In eight months, the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center blew through its annual budget for building maintenance, forcing the Parish Council to allocate an additional $200,000 to for it to get through the fiscal year that ends Oct. 31.
Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office representatives said Lafayette Consolidated Government is at fault because it did not pay the salaries of six employees who handle minor jail maintenance, forcing the facility to use private businesses to do tasks such as unclogging toilets and changing HVAC filters.
It is the latest in a yearslong conflict between LCG and LPSO over jail expenses that the state requires parish government to pay for without providing any money to meet the mandates…