{"id":6878,"date":"2013-12-03T14:35:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=6878"},"modified":"2013-12-03T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T19:38:50","slug":"tybee-island-will-not-scan-tourist-license-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/tybee-island-will-not-scan-tourist-license-plates.html","title":{"rendered":"Tybee Island will not scan tourist license plates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nMaybe Lowndes County could also welcome tourists instead of using\r\nthem as a ticketing revenue stream<\/a>\r\nthat’s costing us $200,000 to process.\r\nAnd maybe both Lowndes County and Valdosta could put their\r\n\r\nagenda packets online<\/a> like tiny\r\n(population 3,067) Tybee Island does.\r\n

\r\nJim Galloway wrote for the AJC today,\r\n\r\nYour daily jolt: Tybee Island nixes license plate surveillance<\/a>,\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nTybee Island has decided that the National Security Agency isn\u2019t a model worth following. On Monday, The coastal city\u2019s council retracted its approval of a pair of license plate scanners intended to greet tourists. From\r\n\r\nthe Savannah Morning News<\/a>:\r\n
\r\nCiting mostly negative feedback from the public and concerns over how the information from the scanners would translate to a tourism study being conducted by a local professor, the council instead voted to purchase a higher quality model of the current hose-like vehicle counter the city has stretched over U.S. 80.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nMeanwhile,\r\nthe Lowndes County Sheriff’s office last year was\r\n\r\nlooking forward to<\/a>\r\ngetting an\r\n\r\nAutomatic License Plate Reader (ALPR)<\/a>.\r\nTraffic citations coming off of I-75 already cost us $130,492 to process in the Clerk of Court’s office<\/a>\r\nplus\r\n\r\n$60,330 so far<\/a> in software and hardware.\r\n

\r\nTybee Island has\r\n\r\nits agendas and council packets online<\/a>\r\nand even already has an online synopsis of yesterday’s meeting:\r\n

\r\n

\r\n\r\nClick here to download Council packet PDF\r\n<\/strong>\r\n

\r\nSpecial City Council Synopsis 20131202\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nMayor Buelterman called the special city council meeting to order at\r\n3:30PM on December 2, 2013. Those present were Mayor pro tem Wanda\r\nDoyle, Paul Wolff, Tom Groover, Jan Fox, Barry Brown and Bill\r\nGarbett. Also attending were Diane Schleicher, City Manager; Robert\r\nBryson, Chief, Tybee Island Police Department and Janet LeViner,\r\nClerk of Council. Bubba Hughes, City Attorney and Tommy Branch,\r\nCallaway, Braun, Riddle and Hughes, PC were not present.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nI.\r\n\r\nLicense Plate Readers.\r\nWanda Doyle\r\n<\/strong>\r\nmade a motion to rescind the\r\nvote made by mayor and council on November 14, 2013 to purchase\r\nLicense Plate Readers.\r\n\r\nPaul Wolff\r\n<\/strong>\r\nseconded. Vote was unanimous.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nII.\r\n\r\nWanda Doyle\r\n<\/strong>\r\nmade a motion (1) to allow the city manager to\r\nproceed to work with the Department of Transportation regarding the\r\npermitting process for an embedded traffic counter; (2) to issue an\r\nRPF and get three quotes for a more durable traffic counter than\r\nwhat is currently being used; and (3) to check on the financing.\r\n\r\nPaul Wolff\r\n<\/strong>\r\nseconded the motion. Vote was unanimous.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\nPaul Wolff\r\n<\/strong>\r\nmade a motion to adjourn.\r\n\r\nTom Groover\r\n<\/strong>\r\nseconded. Vote was unanimous.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nMeeting adjourned at 3:40PM\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nThat particular meeting doesn’t seem to have a council packet.\r\nThe meeting of 24 October 2013 has online\r\n\r\na 195 page PDF<\/a>.\r\nOne big PDF lump isn’t the most accessible way to put an agenda packet online\r\n(\r\nother cities and counties<\/a> link documents for individual items\r\ninto each item on the agenda, including the\r\n\r\nLowndes County Board of Education<\/a>),\r\nbut it’s way better than what Valdosta and Lowndes County currently\r\nput online for board packets, which is nothing.\r\nSo we don’t know what they didn’t talk about when they have a\r\nfour minute work session<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nSure, we can file an open records request and know for sure that\r\nwe won’t get the packet\r\n\r\nuntil after they vote on it<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nHow come tiny little Tybee Island can do this and\r\nmighty Valdosta and Lowndes County can’t? Or won’t.\r\nMaybe they should go back to high school to learn how.\r\n

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