“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 […]
Dawson “lets (ABA) elephant out of the room” as Charter Revision Committee ruse exposed
04/24/2018 by
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 […]
President Matassa, Dawson show up for Planning’s 780-lot Riverton approval
03/10/2016 by
Aurora Borealis, a solar eclipse, Halley’s Comet…parish president at Planning Commission meeting; sighting any of these naturally occurring phenomena are exceedingly rare in Ascension Parish. But it happened Wednesday night when President Kenny Matassa entered the meeting chamber as the 780-lot Riverton subdivision preliminary plat was taken up. A divided commission approved the plat subject to […]
Ascension Planning Director Ricky Compton terminated
03/04/2016 by
Pelican Post just learned that Ascension Parish Planning Director Ricky Compton has been terminated. Human Resources took the action when Parish President Kenny Matassa declined to present Compton for ratification. Compton would not offer any statement for the record other than to confirm his termination. Compton has proposed a number of revisions to Ascension’s subdivision […]
Tommy Martinez, Kenny Matassa, and the TRUTH! (?)
11/07/2015 by
One Thursday just after Kenny Matassa announced his candidacy for Ascension’s Parish Presidency the current occupant of the position summoned, well invited, this writer to his Donaldsonville office. Tommy Martinez wanted to talk politics. Martinez insisted that he would neither support, nor endorse, any candidate but would stay abreast of the race like any ordinary […]
Candidate for Parish President responds to Tommy Martinez, thanking him for service
11/05/2015 by
EDITOR’s NOTE: Long claiming that he would endorse no candidate to succeed him, Parish President Tommy Martinez accused an unnamed “candidate” of “numerous falsehoods, half truths and outright lies” in a local weekly newspaper advertisement hitting the streets on Thursday. Martinez has consistently said that, when asked, “I will tell people I’m voting for Kenny […]
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