2015-0369
INTRODUCED BY: PAUL J. HOGAN, PE, COUNCILMAN, DISTRICT IV
ORDINANCE NO.
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An ordinance instructing the Parish President to enter into a contract to perform a budgeted task, which he is legally obligated to do, and that it be done within fourteen (14) days following the Council's passing of this ordinance, and that the contract be entered into with Couvillion Group, LLC in the amount of $29,000 which is the amount the Administration received in a bid it had requested and received and that it utilize the $30,000 allotted in the 2015 Parish budget to perform the budgeted task of raising and disposing the sunken vessel "Pretty Boy" from the Scenic Waterway Bayou Des Allemands, and to authorize the employment of Special Legal Counsel to be selected by the Council Chairman for the purpose of 1) taking any and all legal action required on behalf of the St. Charles Parish Council in order to have a court of competent jurisdiction compel the Parish President to perform his legal obligation related to this matter should the Parish President not provide the Council with an executed contract with Couvillion Group, LLC within the time allotted above, and/or 2) to defend the St. Charles Parish Council should the Parish President elect to file suit against the St. Charles Parish Council as a result of the passing of this ordinance or any legal action required as a result of anything having to do with any of the subject matter noted above or contained within the following whereas', and be it known that the St. Charles Parish Council does hereby deem and declared that any part of this ordinance not found to be invalid by an agency or authority shall not invalidate the remaining portions of this ordinance.
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WHEREAS, the sunken vessel Pretty Boy (the vessel) has been an eye sore to the residents in the vicinity of the sunken vessel and to the visitors to our Parish for more than six (6) years now; and,
WHEREAS, the Parish Council has received a petiti...
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