{"id":1578,"date":"2011-08-29T14:30:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/5a-vote-to-put-school-consolidation-referendum-on-ballot-tim-carroll-vcc-25-august-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-08-29T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T18:30:22","slug":"5a-vote-to-put-school-consolidation-referendum-on-ballot-tim-carroll-vcc-25-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/5a-vote-to-put-school-consolidation-referendum-on-ballot-tim-carroll-vcc-25-august-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"5.a. Vote to put school consolidation referendum on ballot &mdash;Tim Carroll @ VCC 25 August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vTgIC7ZzQGk\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/vTgIC7ZzQGk\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nCouncil Carroll made a motion to put the referendum on the ballot\nand Council White seconded.\nYost, White, Norton, and Carroll voted for.\nWright and Vickers voted against.\n<p>\nThe mayor then pointed out voters will have had to be registered for six months\nto vote on this referendum in November, so if someone registered\ntomorrow, they couldn&#8217;t vote in November.\n(It&#8217;s not clear that this is actually true, but it is what he said.)\n<p>\nThey all had more to say later in Council Comments.\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vTgIC7ZzQGk\">\nthe video:<\/a>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vTgIC7ZzQGk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\n5.a. Vote to put school consolidation referendum on ballot &mdash;Tim Carroll @ VCC 25 August 2011\n<br>\npetition, education, referendum,\n<br>\nRegular Session, Valdosta City Council (LCC),\n<br>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 25 August 2011.\n<br>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<\/small>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council Carroll made a motion to put the referendum on the ballot and Council White seconded. Yost, White, Norton, and Carroll voted for. Wright and Vickers voted against. The mayor then pointed out voters will have had to be registered for six months to vote on this referendum in November, so if someone registered tomorrow, [&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":[40,1376,15,49,3305,54,3869],"tags":[3870,8705,8701,10,8702,91,12,7,699,1486,4,6,8726],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-cuee","category-education","category-elections","category-fvcs","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vcc-25-august-2011","tag-25-august-2011","tag-education","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lcc","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-petition","tag-referendum","tag-regular-session","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-ps","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","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=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}