Cameron Parish - Community Involvement
Executive Summary
The Long-Term Community Recovery (LTCR) team meets regularly with a steering committee, a planning committee, and has organized technical working groups (comprised of citizens, local leaders and stakeholders) around issue areas. The team conducts regular meetings, including public input meetings, with citizens and stakeholder groups.
The Police Jury was responsible for selecting and securing a site for the storefront in Grand Lake. The parish used it for various stakeholder and working group meetings for the Long-Term Community Recovery process.
Stakeholders
Local government and elected officials
- parish administrator
- police jury
- district attorney
- permitting officials
- drainage board
- Office of Emergency Preparedness
- sheriff
- court clerk
- tax assessor
- health department officials
- Cameron Parish School Board
- Office of Economic Development
- parish engineer
- parish coroner
Louisiana Planning and Development District
- Imperial Calcasieu Planning & Development Commission (IMCAL)
State and local non-profits and community groups
- Volunteers of America
- American Red Cross
- Ducks Unlimited
- Community Action
- Council on Aging
- Oxfam America
- Head Start
Business, Industry and Other
- Cameron Parish Chamber of Commerce
- Southwest Louisiana Partnership for Economic Development
- West Cameron Port Board
- Port of Lake Charles
- Omega Protein
- Cameron State Bank
- Miami Corp
- Grey’s Estate
- Habco Reality
- LNG/Cheniere
- DuPont Building
- Crain Brothers
- Marshall Spicer
- Hackberry Seafood
- Brown’s Grocery & Deli
- Bayou Convenience Store
- Cam-Toll & Machine Shop
- Wilkerson Transportation
- Cameron Ferry - Marine Operations Superintendent
- Lake Charles Marine Pilots Association
- The Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District
Education, health and human services
- Council on Aging, Head Start, Community Action
- Cameron Hospital
- Health Services
- Mental Health Services - Cameron Hospital
- Cameron Library/Cameron Pilot
Federal & State Partners
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River Division and New Orleans District
- Calcasieu Parish Emergency Management
- Imperial Calcasieu Regional Planning & Development Commission (IMCAL)
- Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Management
- Louisiana Department of Economic Development
- Louisiana Department of Transportation Development
- Louisiana State University Agriculture Center
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
- Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge
- Southwest Louisiana Partnership for Economic Development
- Stream Wetland Services
- Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries, Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge
- United States Geological Service Wetland Research Center
- United States Maritime Administration
- United States Department of Energy
- United States Department of Transportation
- United States Department of Agriculture (various agencies)
- Council on Aging
- HUD
Churches
Hackberry
- First Baptist Church
- United Methodist Church
- St. Peter's Catholic Church
- United Pentecostal Church
Johnson Bayou
- Johnson Bayou Baptist Church
Cameron
- First Baptist Church
- Our Lady Star of the Sea
- Wakefield United Methodist Church of Cameron
- Ebenezer Baptist Church
- Macedonia Baptist Church
Creole
- First United Pentecostal Church
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church
- Oak Grove Baptist Church
Grand Chenier
- St. Eugene Catholic Church
- First Baptist Church of Grand Chenier
- Wakefield United Methodist Church of Grand Chenier
Local Committee / Task Force
The Steering Committee includes consultants, the Cameron Parish administrator, and representatives from IMCAL, Southwest Partnership for Economic Development, and the Louisiana State University Ag Center. The committee has been in place since November and meets every Tuesday morning.
The 26 members of the Planning Committee include citizens, police jury members, teachers, land owners, corporations, industry representatives, commercial fishing, business owners and local schools. The committee has been meeting every other week since November 2005. The Planning Committee established technical working groups with interested citizens and local leaders who have an interest, knowledge, and experience with area.
Input Events
Cameron Parish public input events included:
- Scoping Meeting (November 2005)
- Town Hall 1 Meetings (December 2005) approximately 110 people attended two meetings facilitated by Louisiana State University Ag Center.
- Louisiana Recovery Planning Day (January 2006) 38 participants attended this meeting.
- Town Hall 2 Meetings (March 2006)
Day-to-day interaction with local decision-makers, general public
LTCR team members have attended all police jury meetings and several school board meetings, and have had daily interaction with citizens and working group members through email, phone calls or storefront visits. As needs were determined and projects were identified, meetings have been scheduled with various stakeholders including various business owners trying to rebuild and other stakeholders (e.g., small-scale fish harvesters in Hackberry).
Local leadership of implementation
Local champions have been chosen to lead each project. Various offices and agencies have been identified as points of contact for implementation.
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