With or without water, council agenda loaded

With or without a discussion of the Chamber of Commerce’s utility service, Tuesday night’s City Council meeting could prove lively.
Mayor Bob Morris, attending his first City Council agenda-setting meeting on Thursday in many months, said he would not include the Chamber of Commerce on the docket to discuss water service.
Morris had the Chamber building’s connection to power and water supplies at the next-door museum disconnected Tuesday, July 1.
The Chamber had completed transfer to a Cleco customer account of its own, but had not done anything with water by the mayor’s Monday, June 30 deadline.
Water service is expected to be restored to the building on C.C. Duson on Monday, according to Chamber executive Robin McGee.
Alderwoman Chawana Fontenot included the Chamber on items she wished to add to the agenda during the Thursday review session.
Morris objected, saying rules adopted last year by the Council prohibit discussion of a matter within six months of previous business on the subject.
Fontenot said previous discussion at council meetings was regarding electricity, not water. Morris disagreed, saying utility service of any kind was the issue and he would not put the matter on the agenda.
Asked later if she would ask the council to add the Chamber to the agenda, Fontenot said that depended on what else members had wanted to discuss.
Morris stopped attending the agenda session last year after the Council adopted rules of procedure taking more control of the monthly meeting agenda.
Thursday, he, Fontenot, Alderman Bubba Bourque and Jack Burson and Police Chief Gary Fontenot reviewed tentative agenda matters. Council members Marguerite Fruge-Simpson and Dale Soileau were absent.
Though the agenda is not fixed and official until posted 24 hours before the meeting, the following items are among those likely to be discussed.
Old business:
Adopt a budget for the year that began July 1. The document has been amended to include some council requests, retains Morris’ raise request and does not include a council-proposed raise for all city employees
From Morris:
Natural gas cost adjustment, how it is billed and where the money goes;
Waste water plant update;
Slaughter house effluent testing results;
Tattletale boxes, which pinpoint location, for police patrol units;
Recreation fun fest - Morris says the May activity posted a profit of $900; Chawana Fontenot has asked for public records which she thinks would show otherwise. She has received some of what she asked for, but not all of the records and documents.
Street overlay - posting of a list of the proposed streets;
Walking park -- discussion of the possibility of having asphalt trails included when the street overlay work begins.
From Bourque:
Municipal updates, raises, facts and figures.
From Fontenot:
Baseball concerns -- She said she didn’t know what they were, only that some parents had asked for the topic to be on the agenda.
Mosquito control -- Dr. Sanford Wood has also asked to be on the agenda to discuss that topic.
Wood has information regarding licensing requirements for mixing the pesticides used in the city’s spraying program, and questions about who is doing what.