COLUMN: LCG’s budget process is a bad deal for the city
City residents are disenfranchised by a budget-making process that prevents the City Council from fulfilling the duties we elected them to perform.
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Budget 2023
Dive into LCG’s proposed budget with The Current’s updated explorer
Lafayette’s annual budget season is here, and in just about a month the city and parish councils will be voting on how to spend hundreds of millions of tax dollars next year. Take a deep dive into the proposed budget with our updated explorer.
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Lafayette police are short-staffed. Would a pay bump attract more applicants?
A proposed pay raise would put LPD in the state’s top tier for starting pay. But would it lure more applicants?
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