Gonzales’ City Council passed a scaled back Capital Outlay budget Monday evening.  The budget includes all projects carried over from the 2024-2025 fiscal year that are ongoing, and projects anticipated to be funded by outside sources like the $1 million grant to pay for several sewer treatment lift stations.  The vote came after an amendment […]

Brittany Point, LLC’s petition to annex 55 acres on the north side of Hwy 30 into the City of Gonzales was approved by a 3-2 vote of the City Council on Monday, following a 4-1 recommendation by the Planning Commission last month.  Planning’s decision was a reversal of its 2024 recommendation to deny Brittany Point’s […]

Reminiscent of 2014, Gonzales City Council meeting rejected recently elected Mayor Tim Riley’s first General Fund (operating) budget on Monday.  11 years ago, three rogue councilmen amended various parts of then mayor Barney Arceneaux’s budget, wrangling over funding for Gonzales Police Department over months before extracting minor concessions.  A pyrrhic victory if ever there was […]

Brittany Point, LLC’s petition to annex 55 acres on the north side of Hwy 30 into the City of Gonzales was recommended for approval by the Planning Commission on Monday.  Back in January…of 2024 the commission recommended denial of the petition (the ultimate decision lies not with the appointed commission but with the elected City […]

Liberty Fence & Supply’s tentacles extended into every nook and cranny of Gonzales’ municipal operations in 2024, its invoices extended even to Jambalaya Park and the city pool to the tune of $167,000 (according to a Vendor Report discussed at the March 31 meeting of the City Council).   Mayor Tim Riley’s administration added an agenda […]

“A system failure” led to “the City of Gonzales getting ripped off” by an unlicensed fence company contracted to provide various services in 2024.  That was the assessment of Mayor Tim Riley’s administration at Monday’s discussion of vendor report regarding Liberty Fence & Supply, LLC.  Representing the administration, longtime Riley advisor Wade Petite opined that […]

Delaune Estates’ preliminary plat consisting of 237 lots west of Hwy 73, south of White Road in Prairieville was approved on July 14, 2021 (the day before an 11-month subdivision moratorium went into effect.  Its Final Plat was approved by Ascension’s Planning Commission last night.  Also on the agenda was the first preliminary plat to […]

Tim Riley is Mayor-Elect for the City of Gonzales after winning 54% of the runoff vote as more than half of the November 5 Primary Election voters opted out.  He succeeds Interim Mayor Ryland Percy whose steady hand stabilized City Hall and effectuated certain necessary changes left too long in place.  Four-term incumbent Chief of […]

When the votes were tallied in Gonzales’ four-candidate contest for mayor on November 5 a clear favorite had emerged to bedevil two political factions bent on retention of power in one of Louisiana’s most fiscally sound municipalities.  Situated at the heart of Ascension Parish, arguably the state’s most well-to-do (depending upon the metric), money and […]

Published in anticipation of the 2023 election, amidst baseless allegations unfettered by any actual proof of fraudulent voting, Ascension’s Clerk of Court Bridget Hanna felt compelled to address the noise.  With one side of the presidential campaign setting up a fraud claim should it lose, Ascension seems to have ignored the stolen election nonsense (due, […]