{"id":10543,"date":"2014-09-16T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T20:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=10543"},"modified":"2014-09-16T16:39:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T20:39:47","slug":"update-on-economic-development-meeting-vlcia-2014-09-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/update-on-economic-development-meeting-vlcia-2014-09-16.html","title":{"rendered":"Update on Economic Development meeting @ VLCIA 2014-09-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BuildLowndes\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:100px\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net\/hprofile-ak-xfa1\/v\/t1.0-1\/c177.48.606.606\/s200x200\/291929_10151640062367069_1710512130_n.jpg?oh=1b74b02d19fb728679ab68f585830a2e&#038;oe=549349F9&#038;__gda__=1418792258_979b49bae10f16dccd3581b827b88b1d\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe big item tonight is the update on their local economic development meeting<br \/>\nlast month, plus election of officers and the usual project and<br \/>\nmarketing updates.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/buildlowndes.com\/images\/uploads\/Agenda09-16-2014.pdf\"><br \/>\nagenda<\/a>, with a couple of formatting typos fixed (not sure I got it right, either).<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: center\"><p>\nValdosta-Lowndes Development Authority<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTuesday, September 16, 2014 5:30 p.m.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDevelopment Authority Conference Room<br \/>\n<br \/>\n103 Roosevelt Drive<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMonthly Meeting Agenda\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\"><p>\n<H4><br \/>\nGeneral Business<br \/>\n<\/H4><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nCall to Order <\/p>\n<li>\nInvocation <\/p>\n<li>\nWelcome Guests\n<\/ul>\n<p><H4><br \/>\nElection of VLCDA 2014-2015 Officers<br \/>\n<\/H4><br \/>\n<H4><br \/>\nMinutes<br \/>\n<\/H4><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nRegular Meeting, August 19, 2014\n<\/ul>\n<p><H4><br \/>\nFinancial<br \/>\n<\/H4><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nReview Compiled Balance Sheet and Income Statements for August 2014\n<\/ul>\n<p><H4><br \/>\nMarketing and Community Relations Update-Meghan Duke<br \/>\n<\/H4><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nCommunity Outreach <\/p>\n<li>\nPress Release &#8211; New Development Authority Chairman <\/p>\n<li>\nArt of Site Selection Presentation Survey <\/p>\n<li>\nExisting Industry Appreciation Campaign with Valdosta Daily Times <\/p>\n<li>\nMarketing Collateral &#8211; Business Park Brochures <\/p>\n<li>\nMarketing Review\n<\/ul>\n<p><H4><br \/>\nProject Report-Allan Ricketts<br \/>\n<\/H4><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nProject Color <\/p>\n<li>\nProject Maroon\n<\/ul>\n<p><H4><br \/>\nExisting Industry-Allan Ricketts<br \/>\n<\/H4><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nExisting Industry Visits <\/p>\n<li>\nExisting Industry\/Expansion Projects <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fussell Tire &#038; Service\n<li>Express-Scripts\n<li>Project Cold\n<li>Project Loaf-Busby Hahira, LLC \/ Bimbo Bakeries USA\n<li>Project White Cadillac\n<li>Project Patient-American Home Patient\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li>\nCommunity Business and Industry Partnership <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global Agribusiness Opportuity Symposium (October 8, 2014)\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><H4><br \/>\nExecutive Director&#8217;s Report- Andrea Schruijer<br \/>\n<\/H4><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Update on Community Meeting Regarding Economic Development-August 20, 2014\n<\/ul>\n<p><H4><br \/>\nAttorney Report<br \/>\n<\/H4><br \/>\n<H4><br \/>\nCitizens to Be Heard<br \/>\n<\/H4><br \/>\n<H4><br \/>\nAdjourn General Meeting Into Executive Session<br \/>\n<\/H4><br \/>\n<H4><br \/>\nAdjourn Executive Session into General Meeting<br \/>\n<\/H4><br \/>\n<H4><br \/>\nAdjourn General Meeting<br \/>\n<\/H4><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\"><strong><br \/>\nMission of the Valdosta Lowndes Development Authority<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&ldquo;Create an environment to attract new industry and promote the growth of existing industry to drive job<br \/>\ncreation and capital investment.&rdquo;<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big item tonight is the update on their local economic development meeting last month, plus election of officers and the usual project and marketing updates. Here&#8217;s the agenda, with a couple of formatting typos fixed (not sure I got it right, either). Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority Tuesday, September 16, 2014 5:30 p.m. Development Authority Conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2,602,41,178],"tags":[7908,193,7913,187,190,7912,7911,184,192,8704,188,7914,7909,8701,8699,8791,8718,189,186,548,8702,5046,12,7,197,185,198,7910,1707,196,502,7907,7756,182,191,6,7905,7906,7915,8749],"class_list":["post-10543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-government","category-hahira","category-health-care","category-vlcia","tag-16-september-2014","tag-allan-ricketts","tag-american-home-patient","tag-andrea-schruijer","tag-attorney","tag-bimbo-bakeries-usa","tag-busby-hahira","tag-chairman","tag-cpa","tag-economy","tag-executive-director","tag-express-scripts","tag-fussell-tire-service","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-hahira","tag-health-care","tag-j-stephen-gupton","tag-jerry-jennett","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-llc","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lu-williams","tag-mary-gooding","tag-operations-manager","tag-project-loaf","tag-project-managers-meghan-duke","tag-public-relations-marketing-manager","tag-regular-meeting","tag-roy-w-copeland","tag-terri-lupo","tag-tom-call","tag-tom-davis","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-development-authority","tag-vice-chairman","tag-vlcda","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10543"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10549,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543\/revisions\/10549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}