The St. Bernard Parish Council unanimously approved a $3 million revenue anticipation note for the eight-month-old St. Bernard Parish Hospital Service District at their Tuesday night meeting. A revenue anticipation note is a short-term municipal bond that will be paid with anticipated funds collected from a project. Citing sluggish collections from third-party sources like Medicaid [...]
The Arabi Post Office will be open Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with no Saturday hours. The St. Bernard Post Office will be open Monday through Friday from 11:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Chalmette Post Office Hours will remain the same. “The [...]
If a bill introduced in Baton Rouge by Jefferson Parish State Rep. Kirk Talbot earlier this month is passed, St. Bernard Parish School System’s tax revenue could be reduced by $3.8 million. The legislation, HB328 is a constitutional amendment that “adds property tax exemptions for certain inventory held by manufacturers, distributors, retailers and natural gas [...]
Beautification of post-Katrina St. Bernard Parish has been a top concern for local government and civic organizations, especially over the last year, and a huge part of that has been tackling blighted or prohibited business signs that dot the parish’s main thoroughfares. After a recent zoning sweep netted 156 businesses for out-of-compliance signs, a hearing [...]
A man and a woman who said they were homeless were arrested in Chalmette after they left two loaded handguns in a vehicle with their six children ages seven years to just five months old as they shopped 20 minutes in a store, Sheriff James Pohlmann said. “This could have easily ended in a tragedy,’’ [...]
After hearing the pleas of local commercial fishermen, the council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution requesting state and federal delegation to exempt victims of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill from paying taxes on any settlement money. The intent of the resolution, introduced by District E Councilman Monty Montelongo, is to give a push [...]
Rain CII CEO Gerry Sweeney and Valero Refinery HSE Director Randall Brown went over heightened emission data with the St. Bernard Parish Council at their March 20 meeting, and both companies said they are taking comprehensive steps to see their emissions numbers drop. However, the bulk of Rain CII’s emissions improvements— achieved through sulphur dioxide [...]
During his update for the St. Bernard Parish Council, hospital board chairman Wayne Landry announced that the St. Bernard Parish Hospital can officially start its search for a new CEO as they are no longer required to have a third-party manager. Landry said that the board would ideally like to hire a head hunting firm [...]
State Senator J. P. Morrell and State Rep. Ray Garofalo held a pre-session Town Hall meeting on February 20, along with representatives for several state offices. The meeting gave attendees the chance to hear updates from several state departments, and what changes, if any, they will be facing this year. Among the topics discussed by [...]
The St. Bernard Parish Council voted to demolish four more abandoned, blighted properties at the February 20 meeting, one of which is the old Randazzo’s building in Violet—a structure the council felt was priority number one in terms of threats to public health and safety. The owners of these four properties had been served but [...]
