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Council Preview: Panhandling and spoil banks funds top City’s to-do list
Lafayette’s City Council will talk about local panhandling and consider giving up on $1.5 million from the state for the Vermilion River spoil banks removal.
Lafayette’s City Council will talk about local panhandling and consider giving up on $1.5 million from the state for the Vermilion River spoil banks removal.
Trouard is the seventh person to run the Lafayette Police Department since 2020.
Lafayette’s City Council will vote on buying out the land at the center of LCG’s spoil banks removal, likely ending all but one lawsuit from the caper.
City-Parish Attorney Greg Logan was the biggest taker in Guillory’s final year, bringing in $700,000; followed by Becker & Hebert, $498,000; Gibson Law Partners, $400,000; Oats & Marino, $395,000; Neuner Pate, $362,000; and Paul Escott, $338,000.
Auditors painted an ugly picture of LUS Fiber and dug deeper into problems found under former M-P Josh Guillory’s administration in LCG’s annual audit.
Lafayette’s City and Parish councils have three executive sessions planned for Tuesday to discuss a trio of lawsuits related to LCG’s controversial 2022 removal of spoil banks in St. Martin Parish.
Lafayette’s councils will cast big votes on land for a new library, funding for Brown Park and LUS’s $400 million gas plant in a pair of busy meetings Tuesday.
Lafayette’s City and Parish councils will look this week at plans to buy land for a new library and to raise LUS rates for a new gas-powered plant.
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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