St. Landry Parish Government is broke

By Rebecca Chaisson on Friday, August 22, 2025
Bond Commission tells parish president to ‘clarify’ finances before voting on $4.6M request
  • A still image captured from Thursday’s State Bond Commission session in Baton Rouge. Seated, from left, are Lela Folse, commission director; Harold Taylor, Parish Council Administrative-Finance Committee chairman; and Jessie Bellard, St. Landry Parish president. View the State Bond Commission hearing at: https://senate.la.gov/VOD/senate/2025/08/082125sbc.mp4. The portion about St. Landry Parish occurs toward the end of the video.
    A still image captured from Thursday’s State Bond Commission session in Baton Rouge. Seated, from left, are Lela Folse, commission director; Harold Taylor, Parish Council Administrative-Finance Committee chairman; and Jessie Bellard, St. Landry Parish president. View the State Bond Commission hearing at: https://senate.la.gov/VOD/senate/2025/08/082125sbc.mp4. The portion about St. Landry Parish occurs toward the end of the video.

    The State Bond Commission told St. Landry Parish President to clarify the parish’s finances in response to a request for a $4.6 million bond issue. The commission discussion in Baton Rouge was framed by an assessment by its director, Lela Folse, that the St. Landry Parish Government would be out of money by the end of the month. “Based on the revised cash flows, the parish is projected to run …