By: Councilmembers Hedge-Morrell, Clarkson

RESOLUTION

R-08-282

CITY HALL: June 5, 2008

BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HEDGE-MORRELL, CLARKSON

FIELKOW, CARTER, MIDURA and HEAD

WHEREAS, the City Council’s Special Joint Airport Committee met on Tuesday June 3, 2008 to discuss House Bill No. 1272, written by Representative Tucker, which creates the Southeast Regional Airport Authority; and

WHERES, The Council’s special Joint Airport Committee is in agreement with the overall intent of HB 1272, citing the growing need for improvements and access to airport facilities within the state, and supporting the establishment of a mechanism to assist in constructing, extending, rehabilitating, repairing, maintaining and renewing airports and airport facilities; and

WHEREAS, the New Orleans Building Corporation (NOBC) was incorporated (Ordinance Number 19,465 M.C.S.) as a Public Benefit Corporation for the purposes of owning, leasing, developing, and operating properties owned by the City of New Orleans or by the Corporation, including but not limited to planning, renovating, constructing, leasing, subleasing, managing, and promoting such properties, which activity is declared to constitute a public purpose; now therefore

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the Council of the City of New Orleans accepts the recommendation of the Special Joint Airport Committee and urges the legislature to amend HB 1272 to assign the responsibilities detailed in HB 1272 relative to the New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport to the New Orleans Building Corporation, suggesting that this entity operate relative thereto within its purpose and powers.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that HB 1272 shall not become effective unless and until the New Orleans City Council approves the bill by a super majority and after HB 1272 receives approval by majority of the voters of Orleans Parish.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that HB 1272 be further amended to provide that no actions of the New Orleans Building Corporation relative to disposition or transfer of New OrleansLouisArmstrongInternationalAirport shall be valid without first obtaining authority for any such actions through a two-thirds vote of all Councilmembers ( i.e. five votes)

THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS:

YEAS:

NAYS:

ABSENT

AND THE RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED.

Crs 08-59