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David Jacobs, The Center Square
| March 09, 2021 12:00 PM
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While the 20 villages, towns and cities on the Louisiana legislative auditor’s list of financially distressed municipalities are in fairly stable condition, almost 100 agencies across the state might be close to getting themselves in financial trouble, an LLA official said Monday.
“They haven’t climbed back out of that hole yet, but they’re not declining any further,” Bradley Cryer, who directs local government audit services for the LLA, said about the list of 20 towns.
However, 97 local agencies statewide – including towns, sheriff’s departments, school boards and others – potentially are in distress according to a model the auditor’s office developed, Cryer told a legislative oversight committee.