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Column: Boulet’s first budget is sobering
Lafayette’s lived through a financial fairy land the past few years. This budgets bursts the bubble.
Lafayette’s lived through a financial fairy land the past few years. This budgets bursts the bubble.
Lafayette has virtually no other affordable housing available should residents be forced to leave.
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Both main hospital groups in Acadiana report an increase in cases of COVID and other respiratory illnesses.
Short on splashy projects, the budget, introduced to the councils this week, focuses instead on LCG’s financial plumbing.
Later this month Lafayette Consolidated Government will host a housing workshop in Spanish, intended to arm attendees with understanding and skills to plan for eventual homeownership.
Finding ways to reduce costs but maintain key investments tops her list of priorities.
The pay plan targets severe worker shortages at Lafayette Consolidated Government. Some departments have vacancy rates 25% or more.
Taxable sales in Lafayette Parish topped $714 million in May, the strongest May on record. So far this year, total receipts hit $3.5 billion.
LCG will kick off the annual budget cycle. Council members will weigh the veto of a proposed gas station.
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