East Feliciana jury OKs bid for building

• By MARILYN GOFF
• Special to The Advocate
• Published: Jul 7, 2009 - Page: 4B

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CLINTON — The East Feliciana Police Parish Jury approved a $209,000 bid Monday for an addition to its administration building on Marston Street.

Jury President Louis Kent said the parish assessor will pay for the new space, but the parish’s governing body will use half of the building.

Jurors awarded the bid to Dudley and Sons, Inc., of Slaughter, the only contractor to submit a bid.

The Police Jury also approved the appointment of two separate committees to review the administrative section of its building codes and to find land for a proposed library.

Larry Thompson, the parish’s building inspector, told the jury a committee needs to study minimum requirements of the parish code to safeguard public safety and health on the construction of residential and commercial buildings.

Kent named Thompson and jurors Larry Beauchamp, Karl Chaney, Edward Brooks and John Barnett to the Building Code Committee.

Kent directed the Library Committee to find available property to locate a new Main Library. He said the present library is too small.

He also named Beauchamp, Assessor Hollis T. Jackson Jr., Audubon Regional Library Director Mary Lindsay and local resident Marie Yarborough to serve on the Library Committee.

Jurors also unanimously approved local veterinarian Dr. Lisa Bradham to the Library Board, filling the recent vacancy of retiring board member Aileen Woodside.

In other action, the Police Jury agreed to replace a privately-owned 20-foot-by-60-foot driveway destroyed by roots and trees on property owned by the parish.

Jurors voted in favor of cutting out and digging up old live oak roots and remove a live oak tree to stop the damage, and will advertise for bids to replace the concrete driveway.

Jurors said the trees were planted by a sheriff’s deputy at the old jail on La. 10 some 25 or 30 years ago but since then the roots have destroyed their neighbor’s driveway.