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Public Facilities Authority, Water tank, dump trucks, VOCA, VAWA, road abandonment @ LCC 2020-10-26

This morning the Lowndes County Commission will discuss
abandoning a driveway, er road, a couple of grants for legal purposes,
relining a drinking water tank for a fancy subdivision, dump trucks for Public Works,
and
reappointing Michael Walker, Crawford Powell, and Scott Purvis to the
Public Facilities Authority,
plus a vacant seat.
They will vote Tuesday evening at 5:30 PM.

What does PFA do?

Created via Resolution 05-1130, the general purpose of the authority
is declared to be that of providing through the acquisition,
construction, installation, renovation, expansion, modification or
rehabilitation, any buildings, structure, facilities, improvements,
furnishings, fixtures, machinery, equipment and services for the
citizens in the county. Members are appointed to three year terms
and meet as needed. For more information, contact the Office of the
County Clerk, 229-671-2400, or email the County Clerk.

[Map: Road to be Abandoned]

Map: Road to be Abandoned

Cost What
$464,196.00 Bid for Four 10-Wheel Dump Trucks for the Public Works Department
$148,000.00 Stone Creek Elevated Tank Coating
$17,326.00
Solicitor-General’s Office 2021 VAWA Competitive Application
$6,000.00
Solicitor-General’s VOCA Continuation Grant
$635,522.00 Total

How the
Abandonment of Artherman Lane
can be considered not to affect the budget is mysterious,
since Public Works will no longer need to spend to maintain that driveway.

On the
Solicitor-General's VOCA Continuation Grant,
VOCA is the
Victims of Crime Act.
The $6,000 cost is health insurance premiums for the two Victim Advocates ($3,000 each).

On the
Solicitor-General's Office 2021 VAWA Competitive Application,
VAWA is the

Violence Against Women Act.
The $17,326 is for Cash Match, about $2,000 lower than last time.
Lowndes County funnels grant money for five counties,
by delegating the District Attorney (DA) to receive and distribute the funds.

Here is
the agenda.
The board packet is

on the LAKE website
due to a LAKE open records request. Continue reading →

Videos: End-of-calendar-year wrapup and Remerton SPLOST Resolution @ LCC 2019-12-09

Remerton can’t use SPLOST VI funds for an office building, since
the old mill building intended for that has been torn down.
That was the longest item in the Lowndes County Commission Work Seesion of December 9, 2019:

7. Reports – County Manager – Remerton SPLOST Resolution.


Then Commissioner Clay Griner

moved to go into Executive Session to discuss personnel.
Chairman Bill Slaughter reminded him the Commission has only one employee.
Griner agreed, and they went into Executive Session.
The one employee is the County Manager.

They breezed through everything else
their last meeting of calendar year 2019.

Below are LAKE videos of each agenda item, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also the Continue reading →

Packet: End-of-calendar-year wrapup @ LCC 2019-12-09

In its last meeting of calendar year 2019, the Lowndes County Commission had many
items to wrap up, as you can see in the board packet,
on the LAKE website.
We don’t know why the county sent this packet in black and white.

LAKE videos of the Work Session and Regular Session will follow.

[WRPDO Site Map]

WRPDO Site Map

LAKE sent an open records request Continue reading →

Videos: MIDS bus system, roof cleaning, truck bypass, new lift station generator @ LCC 2019-11-12

Longest at four and a half minutes on November 12, 2019, was

6.e. Grant Re-Application for the Rural (5311)Transportation Program,
in other words, the MIDS on-demand bus system; follow the link for more notes,
including a question about where have the county funds for this been coming from.




Commissioner Demarcus Marshall about the MIDS bus system.

Let’s hope the Arglass project doesn’t turn out like the James Road project a decade ago,
with massive road paving and road and utilities rerouting, and nothing else,
given that the county just approved

a grant and VLDA match of more than a million dollars
for road repaving for Arglass.

The

truck bypass through downtown Valdosta
had some discussion about when the bypass would happen and why the county is passing an ordinance now.

Um, it’s actually

a generator for emergency management that took two minutes.

6.j. Hart Road Lift Station Pump took half a minute.

And another big item at three minutes: Continue reading →

Videos: Grants and bids, Law, Transportation, Water, and Roof Cleaning @ LCC 2019-11-11

The longest item at yesterday morning’s Work Session was the unscheduled

8. Reports County Manager – Recognition of Fire Safety.
The whole thing took less than nine minutes.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM.


Second longest was the Solicitor General combining the two items on

Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) and Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

Third longest was

7.a.Judicial and Administrative Complex Roof Cleaning

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Grants and bids, Law, Transportation, Water, and Roof Cleaning @ LCC 2019-11-11

In a session of house-cleaning (including literally),
Lowndes County is updating its Revision of the County Occupation Tax Ordinance,

with detailed definitions and tax classifications for every occupation in the county.

The mysterious
Joint Ordinance the
Planning Commission keeps cryptically alluding to
turns out to be about revising the charter of the Planning Commission
to add Remerton, to note Lowndes County now handles GLPC’s budget, and other updates.

The county is applying for a
Georgia Department of Transportation Local Maintenance & Improvement Grant (LMIG) for resurfacing roads, many of them in subdivisions.

[2020 LMIG Project Report]

2020 LMIG Project Report

And a GDOT grant for
the MIDS on-call bus system.

The county is approving
Approval of the Submittal Resolution for the CDBG-EIP Grant Application for Street Paving and Drainage Improvements to Support the Arglass Project,
with
$750,000 to come from CDBG-EIP funds, and the remainder of $325,591 from the Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority.
The county also has
A Resolution to Support Eliminating Through Tractor Trailer Truck Traffic Downtown Valdosta.
And it is fixing a misfiling of the deed for Chitty Park by

transfering it to VLPRA for VLPRA to then transfer back to Lowndes County.

Sewage will be aided by a new
Hart Road Lift Station Pump,
and safety by
Bids for a New Generator for 911.

[Electrical Demolition Plan]

Electrical Demolition Plan

[Electrical New Work Plan]

Electrical New Work Plan

Plus
Bids for Lowndes County Judicial and Administrative Complex Roof Cleaning.

There are two Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) items, for
the

Solicitor General
and for the
District Attorney, and one
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) item for the Solicitor General.

Received 3:48 PM, Friday, November 8, 2019, “The agenda packet for next week’s meetings is attached. The October 21 & 22, 2019, minutes will be available Monday.”
That Lowndes County Commission in response to a LAKE open records request is now
on the LAKE website.

Here is the agenda. Continue reading →

Videos: Val Del subdivision tabled second time @ LCC 2018-11-13

The same Val Del Road subdivision

on today’s agenda for the third time
was

tabled at the applicant’s request the second time it came up,
a month ago.

The longest item was

6 h/i/j Tyler Technology Repository/Processing/E-filing,
in which Georgia is catching up to Florida.

Below are links to each LAKE video of the 13 November 2018 Regular Session,
with a few comments.
See also

the agenda, the
LAKE videos of the 12 November 2018 Work Session,
and the
LAKE blog of the county’s own videos of its 9 October 2018 Regular Session.

Videos: Subdivisions, solar, and alcohol @ LCC 2018-11-12

The same Val Del Road subdivision

on today’s agenda for the third time
was tabled the second time it came up,
a month ago.
Here

it is in the LAKE videos
in the Work Session of November 12, 2018,
when the applicant hadn’t even responded to the Commissioners’ previous request to consider 1.5 acre lots.


By far the longest thing that day, at half an hour,
was

7. Reports – Special Presentation ABM Industries Inc..

Below are links to each LAKE video of the 12 November 2018 Work Session,
with a few comments.
See also Continue reading →

Subdivisions, solar, and alcohol @ LCC 2018-11-12

Back on
the agenda
for Monday morning
is

the subdivision that does not match any of the criteria
the Lowndes County Commission is supposed to consider,
so will they approve

REZ-2018-17 The Settlement North, 5999 Val Del Road?

The Planning Commission recommended denying that one, but has since

recommended approving this one:

REZ-2018-18 Knights Landing, Phase III, 3982 Bemiss Knights Academy Road.

County staff want

ABM to help reduce energy costs.
How about add some solar panels to the roof of the county palace
and over its parking lot, while you’re at it?


On the roof, A Year of Firsts, ABM

As ABM says:

With the cost of solar installations rapidly declining, and the
number of government and utility incentives increasing, solar has
undergone a radical evolution from a feel good environmental story
to a source for businesses to gain a financial advantage over their
competitors.

See
ABM Energy Vice President Ted O’Shea,

Leveraging Solar to Gain a Competitive Financial Advantage:
Why go Solar at Your Facility: White Paper.

The rest of the agenda is Continue reading →

Those Rascals are at it again @ LCC 2018-10-22

On the agenda for this morning,
a public hearing for a beer, wine, and liquor license for
Roy E. Taylor Sr.,
with merely “For Consideration” for
for beer and wine licenses for
Daniel K. Smith.
and
Kalpeshkumar B. Patel.


Also continuation of the
Solicitor-General's VOCA Continuation Grant
and
Bid on Two Motor Graders with Rome Sloper for Public Works.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2018, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2018, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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