Campo will leave her job as St. Tammany s parish council administrator for the job at the helm of the state s Office of Community Development. Her first day is Jan. 16.
A renewal for the tax intended to fund public health programs in the parish is on the Nov. 18 ballot. If voters reject it, the parish could be plunged further into an already-dire budget crunch.
The council is "fed up" with the parish president s lack of transparency around how grant money is spent in St. Tammany parish. Now, they re looking to pass a law that requires President Cooper to disclose how and when he s spending federal and state grant dollars.
The parish council thought a judge had given them the greenlight to appoint a lawyer to represent the parish government in a developer s lawsuit. He hadn t.