Update 2025-05-21: Two Valdosta sewer projects from new municipal bonds, plus one from user fees @ VCC 2025-04-10.

Back at the April 10, 2025, Valdosta City Council meeting, they moved ahead towards fixing the rest of the sewer line near Knights Creek before it breaks on its way to the Mud Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Two agenda items are for Professional Design Services Proposals financed from the recently-approved $67 million in municipal bonds.

Collage, Valdosta City Council Packet, 2025-04-10

That’s $485,010 for 6.g. Consideration of a request to approve a Professional Design Services Proposal for Utility Rehabilitation and Improvements for the Lakeland Highway Lift Station and the Sanitary Sewer Main Outfall.

And $167,000 for 6.h. Consideration of a request to approve a Professional Design Services Proposal for Evaluation of the Knights Creek Sanitary Sewer Trunk Line.

Both contracts go, no surprise, to LEA Surveying and Engineering Services.

These are just design contracts. The later contracts for actually doing the work will presumably have RFPs and multiple bids.

Also on the agenda, for $279,900 funded out of user fees, and also a sole source agreement, was 7.c) Consideration of a request to purchase a new Micro Bar Screen for the Mud Creek Water Pollution Control Plant.

So that’s $931,910, or almost a million dollars, in sewer system contracts in one Valdosta City Council meeting.

The extent of the sewer system problem will require many more millions spent, after the well more than $100 million they already spent.

Here is the agenda.
https://www.valdostacity.com/file/8240/download?token=l4yXr9FM

The board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request, is on the LAKE website, with images of each page below.

Why the packet is not on the city’s own website is mysterious.

Even more mysterious is why the minutes of that meeting are not on the city’s Agendas & Minutes web page. There have been two more City Council meetings since then, at one of which those April 10 minutes should have been approved.

Agenda 2024-04-10

3. Landscape Development Regulations, 4. Public Hearings, 5. Ordinances and Resolutions
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2. Minutes Approval

Draft Minutes, VCC, 2025-03-20
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3.a. Presentation by Staff on recommendations for revisions to Land Development Regulations

to improve the City’s resiliency during extreme weather events and to quantitatively ease the cost burden to commercial developers due to landscaping requirements.
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4.a. VA-2025-04 Justin Nijem, 1604 Lankford Drive, rezone 0.84 acres from C-N to R-M

to develop it with a 15-unit two-story apartment building in accordance with a submitted site plan.
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4.b. VA-2025-05, Daniel Straka, 107 Jordan Street, rezone 0.51 acres from R-10 to C-H

to have all the property zoned C-H so that it can be better marketed for future commercial development.
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5.a. Consideration of a Resolution to update the Georgia Fund 1 Account Contact Information.

to add additional authorized users as well as a “view only contact.”
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