[0:00] chosen to represent the people of the
parish bag of the Almighty God to
[0:04] enlighten our minds so that our work
will be just and fair in all things give
[0:10] us the courage and strength to fulfill
our duties according to the laws of the
[0:14] land and in so doing fulfilling also on
earth and in heaven through Christ our
[0:20] Lord amen
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[1:04] roll call mr. fusilli here district 2 is
a hoppity's here district 3 ms northeast
[1:15] here district for mr. porter here
district 5
[1:21] mr. tose an here district 6 up on here
district 7 mr. Alexander district 9 mr.
[1:33] Rashard here in the chairs here also
here presents past president Chester
[1:41] Cedars we also have the direct
administrator over a their Director of
[1:47] Public Works cases for bit Director of
Finance mr. Sean Huntley the clerk of
[1:52] court Lacey laughs Rouge district clerk
of how so Brooke Gillespie and also I
[1:59] believe mr. duro is on our Paris
attorney
[2:09] I'll entertain a motion now to approve
the minutes of the regular meeting of
[2:14] April 16 2020 I make a motion I have a
motion by mr. tose I vote mr. futile a
[2:29] yes yes yes mr. tose Anse
yes mr. sharp on mr. sharp on your mute
[2:48] yes sorry mr. Alexander
yes mr. rishe or yes and the chair votes
[2:58] yes the motion carries
[3:04] I'm six persons to address the council
there are nine items seven special
[3:11] business
Rowdy math urn general manager of
[3:15] Pelican waste and debris LLC to discuss
remedial action for delinquent accounts
[3:26] mr. chairperson if I may Chester Cedars
parish president I had requested it mr.
[3:33] Mathur appear before the council as a
result of the notification that Pelican
[3:42] would be asserting his right to pick up
various containers waste disposal
[3:48] containers for customers who are
delinquent in their accounts I felt that
[3:53] before that kind of action would be
taken that appears before the council
[3:58] would be very prudent so that you could
bet any concerns or make sure all your
[4:03] questions were answered relative to that
decision
[4:07] thank you
mr. paternal you come on yeah I am me
[4:14] yeah yeah yeah I talked to a Chester
what about two weeks ago maybe just a
[4:22] week ago somewhere around that can
remember it's it's where disco in
[4:28] nineteen it's uh you know working from
home and doing just like technology
[4:34] we're here to do this
you know our office we use Microsoft
[4:39] teams which is a great tool as well but
anyway that's just kind of a just
[4:45] address the residents that are you know
we went to the contract for nine months
[4:51] now and we have still about thirty-five
of Nan pain residents so we've been
[4:59] going through the areas and tagging cans
last week we did district six seven
[5:05] eight nine and four or five and next
week we want to do District one two
[5:10] three and four and then we'll finish up
fortify so we we've already did from
[5:17] tagging before and we was very
successful at it and we we did some more
[5:22] tagging and and the ones that we do in a
second tag I wanted to address the
[5:27] council and the parishes to let them
know that we you know the next action
[5:33] will probably start removing carts so if
we have a non paying customers so you
[5:42] know this date from July first when we
started to now and we did a lot of
[5:47] credits and all that we have in clay
over half a million dollars oh wait
[5:55] residents that have not paid they have
some residents just refused to base have
[6:00] never paid for garbage before and people
right now so you know I just want like I
[6:07] said it's come to y'all guys and address
and let y'all know if y'all do get a few
[6:11] phone calls we're gonna try to take it
as slow as we can and and progress
[6:17] throughout in
get some cans removed and maybe it may
[6:23] let people know that you know once we do
that they don't have to call back for
[6:29] their their Court yeah I have a question
I mean what's the form of you have a
[6:44] four word procedural process that y'all
following to do this I mean I know the
[6:48] ordinance calls for initially you you
know if you laid you get a 10% late fee
[6:55] on your bill and then out at some point
you should be contacting the powers to
[7:03] so that we can psych psych the ones that
don't want to pay for
[7:09] we've unfortunate kovin 19 came along so
it was hard to you know face to face
[7:16] with the parish or do anything but the
first six months are the first two
[7:23] quarter of a billing we have not did a
late fee but we've done it in the last
[7:32] billing we've done and still have not
gotten to know respond to it now well
[7:39] we've been fine and since we've been on
the road there was a lot of empty lots
[7:42] and we took that off and you know we get
into a manageable amount of resonance
[7:48] that or you know it's kind of round
14,500 it looks like he'll be total
[7:57] maybe a little less but it's you know we
started off with a big 9/11 we got with
[8:06] the water company we went from 21,000
addresses to now we to management about
[8:12] you know 14,000 some what number of
residents that really exists in the
[8:18] parish and not lots I think what
happened is 9/11 a lot is subdivided he
[8:24] gets an address so and it gets a name
who have owns a lot so we found those
[8:30] vacant lots and or we also found
a lot of abandoned homes so that they
[8:36] have no court so we removed that off the
list my main concern is when you start
[8:43] picking up trash can that it's not
arbitrary you know that you do it
[8:48] consistent throughout the parish and
that you have a set a set guideline that
[8:54] they're overdue about one month or two
months or four months whatever you
[8:58] decide that is before you do that in and
you treat everyone the same throughout
[9:02] the whole parish and not be arbitrary
and say I'm gonna pick up all the trash
[9:06] cans in in the north end or mid section
order south ain't you no no we're
[9:13] actually gonna do it like I said we've
actually wanted to tag and give
[9:17] everybody an opportunity and tag every
court and you know we went and did a
[9:23] second round of tagging and now we are
in the process of you know we're gonna
[9:29] be following the route it's gonna be you
know Monday around we may be on Monday
[9:34] picking up in that district if it's
Tuesday round will be on Tuesday cuz
[9:38] we'll have to follow the trucks and we
want just bare going in any district and
[9:42] just pick up carts and but I don't think
it will be you know we're not gonna pick
[9:47] up like three or four hundred courts a
day because that's would be impossible
[9:51] what's the criteria you use it to pick
up the corner how late you have to be
[9:55] well I mean if there are over six months
I think it's you know they haven't paid
[10:01] anything then we need to look at that so
okay did you get my lamp I'm sorry yeah
[10:12] well we tagged we had a lot of
successful call in but we still have
[10:18] quite a bit that has not eat a call or
just refused to pay anyone else coming
[10:28] several there's several people that have
more than one address you know they
[10:32] might have an extra something they
inherited just probably why did not pain
[10:36] on some of these wait wait yeah we we
will we were there tagging they might
[10:44] have had like a BC grass you know the
same address but it may have been a B
[10:50] and C and we've we've addressed all of
those we took that off the list so it's
[10:58] it's been a long nine months tedious
process and we've been removing a lot of
[11:05] those duplicates of the list at moderate
you ride it might have been inherited a
[11:09] property or or there's multiple I guess
subdivided property and they may have
[11:16] multiple ABCD and then there's a lot of
numbers so we removed a lot of that mr.
[11:27] chairperson um mrs. Joseph Cedars again
I just want to make sure that that
[11:34] anyone who gets their container picked
up or a deed is indeed delinquent we
[11:40] have we do get to call us here at parish
government we're not supposed to be
[11:44] getting the but we do and we address
them and even on that last list that was
[11:49] disseminated to all of you which we
received from Pelican few weeks ago we
[11:55] got calls a couple of customers saying
look we paid our bills we get double
[12:02] billed so I just want to make sure that
Pelican when they go out to pick up
[12:09] those cans they are actually picking up
cans at places and residences locks or
[12:14] whatever then are truly delinquent
because I can I can assure you our
[12:21] personnel here at parish government we
get the calls Dean I think you addressed
[12:29] this I can send you a process and all
the council in the parish president our
[12:36] process of what we're gonna do and also
I can send all y'all a daily report of
[12:41] what area
we'll be in I'm what target we me you
[12:46] know what car to me these I guess
repossessing picking out for something
[12:53] so y'all can all be on the same page and
everybody knows and understands what's
[12:57] going on and we definitely from the
parish government perspective would like
[13:01] to know whose cards were picked up
because that means they're now not
[13:08] participating in the mandatory program
and there are penalties as mr. LeBlanc
[13:12] referenced earlier that needs to be
addressed well that's a correct yeah and
[13:18] if you remember chests that we had
talked about mean with the DA and and
[13:22] all that on that of course all of this
happen and kind of being put on the
[13:27] process but yeah absolutely anything
that can be picked up will be sent to
[13:32] the power office to let y'all know that
Y was picked up in penalties against
[13:40] people of this nature that makes it even
more important as mr. LeBlanc observed
[13:46] that we have a non arbitrary process in
place correct I'm fully in support of
[13:53] you know collecting from those that
haven't been paying our or taking trash
[13:58] cans that did not participate just want
to make sure that the process is is okay
[14:08] miss Alexander it did you ever consider
[14:21] and fixed-income look like they would
have a problem with a Harley bill well
[14:28] did you ever consider the monthly bill
the way they were doing it before we
[14:32] should be a smaller smaller team we got
about twenty five hundred customers that
[14:38] or paying on a monthly because of the
fix income so we were working with those
[14:43] residents on that so we do have a you
know I say a small portion that we are
[14:51] working with I mean over twenty five
hundred customer
[14:55] that are you know paid partially or paid
what they can each one so you say it's
[15:02] optional then when you send them the you
know the statement it's optional they
[15:06] could either pay monthly if they want to
do so I mean I'm not saying it's
[15:12] optional but we've been we understand
that we there is people that are in
[15:16] fixed income that just can't pay three
months in advance
[15:21] so we are working with those elderly
people miss Alexander maybe I can also
[15:28] weigh in on this issue when the new
program was bid it was bid for quarterly
[15:36] payments before the the former provider
or before the former contract expired
[15:44] the billing to the to the parish was
every four months as opposed to every
[15:50] three months then it was reduced for
every monthly billing and it stayed that
[15:55] way to this contract expired and when we
when we went out for RFP request for
[16:01] proposals for the current contract it
was for quarterly billing because the
[16:06] amount is less okay because of the you
know stay at home owner they have a lot
[16:17] more people putting out trash and
garbage and so the garbage has been in
[16:21] the last two months extremely heavy so
you know this I mean there's no
[16:26] additional charge to the resident but
it's because of the stay-at-home auto
[16:31] we've we've been facing a lot of having
to put additional equipment on the road
[16:35] as well I mean not only in st. mark
parsley Terrebonne Biloxi everywhere we
[16:42] pick up debris pickup it you know and of
course the garbage itself is heavy as
[16:48] well anybody have any other comments or
questions I got a question mister for
[16:55] you I think I understood you correct
before y'all going in each district
[17:03] collect cans for non-payment you will
know the father council person for that
[17:08] district what we can we can send a
Chester wants to do it you know or the
[17:14] council wants to do we can send y'all
information of the delinquent addresses
[17:19] and that you know we'll be in that area
whatever district it is on Monday
[17:25] collection will be out I would just like
to know when you start gathering the
[17:31] cans in in in my district if you can let
me know a day in advance or something
[17:37] just so I'm aware of in case I get any
phone calls sure yeah no we got a good
[17:42] process we I guess we perfection it in
the last nine months we definitely can
[17:48] do that we can send you you know
something like Friday and this is what
[17:53] we're gonna do next week you know I
appreciate it Arata would it be possible
[17:59] that each council person get a list of
the addresses in their district who
[18:04] delinquent and who's not and a lot like
a give us a chance to go through them I
[18:08] was looking at some of the ones that you
think that I did and I know some of
[18:11] those people even very not in my
district there was a few people I know
[18:14] that don't even live here anymore in
this area that moved so maybe if we can
[18:19] see a list by district each council
person they will be kind of there some
[18:24] names we take over there we could get
which we make they don't live here they
[18:29] shouldn't have cans yeah but just not
everybody's got a cane but what's
[18:35] happening there's people I a relative of
mine that lives in Daniels district his
[18:40] name is on that list and he lives in
Texas and he'd been living in Texas
[18:44] public the past five years but you might
still have properly
[18:47] John I understand he has no cans he just
getting a break they may be a rental
[18:59] property they may be getting a bill and
it's being rent to someone else so but
[19:06] you still have a lot of multiple
buildings people get more than one bill
[19:09] correct yes
I just think if we don't buy district
[19:14] each council person we get that a dead
lives for their district we kind of help
[19:17] us to go through these who they are
maybe we could save you time and trouble
[19:21] or there
absolutely - I agree with time great I
[19:26] can send that list tomorrow
all right Thank You ruff no problem any
[19:31] other questions mr. Mathur no so my
understanding mr. Thibodeau wants to
[19:37] speak I thought you might have been with
you no no okay I think he thought we
[19:51] were gonna be at a meeting okay all
right okay no further questions Thank
[19:57] You mr. Mathur thank you thank you
[20:11] public hearing there are no summary
numbers 0 3 2 RS a resolution
[20:22] proclaiming the month of May 2020 as
official air quality Awareness Month in
[20:28] st. Martin parish I have a motion by mr.
Furley I heard a second talk about mr.
[20:35] tose and anyone want to speak on the
motion mr. mr. fusillade how do you is
[20:54] nor season yes mr. for you yes mr. tose
Ann yes mr. sharp on yes mr. Alexander
[21:06] yes mr. Rashard yes yes motion carries
unanimously
[21:17] summary number zero three three RS a
resolution reappointing miss Pamela
[21:23] Lemoine's to serve as a member of the
sixteenth Judicial District Children and
[21:28] Youth Planning Board I have a motion by
mr. batiste
[21:32] I hear a second I'll second it second by
mr. future late and he won't care to
[21:38] comment ready for the vote
mr. fusilli yes this is your party's yes
[21:46] this is North Sea's yes the poor you yes
mr. tose Ann yes yes Alexander yes mr.
[22:00] Bouchard yeah and the chair votes yes
motion carried unanimously summary
[22:09] number zero three for RS a resolution
authorizing and approving the parish
[22:15] president to execute change order number
three in the amount of one hundred
[22:19] eighteen thousand three hundred fifty
one dollars and six cents increase and a
[22:24] 116 date contract time extension for the
k-pork pavillion basketball court and
[22:31] paving project by JC construction mr.
seeders care to comment yeah well I
[22:38] could come in very briefly this is one
of those change orders that I did not
[22:44] want to sign before bringing it to the
council because of the amount of the
[22:49] change that's a substantial sum I just
wanted to let you know that I did have
[22:55] some personal conversations with our
project manager mr. Babineaux as well as
[23:00] the architect and contractor I wanted to
make sure this this 118,000 change order
[23:07] which is substantial was within the
scope of the contract that it wasn't
[23:11] something that we just pulled from the
air they because of the amount and it
[23:17] was not it still falls within the scope
of the contract the most significant
[23:22] part of this change honor is for some
large that fans high velocity fans
[23:29] the basketball court area I have that
there call a big a SS fans and that's
[23:36] the literal name Louisville we have them
in other two other of our parks there
[23:42] they're expensive but they did the job
they work very well so I was satisfied
[23:48] that there was you know we would be
within the scope of the contract by
[23:52] granting this change older also would it
also make sure that it would be function
[23:58] well they would serve a purpose and
after having met or talked to the
[24:02] architect and the general contractor and
this all occurred in early March so I
[24:11] just wanted to impart that information
to you that it was vetted again
[24:16] particularly because of that amount you
get mr. seeders it is still with it
[24:22] budget is still within budget I have a
motion by mrs. drum botties I hear a
[24:26] second I'll second it second but I
missed Alexander to the front
[24:33] ready foot up I saw you reached it for
you oh yeah ready for a vote
[24:41] mr. few Julie yes this is Draupadi's yes
this is no season
[24:48] yes mr. Poirier yes
it's a toes and yes it's a sharp on
[24:56] yes mr. Alexander yes mr. Rison
yeah it's caribou yes motion carried
[25:04] unanimously
[25:09] and ten ordinances introduced for
publication there are nine item 11
[25:16] informational items not requiring
council action Paris president Chester
[25:21] Cedars to provide an update on the Kobuk
19 crisis and other matters mr. Speers
[25:27] thank you it's gonna be hard because
normally when I talk to you long I can
[25:33] know them going over the time I ought to
and I should because I read the body
[25:39] language of mr. tose
[25:42] gages reaction the first thing I want to
point out for the public is that our
[25:51] council chambers are open this meeting
is being broadcast on our big screens
[26:00] that we project on there in our regular
meetings and we do have the press some
[26:05] members of the press in the chambers I'm
in my office also want to establish just
[26:11] for the record that the reason we had to
do this remotely is because of the 10
[26:16] personal limitation is still in effect
on the governor's executive orders we
[26:21] have nine council members the parish
president who by charter has to be
[26:25] present as well as our clerk has to be
present and we would have it would have
[26:30] had it regular you know in person we
would exceeded that limit also these
[26:41] meetings these remote meetings now we I
think using zoom there's other providers
[26:47] out there I've used quite a few
different providers since the crisis has
[26:52] begun and there's a positive I guess is
that I have learned that this is very
[26:57] very effective way to do business
meetings as you know we have to be
[27:03] frequently with engineers and sometimes
lawyers and other professionals who
[27:08] charges to travel to come be with us new
charges by the r4 that travel time I
[27:14] intend to have zoom meetings or to have
these type of webinar type meetings
[27:21] whatever possible and I think we're
going to ultimately save some money in
[27:26] terms of professional charges by having
these type of remote meetings and I
[27:31] think some of you in the business world
have been doing that for a long time and
[27:35] you know what I'm talking about
[27:39] we also want just to let everyone know
that although our gender was a little
[27:45] bit like we wanted to get back on a
normal rotation the first Tuesday our
[27:50] regular meeting and our second Tuesday
have in our our committee meetings and
[27:55] we will get back to that schedule
although we will have a special meeting
[27:59] also matters before our committee
meeting on May 19th I want to start with
[28:08] some positive news we continued our dead
processes even though we could have
[28:15] suspended them under the builders
executive orders we continue to call for
[28:20] bids on some of our projects two of them
or the RESTORE Act projects for the
[28:25] floating peers at Catahoula Park in
uncle dick Davis Park well we had
[28:31] $400,000 budgeted for those two projects
the bids came in last Wednesday 29 the
[28:39] low bid was $184,000 so we were very
much within budget the RESTORE Act
[28:48] Council has deposited in our account
$400,000 so we we're looking into what
[28:55] else we can do with additional monies
within the scope of the RESTORE Act
[29:00] itself so we're very pleased with that
development you will remember in our
[29:07] last meeting I advised you that the
Henderson volunteer fire department had
[29:12] received a reduction in their fire
rating from with class 5 till class 4
[29:17] I'm pleased to announce that today I
received a letter that the Stevensville
[29:22] volunteer fire department it also has
also received a reduction in its Pell
[29:27] rating from class 5 in class 4 that's
big news and that just speaks very
[29:34] highly of our volunteer firemen it
speaks very highly of the administration
[29:41] at the fire service district mr. Brody
Miller mr. David Duguay the work has had
[29:47] a lot of positive results
I had a meeting with the library Board
[29:54] of Control I've had some personal
discussions with some of you in the past
[29:59] one of the villages that funds the
library system is coming up for renewal
[30:04] in the fall election you will be voting
at the special meeting on May 19th to
[30:10] call to formally call for that election
I will be sending each of you a detailed
[30:15] report within by the end of this week
outlining all of the parameters
[30:22] associated with that renewal that
millage the library board was very
[30:27] pleased with some of the ideas that I
advanced relative to the renewal and
[30:32] there's going to be a little bit of a
rededication a portion of an image as
[30:37] well but I'm gonna give you specifics on
that so that you will be fully prepared
[30:41] to bet that issue as the future develops
Cobie 19 updates got a lot to talk about
[30:56] here very brief on most of it because I
post there regularly developments with
[31:04] parish government relative to Cobie 19
you know the last money on April 27th
[31:12] the announced that stay at home would be
extended and there would not be hurry
[31:21] opening of some of the businesses on the
phase one of the day all of our
[31:38] employees return so long had been most
of they've been working remotely as
[31:43] you'll recall but on April 27th a
everybody came and we were fully staffed
[31:49] we had often we're operating under some
protocol checking temperatures of
[31:55] everybody in the morning
wearing masks when we go out in public
[31:59] disinfecting all of our workstations
multiple times a day so things are going
[32:05] real well the spirit of our employees is
second to none I think everybody was
[32:11] excited to to get back to the workplace
and working with all the developments
[32:18] there I have made some decisions
as you know our poor parts were open
[32:24] last Friday May 1st the only exceptions
is that our pavilions stayed closed the
[32:34] playground was open for the children
[32:39] kourt's them remain closed a parks are
being used as you know our restaurants
[32:50] were allowed by executive order last
week to offer outdoor dining
[32:57] without table service in under certain
other restrictions that's going pretty
[33:01] well to also religious services can now
be outdoors with restrictions that came
[33:10] about Friday afternoon late I was on the
phone with several people on late Friday
[33:16] afternoon and a significant part of
Saturday speaking to some of our clergy
[33:21] sending them all the protocols they had
to follow it to open as dictated by the
[33:26] Department of Health in the far Marshall
but understand that that went very well
[33:30] to all of our outdoor services what I
did I made an exception on the pavilions
[33:37] any pavilion in our part that can be
used for outdoor services I am allowing
[33:43] that for outdoor religious services only
[33:50] it's under control of circumstances
relative to the religious services along
[33:57] those same lines Thursday for the
National Day of Prayer allowing the
[34:01] courthouse lawn to be utilized for
services firm
[34:07] for that in connection with that day I
think it begins at 6:30 p.m. I invite
[34:13] you to come I think if you ever needed a
time to pray I think this is probably it
[34:19] I'm not trying to proselytize I'm just
pointing out that that opportunity is
[34:23] going to be available pursuant to all
the guidelines announced by the governor
[34:27] in the state for Marshall Thursday this
Thursday
[34:31] uncle dick Davis or the park operated by
the parish will be open for business I
[34:36] remind everyone that this is Mother's
Day weekend so I thought it would be a
[34:41] good time to open it there's a lot of
people up to use our recreational parks
[34:46] on that day the opening of our offices
is a day-by-day thing you know when I
[34:53] say opening of the offices I mean
opening of the parish facilities for to
[34:57] the public that's a day of analyzing
that on a day to day basis because of a
[35:03] lot of the criteria that we want to look
at it's ever-changing but ever-changing
[35:07] positive as I said here now I anticipate
that we will be open May 18th at the
[35:16] latest and I have some protocols and I'm
preparing for the public when they come
[35:21] to meet with us what they have to have
like masks
[35:26] I'm also developing protocols for our
employees as well when we interact with
[35:30] the public
in our workplaces but I will keep you
[35:35] informed it may be before May 18th lots
gonna depend on what the numbers dictate
[35:42] relative to some of the positive tests
that they're coming back one of the most
[35:48] significant things that we've started
working on about two weeks ago is our
[35:52] hurricane preparations this Kovach 19 is
really causing our ope fischels to do a
[36:01] lot of study as well as the state
facilities the governor's office of
[36:06] homeland security and emergency
preparedness for example sheltering the
[36:10] people that's going to be materially
affected by the the current crisis that
[36:16] were faced with
and even transporting people to a
[36:21] shelter that's gonna opossum some
challenging tasks as well as the
[36:25] distribution of flood mitigation
measures such as sandbags but all of
[36:30] that is being planned and worked on as
we speak we'll have something in place
[36:35] very shortly the hurricane season begins
on the June 1 I know what I'm gonna be
[36:42] praying for on the National Day of
Prayer one of the things is going to be
[36:45] no hurricane examined very closely some
of the stay home orders beginning with
[37:05] the most significant that was March 22nd
this year but even going 27 JBE 2020
[37:14] which was issued on March 16 let me
assure you members of the council and
[37:20] let me assure the public that we have
done everything from a parish government
[37:25] perspectives to ensure that as many
businesses that can legally be open were
[37:32] indeed in or indeed open y'all have read
about some of the gray area businesses
[37:39] and some of the middle-of-the-road
businesses there was a great deal of
[37:44] confusion about those businesses and
rightfully so because the governor's
[37:50] executive order 33 JBE 2020 that was
issued on March 22nd did lead one to be
[37:58] a little uncertain is he or she tried to
interpret that order I I apparently had
[38:06] some issues too early on in fact I had
some phone calls from officials in Baton
[38:14] Rouge relative to the parameters of that
order it was issued on March 22nd March
[38:21] 25th week and said weren't parish had
clarified
[38:24] our confusion and in fact I invite you
to look at my post
[38:29] March 25th 2020 where I outlined the
parameters of that particular
[38:38] stay-at-home order and also as a result
to some confusion that still existed I
[38:43] did a post last week Facebook recording
where we talked about the businesses so
[38:51] we've been pretty well aware of some of
the businesses that people initially
[38:57] thought couldn't be open could indeed be
open and we've been fully on to advance
[39:04] that information beginning March 25th of
this year so I'm pleased to see some of
[39:13] the businesses now starting to get back
up and running they could legally be up
[39:17] good morning also
in anticipation of the phase 1 reopening
[39:23] of those businesses that were absolutely
closed such as our nail salons
[39:30] barbershops places like that I've formed
a committee a couple weeks ago to start
[39:36] working with the barest government to
make sure that everyone I knew what the
[39:42] rules were
we entered the phase 1 reopening we're
[39:46] going to we're continuing to do our work
as a committee I have prepared some
[39:50] preliminary parameters and rules
restrictions that we anticipate may be
[39:57] coming down if they don't come down then
we will remove those and however we do
[40:03] we have developed some safety
recommendations and we do that for two
[40:07] reasons number one we want businesses to
operate and we want them to operate
[40:12] safely but more importantly we want to
encourage patrons to patronize that
[40:18] business and one of the ways we can help
people feel safe to do business is to
[40:24] let them know the businesses are not
only open but open pursuant to safety
[40:29] protocols so that will hopefully
encourage people to circulate and start
[40:34] getting around so we can commence to
return to normality
[40:42] you know I have a we did not meet last
Monday we posted this and talked about
[40:48] this in my post we didn't mean one the
gating criteria as you know I had some
[40:55] meetings with some epidemiologist from
the department health and a meeting
[41:00] yesterday together with some other
parish presidents and we're hoping that
[41:06] the matter of applying and positive
cases that we have to the guidelines
[41:12] will take into consideration several
factors that I don't think have
[41:18] heretofore been considered for example I
think it's important that we eliminate
[41:22] from our evaluation those cases there
are clusters those cases that arise from
[41:29] confined environments like a long-term
care facility such as a nursing home
[41:33] because those aren't communal cases
those are cases that are confined so
[41:38] cases in a confined area are not being
used as a negative when we're trying to
[41:45] determine how many positive cases or
they're out in the community
[41:49] okay and the epidemiologists with whom
we spoke said yeah you write me we
[41:54] definitely need that to be a factor
among all the other factors that as well
[41:59] as the number of people who have
recovered numbers that we had 20 days
[42:05] ago really we should have recovered
right now and that should not be looked
[42:11] at as the total number of potential
positive cases so a very optimistic that
[42:17] we're making headway by working with our
state leaders but working with the
[42:23] builder's office so that we will meet
those gating requirements not only as a
[42:28] parish known as a region but as a state
so then we can get back to our normal
[42:33] lifestyle so that our business partners
who opponent we rely can get back and
[42:40] resume their business operations again
we're working very very diligently with
[42:47] them and we'll continue to do so as well
as working with all the other
[42:51] in our parish and to an extent working
with all the other parish presidents and
[42:56] parish government officials in Acadiana
[43:02] the big question I know that you have is
okay what's going to be our financial
[43:07] impact as a result of this this this
crisis to call the nineteen crisis still
[43:15] don't know remember on April 16th in our
meeting I commented on it still don't
[43:20] know we will probably probably have a
better picture showing hardly our
[43:26] Director of Finance and I talked about
this yesterday we will be getting
[43:33] numbers from our sales tax collections
for May for April at the end of this
[43:38] month and we'll have a better
understanding at that point in time what
[43:43] we're looking at financially we can tell
you now that we will lose a lot of video
[43:49] poker revenue we've already lost and
we've been shut down for the front over
[43:53] two months so we're going to lose
revenue in that arena and we depend on
[43:58] our video poker revenue substantially
for a lot of our programs and a lot of
[44:03] our maintenance work and that's how we
subsidize some of our mandated
[44:09] requirements such as the judicial system
so we're looking at that as we go with
[44:15] that that's all I had to say certainly
will be more than happy to entertain any
[44:20] questions so any of you may have I'd
like to know do we have covered 19 tests
[44:34] incitements of manpower or different
sites instead monitor very good question
[44:41] in indeed the state is planning a mobile
testing sites I have had discussions
[44:48] with our health units as well as dr.
Stefanski about locating the mobile
[44:53] sites in st. Martin parish and that
answer your question directly the answer
[44:59] is going to be yes they're doing that by
region
[45:03] and right now they're working on the I
want to say it's the Ascension Parish
[45:08] region the New Orleans region I think
they're going
[45:12] starting tomorrow there will be mobile
sites in region I forget the numbers but
[45:17] it's the modern regions they're hitting
the hot spots first but we will have
[45:22] mobile testing sites not just tested
without testing sites now with the
[45:27] clinics and some the walking facilities
but I'm interested in a mobile testing
[45:31] site and I hope that we have that in
place working with the state by the end
[45:38] of the month certainly by the month the
governor's objective is to have over 200
[45:44] the ability to administer over 200 tests
statewide but it's a statewide plan that
[45:50] we're working with and not in
necessarily independent love right now
[45:55] but yes that is something that's being
worked on Thank You mr. mr. Alexander
[46:07] also the National Guard is helping with
those mobile testing sites by the way ok
[46:14] I'm sorry miss especially in lower Saint
Martin I want to thank chain and M fall
[46:22] hard work be doing their water goes up
goes down buddy it's not going down
[46:27] weekly like we want I just looked at it
it's at 2.7 right now which is it's not
[46:37] good we have some streets flooded but I
just want to get off me and telling you
[46:42] guys how hard they did you know
everybody so you know that how hard they
[46:45] working
they really doing a good job and that is
[46:49] really baffling I had a conversation
earlier today about that it was at two
[46:54] six one now you telling me to even a
little higher the perplexing things
[47:00] about that miss fusion lay is that I
understand you know waters
[47:04] without is fluid into by you definitely
and nobody can really I don't understand
[47:10] why it's not dropping any better
all right quicker but yeah you're right
[47:15] you Shane in that workgroup have been
very diligent just to let y'all know we
[47:20] have pumps in when we had the inclement
weather recently somebody wouldn't cut
[47:27] the puzzle at two o'clock in the morning
Shane had to get up and cut those pumps
[47:34] back off that's just wish people would
be a little bit more considerate but
[47:40] yeah the Shane and his crew have done
DISA a yeoman's job in managing managing
[47:46] that I think we've got about four
streets in certain areas that are on the
[47:50] water and they also say that pelicans
worked pretty well with us too because
[47:57] you know when those streets go
underwater there's an issue with
[47:59] collecting of the trash you know us
about pillaging a lot but they've
[48:05] they've come to our aid and we're trying
to locate some more we're trying to find
[48:12] the mechanism where we can maybe find
another difference right for another
[48:16] tossed refer a waste pickup alright
that's all I have thank you any other
[48:23] councilmen yeah Justin this is chess I
do you need speed the government
[48:31] extending this thing any further and if
he would he was to some just to consider
[48:37] you know most of our cases that we all
take pieces and everything I've been in
[48:42] with in clusters with the nursing homes
and all I know there's a big push right
[48:47] now about sending huge and a few other
people to try to get a Paraguay parish
[48:51] open and hopefully the whole state opens
up and get her body back up and running
[48:55] but do you would you anticipate that the
governor if he does that they could be
[49:01] you know I say more in parish could we
look to try to get you know to get off
[49:07] Irish move I don't think you're gonna
see a parish by parish opening mr.
[49:13] Tillison course this is all speculation
okay right
[49:18] because I thought we would have a phase
one opening on April 27th or May 1st I
[49:25] thought we would have a phase 1
reopening I think you may see a regional
[49:32] open I think the government will
consider a regional opening and that's
[49:35] one of the reasons that the analysis
that I mentioned about excluding those
[49:42] clusters from as a factor or if you're
going to include them include them as a
[49:48] positive factor factor towards meaning
consider them as what is predominating
[49:56] for a reopening not the other way around
I think I think it I think that you're
[50:03] gonna see a reopening by region if not
statewide but keep in mind that on April
[50:09] 27th now this is what's important on
April 27 the one of the regions that had
[50:18] not met the second criterion under the
guidelines under the gating criteria was
[50:25] regent for our region the Acadiana
region we had not met the second
[50:30] criterion which was a 14 consecutive day
of a downward trend and we were
[50:38] mentioned that together with the Baton
Rouge region and I think the region in
[50:41] the Monroe area some of the hot spots
that we initially saw had met the
[50:48] criteria so but I think our numbers are
real good in the region and I just
[50:54] prepared a post as when this meeting
ends I'm going to correct it and I'm
[50:59] gonna be posted it talks about our
numbers you know we haven't had very
[51:02] many positive numbers in the last four
or five days I want to say we went two
[51:09] days holding sir with zero zero positive
places which was very encouraging and we
[51:15] saw similar numbers throughout region 4
so I think things are looking real
[51:19] positive at least from my perspective
that I hope really hope
[51:25] that we have that reopening sooner
rather than later
[51:29] I joke with people that if I don't get a
haircut soon I'm gonna get a tattoo
[51:33] because my hair's my wife volunteer did
they help me out she had a razor one
[51:49] hand in my life insurance policy and the
other side I declined her offer if you
[52:00] want either a to our ring out any other
comments
[52:10] this was a unique meeting probably
historic and hopefully all made it 19th
[52:15] we're meeting in person and st.
Martinville but the weather business
[52:20] I'll entertain a motion to adjourn
I'll make a motion ocean maggot think
[52:25] about mister toes and ready for a vote
mr. fusion of a yes missus robot ease
[52:32] yes this is nor cease yes mister for you
yes mister toes man yet to shop on yes
[52:43] mr. Alexander
yes mister Rashard yet in the chair Bose
[52:50] yes
meeting adjourned thank you I yell thank
[52:55] y'all