2022 Legislative Funding for Central area
In the 2022 Regular Legislative session, thanks to the leading efforts of Senator Bodi White, the legislature approved over $75,000,000 worth of projects for the Central area, and with other parish projects in our area, the total goes up to over $111 million. The projects are as follows:
Roadwork:
Hooper Rd extension Planning & Widening (Sullivan Rd to Greenwell Springs Rd): $8,398,500. This funding is for the necessary planning to widen Hooper Rd to 4 lanes between Sullivan Rd and Greenwell Springs Rd. Actual construction funding is to be at a later date.
LA 3034 (Wax Rd) Spur: $6 million. This funding is to continue Wax Rd from the dead-end in Central Square to Hooper Rd just east of Shoe Creek Drive. This project has been on the city’s Master Transportation Plan and will serve as a bypass road for Sullivan Rd.
Sullivan Rd widening: $15,610,300. This funding secures the necessary costs for the actual road widening project between Wax Rd and Hooper Rd, including intersection work at Sullivan & Hooper. DOTD has this project on the November 2022 letting schedule.
LA408 (Hooper Rd widening & sewer improvements – Blackwater Rd to Sullivan Rd): $29,765,000. This funding will be combined with MovEBR parish funding to widen Hooper Rd to 4-lanes and install new sewer lines. The MovEBR program currently has this project set for bids in late 2023/early 2024.
Parks:
BREC Hooper Rd Sports Park: $186,389. This funding will allow additional improvements to the park at Hooper Rd & Lovett Rd. Recently all fields were turfed.
Central Community School System Autism Park: $500,000. This new park will be for special-needs persons and will be located on the CCSS grounds.
Old Greenwell Springs Park Springs Restoration: $25,000. This funding is to help restore the old springs on the old Hospital Property on Greenwell Springs Rd north of Hooper Rd.
Central Police Department:
Equipment/Vehicles: $500,000. This funding will go towards the purchase of new vehicles and equipment for the CPD.
Buildings/Construction:
City of Central Administration Building: $16,943. This funding will go towards the planning and construction of a new city hall building. Additional funds may be appropriated next session.
Central Community School System Sports Complex: $700,000. This funding will go towards additional improvements to the new CCSS Sports Complex at the corner of Sullivan Rd and Hooper Rd.
Central Athletic Foundation: $1.1 million. This funding will be used towards athletic facility improvements at Central High School as well as the CCSS Sports Park if appropriate uses are determined.
Pride Fire Department Indian Mound station: $820,000. This funding will help replace the fire station in the front of Indian Mound subdivision with a new station.
Central Community School System Multi-Use Activity Center: $12 million. This new center will include a covered arena/event complex that can seat up to 3,000 persons.
Central Chamber of Commerce:
Central Chamber of Commerce: $50,000. This funding will be used at the Chamber’s discretion for economic development purposes in the city.
EBR Parish Flood Control Projects:
EBR Flood Control Project: $34,951,787. This funding will help serve as a match on improvements to Beaver Bayou, Blackwater Bayou, Wards Creek, Jones Creek, and Bayou Fountain.
EBR Sheriff’s Office:
EBR Sheriff’s Office/Drug Task Force/Human Trafficking: $1 million. This funding will go towards fighting the drug/narcotics and human trafficking problems in East Baton Rouge Parish, including Central.