{"id":25004,"date":"2025-05-28T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=25004"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:34:58","slug":"videos-airport-aging-community-service-board-appointments-1677028-92-lmig-funds-from-gdot-lcc-regular-2025-05-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/videos-airport-aging-community-service-board-appointments-1677028-92-lmig-funds-from-gdot-lcc-regular-2025-05-27.html","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Airport, Aging, Community Service Board Appointments, $1,677,028.92 LMIG funds from GDOT @ LCC Regular 2025-05-27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 2025-09-07<\/strong>: They appointed Commissioner Demarcus Marshall instead.\r\nVideos: Lake Alapaha Well, Jail Expansion, Bicentennial, Millages, Opioid Litigation, Hightower Road, SPLOST IX, TREES Act, PFAS Groundwater Claims @ LCC Regular 2025-08-26<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nCommissioner Joyce Evans was absent at both the morning’s Work Session and the evening’s Regular Session, but they appointed her to two boards anyway.\r\n

\r\nAt the Tuesday evening Regular Session, the Lowndes County Commission approved everything unanimously, including appointing Jeff Sykes to the Airport Authority,\r\nand “Miss Evans” to the Aging and Community Services Boards.\r\n

\r\nCounty Manager Paige Dukes said the opening on the Community Services Board\r\nwas because Chairman Bill Slaughter had been appointed to a statewise board,\r\nand thus could not continue to serve on a local board.\r\n

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Collage @ LCC Regular 27 May 2025<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nDirector of Engineering Services Chad McLeod clarified which parts of which roads\r\nwould be resurfaced if the county gets the GDOT LRA funds.\r\n

\r\nFinance Director Stephanie Black said it’s a mid-size excavator that Public Works wants, following up from discussion in the Work Session.\r\n

\r\nCounty Manager Paige Dukes said Val Del Road work began at North Valdosta Road that day (yesterday)\r\nand there’s a county facebook page about it.\r\nShe indicated a meeting with FEMA and a need to deal with less federal funds\r\nand more local preparedness.\r\nShe also talked about SPLOST IX, the Metropolitan Planning Organization,\r\nthe civic center, and emergency operations, rattling off a string of dates.\r\nSeems like she could provide a written report if she expects people to remember those dates.\r\nShe did say the bicentennial dates would be updated on the county’s website,\r\nalthough I cannot find them there.\r\n

\r\nCommissioner Demarcus Marshall<\/del> Scottie Orenstein wanted to know if there was any update on the animal shelter.\r\nChad McLeod said the RFP was 90% approved.\r\n

\r\nThere were no Citizens Wishing to Be Heard.\r\n

\r\nBelow are LAKE videos of each agenda item, with a few notes by John S. Quarterman,\r\nfollowed by a LAKE video playlist.\r\nThere are some one-second gaps between videos, because I was using my phone,\r\nwhich does not cycle off and on quickly enough.\r\nPlus one towards the beginning of the Minutes item,\r\nbecause I accidentally bumped it off and had to turn it back on.\r\n

\r\nSee also the\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLAKE videos of the same morning’s Regular Session<\/a>\r\nand the\r\n\r\nagenda<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nThe county has until tomorrow to return the board packet after the\r\nopen records request I sent them Sunday.\r\n

\r\nHere is the LAKE video playlist:\r\n
\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiG68AbFba4SFENrUn7lt563&si=pL0XWu7Iqr3UorN8<\/a>\r\n

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