Mayor wants report on abandoned vehicles

Eunice Mayor Scott Fontenot is asking the city’s building inspector to meet with the Board of Aldermen Tuesday to discuss abandoned vehicles.
It is one item on the aldermen’s agenda for the meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Eunice Municipal Complex.
Fontenot presided over a meeting Thursday to begin setting the agenda for the meeting.
Requesting Raymond Cole, building inspector, was on the top of the mayor’s agenda.
“I would really like to see him go after some of these properties that are dilapidated and also we have a big problem, if you ride around off your main streets, with abandoned vehicles in yards,” Fontenot said.
The inspector, police and city marshal’s deputies could issue citations mandating the removal of abandoned vehicles within 10 days, he said.
On a similar note, Alderman Dale Soileau wants occupants and owners of rental houses with unsightly front yards to be notified they must be cleaned up.
Jack Burson, alderman at-large, requested an update on the city’s street paving project. Burson wants the contractor to know there is a limit to extending the deadline for the project’s completion.
Other items on the agenda include rezoning a lot at 130 N. 6th St., by Turner’s Conoco, to allow for a storage building; authorize a contract with the Eunice Food Bank; and renewal of high alcoholic beverage permits for 2017.