The Shreveport City Council adopted the 2018 city budget on Tuesday, December 12. In this process four significant votes were taken. The first was to fund a five percent pay raise to city employees with an annual salary under $75 thousand dollars a year. The second was to reduce the proposed funding of the Shreveport […]
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Four Budget Amendments On Shreveport City Council Agenda
The Shreveport City Council must adopt the 2018 budget for the city by December 15. It is expected to be approved at the regular meeting on Tuesday, December 12. The proposed General Fund Budget is for $221,214,100. Four amendments have been offered to this budget. The first by Councilman Oliver Jenkins is to decrease funding […]
Caddo Commission’s 2018 Funding Of MPC Passes Buck Back To Shreveport City Council
A long standing bone of contention between the Shreveport City Council and the Caddo Commission has been the appropriate funding of the Shreveport Caddo Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC). For the last three calendar years, the City has funded a little over $1 million dollars to the MPC. The city also provided free office space for […]
Caddo Juvenile Detention Center To Have Big Space Crunch Starting July 1, 2018
Currently 17 year old juveniles charged with crimes that are waiting for a judicial resolution of their cases are housed at the Caddo Correctional Center. This changes on July 1 of next year. As of that date, 17 year olds charged with “non-violent “ crimes must be detained at the Caddo Juvenile Detention Center. These […]
Shreveport’s New United Development Code (UDC) Likely To Have First Judicial Challenge
Liquor store zoning cases almost always cause major headaches for the Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) and the Shreveport City Council. And such is the case with the recent highly publicized application by Lakeshore Liquor to open a liquor store on the southeast corner of Gilbert and Kings Highway. Two tie votes by the Council […]
Shreveport Aquarium Under Water In Construction Debt
When the Planet Aqua group announced in September of last year that they would open an aquarium in Shreveport many observers had substantial questions on its likelihood of success. Initially, this was to be the first aquarium to be constructed and operated by this group. Secondly, the business was to be operated as a ‘for […]
Update On United Daughters Of Confederacy Versus Caddo Parish Commission
On October 19, 7-5 majority of the Caddo Commission voted for the Parish Administrator to take appropriate action to have the Confederate Monument removed from the Caddo Parish court house grounds. The Commission acknowledged that the Shreveport Chapter 237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) owned the monument. The Parish and the UDC […]
SHREVEPORT’S CRIME RATE AND MAYOR TYLER’S RESPONSIBILITY
It’s a political axiom that the top elected official gets the blame when things go south. The same is true in the military and in Fortune 500 companies. As reported by Inquisitor editor Danny Lawler last week, the Shreveport murder count as of Tuesday, November 21 was forty-five. “Justified” homicides, considered to be self defense, […]
MORE BAD ECONOMIC NEWS FOR SHREVEPORT IN TWO RECENT REPORTS
If anyone needed more documentation that the economic world in Shreveport is stagnant, two recent reports erase any doubts. The first report was released by the Louisiana Workforce Commission. It had both “good” and “bad” news. The good news is that for the past twelve months ending in August, the unemployment rates fell over the […]
FAILURE OF NO CONFIDENCE VOTE ON CRUMP NOT A VICTORY FOR TYLER
At Tuesday’s Shreveport Council meeting, a resolution of no confidence in Shreveport Police Chief Alan Crump failed on a 3-2 vote. The resolution’s sponsor Willie Bradford and James Flurry voted for the resolution. Council members Jeff Everson, Oliver Jenkins and Mike Corbin voted against the resolution. Council members Jerry Bowman and Stephanie Lynch missed the […]