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2016 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 129
BY SENATOR BISHOP
LOCAL AGENCIES. Requests the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission to
provide a detailed report on the status of reopening Pradat Playground and Pool.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To urge and request the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission (NORDC) to
3 provide a detailed report on the status of opening Pradat Playground and Pool.
4 WHEREAS, in 2004 voters in the city of New Orleans authorized the city's overall
5 two hundred sixty million dollar bond program; and
6 WHEREAS, in March 2015, the city of New Orleans successfully sold sixty-five
7 million dollars in taxable public improvement bonds to improve streets, parks and
8 playgrounds, public libraries, and other public buildings; and
9 WHEREAS, the sixty-five million dollar bond sale will finance a total of forty-six
10 projects including seven million five hundred thousand dollars to improve NORDC
11 facilities; and
12 WHEREAS, Pradat Playground has been identified by NORDC as having bond
13 funded projects in the amount of three hundred thousand dollars; and
14 WHEREAS, under Project number NRD061, Pradat Pool has a total funding of four
15 hundred sixty-two thousand eight hundred sixty-five dollars for park improvements; and
16 WHEREAS, NORDC has recommended one million dollars in "Citywide Pool
17 Renovations", which includes replacement of pumps, filters, chlorination system, showers,
18 restrooms, pool tubs, and fencing; and
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1 WHEREAS, the city of New Orleans has not projected an estimated completion date
2 for completion of Pradat Pool under Project number NRD061.
3 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
4 does hereby urge and request the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission to
5 provide a detailed report on the status of opening Pradat Playground and Pool.
6 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the New Orleans Recreation Development
7 Commission shall submit a copy of the detailed report on the status of opening Pradat
8 Playground and Pool to Senator Wesley T. Bishop no later than October 1, 2016.
9 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
10 chief executive officer of New Orleans Recreation Development Commission.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michael Bell.
DIGEST
SR 129 Original 2016 Regular Session Bishop
Requests the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission (NORDC) to provide a
detailed report on the status of opening Pradat Playground and Pool to Senator Wesley T.
Bishop no later than October 1, 2016.
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