Executive Director Gary LaGrange reported that Globalplex’s $28 million expansion of dock facilities, cargo handling equipment and cargo storage facilities includes $21.2 million of that first price tag.Phase One of that overall project includes new electrical cranes, a 180- foot dock expansion, accompanying electrical work and the relocation of the Harbor Services division. That total cost is $8.08 million dollars, ofwhich $6 million will come from the Port Priority Trust Fund of the state Department of Transportation and Development.

Phase Two includes a five-acre concrete laydown storage pad for future breakbulk and containerized cargo and a marine apron, with a total cost of $7.33 million, of which $5.89 million will be picked up by the state.Phase Three includes another marine apron, a 50,000-square-foot dockside transit shed and a 100,000-square-foot landside transit shed.

Total cost on that phase is $11.6 million, of which $9.34 million is beingpicked up by the state.

In other matters, plans have been developed for the expansion and renovation of the Port of South Louisiana’s executive office on Belle Terre Boulevard in LaPlace.

The $180,000 project includes closing in the carport and porch area for a new conference room and flooring repairs to the second floor.

The port commission approved a resolution for Occidental Chemical in Convent to re-offer $27 million in refunding bonds, to move from floating to fixed interest rates. Prior approval has already been received from theSt. James Parish Council.The commission also approved a cost-sharing agreement on repairs to a crane, the cost of which will total $255,000 and the cost split among the port, Holnam Cement and Kinder/Morgan. Each share will be approximately$77,000.

And the commission approved a $25,000 ceiling on a contract with CRA Engineers on the sewage treatment pond management. An contractapproved in May with a $10,000 ceiling has already been exceeded, with $16,507 spend so far.

Also, the port’s Washington D.C. liaison, Adams & Reese, had its six-month, $25,000 contract extended another six months. The lobbying firmhelped the port acquire nearly $4 million in federal funds in that period.

Finally, Deputy Director Don Hays was granted authority to sign necessary checks, purchase orders and other documents, as LaGrange is leaving for his new job in Gulfport, Miss., on Aug. 20.

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