Four months ago Companion Animal Rescue of Ascension (CARA) was barred from the parish Animal Shelter when threatening social media posts attributed to the group targeted the facility. And now CARA is set to take over daily operation of the Shelter on December 1 as the Parish Council approved a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement ceding control […]
Council authorizes President Martinez to negotiate purchase of water system; precursor to parish-wide sewer
06/19/2015 by
For the first time in several months Ascension’s council Utilities Committee met, but only after Parish President Tommy Martinez called for a Special Meeting on Thursday at the Courthouse Annex in Gonzales. A Special Meeting of the Finance Committee would follow before the regularly scheduled meeting of the full council. What could be so urgent? […]
Martinez concedes defeat on purely public sewer
03/29/2015 by
The realities of Ascension’s push toward parish-wide sewer have set in and certain elected officials, a lame duck parish president among them, have concluded that only a public/private partnership might realize the lofty ambition. Parish President Tommy Martinez told four members of the Utilities Committee as much last Wednesday. And then there is that $60 […]
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