After months of waiting, the Bossier City Council has finally released the opinion of its outside attorney on the legality of the city’s construction work on two private parking lots on Benton Road.
The work on two private parking lots engulfed Bossier City in controversy after it became public at a City Council meeting in March 2025.
Commentators, residents and council members, particularly now-Council President Brian Hammons, questioned why the work was approved, why the spending hadn’t gone through the City Council, whether it violated Louisiana’s Public Bid Law for government contracts and whether the work was an illegal gift to private businesses…