Ascension Parish Council authorizes joint undertaking with East Ascension drainage district to support regional sewer and expedite acquisitions
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Summary
The council approved a resolution authorizing a joint undertaking with the East Ascension Consolidated Gravity Drainage District No. 1 to plan and finance sewer collection and treatment facilities, and agreed to a process to authorize designated leaders to sign quick-take acquisition actions to expedite property procurement.
The Ascension Parish Council voted on April 2, 2026, to approve a resolution authorizing a joint undertaking between the Parish of Ascension and the East Ascension Consolidated Gravity Drainage District No. 1 to plan, finance, construct, acquire and improve sewer collection and treatment facilities and obtain necessary servitudes and easements.
The chair explained the practical need for the resolution, saying NWI "is working on the first ever regional sewer, treatment system here." He described an agreement under which, when quick-take acquisition is required, designated leaders — the council chairman, the drainage district chair and the parish president or the president’s designee — would sign off so the parish does not have to bring dozens of individual acquisitions before the council.
The council recorded a motion introduced by Mister Voronado and seconded by Mister PT; after questions were solicited and none recorded, the chair asked for objections, heard none, and moved the resolution forward.
The transcript does not include a roll-call vote tally or a recorded detailed funding breakdown; it does record that the resolution delegates certain authorities to designated parish and district leaders to expedite property acquisition should quick-take authority be required.
