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"Protect the City" draft, approved PTC final vote 07/22/21 and last updated 2021-07-23 00:09:39-04 The Lafayette "Protect the City Committee" met tonight to consider its report. The committee was formed by the Lafayette City Council earlier this year to "study" how the city has been impacted by consolidation, specifically, the finances, they say. The committee met several times, and hosted town halls to obtain public input. The committee's draft report suggests the current form of government is not working for the city, but citizens who showed up to the town halls seemed split about what to d...

Lafayette’s new seven-member Protect the City Committee will meet for the first time on March 16 to start the process of producing a report on Lafayette’s consolidated local government.  City Councilman Pat Lewis, who led the charge to create the committee at the start of this year, confirmed the details of its first meeting, saying he plans to make a presentation for the committee’s seven members, most of whom already have experience with Lafayette Consolidated Government, during the March 16 meeting, which is planned for 11 a.m. in City Hall at 705 W. University Ave. The committee wi...

Three names topped the list of appointments at Tuesday’s Lafayette city and parish council meetings as a new administrative judge was sworn in and two people were appointed to Lafayette’s new Protect the City Committee.  Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory announced the appointment of a new administrative judge at Tuesday’s meeting, appointing former Democratic 15th Judicial District Judge Candidate Travis Broussard to lead Lafayette Consolidated Government’s new Administrative Adjudication Bureau.  Broussard, who is a partner at Durio, McGoffin, Stagg and Ackerman in Lafayette ...