St. Landry Parish Government

St. Landry Parish Government’s chief financial officer may play a lead role in the Workforce Development Board if the Parish Council gives its approval at its June 19 meeting.
Brenda Hubbard-Thomas, Workforce Development Board executive director, and Charles Going, an Opelousas certified public accountant and consultant to the workforce board, urged the Parish Council the approve the appointment of Amanda Cain, parish government finance director, as the chief operating officer for the Workforce Development Board.

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.
Parish government operated in 2018 with a reduction of 17 people, mostly in public works, he said.
Accounting office changes are allowing closer monitoring of finances, he said.

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.
A hail storm passing through Opelousas Wednesay pelted the Old City Market building and eventually the lights went out.
With cell phones illuminating the room, Amanda Cain, finance director, said the parish president will present the budget.