{"id":2197,"date":"2011-04-12T15:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/being-proactive.html"},"modified":"2011-04-12T15:08:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T19:08:12","slug":"being-proactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/being-proactive.html","title":{"rendered":"Being proactive &mdash;Gretchen Quarterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border:none;\" > <tr valign=\"top\"><td>\nAt the\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/lcc-830-am-monday-11-april-530-pm-tuesday-12-april-2011.html\">\nLowndes County Commission work session<\/a>\non Monday morning,\nCounty Manager Joe Pritchard\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i5nrpvcKWbg\">\ndistributed a map to the Commissioners<\/a>\nfrom the Valdosta\nMain Street Manager, Amanda Peacock, detailing a proposal for\na Farmer&#8217;s Market on the sidewalk of the old County Courthouse.\n<\/td><td>\n<blockquote>\nproactive: serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an\nexpected occurrence or situation; anticipatory\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i5nrpvcKWbg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\nLowndes County Commission work session, 12 April 2011, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.\n<br>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<\/small>\n<p>\nWhile apparently supportive of the initiative, the process could\nhave\n\n<!--more-->\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i5nrpvcKWbg\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/i5nrpvcKWbg\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nbeen smoother if one or both of the parties had been proactive.\nIf someone from the city had attended the work session and offered\nto answer any questions should they come up.\nOr, the County Manager, Joe Pritchard, could have invited someone from\nthe city to attend the meeting, should any questions arise.  County\nCommission work sessions are rarely longer than 30 minutes and\nsuch coordination would likely not be an imposition on anyone attending.\n<p>\nRarely does anyone from the city of Valdosta staff or council\nattend the LCC meetings.  Likewise, rarely do County Commissioners\nor county staff attend Valdosta City council meetings.\n<p>\nA proactive approach on the part of local governments might\nresult in positive communications and outcomes.\n<p>\n-gretchen\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Lowndes County Commission work session on Monday morning, County Manager Joe Pritchard distributed a map to the Commissioners from the Valdosta Main Street Manager, Amanda Peacock, detailing a proposal for a Farmer&#8217;s Market on the sidewalk of the old County Courthouse. proactive: serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[97,202,40,2,88,54,457,2496],"tags":[4724,4508,8717,1460,8701,8699,10,136,8702,12,7,8734,551,4742,8856,90],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-agriculture","category-community","category-government","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-valdosta-city-council","category-valdosta-farm-days","category-valdosta-main-street","tag-12-april-2011","tag-amanda-peacock","tag-community","tag-farmers-market","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-joe-pritchard","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-mara-register","tag-proactive","tag-valdosta-main-street","tag-work-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-zr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}