The Home Rule Charter Revision Committee was created by Ascension Council’s February 15 resolution which set a deadline of May 31. That deadline was extended indefinitely but retained as the last opportunity to recommend amendments to the Council in time for placing any amendment on the ballot this year. The worst kept secret in local […]
Taking a bite out of the ABA Elephant: Part VI (the Council marginalized)
05/28/2018 by
NOTE: Certain of our readership has inquired about a meeting, actually two meetings, between your writer and members of A Better Ascension. Yes, I did meet with Brandon Trosclair, an ABA stalwart who happens to sit on the Charter Revision Committee alongside me. We met at his place of business Wednesday morning and again the following day […]
Taking a bite out of the ABA Elephant: Part V
05/24/2018 by
As Ascension’s Home Rule Charter Revision Committee approaches its (artificial and entirely arbitrary) deadline imposed by the Parish Council for reasons of Chairman Bill Dawson’s own, we continue to digest A Better Ascension’s Elephant. NOTE: For comparison’s sake ABA’s proposal will appear in red text. Where corresponding language to ABA’s proposal exists in Ascension’s current Home Rule Charter exists, it will […]
Taking a bite out of the ABA Elephant: Part IV (Parish Manager powers taken from the Council)
05/20/2018 by
With A Better Ascension again scheduled to take center stage at Monday’s Home Rule Charter Revision Committee meeting we continue to take a bite out of the ABA elephant. NOTE: For comparison’s sake ABA’s proposal will appear in red text. Where corresponding language to ABA’s proposal exists in Ascension’s current Home Rule Charter exists, it will be included in italics. ABA’s […]
Taking a bite out of the ABA Elephant: Part III (hiring/firing a parish manager)
05/14/2018 by
With A Better Ascension scheduled to take center stage at tonight’s Home Rule Charter Revision Committee meeting we continue to take a bite out of the ABA elephant. NOTE: For comparison’s sake ABA’s proposal will appear in red text. Where corresponding language to ABA’s proposal exists in Ascension’s current Home Rule Charter exists, it will be included in italics. Paragraphs A […]
Dawson “lets (ABA) elephant out of the room” as Charter Revision Committee ruse exposed
04/24/2018 by
“Let’s let the elephant out of the room,” citizen/committee member Bill Dawson ended a torturous eight-and-a-half minutes of Home Rule Charter Revision obfuscation on Monday; divulging the worst kept secret in recent local political history. “The changes that we’re talking about today, almost all of them are influenced by whether there’s going to be a […]
Buzzard Roost property rezoned from Conservation to Industrial
12/22/2017 by
“My tax bill this year, for real estate in Ascension Parish, is roughly $280,000,” boasted Grady Melancon who sought to rezone 330 acres from Conservation (most restrictive) to Industrial at the final 2017 Council meeting on Thursday. “The average tax is $200 for a house on Robert Wilson Rd; just a comparison.” And a six-member Council majority played Santa […]
Matassa names William Daniel as Ascension Parish Infrastructure Division Director
10/12/2017 by
Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa is pleased to announce the hiring of William Daniel as the new Infrastructure Division Director. Mr. Daniel brings over 35 years of experience in engineering, executive management, and government to Ascension Parish. From 2005-2017, Mr. Daniel held key infrastructure and executive positions in East Baton Rouge City-Parish Government, including Public […]
“National Search” for new Infrastructure Director to last 4 DAYS
09/27/2017 by
Apparently what’s been missing from Ascension Parish Government, the panacea to cure what ails the parish where woefully inadequate traffic/sewer/drainage/water infrastructure threaten our sacred quality of life, is an Infrastructure Division Director. That’s why Parish President Kenny Matassa and his gang have launched a “nationwide search” to fill the all important position which does not […]
Roux blames “so much development” for drainage woes; Dawson alibis for Matassa at Sorrento meeting
07/26/2017 by
Bill Roux, fresh off his Parish Council ratification as Public Works Director (he’s also the Drainage Director), showed up in Sorrento on Tuesday to summarize drainage projects, both past and future, at the “Panama Conway Drainage Basin Public Meeting” hosted by Councilman Bill Dawson. Dawson, who also chairs the Council, seems to have assumed a […]
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