By: ELIZABETH WEST
Associate Editor
At the Evangeline Parish Police Jury’s November 9 meeting the police jury made reappointments and also new appointments to the Fire District No. 2’s board.
A change in who will now lead the Fire District’s board as its chairman was made at Monday night’s meeting. The police jury unanimously approved the replacement of the board’s current chairman, Grant Soileau, with Ville Platte’s former fire chief Ted Demourelle.
When it came to reappointing current board members, the jury unanimously approved the reappointment of board members Hunter Soileau, Daniel McDaniel, and Steve Thibodeaux. Each man will serve a five-year term.
Former board member Eddie Goudy’s seat on the board has been left vacant since his retirement earlier this year. When it came to appointing a new board member, Richard Thomas nominated Nat Thomas for the position.
After unanimously approving the appointment of Thomas, the police jury then discussed whether or not the two new board members would be appointed to the regular five-year term that the other board members serve.
Police Jury member Lamar Johnson said, “Let’s appoint them to a four-year term and that way at the end of the four-years we can evaluate their time on the board and either appoint them to a five-year term or not.”
The police jury unanimously approved this proposal, which means that Nat and Demourelle will each first serve a four year term on the board.
Other major items which were unanimously approved:
•Add a three way stop where Tib and Jeanus Road meet.
•Add four speed bumps in District #2.
•Set the French meeting for 12/28.
•Advertise to call a public hearing and schedule a special meeting to amend the 2015 budgets and adopt the 2016 budgets on 12/28 at 5:30 p.m.
•Public hearing for abandoning a portion of Gas Street set for 12/28 at 5:15.
•Advertise and call a special meeting to accept bids for pest control, limestone, fuel, pipe, road side spraying, ect. for 12/28. Bids will be accepted starting at 9 a.m. and then a special meeting will be held at 5:30 to find out who had the lowest bid.
•Award the lowest bid to H&E Equipment Services whose bid was a total of $47,000 for two 34 foot tilt decker trailers.