Gillane said he was not in the executive session. When the board came out of executive session, he said, library board President Robert Judge told him the board felt he had done a good job with library finances and with staff.
Source: The Acadiana Advocate
The Parish Council appoints all but one library board member and appointed Robert Judge in a controversial move.
Source: The Advocate
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.
Lafayette voters have some weighty decisions on their hands. We’re here to help.
Currently, the biggest detriment to the library system is the overstepping of boundaries by these new untrained and politically motivated board members.
The library system’s board of control, stocked now with ideological conservatives appointed in the wake of a string of controversies, will support an upcoming renewal. Just three years ago, the Lafayette Parish Library system was flush, sitting on $26 million in reserves and working with three property taxes. That hefty balance became a target for conservative activists, and a political campaign to defeat one tax renewal succeeded. Now, the system is operating at a deficit and with a much smaller reserve.
Via The Advocate
A strong library system is essential to the growth of Lafayette. So rather than shrink library services, the city-parish government and the library board need to sit down with industry, education, tourism, the arts, and law enforcement, and explain what the library does for each of them.
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