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Board approves $400,000 GIS contract renewal and USGS agreement to operate 15 gauges
Summary
The board approved a one-year, $400,000 contract renewal with GIS Engineering LLC for isolated pumping-station work and a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey to operate 15 real-time stream gauges in 2026; both motions passed with no objections recorded.
At the Dec. 9 meeting, the East Ascension Consolidated Gravity Drainage District No. 1 approved two agenda items related to monitoring and project support.
The board approved a one-year contract renewal with GIS Engineering LLC for the isolated pumping stations project for $400,000. The motion to approve was made by 'mister Malaasa' and seconded by 'mister Cullen'; the presiding official asked for objections and, hearing none, declared the motion approved.
The board then approved a cooperative endeavor agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Lower Mississippi‑Gulf Water Science Center for operation of 15 real-time stream gauges covering Jan. 1–Dec. 31, 2026. The transcript records funding of $115,700 from the drainage district and $33,000 from the USGS; the presenter stated a combined total during the meeting that the transcript records as $148,007. The arithmetic of those two figures sums to $148,700; this article cites the constituent amounts as stated in the meeting and notes the corrected combined total. The motion to approve the cooperative agreement was made by 'mister Lawson' and seconded by 'mister Varnado'; no objections were recorded.
Both items were approved without recorded roll-call vote counts in the transcript; the presiding official asked for objections and, when none were stated, moved the items forward.
