{"id":312,"date":"2012-11-23T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T19:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/splost-vii-sglb-2012-11-20.html"},"modified":"2012-11-23T14:51:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T19:51:02","slug":"splost-vii-sglb-2012-11-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/splost-vii-sglb-2012-11-20.html","title":{"rendered":"SPLOST VII @ SGLB 2012-11-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a title=\"SPLOST on the ballot again? --Willis Miller @SGLB 2012-11-20\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/8211005617\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c33e719d0970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c33e719d0970b-pi.jpg\"  alt=\"SPLOST on the ballot again? --Willis Miller @SGLB 2012-11-20\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nAt<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/splost-media-southside-library-videos-sglb-2012-11-20.html\"><br \/>\nTuesday&#8217;s South Georgia Library Board meeting.<\/a><br \/>\na board member (his nameplate said Willis Miller)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t1OZJ2uWMfA&amp;feature=plcp&amp;t=1m32s\"><br \/>\nwanted to know about SPLOST<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nHow we know it&#8217;s going to come up next November or at another time?\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nGood question.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wrfJsAdlmNM&amp;feature=plcp&amp;t=3m25s\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c33e719d7970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c33e719d7970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s video of the discussion as<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wrfJsAdlmNM&amp;feature=plcp&amp;t=3m25s\"><br \/>\nit resumed later in the meeting:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wrfJsAdlmNM\" width=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<small><br \/>\nSPLOST VII discussion at Monthly Meeting, South Georgia Library Board (SGLB),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideo by George Boston Rhynes for K.V.C.I. and bostongbr on YouTube,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 20 November 2012.<br \/>\n<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nKay Harris said there had to be a<br \/>\nminimum of twelve months, so November 2013 would be the next possible time.<br \/>\nShe said County Commissioner Richard Raines had expressed full support for the new library,<br \/>\nand she was talking to the other commissioners.<br \/>\nShe was asked whether the SPLOST lists would be the same,<br \/>\nand said there might be some changes,<br \/>\nbut she hadn&#8217;t heard anyone suggest that the Five Points property might be deleted.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s curious, because<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/local\/x1501150908\/SPLOST-lost\"><br \/>\nshe quoted Valdosta Mayor Gayle in the VDT 7 November 2012<\/a> as saying:\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\u201cThe Five Points projects can be put off, but the big<br \/>\ninfrastructure projects are a big problem. Some things like the<br \/>\nsewer system can&#8217;t be put off, so we&#8217;ll have to look at other<br \/>\nsources of revenue. We&#8217;ll have to see how things go.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s not quite the same as saying the Five Points projects might be deleted,<br \/>\nbut I certainly have heard people suggesting exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the discussion one of the library board members suggested<br \/>\nthe city and county go ahead now and draw up a list of projects<br \/>\nfor the next vote.<br \/>\nHe later complained that the same people who voted against it<br \/>\nare the ones who complain about potholes.<br \/>\nAnd I think he was also the one who said SPLOST lost because<br \/>\npeople didn&#8217;t want to pay the tax, not because of what was on the project list.<br \/>\nI think that opinion comes from confusing the very visible<br \/>\n&#8220;give yourself a raise&#8221; signs with the entire opposition,<br \/>\nwhich was much larger than that, and mostly based on<br \/>\nwhat was on the project lists.<br \/>\nI think maybe the point that the people are tired of closed-door<br \/>\nlists hasn&#8217;t quite gotten through.<br \/>\nSee<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/splost-media-southside-library-videos-sglb-2012-11-20.html\">George Rhynes&#8217; editorial.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/kickoff-speeches-splost-2012-09-28.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c3241af07970b-pi.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nSomeone said he wasn&#8217;t aware that there was<br \/>\na SPLOST VII promotion committee co-chaired by Gail Green.<br \/>\nHm, maybe if they&#8217;d invited the public to that<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/kickoff-speeches-splost-2012-09-28.html\"><br \/>\nSPLOST VII Kickoff meeting<\/a><br \/>\nmore people would have known that.<br \/>\nKay Harris more than once indicated that better efforts could have<br \/>\nbeen made to sell the tax to the public.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere was some indication that some people thought that<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/category\/lost\"><br \/>\nthe cities and the counties squabbling over LOST<\/a><br \/>\nhad adversely affected SPLOST VII.<br \/>\nAnd Kay Harris said County Manager Joe Pritchard didn&#8217;t want to talk about<br \/>\nSPLOST VII more until the new Commissioners were in office.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSomebody sitting at the end of the table with a nameplate Mary McRee<br \/>\nsaid she thought the library should do its own marketing.<br \/>\nShe said Ellis Black asked her &#8220;What&#8217;s your take on the library?&#8221;<br \/>\nShe said &#8220;They want to know more about the transition&#8221;<br \/>\nand whether the new library building would be needed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI heard no mention by anyone at this meeting<br \/>\nof possibly using the downtown federal building for a new library.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Tuesday&#8217;s South Georgia Library Board meeting. a board member (his nameplate said Willis Miller) wanted to know about SPLOST: How we know it&#8217;s going to come up next November or at another time? Good question. Here&#8217;s video of the discussion as it resumed later in the meeting: SPLOST VII discussion at Monthly Meeting, South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,14,15,49,70,1148,2,732,544,88,21,22,52,54],"tags":[1315,8797,8704,8705,8721,8728,8820,407,8701,8699,8798,405,8775,7,8734,1313,8711,8712,8824,1314,1312,8724,60,6,8726,1320],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bostongbr","category-economy","category-education","category-elections","category-ethics","category-fpsc","category-government","category-k-v-c-i","category-lost","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-planning","category-politics","category-splost","category-valdosta-city-council","tag-20-november-2012","tag-bostongbr","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-elections","tag-ethics","tag-fpsc","tag-george-boston-rhynes","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-k-v-c-i","tag-library","tag-lost","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-monthly-meeting","tag-planning","tag-politics","tag-sglb","tag-south-georgia-library-board","tag-southside-library-hours","tag-splost","tag-tax","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}