2014-0320
INTRODUCED BY: V.J. ST. PIERRE, JR., PARISH PRESIDENT
(CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER)
ORDINANCE NO.
Title
An ordinance to approve and authorize the execution of a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement between St. Charles Parish and the Sunset Drainage District to define the respective rights, duties, responsibilities, and liabilities.
Body
WHEREAS, the PARISH and the DISTRICT have joint responsibility for providing adequate drainage and comprehensive flood control protection for the lives and property of its citizens within their territorial jurisdictions; and,
WHEREAS, Article VII, Section 14(C) of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974 provides in part that, "For a public purpose, the state and its political subdivisions or political corporations may engage in cooperative endeavors with each other, with the United States or its agencies, or with any public or private association, corporation, or individual"; and,
WHEREAS, the PARISH, acting through the Parish Council for St. Charles Parish, has constitutional and statutory authority for establishing, acquiring, constructing, improving, extending, and maintaining drainage and flood control projects within its territory and to cooperate with and enter into cooperative endeavor agreements and arrangements with other political subdivisions and drainage districts for drainage and flood control projects with the power to enter into maintenance agreements to maintain drainage and flood control structures and levees; and,
WHEREAS, the DISTRICT is a legislatively created local political subdivision drainage district of the State of Louisiana with the statutory authority to contract, including cooperative endeavor agreements, for the construction, operation, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of any drainage and flood control project; and,
WHEREAS, this Agreement will be mutually beneficial to the parties in the furtherance of their respective statutory purposes, duties, and authorities...
Click here for full text