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Boulet’s 100-day goals: staffing and stability
Where her predecessor and erstwhile opponent made a splash within days of taking office, Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet is entering with a calculated ripple.
Where her predecessor and erstwhile opponent made a splash within days of taking office, Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet is entering with a calculated ripple.
Boulet takes office with a to-do list full of costly, difficult and politically-complicated challenges left over from Guillory’s single term in office.
LCG has until Friday to decide on buying the Lemoine Building for $6.2 million, but City Council members are hesitant to commit to an estimated $9.6 million renovation.
Lafayette’s City Council is set to vote Tuesday on setting aside $9.5 million to buy a new building for City Court, while both councils will look at allowing Sunday morning beer sales.
As tensions flared between Lafayette’s two city court judges, Odinet and Saloom, the Louisiana Supreme Court stepped in and appointed a special judge to serve as tie-breaker over administrative matters of the court.
There is no longer any doubt. Judge Michelle Odinet used the n-word in a video of her family cheering a thwarted burglary attempt at their home.
In the clip, which Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet confirmed to be in her home, witnesses jokingly toss around racial slurs while narrating home security footage of their efforts to stop a man from breaking into a car on their driveway.
Here’s a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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.
Pope’s crimes and vanity hung a cloud over a small agency used to operating mostly out of public view. Pope now in prison out of parish and a new marshal is soon to be elected, the office is primed for a new chapter.
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