Council Preview: LCG may take on state roads in $25M deal
Lafayette’s councils will consider a deal to takeover maintenance of 26 miles of state roads in a $25 million deal with the state government.
Lafayette’s councils will consider a deal to takeover maintenance of 26 miles of state roads in a $25 million deal with the state government.
Lafayette’s city and parish councils will meet behind closed doors Tuesday as they seek answers from the Guillory administration about its lawsuit against a state retirement system.
Let’s call the Homewood detention ponds project what it is: a boondoggle.
Lafayette’s controversial Library Board will see two new appointments this month as council members fill a vacancy and vote on adding one of themselves to the board.
The Parish Council considers $500,000 for a new Mobile Health Unit while the City Council probes Guillory’s Heymann Center replacement plan.
The $11.5 million agreement did not remove all of the hurdles before the project, which has likely already cost taxpayers tens of millions and has not been shown to meaningfully impact flood risk.
American Rescue Plan Act funds, federal funds intended to help local governments make up for losses suffered during the COVID pandemic, will be used to buy the land.
Source: The Advocate
The purchase completes a deal that caused millions in state dollars to be withheld. Unclear still is whether the state will release the money.
The crisis’ impact on the cost of living in Louisiana threatens to add to the state’s long-standing problem with depopulation, raising questions about the long-term resilience of its communities.
Using computer simulations, scientists at Princeton University calculate that the deadly storm combos that used to happen once every few decades could happen every two or three years as the world warms from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.
Source: The Advocate
The company had planned to non-renew the over 200,000 policies it had in force across the country, including about 30,000 in Louisiana, as part of a solvent runoff this year.
Source: KATC
A co-owner of the property, cut out of the land purchase, filed suit Thursday for damages.
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