After due consideration of the Request for Proposals describing the second round of grant funding for the APA Plan4Health Initiative, a letter of intent was submitted on behalf of the APA LA requesting grant funding in the amount of $150,000 for capacity building with allied health organizations in the state under the category inactivity. For details on the RFP, please go to www.planning.org/nationalcenters/health .

The Louisiana Chapter of the American Planning Association and St. Bernard Parish Planning Commission are co-hosting a Planning Commissioner Workshop on Saturday, August 1, 2015, in Chalmette, LA.  This workshop is to help new planning commissioners and board of adjustment members meet the requirements of Act 859 (RS 33:103.1). 

In mid April APA members from across the country (and world?) gathered for our organization's National Planning Conference in Seattle. A number of our students from UNO were fortunate to attend and have provided the following observations: