No Jobs Lost; Lafayette Government Departments Being Reorganized
Three departments are changing including Development and Planning, Parks and Recreation and Community Development.
Why is this happening? Josh Guillory says its about efficiency,
These changes will strengthen synergies and create more internal efficiency, while providing better products and services for our citizens.
This action is not new for Guillory s administration. They already reorganized the Public Works Department into three separate initiatives in the beginning of his administration. The three became Public Works Department, the Drainage Department and the Traffic, Roads and Bridges Department.
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In these latest changes, the Parks and Recreation Department will become the Parks, Art, Recreation and Culture Department using the acronym PARC, combining arts, culture, recreation and parks under one department. The following entities will fall under the newly named department:
Mayor-President Guillory reorganizes three LCG departments
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and last updated 2021-07-07 20:10:03-04
Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory has called for an administrative reorganization of three Lafayette Consolidated Government (LCG) Departments with the goal of serving Lafayetteâs citizens effectively.
The administration says they have identified the best alignment for the Community Development, Parks and Recreation, and Development and Planning Departments.
Guillory said, These changes will strengthen synergies and create more internal efficiency, while providing better products and services for Lafayette Parish citizens.
Parks and Recreation is now the Parks, Art, Recreation, and Culture (PARC) Department.
They say their mission is to align arts and culture with parks and recreation. The Heymann Performing Arts Center, Lafayette Science Museum, Acadiana Park Nature Station, and Senior Centers now fall under the PARC department, they say.
City-Parish Alignment Commission causing concern among city council
and last updated 2021-07-07 18:45:54-04
LAFAYETTE, La. â The debate over the success of the Lafayette Consolidated Government for the area continues.
At Tuesday s meeting, the Parish Council voted to create the City-Parish Alignment Commission. According to the agenda item, the commission will provide recommendations to strengthen the working relationship between the city of Lafayette and Lafayette Parish.
Some city council members are seeking separation of the municipality.
City council member Patrick Lewis says one of his main concerns is the city of Lafayette should have its own mayor, like all other cities in the parish. Now that the commission was passed, he says the possibility of a city mayor is delayed.
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Attorney Andrew Bizer plans to appeal the Louisiana Supreme Court s failure to toss out a lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that Lafayette Consolidated Government’s (LCG) lawsuit can move forward against a comedian who posted a pair of fake “Antifa” events on Facebook in 2020.
New York comedian John Merrifield posted two parody events on Facebook in July 2020, which included “ANTIFA Takes River Ranch” and a second posting centered on the Acadiana Mall. They just declined to hear the case without any analysis or anything, just like the Court of Appeals did, Bizer told the
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