{"id":1596,"date":"2011-08-27T08:13:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T12:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/5a-petition-for-school-referendum-tim-carroll-vcc-25-august-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-08-27T08:13:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T12:13:58","slug":"5a-petition-for-school-referendum-tim-carroll-vcc-25-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/5a-petition-for-school-referendum-tim-carroll-vcc-25-august-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"5.a. petition for school referendum &mdash;Tim Carroll @ VCC 25 August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WzyRbezPkNg\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/WzyRbezPkNg\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nCouncil Tim Carroll noted citizens have a right to petition their government\naccording to the Georgia Constitution,\nand wondered if it would be &#8220;against the Constitution&#8221;\nfor the council to deny such a petition.\nCity Attorney Talley noted that the language of a legal precedent\nsays the council shall.\nThe mayor noted there could be frivolous petitions\nsuch as to change the name of Friday to Thursday,\nthat wouldn&#8217;t require affirmation, but the state\nhas certain guidelines, and school systems especially fall\nunder those guidelines.\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WzyRbezPkNg\">\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\/WzyRbezPkNg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\n5.a. petition for school referendum &mdash;Tim Carroll @ VCC 25 August 2011\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 Tim Carroll noted citizens have a right to petition their government according to the Georgia Constitution, and wondered if it would be &#8220;against the Constitution&#8221; for the council to deny such a petition. City Attorney Talley noted that the language of a legal precedent says the council shall. The mayor noted there could be [&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":[48,40,1376,15,49,3305,20,54,3869],"tags":[3870,3404,8705,8701,10,8702,91,12,7,699,1486,4,6,8726],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-enforcement","category-community","category-cuee","category-education","category-elections","category-fvcs","category-law","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vcc-25-august-2011","tag-25-august-2011","tag-constitution","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-pK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","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=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}