
Responding to
George Rhynes' point,
I said that while I had recommended moving Citizens to be Heard to the
end of the agenda, it never occured to me that it might get moved
after Council Comments, which did lead to an impression that Council
did not want to hear and did not plan to respond.
I noted that if Council videoed its own proceedings and put them on the web,
that would help make the problem moot.
I'm thinking videos distributed by the City Council itself would probably
get
more citizens viewing them than ones distributed by bloggers like me and
George and by LAKE.
My main point was that, even though Brad Lofton and Col. Ricketts apparently never told Mayor Fretti, there was a larger solar array in





Mayor Fretti usually interacts a bit when I speak there, but this time he did not look up once except to check the timer. Maybe he didn't like me calling them the Council of Hamlets in my post earlier that same day. When the only three citizens who stand up to be heard all ask for more transparency, I'm thinking the council has maybe not done enough to dispel the Hamlet monicker.
Here's the video:
When will the Wiregrass Solar plant be expanded? —John S. Quarterman
Regular Meeting, Valdosta City Council (VCC),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 4 June 2011.
Videos by George B. Rhynes for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
-jsq
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