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Videos: Retreat was good, DBHDD appointment, computers * 4, utilities trucks @ LCC 2018-02-26



Chris Yarborough resigned from the
Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities Board (DBHDD) and

Kelley Saxon has applied;
she spoke about her qualifications.
There are
For Consideration
four computer purchase items
and only one bid for two
1 Ton Dual Wheel Truck with Service Body for the Utilities Department.

Below are links to each LAKE video of yesterday morning’s Work Session, with a few notes,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also the
agenda.
Gretchen is on her way with the LAKE video camera
to the 5:30 PM voting session. Continue reading →

Agenda: DBHDD appointment, computers * 4, utilities trucks @ LCC 2018-02-26

The missing agenda
finally

showed up sometime around when the Work Session started yesterday.



Chris Yarborough resigned from the
Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities Board (DBHDD) and

Kelley Saxon has applied.
There are

four computer purchase items
and one bid for two
1 Ton Dual Wheel Truck with Service Body for the Utilities Department.


LAKE videos of the Work Session will follow shortly,
and Gretchen is on her way with the LAKE video camera
to the 5:30 PM voting Regular Session.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, February 26, 2018, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, February 27, 2018, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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No agenda and no Lowndes County Commission website @ LCC 2018-02-26

They published no agenda for their recent planning session,
and today their website is down before their 8:30 AM Work Session,
so if there’s an agenda on it, nobody can see it.

Gretchen is going there anyway, to see if they are doing anything.


no logo

Five years ago, Industrial Authority Executive Director Andrea Schruijer said:

It’s not that we’re saying we don’t have broadband. We have connectivity; that’s not the issue. We have great partners that help us with that.

The next week, February 25, 2013,
lowndescounty.com was down.
Just like today.

In October 2013, County Chairman Bill Slaughter said,

We have broadband!

One year ago, he said:

We can’t wait on someone else to do something, we are going to have to move forward.

So far this forward motion is hard to see.

-jsq

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More Lowndes County news reported on an individual facebook page: US41N

It’s great that the Lowndes County Comissioner for District 2

300x94 I received word from the County Engineer that..., in US 41N congested; Scruggs Co. no longer working during day, by Scottie Orenstein, 12 August 2015
is reporting about a highway in his district,
but why isn’t the county reporting it on its own facebook page,
website, twitter account, etc.?
While the county doesn’t have facebook account (why not?) it does
have those other things and there’s nothing on them about

this news: Continue reading →

Industrial Authority meeting tonight, about what, who can tell? @ VLCIA 2013-02-19



Same old

agenda tonight at the Industrial Authority (only the dates
change each month).
It’s now buried
three levels down on their website,
but at least
they’ve started archiving old agendas.
Still no minutes, though,
going on two years since

the VDT publicly exposed VLCIA’s expensive price tag for old minutes.

-jsq

Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority

Agenda

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 5:30 p.m.

Industrial Authority Conference Room

2110 N. Patterson Street

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Tourism Board Meeting @ VLCCCTA 2013-01-23



Last week I went to the Rainwater Conference Center to attend the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center & Tourism Authority Board
Meeting.

I had discovered

the time and date of this meeting by asking at the
information booth at the Conference Center one day when I was there
for another event.

I arrived slightly before the 8:00 appointed time and was greated
warmly by

Councilman Tim Carroll
and

Conference Center Director Tim Riddle.


Being the Conference Center, they served a hot breakfast
(other morning boards have fruits and sweets but this was something
that you might get up for).

As 8:00 came there was apparently not a quorum, so calls went out to
missing

members to see if one more could be attacted. At 8:15 it was
clear that there would be no additional members coming so no formal
meeting was held, no votes were taken but an informal review of the
agenda was performed:

Continue reading →

Videos: new website @ VLCIA 2013-01-15



Both
Meghan Duke (PR and Marketing)
and Andrea Schruijer (Executive Director)
invited comments and additional information for the new website.
They were speaking to their board at its meeting last night, but in the Industrial Authority’s

new conversational spirit,
maybe they’ll take suggestions from the rest of the community, as well.
Both Allan Ricketts (Project Manager)
and
J. Stephen Gupton (Attorney)
said the Hahira well site work was going well.
They’ve got a new intern,
and I reminded them about
the need for fast Internet access.
It was a long meeting by County Commission standards,
yet short for Industrial Authority
meeting: about half an hour.

Here’s

the agenda,
with links to the videos, and a few notes.

-jsq

Continue reading →

Industrial Authority: new website, same old agenda tonight @ VLCIA 2013-01-15





The Industrial Authority has a spiffy new website under a new domain,

buildlowndes.com,
and with their new logo, formerly only on their

facebook page.
Their

meeting agenda for tonight, however,
is the same old recycled content-free placeholder.

I sure don’t miss the old hexagon menu, the new menu is up top and
usable before they waste a bunch of space with stock photos.
The
Our Team
page even links to the Linkedin profiles of

Andrea Schruijer
and

Meghan Duke.
While Allan Ricketts does have a Linkedin profile,
it’s not very fleshed out and they don’t link to it.

The
Recent Investments
page is interesting, although it would be more so if

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Valdosta-Lowndes Prospector website @ VLCIA 2012-06-19

Lots of interesting detail; room for improvement in marketing and high level presentation: Valdosta-Lowndes Prospector website.

S. Meghan Duke gave a lengthy presentation of the GIS website Valdosta-Lowndes Prospector, at the 19 June 2012 VLCIA meeting. Chairman Roy Copeland wanted to know (5:21) whether it showed at the top the industrial parks VLCIA has spent so much time and effort developing, maybe by age, size, in alphabetical order? She indicated you could do all those things, but they didn’t necessarily crop up without somebody selecting filters that caused them to crop up. However they are featured properties, and whenever they are updated, updates show up. Project Manager Allan Ricketts said he’d heard good reactions so far. Executive Director Andrea Schruijer said they could feature parks or whatever through facebook and twitter, too. And yes, they have a floodplain overlay, among many other overlays.

Here’s the video:

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Approved minutes … must be posted on the city’s website —Arizona Open Meetings Law

Here’s an idea, found in Arizona’s Open Meetings Law:

7.8.1 Form of and Access to the Minutes

The approved minutes of all city or town council meetings must be


posted on the city’s website within two working days of their
approval, A.R.S. § 38-431.01(E)(2) . In no event should minutes be
withheld from the public pending approval. Minutes must be reduced
to a form that is readily accessible to the public. See A.R.S. §
38-431.01(D). A public body of a city or a town with a population
exceeding 2,500 people shall, within three working days after any
meeting, post on their website a statement showing legal actions
taken by the public body or any recordings made during the meeting.
A.R.S. § 38-431.01(E)(1). Posted statements and recordings shall
remain accessible on the website for at least one year after the
meeting. Id.§ (J). In addition, any recordings and minutes are
public records subject to record retention requirements.

No barn door exception for “if” the municipality has a website.
Cities over 2,500 population also have to post recordings
if they made them.
Expand all that to counties and appointed boards and authorities,
add it to Georgia’s sunshine laws, and then we’ll be solar cooking!

-jsq