{"id":18164,"date":"2017-02-27T09:52:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=18164"},"modified":"2017-02-27T09:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:52:35","slug":"videos-annual-planning-meeting-day-2-lcc-2017-02-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/videos-annual-planning-meeting-day-2-lcc-2017-02-17.html","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Annual Planning Meeting Day 2 @ LCC 2017-02-17"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nWe learned why Lowndes County has gotten religion about Internet access and speed:\r\n\r\nMoody AFB wants it<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nCommissioner Scottie Orenstein made the case for\r\n\r\nboard packets and agendas in electronic form<\/a>\r\ninstead of the paper packets they currently use.\r\nMaybe they’ll even reveal them to the public before their meetings,\r\nlike real MSAs do.\r\nMeanwhile,\r\n\r\nCommunity Engagement<\/a>\r\nmeans marketing, as in telling people what the county did,\r\nnot listening to the citizens.\r\n

\r\nThey talked about\r\n\r\ninterconnecting (almost) all of the county’s water systems<\/a>,\r\nabout\r\n\r\nroutes to get trucks out of downtown Valdosta<\/a>.\r\nThe\r\n\r\nwater-sewer ordinance is in ten or twelve pieces<\/a>,\r\nand the county is all for expanding water and sewer throughout the county\r\nas long as it doesn’t cost developers money.\r\n

\r\nThere’s\r\n\r\na regional T-SPLOST meeting in Waycross by SGRC Feb 28 2017<\/a>,\r\nbut Lowndes commissioners and staff said nothing\r\n\r\n about public transportation\r\nfor a T-SPLOST.\r\nRegarding\r\n\r\npublic transit<\/a>,\r\nthe urbanized area is not just Valdosta,\r\nincludes Stone Creek and “all the way up to Hahira”,\r\nas well as Bemiss Road towards Moody,\r\ni.e., what the county calls “central Lowndes County”.\r\nIf your road is not among\r\n\r\nthe 115 on the SPLOST list<\/a>,\r\nit won’t get paved.\r\n

\r\nCounty Manager Joe Pritchard said there had been some\r\n\r\nrecent animal cases that motivate review of the recent Animal Control ordinance<\/a>\r\nbut he didn’t say what they were.\r\nThey also talked about the land bank, without saying which five parcels\r\nthey were referring to.\r\n

\r\nCommissioners apparently had submitted\r\n\r\nsecret lists before the retreat<\/a>\r\nwhich some of them apparently wanted to edit at the end of the retreat.\r\nNonetheless,\r\nChairman Bill Slaughter opined that “Lowndes County is as transparent\r\nas we could possibly be.”\r\nHe indicated he thought the only further step would be to ask\r\ncitizens to vote in meetings.\r\nWell, how about do what Augusta-Richmond County<\/a> or\r\n\r\nTallahassee-Leon County<\/a>\r\ndo: let citizens speak on any agenda item,\r\nnot to mention at the beginning of the meeting?\r\nAnd that thing Commissioner Orenstein suggested,\r\nwhich even Effingham County already does<\/a>?\r\n

\r\nAnd no Lowndes County Commission meeting is complete without\r\n\r\nalcohol<\/a>.\r\nThat’s related to\r\n\r\nAdult entertainment<\/a>,\r\nof which the county has only one, Peaches on Bemiss Road.\r\nThey skated around why they can’t do away with that,\r\nnamely Moody AFB.\r\n

\r\nHere are links to each of the LAKE videos for Day 1,\r\nwith a few notes, mostly by Gretchen, followed by a video playlist.\r\n