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Votes at a glance: Water Sector Commission approves extensions, guidance changes and several scope actions

October 16, 2025 | 2025 Legislature LA, Louisiana


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Votes at a glance: Water Sector Commission approves extensions, guidance changes and several scope actions
The Louisiana Water Sector Commission recorded a series of voice-vote approvals on procedural items, deadline extensions and guidance amendments during its recent meeting.

Key outcomes included:

- Approval of meeting minutes (motion by Senator Womack).
- Deadline extension approvals: Magnolia Plantation Water System was granted an eight-month extension to provide plans, specifications and match documentation; Pointe Coupee Parish Waterworks District No. 1 received a 90-day extension to finalize local match documentation and a consolidation agreement; West Baton Rouge Parish Sewer Project received a six-month extension to provide plans and specifications to LDH.
- Scope and schedule actions: The commission approved a scope-change reallocation for St. John the Baptist Parish (detailed in a separate item) and approved Pendleton Water Association’s request to continue consideration to the November meeting so it could produce match documentation from the Delta Regional Authority (motion by Senator Reese; no objection recorded).
- Funding correction: Greenbrier (Green Bridal Prairie Base in the packet) received a clerical correction to previously approved additional funding; Heather Paul said the correction did not change the funding already in place and the commission approved the correction (motion by Senator Reese).
- Program guidance: The commission amended Phase 2 guidance to allow projects that had been terminated by the Water Sector Commission to apply for Phase 2 and future rounds, and the commission adopted the revised Phase 2 guidance as presented (motion to adopt by Senator Reese; approved).
- Portal and administrative notices: Staff announced the Water Sector portal opening for 2026–27 applications on Friday at 7:30 a.m. and closing Dec. 1 at 4:30 p.m.

Most votes were taken by voice with no roll-call tallies recorded in the transcript. When roll-call counts were not provided, the meeting record states motions were approved with "hearing or seeing none" responses from commissioners.

Below is a consolidated list of actions recorded in the meeting packet and in the transcript, with the mover where specified and the commission outcome.

Votes (selected):

- Approve minutes — mover: Senator Womack — outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Magnolia Plantation Water System: 8-month extension (to provide plans/specs and match documentation) — mover: Senator Jenkins — outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Pointe Coupee Parish Waterworks District No. 1: 90-day extension (local match and consolidation agreement) — mover: not specified in transcript — outcome: approved (voice vote).
- West Baton Rouge Parish Sewer Project: 6-month extension (provide plans/specs to LDH) — mover: Representative McFallon — outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Pendleton Water Association: continue/extend consideration to November meeting for additional match verification (Delta Regional Authority) — mover: Senator Reese — outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Greenbrier funding clerical correction: adopt corrected additional funding amount (no new funds requested) — mover: Senator Reese — outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Phase 2 guidance amendment (allow terminated projects to reapply) and adoption of amended guidance — mover: Senator Reese — outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Motion to adjourn — mover: Senator Reese — outcome: approved (voice vote).

Where the transcript records a named mover, that person is listed; where a mover or a vote tally was not voiced, the meeting is recorded as having approved the motion by voice vote with no roll-call recorded.

The commission packet and staff notes show no formal roll-call tallies for these items; individual articles on more substantive items (for example, the Tallulah scope change and the St. John reallocation) include more detail and speaker attribution.

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