{"id":25153,"date":"2025-08-04T17:25:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=25153"},"modified":"2025-08-05T08:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:53:05","slug":"video-special-called-meeting-about-splost-ix-agreement-lcc-2025-08-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/video-special-called-meeting-about-splost-ix-agreement-lcc-2025-08-04.html","title":{"rendered":"Video: Special Called Meeting about SPLOST IX Agreement @ LCC 2025-08-04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update 2025-08-05<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/rome-floyd-splost-committee-2024-12-31.html\">Rome-Floyd SPLOST Committee 2024-12-31<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere is the one LAKE video of the two-minute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/agenda-special-called-meeting-about-splost-ix-agreement-lcc-2025-08-04.html\">Special Called Meeting<\/a><br \/>\nin which the Lowndes County Commissioners unanimously agreed<br \/>\nto forward a SPLOST IX Agreement to the cities within the county.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\n<a title=\"Collage @ LCC 4 August 2025\" name=\"MMM:Collage-LCC-4-August-2025\" href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/2025-08-04--lcc-videos-splost-ix\/many.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/2025-08-04--lcc-videos-splost-ix\/many.jpg\"  alt=\"[Collage @ LCC 4 August 2025]\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/2025-08-04--lcc-videos-splost-ix\/many.html\">Collage @ LCC 4 August 2025<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe tax-paying citizens have not seen this Agreement nor the list of projects<br \/>\non which the county projects $17 million to be spent in Fiscal Year 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to County Manager Paige Dukes, the County Commission will<br \/>\nhave to vote again after the cities approve it.<\/p>\n<p>\nCitizens get to vote on SPLOST IX in the General Election on November 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\nToday, they unanimously approved sending to the cities,<br \/>\non a motion by Commissioner Scottie Orenstien and a second by Commissioner Michael Smith.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a name=\"SPLOST-IX-Agreement\" href=\"#SPLOST-IX-Agreement\"><br \/>\nSPLOST IX Agreement<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a title=\"video: SPLOST IX Agreement\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zmLJI4tMgnc\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" alt=\"SPLOST IX Agreement\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/zmLJI4tMgnc\/hqdefault.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- wget -O SPLOST-IX-Agreement.jpg 'https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/zmLJI4tMgnc\/sddefault.jpg' --><br \/>\n<!-- list SPLOST-IX-Agreement.html\tSPLOST IX Agreement --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zmLJI4tMgnc\">Video:<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zmLJI4tMgnc\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/zmLJI4tMgnc<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\nLowndes County Board of Commissioners (LCC) Special Called Meeting &#8211; 2025-08-04<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\nTo vote on the SPLOST  IX agreement <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\nVideos by Gretchen  for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).\n<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nHere it is in a LAKE video playlist:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiFmbivnooJvJJS9W-6uVkdS&#038;si=Ae9YeEA32x9A2ruy\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiFmbivnooJvJJS9W-6uVkdS&#038;si=Ae9YeEA32x9A2ruy<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?si=st2TfNCjB_Y0mwbl&amp;list=PLshUv86fYkiFmbivnooJvJJS9W-6uVkdS\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-style:italic\">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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/donate\">donate to LAKE today<\/a>!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/donate\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 2025-08-05: Rome-Floyd SPLOST Committee 2024-12-31. Here is the one LAKE video of the two-minute Special Called Meeting in which the Lowndes County Commissioners unanimously agreed to forward a SPLOST IX Agreement to the cities within the county. Collage @ LCC 4 August 2025 The tax-paying citizens have not seen this Agreement nor the list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[601,14,602,603,88,604,52,10675,54],"tags":[381,8790,8704,8701,8791,8702,8792,12,7,8734,8793,260,8724,13076,383,8700,6,8726],"class_list":["post-25153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dasher","category-economy","category-hahira","category-lake-park","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-remerton","category-splost","category-taxes","category-valdosta-city-council","tag-budget","tag-dasher","tag-economy","tag-georgia","tag-hahira","tag-lake","tag-lake-park","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-remerton","tag-special-local-option-sales-tax","tag-splost","tag-splost-ix","tag-taxes","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153","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=25153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25165,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153\/revisions\/25165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}