The parish's spending plan for 2013 and hiring an attorney to represent St. Charles Parish in a lawsuit filed by New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu are among the items up for discussion at Monday's St. Charles Parish Council meeting. The Parish Council is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. at the courthouse, 15045 River Road, Hahnville.
The Parish Council is expected to take up a resolution naming Timothy Marcel as special legal counsel to represent the parish in the dispute over whether the St. Charles Parish Council has the right to select a representative on the New Orleans Aviation Board.
Landrieu filed suit last month in Civil District Court in New Orleans asking a judge to declare that the mayor of New Orleans has sole appointing powers to the board under the city's home rule charter.
Parish Council members say a 1985 compromise agreement with the city allowing them to extend a runway into the parish in exchange for a representative on the board gives them appointing rights.
For nearly a year, the St. Charles Parish Council has attempted to seat Luling businessman Neal Clulee on the aviation board to replace long-time member Henry Smith Jr. of Norco, who died last year.
Clulee was nominated by a majority vote of the parish council in November 2011, over the objections of three councilmembers and Parish President V.J. St. Pierre Jr., who argued that the council should have considered more people.
The Parish Council rejected Landrieu's request that St. Charles submit other names for consideration. In August, a split New Orleans City Council voted 3-3 on Clulee's appointment and the measure died.
In September, the St. Charles Parish Council again nominated Clulee and St. Pierre vetoed the measure saying the parish needed to choose someone else since the City Council didn't confirm him. However, the Parish Council voted to override that veto earlier this month and again confirmed its selection of Clulee.
In other council business, St. Pierre is expected to unveil his spending priorities for 2013 when he submits his budget proposal at the meeting. The Parish Council has approved several budget hearings at which the proposal will be discussed: Tuesday, Oct. 23, 8 a.m; Thursday, Oct. 25, 6 p.m. and Tuesday, Oct. 30, 6 p.m.
All of the meetings will be held in the Parish Council chambers at the courthouse in Hahnville.
Source: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/10/st_charles_parish_council_seek.html
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