REGULAR MEETING
OF THE
ASCENSION PARISH COUNCIL
MONDAY – DECEMBER 19, 2011 - 6:00 PM
ASCENSION PARISH COURTHOUSE
828 S. IRMA BLVD – 2nd FLOOR -
GONZALES, LOUISIANA

AMENDED 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)
a. Adopt Regular Council Meeting minutes of November 17, 2011
b. Approval of low bid for the Canon Road Subsurface Drainage Improvements Project No. DPW-10-013 from Acadian Commercial Contractors in the amount of $129,628.00
c. Battered Women’s Program Funding – continue funding of $16,000 for 2012
d. Annual Funding for the South Central District Livestock Show – continue funding of $8,000 for 2012
e. Contract Renewal not to exceed $169,000 for Dr. Donald Schexnaydre, Psychiatrist for Mental Health Department
f. Contract Renewal not to exceed $89,440.00 for Dr. J. Robert Barnes, Psychiatrist for Mental Health Department
g. Contract Renewal not to exceed $400,000 for Fire District #3 – Part time firefighters

GENERAL BUSINESS


8) Cooperative Endeavor Agreement – between Ascension Parish Government and Ascension Economic Development Corporation to promote and develop industry, commerce, and economic development in Ascension Parish (contract renewal) (Legal Counsel Toni Falterman)

9) Proposed Incentives for Project Apple (Chairman Pat Bell and Mike Eades, AEDC)

10) FY 2009-2010 Capital Outlay Funding Ascension-Livingston Parkway Feasibility Study (Ascension) FP&C Project No. 50-J03-10-01 (Parish President Tommy Martinez and Martha Collins, Grants Officer)

11) Request for Qualifications: (Parish President Tommy Martinez & Martha Collins, Grants Officer)
a) FEMA – Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Project #1786-005-0001 – Wind Hardening of Five Public Facilities
b) FEMA – Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Project #1603N-005-0004 – Wind Retrofit of Critical Facilities

11-1) Condemnation Proceedings for the 41486 Waterstone Avenue (Building Official Lavern Bourgeois)

PLANNING AND ZONING RECOMMENDATIONS
(Planning Director Ricky Compton)

12) Zoning Review ID 2173.11 – Tract A1-A for Rein Rod, Inc. – located on the north end of Perkins Oaks Road approximately 2500’ north of LA Hwy 427 (Perkins Road) to amend the Ascension Parish Zoning Map from Medium Intensity Residential (RM) to Mixed Use (MU) Zoning Commission recommends DENIAL of this amendment TO ACCEPT OR DENY


INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCES
(Legal Counsel Toni Falterman)

13) Introduction of Ordinance – to amend the Ascension Parish Subdivision Regulation Section 17-405.D.2 to define certain sign requirements for developments

PUBLIC HEARINGS/ORDINANCES
(Legal Counsel Toni Falterman)

14) Reading 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

15) Public Hearing – to consider an ordinance authorizing the purchase of a parcel of immoveable property on Bluff Road for Ascension Parish Government for the purpose of fire protection

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

17) Reading 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

18) Public Hearing – to consider an 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

19) 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

20) Adjourn


Pat Bell, Chairman
Ascension Parish Council