By: ELIZABETH WEST
Associate Editor
At Chataignier’s council meeting last Monday, the village’s council members discussed the proposed intergovernmental agreement with 9-1-1 that needed to be approved if the village wished to have 9-1-1 provide services for dispatching non-emergency calls for the Village of Chataignier.
Chataignier Mayor Jackie Thomas, during the meeting, informed the council that the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office would no longer be dispatching for the villages of Chataignier, Pine Prairie, and Turkey Creek.
Although the village will have to pay $100 a month to 9-1-1 if they wish to have 9-1-1 begin dispatching, Chataignier’s council, like Pine Prairie’s, approved entering into the intergovernmental agreement.
With this change in dispatching services, the village also had to discuss purchasing new radios for the Chataignier Police Department that will be compatible with 9-1-1’s dispatching equipment.
Chataignier Police Officer Arthur Phillips informed the council of bids that were received for two portable Motorola radios and one base radio for Chataignier’s police car.
The council chose to purchase the police department’s new radios from K Radio, whose bid was $6,097.60.
The village however is not expecting to have to pay the full $6,097.60 that was quoted, because according to Phillips, “the sheriff’s office is working on getting us a grant for $1,200 to put toward the purchase of the new radios,” and “K Radio has promised to knock off $300 from the cost of each radio.”
The council was on board with purchasing the two portable radios and one base radio from K Radio.
Other items approved were:
• Adoption of the Fair Housing Proclamation.
•Enforcement of Rubbish Ordinance.