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July 16, 2014
The Evangeline Parish Police Jury held its monthly meeting last night and the Jury handled a long list of issues
within the parish. A main topic of discussion was “nuisance properties”. The Police Jury has been tackling
unsafe, uninhabitable, abandoned dwellings and property. Notices have been sent to landowners with a
notice to clean up property, including cutting tall grass, and/or repairing or tearing down dwellings that are in
poor to dangerous conditions.
The Jury voted to now “move along” with correcting these properties that
have not been taken care of by the owner. Following Section 12-31 of state law, the Jury will send out new
notices to the property owners informing the owner it has a certain amount of time to have the repairs made.
If after that time the clean-up in not performed, the Parish will move forward with performing the task itself.
The cost of the repairs or clean-up will then be passed along to the property owner through a lien on the
property which will be attached to the next year’s property tax bill. The following properties were discussed
by the jury and unanimously approved to begin the process:
1040 Campbell Ave., (Kennedy Subdivision)
1824 Boozo Street (Between Mamou and Redel)
1024, 1026 and 1032 Oat Pass Street (Eugene Subdivision off of the Vidrine Road)
145 Candy Lane (Off the Vidrine Road)
Property located behind 2088 Hwy. 106 (Black Lake Road, St. Landry)
535 Sandy Street, Ville Platte
1360 T-Mamou Road
1013 CJ Avenue
4062 Chatagnier Road
1099 Robert F. Kennedy
Citizens from these areas were in attendance at the meeting.
The President of 911, Kent Fontenot and Pat Derousselle addressed the Jury regarding the new 911 building
currently under plan. The building will be approximately 8,000 square ft. and it will be a $1.6 million project.
They are looking at 2 acres of land in Industrial Park. They now have bid-specs and they are anticipating
those being in the paper this Thursday. Mr. Fontenot advised that opening bids for the project will begin
August 19th. The project has been planned for 10 years and Mr. Fontenot reported “We have worked hard to
save our money to do this…so we are going to do it right.” Eric Lafleur is currently working with them on a
bond issue to pay for a portion of the project, although that amount is not known as of yet. The building is
going to be able to handle category three hurricane conditions and will keep workers who are in the facility safe
for 3-4 days.
Derousselle said they want it to be a workable, taskable building that will allow emergency
personnel from all over to come together and make sure they get emergency services provided as fast as they
can. This includes emergency medical crews, The National Guard and State Police.
Jury Member, Bryan Vidrine, announced the upcoming opening of a “Paint Ball” facility that is being opened
in Turkey Creek. “Gobble Gully” is set to open in the next couple of weeks. We will bring you more
information on that.
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