Fede​ration Recognition Awards
Recognition Award Recipients
Recognition Award Recipients
Robert Say
Robert Say
2019 Lifetime Achievement
2019 Lifetime Achievement
Robert has been a regular member of the Federation for some 37 years and served on the Board of Directors in various capacities for 20 years. Robert has been the institutional memory of the Federation and is routinely consulted by the current boards to help reconstruct the logic and thinking behind policies and governance that were implemented decades ago.
Gary Patureau
Gary Patureau
2019 Annual Award
2019 Annual Award
Gary was recognized for his leadership on the 5G Task Force. Gary was instrumental in organizing the Task Force, educated our members, raising funding for legal defense and working with the City Parish and Service Providers to implement a new Citywide oridinance for the permitting of 5G small wireless facility towers in neighborhoods
Elliott Atkinson
Elliott Atkinson
2020 Lifetime Achievement
2020 Lifetime Achievement
Elliott was one of the founding members of the Federation and served as Board President for a total of four years. Elliott has provided countless hours of volunteer service to the Federation in the form of legal advice to Board members and numerous legal educational presentations to our member associations. Elliott also provides that rare institutional memory of over 40 years of involvement in the Federation.
La Stormwater Coalition
La Stormwater Coalition
2021 Annual Award
2021 Annual Award
The founding members (L to R)
Jeff Kuehny, Renee Verma, Marie Constantin and Kelly Hurtado established the La Stormwater Coalition. A group of citizens who have organized to clean up litter from the lakes, waterways and wetlands of EBRP which had accumulated over multiple decades impacting stormwater quality and conveyance. Building on the experiences of other municipalities, the team has proposed solutions to fund and maintain our watersheds for future generations to enjoy.
Recognition Award Recipients
Recognition Award Recipients
Drainage Committee
Drainage Committee
2021 Annual Award
2021 Annual Award
The Committee consisted of: (From L-R) Doug Daigle, Phil Fetterman, Monty McNutt, Sherry Guarisco, Margrett Fels, Charles Perilloux and Priscilla Head (not shown). The members are being recognized for their leadership in responding to the 2021 flood event in BR through the development of a statement document to the City Parish leadership with recommendations to address a decades old flooding problem. Also, the committee demonstrated aggressive monitoring, education and opposition of developments proposed in the Special Flood Hazard areas and challenged the validity of a Parishwide development moratorium that did not achieve any measurable improvements.

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