Police Jury extends appointment
Pointe Coupee administrator’s term defined
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NEW ROADS — Pointe Coupee Parish Administrator Jimmy Bello now has an appointment through Dec. 31, 2011.
Bello was appointed to the newly created position in 2005, but the Police Jury never defined his term.
After securing opinions from the office of the Louisiana Attorney General, jurors learned that Bello should have a term not to exceed the terms being served by the current jury.
A motion to have Bello’s term run through Dec. 31, 2011, was stymied Tuesday by a substitute motion that the term run only through 2009.
When the substitute motion failed on a 6-6 vote, the Police Jury unanimously approved the original motion.
In an unrelated matter, Sheriff-elect Bud Torres, who takes office July 1, told the police jury he plans to have some of his criminal investigators occupy offices in two unoccupied bank buildings in Morganza.
Torres said one building in New Roads used by deputies is next to a day-care center, and another is near an apartment complex.
He also said one of the bank buildings he will use in Morganza has a vault that can be used as an evidence locker.
The other has safe deposit boxes that can be used to store items needed in narcotics investigations.
Torres said the arrangement will cost about $300 a month in extra lease payments for a time.
He said he hopes to have the transfer completed in three months, at which time the parish would no longer be paying rent on the New Roads buildings now in use.
He said he’d have the transfer completed by December.
Bello was appointed to the newly created position in 2005, but the Police Jury never defined his term.
After securing opinions from the office of the Louisiana Attorney General, jurors learned that Bello should have a term not to exceed the terms being served by the current jury.
A motion to have Bello’s term run through Dec. 31, 2011, was stymied Tuesday by a substitute motion that the term run only through 2009.
When the substitute motion failed on a 6-6 vote, the Police Jury unanimously approved the original motion.
In an unrelated matter, Sheriff-elect Bud Torres, who takes office July 1, told the police jury he plans to have some of his criminal investigators occupy offices in two unoccupied bank buildings in Morganza.
Torres said one building in New Roads used by deputies is next to a day-care center, and another is near an apartment complex.
He also said one of the bank buildings he will use in Morganza has a vault that can be used as an evidence locker.
The other has safe deposit boxes that can be used to store items needed in narcotics investigations.
Torres said the arrangement will cost about $300 a month in extra lease payments for a time.
He said he hopes to have the transfer completed in three months, at which time the parish would no longer be paying rent on the New Roads buildings now in use.
He said he’d have the transfer completed by December.
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