INDEX TO RESOLUTIONS

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1.      Support legislation that would allow parishes statewide to utilize their parish website as their Official Journal; and further request the Louisiana Police Jury Association to support said legislation.

2.      Support the position that the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources immediately begin the use of rock jetties in the protection and rebuilding efforts for the Barrier Islands of coastal Louisiana.

3.      Object to the passage of House Rule No. 2421, The Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007.

4.      Urge Congress to fund Mineral Management Services for the study and collection of data on oil and gas inventory reserves in areas currently under moratoria. 

5.      Urge the Bond Commission to reprioritize GO ZONE project approvals.

6.      Request that the Police Jury Association of Louisiana work with the Association of Levee Boards of Louisiana to jointly lobby at the next Legislative Session to increase the funding for the Statewide Flood Control Program from its current $10 million level.

7.      Urge the Louisiana Legislature amend the law to require that candidates qualifying for elective office to be subject to a criminal background check in sufficient time to disallow convicted felons from appearing on the ballot.

8.      Supports the Louisiana Congressional Delegation, Governor Jindal, the Louisiana Legislature and Louisiana local governments in their efforts to secure the selection of Louisiana as the site of the Cyber Command Innovation Center by the United States Air Force.

9.      Urge the Police Jury Association of Louisiana to adopt this resolution to request that the Louisiana Legislature amend the law to increase the contract limit for public work to $200,000.

10.  Urge the Louisiana Legislature to amend the law to authorize the maximum monthly salary for members of a police jury not exceed $1600.00 per month and to further authorize the maximum additional monthly salary for the president of the police jury not exceed $400.00 in addition to the salary established for members of the police jury.

11.  Urge the Louisiana Legislature in the planned 2nd Extraordinary Session of 2008 to appropriate surplus funds to the Parish Transportation Fund, and the Rural Road and Bridge Fund.

12.  Urge the Louisiana Legislature to propose an amendment to Art. VII § 4(D) of the Louisiana Constitution to increase the maximum amount of the severance tax on all natural resources other than sulphur, lignite, or timber that shall be remitted to the governing authority of the parish in which severance or production occurs to $2,850,000.