St. Landry Parish Council

Parish Council stakes out a new direction

Without fanfare, the St. Landry Parish Council staked out a new path for development when it approved three ordinances to govern waste disposal in the parish. The ordinances are in response to a proposed wastewater injection well site near the St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Landfill at Beggs.

7-year-old CAA deficit resurfaces

A $275,000 deficit believed to have been incurred about seven years ago at the St. Landry Parish Community Action Agency resurfaced at a Parish Council committee meeting.

Parish Council: Deal or No Deal?

The St. Landry Parish School Board may have gotten its final offer from the Parish Council for the lease of property for a Head Start Center adjacent to the parish airport.

Parish Council to consider land use ordinances

A proposed commercial wastewater injection well in the Beggs is stirring the St. Landry Parish Council to consider a land use ordinance. Details are likely to be ready for the Feb. 20 Council meeting.

Parish Council OKs budget

The St. Landry Parish Council approved its 2019 budget that Parish President Bill Fontenot said is balanced. “I use this term a lot. We are still operating on a poor boy budget, but we do the best we can to be efficient...” Fontenot said at the meeting Wednesday where the budget was approved.

Head Start lease headed for another round of negotiations

The months long back and forth over a lease for parish-owned property in Opelousas is going to take at least another month. The St. Landry Parish Council was ready to approve a lease for $500 a month for the property where a Head Start center is located on in Opelousas.

Eunice Elementary bid approved; Eunice High championship year celebrated

Mary Ellen Donatto was elected president of the St. Landry Parish School Board without opposition at Thursday’s Board meeting. Donatto, who retired as principal at East Elementary, is in her second year on the School Board. She was elected without opposition in qualifying July 2018.

School officials may get price cut from Council

Faced with a $1,125 monthly charge to use St. Landry Parish property in Opelousas, two School Board officials were back in front of the Parish Council requesting a price cut. The St. Landry Parish School Board began administering the Head Start program in September 2018.

Council puts ribbon on parish budget

The St. Landry Parish Council added a package of amendments to Parish President Bill Fontenot’s budget that are intended to save more than $500,000 by next December. And, there are other budget items to create $1.4 million in budget savings, but they require additional Council action.

Lights out on parish budget

The lights were literally out when the St. Landry Parish Council’s Administrative-Finance Committee began its discussion of the parish budget. Which may have been fortunate because the committee was told the budget, which is to be prepared by Parish President Bill Fontenot, has not been completed.