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Five Public Hearings; Ten For Consideration, and Troupville River Camp @ LCC 2019-12-09

A very full agenda for the last Lowndes County Commission meetings of calendar year 2019,
plus an unscheduled item to be raised Tuesday in Citizens Wishing to Be Heard:
the WWALS Troupville River Camp project.

[Dignitaries at Confluence]

Dignitaries at Little River Confluence with Withlacochee River, 2019-06-15,

including Lowndes County Chairman Bill Slaughter

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2019, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2019, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos: Hurricane Irma, Register rezoning, Utility Authority @ LCC 2017-09-26

23 minutes last night to approve 3:2 with many conditions rezoning the

6c. REZ-2017-09 Robert A. Register Estate,
with no shouting afterwards like there was at at the previous evening’s Planning Commission meeting,
yet a lot of grumbling at the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session,
especially since they seem to have forgotten the greenspace condition.


Biggest crowd in a long time, REZ-2017-09 Robert A. Register Estate

I would like to commend the Commission for the amount and depth of discussion in this meeting, especially in the unscheduled

10. Commission Comments and Recognitions and Meeting Adjournment, which was mostly about Clay Griner’s idea of having
a county-wide utility authority including all the cities in the county.
Update 2017-10-20: moved the rest of this utility authority commentary down to the video item below.

Also not on the agenda was

Chairman Slaughter comments on community response to Hurricane Irma
(which were mostly about county staff; well-deserved especially for Ashley Tye) and

Georgia Power Representative recognizes county hurricane response.

While it’s great that Georgia Power came to compliment the county,
does that electric utility rep. reside in or pay property taxes in Lowndes County, and why was he not required to state his name and address?
Ditto the software salesman for Continue reading →

Videos: HEAT on Lake Park @ LCC 2017-09-25



Yesterday morning, most lengthhy at 6 minutes was

6c. REZ-2017-09 Robert A. Register Estate,
followed at 2 minutes by

7 a. Amended Motorized Cart Ordinance.

Below are links to each LAKE video of the Work Session of 25 September 2017.
See also the previous notes with
the agenda.
For the three rezoning cases, see also
the LAKE videos of the Planning Commission meetings of
28 August 2017
and
25 September 2017.

HEAT on the agenda @ LCC 2017-09-25

This morning, 8:30 AM, all of the items from
the previous cancelled meeting
are back on
the agenda, for voting Tuesday 5:30 PM.
Plus four more:

  1. For Consideration:

    1. Addendum to the Withlacoochee Flood Inundation Mapping Project
    2. USGS Funding Agreement for Hwy 122 Stream Gauge
    3. Public Safety Information Technology Purchase
    4. High Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic (HEAT), Document:

      HISTORY, FACTS, AND ISSUES: The certified Lowndes County fatality
      rate: 2006-14, 2007-14, 2008~19, 2009-16, 2010-18, 2011-15,
      2012-11, 2013-7, 2014-14, 2015-19, 2016-20. Any traffic
      fatality in Lowndes County is too many. For numerous years, the
      county has been plagued with an unacceptable fatality rate.
      Consistently for ten years between 2006 and 2016 we suffered with as
      much as nineteen people dying annually in crashes. In April 2012 the
      Sheriff created the SPEED team which joined forces with the Valdosta
      Police HEAT team. Together both agencies diligently fought to reduce
      the fatality rate. In 2013, Lowndes County recorded an unprecedented
      lowest rate of the decade with seven fatalities.


      radar gun

      Photo:

      Valdosta Daily Times

      Soon after, the
      police department lost their HEAT team which contributed to a Continue reading →

Videos: CDBG, Seago retracted, road crossing closures, CDBG, GEMA, and public safety radios @ LCC 2017-01-24



It’s great they’re talking early about the

CDBG grant for Habitat for Humanity and maybe some others,
but they can’t get any state or local grants until the county finishes
feuding with all the cities in the county about tax distribution.
They spent second most time on

the Kinderlou Road CSX RR crossing closure.

Seago rezoning was withdrawn by the applicant.
For Emergency Manager Ashley Tye’s report on tornado damage, see the

videos of the previous morning’s Work Session.
See also

the agenda.

Below are links to each LAKE video of the 2017-01-24 Regular Session,
with a few notes, followed by a LAKE video playlist. Continue reading →

Videos: Seago back again, road crossing closures, CDBG, GEMA, and public safety radios @ LCC 2017-01-23



Lowndes County had no fatailities or major injuries from the recent storm,
but our neighbors to the west and north were not so lucky,

reported Emergency Management Director Ashley Tye.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM on
is no longer on
the agenda,
but not on the

Seago rezoning,
because the applicant withdrew it.
They can talk about
CDBG funding,
because of “all the circumstances”, namely that the county is feuding
with all the cities in the county about tax distribution,
and can’t apply for any state or federal grants until that is resolved.
They

adjourned to executive session to discuss litigation:
does that mean they’re going to sue the cities about tax distribution
all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court again?

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Videos: Turnberry, Seago, and Branham back again, 3 alcohol, and budget @ LCC 2017-01-10



The three rezonings back
the agenda
after being tabled were

approved,

tabled again,
and

denied.
They meet again this morning at 8:30 AM to consider

that tabled rezoning and other matters.

See also Continue reading →

Seago back again, road crossing closures, CDBG, GEMA, and public safety radios @ LCC 2017-01-23



This morning at 8:30 AM
we’ll probably hear a storm report from Emergency Management Director Ashley Tye.
And back on the agenda for the third time,

REZ-2016-21 Seago, 4678 US Hwy 41 S,
still trying to buy a bit of adjoining land to get up to the minimum acreage:
see
the LAKE videos of the previous regular session, which link to all the previous stuff.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2017, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2017, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos: Turnberry, Seago, and Branham back again, 3 alcohol, and budget @ LCC 2017-01-09



They vote tonight at 5:30 PM, and yesterday morning they reviewed
the three rezonings back
the agenda
after being tabled

last month.
County Manager Joe Pritchard

said staff would be sending Commissioners
a list of upcoming board apointments so they could think of candidates.
He didn’t say anything about showing that list to the public.

See also
the LAKE videos of last November’s Planning Commission meeting
for those three rezonings.

Below are links to LAKE videos from each item yesterday morning,
with a few notes,
followed by a video playlist. Continue reading →

Videos: Turnberry, Branham, Peterson Road Lift Station, and Commissioner Comments @ LCC 2016-12-13



24 minutes on
REZ-2016-19 Turnberry at Thompson E-A to R-21 which changed to R-1
at the last minute,
14 minutes on
Bill Branham’s

REZ-2016-23 Copeland Road development,
4 on
REZ-2016-24 Martin< 3 on REZ-2016-25 Cain’s Creekside RV Park,
and
3 on the

Peterson Road Lift Station Rehab,
plus
almost 5 minutes of

Chairman and Commission Comments!
Real discussion and revealing their opinions in public?
What’s gotten into them?
Did they see in advance

the VDT’s Sunlight on the horizon?

Yet the Chairman said nobody could ask the audience to stand up on

REZ-2016-19 Turnberry at Thompson
and while they were waiting for the room to clear before

the next item could start, Continue reading →