LUS Fiber is key to M-P Boulet’s vision for Lafayette, but finding its next leader may be messy
LUS Fiber was a key part of Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet’s ascension, but she may face a messy path to finding it a new leader.
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Boulet also made interim appointments to two director posts, indicating she is not retaining the directors of LUS Fiber and planning and development.
Source: The Advocate
Unfinished business looms large over incoming Boulet administration
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.
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COLUMN: LUS Fiber has lost its edge
Building LUS Fiber was intended to make Lafayette more competitive. Now, as it diverts its attention to expansions, Fiber is not living up to its potential.
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COLUMN: Guillory is leading LUS Fiber on a path to insolvency
LUS Fiber is budgeted to spend millions on expansions and make a discretionary payment into the city general fund for the first time ever. Fiber can’t afford to do that.
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COLUMN: Five ways the councils should fix the budget
There are some good ideas in this year’s proposed budget. And some really bad ones.
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Inflation, (big) raises and deficits: Five numbers to track in Lafayette’s proposed budget
LCG’s last two budget cycles were mirror images. M-P Josh Guillory’s first budget was notable for its cuts, his second for its spending. And this one? Maybe a reckoning of the two.
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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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5/17/22 Council Preview: $12.8 million more for Bayou Vermilion Flood Control; defining domestic abuse; car modification bans
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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COLUMN: Swinging for the fences distracts Lafayette from making real progress
Our history is full of examples of how dreaming big paid off for Lafayette. But big dreams can distract from accomplishing small, important tasks.
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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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LUS Fiber included in state broadband funds at last minute
LUS Fiber was finally squeezed in at the 11th hour to a bill creating an ambitious grant program to provide broadband service to deprived areas of the state, overcoming complaints about competition between the public and private sectors.
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