2016-0248
INTRODUCED BY: LARRY COCHRAN, PARISH PRESIDENT
(DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS)
ORDINANCE NO. ______________
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An ordinance to approve and authorize the execution of the Cooperative Endeavor Agreement between The Pontchartrain Levee District (PLD) and St. Charles Parish (Parish), which supersedes and replaces the Cooperative Endeavor Agreements between the PLD and the Parish executed by the PLD and the Parish on January 16, 2001, and January 10, 2001, respectively, for overall maintenance of certain structures constructed within the “ST. CHARLES PARISH LEVEE PROJECT”.
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WHEREAS, the PLD, the local non-federal sponsor, and St. Charles Parish are commissioned with hurricane protection, flood control, and drainage for the residents and commercial entities of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana; and,
WHEREAS, the “ST. CHARLES PARISH LEVEE PROJECT” includes and/or is comprised of earthen levees, roads, ramps, drainage structures, flood gate structures, sheet pile/concrete flood walls, and pump stations, all of which require continuous operation, maintenance, repair, replacement and rehabilitation; and,
WHEREAS, the “ST. CHARLES PARISH LEVEE PROJECT” will and has required studies and design engineering, construction, resident inspection, and testing, as well as operation, maintenance, repair, replacement and rehabilitation; and,
WHEREAS, neither the PLD nor the Parish is financially capable of bearing one hundred (100%) percent of the total local non-federal sponsor’s portion of the costs of any study or studies, design engineering, construction, resident inspection, and testing, and/or the operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, and rehabilitation of the “ST. CHARLES PARISH LEVEE PROJECT”; and,
WHEREAS, the PLD and the Parish have agreed to share in the local non-federal sponsor’s share on a basis of eighty (80%) percent to PLD and twenty (20%) percent to the Parish for the costs of the work described above; and,
WHEREAS, the PLD and the Parish have reached an agreement as to the apportionment of responsibility for the payment for past operation, maintenance, and repair costs, and any ongoing and/or future design engineering, construction, resident inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, replacement, and rehabilitation costs of the “ST. CHARLES PARISH LEVEE PROJECT”, as well as other obligations and responsibilities of the parties, all as set forth in the proposed Cooperative Endeavor Agreement attached hereto; and,
WHEREAS, the Cooperative Endeavor Agreement is in furtherance of the public’s best interest and purpose, and is in satisfaction of a public need.
THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION I. That the Parish President is hereby authorized to execute the Cooperative Endeavor Agreement between The Pontchartrain Levee District and St. Charles Parish attached hereto.
The foregoing ordinance having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows:
And the ordinance was declared adopted this ________ day of ______________, 2016, to become effective five (5) days after publication in the Official Journal.
CHAIRMAN:
SECRETARY:
DLVD/PARISH PRESIDENT:
APPROVED: DISAPPROVED:
PARISH PRESIDENT:
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