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Lafayette Parish is a part of the region of Acadiana in southern Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 269 square miles (700 km 2), of which 269 square miles (700 km 2) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2) (0.2%) is water. [6]
Lafayette has a consolidated city–parish government, known as the Lafayette Consolidated Government; [123] parish voters agreed to consolidation of the city and parish governments in 1996. [ 38 ] [ 42 ] Lafayette's chief executive was initially called the city-parish president, but is now known as the mayor-president for the Lafayette ...
Lafayette Parish: 055: Lafayette: 1823: from part of St. Martin Parish. French-born American Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette: 249,750: 270 sq mi (699 km 2) Lafourche Parish: 057: Thibodaux: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. Was named Interior Parish until 1812 and Lafourche Interior Parish until 1853.
The Lafayette Parish School Board voted 5-3 to allow the superintendent and the board president to purchase 301 and 307 Rue Beauregard, which are next to the district’s new office at 202 Rue ...
Voters chose Monique Blanco Boulet over incumbent Josh Guillory in a close race for Lafayette Parish mayor-president in the runoff election Saturday. Boulet defeated Guillory 52% to 48% (22,134 ...
This amended city charter remained in place until 1914, when the citizens of Lafayette voted in favor of discarding the mayor-council government to be replaced by a city commission, the first of three members, the Commissioner of Public Safety, would serve as an ex-officio mayor. [2]
Lafayette and Lafayette Parish (In December 2018 voters amended the city-parish charter to split what was a single consolidated city-parish council into two councils — one to represent only the city of Lafayette and the other to represent the parish. The impetus for the change was the desire of city voters to take more control of city-related ...
The Lafayette Parish School System (LPSS) or Lafayette Parish School Board (LPSB) is a school district based in Lafayette, Louisiana. The district serves all of Lafayette Parish . Board members