Videos, Work Session @ LCC 2012 04 23

Here are videos of the entire ten and a half minute 23 April 2012 Work Session of the Lowndes County Commission. As you can see, these videos time at 1:01, 0:33, 0:44, 1:07, 1:45, 1:40, 0:33, 2:59, and 0:10, and that's with a camera that stops and starts almost instantaneously. Those times add up to 10 minutes and 32 seconds. Is that adequate discussion for the county's business?

A former member of the Courthouse Preservation Commission, has moved, and the Chairman said Mike somebody was a good one to appoint as a replacement. No Commissioners asked any questions. They didn't ask many questions on anything else, either. On 8a. Abandonment of unopened ROW on Walker Avenue (off of US 41 S) in Twin Lakes area, Commissioner Crawford Powell had a question, but it was only where the engineer was in the map.

Finance Director Stephanie Black said the county sent out an RFP for banking services to local banks. Three responded, and one was incomplete. The two complete bids were Regions Bank and SunTrust. Regions will waive charges with $6M balance; SunTrust will waive charges $2.8M balance.

On the FDIC charge, Regions will charge .135 per thousand dollars; SunTrust is waiving that.

She said that was currently about $3500 or $4500 per month. Commissioner Powell asked who they were currently using. Answer: Regions. There's more in the video, and there was a written report the Commissioners were looking at.

Apparently the county's own water isn't good enough for Commissioners and staff,

since they got quotes on buying water for their offices.

The longest discussion: mowing Bemiss Road Right of Way, which bids say will cost half a million or so dollars (I may have misheard the dollar figure; maybe they could publish the staff writeups with their agenda Glynn County does; then we'd all know what the dollar figures were.) Commissioner Powell asked if they could do it in-house. County Manager Joe Pritchard seemed to say they didn't have that capability. Public Works Director Robin English said they tried to use state prisoners, but Valdosta State Prison had concerns with the liability issues on Bemiss Road. Commissioner Powell asked if they reallocated the funds for this contract in-house instead, would they have the capability in-house? Robin English said no.

Here's the agenda.

Here's a playlist:

Videos, Work Session
Work Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 23 April 2012.
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).

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