The St. Landry Parish Council dismissed hearing from school Superintendent Patrick Jenkins at a meeting on Wednesday.
Beset by budget woes, some members of the St. Landry Parish Council want to take a second look at how the money from Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino is split.
A new lease purchase agreement for a computer network server is headed toward the Sept. 19 St. Landry Parish Council meeting.
St. Landry Parish Councilman Ken Marks said when Midway Lane was resurfaced the speed bumps were removed.
Now, he says residents are calling him asking what happened to the speed bumps.
The fax machine and printer aren’t working in the St. Landry Parish Council office and that was on the agenda of the Council’s Administrative-Finance Committee on Wednesday.
The cost of housing of parish prisoners outside St. Landry Parish once again drew the attention of the Parish Council.
For a second year the St. Landry Parish Council approved an ordinance allowing the government to borrow up to $1.5 million.
Parish President Bill Fontenot said he has learned much since taking the job six years ago.
St. Landry Parish Government has paved about 300 miles of road in the Smooth Ride Home program, but it is the remaining roads, often pot-holed and flood-prone, that the Parish Council hears about on a regular basis.
Two rural residents east of Eunice complained about bad roads and flooding dur- ing a St. Landry Parish Council Public Works Committee.
Andrea Edwards, of Lois Lane, said she is often trapped by a flood- ed road.
St. Landry Parish President Bill Fontenot handed out a list of roads that have received road material on them this year.
The list does not include Smooth Ride Home roads.