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City council approves Section 8 budget increase, museum change order, SRO agreement and surplus declaration
Summary
At its Aug. 20 meeting the New Iberia City Council approved an amendment to HUD Section 8 voucher funds, a change order for the Bayou Tash Museum, an intergovernmental agreement for school resource officers, and declared a broken plotter surplus; vote tallies were not read aloud.
The New Iberia City Council on Aug. 20 approved a series of routine but material items including a budget amendment for the HUD Section 8 voucher program, a change order for the Bayou Tash Museum project, an intergovernmental agreement for school resource officers and a surplus declaration for broken equipment.
Council members moved the items in sequence after brief staff presentations and limited discussion. The council opened and closed a public hearing on the Section 8 ordinance with no members of the public speaking, and then voted. Staff described the Section 8 amendment as “more families, so more cash for more families.”
Council staff said change order No. 3 for phase 3 of the Bayou Tash Museum is funded from a project surplus rather than an overrun; the additional work described includes break-room cabinetry and second-floor exhibit lighting. Council members confirmed the change order would exhaust the project’s capital-outlay funding for phases 1–3 and that museum leaders…
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