{"id":2103,"date":"2011-04-30T16:44:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T20:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/valdosta-city-governnment-101.html"},"modified":"2011-04-30T16:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T20:44:47","slug":"valdosta-city-governnment-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/valdosta-city-governnment-101.html","title":{"rendered":"Valdosta City Governnment 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Carroll pointed out on LAKE&#8217;s facebook page that Valdosta&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/index.aspx?recordid=1222&#038;page=270\"><br \/>\nGovernment 101<\/a><br \/>\nwill be graduating soon.<br \/>\nJane Fleming Osborn remarked that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt is an enlightening and eye-opening class you should not miss !&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the city&#8217;s writeup about it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;is designed to give City of Valdosta residents age 21 and older<br \/>\nan inside look at how their city operates daily. Participants will be<br \/>\nexposed to all city departments according to the following itinerary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nApril 4 Introduction to Class<\/p>\n<li>\nApril 11 Public Safety and Municipal Court<\/p>\n<li>\nApril 18 Engineering, Public Works and Utilities<\/p>\n<li>\nApril 25 Financial Administration, Industrial and Economic Development<\/p>\n<li>\nMay 2 Community Building and Neighborhood Development<\/p>\n<li>\nMay 9 Facility Tour and Graduation\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/index.aspx?recordid=972&#038;page=270\"><br \/>\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"270\"\nheigth=\"141\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Modules\/ShowImage.aspx?imageid=660\"><\/a><br \/>\nLast year&#8217;s class was the first,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/index.aspx?recordid=972&#038;page=270\"><br \/>\nwith 23 graduates.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nFor Lowndes County residents who do not live in Valdosta,<br \/>\nthe equivalent is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\noh, right! There isn&#8217;t one.<\/p>\n<p>\nWell, except LAKE&#8217;s ongoing connect-the-dots sessions<br \/>\nonline here every day, at most County Commission and many other government meetings, and at the monthly LAKE meetings.<br \/>\nNo size limit; anybody can participate!<\/p>\n<p>\nBut we don&#8217;t get a tour of the fire department<br \/>\nor the sheriff&#8217;s department,<br \/>\nor a talk by the County Commission Chair,<br \/>\nor&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Carroll pointed out on LAKE&#8217;s facebook page that Valdosta&#8217;s Government 101 will be graduating soon. Jane Fleming Osborn remarked that It is an enlightening and eye-opening class you should not miss !&#8221; According to the city&#8217;s writeup about it: &#8230;is designed to give City of Valdosta residents age 21 and older an inside look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,40,15,2,11,88,3],"tags":[3693,3255,8701,4622,4623,7,63,8700,6],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-education","category-government","category-lake","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-transparency","tag-city-council","tag-county-commission","tag-georgia","tag-government-101","tag-jane-fleming-osborn","tag-lowndes-county","tag-tim-carroll","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","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=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}