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Unannounced special session on budget and litter @ LCC 2019-05-29

The Lowndes County Commission
said there will be a public hearing on their proposed $108 million budget at 5PM, Tuesday, June 11, 2019 (today).
That public hearing is on the county’s online calendar.
They also said the budget included a new trash collection division, and they were
considering using that to replace Keep Lowndes-Valdosta Beautiful (KLVB).


But the meeting at which that Tuesday Budget Public Hearing was announced, which was some time
Wednesday afternoon, May 29, 2019,
is nowhere on
lowndescounty.com
that I can find, not in the calendar, news, or agendas,
and they said nothing about it the previous day in their
Work Session
and

Regular Session, both on that Tuesday.
Also, I received no notification of the Wednesday meeting, even though I’m signed up for
such things.
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Trash lawsuit on WALB



WALB found the Lowndes County government sticking to the letter of its own recently-passed
ordinance and contract, and Deep South Sanitation
concerned about the county trying to put it out of business.

Lydia Jennings wrote for WALB yesterday,

Lowndes Co. files lawsuit against solid waste company,

Lowndes County leaders are going to court to try to stop a
sanitation company from picking up trash for some county residents.

County leaders say Deep South Sanitation is in violation of a new
ordinance that only allows Advanced Disposal to contract with county
residents.

And if the cease-and-desist order is successful, the owner of Deep
South Sanitation worries he’ll go out of business.

Cary Scarborough owns Deep South Sanitation, a family owned and
operated business he started in 2011 when he saw trash pickup
problems in unincorporated Lowndes County.

In two years, he has seen his business grow with 800 Lowndes County
resident contracts. But his days of picking up trash could be coming
to an end.

“It could shut me down,” said Scarborough.

So why did the county give him a business license?
And why is it a good use of taxpayer funds to sue him?
The county’s answer:

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