Oct. 16  | Central Valdosta Development Authority Board Meeting
5:00 PM City Hall Annex Multi-Purpose Room. The Central Valdosta Development Authority manages the process of enhancing  Downtown’s position as the governmental, cultural, and economic center of the Greater Lowndes County area by involving businesses, property owners, government, churches, and the entire community.

Oct. 16  | Valdosta-Lowndes Co. Development Authority Meeting
5:30 PM 103 Roosevelt Drive. The Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority is responsible for the proper applications of those powers associated with the promotion and encouragement of the location and expansion of industry, agriculture, trade, and commerce in Valdosta and Lowndes County.


Oct. 17  | Hospital of Authority Valdosta & Lowndes Co. Meeting
8:00 AM SGMC Executive Board Room

The Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County is responsible for establishing policy and an adequate means of implementing policy associated with providing person-centered quality care to each sick or injured patient, for promoting healthful living and preventive medicine to the public, for seeking to provide optimal care at a reasonable price, for achieving and maintaining an excellent staff of competent and caring persons, for encouraging a creative partnership within the hospital community with mutual respect for the role of the public, administration, medical staff, nursing staff, and each individual employee involved in the provision of health care services, and for improving health care in Lowndes County and surrounding areas, while accepting any patient without regard to race, creed, color or national origin.

Oct. 17  | Deep South Solid Waste Authority Meeting
6:00 PM 327 W. Savannah Ave.

Oct. 18  | City of Valdosta Blood Drive
11:00 AM - 3:00 PMFire Station #1

The City of Valdosta will host a city-wide Blood Drive on Thursday, October 18, at the Valdosta Fire Department. The blood drive will take place on from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. It will be located at Fire Station #1, 106 South Oak Street.

Visit redcrossblood.org and make your appointment online using sponsor code cityval. Streamline your donation experience and save up to 15 minutes by visiting redcrossblood.org/rapidpass to complete your pre-donation reading and health history questions on the day of your appointment.

If you have any questions, please contact, Public Information Officer Ashlyn Becton at 229-259-3548.

Oct. 18  | Public Art Advisory Committee Meeting
11:30 AM Turner Center for the Arts

The City of Valdosta created the Public Art Program to further the purchase and foster the appreciation of works of public art and to promote the creation of works of art and the purchase of same for the citizens and the City of Valdosta in order to promote the aesthetic value to the entire community.  The Program also encourages the preservation and protection of works of public art and to encourage economic development.

Oct. 20  | Neighborhood Development Housing Summitt
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM at Mildred M. Hunter Community Center