The Shreveport City Council members Garyson Boucher and Tabatha Taylor attend a meeting of the council Friday, Nov. 8, 2024, at Government Plaza in Shreveport, La. By JILL PICKETT | Staff photographer The Shreveport City Council meets Friday, Nov.
8, 2024, at Government Plaza in Shreveport, La. By JILL PICKETT | Staff photographer Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The City of Shreveport can start the bond sale approved by voters early this year after more than a month of delay , and also can sell the bonds approved in 2021 to rebuilding the Shreveport Police Department headquarters. The Shreveport City Council at its meeting Friday authorized the sale of general obligation bonds meant to pay for major infrastructure projects around town.
The votes followed several weeks of postponement because members of the council withheld their support for moving forward Mayor Tom Arceneaux's signature achievement as a means of pressuring the administration to quickly relocate police from their decaying headquarters building on Texas Avenue and hasten the start replacing it with a new one, a process now in motion. The council on Sept. 24 slammed the brakes on the mayor's plans to begin selling bonds which would pay for the first round of projects approved in an election earlier this year.
A week earlier, photos of dilapidated conditions at the SPD headquarters complex made the rounds on social media and reached several council members. Disturbed by accounts o.
