Update: the agenda for the 3 Jan 2011 special session is posted on the county webpages.
Lowndes County staff have an update about the recent vote for adding two new superdistricts:

COMMISSION EXPANSION

On Monday, January 3, 2011, the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners held a special called meeting during which the adoption of a resolution expressing the county’s desire to move forward with the expansion of the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners, as previously directed by the voters of Lowndes County, was unanimously approved.

This is on the county’s front page, with links to

• the resolution that was approved,
• a county-wide map of the new districts, which seems to answer my question about which map was correct: the one in the VDT, or the one then on the county’s own website. Looks like the VDT map was correct, and the one now on the county’s website matches it.
• a map of the parts of the superdistricts within Valdosta.

I suppose this explains why I didn’t hear back about this same information in response to my open records request: they put it on the county web pages. That’s fine with me.

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