Advocating to move from their existing 60-year-old headquarters, New Orleans PD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick describes the myriad of issues plaguing the current facility.
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Get ready to hear about Education Savings Accounts during the legislative session. Jeff Palermo explains what they do…
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While addressing the New Orleans city council committee members in a plea for a new facility, Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick described the wretched building conditions and reminded members of a recent tour of the evidence room.
Kirkpatrick stressed the need to move to another building and their proposal to lease two floors of the DXC building on Poydras Street. She says the move would allow them to house dozens of administrators who are exposed to the current deplorable conditions at current headquarters.
And it’s not just high rats and roaches in the evidence room, she says the uncleanliness throughout the buildings is off the charts and presents a myriad of health issues for employees.
Kirkpatrick also described the inoperable elevators, air conditioning, and plumbing in the 60-year-old headquarters.
A 10-year lease for the other proposed building would cost $7.6 million.
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Governor Jeff Landry has told lawmakers Louisiana is failing its students and cited a report that ranks the state 46th in education. Council for a Better Louisiana president Barry Erwin says Landry is asking legislators to create an Education Savings Accounts program, which would use taxpayer dollars to help families send their child to a different school
Erwin says former Governor John Bel Edwards was an opponent of ESAs because it would take money away from the public education school system and give it to private schools.
Erwin says it remains to be seen how much money Louisiana will spend on E-S-As. He says the governor is committed to giving families more options if the school they are attending is not right for them…
Erwin says an Education Savings Account bill has yet to be filed.
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Agile Cold Storage announces plans to invest 46 million dollars in the first cold storage facility in St. Tammany Parish. St. Tammany Corporation CEO Chris Masingill says it will create dozens of jobs…
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The company estimates the project will result in a total of 195 potential new jobs. The new facility, will be located in Pearl River, will prepare fresh food for transportation by blast-freezing and packing it for shipment.
Masingill says the space will have highly automated, multi-temperature and conventional warehousing and logistics support. He says the building will house primarily poultry for export every week.
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The state offered Agile a competitive incentive package that includes a performance-based grant of $1.5 million that will reimburse the company for site improvement expenditures, contingent on board approval.
Masingill says the synergy from the parish and state played a vital role in Agile’s decision to choose Pearl River. He said they also liked the logistics the area provides…
The company expects to begin construction on the 150,000-square-foot facility next month. And operations are set to begin in the first quarter of 2025.
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State Police has provided more information on a fatal shooting involving a Calcasieu Parish Sherriff’s deputy. Trooper Derek Senegal says during a traffic stop last Thursday on I-10 between Lake Charles and Iowa, 37-year-old Quinton Baker of Gadsden, Alabama, was killed when he attempted to drive off while a deputy was searching inside his SUV.
The 2023 Chevy Tahoe then struck a concrete barrier, and traveled across three lanes of traffic, a ditch, and struck several trees before coming to a stop. Baker was pronounced dead at a Lake Charles hospital and the deputy sustained injuries as well. Senegal says the deputy responded appropriately.
The deputy received injuries to his neck and back along with abrasions and lacerations. Approximately two kilos of cocaine were recovered from the vehicle.