It’s always a challenge to compile a list of tasks/goals that one hopes will be accomplished by elected officials. This list is certainly incomplete—hopefully, it may be a starting point for the mayor and the city council.
1. Get all Shreveport Police Department (SPD) personnel out of 1234 Texas St. into temporary locations
2. Nail down a location for the temporary SPD substation in SW Shreveport
3. Find and secure a location for the third permanent SFD substation in SE Shreveport
4. Resolve the controversy on the North Market permanent police substation
5. Enforce the lease provisions of Millennium Studio to Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson
6. Lease or sell Expo Hall, and if leased aggressively enforce lease provisions
7. Get Fire Station 20 in SE Shreveport open
8. Automate an online process for application, payment and printing of ABO liquor licenses
9. Automate/simplify the process to obtain building permits
10. Adopt a downtown property standards/vacant building ordinance
11. Fully implement the new program for homeless people, especially in the downtown area
12. Establish/refine criteria for persons living in the parish to tie into city water via annexation
13. Lease or sell the 6 acre parcel which is current site of Fairgrounds Field, and if leased aggressively enforce lease provisions
14. Lease or sell the soon to be empty Pioneer Bank building at 401 Texas Street, and if leased aggressively enforce lease provisions
15. Resolve the SPD information backlog needed by Caddo DA for prompt prosecution of cases
16. Break ground on 2024 Bond projects funded in recent $88 million bond sale
17. Make progress in resolution of pending EPA Consent Decree water/sewer requirements
18. Lease or sell the Red River District, and if leased aggressively enforce lease provisions
19. Take steps to synchronize city traffic lights
20. Develop and implement aggressive policies to collect deliquent water bills and other moneys due to city.
21. Resolve the need for demolition/renovation of abandoned apartment complexes
22. Ensure funds to continue SPD incentive package for recruitment/retention of officers
23. Complete renovation/remodeling of 70st street building for DOWUS, Streets & Drainage and Public Works and move departments into the facility
24. Find funding for purchase of three sanitation/garbage trucks deleted from budget
25. Find funding for additional SPD cars for officers to take home.
I believe this list is achievable and that substantial progress can be made on each of the recommendations. Some of these are for the Arceneaux administration alone, others for the Shreveport City Council alone, and many will take combined action of both.