Prior to the start of Thursday night’s redistricting meeting, members of both the Acadia Parish School Board and the Acadia Parish Police Jury discuss the proposed new lines. From left, are Bishop James Proctor, School Board District 1; Gordon Ray Morgan, Police Jury District 4; Ike Richard, School Board District 6; Doug LaCombe, School Board District 2; Pat Daigle, Police Jury District 7; and James Higginbotham, School Board District 7. (Photo by Steve Bandy/Crowley Post-Signal)
Two parish government bodies – the Police Jury and the School Board – took less than 20 minutes to agree on a redistricting plan Thursday night that keeps each body’s eight districts identical for another 10 years.
Those districts have been identical since the early 1990s. This is the third time, however, the lines have had to be tweaked as populations constantly shift.
According to the 2020 Cen…
