As the Ascension Home Rule Charter Revision Committee convened on Wednesday A Better Ascension (ABA) had added wholly new language to its proposal, retaining the parish presidency but divesting the president’s “administrative” authority. Committee member Rodney Hernandez played postman midway through the meeting, delivering the new verbiage unseen by his colleagues (except for one?) Oddly enough, six members […]
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 II (selecting a Parish Manager)
05/12/2018 by
With A Better Ascension 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. Its method of appointing, or anointing, a parish manager in lieu of an elected parish president will be difficult to digest for a few members of the governing authority […]
Taking a bite out of the ABA Elephant: Part I
05/07/2018 by
NOTE: Analyzing/comparing all changes to Ascension’s Home Rule Charter proposed by A Better Ascension (ABA) requires multiple meetings of the Home Rule Charter Revision Committee. Likewise, examining those changes cannot be accomplished in a single piece. We endeavor to compare the current charter with ABA’s beginning with this offering. For comparison’s sake ABA’s proposal will appear in […]
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 […]
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 […]
Astronomical raises a concern to Council member(s)
04/12/2017 by
SSA Consultants’ Christel Slaughter delivered the first of two study results assessing Ascension Parish’s personnel allocation Tuesday before the Council Finance Committee in Gonzales. The Compensation Study, an organizational analysis report is scheduled for May’s Finance meeting, resulted in seven recommendations which a unanimous committee adopted. Firstly, Slaughter recommended Ascension “adopt current market-based” pay ranges […]
President “Go-to-guy” plays hardball
07/01/2016 by
It is sort of sad when any 60-something year old man begins dyeing his hair and wearing lifts in his shoes like Parish President Kenny Matassa started doing this year? The initial, instinctual human reaction is sympathy, and the urge to root for a guy so obviously burdened by feelings of inadequacy, heightened by his […]
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