Parish Council accepts bids on adjudicated properties

St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard, right, and Karia Rami, executive assistant and permit officer, open bids at the Jan. 5 Parish Council meeting in Opelousas. Also present at the bid opening was Richard Lewis, code enforcement director. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
The St. Landry Parish Council accepted bids on 29 adjudicated properties in the parish at a special meeting on Jan. 5. “This is the first time the parish has done this to this magnitude,” Parish President Jessie Bellard said in telephone interview. “Usually you get one or two every once in awhile,” he said about selling the more than 1,000 properties adjudicated to the parish government…

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