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Civic issues
Topics getting the most attention in St. Charles Parish public meetings, ranked by how frequently they come up.
St. Charles Parish Hospital growth and services
The hospital signed a joint surgeon (Dr. Bryant King) and a sports medicine doctor (Dr. Charles Long), plus a rheumatologist and a new Destrehan primary care doctor — more specialty and primary care options close to home.
911 ESInet communications upgrade
The 911 district is planning a $2 million upgrade to a cloud-based AT&T emergency network that would let residents send video and photos to dispatchers and push data to patrol cars. It'll be paid from the district's healthy fund balance, not new fees. Text-to-911 is also now live.
New East Bank EMS station
EMS will finally move into its new East Bank station within weeks — its first permanent home since Hurricane Ida displaced the team five years ago. A ribbon-cutting is planned.
New EMS leadership and culture change
Board leadership praised the EMS team, which saved the same patient from two cardiac emergencies a year apart and consoled her children during the second response.
Rising food bank demand
Board members described a strong network of food banks serving roughly a thousand families a month, including a 250-families-per-month distribution every third Wednesday. They discussed asking for parish ID to stop people from hitting multiple food banks.
Radio system and fire pager outages
The main Hahnville radio tower amplifier went down in May, forcing responders onto a backup system, and fire pagers briefly stopped receiving tones. A gap in recorded radio traffic during the outage is being investigated with the vendors.