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Revenue Bond for health care projects @ VLCIA 2014-01-28
It’s good they posted the detailed agenda item, but since when do tax-funded authorities hold public hearings in a private attorney’s office? The Industrial Authority posted a meeting notice for their...
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VLCIA high noon last week @ VLCIA 2014-03-13
An Industrial Authority board member resigned to run for an office he qualifed for the previous day, at a meeting that had apparently been rescheduled the day before he qualified. OK, who’s going to...
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Golf and aviation @ VLCIA 2014-04-15
Some interesting stuff on there, such as the South Georgia Golf Classic, which appears to actually be 2-4 May 2014 (even though that event’s facebook about still refers to last year), and the South...
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Videos: Golf, aviation, and by-laws @ VLCIA 2014-04-15
A scheduled guest didn’t show up and an unscheduled guest did, about broadband. Perhaps 250 jobs from a prospective logistics distribution Project Royal and a potential agriculture-related Project...
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Executive Session for Real Estate @ VLCIA 2014-05-27
The Industrial Authority is having a Special Called Meeting Tuesday at 4:45 PM, the agenda for which goes straight into Executive Session for no stated reason. Is that even legal, as I’ve asked before...
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Open meetings needed for county attorney selection?
Could there be any problem with selecting a county attorney without any open process? CNHI in VDT today, Officials violate Iowa’s open meeting law, CENTERVILLE, Iowa. — The Appanoose County Board of...
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New place, new member, new officers, new name? @ VLCIA 2014-07-15
Six years in the making! Finally VLCIA meets in its new office near the hospital. Georgia Power VP Terri Lupo was just appointed to VLCIA by the Lowndes County Commission (without ever showing up and...
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Videos: New name, new member @ VLCIA 2014-07-15
They’re aiming at 20 August 2014 for a meeting with local educational and business leaders. After mulling it over for more than two years, VLCIA waited until somebody in Atlanta told them to, and...
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Stealth VLCIA real estate meeting last Wednesday @ VLCIA 2014-08-13
Well, the agenda says the Invocation was “For the purpose of discussing real estate”; it doesn’t say what the Executive Session was for. Maybe they’ve got a customer for one of those empty industrial...
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Power, Rotary, Tires @ VLCIA 2014-08-19
I’ll give them an A for effort, including branching out: from tires to agribusiness this month, and Valdosta North Rotary today, too. That Community Ecomomic Developmeent Meeting is still on for...
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Update on Economic Development meeting @ VLCIA 2014-09-16
The big item tonight is the update on their local economic development meeting last month, plus election of officers and the usual project and marketing updates. Here’s the agenda, with a couple of...
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Videos: Georgia Power, Rotary, Tires @ VLCIA 2014-08-19
They (maybe) finally settled on their new name: Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority; see Minutes. Interesting discussion about Express Scripts, and some details about presenters at the next...
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Alapaha River Water Trail @ VLCIA 2014-08-19
I talked about the Water Trail that WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc. is developing on the Alapaha River with a tiny grant from the Georgia River Network, and how that was a plus for local economic...
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Existing Industry Spotlight @ VLCIA 2014-10-21
Local candidates for office who think the Development Authority should promote existing local industry should maybe look at Existing Industry Spotlight, Existing Industry —Allan Ricketts, and Existing...
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Videos: Update on Economic Development meeting @ VLCIA 2014-09-16
Here’s the agenda, and here are videos of the meeting as it proceeded. They meet again tonight at 5:30 PM. Call to Order Video. Invocation Video. Election of Officers Video. Tom Call thanks previous...
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Videos: Existing Industry Spotlight @ VLCIA 2014-10-21
They’re hiring an Existing Industry Coordinator to start in October or November. They granted an easement on Madison Highway to Valdosta for a rechlorination booster station. No citizens spoke at the...
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Best Practices for Economic Development @ VLCIA 2014-11-18
Looks like some of them have been (or are thinking of) going to an Area Development Conference & Forum, about Best Practices for Economic Development. Here’s the agenda. Valdosta-Lowndes...
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Quail Hunt and Project Cold @ VLCIA 2015-01-20
And a City Council Retreat Presentation. Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:30 p.m. Development Authority Conference Room 103 Roosevelt Drive Monthly Meeting Agenda...
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Quail Hunt @ VLCIA 2015-02-17
Cold Weld Greensleeve Tire Bakeries: be there or wonder what is this stuff in their agenda. Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority Tuesday, February 17, 2015 5:30 p.m. Development Authority Conference...
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Going to Georgia Logistics Summit and retreating @ VLCIA 2015-03-17
They’re going to retreat April 10th after going to the Georgia Logistics Summit March 31st – April 1st. The Summit is in Atlanta, according to its own website. VLDA’s agenda doesn’t say where their...
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