Create a Department of Stormwater Management, with the Office of Resilience & Sustainability (ORS) to ensure interagency collaboration at the city and state levels. This initiative must be placed on a ballot for public vote.

1. Create a nature-based maintenance and workforce program and pipeline.

Establish a stormwater fee, administered by the Department of Stormwater Management, with an ERU of $50 to raise $50 million annually and fund implementation of both gray and green infrastructure. This initiative must be placed on a ballot for public vote per Louisiana Act 319.

Require the Department of Stormwater Management to maintain an up-to-date and publicly transparent website that details how the fee is calculated, how much revenue the fee produces, and how that revenue is spent.

Require the Department of Stormwater Management to establish a Community Advisory Board (CAB) to ensure public oversight of funding, projects, and programs. 

1. The CAB shall comprise nine infrastructure, engineering, and planning professionals, and community advocates. Five members shall be selected by the New Orleans City Council (one per district) and four shall be selected by the Chief Resilience Officer, housed inside the Office of the Governor.

Develop a phased-in approach for stormwater fees, with tax-exempt properties, including nonprofits and tax-exempt businesses, paying first. Transition residents and taxable organizations into the fee as millages expire.

Require 30% of stormwater fee revenue to be allocated to necessary and sufficient gray infrastructure operations and maintenance to enhance drainage system reliability, especially for catch basin cleaning and maintenance.

When phased in, require all property owners to pay a stormwater fee based on the amount of impervious area on their parcel, with single-family properties paying a simplified, three-tiered rate based on parcel size. 

Create incentives to encourage residents, nonprofits, and commercial property owners to increase permeability by expanding green infrastructure on their properties and participating in community greening initiatives.

Create a dedicated fund for community improvement programs to ensure neighborhoods, businesses, and residents reap direct benefits from the new stormwater fee. These programs should include but are not limited to:

1. Reforestation efforts to restore and expand New Orleans’ tree canopy.

2. A Pocket Park Program to create small green spaces in underserved neighborhoods.

3. Workforce pipelines, partnering with local high schools and universities to train residents in construction, design, and engineering.

4. The Community Adaptation Program to support elderly, disabled, and veteran residents living in flood-prone homes.

5. Fortified roofing, resilient housing, and new insurance models to help reduce individual and citywide insurance costs.

6. Access to green debt, including bonds, to fund large-scale capital stormwater projects.

Provide hardship exemptions for property owners unfairly burdened by the stormwater fee, with hardship exemptions sunsetting for commercial and nonprofit properties within three to five years.

Require a minimum stormwater fee rate to ensure adequate operations, maintenance, and program funding.​