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<\/a>\nThe Valdosta City Council regular meeting is tonight.\nYou remember them, the council\n<\/a>\nThe Valdosta City Council regular meeting is tonight.\nYou remember them, the council\n\nthat may or may not be able to say whether or not they can or cannot\nspeak during, at the end of, or after their council meetings.<\/a>\nTonight they appoint people to boards that decide who can put up how big a sign, and that spend millions in your tax money.\n\n\n \nAlso, maybe now this city council can do what Gretna, Florida, did:\n\nput out a proclamation saying there will be no biomass plant.<\/a>\nOr they could sit on their hands some more and wait until\nsome Sonny finds a way to do it anyway.<\/a>\n \n\n \n\nZBOA<\/a> decides on variances to Valdosta’s LDR and Lowndes County’s ULDC,\nincluding sign variances, much to the annoyance of\nsome local entitled rich people and of\nMcDonald’s<\/a>.\n \n\n \n5:30 PM Call to order of the regular meeting of the Valdosta City Council. June 9, 2011 at\nCOUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL, 216 East Central Avenue, Valdosta, GA.\n \n \n \n \n \n<\/ol>\n \n \n<\/ol>\n \n \n<\/ol>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n<\/ol>\n \n \n \n \n \n<\/ol>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n<\/ol>\n \n \n \n<\/ol>\n \n \n \n<\/ol>\n \n \n \n \n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Valdosta City Council regular meeting is tonight. You remember them, the council that may or may not be able to say whether or not they can or cannot speak during, at the end of, or after their council meetings. Tonight they appoint people to boards that decide who can put up how big a […]","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":[97,596,120,48,40,21,54,4395,178,450,1521,1341],"tags":[8788,8738,8751,8701,4419,7,2507,4418,8714,6,8726,8768,8831,8826,328,3338],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-adage","category-biomass","category-code-enforcement","category-community","category-planning","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vcc-9-june-2011","category-vlcia","category-vlpra","category-wiregrass-solar","category-zboa","tag-adage","tag-biomass","tag-florida","tag-georgia","tag-gretna","tag-lowndes-county","tag-parks","tag-parks-and-recreation","tag-solar","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-vlpra","tag-wiregrass-solar","tag-zboa","tag-zoning","tag-zoning-board-of-appeals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-v6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","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=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/iBmnVOPBuFk\/default.jpg\"\n)
<\/a>\nI want to see if Mayor Fretti will keep to his word to\nexpand the Wiregrass Solar plant.<\/a>\n![](\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4139\/4994067400_3d512a8486_m.jpg\")
<\/a>\nThey have lots of other stuff on their\nagenda<\/a>\nfor tonight, including an appointment to the\n\nZoning Board of Appeals (ZBOA),<\/a>\nand an appointment to the\nValdosta-Lowndes County Parks & Recreation Authority.\n![](\"http:\/\/www.vlpra.com\/Website%20Pics\/Small%20Logo.jpg\")
<\/a>\n\nParks & Rec<\/a> receives 1.5 mil of tax money, about $4.5 million dollars a year,\nmore than the\n\nValdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA).<\/a>\nParks and Rec board members get to spend that tax money that you pay.\n\n
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<\/a>\nAGENDA\n
\nREGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL\n
\n5:30 PM Thursday, June 9, 2011\n
\nCOUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL\n<\/center>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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