The longest items at the Work Session this morning were 11 minutes of 6.a. Extension Office Update By Joshua Dawson and 8 minutes of 6.b. American Red Cross Update By Jacqueline Shoemaker.

If you weren’t there, you can only see them here in these LAKE videos, since the Lowndes County Commission does not publish videos of its Work Sessions.

They vote tomorrow evening at 5:30 PM, on spending $214,412.00 on the Spring Creek plant and $24,400.00 on a sewage pump repair at the Peterson Road Lift Station.

If they don’t make a deal before then, they’ll vote on paying $12,400.00 as a condemnation price to get some road and drainage right of way along Twin Lakes Road.

Plus there’s $26,371.00 cash match for a VAWA grant.

Other items include a resolution to sell surplus water meters and a Special Assessment Rate for 2026.

Collage @ LCC Work 26 January 2026

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

See also the agenda and the board packet, received in response to a LAKE video playlist, and available on the LAKE website.

If you wonder why Lowndes County does not put its own board packets on its own website, maybe you’d like to ask them that.

• 1. Call to Order 4. Minutes for Approval
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/QEblS3grRyI

  Lowndes County Board of Commissioners – Work Session – 2026-01-26

  Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).
  http://www.l-a-k-e.org/blog/2026/01/videos-water-treatment-upgrade-because-ga-epd-consent-order-lift-station-pump-repair-condemnation-along-twin-lakes-road-vawa-extension-office-red-cross-lcc-work-2026-01-26.html

• 5.a. Spring Creek Water Treatment Plant Design Build Project
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/nFAZ-MHti7Y

  Just the first step in a long process of remediation.

  
  

• 5.b. Peterson Road Lift Station Pump Repair
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/ap-gH_WdzbU

  
  

• 5.c. Resolution To Sell Surplus Water Meter Components
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/SLIQqOu1fbk

  
  

• 5.d. Condemning ROW And Drainage Easement For Twin Lakes Road
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/lGAH04ULo3o

  5d. Condemning Right Of Way And Drainage Easement For Twin Lakes Road TSPLOST Paving Project; Parcel 3

  They still might work something out by tomorrow. But if not, the county will (assuming the commission votes in the affirmative) to start the condemnation process.

  
  

• 5.e. Special Assessment Rate For 2026
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/HUXyaKtsrqY

  
  

• 5.f. Approval Of The Solicitor General’s FY26 VAWA Continuation Grant
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/OeD9IN5raZM

  5f. Approval Of The Solicitor General’s FY26 VAWA Continuation Grant Application

  
  

• 6.a. Reports – Extension Office Update By Joshua Dawson
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/o5mt_YMYtsw

  
  

• 6.b. American Red Cross Update By Jacqueline Shoemaker
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/g1nfRePL2bQ

  
  

• 8. Adjournment
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/snLTkz8n_Uk

  
  

Here is the LAKE video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiHAmxmLAa7L1RAJjekEgvXM&si=eQAbXIhQ7JryK3Ge

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