Looking back and looking ahead as 2021 winds down.
News + Notes
12/1 Council Preview: Parish Council spends more ARPA money, library board appointment, flood control, LPSS transit agreement
Here’s a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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Lafayette Connector heads for last mile
Most of the major decisions have been made, including some significant changes to the version approved by the federal government in the early 2000s. Whether the Connector can make good on lofty promises will hinge on decisions made in 2022.
7 min read
Lafayette formally asks state for millions to fund new performing arts center
With a hastily completed application, LCG met a Nov. 1 capital outlay request deadline, asking the state to help fund a $127 million replacement for the Heymann Performing Arts Center in the next budget cycle.
6 min read
11/16 Council Preview: Parish Council allocates more ARPA funds, money to buy land for new Lafayette Parish jail
Here’s a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
6 min read
GEOFF DAILY: Lafayette mayor-presidents have long used vetoes to appropriate money. That may be illegal.
Legislative bodies appropriate money, not the executive branch. But that’s exactly what’s been happening at LCG for more than a decade in conflict with a pair of attorney general opinions.
8 min read
Joel Robideaux spearheads plan for $100 million Heymann Center replacement
The long-discussed plan to build a new performing arts center in Lafayette may be taking shape. Attached to the proposal is a $100 million price tag funded by state capital outlay and a 1-cent sales tax in the city of Lafayette.
7 min read
11/2 Council Preview: Parish Council moves on more ARPA fund; Lafayette police training update
Here’s a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below.
6 min read
Community design process approaches quiet close on I-49 Connector
The main contours of the elevated freeway have taken shape, with relatively little left to decide — except who will pay for the features purported to make it transformative.
7 min read
Acadiana region residents speak out against proposed political district changes
Dozens of south Louisiana residents pleaded with lawmakers Tuesday to keep Louisiana Senate District 22 — home to residents from Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry and St. Martin parishes — together through the state’s political redistricting.
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ELECTION 2021: Lafayette’s library system hangs in the balance of the Nov. 13 tax renewal
If voters fail to renew the library’s second millage, two or more libraries could be forced to close. The politics around this vote are more fraught than normal.
8 min read
Ousted Lafayette police chief says Guillory buried changes he was hired to make
Thomas Glover Sr. says Guillory brought him in to remake LPD — and silenced publicity about it. Community members now fear his modest progress will be reversed.
13 min read