Today at 2:30 PM,
Fairway is back with a new billboard request.
Also in the county, a
building location variance.
Since
Laverne Gaskins declined to be reappointed,
there’s a new ZBOA member.
John Hogan III, who ran for Valdosta City Council in 2015,
was appointed to ZBOA by that Council 7 May 2015. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Valdosta
Videos: Billboard and building locations @ ZBOA 2015-05-05
Last month,
Unscheduled:
Laverne Gaskins announced she did not want to be reappointed to ZBOA.
Fairway got to put its
billboard
back up at the new overpass, but only at 50 feet high.
Plus in the county, a
building location variance
and a
Family Ties variance
were both approved unanimously.
They meet again today at 2:30PM. Continue reading
Award to Superintendent of Valdosta Mud Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant
Some good news about Valdosta wastewater.
City of Valdosta PR, 29 May 2015, Henderson Wins TopOp Award,
Harold Henderson (left) was honored at the May 21 City Council
meeting by Mud Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent Keith
Martin for recently being selected as the Georgia Association of
Water Professionals (GAWP) TopOp for District 7, which represents
over 300 wastewater plant operators in the southwest and
south-central Georgia region. Henderson, who has worked as an
operator at the Mud Creek Plant for over 12 years, was recognized
for Continue reading
Videos: GEFA, road abandonment, bids, and water @ LCC 2015-05-26
The County Manager said it’s “in the hands of the clerk, if you’d like to look at it” for at least two documents, so not only did
the agenda on the web lack even the one-sheet agenda item writeups,
Commissioners weren’t provided copies of contracts they were being asked to approve.
They vote this same evening, and the
Planning Commission also meets 5:30 PM Tuesday.
The GEFA Loan Modification turns out to be about Continue reading
Shareholders demand Southern Company stop supporting climate change denial 2015-05-27
It’s not just us gnats anymore, Southern Company now has yellowflies
giving it the business about converting from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
That’s smart business, since SO
called out solar power in its own 2014 Annual Report
for increased revenues in both 2013 and 2014.
Tomorrow at Callaway Gardens, stockholders including me will vote.
Dave Williams, Atlanta Business Chronicle, 15 May 2015, Southern shareholders to consider ‘green’ vote, Continue reading
Remember the troops by enlisting solar power to prevent wars
This Memorial Day let’s honor those who have served and those who have fallen
by getting on with removing one of the major causes of war:
fossil fuels.
The U.S. military is putting its money where its mouth is in buying
solar power.
Especially now that
HB 57 is law and enables solar financing,
the rest of us can do the same.
And that will prevent casualties and prevent wars.
WTOC Staff, 15 May 2015, Ft. Stewart breaks ground on renewable energy solar project,
There will be nearly 140,000 solar panels covering about 200 acres. Georgia Power owns and operates the solar panels, and all of the energy generated will go to Georgia Power to be equally distributed to people across the region who use Georgia Power, including MidCoast Regional Airport, Fort Stewart, and any other residential customers.
“Let me put a little bit into perspective; so the Army is the largest utility consumer in the United States, we buy more utility services than anyone else, even WalMart,” Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Richard Kidd said.
Why is the U.S. military doing this? Continue reading
GEFA, road abandonment, bids, and water @ LCC 2015-05-26
We don’t know what the GEFA Loan Modification is about, 
Photo: Michael Rivera, CC attribution share alike because not even the one-page agenda sheets are included this time.
Similarly, we don’t know why they want to abandon Buck Cato Road (CR 880), or what vehicles they want to surplus and sell, or who else bid for the 3/4 Ton Truck for the Extension Service, or for the Tables and Chairs for the Emergency Operations Center, nor why the want to interconnect the North Lowndes and Kinderlou Water Systems.
Here’s the agenda. Because of the Monday Memorial Day holiday, the Work Session is Tuesday morning, the Regular Session is that same evening, and the Planning Commission also meets 5:30 PM Tuesday.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Atlanta TV station exposes ALEC lobbyists in Savannah
Caught on-camera:
ALEC’s off-duty sheriff’s deputies getting TV reporters thrown out of their own hotel
for “taking pictures in the hotel”, after ALEC’s marketing droid denied any
lobbying going on, nevermind the lobbyist and
legislator in a bar spelling out how it works:
ALEC gives “scholarships” to legislators who then meet in closed rooms
with corporate reps (including all the companies involved in the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline) who have equal votes
on draft bills for legislators to get passed as law in many states.
Bills promoting fracking, pipelines, LNG export, and against solar power,
renewable portfolio standards, not to mention for private prisons
and privatized education and against municipal broadband and country-of-origin labelling, plus many other
corporate give-aways subsidized by the taxpayers and the environment.
It’s time for the IRS to revoke ALEC’s 501(c)(3) status.
And for the Georgia legislature to apply the state’s sunshine laws to itself.
Brendan Keefe and Michael King, WXIA-TV, 22 May 2015, Legislators and corporate lobbyists meet in secret at Georgia resort, Continue reading
Doublewide, Commercial, Professional, Residential, Landscape, Stormwater, Suburban, Agriculture, Schools, and Moody @ GLPC 2015-05-26
The busiest Planning Commission agenda I can recall,
is scheduled at exactly the same time as the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session because of the Memorial Day holiday.
The biggest item is
REZ-2015-11 The Orchard at Stone Creek,
yet another subdivision on Old US 41 N,
this one due west of Nelson Hill on Val Del.
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
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Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
AGENDA
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
Videos: Budget Work Session @ LCC Budget 2015-05-18
“Once you put in your transfers in and out, you have a balanced budget,”
said Finance Director Stephanie Black.
Transfers in from where?
How does this magic work?
Even the Commissioners had no agenda to look at, although they did have printed copies of the draft budget, which the public could only see as it scrolled by on the screen at yesterday morning’s Lowndes County Commission Budget Work Session, which was over by 10AM even though it was announced as 8:30AM to 5PM. However, it is good that they had this Work Session in public. County Clerk Paige Dukes told Gretchen afterwards that no draft budget would be available to the public until after two changes requested by the Chairman were incorporated. She did not say when that would be finished or when the draft budget would be available so taxpayers could comment. She did refer people to last year’s budget. The slides that Finance Director Stephanie Black presented do provide an interesting high level overview. Other than Commissioners and very few staff, the only people in the room were VDT reporter Joe Adgie, someone unidentified, and Gretchen taking these LAKE videos so you can see what happened. Continue reading