{"id":104,"date":"2013-02-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/retreat-tab.html"},"modified":"2013-02-17T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T15:00:00","slug":"retreat-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/retreat-tab.html","title":{"rendered":"Retreat tab?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/news\/local\/roswell-leaders-taking-heat-over-lake-resort-retre\/nWCyX\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c36ec2557970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c36ec2557970b-pi.jpg\"   width=\"203\"  \/><\/a>\nLocal governments here probably don&#8217;t want to get into the news\nfor the cost of their upcoming retreats, Lowndes County Commission\nthis month, and Valdosta City Council next month,\nlike Roswell alrady did.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPat Fox wrote for the AJC 15 Feb 2013,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/news\/record-shows-4800-tab-for-roswell-retreat\/nWQYn\/\">\nRecord shows $4,800 tab for Roswell retreat<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nRoswell city officials ran up a tab of at least $4,800 for their\nthree-day work retreat this month at the Reynolds Plantation, 106\nmiles away in Greensboro.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFinancial records from five north Fulton cities show these planning\nsessions can run the gamut, from a shoestring event for $700 in\nSandy Springs to more than $10,000 for Johns Creek.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Roswell retreat, held Jan. 31-Feb. 2, included nine people\n\u2014 Mayor Jere Wood, six council members, City Administrator Kay\nLove and a facilitator, who did not charge for his services. All\nspent two nights at the Reynolds facility near Lake Oconee.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nPerhaps stay close to home where hotels aren&#8217;t necessary.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local governments here probably don&#8217;t want to get into the news for the cost of their upcoming retreats, Lowndes County Commission this month, and Valdosta City Council next month, like Roswell alrady did. Pat Fox wrote for the AJC 15 Feb 2013, Record shows $4,800 tab for Roswell retreat, Roswell city officials ran up a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,8,2,88,3,54],"tags":[28,8704,8701,8699,8702,12,7,8734,595,546,594,8700,6,8726],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-georgia","category-government","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-transparency","category-valdosta-city-council","tag-cost","tag-economy","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-resort","tag-retreat","tag-roswell","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}