{"id":179,"date":"2013-01-23T07:56:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T12:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/conference-center-and-tourism-authority-meets-this-morning-vlcccta-2013-01-23.html"},"modified":"2013-01-23T07:56:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T12:56:32","slug":"conference-center-and-tourism-authority-meets-this-morning-vlcccta-2013-01-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/conference-center-and-tourism-authority-meets-this-morning-vlcccta-2013-01-23.html","title":{"rendered":"Conference Center and Tourism Authority meets this morning @ VLCCCTA 2013-01-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcvaldosta.org\/about-us\/leadership--staff\/pastoral-leadership-team\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c362cccb6970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c362cccb6970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Update 2013-01-23 8:46 AM:<\/strong><br \/>\nThey did at least part of the minimum and posted <a href=\"#Notice\">a notice on the door.<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHow do we know the Valdosta Lowndes County Conference Center<br \/>\nand Tourism Authority (VLCCCTA) meets this morning at 8AM?<br \/>\nGretchen asked when she<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/01\/valdosta-lowndes-county-conference-center-and-tourism-authority.html\"><br \/>\npicked up a list of its current board members.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd did I get the right Rick Williams in that picture?<br \/>\nThat one is<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcvaldosta.org\/about-us\/leadership--staff\/pastoral-leadership-team\"><br \/>\nPastor of Northside Baptist Church.<\/a><br \/>\nIs he the same Rick Williams who is Vice Chairman of VLCCCTA?<br \/>\n(Google didn&#8217;t find any pictures for Chairman Rob Evans.)<br \/>\nIf it&#8217;s an honor and a privilege to serve on an Authority, shouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nthe Authority tell us who is serving, instead of making us guess?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis meeting is not on\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.eviesays.com\/events\/preff\/cnhi\/where\/Valdosta%2CGA\/when\/2013-01-23.html\"><br \/>\nthe VDT&#8217;s calendar,<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nthe online<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiapublicnotice.com\/pages\/results_content?category=&amp;phrase_match=&amp;min_date=&amp;max_date=&amp;page_label=home&amp;widget=search_content&amp;string=search_county_lowndes&amp;county=Lowndes+County\"><br \/>\npublic notices for Lowndes County<\/a>,\n<\/li>\n<li>\nthe Lowndes County Commission<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lowndescounty.com\/content.asp?pid=26\"><br \/>\nVisitors web page<\/a>,<br \/>\nwhich doesn&#8217;t even mention this Authority,\n<\/li>\n<li>\nthe City of Valdosta&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/index.aspx?page=41\"><br \/>\nBoards &amp; Commissions web page<\/a>,<br \/>\nwhich merely links to\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/01\/valdosta-lowndes-county-conference-center-and-tourism-authority.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c35f62b09970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c35f62b09970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitvaldosta.org\/\"><br \/>\nthe Authority&#8217;s own web page<\/a>,<br \/>\nwhich doesn&#8217;t even list its own board members),\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitvaldosta.org\/events\"><br \/>\nthe Authority&#8217;s Events page<\/a><br \/>\nwhich ends in December 2012; apparently nobody is going to visit here this year,\n<\/li>\n<li>\nthe Authority&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Visit-Valdosta\/154956704558896?sk=wall\"><br \/>\nfacebook page<\/a><br \/>\nwhich hasn&#8217;t been updated since December.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nDoes that seem right to you?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Notice\"><\/a>PS:<br \/>\nThey did at least half of the state-required minimum and posted the notice below on the door.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center; font-size:80%\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/8408609082\/in\/photostream\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8491\/8408609082_8f4531e856_z.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhotograph by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 2013-01-23 8:46 AM: They did at least part of the minimum and posted a notice on the door. How do we know the Valdosta Lowndes County Conference Center and Tourism Authority (VLCCCTA) meets this morning at 8AM? Gretchen asked when she picked up a list of its current board members. And did I get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[781,8701,8699,10,8702,12,7,4,6,5,8703],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-vlcccta","tag-23-january-2013","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-regular-session","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-conference-center-and-tourism-authority","tag-vlcccta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}