{"id":2550,"date":"2010-12-30T12:04:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/vlcia-board-meeting-videos-21-dec-2010.html"},"modified":"2010-12-30T12:04:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T17:04:58","slug":"vlcia-board-meeting-videos-21-dec-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/vlcia-board-meeting-videos-21-dec-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"VLCIA Board Meeting videos, 21 Dec 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\nHere are videos of the regular public board meeting of the\nValdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA), 21 Dec 2010.\nI videoed almost everything, except when I was speaking or they were\nanswering.\nMore posts later on some of the astonishing\npoints arising from this meeting.\n
\nUpdate 1 Jan 2010:<\/b> more videos posted, with some comment.<\/a> Still a few more to come.\n
\nUpdate 2 Jan 2010:<\/b> All the videos are there now, and there’s a blog post with Dr. Teaf’s slides,<\/a> along with video of Brad Lofton saying “no way shape or form”.\n

\nI’m sure that every VLCIA board member has the best interests\nof the community at heart.\nSeveral of them invited me to contact them with any concerns. I will take them up on that invitation, and you can, too.\n\n\n\n\n
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\n\nNorman Bennett, Roy Copeland (not pictured),
\nGary Minchew, Mary Gooding, Jerry Jennett (Chair),
\nJ. Stephen Gupton (Attorney),
\nBrad Lofton (Executive Director)\n<\/small>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\nThey say they want public involvement, and they welcomed\nhalf a dozen other people who had apparently never attended\na board meeting before, as well as some who had.\nY’all come and help them out.\n

\nI attended at the invitation of\nboard members Roy Copeland and Norman Bennett,\nbut it’s a public meeting, so you don’t need an invitation.\nThere’s no meeting schedule posted for 2011 yet, but\n\nthe VLCIA Schedule page says:<\/a>\n

\nAll Meetings will be held at 5:30pm in the Industrial Authority Conference Room, 2110 N. Patterson Street, unless otherwise notified.\n<\/blockquote>\nDo be sure to call first, \n(229) 259-9972<\/a>, since a previous meeting I tried to attend they\nrescheduled and didn’t post the change on their website.\nSince these are public meetings, Georgia state law permits recording\nvoice and video without needing permission.\n

\nBoard members Mary Gooding and Jerry Jennett at that meeting\ninvited me to contact them with any concerns I might have.\nI’m sure they’d welcome concerns from others in the community, as well.\nHere is their contact information:\n\n
\n\n\"Roy<\/a>\n\n\"Gary<\/a>\n\n\"Mary<\/a>\n\n\"Norman<\/a>\n\n\"Jerry<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nPlus\n\ncontact information for most local elected officials.<\/a>\n

\nHere’s a\n\nplaylist<\/a> of the videos I took of this board meeting,\nand here it is embedded.\n

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\nA few more videos are still to be uploaded; I’ll update this post then.\nVideos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n

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