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2026-09-08 - City Council

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Built from the city's posted agenda and approved minutes as read. Vote summaries were partly extracted by script and some resolution headings are truncated in the source, so unnamed items are unverified.

  • Council members present: Tabatha Taylor (Chair), Jim Taliaferro, Grayson Boucher, Alan Jackson Jr, James Green, Ursula Bowman. Absent: Gary Brooks. This was a combined Administrative Conference and Council meeting.
  • Ord 92, an amendment to the 2026 General Fund budget, failed 3-3. Ayes: Jim Taliaferro, Alan Jackson Jr, Ursula Bowman. Nays: Tabatha Taylor, Grayson Boucher, James Green. The ordinance text was not extracted; a General Fund amendment (Ord 96) passed September 22. See 2026 Budget Amendments.
  • Adopted unanimously budget amendments for the Diversion fund (Ord 83), Public Safety fund (Ord 84) and, in Ords 85 to 91, the Economic Development Districts A and F, the Health Care and Technology Innovation Districts East and West, Community Development, Riverfront Development and the Metropolitan Planning Commission. The Solid Waste and Water and Sewer amendments (Ord 80, Ord 81) were postponed again. See 2026 Budget Amendments.
  • Economic Development District and Innovation District budget amendments were among Ords 85 to 91. See Economic Development Districts.
  • Adopted unanimously Res 90 donating city-held properties to the Shreveport Implementation and Redevelopment Authority (SIRA). See Surplus Property Sales and SIRA.
  • Adopted unanimously Res 92 rejecting all bids for the enabling package for the relocation of the SHV air traffic control tower. See SHV Airport Projects.
  • Adopted unanimously Res 93 rejecting all bids on the janitorial services request for proposals.
  • Adopted unanimously Res 89, a cooperative endeavor agreement with the Stoner Hill Neighborhood Association for facility use. See Cooperative Endeavor Agreements.
  • Adopted unanimously zoning Ord 93 (Case 25-104-C, Jack Wells Island at Kansas City Avenue, rezoned from C-4; the new designation is truncated in the source and omitted). Zoning Ord 94 was withdrawn. See Zoning Cases and Rezonings.
  • Confirmed executive appointments (names not recorded here). See Appointments and Confirmations.
  • Residents spoke on Res 89 and Res 90 and on conditions in the Allendale and Lakeside neighborhoods. See Property Standards and Blight.
  • A resident asked about the water-supply impact of a data center. See Clean Water and Water Supply.

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