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This is NOT reapportionment
While the council may have previously reapportioned by ordinance (per state law) when the voters in a precinct exceed 2,200, or fall below 300. Neither of those things have happened here, therefore this does not fit the definition of reapportionment. We delved into...
AG Opinion Imminent
It was two weeks ago that the City-Parish Council narrowly defeated a resolution calling for the Louisiana Attorney General to weigh in on the charter "fix" debacle that seems to be dragging on forever. The deciding vote on that resolution was cast by Liz Webb-Hebert,...
Can they really amend the charter by ordinance?
The traditional news media interviews bureaucrats and politicians and tell you what they say. That reporting has brought you headlines like, “No re-vote necessary,” “Ordinance can fix flawed charter amendment,” or “Correction in Lafayette charter amendment can be...
Who’s playing hide and seek with the Council?
You may remember our noticing that back on December 18th the Registrar of Voters had emailed the council about problems on the charter precincts, but no one on the council received the email. Now it looks like another notification has gone out, and none of the...
Seventeen times this has NEVER happened before
Any time now, City/Parish Attorney, Paul Escott, will issue an opinion on whether or not a simple ordnance can amend the home rule charter to fix the precinct errors. Those errors are now codified into a new home rule charter, approved by voters on December 8th. Words...
Problems kept quiet until day after challenge period
In what may turn out to be the most startling discovery so far in the wake of the December 8th "fix the charter" vote, on December 18th, the Lafayette Parish Registrar of Voters notified Lafayette Parish administration of errors included in the amended home rule...
History says precinct fixes should go to the voters
As we watch and wait for the masterminds of Lafayette Parish to come up with their plan to fix what they broke, potential outcomes have been the talk of the town. In short, the City of Lafayette's precincts are mangled to the point of being unconstitutional....
Nix the Charter?
It's true that there are some serious problems with the charter presented by the council and approved by voters during the low-turnout December election. Many local voters agreed that local government is broken, which is something made quite evident by all the tax...
Why did Lafayette Parish lose their fire rating?
It's been a few days since the fire rating was released, and, as usual, the elected officials and bureaucrats who wanted the tax to pass ran to the nearest news cameras to say "see, I told you so." However, much like the move to pass the tax, the information being put...
The Library gets off SCOTT FREE… AGAIN!
LCAT was right again! The council “discovered” tonight that the Lafayette Public Library has NOT been using it’s fund balance to build or remodel their facilities. The construction bonds were being paid back as property tax millages were being collected. We brought...
