{"id":1247,"date":"2011-11-29T07:34:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T12:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/this-issue-has-a-lot-of-peculiarities-barbara-stratton.html"},"modified":"2011-11-29T07:34:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T12:34:57","slug":"this-issue-has-a-lot-of-peculiarities-barbara-stratton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/this-issue-has-a-lot-of-peculiarities-barbara-stratton.html","title":{"rendered":"This issue has a lot of peculiarities. —Barbara Stratton"},"content":{"rendered":"Received today on\n\nValdosta water project on county land, with no city or county approval<\/a>. -jsq\n
\nThis issue has a lot of peculiarities. The city engineer was quoted\nas saying he hoped Radney Plumbing, Inc. could be chosen for the\n\n<\/a>\nproject since the company had provided them a low price on similar\nwork. Whatever happened to the bid procedure that is supposed to proceed\nany new construction activity regardless of personal preferences. Is\nthis an impromptu public\/private partnership where bidding gives way to\ncronyism? Oops, seems like I recently read that PPP’s were now being\ncalled beneficial corporations. Either way they are blatant fascism\n(mixing government & private business)& we don’t need them in Lowndes\nCounty. Under proper bidding procedures it would have been imposible for\na contractor to have been given a go ahead by any mythical person. The\nproject is expected to cost $132,000 of tax payer money & I think we\ndeserve proper bid procedures to be certain we are getting maximum\nbenefit from our expenditures.\n

\nI have no comment on the statement the pipe needed to be put in the\nground so it would not go to waste other than I never new water\/sewer\npipe had a short expiraton date. Perhaps we should ask how so many feet\nof pipe were left over from another project since I’m sure 12″ pipe is\nnot cheap. Does our project estimator need to sharpen his pencil?\n

\nIt seems County Commission Chairman Paulk questions “the wisdom of\nspending that much taxpayer money without any prospect of income in the\nnear future’. I’m glad someone is concerned about the taxpayers. Since\nit has been acknowledged we citizens have an interest in the obvious\nfour way fiasco between city, county, private contractor & private\nlandowners,I trust the VDT will continue to keep us informed of all the\nfacts as they surface.\n

\n-Barbara Stratton\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Received today on Valdosta water project on county land, with no city or county approval. -jsq This issue has a lot of peculiarities. The city engineer was quoted as saying he hoped Radney Plumbing, Inc. could be chosen for the project since the company had provided them a low price on similar work. Whatever happened […]","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":[97,48,40,14,2,88,3,54,133],"tags":[679,3354,524,8728,8701,7,3355,2504,6,2900,8742,8727],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-code-enforcement","category-community","category-economy","category-government","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-transparency","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vdt","tag-ashley-paulk","tag-david-rodock","tag-engineering","tag-ethics","tag-georgia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-radney-plumbing","tag-sewer","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-daily-times","tag-vdt","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-k7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","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=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}