{"id":833,"date":"2012-05-15T09:08:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T13:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/industrial-authority-next-tuesday-vlcia-2012-05-22.html"},"modified":"2012-05-15T09:08:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T13:08:51","slug":"industrial-authority-next-tuesday-vlcia-2012-05-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/industrial-authority-next-tuesday-vlcia-2012-05-22.html","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Authority next Tuesday @ VLCIA 2012-05-22"},"content":{"rendered":"

VLCIA has announced a meeting date change (to next Tuesday) in multiple places, and has already posted an agenda!<\/a><\/p>\n

According to their facebook site<\/a> and meetings webpage<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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<\/a> Notice: The Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority Regular Meeting has been rescheduled for the month of May. The meeting date will be Tuesday, May 22, 2011, 5:30 P.M. in the Industrial Authority Conference Room.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s at 2110 N. Patterson Street, Valdosta, GA.<\/p>\n

Their facebook page has a new logo on it (shown on the right above). Also this snazzy cover image:<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Both the new logo and the cover image are legible (unlike their old swoosh <\/a> logo, still on their website, and seen to the right here). And the cover image has useful information, like what VLCIA is about and how to reach them!<\/p>\n

However, I note that of those<\/p>\n

3 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT VALDOSTA BUSINESS
    \n
  1. Major Transportation Network <\/li>\n
  2. Competitive Incentives <\/li>\n
  3. Pro-Business Attitude <\/li>\n<\/ol><\/blockquote>\n

    none of them is clean solar energy or fast Internet access. (Also, why are they SHOUTING?)<\/p>\n

    Here’s the agenda,<\/a> which is back to their old content-free style. They don’t even say what the executive session is for. (Is it legal for them not to say?)<\/p>

    -jsq<\/p>\n

    Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority
    Agenda
    Tuesday, May 22, 2012 5:30 p.m.
    Industrial Authority Conference Room
    2110 N. Patterson Street<\/blockquote>\n\n\n
    \n

    General Business<\/h3>\n
      \n
    • Call to Order <\/li>\n
    • Invocation <\/li>\n
    • Welcome Guests <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Minutes<\/h3>\n
        \n
      • Regular Meeting, April 17, 2012 <\/li>\n
      • Executive Session, April 17, 2012 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Financial<\/h3>\n
          \n
        • Review Compiled Balance Sheet and Income Statements for April 2012 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Executive Director’s Report-Andrea Schruijer<\/h3>\n
            \n
          • Target Market Study Update <\/li>\n
          • 2012-2013 Budget Review Update <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Public Relations & Marketing Update-Meghan Duke<\/h3>\n

            Existing Industry\/Project Report-Allan Ricketts<\/h3>\n

            Business\/Industrial Park Update- Allan Ricketts<\/h3>\n

            Attorney Report<\/h3>\n

            Citizens to Be Heard<\/h3>\n

            Adjourn General Session into Executive Session<\/h3>\n

            Adjourn Executive Session into General Session<\/h3>\n

            Adjourn General Meeting<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VLCIA has announced a meeting date change (to next Tuesday) in multiple places, and has already posted an agenda! According to their facebook site and meetings webpage: Notice: The Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority Regular Meeting has been rescheduled for the month of May. The meeting date will be Tuesday, May 22, 2011, 5:30 P.M. in […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,3,449,178],"tags":[2299,193,187,190,184,8704,188,8701,189,186,7,185,181,194,502,183,182,8700,8767,6,180,8749],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-transparency","category-transportation","category-vlcia","tag-22-may-2012","tag-allan-ricketts","tag-andrea-schruijer","tag-attorney","tag-chairman","tag-economy","tag-executive-director","tag-georgia","tag-j-stephen-gupton","tag-jerry-jennett","tag-lowndes-county","tag-mary-gooding","tag-norman-bennett","tag-project-manager","tag-regular-meeting","tag-roy-copeland","tag-tom-call","tag-transparency","tag-transportation","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-dr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}