Council Committee Schedule - 2014-11-18

November 18, 2014

Mayor Jacques Roy
City of Alexandria
City Hall
Alexandria, LA  71301 

Dear Mayor:

These are the meetings scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 in the City Council Chambers.  All meetings shall begin at 3:45 p.m. unless otherwise designated.

A & E Selection Committee Meeting at 3:45 p.m.

1)   Request for Professional Design services for various Public Works and Senescence Mitigation Projects at the Alexandria Zoo.

Finance and Legal Affairs Committee at 4:00 p.m. or immediately following

1)   To consider final adoption of an ordinance to authorize an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Rapides Parish Police Jury to provide authority for a partition of jointly held property adjacent to the Rapides Parish Coliseum; to authorize an act of sale, exchange or transfer of properties jointly owned by the City and the Police Jury on Coliseum Boulevard  and to enable the City to acquire full ownership of certain tracts and  servitudes of certain properties;   to authorize the City to allow the Rapides Parish Police Jury to acquire full ownership of land for parking necessary for the Rapides Parish Coliseum; to provide for   dedication of a right of access, utility servitudes and other components necessary for the City of Alexandria; to declare that the value to be received shall be equivalent values and that the Rapides Parish Coliseum improvements substantial completion is consideration, in part, for the partition and otherwise providing with respect thereto.

2)   To consider final adoption of an ordinance authorizing the sale , interim management and lease  of the Alexander Fulton Hotel and Convention Center; to authorize and continue professional services agreements with qualified parties; to authorize a cooperative endeavor and development agreement between the City of Alexandria (“City”) and a third party qualified by objective processes as ordained herein or third party related to the Hotel and Convention Center (the Alexander Fulton Hotel and Convention Center) located at municipal address 701 Fulton Street and related matters; to authorize the Mayor to enter into a professional services agreement for interim management of the Hotel and Convention Center with a party and to provide for other conditions relative to interim management;  to provide relative to the professional service agreement’s terms, definitions, general conditions, obligations and responsibilities and related matters; to also provide for and to authorize a lease and a sale of the Hotel and Convention Center tract which is not needed for a public purpose in accordance with  R.S. 33:4712; to provide such conditions and declarations for a cooperative endeavor and development agreement (“Ceda”) under the requirements of R.S. 33:4780.21 et seq. related thereto, including consideration; to declare provisions necessary and proper to establish requirements thereunder; to provide a declaration of reasonable expectation of value, a declaration of public purpose, deliverables and proportionality related to the agreement and otherwise to provide with respect to the agreement and matters related thereto including to select a party for such Ceda as objectively shown to meet city-developed criteria as ordained herein specifically, but not limited to, Discount Realty LLC d/b/a Windfeel Properties and Southern Hospitality Group, LLC for cooperative endeavors with private sector developers and third parties aiding such cooperation such as is needed and budgeted for attracting and sustaining tourism and convention business and support to and for the new developer partner and Alexandria Riverfront Center all in order to achieve, meet or exceed the needs of the City of Alexandria relative to special planned activity corridors, specifically SPARC-CRA-1, to facilitate implementation of the redevelopment plans within that activity corridor and in specific supporting “the downtown hotel initiative” and related provisions.

Please have your staff note the change in format for the committee meetings done in the compliance with R. S. 42.7.  The scheduling regarding committee meetings it is always that the intention of the Council to convene committee meetings at the conclusion of the prior committee meeting unless the chairman of the meeting may indicate otherwise for the convenience of the public.  Have appropriate members from your Administration present for discussion.

Sincerely,

Chuck Fowler, President
Alexandria City Council

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