Jefferson Parish is expected to hire three new companies today: two to clear debris after any future natural disaster, and a third to watch them do it. Six companies applied for the two contracts to remove debris from parish streets and properties for the next two years, Environmental Affairs Director Marnie Winter said. They are, as ranked by the...
Jefferson Parish is expected to hire three new companies today: two to clear debris after any future natural disaster, and a third to watch them do it. Six companies applied for the two contracts to remove debris from parish streets and properties for the next two years, Environmental Affairs Director Marnie Winter said. They are, as ranked by the parish evaluation committee, Ceres Consulting, Phillips and Jordan Inc., the DRC Group, Crowder Gulf, Omni Pinnacle and Cycle Construction.
Jefferson Parish is moving to hire companies to clear debris after future disasters.Eleven more applied to monitor the work. They are, in the evaluation committee's ranking order, All South Consulting Engineers, Shaw Coastal Inc., True North Emergency Management, O'Brien's Response Management Inc., Barowka & Bonura Engineers and Consultants, GCR Inc., Thompson Consulting Services, Stuart Consulting Group, Quaternary Resource Investigations, MWH Americas Inc. and Meyer Engineers Ltd.
The Parish Council is scheduled to consider the proposals at 10 a.m. in the General Government Building in Gretna. Reimbursement policies for the Federal Emergency Management Agency require an independent company monitor the debris removal.
Hiring companies ahead of a hurricane's landfall has become standard practice in Jefferson since Hurricane Katrina. Ceres and DRC held the previous debris removal contracts, which expired in February. With no hurricanes or floods striking in the last two years, the companies never made any money off the deals, Winter said.
But the companies with the monitoring contracts, CDM and Shaw, did some work watching demolition of debris left over from Hurricane Ike in Barataria, Crown Point, Grand Isle and Jean Lafitte. CDM made $120,200, Shaw $89,450, all reimbursed by FEMA, Winter said.
The monitoring contracts expired in September, but the parish extended them until December 31, 2012. However, CDM and Shaw will work only on debris removal from previous disasters, Winter said. On the existing contracts, CDM hired All South and Stuart Consulting as subcontractors, while Shaw hired Solid Resources Inc., ims Engineers and RCL Consulting, Winter said.
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Richard Rainey can be reached at rrainey@timespicayune.com or 504.883.7052.