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Regular Session, 2014 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 196
BY SENATOR APPEL
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request the state land office, division of administration, to amend the lease for
the Bucktown Marina with the governing authority of Jefferson Parish to conform
to the provisions of the Act which originated as House Bill No. 254 of this 2014
Regular Session of the Legislature.
WHEREAS, the Bucktown Marina was constructed after Hurricane Katrina and was
officially open to the public January of 2012; the marina includes seventy boat slips and
many amenities, such as lake access, a paved entrance and parking, landscaping, decorative
lighting, a promenade walkway, and benches; and
WHEREAS, the marina is located on state water bottoms, so the parish entered into
a lease with the state land office that required the parish to follow state laws in effect at the
time for any subleases, including those for boat slips, which require the parish to publicly
advertise the proposed sublease, solicit bidders, and award the sublease to the highest bidder;
and
WHEREAS, many of the boat slips remain unleased partially due to the cumbersome
sublease process; and
WHEREAS, House Bill No. 254 of the 2014 Regular Session of the Legislature was
finally passed, an act that provided that subleases of boat slips at the Bucktown Marina in
Jefferson Parish are on a first-come, first-served basis for fair market value as determined
by an appraiser, and that the rates for and availability of such slips shall be published in the
official journal of the parish.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby urge and request the state land office, division of administration, to amend the
lease for the Bucktown Marina with governing authority of Jefferson Parish to conform to
the provisions of the Act which originated as House Bill No. 254 of this 2014 Regular
Session of the Legislature.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE