The state is giving ICF two weeks to resolve issues with over 600 Road Home applicants or it will withhold $3.3 million. In a press release yesterday, the Louisiana Recovery Authority announced that the Road Home contractor, ICF International, needs to correct 607 files ICF contends are closed, or the state will withhold $5,495 for each unresolved applicant. The deadline is set for April 24. The state contends that it will also withhold $800,000 on May 8 if ICF can't prove that it "properly closed files in resolution from 2007."
"It is critical that ICF follow each federal guideline and Road Home regulation to the letter of the law and provide necessary documentation in all applicant files. The American taxpayers provided the state with billions in rebuilding funds and Louisiana cannot afford to squander their trust," said Paul Rainwater, executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA). "We will work with ICF to ensure that all necessary regulations are met; however, moving forward the company will not be granted months-long extensions to meet the very basic expectations of its contract."
"We will restore public trust in the Road Home program by fixing lingering problems, being firm with the contractor and injecting transparency into the process," Rainwater said.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Plains Exploration and Production, the Houston company Flores has been running since 2002, is building a deepwater Gulf of Mexico warehouse and storage facility on Bernard Road in Broussard.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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