– St. Martin Parish President Pete Delcambre and Parish Council Chairman Chris Tauzin clashed over cutting back on the proposed parish government annex building project at the council’s Administrative/Finance Committee meeting this past Wednesday so that funds could be used for other needed projects without dipping into the parish’s emergency fund.
The parish president asked for clarification of the council’s wishes for the annex building project, thinking the project was taken off the board at the last council meeting. Tauzin said he thinks the council did not mean to take the project off the board, but to go back to the initial plan and reduce the size of the planned building so the funds can be used for projects such as Box Car Road, which is seeing its embankments washed out by the Vermilion Bayou, and other drainage and road projects that must be dealt with this year.
Delcambre had suggested emergency funds might be tapped for Box Car Road, but Tauzin said that money is meant for hurricanes and flooding and he’d prefer to cut back on the expansion project.
