{"id":6345,"date":"2013-10-26T11:20:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=6345"},"modified":"2013-10-26T11:29:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T15:29:30","slug":"transparency-not-a-problem-bill-slaughter-vlmpo-2013-10-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/transparency-not-a-problem-bill-slaughter-vlmpo-2013-10-23.html","title":{"rendered":"Transparency not a problem &#8211;Bill Slaughter @ VLMPO 2013-10-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9LrvKHBK8i8\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/9LrvKHBK8i8\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nDefining away another problem,\r\nlike he already did\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/open-house-at-mildred-hunter-on-common-community-vision-vlmpo-2013-10-23.html\">\r\nInternet access<\/a>,\r\nLowndes County Chairman Bill Slaughter\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9LrvKHBK8i8\">\r\nsaid<\/a>:\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nI can&#8217;t honestly just buy into the real problem of transparency in\r\nthis community.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9LrvKHBK8i8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/valdosta-state-of-the-city-mayor-fretti.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:180px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Modules\/ShowImage.aspx?imageid=838\"><\/a>\r\nThis was after numerous people in the room at the\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/open-house-at-mildred-hunter-on-common-community-vision-vlmpo-2013-10-23.html\">\r\nVLMPO Open House on Common Community Vision at Mildred Hunter 23 October 2013<\/a>\r\nexpressed concerns about needs to\r\nvideo local government meetings and put them online,\r\nand to make various processes more open.\r\n<p>\r\n\r\nRegarding videoing, Slaughter trotted out former Valdosta Mayor\r\nJohn Fretti&#8217;s old chestnut about allegedly in cities where meetings\r\nare televised citizens grandstand and the meetings drag on forever.\r\nNevermind that there are numerous ways to do it, such as putting\r\nvideos on the web and not simulcasting, and in places like Tallahassee\r\nthat do both not many citizens usually show up.\r\nThe people I&#8217;ve seen grandstanding consistently at local government\r\nmeetings around here are<!--more--> former Mayor Fretti and a succession of\r\nLowndes County Chairmen.\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/photos\/save-our-springs-anniversary\/3\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" 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have indeed seen an Austin City Council meeting continue overnight into\r\nthe next morning.\r\n(That&#8217;s Molly Ivins supporting Barton Springs in\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/photos\/save-our-springs-anniversary\/3\/\">\r\na picture by Alan Pogue for the Austin Chronicle<\/a>.)\r\nBut that was when numerous citizens were expressing their very valid\r\nconcerns about\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/flood-control-measures-encourage-settling-too-close-and-provoke-severe-flooding-events.html\">\r\nfloods<\/a> and\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/from-seven-out-in-waycross-to-csx-to-pecan-row-landfill-in-lowndes-county.html\">\r\naquifer recharge zones<\/a>.\r\nIf local people around here get that concerned now that, twenty years later, those\r\nvery same issues have become prominent here, will our local\r\ngovernments listen?\r\nSo far they have not listened about getting more people involved in\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/valdosta-and-army-corps-of-engineers-in-flood-risk-management-study.html\">\r\nthe Army Corps of Engineers study about flooding in our watersheds<\/a>.\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/from-seven-out-in-waycross-to-csx-to-pecan-row-landfill-in-lowndes-county.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;float:left\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7366\/9643841459_29c6fba682_m.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nAnd the County Commission approved\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/moody-family-housing-is-in-aquifer-recharge-zone-lcc-2013-08-27.html\">\r\nrezoning for Moody Family Housing in an aquifer recharge zone\r\nwithout waiting for\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/vsu-professors-write-to-usaf-consultant-about-moody-family-housing-lcc-2013-08-27.html\">\r\ngroundscans related to the sinkhole in the site plan<\/a>.\r\nCitizens are already complaining the County Commission isn&#8217;t listening about other issues,\r\nincluding\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/youre-losing-the-democratic-process-gary-wright-lcc-2013-06-11.html\">suing a local business for the benefit of a company owned by investors in New York City<\/a>.\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a9iFayWHEg0\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/a9iFayWHEg0\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nSlaughter did several times refer people to LAKE for videos of\r\nCounty Commission meetings.\r\nThanks, Bill, but that&#8217;s really your responsibility as County Chairman,\r\nand we&#8217;ll keep pointing that out.\r\nI asked him if he minded if I videoed him saying that, and he said\r\nno problem, sure.\r\n(I didn&#8217;t have to ask him, of course, given that he was speaking\r\nin his capacity as an elected official.)\r\nI didn&#8217;t get him saying that, but I did get\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a9iFayWHEg0\">\r\nthis gem<\/a>:\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nUntil it&#8217;s voted on, that&#8217;s when it becomes an official county\r\ndocument. Other than that it&#8217;s just like this piece of paper\r\n[crumples it up].\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a9iFayWHEg0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<br>\r\nCommon Community Vision,\r\n<br>\r\nOpen House, Valdosta-Lowndes Metropolitan Planning Organization (VLMPO),\r\n<br>\r\nVideos by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),\r\n<br>\r\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 23 October 2013.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThis was in reference to April Huntley (pictured) pointing out that\r\nto see what Commissioners are voting on citizens have to file open records\r\nrequests, and me pointing out that even then you don&#8217;t get them until\r\nafter the Commissioners have voted.\r\nOn the one hand Slaughter said they weren&#8217;t really documents until\r\nthe Commission voted on them, and on the other he said you could file\r\nan open records request for them.\r\nNevermind that most of the documents in the agenda packets are never\r\nvoted on by the Commissioners anyway.\r\nIf you write a Commissioner a letter, do they vote on it?\r\nNo, but it may well be in an agenda packet along with a site plan\r\nor a legal opinion, or many other documents that are public records\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapress.org\/sunshine.html\">\r\naccording to Georgia law<\/a>:\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n&#8220;All documents, papers, letters, maps, books, tapes, photographs,\r\ncomputer based or generated information, or similar material\r\nprepared and maintained or received in the course of the operation\r\nof a public office or agency&#8221; are public records.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nSo if the county has been crumpling up records the Commission\r\nhasn&#8217;t voted on, or refusing to produce them in response to\r\nopen records requests, Lowndes County has been violating state law.\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/video-playlist-lcc-2012-09-11.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b0177445cdaed970d-pi.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nThe Lowndes County Commission has an\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/open-records-officer-at-lowndes-county-commission-lcc-2012-09-10.html\">\r\nOpen Records Officer, Paige Dukes<\/a>,\r\nbut she has previously\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/the-comprehensive-plan-updates-lowndes-county-refused-to-provide.html\">\r\nrefused to supply open records the county plainly has in response\r\nto an open records request<\/a>.\r\nAnd the county consistently provides copies of agenda packets\r\n<em>after<\/em> the Commissioners have voted on them,\r\nso even if you are directly affected by an agenda item,\r\nyou can&#8217;t see what the Commissioners are looking at before they vote.\r\n<p>\r\nDo you think we have no problem of transparency in Lowndes County?\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defining away another problem, like he already did Internet access, Lowndes County Chairman Bill Slaughter said: I can&#8217;t honestly just buy into the real problem of transparency in this community. 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