Ascension Parish, Louisiana Transportation Committee, 8 Jun 2023

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Transportation Committee - June 8, 2023

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um This is what it thinks I can share and I can drag this either way. You know either place, but I can't drag the other one over here. Yeah just.

B

Okay, Mr Clancy we're going to mute. You go ahead and mute and I'm going to see if I can request control of your computer and just try.

C

Whenever you're ready, this is the transportation committee meeting June 8 2023 call to order I've asked Council woman Terry to do the burn invocation.

D

Thank you Father for the opportunity to meet here tonight. Please keep those who are not here with us and who are on the road safe and um we watch over all of us in Ascension Parish and those of our staff who will be leaving here to to drive home.

D

We thank you for all the blessings of having lived and living in Ascension Parish in Jesus name. We pray, amen, amen,.

D

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

C

Right further committee Chairman's report, we will go ahead and say we're going to skip ABC and D tonight. We don't have a quorum due to inclement weather and traffic conditions, so we will go ahead and you know: do the department report and we'll move the any action items on tonight's agenda to the council or the next council meeting all right now, let's go ahead and start with uh Mr Trent Cunningham.

E

Yes, sir, oh thank you all for the opportunity to speak tonight, uh just a few things that we want to up to get y'all up to date on some of the projects we've had and that we have uh coming up.

E

E

We've had, uh let's see, overlaid, uh half a mile. Oh excuse me.

E

That's right, yes, sir. We we've all paved this this this past month, uh a half a mile. uh Mostly all of that is because we had uh been prepping doing prepping work for upcoming overlay projects that we have would do during in-house very good and.

C

And I I'm kind of rude for not saying this, but let me go ahead and introduce you. um You know you're new to Ascension.

E

Pets yeah, oh no I'm, I'm, we're.

C

Very glad to have you on board yeah.

E

I've worked for the parish for 26 years now, uh I've been an operator so uh and I've been working with uh Joey Touro and the staff for the pavement department. For about four years now, uh I've been promoted to a manager, so I'm kind of taking on some of the roles that Joey had as far as our in-house Crews stuff, like that um and uh just trying to take up some of the load. uh Joey did a good job and uh just happy that I'm, given the opportunity.

C

Absolutely will always pleased to see people moving up through the ranks.

E

C

Yeah and glad to have you here tonight, yeah.

E

uh But uh like I said we we've been, uh we've been Paving some roads in within the parish. uh uh We've been proving some intersection turnouts on a Casey and Babin Road uh fixing potholes uh throughout the parish, um fixing Culvert Crossings, uh and that's that uh basically it on stuff like that. um So we have some upcoming projects.

E

This coming month, uh uh Marshawn School Road we're going to address that situation, overlay those roads that have been delayed for a little while we went overload overlay, Palmer, Road, Bayou, Grand, South, subdivision overlay and Patch Force Oak streets, overlay patch in Forest, Heights, Road, we're going to Overlay patch and do coverts and improvements on Jackson Oak, Street intersection improvements, we're going to do to Harry Savoy Road we're going to do some shoulder improvements and covert improvements on Harry Savoy Road, shoulder improvements on Daigle Road and also Henry Road.

E

We're going to get a contract together to stripe, Ascension Parish, Highway 930 by the Prairieville school that we uh we overlaided just to to make it safer. But now we need to get some some striping on the road, so people can have it divided, um we're going to be painting the parking lot of DPW in Donaldsonville and we're gonna be fixing the recycling center. The new recycle center uh we're going to be dressing that parking lot open, pay I'm, not Paving it, but uh compacting and rolling it.

E

uh We got some Bridge repairs coming up on Galvez Avenue that we're Contracting out um and we got a David Drive. We got some uh covert, we got a covert cross and we need to pave um we're doing our routine grade and graveled on our Parish roads at steel, gravel and our signs. Our crews are going to stay on top of their signs.

E

uh I got a little presentation of PowerPoint of some before and after pictures of some of the roads that our pavement crew has attacked done.

C

um Let me stop you.

D

First I'm sorry thank you. Mr chairman.

A

D

The opportunity to ask a question so what's the status of our annual road maintenance package, okay,.

E

Oh so what happened with that? Is uh it got bited out and then it exceeded what the bid was they uh it was. We our budget's three thousand three million. It went past five, so we have to restructure it. uh The scope will work, so we can get it down to the and it has to be rebuilded.

D

Thank you and if I may follow up and I'm so thrilled to hear that Jackson Oaks is going to get attention. I've been begging for that for quite a while.

E

D

And so I'm grateful for that. Can you give me an approximate date on when Jackson Oaks might get some attention.

E

We well right now it needs. uh We need to do some covert work under the road and uh but I think within the that's within this month that we have that scheduled plan.

D

To get it great well, my my constituents on Jackson Oaks will be very grateful.

E

Thank you so much, no problem um yeah. This is awesome.

E

All right here we go all right. This is a some Patchwork. We did in Pelican Crossing. uh We had a a uh a road base failure, so our our in-house crew went in in there and, as you can see, it was starting to pump, and now uh we got a smooth surface there, uh Val menrotti it was a little small Road uh off of uh off of Moody Dixon Road, and uh so our crews went in there and paved it and uh actually widened it.

E

A little bit uh got got a little width out of it uh as you I guess, as you can see the roads crack, it had the pre. You know it had a bunch of cracking in it and we went ahead and overlaid it.

E

Also galva's Oaks, uh it was in somebody can had some bad uh cracking in it.

C

So whenever you uh you overlaid, that was the bad cracks you, you filled those cracks with some type of uh filler.

E

No, it wasn't um when we went in there, we the the spots that were failures. We patched that full death patch with uh 12 inches of asphalt these these These are superficial cracks. So it's not. It wasn't nothing with the the foundation of the road okay, so we can just pave on top of that.

E

Okay, uh some more of uh uh Galvez Oaks.

E

uh This is Stewart Road.

E

um This road had some very bad. uh The shoulders were breaking off real bad. uh Our our crews went there and proved the shoulders and overlaid on top of that.

E

And this is Henry Road, uh a constituent called us uh was concerned about the spot on the left there. That was actually undermining our roadway, so we sent our crew out there to to fill it in and give it better shoulders of the the shoulders on that road are not in good they're, not good at all. uh I know, there's a road safety winding coming up for this road, but this is what we could do at the time to remedy that situation.

E

The if you you know if y'all get a chance to ride through that you'll notice that it's much better, much better shape. uh Swamp Road, this one's still in progress. We had the same problem with the the edges, cracking and uh our pavement crew went in there and fixed uh some of them deep, deep holes, but we still got some more work to finish.

D

C

There go ahead, Terry.

D

Sure thank you. Mr Bank, Swamp Road as well.

E

It is in our plans, excellent.

D

E

We'll probably have to do it in sections. We can only do so much a time, but yes ma'am. We have it in our plans to do it.

D

Thank you very much for that too, and.

E

That's that's the end of that and that's basically all I got. uh You know I want to thank uh our crew, while I got the time they do a fantastic job of trying to get this Parish safe for the roads to be traveled on.

C

Well, we appreciate everything: y'all do and uh yeah.

D

I'm very grateful for everything you're doing. Congratulations on.

E

Thank you. Promotion.

D

I I admire anyone who takes on more. It's been their job and I know how difficult it is, and sometimes how frightening it is to get yourself up into a position of leadership right.

E

C

D

You doing that.

C

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C

Thank you so much and uh I guess we'll go ahead and join this meeting.

D

Make a motion we adjourn, sir.

C

No second God have a lovely night.