The Bossier City Council on Tuesday adopted a series of ordinances and resolutions, approved funding for police vehicles and project closeouts, took construction bids under advisement, and voted to continue major budget items to a later meeting.

The council approved final-reading ordinances to appropriate $600,000 from the sales tax capital fund to purchase eight new police vehicles and to amend the 2025 general fund to add funding for the police vehicle repair and maintenance operational budget. The council also adopted the final reconciliation and closeout for the Brownlee Road Rehabilitation Project, which included change order No. 2 and a decreased contract amount of $36,338.50 for a final contract price of $1,291,239.25.

Council members took the formal bids for bid P25-07 (a new vehicle maintenance building for the fire department) under advisement after the clerk read five bids and the engineer’s estimate of $1,950,000. The council voted to take those bids under advisement for later action. Several first-reading ordinances were introduced and carried by voice vote, including a $100,000 appropriation from the hotel/motel tax fund for professional marketing, an ordinance to declare miscellaneous city furniture and fixtures surplus, cooperative endeavor agreements for the mayor to sign with the Louisiana Department of Treasury and the State of Louisiana, and an ordinance to transfer $13,362,739.69 from the 2018 LCDA bond fund to various capital funds.

The council introduced (first reading) an ordinance amending ordinance 81 of 2025 to declare a local emergency for Airline Drive lift station pump and manhole repairs, wet-well cleaning and investigation of a sewer main under a state highway, at an estimated cost of $213,649.23. Related first-reading budget amendments were approved by voice vote, including a $300,000 increase in the streets and drainage fund for unplanned projects and several other fund adjustments described in the budget presentation.

On the code and policy side, the council considered amendments to the City of Bossier City code (first reading) that included changes to the vehicle use policy; the council voted to adopt the amendments and then approved the code change as amended. The council also introduced the general fund budget for 2026 (first reading), heard staff presentations on revisions since the budget workshop, and — after questions and proposed amendments from several council members — voted to continue budget items 10 through 37 to the Oct. 21 meeting to allow more time for review and for proposed amendments to be prepared.

Public commenters addressed transportation planning and budget priorities during the meeting. Kevin Blanc requested a traffic corridor study for east-west streets including Benton Road and Airline Drive. David Crockett urged strategic multi-year budgeting and noted long-term debt service levels in the city’s financial statements.

The council used voice votes for the items listed and recorded each motion as carried by voice count. No roll-call tallies were recorded in the public portion of the transcript for these items.