LA SAFE—Louisiana’s Strategic Adaptations for Future Environments Parish-wide Meetings

The parishwide meetings will allow residents to begin the process of drafting strategies based on the feedback generated during the community-meeting process. This will lead to the design of specific parishwide adaptation strategies with at least one project, program or policy that would be funded through LA SAFE—a planning initiative coordinated by the Louisiana Office of Community Development’s (OCD) Disaster Recovery Unit, in partnership with Foundation for Louisiana’s Coastal Resilience Leverage Fund. The LA SAFE planning process will conclude with the final adaptation of a plan for each parish by the end of 2017.

Residents can follow the planning process and receive updates on the LA SAFE initiative at LASAFE.la.gov, the LA SAFE Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram (all @livelasafe).

A full list of the upcoming parishwide meetings is below. All meetings are 6 – 8 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Food will be provided. Anyone requiring special assistance to participate in a meeting, or who requires childcare or transportation to attend, should contact Foundation for Louisiana at 504.517.5292 at least five working days prior to the meeting.

NOTE: If you’d like to let us know that you’re coming, click on the link to the meeting’s time and venue below; that will take you to the Facebook event page for that meeting.

JEFFERSON PARISH
Wednesday, Aug. 2 — Mel Ott Recreation Center, 2301 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna

LAFOURCHE PARISH
Wednesday, July 26 — Mathews Government Complex, 4876 La. Hwy. 1, Mathews

PLAQUEMINES PARISH
Monday, July 24 — Port Sulphur YMCA/Community Center, 278 Civic Drive, Port Sulphur

Monday, July 31 (4 – 6 p.m.) — Vietnamese community at Buras Community Center/YMCA, 36364 U.S. Hwy. 11, Buras

Monday, July 31 (6 – 8 p.m.) — Cambodian community at Buras Community Center/YMCA, 36364 U.S. Hwy. 11, Buras

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
Thursday, Aug. 3 — St. John the Baptist Parish Community Center, 2900 U.S. Hwy. 51, LaPlace

ST. TAMMANY
Thursday, July 27 — Lakeshore High School, 26301 La. Hwy. 1088, Mandeville

TERREBONNE PARISH
Tuesday, Aug. 1 — Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, 346 Civic Center Blvd., Houma

SCPDC hosted an information session on the Census Bureau’s Local Update to Census Addresses (LUCA)

SCPDC hosted an information session on the Census Bureau’s Local Update to Census Addresses (LUCA) operation on Wednesday, June 12^th. Representatives from five member parish and organizations attended the meeting at SCPDC while Census Bureau personnel reviewed the benefits of the program and the need for the Census Bureau to obtain an accurate address list prior to the 2020 Census. Over $400 billion dollars are distributed by the federal government to the states and local communities each year based on Census counts. According to calculations by George Washington University, not counting a single household made up of four individuals can mean a loss of $80,840 dollars to a local community over the next ten years. The LUCA operation is an important opportunity for local governments to ensure that the Census’ address database is accurate and correct.

Please contact Joshua Manning (josh@scpdc.org) for more information on how your community can participate in the LUCA program. Please also take a moment to view the LUCA PowerPoint .

Public Notice: Request for Qualifications | Civic Center Blvd. @ Valhi Blvd. Study

Notice is hereby given that the South Central Planning and Development Commission is requesting qualification statements for the following project.

Civic Center Blvd @ Valhi Blvd Study
State Project No. H.012859
F.A.P. No. H012859

An outline of the desired scope of work is included in this document: Civic Center Roundabout Stage 0 Scope.

Contract services are expected to commence after the contract is awarded at the October 26, 2017 Houma-Thibodaux Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Transportation Policy Committee meeting and will be completed by November 30th. This is a non-negotiated lump sum contract in the amount of $10,410. All interested firms are invited to submit their qualifications for undertaking the above study. This project and SCPDC Notice to Proceed are predicated upon federal funding authorization.

Interested firms shall furnish sufficient technical and supervisory personnel to insure expeditious completion of the work. Firms with demonstrated experience, competence, and qualifications pertinent to the above project are being sought. Socially and economically disadvantaged firms are encouraged to submit qualifications for undertaking the above mentioned work.

Qualification statements are to be submitted on Standard Form DOTD 24-102, “Professional Engineer and Related Services Questionnaire for Specific Project.” Submit your qualifications on Standard Form DOTD 24-102 on a CD or flash drive as a single PDF file (one copy) along with four hard (paper) copies of the completed 24-102 forms. Experience, both firm and individual; past performance on Commission projects; current work load; location where work will be performed and firm size will be the significant evaluation factors which will be used in selecting a firm for the above study. Failure to submit all of the information required on Standard Form DOTD 24-102, for the prime and each sub-consultant, will constitute a non-response.

Letters of interest and qualification statements are to be identified by Project Title and Project Number and are to be submitted prior to the 12:00 noon deadline on Thursday, August 3, 2017 by mail addressed as follows:

Ms. Julie Boudreaux
South Central Planning and Development Commission
P.O. Box 1870
Gray, LA 70359

Or hand-delivered to

South Central Planning & Development Commission
C/O Julie Boudreaux
5058 West Main Street
Houma, LA 70395

All inquiries should be sent in writing to: julie@scpdc.org.