As the first stop on a tour of the city Saturday, the Shreveport Capital Improvements Committee visited the Municipal Auditorium to see first hand the ceiling which is in need of repair and is being considered as a possible project to be included on a 2024 bond issue election. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Though the plan is in limbo, Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux's administration this week put forward its outline for spending the first $88 million to be raised by the general obligation bonds voters earlier this year authorized the city to sell. Shreveport's 2024 bond issue election was the most successful of such efforts in a decade, and voters agreed the city should incur $256 million in debt to fix infrastructure around town.
Arceneaux's administration next month plans to start selling the bonds, hoping to get some shovel-ready projects underway quickly while paying for the design process of others, such as various roadway reconstructions. On Tuesday, the administration presented a list of projects the first tranche of bonds would fund to city council members. The council did not take up the resolution outlining the first projects, legally nonessential but with the purpose of "establishing the intent of the city council.
" Due to a disagreement over conditions at the police headquarters buildings, the council on Tuesday declined to take up any bond issue legislation. Along with the list of projects for the first $88 million in bond sales,.