augustine and Gornto Road in Final T-SPLOST list @ SGRC 2011-09-19

Maybe you’d like to know what are the T-SPLOST projects and how much they cost, so you can decide whether you think the tax is worth it (in addition to all the other considerations). That can take some work. Here’s an example.

Since Gretchen Quarterman asked what $5 million for one intersection would buy, T-SPLOST plans have been filed and a constrained list and then a final list approved by GDOT. Price tags jumped wildly up and down in the constrained list. For example, widening less than 3 miles of Old US 41 North from North Valdosta road to Union Road jumped from $8 million in June 2011 to $12 million in August.

In the final list, this item seems to be the one Gretchen was talking about:

RC11-000100 St Augustine Road at Gornto Road Intersection Improvements

You can find that one line on www.t-splost.com, which seems to be the state’s propaganda site for pushing T-SPLOST.

To find the current dollar amounts, you have to rummage around elsewhere until you find

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