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 ...
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