• Oh, by the way — we owe more than $100,000.
It’s disturbing to read in Sunday’s Daily Iberian how the Iberia Parish Airport Authority is facing a bill for more than $100,000 related to cleaning up jet fuel contamination on property it leased to a local company, yet Airport Authority commissioners weren’t aware that the cleanup project had been authorized.
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Commissioners are saying now they didn’t authorize the project with some saying airport director Jason Devillier overstepped his authority in doing so.
Devillier wasn’t too clear as to just what work took place, saying he allowed the project to continue but also noted he didn’t really know if the assessment stage and remediation efforts weren’t part of the same process.
That the airport is faced with paying a $100,000-plus bill about which the commissioners weren’t aware and the director isn’t too sure of doesn’t exactly instill confidence from local taxpayers on whose behalf the airport is run.
• Congratulations go to the organizers of last week’s New Iberia Ducks Unlimited Banquet, which saw more than 200 people turn out to support the annual effort to support duck hunting and ducks, in general.
A live and silent auction raised a reported $19,000 and a raffle raised another $5,000 for the cause, on top of the money generated by admissions.
To raise more than $24,000 in a single night for any cause is impressive, but this is just one more impressive result for the local DU organization, which has been holding these banquets for 39 years.
• The headline was most apt, “Even in Louisiana, kids need coats.”
It was on a story in Monday’s paper about how the United Way of Iberia was again trying to get locals to donate coats that can be passed on for use by local youngsters.
You are encouraged to drop off Coats for Kids at area McDonald’s, IberiaBank branches, The Daily Iberian, Rudy’s Cleaners, Regions Bank and Millers Superette in Loreauville or Robie’s in Jeanerette.
We don’t get a lot of cold weather in South Louisiana, but we do get cold spells and indeed, “even in Louisiana, kids need coats.”
It’s an effort that deserves support.
WILL CHAPMAN
PUBLISHER
Comments
In the no wrote on Nov 13, 2009 3:18 PM:
Council Observer wrote on Nov 13, 2009 12:46 PM:
This is nothing but an old fashioned power grab.
Business as usual. "
Council observer wrote on Nov 12, 2009 11:51 AM:
The aiport board needs to figure out whether they will govern the airport using an airport director or whether they will let Ernest Freyou continue to run it.
Do do or get off the pot. "
Law question wrote on Nov 12, 2009 8:15 AM:
The airport board members are not at the airport on a day-to-day basis, that is why they hire an airport director.
Besides Ernest Freyou is running the airport anyway.
So what did Ernest Freyou know and when did he know it? "
Viking wrote on Nov 6, 2009 1:41 PM:
cpl wrote on Nov 6, 2009 6:43 AM:
in the know wrote on Nov 6, 2009 6:42 AM:
Viking wrote on Nov 5, 2009 10:45 AM:
Zebra wrote on Nov 5, 2009 10:38 AM:
Laf. wrote on Nov 5, 2009 10:23 AM: