Council Preview: LCG may take on state roads in $25M deal

Parish Council

Final Adoption

Moving money. One ordinance up for adoption Tuesday would pull $500,000 in federal funds from LCG’s troubled Bayou Vermilion Flood Control project to install water lines, while another would pull an additional $235,000 of federal funding from BVFC for a previously unfunded item called Localized Flood Mitigation. LCG’s attempts to use federal funds for BVFC have been limited by the process it used to select Rigid Constructors for the contract, which was not competitive enough to meet federal funding requirements. 

Fire protection. PO-25 would take $115,000 from the parish’s estimated $995,000 general fund to pay for additional transportation costs of parishwide fire protection, which is typically used to reimburse fire departments in Lafayette’s surrounding municipalities. Youngsville announced last week that its Fire Department would stop responding to most medical calls outside city limits starting in June because of insufficient reimbursement from Lafayette Consolidated Government.

Introduction

No significant items.

City Council

Final Adoption

$1.1 million from new fire station. Two ordinances take a combined $1,062,988 from the city’s $3 million budget to relocate First Station #5. LCG and UL made plans in 2021 to build a new station near Blackham Coliseum as part of a land swap that would turn over the existing station at 2001 Johnston St. to the university. The removed funds would be split between work at two other fire stations, with $355,000 going to renovate First Station #2 on Mudd Avenue and $708,000 going toward rebuilding First Station #6 at Johnston Street and Montrose Avenue.

Introduction

Campground reno. CO-65 would put $92,000 toward removing the existing house and renovating the office of the Acadiana Park Campground.  

Joint Items

Final Adoption

No significant items.

Introduction

DOTD deal. The councils will consider a deal to take ownership of about 26 miles of state roads in exchange for a $8.1 million credit toward Lafayette’s share of the I-49 Connector project, a $1.2 million credit toward LCG’s share of LA 176 and LA 98, plus $15.3 million in state money for local interchange improvements. 

$10k for hospice. The Guillory administration is proposing an ordinance to give $10,000 from his $850,000 COVID-era business recovery grant program to Hospice of Acadiana. The program, which was slow to start and gave funds to dozens of businesses that had already received state and federal aid, would be left with roughly $20,000 after the move, which would add to $120,000 already received by Hospice of Acadiana from LCG.

Property

Vacancies

Appointments