LETTER: Put the brakes on ‘Homewood Park’
Residents near the Homewood detention pond project in south Lafayette are asking the Parish Council to delay the transfer of $1.2 million and include them in the “park” planning process.
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Lafayette Parish Council
Council Preview: More Bayou Vermilion Flood Control; $500K for a drainage plan; City Council’s drainage questions
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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6/21/22 Council Preview: New council districts; $500K for a drainage plan; library board appointment
Here is 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.
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COLUMN: Lafayette’s City Council grows a spine and puts down the rubber stamp
The City and Parish councils have been complicit in approving Guillory’s drainage projects without question. Now with tens of millions of dollars at risk of being wasted, the City Council is starting to ask the hard questions.
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COLUMN: Lafayette needs its own mayor, and we’re losing our chance to get one
The population of the city of Lafayette may no longer make up the majority of the parish. That means our city is stuck without a full-time leader who is focused solely on city business and who is accountable to city residents.
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4/5/22 Council Preview: Food truck rules 2.0; Drainage lawsuits; LUS Fiber expansion; honoring Phil Lank
Here is 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.
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COLUMN: LCG’s ‘new pace of government’ could waste millions of drainage dollars
Guillory’s bureaucracy-busting approach could force Lafayette to spend millions filling holes it just spent millions digging out.
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BIG QUESTION: Should Lafayette legalize gambling to bolster parish finances?
The Parish Council has started a conversation about legalizing gambling to fill holes in the parish budget. Is that a good idea?
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2/15/22 Council Preview: A new LUS director, redistricting, gaming, new fines for littering and other bad behaviors, and taking over state roads
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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1/4 Council Preview: More ARPA funds for drainage and a new skate park; $1 million for new golf carts
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish Councils.
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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.
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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.
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