SPECIAL MEETING OF JUNE 1, 2005
MAY 31, 2005
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE
ACADIA PARISH POLICE JURY
PARISH OF ACADIA
STATE OF LOUISIANA
LADIES & GENTLEMEN:
Notice is hereby given that a Special Meeting of the Acadia Parish Police Jury will be held in the Police Jury Meeting Room, Courthouse Building, Crowley, Louisiana, at 5:00 P.M., on, Wednesday, June 1, 2005, to consider the following item:
AGENDA:
1. Resolution providing for the creation of an Independent Citizen’s Study
Committee to research and report to the Police Jury the merits or
failings of various types of Parish Governments.
Dated at Crowley, Louisiana
this 31st day of May, 2005.
/s/ Cecelia S. Broussard
CECELIA S. BROUSSARD, PRESIDENT
ACADIA PARISH POLICE JURY
We, the undersigned members of the Acadia Parish Police Jury, do hereby accept such service of the foregoing notice, waiving any and all irregularities in such service and such notice and consent and agree that said Police Jury of Acadia shall meet at the time and place named therein and for the purpose therein stated.
/s/ Alton Stevenson /s/ A. J. Broussard
/s/ John Humble, Sr. /s/ Cecelia Broussard
/s/ Jimmie Pellerin /s/ A. J. Credeur
/s/ Cade Benoit /s/ Felton Moreau
Juror A. J. Credeur delivered opening remarks regarding unfair attacks on the Police Jury. He advised of the need to provide the truth and facts on Parish issues.
RESOLUTION
BY MESSRS: A J CREDEUR AND ALTON STEVENSON
WHEREAS, a Committee has been created in Acadia Parish, with the aim of abolishing the Acadia Parish Police Jury in order to replace it with a more politically oriented form of Parish government, and
WHEREAS, the Acadia Parish Police Jury was not consulted, nor did it have a voice in the formation of said Committee, and
WHEREAS, the Committee, with much fanfare, imported political figures to speak on the virtues of the President-Council form of Parish government while at the same time slamming the Police Jury System of Parish government, and
WHEREAS, it has been noted that only those who have personally benefitted from, or hope to benefit from, a President-Council form of Parish government, have been invited to speak, and
WHEREAS, it has always been relatively easy for an ambitious politician to mislead an uninformed electorate into believing that what is best for the politician is also good for the people, while history has proven that what is best for an ambitious politician is seldom good for the people.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Acadia Parish Police Jury commission a study to investigate, spell out and truthfully reveal, the merits or failings of the various types of Parish governments. This study at the same time, to include any and all feasible methods that might further improve the efficiency of our Parish management, or which may prove attractive to major industries seeking a home in the South.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Acadia Parish Police Jury Legislative Committee be empowered, authorized and directed to name an independent Citizen’s Committee to conduct this study. The Citizen’s Committee to make its findings available to this Police Jury and the general public on an interim basis as the study progresses, with final action to be taken by the Acadia Parish Police Jury at the conclusion of the Citizen’s Committee’s final report and recommendations.
ADOPTED: JUNE 1, 2005
ATTEST:
/s/ Katry Martin /s/ Cecelia S. Broussard
KATRY MARTIN CECELIA S. BROUSSARD
SECRETARY-TREASURER PRESIDENT
Comments against abolishing the Police Jury System were made by Ms. Thelma Shreve and Mary Brasseaux.
The Legislative Committee is scheduled to meet at 4:30 P.M., on Monday, June 6, 2005.
THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS TO COME BEFORE THE MEETING, THE MOTION WAS OFFERED DULY SECONDED, THAT THE MEETING ADJOURN UNTIL THE NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING OF JUNE 21, 2005, AT THE HOUR OF 6:30 P.M.
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