(The Center Square) — The Shreveport City Council met this week to discuss resolutions and ordinances, including one concerning the condition of the Shreveport Police Station.
One of the resolutions brought to the council on Tuesday strongly encourages Mayor Tom Arceneaux to declare a state of emergency in relation to the conditions of the Shreveport Police Station.
Two citizens, including Sammy Mears who speaks at many of the council meetings, seconded the concerns over the stations conditions.
“I will not allow the police to be working in a nasty, filthy, disgusting place,” Mears said. “And those are good points by the way.”
Craig Lee, the other citizen who spoke to the council, said the lack of maintenance of the station has been going on since it was a city hall long before.
“There needs to be an investigation as it relates to how this building got to this level in the first place,” Lee said.
The motion for emergency declaration passed unanimously.
The zoning ordinance which received a lot of attention in the last meeting for being postponed was remanded in this meeting. The ordinance would rezone the property located on the southeast corner of Line Avenue and Jordan Street from an urban corridor zoning district to an institutional campus zoning district.
The council sent it back to the Metropolitan Planning Commission to apply the zoning change to a smaller portion of the street, if agreed to.
A bond ordinance providing for the incurring of debt and the issuance and sale of no more than $88 million in general obligation bonds was postponed. Members argued they cannot sell any more bonds until past business has been taken care of.
Most other resolutions on their second reading were postponed.
All resolutions and ordinances being introduced and read for the first time were moved, including one authorizing the Mayor to execute a cooperative purchasing agreement between the city and Caddo Parish.
