SLS 20RS-1968 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 75
BY SENATOR FESI
WATER/WATERWAYS. Requests naming the new Grand Bayou Floodgate in Lafourche
Parish as the Reggie P. Bagala Floodgate.
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To urge and request the Grand Bayou Floodgate in Lafourche Parish be named the "Reggie
3 P. Bagala Floodgate" in honor of the late District 54 state representative.
4 WHEREAS, Reggie Paul Bagala was elected in 2019 to serve as the state
5 representative for District 54 which includes Central and South Lafourche Parish as well as
6 the town of Grand Isle; and
7 WHEREAS, Representative Bagala was sworn in on January 13, 2020, and passed
8 away on April 9, 2020, after a battle with COVID-19; and
9 WHEREAS, the Louisiana Legislature desires to honor the passing of this public
10 servant by naming a new floodgate in District 54 in his honor; and
11 WHEREAS, the South Lafourche Levee District (SLLD), on behalf of the Coastal
12 Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), opened public bids for the Grand Bayou
13 Floodgate on May 19, 2020; and
14 WHEREAS, the Grand Bayou Floodgate is located along the Morganza Spillway to
15 the Gulf (MGT) Hurricane Protection Alignment protecting Lafourche and Terrebonne
16 parishes; and
17 WHEREAS, to date thirteen navigable floodgates have been constructed along this
18 federal alignment using only state and local funding; and
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1 WHEREAS, the Grand Bayou Floodgate will become the fourteenth floodgate along
2 the MTG alignment and the first to be totally within House District 54 in Lafourche Parish;
3 and
4 WHEREAS, besides CPRA and SLLD, the North Lafourche Levee District (NLLD)
5 and Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District (TLCD) have been involved in the planning
6 and construction of this vital floodgate; and
7 WHEREAS, with the concurrence of CPRA, NLLD, and TLCD; SLLD plans on
8 awarding the bids for this $18.5 million floodgate and it is expected that this floodgate will
9 be completed by late 2021; and
10 WHEREAS, the bidding and construction of this major flood protection structure will
11 be done within the four-year term for which Reggie Bagala was elected.
12 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
13 urge and request that the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, the South Lafourche
14 Levee District, the North Lafourche Levee District, and Terrebonne Levee and Conservation
15 District agree to name the Grand Bayou Floodgate in Lafourche Parish the "Reggie P.
16 Bagala Floodgate" in honor of the late state representative.
17 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
18 Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, the South Lafourche Levee District, the North
19 Lafourche Levee District, and Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
SCR 75 Original 2020 Regular Session Fesi
Requests that the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, the South Lafourche Levee
District, the North Lafourche Levee District, and Terrebonne Levee and Conservation
District agree to name the Grand Bayou Floodgate in Lafourche Parish the "Reggie P.
Bagala Floodgate" in honor of the late state representative.
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