Upgrades Coming to Johnston St, Bertrand Dr.

[Cajunrunner]

12 1/2 million dollars for roads, and 11 1/2 million dollars for drainage.

This is gonna hurt the city, but crippling for the parish.

As well as the four Constitutional Amendments, in blowout fashion.

Like CajunT said, voters are ____ed and don't trust politicians right now. I, for one, welcome this new-found ____ed offness.

[Cajun Monkee]

I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I don’t know about this.

Remember a couple years ago, we voted down a parish tax renewal which revenues were to go to Parish functions: the clerk, the assessor, the sheriff.

When LCG was looking at the lost revenues, the argument was just that: “hey, those are parish functions, and we can’t use city dollars to pay for those parish functions.”

I think a court stepped in and said “not so fast, my friend.”

LCG is in fact the parish and LCG has revenue that will be used to pay for those functions.

I don’t know if they cared where the revenues came from or where the expenditures were going

It was LCG‘s responsibility.

Realized I had some apples I was comparing oranges to.

The clerk, the assessor, and the sheriff, I’m pretty sure are mandated by the state that parish has to provide.

Drainage and roads (among other things) will theoretically be optional.

Local government doesn’t necessarily have to provide the services, so we wouldn’t be subject to the same funding standards as the three I mentioned.

[ZoomZoom]

Realized I had some apples I was comparing oranges to.

The clerk, the assessor, and the sheriff, I’m pretty sure are mandated by the state that parish has to provide.

Drainage and roads (among other things) will theoretically be optional.

Local government doesn’t necessarily have to provide the services, so we wouldn’t be subject to the same funding standards as the three I mentioned.

You’re close to the answer.

The solution to the unincorporated areas is to make them incorporated. Small towns won’t like that, but they may be in an either or situation in a few years.

[Cajun Monkee]

You’re close to the answer.

The solution to the unincorporated areas is to make them incorporated. Small towns won’t like that, but they may be in an either or situation in a few years.

With the failure to pass those two renewals, I think they’re at that point.

I remember a previous PW worker saying that in the old days, Parish Public Works only paved a few roads and cleaned a few ditches.

They’re not even gonna be able to do that in the not too distant future.

It’s gonna suck to be in the parish

[ZoomZoom]

With the failure to pass those two renewals, I think they’re at that point.

I remember a previous PW worker saying that in the old days, Parish Public Works only paved a few roads and cleaned a few ditches.

They’re not even gonna be able to do that in the not too distant future.

It’s gonna suck to be in the parish

It’s my understanding most if not all heavy equipment is now technically CoL property (funding source).

The price of kicking the can down the road.

[Cajun Monkee]

It’s my understanding most if not all heavy equipment is now technically CoL property (funding source).

The price of kicking the can down the road.

The charter required that we give a report to the planning commission on the CIP‘s consistency with the comp plan.

I got to prepare that report each year since we started to do it in 2016 or 2017.

I enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun, and I was literally one of only six people that saw the initial budgeting recommendations for the CIP.

We would identify specific projects in the CIP that would be consistent with action items in the comp plan. Only one year where we able to do that with the parish. Every other year, it was basically just maintenance.

And with the failure of these two renewals, it’s gonna Be hard to do even that.

I think I brought all the reports with me. I’m gonna go do some looking.

[CajunFun]

The parking situation at Moncus Park is a result of poor planning and they expected local businesses to play nice and let people going to the park occupy their parking lots. I think UL shouldn't have let this property go and instead found a way to develop it to generate cash flow.

Moncus Park is privately managed. https://moncuspark.org/board/

[CajunFun]

The only way loops get built are if they are toll roads. I remember the discussion about Ambassador Caffrey North, even received mail about it. The proposed route would have come very close to our former home in Carencro, it was supposed to link to LA 182 at I-49. Never heard another word about it over the years. Building a loop off of I-49 north of Lafayette isn't going to get any cheaper, seeing lots of land being bought up for subdivisions. Unfortunately, we have a bad habit of delaying road projects to the bitter end. For example, Camelia Blvd.

Lafayette has tried several times to get a loop, and failed. We should have gotten one with I-10, but we were jammed by local industry. We later had one on the table, and a single farmer stopped it.

The land is not available any more. The only way we could get one now is to include routes that go outside the parish... which makes the price incredible, π × d... every increase in diameter is multiplied over 3 times in the circumference.

There is one nice aspect. It used to be thought that more roads relieved congestion. They do not.

They stimulate growth, and paradoxically aggravate congestion.

We don't want to be so sure the grass is greener on the other side of the Interstate.

[ZoomZoom]

The charter required that we give a report to the planning commission on the CIP‘s consistency with the comp plan.

I got to prepare that report each year since we started to do it in 2016 or 2017.

I enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun, and I was literally one of only six people that saw the initial budgeting recommendations for the CIP.

We would identify specific projects in the CIP that would be consistent with action items in the comp plan. Only one year where we able to do that with the parish. Every other year, it was basically just maintenance.

And with the failure of these two renewals, it’s gonna Be hard to do even that.

I think I brought all the reports with me. I’m gonna go do some looking.

This is why I beat the drum about the ~$19 million reimbursement of CoL money. I don’t trust the parish side to do the right thing.

[Cajun Monkee]

This is why I beat the drum about the ~$19 million reimbursement of CoL money. I don’t trust the parish side to do the right thing.

I’ve heard that money was borrowed by the Parish from the city.

But were these actually 401 dollars that were used? If that’s the case, there’s a huge problem, but there would be no person left to take responsibility.

But with The tax renewal failures, they just might not be enough money to pay it back.

If it was 261, You might have a tougher argument about it being “borrowed.“

For everybody else, 401 and 261 are simply fund numbers that LCG uses.

401 dollars are city sales tax dollars collected in the city of Lafayette to be used for projects in the city of Lafayette.

261 Our taxes collected throughout the entire parish, including all of the municipalities. This is a fun strictly for drainage projects and the money can be used for drainage projects in any part of the parish.

Sorry for being that dweeby guy.

[RaginCajun77]

Moncus Park is privately managed. https://moncuspark.org/board/

I'm well aware. The private management did a poor job of planning for parking and it impacted local businesses creating parking issues for their customers.

I'm not a fan of the university selling the property to LCG and then it becoming Moncus Park. Our state universities are strapped for cash, this property could have generated cash for UL.

[Turbine]

... The parking situation at Moncus Park is a result of poor planning...

Thy are currently building a good sized structure at Moncus Park.

It almost has a barn like look to it.

I don't understand why its not patterned after the original Horse Farm Barn.

This whole endeavor started with the phrase "Save the Horse Farm"