Arceneaux said that the city rented four front-end loaders ahead of the storm. They were used to remove ice around the hospitals in the city. According to Arceneaux, they were more useful than the city’s two snowplows in light of the weather Shreveport received.

Mayor pleased with new budget, capital improvement plans

“With the cooperation of both of the krewes and a tremendous amount of work by the Shreveport Police Department, Visit Shreveport-Bossier, some help form the lieutenant governor as backup and just some give and take between us and the krewes, we have an agreement with them,” Arceneaux said.

“2024 is a tight year,” he said. The proposed budget does not include any suggested items from the Capital Improvements Committee at this point. The recommendations will be made into bond proposals that will be voted on in April of next year.

The city of Shreveport is allowing a group of residents to experience first-hand how the local government sausage gets made.

“The city of Shreveport has not engaged in any sort of large-scale construction of new infrastructure for the city in quite some time,” Arceneaux said. “It really is time we examine that and get back in the process. That’s something the city ought to be doing on a regular basis.

Since 2017, EAP and its regional higher education partners have sponsored more than 30 pitch competitions in north Louisiana and Lafayette to encourage students to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.

On June 7, Arceneaux hosted a news conference with officials from Amtrak and the Southern Rail Commission to announce one step forward in a plan to bring passenger rail service through Shreveport and across the Interstate 20 corridor that would connect Dallas to Atlanta.