# Board of Commissioners Work Session - October 19, 2026

The Douglas County Board of Commissioners’ October 19, 2026 work session covered grant requests, service agreements, public-safety equipment, and transportation projects. Grant items included funding for a juvenile Bridge Court program (with some costs remaining in the department budget), $10,000 from Norfolk Southern for the Fire Department hazmat team, $1,425 for a flag-football program, and a $17,997 highway-safety grant to restore and expand teen and older-adult driver education. The Sheriff’s Office also presented a highway-safety grant with a required county match; the transcript’s amounts are garbled. Other spending items included a $771.75 increase to the JAG misdemeanor-probation contract, a three-year Comcast agreement stated at $10,802.55, and an Invaris Training Solutions shooting-range system funded by 2022 SPLOST, with a stated total of $136,850 including contingency. The board also reviewed a $21,000 workplace training agreement, a 45-day Sharehouse ARPA closeout extension at no additional cost, and an ambulance-payment program involving a $288,689 interim payment and a $96,336 intergovernmental transfer.

Transportation items included a proposed $2,296,087.35 contract with E.R. Snell for road patching, milling, and resurfacing, supported in part by $1,837,631.32 in L grant funds and expected to add about seven miles of resurfacing. The board also considered landscape services under solicitation 2026-011, for which nine bids were received; the monthly contract amount was unclear in the transcript. Other infrastructure items included a $93,211.57 Greystone Power agreement for 72 streetlights on Lee Road Phase 2, funded from SPLOST 2016, and a no-cost schedule extension for KCI Technologies on the Chapel Hill Road/Campbell Street interchange project through December 31, 2027. Individual contract and grant votes were not captured in the transcript; the agenda was approved 3–1, and the board later voted unanimously to enter executive session. Commissioners also requested revisions to the 2027 meeting schedule, including moving specified dates from Thursdays to Wednesdays and combining work sessions and voting meetings where feasible.

**Jurisdictions:** sled
**Industries:** Construction & Infrastructure, Public Safety
**Topics:** Physical Infrastructure, Grants & Funding
**Published:** October 19, 2026

### Sources
- [Board of Commissioners Work Session - October 19, 2026](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTODfsbp7-I) - Douglas County Government