Slabbed has the scoop on something that happened 2 days ago? Absolutely we do as the historic event is something that would be so pedestrian elsewhere as to not merit a mention or second thought from my brother journalists on a typical government beat: For the first time in years the Parish council split 4-3 on an agenda item; one for professional services at that and we need to take a close looksie at the whole deal as it represents the first cracks in the legendary unity of the Jefferson Parish Council. I hope our readers can help Slabbed fill in some gaps.
Our first stop is the agenda for the last Parish Council meeting, specifically agenda item #10. If you click the agenda item in the pdf it will open a word document on how the agenda item would have translated had it passed but it didn’t. In fact the online agenda indicates it was approved and that is clearly wrong as the following video of the Parish Council meeting illustrates (around minute 2:45):
So now that we’ve all witnessed the first 4-3 council vote since Butch Ward was on the Parish Council Continue reading “Something historic happened at the last Jefferson Parish Council meeting and Slabbed has the scoop”