Tag Archives: Valdosta

SAVE to dine with VSU Foundation Monday



The VSU Foundation has invited SAVE to dinner Monday.
No agenda is known, but the Foundation gets four attendees
and SAVE gets two.

Foundation attendees are to be:

The two attendees from

Students Against Violating the Environment (S.A.V.E.),
each apparently twice as heavyweight as a Foundation Trustee,
will be: Continue reading →

The trash problem could be worse: north of Naples



They call it the Triangle of Death because of the cancer clusters.
No, not Waycross: near Naples, Italy,

Jim Yardleyjan wrote for NYTimes 29 January 2014,

A Mafia Legacy Taints the Earth in Southern Italy,

“The environment here is poisoned,” said Dr. Alfredo
Mazza, a cardiologist who documented an alarming rise in local
cancer cases in

a 2004 study published in the British medical journal The Lancet.


“It’s impossible to clean it all up. The
area is too vast.”

He added, “We’re living on top of a bomb.”

Maybe it’s not that bad Continue reading →

Variances 2 x 4



Two Lowndes County variances,
and four Valdosta ones.

Here’s

the agenda:

Valdosta -Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

Matt Martin,
Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator 		Carmella Braswell,
Lowndes County Zoning Administrator
300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia 327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 259-3563 (229) 671-2430

AGENDA

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

2:30 p.m.

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Weather report by Ashley Tye, Emergency Management Director @ LCC 2014-01-28



Lowndes County’s

Emergency Management Director
reported yesterday on projected icy roads today.

Here’s

the video:



Weather report by Ashley Tye, Emergency Management Director

Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 January 2014.

All the local schools are closed, public and private, K-12 and college,
so the best thing to to is to stay home.

Commissioner John Page said a constituent had just asked him
if Lowndes County owned any snow plows.
Answer: no, but the county can get access to them if needed.

County Clerk Paige Dukes enumerated ways she had tried to get the word out,
including

this information on the county’s front web page,
which will probably disappear without trace in a day or so,
so I’ve copied it below. Continue reading →

Digital Economy Workshop Cancelled Tomorrow

Received just now by email from Julia Shewchuk.



Due to potentially unsafe travelling conditions through tomorrow
morning and several people letting us know they would not be attending,
we are cancelling the Digital Economy workshop in Valdosta tomorrow.
Please feel free to come to the February 6th
workshop and we will add
an hour before or after to discuss ISP specific issues and review the
business survey.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Julia

See

previous post for details about the other workshop dates.

-jsq

Dollar General and a historical overlay @ GLPC 2014-01-27



Yet another

Dollar General,
two

small rezonings in Lowndes County,
a

business office
in Valdosta,
and a proposed

Historical Overlay District.

Here’s the agenda, supplied by an informant.
It came as PDF of an image, so I OCRed it to get this text.
But why should any citizen have to do that?
Oh, right, “the expense”.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

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

Monday, January 27, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Digital Economy Plan Workshop

Update 3:30 PM 29 January 2014:

Thursday 30 January 2014 session cancelled due to weather; come to the 6 February 2014 meeting instead.

Received by email and there’s a

facebook event. -jsq

Good Morning and Happy New Year!



We would like to invite you to one or more workshops to help us
develop a Digital Economy Plan for our Region.

The Southern Georgia Regional Commission, in partnership with the
Georgia Technology Authority, is coordinating and developing a
Digital Economy Plan for the 18 counties in the South Georgia
Region to identify the unique characteristics of the digital
economy in our region, its strengths, weaknesses, its needs and its
opportunities.

The focus and intent of the plan is to Continue reading →

the expense of agendas @ GLPC 2014-01-27



The Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meets tonight at 5:30PM,
but there’s no agenda posted anywhere online.
At
the same meeting at which he asserted

“we have broadband”,
and

“transparency is not a problem”
County Chairman Bill Slaughter said the county doesn’t publish
agendas or minutes for the Planning Commission because of
“the expense”.

“the expense”

v.

“When officials act like

they have something to hide,

they often do”

I suppose I don’t know much about this Internet stuff,
so maybe somebody can explain it to me:
what’s the big expense in publishing the GLPC agendas and minutes
the same way the county publishes its own

agendas and

minutes?
Yet if you search for the Planning Commission on the county’s website,
all you find is its name in a list of

Boards, Agencies & Commissions;
tonight’s meeting is not even listed in

the county’s online calendar.

For that matter, what would be the big expense in posting
the entire agenda packets, like for example Continue reading →

Two appointments, a Presidio, a library, and a highway @ LCC 2014-01-27

What’s a

“Presidio Change Order”?
(Not like those
change orders in DeKalb County, let’s hope.)
A

GEFA loan application
for what?
What’s going on with the
Moody AFB Library?

Apparently

Nottinghill is going to have a community water system,
since it’s on the agenda for a trust deed,
but you wouldn’t know that unless you’d followed
other trust deeds, such as the one

for Raisin’ Cane approved in December.



At least we know they’ve been itching to turn Cat Creek
Road into a highway at least since

they put widening it on their T-SPLOST list in 2012,
and on this agenda is

replacing the old bridge on Cat Creek Road.

The
agenda
actually says the final item is only in the Work Session.
Maybe this will avoid the kind of confusion that happened

with the Sabal Trail pipeline presentation in November and December.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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America’s Dangerous Pipelines –Center for Biological Diversity


7,978 fatalities by in 2013 – 4,199 by 2001 = 3,779,
which is more than the 2,977 killed by the hijackers on 9/11.
If the fossil fuel industry was a foreign country, we would have invaded it by now.
Why should we let that industry invade our lands for their profit?
Let’s not permit

a fossil fuel disaster here.

Center for Biological Diversity
wrote on YouTube 31 July 2013

America’s Dangerous Pipelines: Continue reading →