The Ville Platte City Council and Mayor, Jennifer Vidrine, met tonight for their monthly meeting in Ville Platte City Hall Tuesday night.  The newest priest at Sacred Heart Church, Father Taj Glodd, was introduced and gave the Invocation. 

Mayor, Jennifer Vidrine, happily reported that expenditures for the month of June for The City of Ville Platte were $73,235.04 less than the previous month.  She also announced that the City will be putting up 10 more security street cameras throughout Ville Platte and her priority is to eventually “blanket the city in security cameras.”

Councilman, Mike Perron, addressed the Council and audience members regarding Keep Evangeline Beautiful and asked residents to please help them with efforts to keep the City beautiful.  He asked that you help clean your area and not only your yard but right-of-ways, around telephone poles and street signs.  He said it is the City’s responsibility to cut those areas but if you are tending to your area, maybe residents can go a little further with helping.  When school starts, KEB will be engaging children in activities to make them aware of litter problems. 

Mayor Vidrine reported that 15 letters have gone out over the last two weeks to those with abandoned property issues.  That means they recipient has 30 days to clean up the area or tear down buildings.  After that, if no action is taken the City will step in and do it.  Then, the costs will be tacked onto that person’s property tax bill.  The cost will not be cheap so she encourages everyone to clean up their property now.  She stated that three people have torn down buildings since receiving the notices.

She announced Bastille Day regarding the Creole culture will be held Saturday at the Civic Center Pavilion from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.  Also, work on the pavilions at Hargrove Park will begin as soon as they receive an elevation study that needed to be done.  Hopefully, at the end of the week.

The Mayor ended the meeting by saying “They feel very bad about the situations in St. Paul, Baton Rouge and Dallas.  We want to keep unity in our community.  We support our policemen and women.  They serve our community every day.”