{"id":326,"date":"2012-11-16T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/video-playlist-lcc-2012-11-13.html"},"modified":"2012-11-16T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:27:42","slug":"video-playlist-lcc-2012-11-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/video-playlist-lcc-2012-11-13.html","title":{"rendered":"Video playlist @ LCC 2012-11-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiH8LAiBNpKHN9HjljyEQpnX\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017ee52e3a23970d at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c3393798a970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c3393798a970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\nThe County Commission continues to do the peoples&#8217; business in secret.\nThe solid waste exclusive franchise agreement was tabled for a month,\ndue to some mysterious new information,\nand two citizens pleaded with the Commission to reconsider the whole thing.\nThe developer who got to speak at Monday&#8217;s Work Session\nasked for his development to be tabled for a month, and the Commission did so.\nAfter the meeting, three people from Moody AFB trooped into a side\nroom with the Chairman.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso, if it&#8217;s a privilege to serve and an honor to be appointed,\nwhy does the Lowndes County Commission not tell us who they are appointing?\nIn the\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/video-playlist-lcc-2012-11-12.html\">Work Session<\/a>\nthey muttered some proposed names unintelligbly,\nand in the Regular Session they didn&#8217;t say anything about who some of the\nnew appointees are, and none of the appointees spoke.\nAs near as I could tell, only one bothered to show up: VLCIA\nreappointee Mary Gooding.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Update 2012-11-20:<\/strong> Jody Hall reminds me he was there as an appointee. He says he was ready to speak, but nobody asked him to.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiH8LAiBNpKHN9HjljyEQpnX\">\na video playlist:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLshUv86fYkiH8LAiBNpKHN9HjljyEQpnX&amp;hl=en_US\" width=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<small>\nVideo playlist\n<br \/>\nRegular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),\n<br \/>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 13 November 2012.\n<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/appointments-to-five-boards-two-rezonings-and-a-solid-waste-ordinance-lcc-2012-11-12.html\">\nthe agenda<\/a> again,\nthis time with links to the videos plus a few notes.\n<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<a name=\"Order\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E4u1EpWA9mQ\">\nCall to Order<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nInvocation\n<\/li>\n<li>\nPledge of Allegiance to the Flag\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">\n<h3>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2n1aJvBAS3Y\">\nItems not on the Agenda<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\nA VSU class\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/first-annual-lowndes-county-animal-health-fair-2012-11-03.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c33957d61970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c33957d61970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/first-annual-lowndes-county-animal-health-fair-2012-11-03.html\">\nAnimal Health Fair<\/a>, by Mr. Joe ? of the Humane Society.\nAlso included microchipping and animal adoptions.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RJ0_B5RPKeU\">\nMinutes for Approval<\/a>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha;\">\n<li>\nWork Session \u2014 October 22, 2012\n<\/li>\n<li>\nRegular Session \u2014 October 23, 2012\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a name=\"Legislative\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3KqWxOGPkVc\">\nResolution appointing the Lowndes County Legislative Coordinator<\/a>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nACCG asked for a designated legislative contact. Last year it was the County Clerk.\nCounty Manager Joe Pritchard recommended reappointing County Clerk Paige Dukes.\nThey did that, unanimously.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nAppointments\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha;\">\n<li>\n<a name=\"ZBOA\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XG_WlK1_AD4\">\nValdosta\/Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals<\/a>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nDavid Kirk is moving; need a replacement. No recommendations received.\nArchitectural or construction background preferred by ZBOA.\nThey tabled it until the next meeting, so as to get responses\nback from people they had asked about being willing to serve.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a name=\"Tourism\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zr1uXOqMjHg\">\nValdosta\/Lowndes County Conference Center and Tourism Authority <\/a>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nThey reappointed\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\/article\/20070926\/NEWS\/709260470\">\nDavid Motley<\/a>\nand appointed\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/robert-montgomery\/10\/742\/729\">\nBob Montgomery<\/a>\nto serve the rest of relocated\nGreg Charbeneau&#8217;s term.\nThey only just appointed Charbeneau\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/01\/3-appointments-to-vlc-conference-center-and-tourism-authority-lcc-2012-jan-9-10.html\">\nthis January.<\/a>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/video-playlist-lcc-2012-11-12.html#Tourism\">Work Session for more.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a name=\"GLPC\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mYp1fUQSePA\">\nGreater Lowndes Planning Commission<\/a>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nThey appointed Jody Hall to replace John Page and Franklin Bailey to replace Bill Slaughter.\nNo mention of Gary Moser.\nSee\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/video-playlist-lcc-2012-11-12.html#GLPC\">Work Session for more.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a name=\"VLCIA\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xT4v1SwPPfw\">\nLowndes County Industrial Authority <\/a>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/localappt.php\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c33957d71970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c33957d71970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\nThey reappointed Mary Gooding to the Valdosta-Lowndes County\nIndustrial Authority (VLCIA),\neven though they didn&#8217;t get that authority&#8217;s name right.\nThe Chairman congratulated her, so apparently she was present.\nGooding is\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.valdosta.edu\/adv\/staff.shtml\">\nDirector of Marketing &amp; Community Relations<\/a>\nat Valdosta State University.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a name=\"LCDA\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w-xRCVwiAWE\">\nLowndes County Development Authority<\/a>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nFour terms expire November or December: Buzz Akins, Jerome Tucker, Jeff Reames, and Gary Cannon.\nThey reappointed Jeff Reames, Gary Cannon, and Jerome Tucker,\nand appointed Brooks Akins in place of Buzz Akins.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w-xRCVwiAWE\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8350\/8189955501_2b4495e2fd_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nBrooks Akins is presumably John Brooks Akins of\n<a href=\"http:\/\/corp.sos.state.ga.us\/corp\/soskb\/Corp.asp?412991\">\nAkins, LLC,<\/a> 908 South Patterson Street, Valdosta.\nWhy we the taxpayers should have to ferret out information on who\nour elected officials are appointing to a board is mysterious.\nThe new LCDA board appears to be:\nJerome Tucker, Jerome Waters, Carolyn Eager, Crawford Powell, Jeff Reames, Gary Cannon, Brooks Akins.\nSee\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/video-playlist-lcc-2012-11-12.html#LCDA\">Work Session for more.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nPublic Hearings\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha;\">\n<li>\n<a name=\"REZ-2012-16\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vQZ3qIJilOc\">\nREZ-2012-16 Cook Co Land Ventures, 5998 Hwy 122 E.<\/a>\nE-A to C-C, Community Well &amp; Septic, 085 acres\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nApproved with a condition eliminating a package store use.\nThey didn&#8217;t address the biggest problem, which is\nthat at some future date, especially if Dr. Acree sells that site,\nsomebody could put a strip mall there.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a name=\"REZ-2012-17\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=58LIFgnVl2A\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c33957d83970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c33957d83970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=58LIFgnVl2A\">\nREZ-2012-17 Lowndes Development, LLC, Davidson Rd<\/a>\nMAZ II and MAZ III to R-10, County Water &amp; Sewer, ~23.49 acres\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nThis is the one for which\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/video-playlist-lcc-2012-11-12.html#REZ-2012-17\">the Chairman asked the developer to speak in the Work Session,<\/a>\nwhile no opponents of the development were asked to speak.\nAt this meeting, County Planner Jason Davenport announced that the\ndeveloper had asked for the Commission to table the item until\ntheir meeting in December, which they did, unanimously.\nAfter the Regular Session, three people from Moody AFB trooped\ninto a side room with the Chairman.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nFor Consideration\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha;\">\n<li>\n<a name=\"Waste\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HHy5FzuxnxU\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c33957d8c970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c33957d8c970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HHy5FzuxnxU\">\nSolid Waste Ordinance &amp; Exclusive Franchise Agreement<\/a>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nSome unspecified new information became available since the previous\nmorning&#8217;s\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/video-playlist-lcc-2012-11-12.html#Waste\">Work Session<\/a>\nand the Chairman said he understood that meant Commissioners needed more\ntime to consider.\nA rare event: Commissioner Joyce Evans made a motion.\nThe motion was to table until the next meeting; unanimously approved.\nRumor has it that the concern is whether the exclusive franchise agreement\nis even legal.\nI would wonder about an elected body granting a monopoly.\nI also wonder why the solid waste decision process continues\nto be done in secret, with no public hearings.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a name=\"Insurance\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P6LaCldVcSg\">\nSection 125 Plan Document Renewal for 2013<\/a>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nAdopted pre-tax deductions for qualified health plans, group-term life insurance, etc.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a name=\"Retirement\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xGVzFr2eRLY\">\nIRS Required Retirement Plan Amendment<\/a>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nAdopted amendments to comply with federal law.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a name=\"Paging\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wkFStRRoydI\">\nPaging System for Lowndes County Fire Rescue<\/a>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nApproved new system for $115,417 due to\nFCC-ordered narrowbanding of all systems in use.\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/video-playlist-lcc-2012-11-12.html#Paging\">Work Session<\/a>\nfor more details.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a name=\"Reports\"><\/a>\nReports-County Manager\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nThere were none.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nCitizens Wishing to be Heard Please State Name And Address\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-style: normal;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NEIHBVU7oKw\">\nWilliam Geyer of 5474 Union Road, Hahira,<\/a>\nhad two points:\nkeep the solid waste disposal sites open, and reprioritize SPLOST.\nSee <a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/keep-waste-sites-open-and-reprioritize-splost-william-geyer-lcc-2012-11-13.html\">\nseparate post.<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: normal;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=71fIuL4HGWk\">\nCary Scarborough<\/a> of\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DeepSouthSanitation\/info\">\nDeep South Sanitation<\/a>\nasked: &#8220;Don&#8217;t do this to private enterprise.&#8221;\nSee\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/11\/dont-do-this-to-private-enterprise-cary-scarborough-lcc-2012-11-13.html\">\nseparate post.<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The County Commission continues to do the peoples&#8217; 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