{"id":22091,"date":"2021-02-24T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=22091"},"modified":"2021-02-24T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:59:34","slug":"retreat-at-jekyll-island-club-lcc-2021-02-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/retreat-at-jekyll-island-club-lcc-2021-02-25.html","title":{"rendered":"Retreat at Jekyll Island Club @ LCC 2021-02-25"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nLowndes County Commissioners and staff are\r\nmeeting tomorrow where those pesky taxpayers won’t be\r\n“distraction to strategically address community needs and set goals\r\nfor the next year.”\r\n

\r\nTripadvisor says<\/a>: “A Historic Treasure not just for “Millionaires” of Jekyll Island Club Resort”, with rooms from $207 to $220 per night.\r\n

\r\n\"[Cherokee<\/a>\r\n
Cherokee Cottage<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nI do congratulate the newish Lowndes County Public Information Officer for\r\nputting out a press release,\r\nand for promising a daily\r\n“synopsis of discussions” to be posted on the county’s website.\r\n

\r\nHow about a daily video, such as LAKE has posted for several years?\r\nOr livestream the meetings via facebook live, YouTube, or Zoom?\r\n

\r\nMeghan Barwick, Lowndes County Press Release, February 18, 2021,\r\n\r\nLowndes County Board of Commissioners Host Annual Planning Meeting<\/a>,\r\n

\r\n

\r\nLowndes County, Georgia- The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners\r\nwill hold their annual planning meeting on Jekyll Island February\r\n25-26, 2021 at the Jekyll Island Hotel, Cherokee Cottage, 371\r\nRiverview Dr., Jekyll Island, Georgia. The planning meeting will\r\nbegin on Thursday, February 25 at 8:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. and resume\r\nFriday, February 26 at 8:30 a.m. wrapping up at 12:00 noon.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe purpose of the annual planning meeting is\r\n\r\n to discuss vision,\r\ngoals, and direction for the future of Lowndes County. Agenda items\r\nto be discussed include facility projects (SPLOST & non-SPLOST),\r\nutilities, fire\/rescue service expansion, road improvement projects,\r\nzoning, housing initiatives, litter control, economic development\r\nopportunities and more. The items being presented have been selected\r\nby the commissioners and will be prioritized during their\r\ndiscussion.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe annual planning meeting is open to citizens. In addition, staff\r\nwill release a synopsis of discussions that will be posted on the\r\ncounty’s website, www.lowndescounty.com. Any official actions on\r\nitems will take place at a future public meeting of the Board of\r\nCommissioners.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nWhile Lowndes County has not held an annual planning meeting out of\r\ntown for the past several years, the intent is to provide an\r\nenvironment in which elected officials can come together without\r\ndistraction to strategically address community needs and set goals\r\nfor the next year. The timing of the annual planning meeting is in\r\naccordance with the beginning of the budget process each year.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nDaily updates will be posted online,\r\n\r\nwww.lowndescounty.com<\/a>. In\r\nresponse to COVID-19, social distancing guidelines will be observed.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nCounty retreats used to be on Jekyll back when Rod Casey was Chairman,\r\nin 2005<\/a>\r\nand\r\n2008<\/a>,\r\nfor example.\r\nThe 2008 retreat included “and other solid waste management improvements.”\r\nSo that’s where they dreamed up the plan of privatizing waste collection with a max bid so low nobody did.\r\n

\r\nThey didn’t post videos back then, either.\r\n

\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n

Investigative reporting costs money, for open records requests, copying, web hosting, gasoline, and cameras, and with sufficient funds we can pay students to do further research. You can donate to LAKE today<\/a>!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lowndes County Commissioners and staff are meeting tomorrow where those pesky taxpayers won’t be “distraction to strategically address community needs and set goals for the next year.” Tripadvisor says: “A Historic Treasure not just for “Millionaires” of Jekyll Island Club Resort”, with rooms from $207 to $220 per night. Cherokee Cottage I do congratulate the […]","protected":false},"author":3,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,449],"tags":[11279,8704,8701,2434,11278,8702,12,7,8711,546,8767,6],"class_list":["post-22091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-transportation","tag-cherokee-cottage","tag-economy","tag-georgia","tag-goals","tag-jekyll-island","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-planning","tag-retreat","tag-transportation","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-5Kj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22094,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091\/revisions\/22094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}