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Valdosta Plans Flooding Discussions
Valdosta is finally announcing the 11 April 2013 watershed-wide flooding meeting organized by the Army Corps of Engineers. WCTV yesterday carried a press release from the City of Valdosta; PR which,...
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Valdosta and Army Corps of Engineers in Flood Risk Management Study
First public update since May: Valdosta has had several recent meetings with other governmental groups and has agreed to co-fund a flooding study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. WCTV has also...
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Aquifer recharge and drainage from Seven Out Superfund site, Mary Street,...
The Seven Out Superfund site is not in any of the severe aquifer recharge zones in Ware County, fortunately, but drainage from it goes right across Waycross into the Satilla River, carrying...
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Agriculture or residential: Whitewater compromise @ LCC 2014-11-11
The county staff and Commission listened at length to opponents and proponents of a rezoning back to agriculture with no conditions, and came up with a compromise, in the 11 November 2014 Lowndes...
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Videos: Grants and bids, Law, Transportation, Water, and Roof Cleaning @ LCC...
The longest item at yesterday morning’s Work Session was the unscheduled 8. Reports County Manager – Recognition of Fire Safety. The whole thing took less than nine minutes. They vote tonight at 5:30...
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Videos: MIDS bus system, roof cleaning, truck bypass, new lift station...
Longest at four and a half minutes on November 12, 2019, was 6.e. Grant Re-Application for the Rural (5311)Transportation Program, in other words, the MIDS on-demand bus system; follow the link for...
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Packet: End-of-calendar-year wrapup @ LCC 2019-12-09
In its last meeting of calendar year 2019, the Lowndes County Commission had many items to wrap up, as you can see in the board packet, on the LAKE website. We don’t know why the county sent this...
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Videos: End-of-calendar-year wrapup and Remerton SPLOST Resolution @ LCC...
Remerton can’t use SPLOST VI funds for an office building, since the old mill building intended for that has been torn down. That was the longest item in the Lowndes County Commission Work Seesion of...
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Agenda: Jails, grants, hazards, roads, and Clyattville Park Community Center...
No Lowndes County Commission agenda would be complete without another of these, in the agenda for zero dollars, but will cost taxpayers much more in subdivisions in the future: Approve Purchasing ROW...
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2 Appointments, 2 Rezonings, Lift Station, Drainage, Facilities @ LCC 2020-06-09
Tuesday at 5:30 PM the Lowndes County Commission proposes to spend about $73,000 on water projects, which is a good thing. Monday at 8:30 AM they also do have a Work Session scheduled. CostWhat...
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Packet: 2 Appointments, 2 Rezonings, Lift Station, Drainage, Facilities @ LCC...
Thanks to Sabrina Denson for sending the board packet Friday. It is on the LAKE website. The Work Session is this Monday at 8:30 AM, and they vote at the Regular Session 5:30 PM Tuesday. CostWhat...
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Budget, Bevel Creek Lift Station, Val Tech Road widening, Appointments: ZBOA,...
The big item on the Lowndes County Commission agenda for Monday to vote on Tuesday evening is the Adoption of Fiscal Year 2021 Budget totaling $59,443,920, with $22,774,781 or 38% to Public safety,...
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Packet: $0.9 million paving project, reduction of millage rate, 3 small...
For the Monday morning Work session and Tuesday evening voting Regular Session, the Lowndes County Commission has only one item that has “BUDGET IMPACT” in its agenda sheet, but it’s a doozy: Cost What...
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Videos: Maybe revisit lowering millage rate @ LCC 2020-08-10
There was pushback on lowering the millage rate at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session yesterday morning. They will decide this evening at 5:30 PM at the Regular Session. The Commissioners,...
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Update 2022-03-22: Videos: Delinquency, water, roads, and subdivisions @ LCC 2022-03-21. More road building TIA projects to promote more sprawl, a redot to let a developer off the hook for not doing...
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Videos: Delinquency, water, roads, and subdivisions @ LCC 2022-03-21
Update 2022-03-22: Packet: 0.277 acres for a county detention pond @ LCC 2022-03-21. Update 2022-03-23: Three LAKE videos inadvertently omitted are added back to this blog post and the LAKE playlist:...
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Packet: 0.277 acres for a county detention pond @ LCC 2022-03-21
Update 2022-03-22: Videos: Trash collection, drainage, reports, candidate @ LCC 2022-03-22. The replacement for the built-on detention pond on Little Viking Road turns out to be 0.277 acres horse-shoed...
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Videos: Trash collection, drainage, reports, candidate @ LCC 2022-03-22
A rare split vote on a bid, in 7.a. ENG 2021-02: Repairing 3 Box Culverts. ADS wants to raise its trash colleciton rates but can’t do that without an ordinance change, which was not on the table this...
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Videos: Leadership Lowndes, Rezonings, Lift Station, Pictometry, SDS,...
Lowndes County Commissioners were still not happy with the City of Valdosta about the Service Delivery Agreement, with Chairman Bill Slaughter reciting a litany of recent extraterritorial water and...
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Packet: Raise waste collection rates, appointments to 3 boards, crop sprayer...
It’s back: the Howell Road halfway house rezoning, after being tabled last time, waiting for a full Commission. The Lowndes County Commission will vote on it tomorrow evening at 5:30 PM. All the same...
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