{"id":13963,"date":"2015-08-12T05:44:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=13963"},"modified":"2015-08-12T05:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:47:20","slug":"9-40-for-a-mound-of-paper-lcc-2015-08-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/9-40-for-a-mound-of-paper-lcc-2015-08-10.html","title":{"rendered":"$9.40 for a mound of paper @ LCC 2015-08-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nGretchen made an Open Records request Monday morning and<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/2015-08-11--Commission-Packet\/#Available-430-PM-they-close-at-5PM-Commission-voted-530-PM\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/2015-08-11--Commission-Packet\/small\/IMG_1610.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nit was available Tuesday 4:37 PM: mostly on paper and less than<br \/>\nan hour before the Commission voted.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe rezoning material from the Planning office was sent by electronic mail.<br \/>\nThe rest cost $9.40 to retrieve on paper.<br \/>\nNevermind in the email earlier Tuesday of the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/got-one-lowndes-county-ordinance-nuisance-abatement-after-five-years-asking-lcc-2015-08-10.html\"><br \/>\nold ordinance from 1992<\/a> the county staff demonstrated they can<br \/>\nput a paper document on their copier and produce a PDF.<br \/>\nThey could have done that with the rest of the board packet.<br \/>\nWhy didn&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Work Session was<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/videos-unknown-ordinance-numerous-emergencies-small-rezoning-and-alcohol-lcc-2015-08-10.html\"><br \/>\nMonday morning at 8:30 AM 10 Aug 2015<\/a>.<br \/>\nGretchen was notified by telephone about 4:30 PM Tuesday 11 Aug 2015.<br \/>\nThe County Palace closes at 5PM.<br \/>\nThe Commission met at 5:30 PM Tuesday to vote.<br \/>\nSo none<!--more--> of the public got to see most of this board packet.<\/p>\n<p>\nIs there some reason the board packets can&#8217;t be put on the county&#8217;s own<br \/>\nwebsite?<br \/>\nRemember, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/if-effingham-county-can-do-it-why-not-lowndes.html\">Effingham County, GA<\/a>, half the size of Lowndes, can do it, so Lowndes can do it if it wants to.<br \/>\nShould we wonder what the Lowndes County Commission is hiding?<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, the parts of this board packet that were received by email<br \/>\nat 4:37 PM Tuesday 11 August 2015 are<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/2015-08-11--Commission-Packet\/\"><br \/>\non the LAKE website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nWe&#8217;ll also do what the county staff didn&#8217;t:<br \/>\nturn the mound of paper into electronic format and post that.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gretchen made an Open Records request Monday morning and it was available Tuesday 4:37 PM: mostly on paper and less than an hour before the Commission voted. The rezoning material from the Planning office was sent by electronic mail. The rest cost $9.40 to retrieve on paper. Nevermind in the email earlier Tuesday of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2,20,88,3],"tags":[8622,4319,1095,8701,8699,10,8639,8702,8710,91,12,7,8734,6805,8641,4431,812,3254,656,920,8711,8638,8700,6,8640,90],"class_list":["post-13963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-georgia","category-government","category-law","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-transparency","tag-10-august-2015","tag-bemiss-road","tag-county-clerk","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-k-v-ward","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-lcc","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-nelson-hill","tag-noise-abatement","tag-open-records-request","tag-ordinance","tag-packet","tag-paige-dukes","tag-paper","tag-planning","tag-rez-2015-14","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta","tag-victoria-copeland","tag-work-session"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963","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=13963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13966,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963\/revisions\/13966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}