Regular Board Meeting Regional Commerce Center, Board Room

6000 Doug Attaway Blvd., Shreveport, LA 71115 June 18, 2015

The Regular monthly Board meeting of the Caddo-Bossier Parishes Port Commission was called to order by President Commissioner Capt. Thomas F. Murphy at approximately 4:30 p.m. in the Board Room of the Regional Commerce Center, 6000 Doug Attaway Blvd., Shreveport, LA and everyone was welcomed. Commissioner Murphy led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Commissioner Murphy asked Eric to call the roll: Commissioners Capt. Thomas F. Murphy, Erica R. Bryant, James D. Hall, James L. Pannell, Rick C. Prescott and Steve Watkins were present. A quorum was present. Absent: Commissioners: Lynn Austin, Ernest Baylor, Jr. and Sam N. Gregorio. .

Commissioner Murphy called for Introduction of Guests: Tyler Comeaux, Burke-Kleinpeter; Anne Gremillion and Daniel Strickland, Gremillion & Pou; Larry Harper, IMS and Jeffrey Thomas, Strategic Action Council/Minority Supplier Institute. Staff: Eric England, Executive Port Director; Gloria Washington, Director of Finance & Human Resources; Rick Nance, Director of Engineering & Planning; Ted Knight, Director of Operational Services; Kathy French, Director of Community Relations; Dannye Malone, Director of Legal Affairs and Hettie Agee, Board Secretary.

Commissioner Murphy called for public comment. Hearing none, he called for the first order of business.

Approval of Regular Meeting Minutes of April 23, 2015: Commissioner Murphy said the minutes of the regular meeting of April 23, 2015 are in your package. If there are no deletions, additions or corrections, I will move that they be adopted. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Pannell. Commissioner Murphy said it had been moved and seconded and called for discussion. Hearing no discussion, the vote was called for. All in favor, please say ‟Aye”. Opposed, ‟Nay”. The motion passes unanimously.

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Approval of Regular Meeting Minutes of May 21, 2015: Commissioner Murphy said the minutes of the regular meeting of May 21, 2015 are in your package. If there are no deletions, additions or corrections, I will move that they be accepted as printed. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Prescott. Commissioner Murphy said it had been moved and seconded and called for discussion. Hearing no discussion, the vote was called for. All in favor, please say ‟Aye”. Opposed, ‟Nay”. The motion passes unanimously.

Approval of the April 2015 Financials: Commissioner Murphy said the April 2015 Financials are in your package. Calling for any additions, deletions, or corrections, he requested a motion for approval. The motion was made by Commissioner Pannell and seconded by Commissioner Prescott. Commissioner Murphy said it had been moved and seconded that we approve the April 2015 Financials. Calling for discussion and hearing none, the vote was taken. All in favor, please say ‟Aye”. Opposed, ‟Nay”. Hearing no nays, it passes unanimously.

Approval of the May 2015 Financials: Commissioner Murphy said the May 2015 Financials are in your package. Calling for any additions, deletions, or corrections, he requested a motion for approval. The motion was made by Commissioner Bryant and seconded by Commissioner Pannell. Commissioner Murphy said it had been moved and seconded that the May 2015 Financials be adopted. Calling for discussion and hearing none, the vote was taken. All in favor, please say ‟Aye”. Opposed, ‟Nay”. Hearing no nays, it passes unanimously. UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

Personnel Committee Meeting of April 13, 2015: The Personnel Committee meeting was called to order by Committee Chairwoman Erica R. Bryant at approximately 11:15 a.m. in the Board Room at the Regional Commerce Center and everyone welcomed.

Commissioner Bryant called for public comments. Committee members in attendance: Erica R. Bryant; Lynn Austin, James D. Hall, Rick Prescott, Steve Watkins and Capt. Thomas F. Murphy, Ex Officio. Other commissioner present: James L. Pannell. Eric said we have a quorum. Staff: Eric England, Gloria Washington, Dannye Malone and Hettie Agee. Guests: Allison Samuels and Henri Bradford.

Commissioner Bryant called on Eric for the first item on the Agenda, Employee Handbook Revisions. He said we do have a quorum of the Personnel Committee. So if there are actions that we need to take, we can do so with that quorum.

Eric said as you all know, we met on April 13, 2015 to go over several revisions to our Employee Handbook. Over the past several weeks, Gloria, Dannye and I have taken the minutes of that meeting and the feedback that we received and reworked some of the sections in the Employee Handbook as well as made changes and finally kept some of the things that were in the previous draft from that April 13th meeting.

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 3 In your packages today, we have revisions to present to you. They begin with Section 3.1. It should be highlighted in yellow in your package. Please feel free to interrupt. I am going to attempt to give some dialogue as to where we were on April 13th on some of these items and the major reworks as is the case with this Section 3.1.

As you’ll recall on the previous meeting there was ample discussion about the number of hours as to what determined a full time, part time or temporary employee. Dannye’s research of the federal law revealed different classifications based on if you were ‟Salaried/Exempt”, ‟Salaried/ Non-Exempt” and ‟Hourly/Non-Exempt”. To give an example of a ‟Salaried/Exempt”, Dannye and Gloria would be your classic example of your ‟Salaried/Exempt”. Your ‟Salaried/Non-Exempt” would be our clerical staff. They’re salaried, but for under this regard, they still are ‟Non-Exempt”. If they work more than 40 hours a week, they are entitled to overtime. Of course, we have our hourly ‟Non-Exempt” employees which are our Operations employees. If you’ll notice, under the ‟Salaried-Exempt” employees, there’s no mention of number of hours. It’s more based on the task of them doing the job that they were hired to do. As it turns out, the research revealed a lot of the discussion that was held among the commissioners at the April 13th meeting---and key point being that if they do work more than 40 hours as a ‟Salaried/Exempt” employee, you are not entitled to overtime. Whereas the other two are. That’s a broad overview of what I would call a reworking of that section as it was presented at the previous meeting. I will be glad to address any comments or questions at this time. Commissioner Bryant called for questions.

Hearing none, Eric moved on to the next page. He said you’ll see at the tail end of that section, in the book we are collectively calling those that are employed by the Caddo-Bossier Parishes Port Commission as ‟Employees”. As you see that reference, unless there is a specific provision to the contrary, all of the staff is referred to as ‟Employees”. The Introductory Period is also highlighted. That was more so just some general cleaning up, some sentences removed in effect that the meaning of the introductory period. Stricken was ‟supervisor shall use the Introductory Period to closely observe and evaluate the work and fitness of employees and to encourage adjustment to their jobs and to the service which the Caddo-Bossier Parishes Port Commission provides”. The contents of the paragraph remain the same. Commissioner Austin said Eric, I think y‘all cleared up what I assume Steve’s concerns were, the on-call pay and holiday pay. That looks good to me. Eric said okay. Commissioner Austin said and I think that was one that remained in question, but I think you cleared that up pretty well in here. Eric said yes sir. With regard to ‟on-call” and thank you. With regard to that, you see that as you know we do have random drug testing at the Port and one of the provisions that we added at the end of the first paragraph on pg. 4 that you have is that employees that are ‟on-call”, meaning whether it be on a weekend or that holiday, would be subject to our random alcohol and drug testing. Not only is it in the book that they’ll be subject to that random drug testing but we have already instituted that would be a part of our drug testing policy at least once in the testing cycle, one of those cycles, at least one of those testings would be done on a weekend. Further we describe that their ‟on-call” will be for a minimum of two hours. If called out, employee shall be compensated for the actual hours worked or the two hours,

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 4 whichever is greater. The ‟on-call” period begins when they arrive at work and when they leave work, not from the time they leave their home and return to their home. Commissioner Pannell said so the two hours would be at regular pay even it’s over 40. Eric said no. If you go back to pg. 3, Commissioner Pannell, the key there is the last sentence on pg. 3, it says the Port considers an employee’s ‟on-call” status as equivalent of two (2) hours of actual work. That is actual work. So if they have worked 40 hours in that week, Monday through Friday, and then two hours for ‟on-call” on Saturday, and they’re not called out, they will be provided two hours at overtime. If they’ve only worked thirty eight hours, Monday through—Commissioner Pannell said then it would be just regular---Eric said that’s right. You got it. Are there any questions or comments? Eric said Commissioner Watkins, before you arrived, we had just gone over the Employee Status. Will be glad to answer any questions you might have with that. Eric said moving on to what is in your handout as pg. 5, the Retirement Plan, at the April 13th meeting there was, in addition to the employee status conversation, there was also discussion about the number of hours worked for qualification inn the PERS Retirement plan. The discussion led to that instead of it being mentioned in the Employee status provision in the Employee Handbook, put it to the applicable provision in the Employee Handbook. So in that regard we’ve done that. So in Section 7:1, we cite the PERS law and as it mentions, an employee who works at least twenty-eight hours per week is required to enroll in PERS. We did add a provision which is letter (b) which allows for the employee that is (in accordance with the law) that is 55 years or older and has their 40 quarters to opt out. Commissioner Austin said I have a question, Eric. What is the ratio of the employee versus the employer contribution to the Parochial Retirement System? Eric said the ratio or the rates? Commissioner Austin said what is the rate, percentage of employee and employer? Gloria answered 15.75 employer, and 9.5 employee. We don’t pay Social Security. Eric said so in addition to that new provision being added about an employee that is 55 years or older being able to opt out, we also added that the Port offers a 457 plan as a supplement to the PERS plan. Again, the 457 is funded 100% by employee contribution and no Port Commission contributions to the 457. As we said with regard to the Retirement Plan, mentioning the number of hours relative to the applicability of Health Insurance, we did the same thing. For those that work 30 or more hours a week, the Port Commission shall offer the Patient Protection, or in accordance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, the Port Commission offers employees who work thirty or more hours per week a health and dental insurance program by a company selected by the Port. You will see in the highlighted changes where it says Employees---one of the things we also did was we noticed in the Handbook we had collectively different references to Employees, whether it be Employees or CBPC staff, we’ve gone back and made those references consistent. With regard to Holidays, moving on to Pg. 7, (1) Except as otherwise provided in 4.4 which is the ‟on-call” provision that we just discussed and 7.4, which is section that this paragraph is within, we discussed that if a holiday falls on a certain day, what day they get to take off. And also, there was discussion about when an observed holiday falls on an employee’s regular day off, they will take the following day off. We have cited the law in which we’re making that reference.

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 5 The Holiday Pay, the discussion at the April meeting was more so in regard to the existing policy that we had so we have not made any other changes to the Holiday Pay provision. The Pre-Holiday and Post-Holiday Attendance section, there was discussion about adding some wording to address should an employee have an illness or an extraordinary circumstance that some documentation would need to be provided in order for them to receive their holiday pay. We’ve added that addition or we’ve added that wording to that section. Moving on to Section 7:8, Extraordinary Conditions Pay, with regard to the discussion at the meeting we added the sentence under B., ‟In the event an employee fails to report to work, when required under the provisions of subsection A, the employee shall forfeit a PTO day or be subject to leave of absence without pay.” And finally under Section 10:1, the previous version was that ‟The Executive Port Director may grant exceptions”. The current version reads that The Executive Port Director shall have the authority to make special interpretations….so the emphasis is special interpretations…..and that ‟Any exceptions granted by the Executive Port Director shall be immediately reported to the Personnel Policy Committee”. That concludes my overview of these discussions for the Employee Handbook. I will be glad to answer any questions or comments. Commissioner Austin said I just have one question, Eric. If an employee takes a leave of absence, does the Port continue to contribute to the retirement and do they pay their insurance during that time? Eric said in the past each has been handled on a case by case basis. When you say a leave of absence, those have been at the approval of the Board and those matters have been addressed individually at the time by the Board. But in the past, they have. Commissioner Bryant said in the past they have? Eric said yes. Commissioner Bryant said who is they? Eric asked, the employees? Specifically……Commissioner Bryant said not the people, the employees. I just was clarifying that it was employees. Commissioner Bryant recognized Capt. Murphy. Capt. Murphy said under the Section 10:1 Special Interpretation, where ‟Any exceptions granted by the Executive Port Director shall be immediately reported to the Personnel Policy Committee”. May I interpret that to mean if the Personnel Policy Committee disapproves, then the action by the Executive Director is negated? Eric said that would be right. If I make an exception and I report it and it’s not in the---the Personnel Policy Committee is not in agreement with the decision I made, that was the buffer that is put in place to protect the Board of a decision that I made or as the Executive Port Director made. Commissioner Pannell said it also allows for the committee to look and see if that change needed to be added into the policy book where it won’t be an issue in the future. Eric said it’s the first step before it would go for ratification by a full Board. That’s all. Commissioner Bryant called for any other questions or comments. Commissioner Bryant called for a motion. The motion was made by Commissioner Austin and seconded by Commissioner Prescott to accept the changes as recommended for the Employee Handbook. Calling for discussion and hearing none, she said all those in favor, ‟Aye”. Opposed, ‟Nay”.

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 6 AYES: Commissioners: Erica R. Bryant, Lynn Austin, James D. Hall, Rick C. Prescott, Steve Watkins and

Capt. Thomas F. Murphy, Ex-Officio. NAYS: None ABSENT: Ernest Baylor, Jr. ABSTAINING: None The motion passes. Commissioner Bryant called for anything else. Eric said we have one more item regarding our existing 401(a) and 457 Retirement Plans. As we previously reported to you, our current provider of these plans is Mass Mutual and they have notified us that the fees for these retirement accounts were going to increase from around $20,000 to $40,000, so we received a couple of proposals from our Fund Advisor. At the last meeting we shared with you that we were going to make sure we had an apples and apples comparison and we have done that work and everything is in line that the recommendation from staff is to move forward with Voya as our 401(a) and 457 providers and move forward with making the transfer of the assets from Mass Mutual to Voya. I will be glad to answer any questions and if there isn’t any, if we could have a motion to that, we would. Commissioner Hall said I make a motion we approve the change. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Austin. Commissioner Bryant said we have a motion and second to approve the change for the 457, 401(a) Plans. Calling for discussion and hearing none, she said all those in favor signify by saying , ‟Aye”. All those opposed, ‟Nay”. AYES: Commissioners: Erica R. Bryant, Lynn Austin, James D. Hall, Rick C. Prescott and Capt. Thomas F.

Murphy, Ex-Officio. NAYS: None ABSENT: Ernest Baylor, Jr. ABSTAINING: None That motion passes. Commissioner Bryant called for any other item for the Personnel Committee. Hearing none, she moved for adjournment at approximately 11:37 a.m.

Commissioner Bryant said the Personnel Committee minutes of May 11, 2015 are in your packets. If there are no additions, corrections or deletions, I as Chairperson move that they be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Pannell. Commissioner Pannell said let me ask, I’m not on the Personnel Committee, so would that have to be someone from that committee? Commissioner Watkins said I’m on it. I’ll second. Commissioner Pannell said but as a general rule I need to know. I’m not a member of the Personnel Committee. So if I’m at the committee meeting; I know I can’t vote, but if it’s at the general meeting here and she’s offered a motion, would I be in order or not to offer a second on? Dannye said you would be in order. Commissioner Bryant said we have a motion and a second. We just need a discussion. Any discussion? Commissioner Murphy said all in favor please say ‟Aye”. Opposed, ‟Nay”. The motion carried unanimously.

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 7 Marketing Committee Report of May 11, 2015: President Capt. Thomas F. Murphy called the Marketing Committee meeting of May 11, 2015 to order at approximately 12 Noon in the Board Room at the Regional Commerce Center and welcomed everyone.

Commissioner Gregorio led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Commissioners Present: Lynn Austin, Erica R. Bryant, Sam N. Gregorio, James D. Hall, Capt. Thomas F. Murphy, James L. Pannell, Rick C. Prescott and Steve Watkins. A quorum was present.

Commissioner Murphy called for introduction of guests. Guests in attendance: Anne Gremillion and Daniel Strickland, Gremillion & Pou; Mark Sweeney, Metropolitan Planning Commission; Zazell Dudley, Dudley Worldwide; Steve Melvin, EJES, Inc.; Charley Kingery, Wieland-Davco; Tyler Comeaux, Burke Kleinpeter; Henri Bradford, WT & Associates; Alison Samuels and Ty Scroggins, Scroggins Consulting, LLC. Staff members: Eric England, Rick Nance, Brenda Levinson, Dannye Malone, Nelda French, Gloria Washington, Ted Knight, Hugh McConnell, Kathy French, Hettie Agee.

Commissioner Murphy called for Public Comment and recognized Mark Sweeney who came to the podium. He said I am Mark Sweeney the Executive Director of the Shreveport Caddo Parish Metropolitan Planning Commission and distributed an Executive Summary and schedule of public meetings to the committee on the Shreveport/Caddo United Development Code. Mr. Sweeney gave a brief presentation giving the history and summary of the UDC and its importance to the City and the Parish. A copy was distributed of the schedule of Public Open Houses that are coming the week of the 18th of May. He pointed out this is a key and pivotal tool toward implementing that 2010 Master Plan and making us a very competitive community in the area of economic development. Commissioner Murphy thanked him for coming and called for questions.

Commissioner Murphy called on Brenda for a Customer Update. Her report included: ADS Logistics; Carbo Ceramic; Pratt Industries; Ronpak; and Ternium. We have several projects pending with LED and stay in touch with them on the status of those and on new prospects to see that we’re staying on the list to receive the Request for Information. We finalized the lease agreement with West Louisiana Aggregate on the site out here at the Port and working on a re-new of the leases at the Intermodal Yard and ADS Logistics. We’ve heard from Calumet and they’re getting back on track now that the changes in management in Indianapolis have been made. Hexion is going to be concentrating on transloading at the Port with our Operations assisting them. Over time we’ve had a lot of our tenants talk about the lack of bus service to the Port. We reached out to Arlene Acree who coordinated with the General Manager of SporTran, Dinero Washington, and put him in touch with me. Specific information has been requested from the tenants, i.e., shift time changes, days of operation, headcount per shift that might use Public Transportation, and a general idea of how many potential job applications were not sent out for interviews because a requirement for being hired was having reliable transportation. The surveys have been sent and we will continue to work with SporTran on trying to move this project forward. Commissioner Watkins asked is there a possibility we could subsidize that service? Eric said it hasn’t reached that level yet, Commissioner Watkins, but there’s always a possibility to bring that before the Board. Commissioner Austin said I can tell you it’s going to be expensive. I talked to SporTran about—you know they go in Bossier City to the Base and Shreveport Barksdale Highway and we wanted to expand them to go down to Jimmie Davis to those nursing homes and things down there. They wanted

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 8 the City to pay them $500,000 a year to provide that transportation. Brenda said Dinero told us it’s not just—and part of this they had actually already---since they had already put some of the process in place to find out what it would take, they already knew that it’s not just getting here but you would have people from a wide area of the City which means they’re going to be making connections to get to the central point where the bus is going to come to the Port. They’ve got to be sure that there’s still service on the backside, that depending on the shift changes, gets them home at night. They are working on it and told us that they would appreciate our support. They are continuing to talk to Caddo Commission about what they can do to help. They see it as a growth area in a lot of ways, but the number of people at the Port, and the fact it could open up potentially some good job opportunities for some folks who don’t have a two car family was an opportunity worth pursuing. Commissioner Watkins said he would think that would be a sales tool for the Port to have bus service all the way to the Port. Commissioner Austin said they would want us to pay for it. Commissioner Bryant said they would like the Commission to pay some. Brenda said he was clear. He said that the discussions they had with the Caddo Commission had been about some funding they could do to support the area as well. And besides the Port, it would be leaving here and probably looking at the area in and around here back behind as to what they could do. At least we have gathered the information and put it in their hands and just looking forward to see what may happen with that.

Brenda said on a final note. It continues to move forward to our August date with Benteler. The RCC is staying busy on a daily basis in multiple rooms as they are bringing suppliers in and doing training with the folks that are going to be handling the equipment and doing their new hire orientation. So they’re staying busy as they work toward the August start date.

Commissioner Austin asked if Benteler got their pay squared away with their subs, the general contractor subs. Eric said as far as we know they have. There’s a minor amount that we’re aware of but the larger amount which was in the $4+ million dollar range has been taken care of. I believe there’s one matter with a local contractor in about a hundred thousand dollar range where a contract wasn’t clear. It’s still up in the air.

Commissioner Murphy called for any other questions for Brenda. Hearing none, he called for the monthly reports. Eric said he wanted to share a couple of customer updates in addition to what Brenda had mentioned. He said she did mention Calumet Packaging Partners. You all know their facility is just north of the water tower and they do lease about ten acres and do have an option for an additional 15 which can be taken in one or more transactions. It appears from the discussion that they are looking to exercise at least one of those options. They haven’t specified the number of acres they need but they’ve got an ideal site for expansion of their existing facility.

Then also with Ronpak, I wanted to mention a couple of years ago the Waterway provided the Commission $2.5 million dollars for us to purchase machinery and lease back to Ronpak. We were to utilize those funds that Ronpak pays us as a lease on that equipment to help us promote maritime activity. That has turned out to be a great program for us and we met with Ronpak a couple of weeks ago and they have expressed to us their desire to repeat it, and specifically they have four pieces of machinery to purchase at roughly one million dollars apiece for a total investment of $4 million dollars. Each machine which would run 24/7/365 would employ eight additional people. So we’re looking at 32 additional employees. We’ve approached the Red River Waterway Commission initially and will be with

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 9 them on the 19th to make a presentation on this and hopefully it will move forward positively and that is something we did not foresee in the budget process this time last year. That’s a great project for them. We’re very much looking forward to providing a tour for the Commission to see what has happened. As you know, we took a tour some time ago and this was before the new machinery that was purchased with the Waterway funds. It’s amazing how much it’s changed in that short of a period of time. These four machines will take them again to another level.

Eric said the contact report and the public affairs reports are in your packages along with the calendar. I would just call your attention on the calendar. We’re approaching the May 15th deadline for your Tier 2.1 Disclosure forms. Several of you have submitted your forms. If any of you all need one, please let me know and we’ll get one to you and if you need any assistance submitting it, just let us know. We’ll be glad to help out.

If there aren’t any questions, I can go on to the 3132 update. Commissioner Gregorio said when you go to 3132, just a reminder, I recused myself on that issue, so I will not be participating. Eric said thank you.

Eric said as you all know, we’re in the Stage 1 process of the 3132 Extension and in the initial plan for 3132, Stage 1, there were to be three series of public meetings. We had the first series of public meetings last week. There were two held on May 7th. The Stage 0 revealed four routes for 3132. These routes are in your packages. During the Stage 1 there was a Solicitation of Views process and according to Kent Rogers at NLCOG, there were no additional routes that were brought forward. So the routes that were presented on May 7, 2015 were these four same routes that were presented in the Stage 0. There were refinements done to them as BKI further explored them, but these four routes are the ones you have seen before with just those minor changes made to them.

To go back to the series of public meetings and why I believe it’s important to share it with you, as we entered the May 7th public meetings, there were these four routes. And as part of the plan in moving forward, shortly after this May 7th meeting, it’ll be the consultant’s job, BKI and their team’s job, to narrow the number the number of routes from four to two. They will complete a level of due diligence on two routes and hold another series of public meetings. At that second series of public meetings, they’ll present the findings and their enhanced due diligence on those two routes. And, as a result of that series of public meetings, they will then narrow it down to one. It is after that meeting they will do even more due diligence on just one route.

Where we find ourselves is, having attended the May 7th meeting, the consultant team has asked interested parties to rank the four routes and there’s a fifth option which is the No Build. As an interested party, as I believe that you know that we are, I wanted to recommend to the Commission that we have a discussion today about these four routes as well as the No Build and also just walk through my recommendation to the Commission for consideration. So as I discussed, after this first series of public meetings, the design team will move forward with two routes.

So, if you will, there are a couple of options that immediately rank towards the bottom of those that were presented of the four and the No Build. The two that rank the lowest to me are the No Build option which I would rank as No. 5, and the 4th option in favor of building would be Alternative C which

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 10 is the route that would not utilize the interchange to the south of Flournoy Lucas Road which was previously acquired by the City of Shreveport. It would abandon that interchange and not utilize the full stretch of 3132 from Bert Kouns to Flournoy Lucas. Evaluating these again, the No Build option being the least favorable and Option C being the 2nd least favorable or ranking No. 4.

That leaves us three routes to discuss: Options A, B1 and B2. As you look at the diagrams, you’ll see Option A utilizes the interchange at Flournoy Lucas Road. It is just like Options B1 and B2 utilizing the interchange and continuing between Twelve Oakes and the Esplanade subdivision. Option A is significantly different in that it provides a direct route to the Port with what’s referred to as a trumpet interchange on the property just north of the Relay Station. The other two options, B1 and B2, are on the final page of that handout and they interchange not at the Port but miles from the Port at a future I-69 Interchange after bridging and having an interchange at Leonard Road and Robson Road in addition to of course the interchange that’s continued from Flournoy Lucas Road.

In terms of cost, Option A is approximately $100 million dollars; Option B1 is $155 million dollars; Option B2 is $166 million dollars. In terms of moving forward at this point, I would like to mention that we are not sold on any of these routes. We do need more information; we do believe more due diligence is required at this time. It is my recommendation that Option A at this time ought to be studied and be ranked No. 1 for continued study. The advantages are that it provides a direct route to the Port and it will provide that access to the Port that is needed at this time. From a cost standpoint, it’s the least expensive route. Our concerns are what we understand will be a control of access in the vicinity of the interchange of 3132 and Highway 1. What I mean by that is as you can see on Alternative A, the green route, that area that is between the route and the Port, which is that ‟orange”, we don’t know just how far our control of access would be placed. What I mean by that is eliminating access to Highway 1 from entities such as the Relay Station, Port Gate A which provides access to Morris & Dickson and possibly down to Gate B, which is Ron Bean Blvd. In our interactions with the design team, it’s our understanding that our existing John Holt Blvd. would wrap the periphery of Scopini Island as well as our North Whittington to gain an access to 3132 and to Highway 1 through the backside of the Port. So you do have the control of access issue but we believe it can be relieved with that road that would be extended along the periphery of those two sites. Initially in the Stage 0 that was completed by Buchart Horn, their plan was to bisect those sites, which we were opposed to. So we’re glad the design team has had further conversations about that road being on the periphery of the sites.

Options B1 and B2, obviously the cost is a major concern and the other major concern is that they go to a road that doesn’t exist and does not have a realistic timeline for its completion. Whereas Option A could achieve the goal of providing Port access and an interchange and providing a bridge over the railroad so that traffic would not be impeded having to wait on rail.

With all that said, it would be my recommendation, if there’s no objection at this time, to go forward with Alternative A as Option 1, B1 and B2 is 2 and 3; Alternative C is 4 and the No Build is 5 but with the understanding that we understand the process will continue with at least two routes for continued due diligence and that there not being a tremendous amount of difference between B1 and B2 from our standpoint, at least Alternative A and B1 would be studied further. I will be glad to answer any questions or address any concerns following that discussion.

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 11 Eric said if there’s no discussion I will move forward as we described with that ranking and keep the committee posted. Capt. Murphy, I have nothing further. Thank you.

Commissioner Murphy called for any discussion on this matter. Then you would prefer us to have a motion as to your ranking or just…Eric said I can do this as your Executive Director, Capt. Murphy, unless the Commission feels they want to take one, but I can handle this. Capt. Murphy said this is what I want to know if you feel that we just let staff handle this matter. Commissioner Murphy said I think that’s a unanimous consensus here and Eric, we’ll leave it to your discretion as to handle this matter further.

Hearing no further business to bring forward, Commissioner Murphy adjourned the meeting at approximately 12:33 p.m.

The Marketing Committee Report of May 11, 2015 is in your packet. Is there any deletions, additions or corrections? Hearing none, I move they be accepted. Being a committee of the whole, no second is needed. Any discussion. Commissioner Murphy said all in favor please say ‟Aye”. Opposed, ‟Nay”. The motion carried unanimously.

Marketing Committee Report of June 8, 2015: President Capt. Thomas F. Murphy called the Marketing Committee meeting of June 8, 2015 to order at approximately 12 Noon in the Board Room at the Regional Commerce Center and welcomed everyone.

Commissioner Gregorio led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Commissioners Present: Lynn Austin, Erica R. Bryant, Sam N. Gregorio, James D. Hall, Capt. Thomas F. Murphy, James L. Pannell, Rick C. Prescott and Steve Watkins. A quorum was present.

Commissioner Murphy called for introduction of guests. Guests in attendance: Anne Gremillion, Daniel Strickland and Ashley Ellingsen, Gremillion & Pou; Steve Melvin, EJES, Inc. and Charley Kingery, Wieland-Davco. Staff members: Eric England, Rick Nance, Brenda Levinson, Dannye Malone, Gloria Washington, Hugh McConnell, Kathy French and Hettie Agee.

Commissioner Murphy called for Public Comment.

Commissioner Murphy called on Brenda for a Customer Update. Her report included: ADS Logistics; Pratt Industries; Ronpak and Ternium. The project we had that was going to move a lot of product over the River was the ferrosilicon project. We ranked ‟third”. The bottom line cut criteria that was used was ‟electric cents/kwh”, and it was fractions of pennies separating those that are moving on in the process. In May we finalized the lease agreement with Fairmont Minerals on the Intermodal and are now working on the lease for ADS Logistics. Benteler continues to move forward on the cold commissioning getting ready for the August Grand Opening date and their PR firm is working on the details of that event. They have pretty much booked the RCC through the end of the year for various new hire orientations, for specialized training and for meetings. So they’re still making very good use of this facility as they bring their new employees on board.

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 12 Commissioner Murphy called for any other questions for Brenda. Hearing none, he called for the monthly reports. Eric said these reports are in your pages, the public affairs report as well as the contact report and the calendar. I will be glad to answer any questions the commissioners may have about those.

Commissioner Murphy called on Anne Gremillion for the 2015 Public Information and Business Development Update. Anne thanked the commission for the opportunity to give them an update on the recommendations for moving forward with the Port’s public awareness campaign. Using a power point presentation, she said now that we actually have the benefits of real research findings, what we now know is that fully 50% of Caddo-Bossier residents are aware of the Port’s existence, and of those, 73% have a somewhat favorable or very favorable opinion of the Port. The residents of Caddo and Bossier Parish have also told us in resounding numbers they wanted to hear regularly more information regarding the Port. So today, in light of these findings, I’m delighted to bring you what our recommendations are for moving forward.

We are recommending for the remainder of 2015 we time the start of the campaign to coincide with the opening of Benteler Steel. We figure there’s going to be a great public relations push from their public relations firm and we want to tie ourselves very closely with Benteler and also to clearly guide the success of Benteler to the Port’s efforts. This campaign is going to run six weeks as we propose it. The remainder of 2016 looking forward, we recommend three six week flights to run March/April, June/July and September/October. We’ll continue the messaging will focus on jobs as illustrated via the Port’s tenants’ successes.

We recommend using outdoor, in fact digital outdoor, as our primary medium because this medium delivers strong awareness for the recognition of a brand which is now going to be the Port. It enables us to target particular driving routes and offers the lowest cost per thousand and digital outdoor provides flexibility in messaging. We will have two digital outdoor boards running at all times. We’ll rotate the boards to increase visibility. In other words, we want to have a presence in Bossier and in Shreveport, but we don’t want to stay in the same places for the full six weeks, so they will bounce to different digital locations within the two parishes. We’ll be utilizing the boards to present a lot of different messages as we see fit to communicate what is important about the Port. We estimate we’ll capture 640,000 impressions each month. We will also use digital advertising because it can be geo targeted, it’s measurable and it reaches beyond the desk top to mobile devices.

Today, the time consumers spend using internet is second only to TV. We also recommend a digital campaign and of using a combination of digital display ads, banner ads, for example, as well as pre-rolled videos. We’ll have a heightened focus on face book using paid for ads as well as for content development. We estimate that we’ll capture 667,000 impressions per month. Of late we’ve seen a resurgence and interest from our local media and that has brought us to be more interested in pursuing more public relations. I think with the advent of the opening of Benteler which will achieve a great deal of attention, we need to leverage the fact that there’s more interest in the Port as well as Benteler’s opening to provide more public relations throughout the two parishes focusing again on job creation.

The next two slides represent the first drafts for our outdoor digital messages. Again we’re focusing on putting people to work and we’re playing with the idea that on each board that a smart investment is

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 13 going to play a key role. Again, we’re going to focus in the beginning on the fact that Benteler chose to invest $1 billion dollars in Caddo Bossier because of the Port. This is a sample of how we would utilize the banner ads.

The budget that we’re proposing for 2015, we’re estimating the media spend to be $27,000. That would be the digital as well as the outdoor. Production would run a little over $5,000. The public relations effort would be right under $3,000 for a total of $27,900 for the kickoff in 2015. Again we do the same thing for three different flights in 2016. So each flight costs the same amount of money that we’re recommending so that the total for 2016 would be $113,700. If you have any questions, I’ll be delighted to answer.

Commissioner Murphy called for questions and Commissioner Gregorio asked what does the total cost add up to be. She said the total cost for---Commissioner Gregorio said the budget. Commissioner Austin said you said $113,700; actually it’s $111,000. Anne said I’m sorry, it’s $111,000.

Commissioner Murphy thanked Anne and called for any other questions. Hearing none, the meeting was adjourned at approximately 12:18 p.m.

Commissioner Murphy said the Marketing Committee report of June 8, 2015 is in your package. If there are no deletions, additions or corrections, I move that they be accepted as printed. Commissioner Murphy said all in favor please say ‟Aye”. Opposed, ‟Nay”. The motion carried unanimously. Operations Committee Report of May 11, 2015: The meeting was called to order by Secretary-Treasurer Sam N. Gregorio at approximately 12:34 p.m., May 11, 2015, at the Regional Commerce Center Board Room. Commissioner Gregorio said he noticed no new people have come in since the Marketing Committee. Commissioner Gregorio called for public comments.

Commissioners present: Lynn Austin, Erica R. Bryant, Sam N. Gregorio; James D. Hall, Capt. Thomas F. Murphy, James L. Pannell, Rick C. Prescott and Steve Watkins. A quorum was present.

Guests in attendance: Anne Gremillion and Daniel Strickland, Gremillion & Pou; Mark Sweeney, Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commission; Zazell Dudley, Dudley Worldwide; Steve Melvin, EJES, Inc.; Charley Kingery, Wieland-Davco; Tyler Comeaux, BKI; Henri Bradford, WT & Associates; Alison Samuels and Ty Scroggins, Scroggins Consulting, LLC. Staff members: Eric England, Rick Nance, Brenda Levinson, Dannye Malone, Nelda French, Gloria Washington, Ted Knight, Hugh McConnell, Kathy French, Hettie Agee.

Commissioner Gregorio called on Hugh for the Operations report. Hugh said rail activity in April has pretty well been steady. However, we’re seeing the frac sand fall off quite a bit from about 6500 tons this previous month to 2100 tons. The downturn in oil prices—those ripples are finally hitting us and we’re seeing those results with Hexion. The manufacturing side is up and strong. Ternium and Pratt combined had a 15% increase, 12,000 tons to 14,000 tons. The petroleum being moved through Genesis, Calumet, Omni also was increased by 50%, 4,700 tons to about 7,000 tons. Of course, it being

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 14 spring, the agricultural moves through Oakley’s terminal is up as well, up from 590 tons up to 937 tons this past month. The West Louisiana Aggregates that has taken over the Select Energy site, we’re real excited about them coming in. They seem to have a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of potential to be bringing aggregate in through the Port, not just a house store, they called it, but they would be distributing aggregate to anybody and everybody---so contractors, outside vendors, whoever. They’ve got a 60,000 ton job that they’re chasing. The first 10,000 ton train has been loaded. It left Granite Mountain Sunday and should be here Tuesday morning. No quicker than they’ve signed a lease they’ve got a unit train in route. So that’s exciting. Also glad that they retained some of the Select employees, Matthew Carroll in particular. We are familiar with him; he’s familiar with us, so the relationship continues. Wanted to mention we had a meeting with the local UP representatives and the Port tenants in the Steering Room earlier in the month and talked about how trains moved through Shreveport and how cars wind up getting to the Port. We talked about some issues they’d had and some logistics problems they’d had and tried to address those. In fact, an email was sent out today as to how to escalate a problem or issue if you have one with UP. So we want to stay in touch with the tenants and with UP to make sure that the tenants are being heard and then something is being done. If you look at the financials, you’ll see quite a bit of money spent on maintenance for track. Again we mentioned that with North American being on site and working on some new track projects, we’re doing some tamping. We’ve added some rock. We’re spending some money, but we can’t afford to have any down time. We have older track, or if we defer maintenance and the track becomes less trustworthy, we can’t afford to have cars hit the ground and spend a half a day re-railing cars. In total, there were 285 cars that entered the Port, 24,360 tons.

For barging in April, I wanted to mention the River is still high. I looked at the gauge this morning; it had been on a steady fall. It’s fixing to make about a 10 ft. jump so we’re about 3 ft. over pool now. By Saturday they’re showing a crest of an additional 10 ft. so that’s going to take you to about 13 ft. which is right at flood stage. Just wanted to make you aware of that. I did see Rich Brontoli come out with an email earlier about a conference call with the barge line, the ports and the operators to get a game plan together to work through this. Overall barge activity was down a little bit in April. We’re seeing the frac sand slow a little bit here through the Oakley Terminal. They dropped from 23,000 tons in March to about 17,000 in April. So that’s 15 barges down to about 11. They pretty much have the lion’s share of the tonnage coming into the Port right now by barge which is that frac sand. Their agricultural products has increased due to spring. Genesis reported two barges this month. In total, there were 17 barges, 29,084 tons.

I wanted to mention that—of course Ted is not here. He’s down in New Orleans with the Priefert folks. Chris Ship attended the conference that we had in Shreveport, took a tour of the Port, and it’s good to know that they are interested in the barging and in trying to get material by water. Over this few months that he’s met us and we’ve met him and we’ve put him in contact with other people, I think he’s gotten a feel for how to secure barge freight on his own without having to go through a broker. So we’re hoping that relationship continues. Also he contacted another company out of East Texas that receives cold rolled steel coils and the logistics guy called me and said hey, I need to get some barge rates because Priefert has talked about barging coils. So we reached out and got him some barge rates. We also put him in contact with ADS. We also have an over-dimensional load cargo coming. As I understand it, they’re going to use the dock at Slack Water Harbor with a third party making the lift. It’ll be a two crane pick. From there it will go out by truck. Also, to mention that we had gotten excited

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 15 about another military cargo with the company we worked with last time. He contacted us; we worked up some numbers and pitched him gave him. He called back the end of the week and said we’re ready to go. Two days later he called back and said the barge line fell through. So we turned him on to some other barge folks we knew and they couldn’t react quick enough.

Commissioner Pannell said I’m looking in my packet and it’s showing that Mr. McConnell is President of the IRPT. Is that something new? Hugh said it’s a two-year stint. We’ve been members of IRPT, the Port has, forever. Commissioner Pannell said I am aware of that, but your Presidency, I didn’t know if the Board knew that and had an opportunity to congratulate you on that. Hugh said well thank you. It’s fun. As Eric can tell you, these are the guys that load and unload barges, the guys that schedule cars. It’s fun to be a part of it and I thank y’all for letting me be able to do that. Commissioner Pannell said the conference, where will this conference be held? Hugh said it was held last week at Sam’s Town. Commissioner Pannell said well congratulations. Eric said if I may the conference was spectacular and just on the heels of hosting the national conference last year for NWC, we did it again and Hugh’s to be commended for a great job of not only leading that organization but putting together a great conference and we’re thankful to him for it.

Commissioner Gregorio called on Rick for Port Projects. Rick said if you’ll look in your packets on the sheet you’ll notice there’s three or four projects that are in Lien Clearance status: 1) the lift station for Benteler; 2) the Phase I Rail Project and 3) the Select Benteler project. We’re still waiting on our Highway 1 Cross Lien Clearance. 4) The Phase II batture is actively in progress with rail being laid from the south end where the storm water ponds are for the coal pile and working their way north. 5) Ron Bean turnout project is in progress at the same time as the 6) rail project. 7) On the RCC parking lot project, we’re waiting on Fessler & Bowman to come back with their performance and payment bonds so we can finalize the contract; 8) stevedore building, an extension to the 30,000 sq. ft. building, is in design and the 9) fender rehab job, they’re going to meet with us Wednesday. The City has started their work on the main lift station to put a new wet well in that site.

Eric said just one comment about one of our projects also, our redundant water line, we did issue the bonds. We had passed the final resolution. We did close. The funds were received that same day. We have some surveying that we were doing for right-of-way. Just as soon as we get the results of all that calculated, we ought to have the plans pretty much wrapped up. Depending upon whether or not we have to buy some additional right-of-way, we’ll be moving forward. That project is progressing.

The reports are in the packages, the projects as well as the tonnage and I will be glad to answer any questions. If not, I have nothing further.

Commissioner Gregorio called for comments. Hearing none, he adjourned the meeting at approximately 12:50 p.m.

Commissioner Murphy said the Operations Committee report of May 11, 2015 is in your package. If there are no additions, deletions or corrections, I move that it be accepted as printed. Calling for discussion and hearing none, he said being a committee of the whole, no

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second is needed. Commissioner Murphy said all in favor please say ‟Aye”. Opposed, ‟Nay”. The motion carried unanimously.

Operations Committee Report of June 8, 2015: The meeting was called to order by Secretary-Treasurer Sam N. Gregorio at approximately 12:10 p.m., June 8, 2015, at the Regional Commerce Center Board Room. Commissioner Gregorio said he noticed the same people are in here for the Operations Committee. Commissioner Gregorio called for public comments.

Commissioners present: Lynn Austin, Erica R. Bryant, Sam N. Gregorio; James D. Hall, Capt. Thomas F. Murphy, James L. Pannell, Rick C. Prescott and Steve Watkins. A quorum was present.

Guests in attendance: Anne Gremillion, Daniel Strickland and Ashley Ellingsen, Gremillion & Pou; Steve Melvin, EJES, Inc.; Charley Kingery, Wieland-Davco; Staff members: Eric England, Rick Nance, Brenda Levinson, Dannye Malone, Gloria Washington, Hugh McConnell, Kathy French and Hettie Agee.

Commissioner Gregorio called on Hugh for the Operations report. Hugh said in May we saw rail activity increase a pretty good bit. It went up nicely from 24,000 to almost 54,000 tons moved by rail. Most of that was due to West Louisiana Aggregates which took over the Select Yard. They received two unit trains during the month, so that additional 20,000 tons for those two unit trains really pumped up the numbers from April. Also in the manufacturing sector we saw 51% increase in tons moved primarily due to Ternium. Frac sand was up also, 56%, and that was primarily due to Hexion had sand coming in. Petroleum was up 20% and agricultural products at Oakley was up about 8%. So all in all the rail activity for the month of May was good. It increased and improved. There were 573 new cars, 1200 switches and again, 54,966 tons. So the activity level was increasing; volumes were picking up. However, the current situation with the River has got us blocked off or cut off from the south end of the Port. If you know, the water has topped the road, topped the rail back where the dock is. We do have the two red engines are back there in the dry. We can get to Benteler; we can get to Oakley, but we can’t bring them new cars. We’re cut off from the interchange at the highway. Everybody else on the north side of the Port we’re still serving rail, no issues, no problems. Talked to the UP this morning and they wanted an update. They said are you guys still operating, still serving and we said yes, we are. Continue running your daily trains. Really today Benteler, Oakley, Carbo and Genesis are impacted because of the water. We hope that water recedes quickly. Once it does, we’re gonna walk track; inspect our track, make sure everything’s in good shape and be certain that it’s safe and we can operate back there.

Moving on to barge activity, we saw a falloff in the barges in May. I think you’re gonna see frac sand slow down by barge coming through Oakley. Terral River Service is operating a warehouse in Natchitoches and distributing frac sand out of it. The high water should crest today or here in the next little while. The recession of the water is going to be slow, 10 – 14 days to two weeks. We’re not sure how this is going to impact Priefert and the steel coils. We also have a project cargo move going to east Texas. Those pieces are still supposed to come by barge but I don’t know how long they can delay. If the plant has a scheduled shutdown, they may not be able to delay them so we need to find out whether we could potentially lose those cargos or not. Currently locks 5,4 and 3 are closed. I am not sure if 2 is closed---Eric said it’s millimeters. It’s gonna happen soon. Hugh said he would expect the

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 17 water to stay this way for 10 days before it gets down to where we can cross the road. He distributed gage readings on the River. Calling for questions, Commissioner Gregorio asked has the rail problem happened before this flooding issue? Hugh said no. The water topped the dock—Eric said Friday when the River reached 35.5. Hugh said we watched the water come back up in the ditches and saw it approach the shoulders of the road. Commissioner Gregorio said but since the Port has been here this is the first time that it’s cut off our rail. Hugh said we saw it in advance and you walk in the next morning and it’s topped the rail. Any more questions? Commissioner Murphy said for the benefit of my fellow commissioners, you had mentioned about the Priefert Steel. The first Priefert Steel (the ones from Russia) is in the United States. It has been discharged from the vessel and Eric is it still on the barge in New Orleans or do you know if it’s gone up to Terrell yet? Eric said I don’t have an updated status on that. Commissioner Murphy said the second load is on the ship. The ship is at anchor off of Long Beach, CA as of this morning awaiting a berth. Hugh said hopefully—getting the water off the dock is step one and cleanup. Then it’s going to have to recede, get the locks back open and then there will be surveys to see where the sand bars are etc. There’s a little time left before we figure out what shape the River is truly in.

Commissioner Murphy said as President of this Commission I would like to take the opportunity to thank staff for the hours that they spent with this water event through the weekend. I want that to be officially expressed to those who were actively engaged in knee deep of water down here until approximately 8:00 p.m. Sunday night. I thank you for the Commission.

Commissioner Gregorio called on Rick for Port Projects. Rick said 1) Benteler lift station has been completed. It’s in operation; 2) our main lift station that the City has under contract to expand our capacity, they’re building their wet well; 3) RCC parking lot expansion, Fessler and Bowman has dressed out the parking lot and will be getting ready to start paving; 4) out for bid on Wednesday to get ready for June 30th bid opening; 5) rail batture, Phase 1 and 2, Phase 1, they were getting close to closing up the rail portion when the floods hit. They have both switches in and were making the last connection of the track itself and are at a standstill until the water recedes. Their balast rock will go in when it gets dry enough. What is impacted is the 2nd part of Phase 2 which is once the run-around is completed and tamped up, we have to break the original track in order to make room for the weigh scales. Have to make sure the ground is stable and do the pile driving. That was scheduled to start before the 4th of July weekend; 6) Ron Bean radius was completed and the railroad crossing.

At this point we want to show you a quick video—flew this weekend with the drones. We did it for a couple of reasons. One was to see the exposure we had as far as actual water levels, but it also was for economic development purposes because we’ve always been saying Scopini Island and North Whittington would survive flooding—Eric said 100 year—Rick said that was not exactly true based on yesterday. Rick started the film showing the lowest part in the entire levee system in our area. Going down Doug Attaway toward the warehouse---Eric said this is where the rail lines are under water as we approach. Notice the floor of the buildings; both buildings are still high and dry. Benteler is okay in the 30,000 sq. ft. warehouse. This is where Francis Bickham comes back together with Doug Attaway. You can see everything behind the levee is all good. There were a couple of seeps groundwater wise with Benteler on the land side but we kept checking it over the weekend; it didn’t change much. The ditch going around Benteler is all dry. North Whittington was pretty much high and dry. We have about 5 ft. of freeboard on the River through most of the land. Looking at Scopini and back over to Whittington

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 18 looking west, we’re not getting flood from the old River into the property. That’s the key thing to look at. We’re flying right back up the road from the River back towards Morris Dickson. No water anywhere along there. This was flown from inside Scopini out to the River. The point we were looking to see is that water inside Scopini coming from the water proper or is it backwater from the ditch. There is a single central ditch that drains Scopini Island. It looks like most of that is from that ditch. This is right across from Ronpak—high ground—coming back towards Pratt. The next shot we’re going to see is from the intersection of Tones Bayou and Frierson Road. That was part of the expansion area in our master plan. We launched from there and did a 360⁰ in the air so that you could see the ground around it is high and dry. That was to show the water in Tones Bayou because that’s where the water would have come from and we had about 14 ft. Friday between the outfall that would come from Benteler down to Tones Bayou. There’s about a 14 ft. elevation difference. As long as it’s not raining in the basin here and that was the exposure that we had. We’ve proved the levees work and our tenants will not get flooded. Commissioner Hall asked what’s the significance of the Scopini Island as to whether the water came from the River or came from the ditch as far as development. Rick said ease of construction if we ever market it. The issue was that SWEPCO talked about putting power plant there and there was some discussion about because it is inside the levee and they were worried about it getting flooded. There was some discussion about building a perimeter road around it in order to maintain freeboard inside. What I saw here based on this water, which we hopefully will never see again in a long, long time, there’s three points of entry into Scopini Island that seemed to have any issue. One is down by the Gardner house. I saw that yesterday when I was driving around; it’s coming in a little bit from there. Then most of that water is coming back up from a drainage ditch that goes right down the spine of Scopini Island and drains back in to the old River structure. We could build some kind of formal gate that at some point stop water from infiltrating there and then be able to pump it out if you needed to. The point was that’s a lot less expensive than building a huge perimeter levee. For an unusual flood, these are relatively simple fixes. Commissioner Hall said that’s what I was trying to see if it was a good thing if it was coming from the back water than from the River. Rick said we’ll go out and check the River line when we get to it. The photographs of that—and I’ll have to look at it in still form—but it looks like there’s still freeboard from the River. Even if there’s not, we have a lot of that spoil when the Corps dug that bend way, they dumped that spoil on the side of the Scopini Island by the River. It’s essentially another levee. So we could fix that small spot right there and put that gate there to make sure that land is marketable. North Whittington is high and dry. Commissioner Murphy asked what would you estimate is the difference in height of say Tones Bayou, now, this being the crest, and say the surface of Highway 1? It looks like that this being the crest we’ve still got plenty of height difference. Rick said I don’t know what Highway 1 is elevation wise. I do know that the elevation of the land is about El 160. Commissioner Murphy said wouldn’t you guestimate that we still have probably 3 ft. better between by eyeballing the surface of Tones Bayou and Highway 1. Rick said we have 4 at least in most of the areas of Scopini Island that was above the flooded area. You saw that area and construction being what it is—whatever that goes in there will fix that swell in the middle and they’ll put their own drainage in. I guess that’s the answer to your question. Commissioner Murphy said yes, thank you.

Commissioner Gregorio called for any other questions. Eric said I don’t have a question, but I would like to make some follow on comments following Rick’s report from some other things associated with the high water event that we’ve all been involved in. Commissioner Gregorio to your question about historically have we seen anything like this, and we’ve answered that question. But in concert with that,

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 19 the staff is taking steps to ensure that we’re marking things from a historical perspective because this is a unique opportunity to gain benchmarks for future reference. Rick touched a little bit on it, the water in the general cargo dock area, approached from two different areas, one from backwater washing up and one from water coming over the front of the dock or from the River. So we’ve taken careful markings in the area, both on the road as well as where we could safely venture out on the dock for future reference. What we’re looking to do is correlate what we’ve all heard about what we refer to as the Shreveport gage. For example, on Friday we learned that when the gage is at 35.5, the water level out here tops 155.5 ft. because it came over our dock. We never knew that before. We now know things like that. But unfortunately the River continued to rise but along the rise, and also as it continues to drop, we’re going to be marking things just so we can get beyond making assumptions about the correlation of that data and have hard data in place. It’s a first for us. We’re learning a lot.

I would like to share some things I think would be important to you as Port commissioners because in these types of things I have been hit with questions. Oftentimes people think that because you’re a Port commissioner, you know everything about the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the Red River. These questions may come your way, for example, the one that I have been hit with is this River system has caused all this. Had we not had the lock and dams, would this flooding have occurred? I believe all the experts in the room would tell you no, that is not the case in fact, by a measure of at least several feet. Another thing that has been said is, why don’t we open the doors to the gates of the locks --they don’t operate under pressure. Those are things which we just do not do. So if you get those kind of questions just know that the River system that we have today as a result, the situation would have been far worse had these lock and dams not been in place and the overall navigation project efforts. There was some commentary in the press about this prompting the need for additional dredging and perhaps we can use that as a fight and take those folks that believe that the River system does need more, based on capacity. But as it is right now, we’re doing all we can to get the $11 million for our 9 ft. channel. Be prepared for those comments you might get.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that this is going to impact us financially. Understand that we knew that barge transportation was going to cease in early May just based on the projections that we were getting. When the tail water of Lock and Dam 5 reached a certain level, Lock and Dam 5 was out of operation meaning that barges could no longer arrive at the Port. Based on what we know now—Hugh touched a little bit on this—we’re roughly at gage 37. It’s only expected to drop a foot to 36 by roughly Saturday. The initial forecasts are for it to drop from that 36 to 30 over the next couple months. 30 is flood stage. This could be a marathon. We’ve analyzed our books and we will be more prepared to present where we are at our August Executive Committee meeting, but we want you to know that we saw this coming. We have solutions in mind but at this point, I’ll say I don’t see how we don’t amend the budgets, based on revenue losses. Just want you to know that we have our eye on that ball. We’ll have a damage assessment just as soon as we can. We have paddled to the general area in boats as safely as we could to do those markings. It’s a very dangerous area. There are alligators; there’s snakes, but we’re just making sure that our assets are protected basing it on the forecasts we’re getting. As soon as we can, we will do a damage assessment and begin to quantify those and report those up the chain.

I want to end it on a positive note. You all will remember we dredged the Slack Water Harbor a couple years ago. We have a rather large pile of high-quality sand and that sand was put to use this past

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 20 weekend for folks at the Army National Guard, DOTD. Caddo Parish this morning was on site with dump trucks. I had the opportunity to speak with the officer in charge, Nathan Hancock, who built the hesco wall along Clyde Fant Parkway and he wanted to express his appreciation to the Commission for that sand. The project was a success. The water did top the wall on the Clyde Fant Parkway and those hesco bags in their effort were a success and they were very appreciative and I wanted to pass that on to you all. That concludes my report on the high water update unless there are any questions.

Commissioner Gregorio called on Eric for monthly reports. He said we’ve covered them; they’re in your packages and if there aren’t any comments, I can go ahead and give a primer on the next one. We’re going to ask Dannye to speak to the commission.

Traffic Safety: Eric said as you know these roads that are within the Caddo-Bossier Port complex are Port roads. They were built by the Port; they are maintained by us. We have posted speed limits, but we have had some incidents lately that have caused us concern. We’ve had an 18-wheeler roll over for high rates of speed on the corner; we had a motorcycle that had an accident. So we reached out to the Caddo Sheriff’s Office to increase the patrols and also investigate whether citations could be issued. Dannye, will you share with the Commission what you’ve learned thus far? Dannye said members of the Commission, I recently discussed with the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office authority to issue traffic citations on property owned by the Port with Gary Parker and my research indicates that title to property owned by the Port, including any roads or streets constructed within the Port area are public in nature. I shared that information with Mr. Parker. He agrees with my assessment. Consequently, the Port has the authority to adopt an ordinance to regulate traffic within the Port area. That being said, I’m in the process of drafting an ordinance to establish the speed limit within the Port area itself. This initiative will require collaboration with the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office, the District Attorney’s Office and the Port itself. Mr. Parker has committed to working with us on that initiative. Commissioner Gregorio said I presume your ordinance will come back to us in the future. Dannye said yes it will. Records Retention Schedule: Dannye said as you may be aware, LA R.S. 44:411 requires each agency head to submit a proposed Records Retention Schedule to the State Archives. We have prepared a proposed record retention schedule for your consideration. These type of records are primarily of the nature of legal, administrative and fiscal. If you will note, there are several items on the retention schedule, Items 50-58, are somewhat unique because those particular records are retained pursuant to the Federal Railroad Administration’s initiatives. And the records retention schedule for those particular items are promulgated under the authority of the Code of Federal Regulations. Those particular items cannot be altered or modified whatsoever. Otherwise, Commissioner Gregorio, you wanted to review the proposed Records Retention Schedule and we’re submitting it for consideration at this time. Commissioner Gregorio called for any questions. Commissioner Gregorio said I have one: the source of these time periods was what source, please. Dannye said these time periods were developed primarily through conversations with members of our staff and based upon my research as well. Commissioner Gregorio asked was there any kind of standards for government entities for records retention and did we use those standards? Dannye said that’s correct. Typically for contracts, for example, on the retention schedule if they’re in active use, it’s probably ten years from the date it was generated and for other items, if there is not a retention schedule, for example, there’s a default provision under Title 44 which is three years from the time in which the record was generated or

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 21 created. Commissioner Gregorio said my last question—we’ve got about 59 entries on the document. I think what I’m hearing you say is that you resourced it and that you have used the statutory requirements, and then if there were no statutory requirements, you used standards from other government agencies. And then lastly, you used the default system if there was nothing discussed. Dannye said that is correct. And actually default under Title 44 is that if a public entity does not promulgate its own retention schedule, then it’s three years from the date in which the document was created. Commissioner Gregorio said would it be fair for me to say this document represents the best practices currently for document retentions for government agencies? Dannye said absolutely. Commissioner Gregorio said thank you. Eric said Commissioner Gregorio, we distributed that today with the intent of placing it on the agenda for next week for consideration. Commissioner Gregorio said if the commissioners would look at that and be ready for next week. Unless there’s any more questions on this, we’re going to Employee Handbook Revisions. *Employee Handbook Revisions: Eric said as you will recall we had these items on the agenda for last month. We did not have a quorum so we placed them on this agenda which the Operations Committee is a committee of the whole. So the employee handbook revisions were discussed at the April Personnel Committee meeting as well as the May 11, 2015 committee meeting where we further discussed based on the comments received at the April committee meeting and specifically they are the sections which were described: 3.1; 4.1; 4.4; 7.1; 7.2; 7.4; 7.8 and 10.1. There have been no other changes proposed that were not discussed at the May 11th meeting. So with all that said, we would recommend that the employee handbook revisions, as presented, be adopted by the Commission. A motion was made by Commissioner Hall and was seconded by Commissioner Austin. Commissioner Gregorio said we have a motion and a second on the floor to approve. Any discussion? Hearing none, we’ll call for the vote. All in favor, please say ‟Aye”. Opposed? It was unanimous. AYES: Commissioners: Thomas F. Murphy, Sam N. Gregorio, Lynn Austin, Erica R. Bryant, James D. Hall, James L. Pannell, Rick C. Prescott and Steve Watkins. NAYS: None ABSENT: Ernest Baylor, Jr. ABSTAINING: None *401(a) and 457 Plans: Eric said the current plan is with Mass Mutual and we are recommending that the plans, the 401(a) and the 457 plans, be transferred to Voya. Commissioner Gregorio said and that’s been discussed as a cost issue. Eric said yes sir. Commissioner Gregorio said do I hear any motions. The motion was made by Commissioner Pannell and seconded by Commissioner Bryant. Commissioner Gregorio said we have a motion and a second on the floor to proceed and make the move. Any discussion? Hearing none, we’ll call for the vote. All in favor, please say ‟Aye”. Opposed? Again, unanimous. AYES: Commissioners: Thomas F. Murphy, Sam N. Gregorio, Lynn Austin, Erica R. Bryant, James D. Hall, James L. Pannell, Rick C. Prescott and Steve Watkins. NAYS: None ABSENT: Ernest Baylor, Jr. ABSTAINING: None *Rs. No. 10, 2015, National Maritime Day: Eric said the resolution recognized the National Maritime Day. I will comment that the Red River Waterway Commission and the four appointing authorities were

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 22 asked to adopt a similar resolution. We received notice from Bossier Parish Police Jury so far and I imagine the others will submit their official resolutions to us. It’s recommended for adoption. Commissioner Gregorio said do I hear any motions. The motion was made by Commissioner Austin and seconded by Commissioner Prescott. Commissioner Gregorio said we have a motion and second. Any discussion? All in favor, please say ‟Aye”. Opposed? It is unanimous. AYES: Commissioners: Thomas F. Murphy, Sam N. Gregorio, Lynn Austin, Erica R. Bryant, James D. Hall, James L. Pannell, Rick C. Prescott and Steve Watkins. NAYS: None ABSENT: Ernest Baylor, Jr. ABSTAINING: None

*Rs. No. 11, 2015, Authorizing an Amendment to Lease Agreement Between the Caddo-Bossier Parishes Port Commission and FML Terminal Logistics, LLC: Eric said this resolution is recommended for adoption. It’s for our approximate 10 acre site located behind the former AT&T facility near Mansfield Road. Commissioner Gregorio said my memory is that we discussed at the last full meeting. Eric said that’s correct. Commissioner Gregorio said any motions? A motion was made by Commissioner Murphy and seconded by Commissioner Watkins. Any discussion? Hearing none, All in favor, please say ‟Aye”. All opposed? It passes unanimously. AYES: Commissioners: Thomas F. Murphy, Sam N. Gregorio, Lynn Austin, Erica R. Bryant, James D. Hall, James L. Pannell, Rick C. Prescott and Steve Watkins. NAYS: None ABSENT: Ernest Baylor, Jr. ABSTAINING: None

*Rs. No. 12, 2015, Ratifying the Purchase and Sale Agreement Relative to the Acquisition of Immovable Property: Eric said this is a resolution that will ratify the purchase of what we refer to as the Maniscalco property and is recommended for adoption by the Commission. Commissioner Gregorio said this is a ratification. Eric said yes sir. A motion was made by Commissioner Austin and seconded by Commissioner Watkins to approve. Commissioner Gregorio said we have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, we’ll call for a vote. All in favor, please say ‟Aye”. Opposed? It was unanimously passed. AYES: Commissioners: Thomas F. Murphy, Sam N. Gregorio, Lynn Austin, Erica R. Bryant, James D. Hall, James L. Pannell, Rick C. Prescott and Steve Watkins. NAYS: None ABSENT: Ernest Baylor, Jr. ABSTAINING: None

*Authorization - Execute Cooperative Endeavor Agreement with RRWC: Eric said the Red River Waterway Commission has agreed to increase their participation in the fender repair system project at our general cargo wharf from $381,600 to $780,000 and we recommend this authorization by the Board. Commissioner Gregorio said do we have a motion and a second? A motion was made by Commissioner Pannell and seconded by Commissioner Murphy. Commissioner Gregorio said any discussion? Hearing none, we’ll call for a vote. All in favor, please say ‟Aye”. Opposed? It passes unanimously. AYES: Commissioners: Thomas F. Murphy, Sam N. Gregorio, Lynn Austin, Erica R. Bryant, James D. Hall, James L. Pannell, Rick C. Prescott and Steve Watkins.

Caddo-Bossier Port Commission - Minutes June 18, 2015 Page 23 NAYS: None ABSENT: Ernest Baylor, Jr. ABSTAINING: None Commissioner Gregorio said that’s all of our agenda. Do we have any new or old business to be brought up? Hearing none, he adjourned the meeting at approximately 12:57 p.m.

Commissioner Murphy said the Operations Committee Report of June 8, 2015 is in your package. If there are no additions, deletions or corrections, I will move that they be accepted as read. Any discussion? All in favor, please say ‟Aye”. Opposed, ‟Nay”. Hearing no nays, it passes unanimously. Port Expansion Committee Report of June 18, 2015: Committee Chairman Watkins said the Port Expansion Committee met today at 3:00 p.m. A quorum was not present. At the meeting, Tyler Comeaux with BKI presented, in final form, Technical Memo No. 3 and also provided an overview of Technical Memo No. 4. We will ask that the Technical Memo No. 3 be placed on the July Board meeting agenda for consideration by the Commission. Minutes of the meeting will be prepared and presented at the July Board meeting also. That concludes my report.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Records Retention Schedule: Mr. England said as presented last week the Records Retention Schedule has been prepared for adoption by the Board with one change that, after talking to the State Archivist, that the change from Personnel Records be from 7 years, which was in the previous version we presented to you, to the change being to 70 years. With that change we would present it to the Commission for consideration. Commissioner Hall said I make a motion we adopt the Records Retention Schedule as proposed. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Pannell. Commissioner Murphy said it has been moved and seconded that we adopt the Records Retention Schedule. Any discussion? All in favor, please say ?Aye”. Opposed, ?Nay”. Hearing no nays, it passed unanimously.

AYES: Commissioners: Thomas F. Murphy, Erica R. Bryant, James D. Hall, James L. Pannell, Rick C. Prescott and Steve Watkins.

NAYS: None ABSENT: Lynn Austin, Ernest Baylor, Jr. and Sam N. Gregorio ABSTAINING: None

Port Director’s Report: Mr. England said a lot of our attention, of course, is on the recovery from the flood event. We’ve made great headway this week. Our Operations team has really put a lot into getting the General Cargo Dock restored. There’s a lot of work to do and we put a lot of man hours just into our recovery plan. And if any of you have any questions about any of the particulars, I will be glad to give you a copy of our recovery plan which we’re developing. We will be submitting this to the GOHSEP Office for the calculations, of course, in helping it be declared a Federal, under FEMA regs, a disaster area. So with that, we’d be glad to answer any questions you might have or address any comments.

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Commissioner Hall said Eric, do you know anything more—I’ve seen the emails about Lock and Dam 4 and 5, is there any insight we have about what the prognosis is for traffic on the River. Eric said thank you Commissioner Hall. This week Colonel Cross who is the colonel in charge of the Vicksburg District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers was in our office. He was doing a site visit of several of the lock and dams. At this time, the water levels are high where they cannot make all of the necessary analysis and inspections they need to on the circuitry and the control boards that were damaged. Once that level drops, they know they will be able to go into that chamber and do additional pumping of water that needs to be done to make the initial assessments. He’s committed to keeping us informed of those. In addition to those specific problems which were brought forth at Lock and Dam 4 and 5, he has also dispatched one of the Corps vessels. Though Locks 2,3,4,5 are closed for commercial navigation, they will allow the MV Fred Lee, which is the vessel they dispatched, to work its way to Locks 4 and 5 to begin an incredible amount of debris removal that they have both in the lock chamber as well as on the upper pool side of the lock gates. That vessel has a clamshell bucket so they’ll be able to do a lot of that work. They did send divers in also this week and they’re just going to need to allow that clamshell bucket to do that work and move a lot of that debris before they can go in and fully assess. What we have is a very engaged Commander. His site visit with us was very promising and there is a commitment from him to stay in touch and we believe that we will know at the earliest opportunities. I’ll conclude with telling you that at the top of his priority list was asking us what shipments do you have. What are the priorities? He wanted to know the specifics of our shipments such as the steel coils that are going to Priefert Steel as well as the special cargo move that’s going to Eastman Chemical in Longview, Texas. Commissioner Pannell said my question and Jimmy may be able to help me with the answer, I know the Port is pretty busy mapping the levels at this point. It’s my understanding everything is speculation ever since 70 years ago and now we have an actual opportunity to see what some of those flood levels are. My question would be whether there’s any kind of uniform effort because we know we are doing it from the Port’s standpoint, but is Bossier doing something or is there any kind of uniform effort because this is probably an opportunity that hopefully won’t happen soon, but we really need to know what those levels are. Commissioner Hall said we appropriated money this week to enter into a joint deal with the Bossier Sheriff’s Office and the Bossier Parish Jury to do an inundation map for the South Bossier. They’re gonna take kind of what they’ve already done here at the Port, but they’re taking levels of the water heights so that each level that it comes to, you know what’s gonna flood and hopefully, you know when we get the Corps map back, we’ll have a planning deal much like what Eric and they have put together here where they have marked it and at certain levels you need to take certain actions to protect certain things. I think everybody has gone to school on that particular deal. As I understand it, on Lock Dams No. 4 and 5 there was some

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problems with sealing the water out of the gallery and that’s how the water got in. So my concern for the Lock and Dam 4 and 5, and I’m glad to hear the Colonel is engaged because, is that they’ve got to get in there when the water goes down and assess it but I’m pretty sure most of the computer equipment once it’s inundated is pretty useless so they’re going to have to get new equipment. What my concern is in addition to water going down to be navigable, I’m glad to hear they’re sending a boat to clean out the debris. But getting the debris gone is one thing; getting them operational again is another. So it could have an impact longer than we talked about last week on the navigability of the River. I am not saying I know that. That was one reason I asked. I am glad to hear that the Corps is engaged. Sometimes that happens and sometimes that doesn’t. Commissioner Pannell said my concern is a lot of times the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. And I’m saying I don’t know if the Parish is doing anything; I don’t know if the City of Shreveport is doing anything. I’m not sure. But I just feel that there should be some coordinated effort because we were talking about—you know from the standpoint of you’re paying somebody to do something—looks like that price would be less if everybody was doing something. It may or may not be, but I just see the Port as being, we’re made up of all areas…Commissioner Hall said right….Commissioner Pannell said and we would be the natural group to say that this would need to be coordinated some kind of way and I don’t know…

Commissioner Bryant said I will talk with the Parish from that standpoint, but I know they’re having weekly meetings with the City of Shreveport, Homeland Security, Caddo Parish and I’ll discuss that with them because I don’t know, Eric, if the Port has been involved in those meetings. So I will talk to…. Commissioner Pannell said but my concern is that those meetings are about recovery efforts. But as far as mapping what…Commissioner Bryant said no, they’re also about how to address it going forward and how to deal with this issue and the response to the issue, being prepared. It’s not just the recovery. I think they understand that this is going to be ongoing and being prepared because I think just from a standpoint in some situations we may not have addressed it in a timely manner or in the appropriate manner so all things are on the table right now. Commissioner Pannell said is there anything from the Port’s standpoint that we can offer assistance just from a publicity standpoint that we need to be seen as being aggressive as we can from the Port’s standpoint. I just wanted them to look at that and see if that’s a possibility because we have conversation about, and we have conversation that the Port has the economic means to do something, but they don’t help this or that. So it may not be a financial input from the Port but we should at least reach out and see if we could offer some assistance. I don’t know what that would be but at least look at it and see.

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Commissioner Hall said one thing we might consider is hosting an event that’s a summit for everybody to get together and share lessons learned. Every event, it doesn’t matter what it is, everybody learns something from it, so it might be, if you could get the two Sheriff’s offices, the Caddo Parish and Bossier Parish people, the two cities to come to the Port and have a conversation about lessons learned, that would be to me a big deal in going forth. Commissioner Pannell said my thing is that every time we talk about doing some stuff, I know I am, and other people are very careful that we don’t do something that would put an additional burden on the staff. So Anne is here and I’d just like to have some suggestions as to—I don’t want to say we need to do that and it just lump something on some people that obviously is up to their neck with work already. So I don’t want to say something—don’t say how it should be so I would like to get maybe some input from Anne or…Anne said well from our standpoint, we can do the running of the invitations etc. but then, of course, it’s going to be relying back on the powers that be to have the conversations. But absolutely we would be delighted to work with the Port staff to arrange that. I think the idea of bringing everybody together for a lesson learned is an awesome opportunity. Commissioner Pannell said do we need anything from the Board’s standpoint to make that happen. Commissioner Bryant said do you want to make a motion. Commissioner Pannell said do we want to come back…Commissioner Bryant said let’s just…We probably need more discussion. Mr. England said let us come back with an initial proposal for the Commission to consider. Anne said I’ve been hearing a lot of reports that the lakes up in Oklahoma are filling again that are going to flow back into the Red. Do we know the ramifications of that event since Hurricane Bill is making its way through Texas and Oklahoma? Commissioner Hall said I went to an EOC meeting today and the information they provided today is it’s not going to flow and that all the rain they expected to go in the Texas Oklahoma basin went to the east. There may be flooding in other areas but our expectation is that the River is not going to rise again—I mean it’s risen incrementally from the local rains but the things we faced when the River went to 37'—I was hearing stories three days ago it was going to go higher than 37'. But what we were told this morning was that we all dodged the bullet because the rain went to the east and not to the place they thought it was going to go but they are able to hold the water they have now so they can preserve it from coming down until we get some relief from the River going down. So that was information I heard today. Mr. England said and there’s about an—I’ve heard the same. Keep in mind there’s about a ten-day window between water that is released at Lake Texoma and water that hits the Caddo Bossier area. So we have that ten-day period to allow this to drain even more.

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Commissioner Murphy said Commissioner Pannell, I want to say we’re blessed we have an Executive Port Director that can think on his feet. There was an incident—you know we have saved dirt and piled up dirt from excavations in construction around here just to use in the future so we wouldn’t have to buy. When it came time for sandbagging in areas around here, Eric offered our dirt with the idea to me as your President, his words were ‟he would rather have forgiveness from the Board to do it than permission from the Board to do it”. Thinking on his feet, it was done. He made the offer then told me about it and I appreciate that quick response from our staff and I’m glad we have a staff that thinks on its feet. Applause followed. Commissioner Bryant said Captain Murphy, I’d just like to add a thank you on behalf of Caddo Parish. Dr. Wilson and the commissioners for Caddo Parish wanted me to offer thanks to the Port for their assistance for helping us with the sandbags. We were running 24 operations and apparently what we got from the Port was wonderful for sandbags. What we had wasn’t working, so they’re very appreciative and I want to offer my thanks for helping us out during that time. Eric said thank you. Commissioner Murphy asked if there was anything else they needed to bring before adjournment and adjourned the meeting at 4:57 p.m. Respectfully submitted,

Commissioner Sam N. Gregorio

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