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Optimum asks to use parish servitudes for trunk line; council voices clarity and equity concerns
Summary
Optimum requested permission to run a trunk line into Saint Martinville using parish servitudes; council members pressed for clarity about overhead vs. underground work and whether rural districts would receive similar service, while the parish also entertained a sheriff’s request to relocate a temporary camera to the parish line.
Optimum representatives asked the St. Martin Parish council for formal permission to use parish servitudes to install a trunk line from Iberia Parish into Saint Martinville that would run along Highways 182 and 92.
Speaker 2 said Optimum’s request is for use of parish servitudes and that the company provided a draft servitude agreement. “They’re asking for formal permission from the council to work in the servitude, run lines,”…
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