Jury Continues Work Providing Water to Parish Residents

The Bossier Parish Police Jury is busy working to provide clean water and sewer to residents in the parish.

During the regular meeting, the jury awarded three bids for the Consolidated Waterworks/Sewerage District #1.   Winfield Road Booster Station Improvement, and Winfield Road Lift Station and Sewer Improvements.

The jury awarded Wicker Construction, Inc. $3,209,983.00 for the Winfield Road Water Distribution Improvement contract. For the Winfield Road Booster Station Improvement contract, the jury awarded the contract to Interstate Specialty, LLC for $1,294,800.00. The last bid, Winfield Road Lift Station and Sewer Improvements, was awarded to ASB Utility Construction, LLC of Shreveport for $1,181,105.00.

“If you don’t have water and sewer, you don’t have development,” Mr. Glenn Benton, District 2 Juror, said. He stated that his goal when he got on to the jury was to try to furnish water and sewer throughout the parish. Mr. Benton said two water systems, St. Mary Community Water System Corporation in Plain Dealing and the Bodcau Water Works, Inc., approached him to be incorporated into the system. He said the other, River Point Racing and Equestrian Center, Inc., is a water well that the Department of Health of Shreveport requested the jury incorporate into Consolidated. “Small systems like these can’t get the grants for improvement that we can, which goes to help maintain clean water, which is what we are striving to do for all our residents in the parish. The jury voted unanimously to begin the process of the possible incorporation of three independent water systems into the Consolidated Waterworks/Sewerage District #1.

Commission for Women Visit

The Bossier Chapter of the Commission for Women, a mentoring program, visited the Bossier Parish Police Jury regular meeting.

The mentoring program gives approximately 12 senior girls, two from high school, the opportunity to cultivate leadership and life skills. And for the first time, the girls got the opportunity to introduce themselves to the jurors. Jurors Pam Glorioso, District 9, Juliana Parks, District 5, and Parish Treasurer Stacie Fernandez serve as mentors on the Commission.