Council preview: Power struggle between city council and mayor-president; tax and budget lessons
This week’s agenda is notable for what’s not on it.
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Lafayette City-Parish Council
Council Preview: paying for pay raises, Girard Park rezoning, Coca-Cola redevelopment, and daiquiris delivered
Tuesday is the City-Parish Council members’ second-to-last meeting ever, and they’re not phoning it in. Here’s what on the agenda for Dec. 3.
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Outgoing council approves pay raises, digging a deeper hole for the next
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Council Preview: six new taxing districts, a riverwalk, LUS controversy and more
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Police pay increase wins council support but exposes city’s looming budget problems
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Extending Louisiana Avenue grows Lafayette the wrong way
Spending millions of city dollars to build a road through a cane field isn’t a new idea. We can’t afford to keep making the same mistakes.
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Robideaux vetoes Louisiana Avenue extension, kicking the ball back to the council
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Robideaux expected to veto Louisiana Avenue budget amendment
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Flare-up on jail funding previews tough sledding for the future parish council
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Splitting the council has raised the stakes on Lafayette’s deteriorating politics
Political discourse in Lafayette has veered so far off the rails that we can’t even agree on the basics. And now we have a whole host of thorny issues that we have to unpack while splitting one council into two.
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Don’t really get the split council thing? We got ya covered.
It’s clear that there remains a lot of fog to lift on just what the hell is happening with local government next year. If you’re not a local political junkie, this explainer is for you.
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Now legal in Louisiana, those Bird and Lime scooters still on hold in Lafayette
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