2014-0041
INTRODUCED BY: V.J. ST. PIERRE, JR., PARISH PRESIDENT
(DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS)
ORDINANCE NO. _____________
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An ordinance approving and authorizing the execution of a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement between St. Charles Parish and the Lafourche Basin Levee District relative to the West Bank Hurricane Protection System.
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WHEREAS, the Parish and the District have joint responsibility for providing comprehensive flood control protection for the lives and property of its citizens within their territorial jurisdictions; and,
WHEREAS, the Parish and the District have agreed to maintenance of existing levees and future levees on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the St. Charles Parish; 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 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 flood control projects with the power to enter into maintenance agreements to maintain 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 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, and each party expects to receive benefits for the themselves and the public at least equal to the costs and responsibilities undertaken pursuant to this Agreement; and,
WHEREAS, the purposes of the Agreement is to define the respective rights, duties, respon...
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