Police jury hears report on road improvement project

Road work is about to begin that is funded with a 2 percent tax approved by voters to pay for a 15-year bond issue.
The parish’s consulting engineer, Ronnie landreneau, said contracts for the work will be signed and certified by the end of this month.
The first phase of the road improvements is divided into Contract A, for the north part of the parish, and Contract B, for the south part of the parish. The contracts were awarded when bids were opened during a special meeting in early October.
Diamond B. Construction was the low bidder for Contract A. Coastal Bridge Company, LLC, was the low bidder for Contract B
The next phase of the road improvement project would use funds remaining after the first phase is finished. Those funds would be used at each juror’s discretion. Allocation of those funds will depend on the road mileage, with special consideration to districts represented by jurors Ryal Williams and Richard Thomas. which have a total of about five miles.
Landreneau also told the police jury the Morgan Road bridge replacement project will begin this week and take a couple of weeks to complete.
The police jury also discussed plans to set up an emergence response committee,composed of emergency responders. The first meeting will take place today, October 13.
The police jury set the police jury’s annual French meeting for Tuesday, December 2, at 2 p.m.
The police jury decided to table two issues taken up during previous meetings:
•An ordinance requiring that new lots where junked vehicles are stored have fencing that obscures views of the lots from roads that pass by.
•An ordinance regarding the requirements for truckers of heavy loads to obtain road use permits. The parish’s current ordinance covers pipeline and timber haulers but not other haulers, such as construction contractors. The police jury also has discussed having weight limits also pertain to agricultural haulers, with variances for weight limits allowed for unusual circumstances.