Two years after announcing the joint effort to build a St. Amant library/community center by the Library Board and parish government, an actual Intergovernmental Agreement was approved by the Parish Council on Tuesday. It was part of a two-item Special Meeting as the governing authority struggles to muster a quorum as the current term in […]
Sale of sewer treatment assets a huge deal…recapping the last decade
08/21/2023 by
Decades ago Ascension Parish lost control of its water supply to Baton Rouge Water, hamstringing multiple attempts to establish regional sewer treatment in a system steadily worsening with every additional rooftop added to the grid. Bayou Manchac, New River and other waterways increasingly compromised, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality warned Ascension that wastewater treatment permits […]
New River pumps into Mississippi is Ascension’s top priority at Amite River Basin meeting
05/17/2023 by
Amite River Basin Drainage & Water Conservation District (ARBC) convened its monthly meeting at Ascension’s Council Chamber on Tuesday. Six of the seven participating parishes were represented, with different project priorities all vying for precious funding from whatever source might be available. Parish President Clint Cointment argued for prioritization of the proposal to pump water […]
$4.6 million Bayou Boyle Detention Pond funding approved by House/Senate Committee
04/12/2023 by
According to a release from District 58 Representative Ken Brass: On Monday the Joint House/Senate Transportation Committee approved the 2023-2024 LA Statewide Flood Control Program which includes funding for two Ascension Parish drainage projects. West Ascension Drainage Improvements – $3.2 million (Donaldsonville) Bayou Boyle Regional Detention Pond – $4.6 million (Gonzales) Also, the Joint Committee […]
Cointment and EA Drainage close strong in 2022
12/15/2022 by
East Ascension Drainage Board’s final meeting of 2022 was momentous, its enormity belied by the lack of fanfare and subdued mood of its membership. In dollars the various projects included a total in the $100 million range, give or take, with three of them on EA Drainage’s drawing board for decades nearing fruition. Of more recent […]
EA Drainage’s 2021 coup attempt is over (Cointment wins big)
11/15/2022 by
The only noteworthy item on Monday’s East Ascension Drainage Board agenda was the one omitted. Nearly 13 months ago it appeared that President Clint Cointment had been forced into a power-sharing agreement whereby an, as yet unidentified, Drainage Director would be hired to usurp certain of the parish chief executive’s authority over drainage. The usurpation […]
Juvenile Detention Tax funds to Remodel/Construct Tutoring Center
05/26/2022 by
On October 17, 2013, by a 8-1 vote, Ascension’s Parish Council adopted an ordinance creating a one-mill property tax that did not require public approval at the ballot box. Former District 10 Councilman Bryan Melancon was the lone dissenting vote for the ordinance: “To authorize a one (1) mill property tax to fund Participation Agreement(s) […]
Casso’s last minute changes water down TIA ordinance, subdivision moratorium coming to end
05/20/2022 by
On Thursday Ascension’s Parish Council adopted the last piece of legislation among two “batches” worth of proposed ordinances justifying the moratorium on subdivisions. Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA) required of every major/minor subdivision was codified, heightening certain requirements in what has long been mere policy, but only after last minute negotiations between two members. St. Amant’s […]
Cagnolatti sides with Lawler and Orgeron against the City of Gonzales
05/10/2022 by
Flooding concerns having long plagued the Town of Sorrento, threats to withhold important drainage improvement projects by four petulant Ascension Parish Council members are no laughing matter…not to the citizens of Sorrento (nor their neighbors to the west in the City of Gonzales). Aaron Lawler, Teri Casso, Corey Orgeron and John Cagnolatti (sitting as East […]
EA Drainage approves deal with Cointment in raucous meeting (another Orgeron meltdown)
10/19/2021 by
On Monday, after four months a wrangling East Ascension Drainage Board approved a deal whereby the Parish President will continue to oversee drainage works. The newly-adopted MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT (an Addendum to the Existing Contract) requires the hiring of a Drainage Director and a “liaison” but, for the most part, formalizes rudimentary tasks and obligations already owed by […]
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