| Plaquemines Parish Goals |
| Housing and Community Development |
- Formulate a housing recovery plan within 6 months to assist current or displaced residents to evaluate their housing options.
- Implement key elements of the housing recovery plan within 15 months of plan completion. Sound planning, mitigation measures, best building practices and energy efficiency should be a cornerstone of the Parish housing strategy.
- Within 18-24 months, repair minimally and moderately damaged housing units throughout the parish, providing technical and financial assistance as appropriate.
- Within 18-24 months, build affordable rental housing within the Parish.
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| Economic and Workforce Development |
- Enable 50% of Pre-Katrina small businesses who wish to return and re-establish their businesses to do so, within 18 months, by providing financial and technical assistance. Enable additional 30% to do so within 24 months.
- Diversify and expand the existing economic development base by creating approximately 500 permanent jobs within 24-36 months.
- Establish comprehensive economic development plan, policies and incentives within 24 months.
- Re-establish the Parish commercial and recreational fishing industries to full operation within 12-18 months, providing technical and financial assistance as required.
- Establish an educational and training facility within 24 months to enable adolescents and adults to obtain the educational and skills training they need to participate fully in the area’s post-Katrina economic recovery.
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| Public Health and Healthcare |
- Re-establish a Parish healthcare delivery network, within 24 months, which will provide health and human services in remote locations.
- Provide health care services, facilities and workforce training in order to support a health care system that meets the changed needs resulting from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, by 2012.
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| Transportation and Infrastructure |
- Re-establish and enhance the Parish’s damaged water and sewer services (approximately 350 miles of water line and 150 miles of sanitation sewer) within 36 months.
- Reduce traffic congestion by 80% by providing multiple safe and reliable means of access within Plaquemines and between Plaquemines and adjacent parishes during daily traffic conditions and emergency incidences within 12 to 60 months.
- Assess and rehabilitate approximately 100 miles of potentially damaged roadways which were submerged after the hurricane and are currently experiencing increased heavy traffic related to recovery efforts.
- Provide transportation infrastructure to support and encourage economic recovery within 60 months.
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| Education |
- Provide resources to rebuild damaged/destroyed school facilities within 24 months.
- Improve education to ensure that residents are prepared for employment by raising the parish high school graduation rate (currently 69%) to the statewide average (74%).
- Expand vocational educational in recovery-relevant fields within 24 months.
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| Public Safety |
- Create parish capacity to manage crisis situations through the design of a Emergency Operations Center/Joint Operations Center that can withstand hurricane winds and flooding within 36 months.
- Repair and enhance Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office facilities and capabilities to provide necessary public safety services to residents within 18 months.
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| Human Services |
- Re-establish a functioning library system within 24 months.
- Repair and replace damaged/destroyed community centers and create new facilities that can house and provide space for a wide range of community activities and programs.
- Expand existing and develop new cultural and recreational opportunities while preserving the historical identity of the parish.
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| Flood Protection and Coastal Restoration |
- Provide substantial flood and hurricane protection throughout the parish by repairing and upgrading the nearly 300 miles of damaged or compromised levees, and pumping stations within 24 months.
- Restore approximately 60 square miles of marsh area – the amount destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita – within 20 years, beginning with the restoration of 30 acres within 24 months.
- Within the next five years establish a continuous program of barrier island restoration, marsh/wetland restoration, and ridge development for the Plaquemines Parish coastal zone.
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