REGULAR MEETING
OF THE
ASCENSION PARISH COUNCIL
THURSDAY – DECEMBER 1, 2011 - 6:00 PM
ASCENSION PARISH COURTHOUSE
300 HOUMAS STREET
DONALDSONVILLE, LA

AGENDA

1) Call To Order/Invocation and Pledge

2) Roll Call
3) Chair’s Additions

4) Public Comment Sign-In Period

5) Presentations:

6) Parish President’s Report:

7) Consent Agenda: (Chairman Pat Bell)



GENERAL BUSINESS

8) Resolution – providing for the canvassing the returns and declaring the result of the Special Election held in the Parish of Ascension, State of Louisiana on Saturday, November 19, 2011 for the purpose of authorizing the renewal of the levy and collection of a special ad valorem tax of 2.0 mills on all property subject to taxation within the boundaries of the Parish of Ascension, State of Louisiana, commending with the tax collection for the year 2012, and annually thereafter, to and including the year 2021 to provide funds to the Parish of Ascension to be used to maintain and support the Ascension Parish Public Health Center, including buildings, maintenance expenses and other related health care expenses; and providing for other matters in connection therewith

9) Bid Item: (Purchasing Manager Joan Shivers)
a. Replacement of HVACs within the municipalities and parish buildings under the terms of the DNR Energy Grants requirements

10) Resolution – FY 2011 State Homeland Security Program Grant (Parish President Tommy Martinez and Martha Collins, Grants Officers)

10-1) Request for Settlement Authority: William Daniel and Gulf Coast Testing, LLC (Legal Counsel Toni Falterman)

PLANNING & ZONING RECOMMENDATIONS
(Planning Director Ricky Compton)

11) Zoning Review ID 2196.11 – Lot 11-A & 12-A Forest Lawn Subdivision for Florida Parish Bank – located on the south side of LA Highway 621 approximately 1300’ east of LA Highway 73 to request to amend the Ascension Parish Zoning Map from Medium Intensity Residential (RM) to Mixed Use 2 (MU2) Zoning Commission recommends DENIAL of this amendment ACCEPT OR DENY

INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCES
(Legal Counsel Toni Falterman)

12) Introduction of Ordinance – to authorize the purchase of a parcel of immoveable property on Bluff Road for Ascension Parish Government for the purpose of fire protection

13) Introduction of Ordinance – to amend the Ascension Parish Code of Ordinances Sections 17-1 et seq to restructure the Ascension Parish Planning and Zoning Commission to reduce the membership from nine to five and to set the terms thereof

PUBLIC HEARINGS/ORDINANCES
(Legal Counsel Toni Falterman)

14) Reading of Ordinance – to reduce the eastern 14-ft. servitude to a 7.5-ft. servitude Seven Oaks Subdivision at Oak Lane Farm, First Filing – Lot 41 for Timothy Waguespack

15) Public Hearing – to consider an ordinance reducing the eastern 14-ft. servitude to a 7.5-ft. servitude Seven Oaks Subdivision at Oak Lane Farm, First Filing – Lot 41 for Timothy Waguespack

16) Ordinance – to reduce the eastern 14-ft. servitude to a 7.5-ft. servitude Seven Oaks Subdivision at Oak Lane Farm, First Filing – Lot 41 for Timothy Waguespack

17) Reading of Ordinance – to revoke a 7.5-ft. portion of the 15-ft. drainage servitude at the rear of lot 10 Plantation Creek subdivision

18) Public Hearing – to consider an ordinance revoking a 7.5-ft. portion of the 15-ft. drainage servitude at the rear of lot 10 Plantation Creek Subdivision

19) Ordinance - to revoke a 7.5-ft. portion of the 15-ft. drainage servitude at the rear of lot 10 Plantation Creek subdivision

20) Executive Session – Pending Litigation – Coastal Fire Protection v Parish of Ascension, et als. Suit number 83142 (Legal Counsel Toni Falterman)

21) Adjourn


Pat Bell, Chairman
Ascension Parish Council