Tag Archives: Teri Lupo

Videos: Development Authority appointment, VOCA grants, Coleman Road paving, LMIG, Water projects, Windstream @ LCC Regular 2025-01-15

Ms. Terri Lupo was reappointed to the 5.a. Valdosta Lowndes
Development Authority.

The Lowndes County Commission at their Regular Session of January 14, 2025, also passed everything else unanimously, with little or no
discussion.


[Collage @ LCC 14 January 2025]

Collage @ LCC 14 January 2025

Commissioner Demarcus Marshall did have a question about
7.k.
GEFA Loan DWLSL2023097 for Lead Service Line Inventory. He also
had a special thanks for Samaritan’s Purse in Commission Comments.

Former Valdosta City Council Alvin Payton, Jr., sat front and
center the entire meeting.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a
few comments by Gretchen Quarterman, followed by a LAKE video
playlist.

See also Continue reading →

Packet: Development Authority appointment, VOCA grants, Coleman Road paving, LMIG, Water projects, Windstream @ LCC 2025-01-13

Update 2025-01-16:
Videos: Development Authority appointment, VOCA grants, Coleman Road paving, LMIG, Water projects, Windstream @ LCC Regular 2025-01-14

Yesterday morning
Commissioner Mark Wisenbarker wanted to know whether the staff had a list of roads needing striping for

7.g. 2025 Georgia DoT Local Maintenance – Improvement Grant (LMIG) Application.
Here’s the project list:


[Road paving list and Broadband map @ LCC Packet 2025-01-13]

Road paving list and Broadband map @ LCC Packet 2025-01-13

The map appears to be where Windstream thinks Lowndes County already had broadband in 2021. Continue reading →

Videos: Development Authority appointment, VOCA grants, Coleman Road paving, LMIG, Water projects, Windstream @ LCC Work Session 2025-10-13

The Lowndes County Commission started the Work Session yesterday morning by

welcoming new Commissioner Michael Smith.
He will vote for the first time at the Regular Session this evening at 5:30 PM.


[Collage @ LCC 13 January 2025]

Collage @ LCC 13 January 2025

Chairman Bill Slaughter praised Terri Lupo, long-time baord member of the

5.a. Valdosta Lowndes Development Authority,
although he noted there were two other applicants for her expired term.

There was some discussion on

7.f. Emergency Repair – Lowndes County Fire Station #5.
Fire Station #5 is the one on Bemiss Road. Apparently after the November rain, there was a sewage back up in the fire station that was 3″ deep and everything from the floor to 2′ up the wall had to be replaced, including furniture. Insurance covered some of the cost.

Commissioner Mark Wisenbarker wanted to know whether the staff had a list of roads needing striping for

7.g. 2025 Georgia DoT Local Maintenance – Improvement Grant (LMIG) Application.
Answer: yes.

They do not yet have a design for the

7.h. Local Bridge Replacement at Jumping Gully Road at Bevel Creek (0019937).

There was Commissioner discussion about the prices for the Continue reading →

Agenda: Development Authority appointment, VOCA grants, Coleman Road paving, LMIG, Water projects, Windstream @ LCC 2025-01-13

It’s a busy first agenda of the year for the Lowndes County Commission,
Work Session Monday morning, voting Regular Session Tuesday evening.


[Agenda: VLDA appointment, Coleman Road paving, LMIG, VOCA grants, Water projects, Windstream @ LCC 2025-01-13]

Agenda: VLDA appointment, Coleman Road paving, LMIG, VOCA grants, Water projects, Windstream @ LCC 2025-01-13

Terri Lupo’s term has expired for the Development Authority.
Robert Green and Brice Evans also want to be appointed.
Usually the Commission reappoints the incumbent.

Cost What
$1,300,000.00 Coleman Road NW Paving and Drainage Improvements, P.1.0016279 Supplemental Agreement No. 1
$635,000.00 GEFA Loan DWLSL2023097 for Lead Service Line Inventory
$160,122.00 Bid for Six Compact SUV Vehicles for Multiple Departments
$79,380.00 Emergency Repair – Lowndes County Fire Station #5
$50,000.00 Lowndes County Local Bridge Replacement at Jumping Gully Road at Bevel Creek (0019937)
$45,761.60 Union Road Lift Station Pump Replacement
$33,232.00 Approval of the Solicitor General’s FY25 VOCA Grant Award
$2,303,495.60 Total

The above table, generated by LAKE from the agenda items, is hard to add up because
of items where the BUDGET IMPACT is actually incoming funds from a new source, such as this one: Continue reading →

Videos: Packets, paving, safety, trash, education, appointment, jail, taxes, water @ LCC 2015-01-13



Teri Lupo

reappointed to VLDA
and almost all the Commissioners asked questions at some point during the
at the Tuesday 5:30 PM 13 January 2015
Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission, at which

two new Commissioners got to vote.
Several citizens spoke, on

getting board packets on the web,
on

getting their road paved,
on

safety on Val Del Road and reopening some of the waste collection sites,
and
the

National Council of Negro Women;
the

Chairman weighed in on a couple of topics.

They meet again Monday morning 26 January 2015 plus a
Special Called Meeting on Waste Management that same morning.

The

Alapaha River Water Trail resolution,
according to the Chairman before the meeting, is waiting until
they’re ready to dedicate the new boat ramp at US 84, which
is waiting until the river water goes down enough to pour concrete.
Maybe some time this spring.

See the agenda
for details on what they were considering, and see
the

videos of the previous morning’s Work Session for background.
Below are links to the LAKE videos of each agenda item, followed
by a video playlist.
See also

the county’s own much more professional one big long video.

Continue reading →

Videos: VLDA appointment, jail, taxes, water @ LCC 2015-01-12



Teri Lupo was available for questions about

being reappointed to VLDA at the Monday 8:30 AM 21 12 January 2015
Work Session of the Lowndes County Commission.
There were no questions, but
Commissioners Demarcus and one other (I think Mark Wisenbaker) had compliments.
The Chairman asked for a motion to appoint, but was reminded this was
a Work Session, so wait until the next evening for that.

The agenda item for the resolution in support of

the Alapaha River Water Trail,
according to the Chairman before the meeting, is waiting until
they’re ready to dedicate the new boat ramp at US 84, which
is waiting until the river water goes down enough to pour concrete.
Maybe some time this spring.

See the agenda
for details on what they were considering.
Below are links to the LAKE videos of each agenda item, followed
by a video playlist.
See also

the county’s own much more professional one big long video.

Continue reading →

Expanded agenda, VLDA appointment, jail, taxes, water @ LCC 2015-01-12

Whose terms are up and who’s being considered for
appointment (Teri Lupo for VLDA again),
who
bid and how much (including



showers and

roofing
for the jail),
and some detail about

two
tax

rates:
these are all big improvements to the agenda!
I do wonder where the agenda item for the Water Trail resolution is.

However, there’s room for improvement.
Even though you get this same extended agenda when you select “packet”
for download, it is not the complete board packet.
For example, each agenda item has a one or more page agenda item
form, and each proposed agreement or contract typically is include
in the paper packets the Commissioners get.
There are no rezoning cases on this agenda, but when there are,
those always contain several maps in the board packet, and often
other information.
There’s an HTML version of the agenda, in addition to PDF:
that’s another big improvement!
The HTML code includes this at the end of each item:


<div class="documents"> </div>

So it looks like the website software the county is using is prepared
to include such documents.
Maybe the county will actually include them soon.

Here’s the agenda
in HTML
and in PDF on the county’s website,
and I’ve also included it inline below. Continue reading →