![]() This round focused on implementation-ready, low-risk projects that address flood risks through a watershed-based approach. Round 1 awarded $100 million to 28 flood mitigation projects submitted by local and regional public entities. LWI’s website states that $570 Million will be “Disbursed in Three Rounds.” (What happened to the other $630 Million?) Round 1, which has been completed, included State Projects and Local/Regional Projects. “The next round of funding is crucial to solving the problem (which led to 2016’s disastrous consequences), not just putting money out there to political categories. “A lot of us who follow this closely are deeply concerned about where this is headed,” Cointment elaborated, specifically taking issue with a procedural requirement to include funding in “low to moderate income” whether adversely impacted or not. Of that ten, according to President Cointment during ARBC’s Tuesday’s meeting, three parishes suffered the most Ascension, Livingston and East Baton Rouge. “A lot of us feel that it’s being manipulated.”ĭuring the ARBC proceedings two days earlier Harrell proposed “a mandamus action” against the State of Louisiana, LWI, Office of Community Development (through which funding flows because it originates in HUD) and other participating agencies (Coastal Protection and Restoration Agency, DOTD, GOHSEP, and the Department of Wildlife & Fisheries). “That has not happened,” Harrell declared, lamenting changes in the scoring process to assess project proposals. On Thursday he explained that 50% of the $1.2 Billion made available to LWI through a Department of House and Urban Development (HUD) Flood Mitigation Grant is mandated to be expended in the ten parishes most-impacted by flooding the 2016. Livingston’s Mark Harrell, June 20 ARBC meeting Cointment is the lone chief executive to sit on ARBC, the rest designating a representative.īack to Mark Harrell (we are unsure what his actual title is in President Layton Ricks’ administration but it is one of authority). Ascension’s governing authority is scheduled to meet on June 29 after failing to reach a quorum for its regularly scheduled meeting on June 15. The lawsuit, according to Harrell, will be supported by six of the seven parishes included in the Commission, including Ascension.Īscension President Clint Cointment would not comment on Livingston’s resolution, whether Ascension will join such a lawsuit, waiting to see if the Council will authorize legal action. It came at the urging of Mark Harrell, President Layton Ricks’ designee to Amite River Basin Commission (ARBC), who had broached the subject two days earlier at the commission’s latest meeting. On Thursday the Livingston Parish Council unanimously resolved to take legal action against the State of Louisiana, Louisiana Watershed Initiative (LWI) and the agencies tasked to make decisions about how $1.2 Billion worth of federal flood mitigation aid is being allocated. ![]() East Ascension included in Region 9, West Ascension in Region 6.
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