{"id":2211,"date":"2011-04-09T16:58:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/adjourn-vcc-7-apr-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-04-09T16:58:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T20:58:18","slug":"adjourn-vcc-7-apr-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/adjourn-vcc-7-apr-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"What happens at the end of a Valdosta City Council meeting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uoBmJxBitdw\"><br \/>\nThis:<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uoBmJxBitdw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nRegular monthly meeting of the Valdosta City Council (VCC),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 April 2011,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\nAdjournment!<\/p>\n<p>\nLittle joke there.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Index.aspx?page=46\"><br \/>\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"270\"\nheight=\"337\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Modules\/ShowImage.aspx?imageid=590\"><\/a><br \/>\nBut adjournment is not the end of interacting with the city government at a city council meeting.<br \/>\nFor example,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Index.aspx?page=46\">Council Deidra White<\/a> stopped on the steps of City Hall<br \/>\nto talk to people.<br \/>\nThree people were there.<br \/>\nAll of us lived in the county outside Valdosta.<br \/>\nNot a single person who lives in Valdosta stayed<br \/>\nto talk to her.<\/p>\n<p>\nAmong other things, she said she thought she made clear at the end of<br \/>\nthe last Council meeting that the mayor didn&#8217;t speak for her.<br \/>\nThat was at the end of the meeting, in the<br \/>\n&#8220;Council Comments&#8221; item on the agenda.<br \/>\nHowever, apparently nobody stayed to hear that, either.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This: Regular monthly meeting of the Valdosta City Council (VCC), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 April 2011, Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange. Adjournment! Little joke there. But adjournment is not the end of interacting with the city government at a city council meeting. For example, Council Deidra White stopped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,54,4689],"tags":[4702,344,8701,10,8702,12,7,6,8726,2671],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vcc-7-april-2011","tag-7-april-2011","tag-deidra-white","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-vcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","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=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}