{"id":393,"date":"2012-10-22T17:20:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/video-of-6-minute-meeting-lcc-2012-10-22.html"},"modified":"2012-10-22T17:20:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:20:28","slug":"video-of-6-minute-meeting-lcc-2012-10-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/video-of-6-minute-meeting-lcc-2012-10-22.html","title":{"rendered":"Video of 6 minute meeting @ LCC 2012-10-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/wFzU0jTME0I\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017ee45cbadd970d\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017ee45cbadd970d-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s a single video of this morning&#8217;s entire Lowndes County Commission<br \/>\nWork Session.<br \/>\nThe railroad item was neither of the ones<br \/>\non which I was speculating.<br \/>\nThe animal shelter wants a 24 hour &#8220;cooling-off period&#8221; with a submitted<br \/>\nanimal kept at home before &#8220;evaluation&#8221; by the shelter.<br \/>\nThe Tax Commissioner wants to refund some taxes they apparently accidentally<br \/>\novercharged.<br \/>\nThe Fire Chief has bids for equipment for the new fire truck.<br \/>\nAnd there&#8217;s going to be an animal health fair.<br \/>\nThey vote tomorrow evening at 5PM.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/wFzU0jTME0I\"><br \/>\nthe video,<\/a><br \/>\nfollowed by<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/rairoad-animals-taxes-and-a-fire-truck-lcc-2012-10-22.html\"><br \/>\nthe agenda,<\/a><br \/>\nwith links to the relevant parts of the video,<br \/>\nand a few notes.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wFzU0jTME0I\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<small><br \/>\nVideo of 6 minute meeting<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWork Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 October 2012.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThanks to Dexter Sharper for use of his video camera.<br \/>\n<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/rairoad-animals-taxes-and-a-fire-truck-lcc-2012-10-22.html\"><br \/>\nthe annotated agenda:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>\nCall to Order\n<\/li>\n<li>\nInvocation\n<\/li>\n<li>\nPledge of Allegiance to the Flag\n<\/li>\n<li>\nMinutes for Approval<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha;\">\n<li>\nWork Session \u2014 October 8, 2012\n<\/li>\n<li>\nRegular Session \u2014 October 9, 2012\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nFor Consideration<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-alpha;\">\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wFzU0jTME0I&amp;t=29s\"><br \/>\nCSX Railroad Agreement<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s for putting a water main under the railroad at Rocky Ford Road.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wFzU0jTME0I&amp;t=1m5s\"><br \/>\nAnimal Shelter Standard Operating Procedure Manual Amendment<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><br \/>\nThe animal shelter director wants animal owners who are sending<br \/>\ntheir pet to the shelter to keep it at home first for a 24-hour<br \/>\ncooling-off period before &#8220;evaluation&#8221; at the center.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a euphemism for the center decides to euthanize them,<br \/>\nwhich is a euphemism for they inject a poison into the animal until it dies.<br \/>\nWhy?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn this cooling-off period,<br \/>\nwe believe the shelter should not function as a boarding facility.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wFzU0jTME0I&amp;t=3m23s\"><br \/>\nAuthorize Tax Commissioner to Refund Exemption Errors<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><br \/>\nTax commissioner found some errors and wants authorization to<br \/>\nrefund the difference to taxpayers.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wFzU0jTME0I&amp;t=3m55s\"><br \/>\nBid \u2014 Equipment for Rescue Pumper<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><br \/>\nBids for equipment for the new fire rescue pumper were:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>$34,903.40<\/td>\n<td>Muncipal Equipment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>$37,290.97<\/td>\n<td>Georgia Fire Rescue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>$37,920.00<\/td>\n<td>Fireline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>$41,711.16<\/td>\n<td>Apco<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>$42,511,15<\/td>\n<td>? Fisher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nReports \u2014County Manager<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wFzU0jTME0I&amp;t=5m03s\"><br \/>\nCounty Clerk Paige Duke reported:<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn November 3rd the animal shelter along with the Humane Society<br \/>\nwill have the first<br \/>\nanimal health fair<br \/>\nhere in Lowndes County.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hoped that this is going to be an annual event,<br \/>\nheld the first Saturday of November.<br \/>\nAnd the purpose is to mirror the benefits you see for people health fairs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nCitizens Wishing to be Heard Please State Name And Address<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s only at the Regular Session, which is tomorrow evening at 5:30 PM.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a single video of this morning&#8217;s entire Lowndes County Commission Work Session. The railroad item was neither of the ones on which I was speculating. The animal shelter wants a 24 hour &#8220;cooling-off period&#8221; with a submitted animal kept at home before &#8220;evaluation&#8221; by the shelter. The Tax Commissioner wants to refund some taxes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,2,41,88,21,22,1177,3,449],"tags":[1505,8763,1550,1545,1229,1552,1551,8701,1547,8699,10,8702,91,12,7,8734,1548,8711,8712,1546,1549,8822,8700,8767,6,90],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-government","category-health-care","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-planning","category-politics","category-t-splost","category-transparency","category-transportation","tag-22-october-2012","tag-animals","tag-cooling-off","tag-csx","tag-dexter-sharper","tag-euthanasia","tag-evaluation","tag-georgia","tag-gfrr","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lcc","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-overpass","tag-planning","tag-politics","tag-railroad","tag-st-augustine-road","tag-t-splost","tag-transparency","tag-transportation","tag-valdosta","tag-work-session"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}