{"id":1156,"date":"2012-01-24T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T20:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/commission-had-not-seen-moody-afb-gate-contract-with-scruggs-before-work-session-lcc-2012-01-23.html"},"modified":"2012-01-24T15:51:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T20:51:07","slug":"commission-had-not-seen-moody-afb-gate-contract-with-scruggs-before-work-session-lcc-2012-01-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/commission-had-not-seen-moody-afb-gate-contract-with-scruggs-before-work-session-lcc-2012-01-23.html","title":{"rendered":"Commission had not seen Moody AFB gate contract with Scruggs before Work Session @ LCC 2012 01 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We still don&#8217;t know what the county is going to do about<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/01\/commission-voted-for-12849705-road-cost-overrun-without-discussion-lcc-2012-jan-10-.html\"><br \/>\nthat cost overrun for the Moody AFB gate.<\/a><br \/>\nNobody said at the work session yesterday morning; maybe they&#8217;ll say<br \/>\nat the regular session tonight when they vote on a contract with<br \/>\nsome sort of revised dollar figures in it.<\/p>\n<p>\nCounty Manager Mike Fletcher waved around a copy of the revised<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6756664049\/in\/photostream\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7018\/6756664049_ee61ddc8ea_o.png\"><\/a><br \/>\ncontract with Scruggs Company for the new Moody AFB gate,<br \/>\nbut said he had not provided it to the Commissioners.<br \/>\nI wonder if they&#8217;ll see it before they vote tonight?<br \/>\nHe said it was 226 pages long, but most of that was DOT boilerplate,<br \/>\nand only something like 20 pages was the actual county contract.<br \/>\nSeems like they could read that much by tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo could we, the public, if it was somewhere we could see it.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe also didn&#8217;t say what happened to the<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/01\/commission-voted-for-12849705-road-cost-overrun-without-discussion-lcc-2012-jan-10-.html\"><br \/>\n$128,497.05 cost overrun<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe Commissioners asked no questions.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GIZ6gUHeUic&#038;list=PL8A106CB75FEAE21D&#038;index=9&#038;feature=plpp_video\"><br \/>\nthe video:<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GIZ6gUHeUic\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nCommission had not seen Moody AFB gate contract with Scruggs before Work Session @ LCC 2012 01 23<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWork Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 23 January 2012.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We still don&#8217;t know what the county is going to do about that cost overrun for the Moody AFB gate. Nobody said at the work session yesterday morning; maybe they&#8217;ll say at the regular session tonight when they vote on a contract with some sort of revised dollar figures in it. County Manager Mike Fletcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,70,809,2,3158,88,570,571,21,3,449],"tags":[3160,3159,8805,8701,10,8702,91,12,7,8734,8783,8784,8711,8700,8767,6,90],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-ethics","category-gdot","category-government","category-lcc-2012-jan-23","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-military","category-moody-afb","category-planning","category-transparency","category-transportation","tag-23-january-2012","tag-gate","tag-gdot","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lcc","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-military","tag-moody-afb","tag-planning","tag-transparency","tag-transportation","tag-valdosta","tag-work-session"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","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=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}