Lafayette Charter Commission

City-Parish Council member Don Bertrand believes "there [is] a very good chance" that supporters of an ordinance to reconvene the Lafayette Charter Commission will pick up the one vote they need to allow the ordinance to pass through introduction.

Tuesday night the Lafayette City-Parish Council voted down a proposed introductory ordinance that sought to reappoint a charter commission to look into ways to tweak the Lafayette consolidated charter.

The new Lafayette proposition for a separate city and parish charter "could" be on the ballot as early as this October.

Lafayette Councilman William Theriot is hoping the council will pass his ordinance tonight that closes the loophole which allows local government to create taxing districts..or TIF's.

The Lafayette Charter Commission could take a final vote tonight on a proposal to create separate governmental charters for the city of Lafayette and Lafayette Parish.

Lafayette City Parish Leaders are urging residents to attend the first of two Charter Commission public hearings.  The first is underway at City Hall.

By a seven to two vote Monday night, the Lafayette Charter Commission voted to seek more time in its efforts to make a decision on possible changes to the home-rule charter.

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Within the next couple of weeks, attorneys are expected to begin reviewing drafts of two charters, one for the city of Lafayette and another for Lafayette Parish areas that fall outside the city limits.

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A commission that is piecing together what could be a new Lafayette government has developed a basic outline of what it might resemble.