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decision could allow LSU to add ex-NFL players BY JON BLAU, KOKI RILEY and REED DARCEY

ference, clearing a major hurdle for LSU‘s hopes of scooping up a pair of players who were recently Staff writers cut from NFL rosters. The historic ruling, given by A Baton Rouge judge granted a group of former collegiate athletes Judge William Jorden, applies only a preliminary injunction Thursday to athletes named in the suit. And in the lawsuit they ﬁled against the it comes on a day in which the SEC NCAA and the Southeastern Con- ﬁled a separate lawsuit in an Ala-

bama federal court against LSU, athletic director Verge Ausberry and coach Lane Kiffin, accusing them of orchestrating the legal saga that produced the injunction on Thursday. Jorden said he will also enjoin LSU in his order, which prevents the university from taking any ac-

tion against the plaintiffs in their pursuit of a ﬁfth season of college sports. That was requested by one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, Tony Clayton, to offer LSU protection because the school would be complying with the court’s order allowing athletes to play. The judge took issue with the SEC because, after he issued a temporary restraining order against the NCAA in mid-August,

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the conference adopted penalties against member institutions for adding athletes who were previously on pro teams, including a fine of 50% of a sport’s budget and a half-season suspension for a team’s coach. “I’m showing you I got a big gun,” Jorden said. “I still feel some type of way. I told you not to do

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VERMILION PARISH POLICE JURY

New rules for RV parks proposed SpaceX project sparks need for housing BY JOEL THOMPSON Staff writer

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Lafayette Parish school system Superintendent Francis Touchet Jr. delivers the State of the district address on Wednesday.

Lafayette Parish school system State of the district address celebrates successes BY JOANNA BROWN

Staff writer

The Lafayette Parish school system celebrated a signiﬁcant milestone when the Louisiana Department of Education named it as Louisiana’s top large school district in its annual rankings last fall. This achievement, which was based on a district performance score of 87.5 — reflecting gains in academic progress, key subject proﬁciency and graduation

auditorium. The first honor of the evening went to David Thibodeaux STEM Magnet Academy junior Gavin Crayton, who noted the district’s accomplishment in his opening remarks. Crayton was a top-four finalist in this year’s National Speech and Debate Association tournament, in program oral interpretation. “Rankings don’t tell the whole story,” Crayton said. “Behind every number is a student, and behind every achievement is an educator who believed that more was Gavin Crayton speaks before the State of possible.” the district on Wednesday. In addition to celebrating last year’s achievements, Superintendent Francis rates — was applauded by students, Touchet Jr. defined two main priorities as teachers, staff and community members the district looks to the future — talent at Wednesday’s State of the District adä See TALENT, page 5A dress, held in the Lafayette High School

The announcement last week that SpaceX will build a $100 billion spaceport in Vermilion Parish has spurred discussions on how to handle expected growth in the parish, including a proposed ordinance to impose new requirements on RV parks. The spaceport will trigger demands on housing, transportation and public infrastructure in reaction to thousands of high-paying jobs and an inﬂux of construction workers. An ordinance being considered by the Vermilion Parish Police Jury would require RV parks that abut residential neighborhoods to put up a privacy fence at their own expense. Additionally, RV parks would not be allowed to offer more than 50 on-site lots. Currently, the only RV campsite with more than 50 lots is at Palmetto Island State Park, which would not be subject to parish zoning restrictions because it is a stateowned property. No other RV park in the parish currently has more than 40 lots on-site. “Do you really want hundreds of RVs next to your house?” parish administrator Keith Roy asked in defending the proposed ordinance. “You need to protect the future for

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Gloria Steinem, symbol of women’s movement, dies at 92 BY JOCELYN NOVECK

AP national writer

NEW YORK — Gloria Steinem, the celebrated author and activist who became the most visible symbol of the U.S. women’s movement and remained a ﬁerce and eloquent advocate for equality for six decades, has died. She was 92. With her trademark streaked hair parted down the middle and large aviator glasses, Steinem, a co-founder of Ms. Magazine, was a hugely recognizable presence wherever she went. And she went everywhere: Much of her life as

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an advocate was spent on the road, speaking at college campuses and community centers, at rallies and marches. “You can’t do it on the phone or on the web,” she told The Associated Press in a 2015 interview. “You have to be there with all ﬁve senses. It should be obvious that people can’t empathize with each other unless we’re in the same room.” Steinem, who had been in declining health, died Wednesday at her home in New York City, according to a post on her social media page. She had recently completed

a memoir, to be released this fall. “Gloria’s greatest gift was her ability to listen to others, to make others feel seen and heard,” the post said. “Her words, actions, and example gave people permission to be their truest selves.” Though Steinem had recently become more frail physically, her wit and humor remained totally intact. Her friend and fellow activist, Abigail Disney, said she’d visited Steinem’s Manhattan home a bit over a week ago, as those close to her gathered by her side. “She

Gloria Steinem is photographed at her home in New york in 2015. ASSOCIATEd PRESS FILE PHOTO By SETH WENIG

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Minn. gunman probed over handgun previously

MINNEAPOLIS — The man who carried out a deadly shooting in a Minneapolis apartment building had been investigated in June after displaying a handgun, but wasn’t charged, the county prosecutor said Thursday. Carlton Johnson was killed by police who raced to the building after the first reports of gunfire, said Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the state investigative agency. Court documents say Johnson was facing eviction and had threatened a fellow resident with a gun in the months leading up to the shooting, which left two people dead, along with Johnson, and five others injured. But the shooting began just outside the building’s entrance during an arranged custody handoff, when Johnson shot and wounded a woman believed to be the mother of his child, Evans said. The child was not injured. He then shot two building employees before taking an elevator to the ninth floor where he killed two building residents and then was killed in an exchange of fire with police. Evans said it was unclear if Johnson was targeting the residents or had simply encountered them in the hallway. The five wounded included two Minneapolis police officers hit by gunfire and another officer who suffered injuries elsewhere during the operation, police said. The three officers were hospitalized but expected to make full recoveries. One officer was shot in the leg and another was shot twice in the abdomen, officials said. Earlier, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Johnson had “displayed the weapon but it did not leave his waistband” in a June 25 encounter. Minneapolis Police, who responded to the call that day, said he had a legal permit to carry the weapon, she said in a statement.

Pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two Mercury-bound spacecraft left their mother ship behind on Thursday and headed down the home stretch of their nearly decadelong voyage to the solar system’s smallest and closest-to-the-sun planet. The linked European and Japanese spacecraft separated as planned from their cruiser, but controllers had to wait two anxious hours to receive conﬁrmation via radio signals. The crucial operation was broadcast from the European Space Agency’s control center in Germany, more than 124 million miles away. “It’s a brilliant moment,” said lead project scientist Geraint Jones. If all goes well, the conjoined spacecraft known as BepiColombo will enter orbit around Mercury in November and split from each other in December to map and study the entire planet from different altitudes. As of Thursday, the spacecraft still had 2 million miles to go before reaching its destination. Launched in 2018, the BepiColombo mission is named for the Italian mathematician who took part in NASA’s Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s.

British police investigate $155K Guinness theft

LONDON — British police have a stout task ahead: recovering 70,000 pints worth of stolen Guinness. Two trailer truckloads of the famously creamy dark beer valued at $155,000 were stolen from a depot near Liverpool in northwest England, the Cheshire Constabulary said Thursday. “It is famously said that ‘Guinness is good for you,’ but that is only the case when it has been bought and paid for,” Det. Sgt. Gary McClatchy said. “We will settle for nothing less than the full recovery of all the items stolen.” The Guinness had been destined for pubs, but was snatched Monday night by two drivers who pulled up to an industrial park in Runcorn and hauled away the trailers containing about 800 barrels of stout. The value of the trailers was estimated at $67,000.

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The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reject an order by a federal judge that halts it from implementing a new rule regulating mail ballots.

Trump again appeals ruling on voting order Administration seeks Supreme Court to allow mail ballot restrictions

BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST, MICHAEL CASEY and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press

BOSTON — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reject an order by a federal judge that halts it from implementing a new rule regulating mail ballots, hours after being unable to tell that judge whether the computer system that would govern the entire project was operational yet. The administration ﬁled its appeal the afternoon before mail ballots were scheduled to be sent out by North Carolina, which on Friday kicks off a wave of states shipping ballots out for the rapidly approaching midterm election. Its appeal was part of a ﬂurry of last-minute litigation as the federal Trump government struggles to implement President Donald Trump’s restrictions on mail ballots before the midterm elections in November, and came even as legal wrangling over Trump’s executive order continued in lower courts. The high court’s conservative majority previously allowed the president’s plan to move ahead, but they have not decided whether it is legal. Under Trump’s executive order, the U.S. Postal Service could refuse to deliver ballots from states that do not follow a uniform envelope style and submit lists of eligible voters to an online portal that was apparently still inactive Thursday. During a hearing in Boston, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani repeatedly questioned Department of Justice attorney Michael Velchik about whether the Postal Service could actually implement Trump’s plan from an executive order he issued last spring. The key piece is the

online portal, which would track tens of millions of mail ballots. States would be required to upload their list of mail voters to the portal to have ballots delivered, and if the data there didn’t match what was on the envelopes, the ballots would not be sent. “I don’t even have a declaration from the Postal Service: ‘This is how it will work.’ I don’t have it. I have nothing,” Talwani said, adding later that it felt like the government was running an “experiment” to see if the system would work in the upcoming election. “As you sit here today, you can’t tell me the government has a program ready to go?” Talwani asked. Velchik repeated that the Postal Service would “fully implement the rule” that it published last month, triggering the latest round of litigation. He argued the main issue is whether Talwani has the legal power to stop it. “The $64,000 question is, is this authorized by the statute?” Velchik said. Talwani is considering whether to extend her temporary order barring the Postal Service from requiring use of the system through Sept. 10. The ﬁrst state to send out all its mail ballots, North Carolina, is scheduled to begin shipping them out Friday, with other states quickly following. Talwani has been here before. In June, she prohibited the administration from implementing Trump’s executive order for the November election, ruling the changes came too close to voting for the federal government to embark on such a project. But the Supreme Court late last month ruled that Talwani’s order was premature because the Postal Service had not yet published regulations governing how it would apply Trump’s order. The agency did so just before the high court ruling came down, prompting Democrats and voting rights groups to swiftly reﬁle their lawsuits. They counter that the president has no authority to set election rules, which is a power designated by the Constitution to the states and, in some cases, to Congress.

Missouri court blocks House map backed by president Justices order it to be put to vote; AG plans appeal to U.S. Supreme Court BY DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court has unanimously blocked new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump from being used in the November election and ordered a statewide vote on whether to uphold or reject the new map. The decision Thursday marks a rare setback for Republicans in a national redistricting battle. Republicans had hoped Missouri’s new congressional boundaries could help them win an additional seat and hold onto their slim House majority in the midterms. Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, a Republican, said she would immediately appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, asserting that the decision “has thrust our state into a full-ﬂedged constitutional crisis.” Missouri’s new districts were used in the August primaries. But the state Supreme Court said they cannot be used in the November general election — or ever again, unless voters ﬁrst uphold the new districts passed by the Republican-led Legislature. The court ruled that the new districts were effectively placed on hold in December, when opponents submitted over

300,000 petition signatures seeking to put the map to a vote of the people. Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins waited until primary election day in August to reject the petition. He asserted that the referendum process cannot be used for congressional redistricting. A lower court agreed, but the Supreme Court overturned Hoskins’ decision. “The referendum petition was legal, sufficient, and timely, and the secretary incorrectly concluded otherwise,” the court said in its ruling. The legislation containing the new districts “did not go into effect and will not go into effect unless and until approved by the voters.” As a result, the congressional map adopted after the 2020 census “remains in full force and effect for the November 2026 general election.” Hanaway, whose office represented Hoskins, called the ruling an unprecedented violation of federal law. “Never before in American history has a court overturned a congressional map after a primary and before a general election,” Hanaway said in a statement. The Missouri Constitution does not specifically say a referendum petition can be used for a congressional redistricting law passed by the Legislature. But the Supreme Court ruled that a constitutional provision allowing a referendum on “any act” of the Legislature encompasses congressional redistricting. It rejected assertions from Hanaway’s office that federal law prohibits referendum petitions on congressional redistricting.

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Thursday in a dramatic sixth day of deliberations after the jury’s foreperson sent the judge a note saying a single juror won’t follow the court’s instructions about reasonable doubt. Details of the jury room conflict weren’t revealed by the judge and only briefly discussed in open court, but they raised the possibility that a single holdout was standing in the way of a verdict on whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three children. The jury will return Friday to see if it can reach a decision. Before sending the jury home, the judge refused the defense’s request to remove one of the jurors following heated discussions among the parties. Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, doesn’t deny strangling her children in the basement of their home in 2023 before trying to take her own life. Her attorney argues that postpartum psychosis led to her actions, while prosecutors say she knew what she was doing when she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy, ages 5, 3 and 8 months. Clancy’s livestreamed trial has generated intense interest, with reporters and spectators packing the courtroom. The case has also sparked deep public divisions over her culpability and the issues around maternal mental health after childbirth. While the jury has twice sent the judge notes saying it couldn’t agree on a verdict, this is the ﬁrst time it has indicated possible tension or acrimony in the deliberation room. Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington said in court that the jury foreperson complained to the judge that one juror was refusing

to listen to the law on reasonable doubt and should be kicked off the panel. “If we come back here in a half-hour with a mistrial because of a juror that has just spurned the instructions of this court, it’s a shame — it’s a real shame,” Reddington said, referring to a possible deadlocked jury. Reddington said afterward outside the courthouse that the juror would be questioned by the judge Friday. “There’s a person who has doubt but will not listen to the judge’s instructions,” he told reporters. Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague said in court that she believed Judge William Sullivan’s instruction was appropriate and no further action was necessary. Sullivan said removing a deliberating juror is a sensitive undertaking. “I don’t feel it is proper for me to side with one side or the other of the deliberations,” the judge said. “I don’t feel it’s appropriate for me to say, ‘I agree with one juror or the 11.’ I have asked if they are able to follow my instructions. They swore earlier that they could.” At one point and for the ﬁrst time in the trial, Clancy was brought to join a sidebar conversation with the judge. Sullivan, after receiving the jury’s note, brought in each juror individually and questioned them in private. The judge then reread his instructions on reasonable doubt before sending them back to continue deliberating. Signs there was a growing chance of a hung jury and the trial ending without a resolution surfaced on Wednesday when Sullivan explained to the courtroom that jurors were stuck for a second time. Sullivan told the jurors not to abandon their own convictions just to reach a verdict, but urged them to seriously consider opposing views and reassess their positions if appropriate.

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Source: ICE officer New rule would remove tax exemption for private charged with lying colleges with DEI policies to investigators BY COLLIN BINKLEY

unwind the policies, saying they discriminate against White and Asian American students. Higher education leaders criticized the proposal. “The administration’s latest rules changes are its most blatant attack to keep working class Americans and people of color from accessing higher education and a better life,” Mike Gavin, Alliance for Higher Education president and CEO, said in a statement. “By claiming that efforts to increase fair opportunity for all students are discriminatory, the administration is trying to gaslight the American people into believing that up is down and black is white.” Scores of universities have shut down or rebranded their DEI ofﬁces and ended scholarships and clubs designed for minority students under pressure from the White House. In a statement announcing the proposal, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested that even policies that are no longer under the banner of DEI could be targeted. “Schools rebranding race-based preferences as equitable, inclusive, or di-

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Man accused of making false statements in shooting BY ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have charged a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with lying to investigators about the events leading up to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown earlier this year, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Christian Castro, the officer who authorities say shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg in January, has been charged with making false statements to federal investigators, according to the person, who was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity. The federal charges, which remain under seal, follow Castro’s release from jail last week after Texas’ governor refused to immediately sign an extradition warrant to hand him over to Minnesota authorities, who have charged him separately with assault and false reporting of a crime related to the same shooting. Federal authorities had initially accused Sosa-Celis and another man of beating an officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel during the confrontation. But federal prosecutors dropped charges against the men after video evidence showed the officers may have lied about the encounter, and officials opened an investigation. Castro is the first federal immigration officer to be prosecuted by the Trump administration related to actions taken during the massive Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities that began in January 2026. No attorney is listed for Castro in the case brought by Minnesota and it was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer to speak on his behalf. Thousands of officers were sent to the Minneapolis and St. Paul area by the Department of Homeland Security in what was its largest immigration enforcement operation ever. The shooting deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers drew condemnation and raised questions over officers’ conduct, prompting changes to the operation. Earlier this week, a federal prosecutor working on the case told lawyers for Sosa-Celis and other victims that Justice Department officials blocked the prosecutor’s push to bring a more serious civil rights charge against the officer for the shooting, ProPublica reported on Wednesday. But the person familiar with the investigation disputed the prosecutor’s characterization, saying the civil rights probe is continuing and there has been no final decision on whether to bring additional charges. The prosecutor, Matthew Evans, has been fired and is under investigation for alleged obstruction of a grand jury probe, the person said. An automatic email response from Evans’ Justice Department account said he was on leave. Other attempts to reach him were not immediately successful. An attorney for Sosa-Celis said the Justice Department has “grossly undercharged this case,” adding that Castro’s statements were made to “cover up the fact that he shot my client through the door of an occupied house without a self-defense justification.” “Mr. Sosa Celis wants Mr. Castro to be held fully accountable for his crimes,” said the attorney, Robin Wolpert. The American Lib-

erties Union of Minnesota said Thursday that SosaCelis also plans to seek damages from the federal government. Castro was initially arrested in May in the Minnesota case, and he was held in custody in Brownsville, Texas, a city bordering Mexico, while Minnesota officials sought his extradition. But Texas Gov. Greg Abbott refused to immediately sign off, citing continuing investigations of fraud in government social service programs in Minnesota, which Trump used to justify his immigration crackdown there. Minnesota officials had sought to stop the sheriff in Cameron County, Texas, from releasing Castro, out of fear that he would ﬂee to Mexico. According to a lawsuit ﬁled by Minnesota, Castro had a conversation with a woman, while he was incarcerated, where he spoke about marrying her and buying a house in Mexico after his release. But Castro was released a week ago after a federal judge refused to order Texas to extradite him.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on their race, a significant escalation in the White House’s campaign to eradicate diversity programs directed at Black, Hispanic and other minority students. The Treasury Department proposed the change Thursday in a new regulation that, if made final, would kick in after May 2027. The rule is broadly aimed at ending any policies or programs that help students because of their race, and it specifically says such benefits in admissions, scholarships and facilities “would be incompatible” with the rule. It’s the latest attempt by the Trump administration to pressure schools and colleges to weed out diversity, equity and inclusion policies that had become common before President Donald Trump returned to the White House with a promise to end them. Trump officials have used Civil Rights-era laws to

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The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on their race. versity-enhancing does not change their discriminatory nature,” Bessent said. The Treasury Department and IRS estimate that up to 18,000 private schools, colleges and other education institutions could be affected by the proposal. America’s private universities have been exempt from many taxes for more than a century because they provide a public good. The beneﬁt saves many universities millions of dollars every year. Trump has seen the tax-exempt status as a lever to pull in his pressure campaign against colleges that he describes as hotbeds of “wokeness.” He threatened to cut the beneﬁt for Harvard University last year during his battle with the nation’s oldest college. In a response,

Harvard officials said there was no legal basis for doing so and argued it would force cuts to financial aid and crucial medical research. It’s incredibly rare for the federal government to go after a college’s tax-exempt status, but there’s one notable precedent. Bob Jones University, a small Christian school in South Carolina, lost the benefit in the 1970s over a ban on interracial dating and marriage on campus. The Supreme Court upheld the IRS’s decision to deny the school its exemption. The school has since ended the ban and regained taxexempt status in 2017. Laws forbid the IRS from targeting individuals and organizations for ideological reasons, and federal officials are not allowed to direct IRS investigations.

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Continued from page 1A landowners as well. If everybody’s trying to go into the same spot, it’s going to block off trafﬁc.” Lafayette and Vermilion-based real estate professionals have speculated that regulations designed to pave the way for new housing in the parish would be among the ﬁrst steps local government would take to prepare for SpaceX.

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The RV park ordinance would butt up against one of Vermilion Parish’s long-standing eccentricities, as unincorporated areas are currently not subject to any zoning restrictions. The lack of land-use restrictions led to increased controversy surrounding the proposal, with some police jurors questioning its fairness. “If they put up a subdivision, are we going to tell them how many houses they’re allowed to put up?” council member Scott Broussard asked rhetorically. Broussard, who was the main

critic of the ordinance during Wednesday’s committee meetings, also took aim at the privacy fence requirement, suggesting that new residential subdivision developers should provide fencing. “They come in developing knowing that there’s an RV park next door,” Broussard said. “It’s really on them to build that privacy fence if they want it.” Broussard framed his arguments around the parish’s tradition of not approving land-use restrictions. “Ten years ago, we had a comprehensive resiliency report that

highlighted our lack of zoning,” Broussard said. “It really is part of what makes our parish attractive to companies like SpaceX.” The parish developed that report in 2014, and it highlighted various plans the parish could implement to mitigate risks from coastal erosion, ﬂood damage and other concerns. In the document, the parish discussed the possibility of introducing zoning ordinances into unincorporated areas, but it ultimately declined to act on those plans. While the parish lacks zoning ordinances, it does require residen-

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bigger mistake,” she told the AP in 2011. “It was personally and professionally a disaster. In the short term, it was much harder to get assignments, and in the long term it’s been used to ridicule me.”

Continued from page 1A was just as funny and just as sharp as I have ever known her,” Disney said. And, she said, generous. “Everything Gloria did was rooted in kindness,” Disney said. “It ﬂowed through her political activism.” Steinem began her career as a journalist, notably reporting in 1963 on degrading conditions in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire — an undercover assignment she later came to regret. She credits a meeting six years later, where women spoke out in favor of abortion rights, with changing her career path. “That speak-out was the beginning of activism for me,” Steinem, who had undergone a secret illegal abortion herself at age 22, told the AP in an email in 2022, reﬂecting on the reversal of Roe v. Wade. “Either our control over our own bodies is equal, regardless of sex or race, or we’re not living in a democracy.” Those who watched Steinem denounce discrimination for so many years likely never suspected that she’d had to overcome a deep fear of public speaking. She would have simply stuck to writing, she said, if only editors at the time had been willing to let her write about the women’s movement. But they weren’t interested, she told the AP in 2015. “So I ended up going out and speaking, which was my nightmare,” she said. “I mean, I was terrified. But I’m grateful, even though I still get scared even now.”

Visibility endured Time hardly slowed Steinem down; through her 80s, she was traveling the globe and speaking out on issues of importance to her. These included everything from genital mutilation to Korean reconciliation, but it was equality for women that took precedence. “Being a feminist means that you see the world as whole instead of half,” she once said. “It shouldn’t need a name, and one day it won’t.” As the years went on, Steinem’s visibility endured. A few days after her 85th birthday, she was leading a women’s “talking circle” at an off-Broadway play celebrating her life, where one by one, women in the audience — many ﬁghting tears — rose to thank her and tell their own stories of discrimination. In 2020, her life was the subject of a feature ﬁlm,

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Women’s rights spokeswoman Gloria Steinem attends a news conference at the American Civil Liberties Union office in New york in 1973. “The Glorias.” And at 91, she collaborated on a picture book with Liberian peace activist and Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee aimed at inspiring young people to change the world. “Rise, Girl, Rise: Our SisterFriend Journey. Together for All” was published in February. The constant visibility came with a price; even into her older years, Steinem expressed frustration that despite her accomplishments, she was often described as beautiful or glamorous. A 1992 Vanity Fair proﬁle even noted her “spectacular racehorse legs.” “Nobody ever called me beautiful until I was publicly a feminist, and that was in my mid-30s,” she told AP in a 2011 interview. “It was clear that label was being assigned to me. The most hurtful part is that you work very hard, and people say it’s because of your looks.”

Club speech, Steinem called Nixon “the most sexually insecure chief of state since Napoleon.”

Unconventional childhood Gloria Marie Steinem was born on March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio. Her father was a traveling antique salesperson; she spent her early years on the road with her parents, not attending regular school. “I just read everything I could get my hands on,” she told an audience at Manhattan’s 92NY earlier this year. In 1944 her parents divorced, and 10-year-old Gloria was left to take care of her mother, a once-promising journalist who struggled to combine her work with running a household and who eventually suffered a nervous breakdown. As a young girl she excelled at tap dancing — it was even going to be her “ticket out of Toledo,” she said. That particular career did not materialize, though, and she attended Smith College in the 1950s — a time when, she said, women were being educated to be mothers and wives. But marriage was not on Steinem’s mind. “I was engaged to a very nice man. It wasn’t his fault, but I just didn’t want to get married,” she told her 2026 audience. Instead, she took a modest fellowship to travel to India. After that, Steinem headed to Manhattan, where she couldn’t rent her own apartment because landlords assumed if a single woman “could earn enough, you must be a hooker.” She wanted to write about politics. But editors gave her assignments on food, fashion, and, in what she jokingly called “the low point of my life,” an article about textured stockings.

Humor vs. hostility Of course, Steinem also had to deal with hostility — sometimes from surprising places. Appearing on Larry King’s talk show on CNN in 1990, she was visibly stunned when a female caller greeted her cheerfully, then told her to “rot in hell” because she had ruined “the beautiful American family.” But by then, she noted, at least people were taking feminists seriously. That wasn’t the case in 1972 when she co-founded Ms. Magazine and many commentators — especially male — dismissed it as ridiculous, predicting an early demise. Among Steinem’s detractors was President Richard Nixon, who was caught on an Oval Ofﬁce tape ridiculing both her and the “Ms.” title. The ridicule was mutual: In a 1972 National Press

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Even more demoralizing was her experience with an editor who, she said, gave her a choice one day: Spend the afternoon in a hotel with him, or mail his letters on the way out. She chose to mail the letters. “There was no word for sexual harassment then,” she has said. “It was just life.” But one assignment in 1963 sounded compelling: posing as a Playboy Bunny for an exposé in the now-defunct Show magazine. Steinem auditioned, assuming she’d be weeded out. But she was given her bunny costume — “so tight, it would give a man a cleavage” — and worked at the job for about a month. “I could not have made a

Steinem was in her 30s when she joined the editorial board of New York magazine, and her writing became more political. In 1969, she went to cover an abortion rights hearing. She had never told anyone about her illegal abortion at 22, in London. That was the moment, she has said, that triggered her career as a women’s rights activist. Steinem founded the National Women’s Political Caucus in 1971 along with Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm and Bella Abzug. Unlike her friend Abzug, however, Steinem was not comfortable in front of a crowd. Gradually, with her early speaking partner Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a Black feminist and child welfare advocate, she found her footing. The two formed a powerful partnership at a time when feminism was viewed as largely a White, middle-class movement. In an iconic photo, the two raise their right arms together in the Black Power salute. As she grew more famous, Steinem drew attention not just for her work but for a glamorous Manhattan life. Asked once about her streaked hair and aviator glasses, she explained that

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Ms. Magazine Then came Ms. Magazine in 1972. “I was so obsessed with the fear that it would fail and be a disgrace to the movement,” Steinem said later. And opponents hoped that would happen. TV newsman Harry Reasoner, an especially tart critic, later apologized on air. Steinem continued with Ms. until it was bought in 2001 by the Feminist Majority Foundation, and remained an adviser. Steinem never had children, and said she never regretted it. “No, not for a millisecond,” she told the AP. “It’s important that some of us not have children, to show that we have a choice.” In 2000, Steinem made a choice she’d never planned to: She got married, at 66, to British activist and businessman David Bale, whom she met at a fundraiser. Bale was the father of actor Christian Bale. “I thought, ‘I haven’t changed, marriage had changed,’ ” Steinem said. “David and I wanted to be together, we loved each other. He needed a green card.” They married at a Cherokee ceremony in Oklahoma. Several years later, he became ill with brain lymphoma, and Steinem cared for him until his death in 2003.

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Touchet. “We are also focused on infrastructure. Every student, no matter where they are, deserves to be in a brick-and-mortar building, to be in a facility like what we are sitting in now.” Last year, the Lafayette Parish School Board voted to increase first-year teacher salaries to $50,000 and approved a $10,000 stipend for education majors who complete a yearlong classroom residency at an LPSS school, and agree to teach in the district for two years after graduation. “We knew we had a teacher shortage,” according to Rabalais. “And we have UL Lafayette trying to grow an educator program. The

result has been almost a $780,000 investment, but it has yielded almost 80 certiﬁed teachers spread over 30 schools across our district.” Lafayette High School cut the ribbon on its new school at the start of this school year, and LPSS’s current construction projects include new wing additions at six schools, a new Paul Breaux Elementary and Middle School facility, new athletic buildings at four schools, and interior renovations and refurbishments at ﬁve schools — representing a $174 million investment across the district. Touchet and LPSS representatives have stated a goal to reduce

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the number of portable buildings at school sites, and the wing additions at Acadiana High School, L.J. Alleman Middle School and Judice Middle School will yield 90 extra permanent classrooms at just those three schools, Rabalais remarked. “In addition to that, we have 10 to 20 classrooms going in wing additions at Broadmoor Elementary and Westside Elementary,” said Rabalais. “In 2023, we had over 200 portable buildings. Those can be one or two classrooms, so that can be 300 to 350 classrooms that are housing students outside. Since then, we have got that number down to

70, and after these wing additions and some of these builds, we will be down to 40 portable buildings.” The evening closed with an invitation to purchase a raffle ticket for the Love Our Schools 2026 home giveaway, which directly supports Lafayette Parish schools. The winner receives a new home donated by Manuel Builders, and participants can select a particular school to support when purchasing a $50 rafﬂe ticket through Love Our Schools. The grand prize drawing will take place Oct. 1. Email Joanna Brown at joanna. brown@theadvocate.com.

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in Georgia, South Carolina and Mississippi. All three state attorneys general sided with the SEC in statements they released on Wednesday and Thursday. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr even encouraged Sankey to consider expelling LSU from the league — a drastic step that, according to Yahoo Sports, had begun to gain traction in recent weeks among prominent representatives of individual SEC schools. Gov. Jeff Landry took issue with those statements during the hearing on Thursday, when he posted on X that calling the athletes in question “NFL players” was “at best disingenuous and at worst intentionally deceptive.” “They are not professional football players circling back after years in the NFL,” Landry said. “They are college players who were told, by the NCAA, that they were done. So they took the only door that was open — only to watch the NCAA change the lock behind them.” Now, if the SEC enforces its rule barring professionals, it’d violate a Louisiana court order. That’s why it filed a federal suit against

Harris and Wright also testiﬁed during Thursday’s hearing, downplaying how much they practiced with and were paid by their respective NFL franchises in the preseason. Wright said he earned $25,000 from the Eagles, who later waived him, and was not paid by the Browns despite suiting up for them in a preseason game. Harris said the only money he received from the Saints was a $190 reimbursement for gas, and the only thing he did with the organization was rehab his surgically repaired foot. Both players said they were injured during their senior seasons at Ole Miss. Wright testified that he tore his labrum early in the season but kept playing at the behest of Kiffin. Harris said he was unaware he had played the entire season with a broken foot until he went to the NFL combine, where he wasn’t able to work out. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill also appeared at the hearing after she ﬁled an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs on Wednesday evening, putting herself at odds with her counterparts

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something, and now this is the opportune time you decide (to institute penalties).” In Thursday’s hearing, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said the conference’s rule against former pros joining the conference existed before LSU’s aggressive push to add multiple fifth-year seniors. The rule, he said, was based on NCAA guidance, and the penalties instituted were approved by SEC members last week. The plaintiffs in the Louisiana case are all 2022 high school graduates who were not granted a fifth year when the NCAA changed its eligibility model in June to allow current athletes to play five seasons in five years. Jorden noted the NCAA’s rule book did not explicitly state that the new “5 for 5” model didn’t apply to Class of 2022 high school grads. “The rule did not specify that these individuals are excluded,” Jorden said. “Write a damn double negative, I don’t care.” The attorney representing the SEC in court Thursday, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams, said the conference plans to quickly appeal Jorden’s ruling. The Louisiana plaintiffs and their attorneys added the SEC and Sankey as defendants after the conference’s penalties were announced. Jorden accepted the amended complaint on Aug. 27, setting the stage for a landmark hearing in which he’d decide whether to award the plaintiffs longer-lasting injunctive relief. Sankey attended the hearing on Thursday and testified for over three hours. He later told reporters that he came to Baton Rouge to testify because “I think it’s important to stand up for principles.” “It’s important to be here,” Sankey added. “Plenty of disagreement on tough issues. I wanted to represent our universities and their expectations … even if people disagree. We’ve not had people leaving NFL training camps and coming back to college.” The two Ole Miss startersturned-LSU commits at the heart of the case — tight end Dae’Quan Wright and defensive tackle Zxavian Harris — joined Sankey in the courtroom, alongside a trio of heavyweight politicians.

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AP business writer Stocks on Wall Street closed higher Thursday as a recent runup in bond yields eased further and big technology companies rallied, helping the market recoup its losses from earlier in the week. The S&P 500 rose 1.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.2%, and the Nasdaq composite closed 1.4% higher. The indexes are now on track to post a gain for the week. The mixed start to September follows a mostly posi-

tive August during which every major index notched a gain for the month. Big technology and communication services stocks accounted for a large share of the rally. Their huge valuations tend to give them more influence over the broader market’s direction. Microsoft rose 2.7%, Apple gained 1% and Meta climbed 3%. Oil prices initially ticked higher as the six-month long U.S. war with Iran intensified, but ended up little changed. Iran fired at Kuwait on Thurs-

day in retaliation for U.S. bombardments earlier in the week. The ﬁghting between the U.S. and Iran heated up after the U.S. hit Iranian rocket launchers Sunday on an island in the Strait of Hormuz, saying Iran was planning to use them to send mines into the waterway. The renewed ﬁghting has sent U.S. crude prices sharply higher this week, though the momentum cooled Thursday. After rising in the early going, the price of Brent crude, the international standard, fell 0.1% to settle at $95.52 per

barrel. Benchmark U.S. crude edged up 0.3% to settle at $91.30 a barrel. Rising oil prices have added to existing inflationary pressures and exacerbated a bond-market sell-off earlier this week. But bond yields have shown signs of stabilizing. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which inﬂuences mortgage rates, dropped to 4.77% from 4.79% late Wednesday. It has been rising steadily throughout the year and was as low as 4.20% at the beginning of 2026.

30-year mortgage rate highest in 13 months Mortgage rates rose again this week, driving the average longterm U.S. home loan rate to its highest level in more than a year. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate rose 6.71% from 6.66% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the average rate was 6.50%. Higher mortgage rates can add hundreds of dollars a month in costs for borrowers, limiting homebuyers’ purchasing power. As rates rise, that can lead prospective home shoppers to delay buying a home, one reason U.S. home sales remain in a rut this year. The average rate is now the highest it’s been since July 31, 2025, when it was at 6.72%. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, often sought by borrowers refinancing a home loan, also rose this week. That average rate increased to 6.04% from 5.98% last week. A year ago, it was at 5.60%. Mortgage rates are influenced by several factors, including inflation, broader policy rate decisions from the Federal Reserve and expectations from bond market investors for the economy. They generally follow the trajectory of the 10-year Treasury yield, which lenders use as a guide to pricing home loans.

Volkswagen board approves cutting jobs FRANKFURT, Germany — Volkswagen’s board of directors on Thursday approved a sweeping cost-cutting plan that would cut 50,000 jobs, slim the company’s model line by half and end auto production at four German plants. Including 50,000 job losses previously agreed, the company would lose 100,000 positions. The plan put forward by CEO Oliver Blume to counter lowcost competition in China and headwinds from U.S. tariffs overcame resistance from employee representatives and the regional government, which holds a stake in the company. The plan foresees reducing the number of models by around 50%. Plants in Emden, Zwickau, Hannover and Neckarsulm will be phased out of auto production in 2031-34, although alternative uses will be explored. The board statement said there would be an “adjustment of the employee numbers of around 50,000 positions,” including management jobs. Thursday’s news release was accompanied by a statement from chief employee representative Daniela Cavallo that the plan was “a necessity for our company to move successfully into the next decade without the associated undertakings coming only on the side of the employees.” Cavallo had been strongly critical of the plan when it was presented over the summer. Volkswagen, which has around 650,000 employees, reported a 30% drop in after-tax earnings for the ﬁrst half of the year as sales took a hit in China.

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Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller made comments Thursday that suggest a rate hike later this month is not a done deal.

Waller muddies the outlook on possible Fed rate hikes BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP economics writer

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said Thursday that an inflation report next week will largely determine whether he supports an interest rate hike later this month or not. The government will release August inflation figures Sept. 11, and if that report shows inflation continues to cool, then Waller said he “would be inclined” to keep the Fed’s benchmark interest rate unchanged. “But if inflation comes in hot, I would consider a rate hike,” Waller said. Borrowing costs are only “slightly restricting” consumer and business demand, he added, “and it may not take much acceleration in inflation to nudge me into supporting” a rate hike. Waller is an outspoken member of the Fed’s seven-person governing board, and his remarks suggest that a rate hike later this month is not a done deal. Stock prices rose and bond yields fell in response. Several members of the Fed’s rate-setting committee have voiced concerns that price increases are still too high, suggesting that a rate hike may be needed. Yet others have

said inflation is slowly cooling and higher borrowing costs aren’t necessary. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said last week at the Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that inflation had not shown sufficient improvement and that the central bank might have “more work to do,” a sign he is weighing a rate increase at the Fed’s next meeting Sept. 15-16. Warsh’s speech last Friday contributed to the steady rise of longer-term bond yields this week that has caught the attention of policymakers and Wall Street investors, and that has lifted mortgage and auto loan rates for consumers. Investors raised the odds of a rate hike in September to nearly 65% by Wednesday, according to CME Fedwatch. After Waller’s comments, the odds fell to roughly 50-50. Waller suggested he has been encouraged by signs that inflation had slowed over the past two months. According to the Fed’s preferred gauge, prices ticked down 0.1% from May to June and rose just 0.2% from June to July. At that pace, inflation would move much closer to the Fed’s 2% annual target. September’s meeting “is going to be knife edge and it’s going to come down to how the

CPI data prints,” Joseph Purtell, portfolio manager at Neuberger, said, referring to the government’s primary measure of inflation, the consumer price index. Still, Vice President JD Vance on Thursday reiterated the Trump administration’s view that the Fed should actually cut its benchmark rate, rather than raise it or keep it unchanged. “Our view, and this has been a consistent message from the president and the rest of the administration on down, is that we believe that the Fed should be lowering interest rates,” Vance said at a White House briefing. “We feel quite confident that if you look at the inflation numbers, if you look at the CPI numbers, that it’s proper and responsible for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates.” Warsh has sought to cut back on the signals the Fed sends about its next moves, which he argues limit the central bank’s policy flexibility. As a result, there has been more uncertainty going into Fed meetings about what policymakers will do than in the past. Purtell said Warsh could probably command a majority in favor of either keeping rates unchanged later this month or raising them.

Nvidia buying AI software platform Hugging Face BY MICHELLE CHAPMAN Associated Press

Chipmaker Nvidia is buying artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Facea for $13 billion. It’s the latest deal by the company, whose processors are integral to the AI boom, and highlights Nvidia’s push to champion increasingly popular open-source AI models. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a blog post Thursday that more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators use

Hugging Face to share more than 3 million models, 500,000 data sets and 1 million applications. More than 200,000 companies also that use the platform, he said. In July, Hugging Face’s data processing systems were hacked, and ChatGPT maker OpenAI acknowledged that its artiﬁcial intelligence system was to blame, sending shock waves through the security community amid heightened concerns about the capabilities of powerful AI models. Just over a week later, Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other

organizations during testing. That was followed closely by an announcement from Meta, which said its AI model accessed the internet on its own and hacked another company. The wave of AI intrusions occurred just a month after President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI systems for up to a month before their public release. On Thursday, however, Nvidia’s Huang said that Hugging face

will remain an open platform. He signaled that Nvidia is betting that more businesses will turn to open-source AI, which lets them download and customize their own AI models, rather than pay for proprietary AI services from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Open models let startups, businesses, universities and public institutions build on advanced capabilities without training every model from scratch,” Huang wrote in a blog post. “They enable organizations to match the right model to the right job.

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WASHINGTON — Confronted by an intransigent Iranian government that has refused to back down in the face of a massive military campaign, President Donald Trump appears to have settled on a dual-prong approach that combines economic pressure with the potential of a devastating escalation in force. Having launched “Operation Economic Outcast” just last week to try to isolate Iran from its remaining global trade partners, the Trump administration also resumed strikes in recent days, prompting Iranian retaliation that has renewed concerns of an all-out regional war. However, the combination of already intense sanctions on Iran and an off-and-on bombing campaign since the war began more than six months ago has not bowed the Iranian leadership and has left the administration struggling to find a way to wind down the conﬂict. Tehran has dug in its heels — to Trump’s frustration — as energy prices rise, the global economy roils and poll numbers on the administration’s handling of the war dip ahead of November’s midterm con-

gressional elections. Trump said Wednesday that he didn’t think the conflict would last “much longer,” but he again shrugged off suggestions that its unpopularity and high gasoline prices resulting from Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz would affect the elections for Republicans. “It doesn’t matter. And I’m not affected by the election,” he told reporters. “I’m not running. But my party is running, and I’m going to help my party. But I think my party respects the fact that we’re not allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon.” A regional diplomat briefed on the matter described the current impasse between Tehran and Washington as reﬂective of both countries’ domestic priorities: the midterm elections for Trump and Republicans and the internal crises within Iran. Domestic issues are critical reasons why neither side is willing to blink ﬁrst, said the diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations. The diplomat said negotiations, including those between Iran and Oman or even Iran and the U.S., will not go anywhere without addressing the initial catalyst of war: Israel. And the diplomat was skeptical of the Trump administration’s new sanctions plan, saying the threats require more explanation than what the U.S. has provided so far. The administration’s new push for Iran’s economic isolation was announced with

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President donald Trump speaks Wednesday during an event with Republican lawmakers in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. great fanfare last week and a dire warning for all remaining countries to cut off financial and trade ties with Iran or face U.S. retaliation — but the campaign so far has fallen flat. Just one branch of an Egyptian bank in the United Arab Emirates has been targeted so far. For actual sanctions to bite, experts agree that they must apply to Iran’s main trading partners: mainly China but also India and Russia. But Trump is loath to target China especially as he is preparing to host President Xi Jinping later this month. Trump also insists that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz, where onefifth of the world’s oil transited before the war began. The strategic waterway has been a key pressure point for Iran, and reopening it fully has be-

come one of the prime goals for the U.S. administration. Ship traffic through the strait is well below pre-war levels due to the risk of attack if vessels don’t comply with an Iranian vetting regime near its coastline, which is in sharp contrast to the unhindered navigation before the war. There were 102 transits last week and 126 the week before, according to shipping data company Lloyd’s List Intelligence, compared with 130 or more per day before the war. “As President Trump said, the strait is open and all mines have been cleared,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said Thursday. “The naval blockade remains in full force and effect, and Operation Economic Outcast is underway to sever every remaining economic lifeline sustaining the regime.”

The White House has repeatedly touted the economic impact that the sanctions have had on Iran, citing its rampant inflation and the massive loss in the value of its currency. U.S. officials have described Iran’s ﬁnancial system as “one big house of cards.” Going forward, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “the price” Iran will pay will be primarily economic, “but we reserve the right ... to take military action when necessary — not just to protect ourselves but to prevent them from being able to threaten others as well.” “They’re going to continue to feel the squeeze,” he told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade in an interview that aired Wednesday. Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that he would not characterize the current

situation as a “war” but that the administration would respond to any Iranian hostile action. “Major combat operations are currently not ongoing, and they haven’t been ongoing in a very long time,” Vance told reporters during a White House brieﬁng. “In fact, what we did just a couple of days ago is that we made it harder for the Iranians to shoot at commercial shipping again in order to ensure the ﬂow of oil and gas into world energy markets.” Complicating things for the U.S., Iran’s leadership has shown signs of divisions between moderates more open to a diplomatic solution and hardliners who want to press ahead with a more confrontational approach. President Masoud Pezeshkian is one of the most prominent voices still calling for a negotiated solution. But the hardliners appear to have gained the upper hand, and Iran shows no sign of backing down. Tehran continues to lash out at U.S. interests and allies around the region in response to military strikes. “This kind of a hybrid approach — the combination of military force, blockade and economic pressure — that is the only option that seems to be available to the United States at this moment,” said Hamidreza Azizi, senior Iran analyst for the International Crisis Group. Still, he said, “it’s been for a long time, but now maybe more than ever, a battle of endurance between the two sides.”

Excavation work set to start on Trump’s arch Maria Bartiromo leaves Fox News after more than a decade BY JESSE BEDAYN

gold detail, stamped with “ONE NATION UNDER GOD.” On its top is a Lady The Trump administration Liberty-like gold figure with said Thursday that excava- wings and a torch, as well tion work will start over the as gold eagles, their wings next two weeks on the site spread outward. A National Park Service rewhere it plans to build a towering, gilded arch, a project that is facing a lawsuit and that critics say will disrupt historic sightlines in Washington, D.C. The proposed arch is one of several projects the Republican president is pursuing to leave his lasting imprint on Washington, including renaming and renovating the Kennedy Center, building a huge new White House ballroom, refurbishing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and rebuilding a golf course in East Potomac Park that could significantly reduce the public’s access to running and biking paths. “This will be one of the Great Pieces of American Architecture,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote on X, “befitting the most powerful Capital in the World.” Along with the announcement on X, Burgum posted artistic mock-ups of the planned 250-foot-tall memorial arch, which will stand between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. The renderings showed a towering, white arch with Associated Press

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years include Tucker Carlson and Bill O’Reilly. Former Fox personality Pete Hegseth left the network in 2024 after being nomiBy The Associated Pres nated as President Donald Politically influential fi- Trump’s secretary of denancial journalist Maria fense. Bartiromo has departed Bartiromo hosted “MornFox News Media after more ings with Maria” on Fox than a decade, the com- Business Network, the pany announced Thursday last episode of which aired hours after Fox Business Thursday morning, as well as “Maria BartiroNetwork aired the ﬁnal episode of the mo’s Wall Street.” show that bears her The first show name. The compawill be renamed “Mornings with ny did not specify Fox Business” and the reasons for her will feature rotatseparation. “We thank Maria ing anchors, the for her work over Bartiromo company said in the last 121/2 years,” its statement. The a Fox statement read, “and second will be renamed wish her all the best on her “FBN’s Wall Street” and will also use rotating annext chapter.” There was no immediate chors. Additionally, Bartireaction from Bartiromo. romo’s weekly Fox News Her X account still showed show “Sunday Morning a banner photo Thursday Futures” will be hosted by afternoon encouraging peo- Jason Chaffetz for the time ple to “grab yourself a cup being. Bartiromo has frequently of coffee, and join us every morning for Mornings With earned praise from Trump, who has granted her mulMaria.” Other high-proﬁle, on-air tiple interviews over the personalities that have left years. He has called her a Fox News Media in recent “great reporter.”

port released Friday backed the project, though it said there would be adverse effects to the sightlines between a host of iconic landmarks, disrupting the historical signiﬁcance of dozens of nearby sites.

Many of Washington’s monuments, buildings and sites have been carefully planned over decades to reflect signiﬁcant moments in U.S. history and to evoke symbolism through sightlines that connect them to other landmarks.

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Ochsner Lafayette names new CEO

Residents weigh in on I-49 project

dr. Amanda Logue to replace Al Patin

BY ADAM DAIGLE

Acadiana business editor

STAFF PHOTOS By CLAIRE TAyLOR

Joseph Cains, right, highway design engineer with Stantec, prime consultant on the Interstate 49 Lafayette Connector project, answers questions from residents about a preliminary design at an open house in Lafayette on Wednesday.

Views range from build it now to pump the brakes BY CLAIRE TAYLOR

Dr. Amanda Logue is the new leader of Ochsner Lafayette General Regional Medical Center. Ochsner Health officials announced Logue as CEO on Thursday, replacing Al Patin, who was named CEO of Ochsner South Shore Community Hospitals and Bayou Region in New Orleans. Logue has been regional medical director for Ochsner Lafayette General since 2019. She will now oversee OLGMC, Ochsner Lafayette General Orthopedic Hospital, Logue Ochsner Lafayette General Surgical Hospital, the regional pharmacy and regional facilities teams. “Dr. Logue is an exceptional leader who has earned the trust and respect of physicians, team members and community partners throughout her career,” said Patrick Gandy, CEO of Ochsner Lafayette General. “Her experience as both a physician and healthcare leader, combined with her commitment to excellence, make her uniquely qualiﬁed to lead Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center.” Logue has extensive experience in clinical care, physician leadership, healthcare operations and clinical technology, Ochsner officials said. She has been chief medical information officer for Lafayette General Health, now Ochsner Lafayette General.

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Staff writer

Some Lafayette residents still don’t want an elevated Interstate 49 built through the city at a time when other cities are removing them and with unknown changes expected from the recently announced SpaceX project in Vermilion Parish. Others say the preferred design with two-lane roundabouts instead of traffic signals at some of the ground-level intersections do not accommodate pedestrians and bicyclists in neighborhoods where foot traffic is common. Those were some of the views voiced Wednesday at an open house and public hearing on the draft supplemental environmental impact statement on the long-debated I-49 Lafayette Connector project. Sept. 12 is the final day to submit comments on the environmental impact statement, which will be reviewed by Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development representatives. DOTD must respond to the comments, according to Noel Ardoin, environmental engineer administrator at DOTD. Federal Highway Administration officials will review the public’s comments, which will be part of the final supplemental environmental impact statement, she said. DOTD’s responses will not be included. The statement and record of decision probably will be published at the same time, Ardoin said.

Online sting nets solicitation of a minor arrests of 2 Steve Wallace, left, program manager with prime consultant Stantec, reviews basic designs for the Interstate 49 Lafayette Connector with a resident on Wednesday. The goal is for the record of decision, which clears the way for further design and construction, to be signed in the ﬁrst quarter of 2027, Ryan Morvant, project manager with DOTD, said. The Connector is a proposed 5.5-mile freeway roughly between the terminus of I-49 with Interstate 10 in Lafayette and the Lafayette Regional Airport. It’s part of a plan to extend I-49 from Canada

to the West Bank of New Orleans. The price tag on the 5.5-mile connector, of which about 3 miles would be elevated, was about $2 billion in 2023. Two line and grade-level designs remain under consideration, one with roundabouts at some exit ramps, the other with traffic signals at those

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Lafayette Regional Airport to offer live music events Next performance set for Sept. 17

BY JA’KORI MADISON

Staff writer

Along with browsing a variety of food and drinks, people ﬂying out of Lafayette Regional Airport this summer and fall can enjoy live music as part of LFT’s “Music, It’s in the Air!” series. Local musicians set up in the airport terminal for four performances from July through October. The next performance is scheduled from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 17.

Steven Picou, executive director of Lafayette Regional Airport, said the series is part of the airport’s broader vision for its new terminal: to give travelers a little entertainment and enjoyment before they board their ﬂights. “When we envisioned the new terminal, we imagined more than just a place for travelers to catch a ﬂight,” Picou said. The performances are open to travelers with boarding passes and to community members who get the airport’s free Special Event Pass. Passes can be requested

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Lafayette Regional Airport will host live performances by local musicians for travelers and community members. STAFF FILE PHOTO By LESLIE WESTBROOK

9 state agencies joined operation Staff report Two Acadiana men were arrested as part of a multistate sting operation resulting in 10 people being accused of computer-aided solicitation of a minor. Malcolm Barnes III, 35, a minister from New Iberia, and Shelton Smith, 24, of Scott, were arrested in connection with alleged indecent behavior and computer-aided solicitation of a minor, according to an announcement from the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office. The arrests came as a result of an undercover sting operation conducted by Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office and Assumption Parish Sheriff Leland Falcon over two days last week that was dubbed “Operation Bottom Dweller.” Barnes, according to his LinkedIn profile, is CEO and founder of Soul Winners Kingdom Warriors Youth Outreach Ministries in New Iberia and was released on $150,000. In 2024, he was arrested in connection with prior charges involving indecent behavior and computer-aided solicitation of a minor, according to reports. Other agencies involved in the effort were the Berwick Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office, Morgan City Police Department, St. James Parish Sheriff’s Office and the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office.

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Carbon capture and storage will help La. economy Louisiana residents are familiar siana — more than 30,000 direct with the state’s industrial corriworkers. Our member facilities indirectly support 300,000 addor that ﬂanks the east and west banks of the Mississippi ditional jobs in this great River and is visible along state. the length of Interstate We work every day to 10 from Calcasieu Parish improve environmental to New Orleans. A large and safety performance. percentage of Louisiana Carbon capture and storDavid residents work in manufacage, or CCS, is a tested Cresson solution that will reduce turing facilities that supply emissions and improve air essential products to imGUEST prove and make our modCOLUMNIST quality. The Louisiana Chemisern world better. Families and Louisiana’s economy try Association supports directly beneﬁt from the creation BKV’s proposed Donaldsonville of these high-paying, quality jobs carbon capture and storage projin the oil, gas and energy industry. ect, including the exploratory As president and CEO of the Class V stratigraphic well that Louisiana Chemistry Association will provide important geologiand Louisiana Chemistry Induscal information to determine the viability and safety of a potential trial Alliance, I am proud that the CCS project in the community. business of chemistry is the No. If the project advances, BKV 1 producer of direct jobs in Loui-

would still be required to seek a Class VI well permit from the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy. That comprehensive regulatory review includes extensive technical evaluation and opportunities for community input before any CCS project could move forward. Carbon capture and storage is a practical solution to help Louisiana sustain the life of manufacturing facilities and offer environmental beneﬁts for communities. CCS has grown as a popular sustainable solution to help industry improve air quality while maintaining and growing production with lower carbon emissions. CCS signiﬁcantly reduces emissions associated with living near industrial facilities by removing carbon dioxide from manufacturing processes before the CO2 is emitted

into our air. This process also lessens pollutants such as particulate matter, sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides, which contribute to higher ozone levels in the air. Projects like BKV’s in Donaldsonville support industrial development and remove carbon emissions from large industrial facilities. BKV’s process removes CO2 during the operations before CO2 enters our air. The LSU Center for Energy Studies found that 13 publicly announced Louisiana industrial projects, representing an estimated $48 billion in capital investment, include carbon capture components designed to remove carbon dioxide emissions from large industrial facilities. Building these facilities would support 39,900 jobs per year and contribute $26.8 billion to Louisiana’s gross state product during

construction. The economic impact continues after construction, with these facilities expected to support 3,500 workers and contribute $423 million to the state’s economy. Related facilities and associated work activities add even more jobs and could provide an additional $15.3 billion in household income for Louisiana residents, according to study projections. CCS is a tested, innovative technology Louisiana has used for decades. Carbon capture and storage is good for industry, favorable to our economy and beneﬁcial for a healthier environment. David Cresson is the president and CEO of the Louisiana Chemistry Association and the Louisiana Chemistry Industrial Alliance.

State’s most vulnerable Reclaiming American patients being left behind fertilizer independence

During a recent visit to Touro’s ComCombined with aggressive and unpreprehensive Wound Healing Center in dictable auditing, providers have faced New Orleans, I joined a professional an impossible choice: absorb unsustainservices team for their weekly patient able losses or stop treating patients rounds, reviewing patients with persisentirely. The public comment period on a protent, hard-to-heal wounds that would benefit from a second clinical perspecposed rule, which would double down on the new policy for the next calendar tive. year, ends on Sept. 14. But this call was different. The consequences are not abThe field team, licensed nurse practitioners serving nursing stract. MedCentris Wound Healfacilities and homebound paing Institutes, a 17-year provider of community and rural wound tients who cannot reach a clinic, care in Louisiana, has elimidescribed how their phones had William nated more than 200 healthcare not stopped ringing. The calls were urgent. A Tettelbach positions and withdrawn from prominent regional wound care most rural markets, including a GUEST delivery practice was forced to COLUMNIST complete exit from the in-home sharply reduce its workforce market, leaving the state’s sickest and curtail rural outreach serpatients with no specialist. Their clinical practice had not changed. The vices, leaving nursing facilities and reimbursement did. In a 2026 national homebound patients across Louisiana survey of wound care providers pubscrambling. Nursing home directors were in urlished in the Journal of Wound Care, gent need of new wound care providers Louisiana reported one of the highto treat their residents, because theirs est rates of clinic closures or planned were no longer available. Families of closures in the country; two in three homebound patients suddenly had no responding practices either closed or dedicated wound care provider coming were on the verge of closing. to their door. In Lafayette, a practice faces immiThey were all asking the same quesnent closure and the loss of rural ostion: Who will take care of them now? tomy and wound care services. In New It is a question echoing across LouiIberia, wounds that would previously have healed are declining toward ampusiana and one I have heard increasingly as a wound care specialist and tation. These communities already face president of the American Professional some of the nation’s highest rates of diaWound Care Association. A Medicare betes and cardiovascular disease, condireimbursement change intended to fight tions that make hard-to-heal wounds a fraud has instead disrupted access to leading cause of disability and death. advanced therapies known as cellular, To be certain, the fraud that drove acellular and matrix-like products CMS to act was real. But slashing pay(CAMPs), or skin substitutes, to our ment rates for every provider is an most vulnerable patients, leading to an overcorrection that punishes Louisiincrease in hospitalizations and amputa- ana’s Medicare beneficiaries for the misconduct of a few. tions. The legal system exists to hold fraudFor years, wound care specialists have relied on CAMPs to heal wounds that do sters accountable. Blunt, indiscriminate not respond to standard care. They are payment cuts do not just stop fraud. not a first-line treatment; they are a last They stop care. resort before amputation for patients CMS must revisit this policy. That with diabetic lower extremity ulcers, means establishing reimbursement venous leg ulcers and pressure injuries. rates that reflect real acquisition and Without them, the consequences are administration costs, creating a prior severe: infection, sepsis, amputation authorization pathway that is consistent and death. and medically grounded and ensuring Patients with diabetic lower extremthat audit standards are ones that legitiity ulcers face five-year mortality rates mate providers can consistently satisfy. comparable to some cancers. Louisiana’s most vulnerable patients, Louisiana’s major amputation rate elderly, diabetic, rural and homebound, already runs 37% above the national are already losing access. Every week average, and in 2025 more than 6,200 without appropriate treatment is a week Louisianans lost a limb, according to closer to an amputation that did not Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Ser- have to happen, an expensive hospitalvices data. ization that could have been avoided, a On Jan. 1, 2026, CMS imposed a unilife cut short by a wound that was healversal fixed rate of $127.14 per square able. centimeter for all CAMPs, regardless of product, setting or complexity. In many Dr. William Tettelbach is a certified cases this does not cover actual costs. wound specialist and president of the Rural providers face additional reducAmerican Professional Wound Care Association. tions through wage index adjustments.

puts La. farmers first

As summer winds down, farmers across worked at Trump speed to move this projAmerica are preparing for fall, when they ect through federal permitting review in not only reap bountiful harvests but also roughly 45 days, after companies were prepare for the next planting season. told it would take years. On most farms that involves applying And in Avondale, CHS and OCP North fertilizer, a critical input undergirdAmerica are constructing a new $450 million phosphate-based fering our agricultural supply chain. Recent decades have seen America tilizer plant, which will produce increasingly reliant upon foreign an annual 1.3 million metric tons nations for the fertilizer our farmand reduce U.S. dependency on imers need, but the Trump adminported phosphate-based fertilizer istration is fighting back. Earlier Brooke by up to 60%. Taken together, these two new this week — alongside U.S. Rep. Rollins fertilizer plants will create thouJulia Letlow — I participated in the GUEST groundbreakings of two new fertilsands of jobs here in Louisiana, COLUMNIST and the fertilizer they will produce izer production plants here in Louicould potentially support applicasiana, which will help turn the tide toward American input independence. tion across over 20 million acres of corn Politicians have prioritized importing — enough acreage to produce roughly 3.6 fertilizer over American sovereignty for billion bushels. too long, forcing farmers to pick up the As these plants come online, we are tab. In 2022, under the previous adminalso bringing immediate relief to farmistration, the costs of urea, potash, MAP, ers struggling to purchase fertilizer and DAP, ammonia and UAN all rose swiftly. stay afloat. For instance, President Donald Compared to those highs, urea is now Trump recently lifted the countervailing down 57%, potash is down 53%, MAP and duty on phosphate from Morocco for eight DAP are down 21%, ammonia is down 50% months, which is expected to save Ameriand UAN is down 51%. This is great progcan farmers approximately $1.82 billion annually. ress, but we still have more work to do. Last week, the first shipment following America currently imports roughly 50% that relief — approximately 54,000 metric of the 20 million tons of fertilizer we use tons of phosphate fertilizer — arrived in each year, which is a daily threat to the security of our supply chain and therefore America ahead of fall application. President Trump has also waived import to our freedom. The single most important action we can restrictions from Venezuela and used tartake to improve access and affordability in geted Jones Act waivers to keep fertilizer the long run is to rebuild American fertilmoving during supply disruptions. And to help swiftly transport fertilizer within our izer production — and that’s exactly what borders, the Department of Transportation we’re doing. provided Hours of Service flexibility, while At the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the EPA revised Diesel Exhaust Fluid we are putting $500 million behind our rules to reduce unnecessary repair costs Fertilizer Investment & Expansion for and lost productivity. Long-Term Domestic Supply, or FIELDS, USDA recently launched new fertilizer Program, which supports shovel-ready, financially viable projects to expand Ameri- transportation and pipeline-rate data to improve market transparency, and we are can fertilizer manufacturing, storage, working with the Department of Justice to transportation and critical infrastructure. investigate anti-competitive practices that We have already received FIELDS applimay be affecting fertilizer and other agrications from across the country, demonstrating that the private sector is ready to cultural input markets. invest in American fertilizer production. Truly, this is a whole-of-government This is unprecedented work, but it goes effort, and the recent groundbreakings far deeper than federal funding. The prove that a future with greater prosperity Trump administration is working across for farmers and consumers is already takgovernment to cut red tape, accelerate ing shape. permitting, unlock financing, secure critiDuring this 250th year celebrating America’s independence, we are rapidly cal fertilizer inputs and strengthen comworking toward input independence as petition. As a result, we are seeing more domestic well, so that America’s ability to farm and feed itself is no longer beholden to foreign production projects get off the ground, nations and unstable global markets. In such as the ones I visited in Louisiana. In other words, we are putting farmers first, Donaldsonville, CF Industries is building Blue Point One Complex, a $3.7 billion am- where they belong. monia plant that will be the world’s largest by nameplate capacity once operational. Brooke L. Rollins is the U.S. secretary of The Environmental Protection Agency agriculture.

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Marshland photographed along Freshwater City Road near where SpaceX is planning to build a multibillion-dollar spaceport in Vermilion Parish.

ISSUE OF THE WEEK SPACEX Plans for a massive SpaceX facility in marshy Vermilion Parish along Louisiana’s coast offer plenty of promise of jobs and development.The $100 billion project will be the world’s largest spaceport and puts the state at the center of a burgeoning industry. But questions have been raised about its potential effects on the environment as well as about the capacity of our infrastructure and institutions to support it. Here are two perspectives:

SpaceX reveal shows La. is competing again For decades, Louisiana watched transannounced an $18 billion expansion and Commonwealth LNG reached a $13 billion formative investments land somewhere final investment decision. else. Energy. Artificial intelligence. Advanced Texas got the headlines. Florida got the manufacturing. Technology. And now attention. Other Southern states became symbols of growth, while too many Louisi- aerospace. Different companies. Different ana families watched their children industries. Different regions. leave in search of opportunity. Same message: Louisiana is Gov. Jeff Landry decided competing again, and Louisiana is Louisiana would no longer remain winning. grounded while other states took That didn’t happen because Baoff. Derek Now, SpaceX is coming here. ton Rouge discovered a clever sloOne of the most innovative comBabcock gan. It happened because Landry understood that capital goes panies on Earth has chosen VermilGUEST ion Parish for a major new operaCOLUMNIST where it’s welcomed, workers go where opportunity exists and comtion, putting Louisiana squarely in the new American space race. panies invest where government This is an extraordinary win for our creates certainty instead of obstacles. state. But it did not happen by accident. Under Landry’s leadership, Louisiana This is not luck. It is strategy. has lowered taxes, simplified its tax strucLandry and Republican legislators spent ture, invested in development-ready sites, the past two years making Louisiana a modernized economic development and state where world-class companies can aligned workforce programs with the cainvest, build and grow. This year, lawmak- reers businesses actually need. The result is increasingly difficult to ers enacted an aerospace package giving ignore. Louisiana the tools necessary to compete Nothing symbolizes that transformation for the next generation of space investquite like SpaceX choosing the Louisiana ment. coast. That is what serious economic developNot long ago, the idea of Louisiana comment looks like: Identify where the world is going, remove barriers holding Louisipeting with Texas and Florida for one of ana back and compete relentlessly for the the world’s most innovative companies might have seemed far-fetched. Today, jobs of the future. Louisiana won. And Louisiana belongs in aerospace. That is a testament to Landry, his ecoWe have helped America reach space for generations. At the Michoud Assembly nomic development team and Republican Facility, Louisiana workers built stages legislators who have worked to make of the Saturn V that carried Americans Louisiana more competitive, more attractoward the moon, manufactured Space tive to investment and better prepared for Shuttle hardware and continue building the industries that will define America’s components for America’s next generafuture. The evidence extends beyond corporate tion of exploration. announcements. Louisiana recently reSpace is already part of Louisiana’s history. Now, SpaceX is making it part of our corded population growth for the second future. consecutive year, with young adults acBut this announcement is bigger than counting for most of that growth. More SpaceX because it is not an isolated ecoLouisianians are entering the workforce. People are choosing Louisiana again. nomic-development victory. And now SpaceX has chosen Louisiana, Louisiana has secured more than $250 too. billion in announced investment since For decades, Louisiana was known for 2024. what we were losing. Today, we’re becomMeta is committing more than $50 billion to one of the largest data center ing known for what we’re gaining: people, projects in history in North Louisiana. jobs, investment, opportunity, confidence Amazon announced $12 billion in data … and now a place in America’s next great center campuses in northwest Louisiana. frontier. Hyundai Steel chose Louisiana for a $5.8 Louisiana believed it could win again. billion advanced steel facility. Landry made us competitive again. And Meanwhile, Louisiana is strengthenthe rest of the world is taking notice. ing its position as America’s energy powerhouse. Woodside committed $17.5 Derek Babcock is the chairman of the billion to Louisiana LNG, Venture Global Louisiana Republican Party.

SpaceX offers promise, but state isn’t ready

SpaceX’s announcement that it will sion of these challenges. Pecan Island build the largest space launch facility and the surrounding coastal region face in the world near Pecan Island is one of ongoing erosion, storm vulnerability and the most significant economic developecological fragility. Thousands of new ments Louisiana has seen in decades. The workers could strain housing availabilpromise of 3,000 direct jobs and many ity, transportation networks, emergency thousands more indirect ones has already services and local schools. Cultural disgenerated excitement among state ruption is probable when rural officials and business leaders. For communities are forced to absorb a rural, environmentally fragile sudden industrial and population part of Acadiana, the scale of this growth. Many of these and other project is unprecedented. negative outcomes don’t have to Early reactions of hope from be inevitable. Steve some residents, anxiety from othLouisiana has a long history Payne of major projects that delivered ers and immediate concern from GUEST economic benefits but created environmental groups reveal a COLUMNIST social or environmental burdens familiar pattern. When major that were not fully anticipated. technology-driven projects arrive That history should motivate us to in Louisiana, our institutions often do better this time. The more important make decisions under pressure with narquestion is not whether SpaceX should be row expertise and limited stakeholder built here. The question is whether Louisiinput. That is how blind spots form, and how communities end up dealing with ana’s institutions can prepare for the full consequences that could have been antici- range of consequences, both positive and negative, before key decisions harden pated. and impacts become irreversible. SpaceX’s project is not an isolated That preparation requires more than case. Louisiana and the broader region symbolic public hearings. It requires are entering a multi-front technological structured multistakeholder learning proexpansion. In southern Arkansas, direct lithium extraction has drawn national cesses that bring residents, environmenattention as companies explore cleaner tal scientists, coastal resilience experts, ways to produce a mineral essential for educators, labor leaders and SpaceX repelectric-vehicle batteries. At the same resentatives into the same room. These time, massive data centers are being built conversations help institutions surface in three locations across the state, bringassumptions, identify unintended conseing pressures on land, water and energy quences and build shared understanding. use, infrastructure capacity and workThey also help communities feel heard rather than sidelined. force readiness. As someone who taught business manIn each of these cases, the early public conversation has followed a similar traagement at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for 11 years — and who jectory: Economic optimism dominates, co-authored for several years the Louisienvironmental concerns surface quickly and community voices struggle to find a ana Economic Conditions Report surveyplace in top-level planning. The pattern is ing regional business leaders — I’ve seen not about any single company or technolo- the near-euphoria that often accompanies gy. It is about how our institutions behave proposed major projects. Some of these projects succeeded economically for when confronted with rapid, high-stakes certain stakeholders, yet faltered overall opportunities. Large-scale projects have a much better because institutions overlooked broader community and area concerns. Louisiana chance of succeeding when institutions broaden their planning perspectives. They has an opportunity to break that pattern often falter when decisions are made with with SpaceX’s Pecan Island project. This launch facility could be transfortoo few stakeholder voices at the table. With direct lithium extraction, for mative for our state. But transformation example, early reporting highlighted direquires institutions that can see beyond their blind spots. If Louisiana broadens verse concerns about water use, aquifer the conversation now, not after the conconnectivity, regulatory oversight, housing pressures and infrastructure strain. sequences arrive, we can ensure that this These were not abstract worries but prehistoric investment strengthens our comdictable impacts of rapid technological munities rather than overwhelms them. expansion. Similar concerns are already emerging in parts of Louisiana where Steve Payne is a former business data-center construction is underway. professor at the University of Louisiana SpaceX’s project will bring its own ver- Lafayette. He lives in West Monroe.

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FBI investigating sale of ID cards on dark web N.O.-based company under scrutiny in breach

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A New Orleans-based ID verification company and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s local field office are investigating how millions of Americans’ identification documents ended up for sale on the dark web, officials said. Federal agents and cybersecurity experts learned of the massive breach after scans of some 150 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licenses, medical iden-

tification documents and travel IDs surfaced on the Russian dark web forum Exploit, according to cybersecurity news website KrebsOnSecurity, which first reported the matter. A spokesperson for the FBI’s New Orleans Field Office said Thursday that the bureau “can confirm that it is looking into the incident” but declined to comment further, citing the ongoing investigation. Officials are apparently reviewing whether the breach of government-issued documents, which experts called one of the largest in history, stemmed at least in part from a widely used cyberfirm headquartered on Lakeshore Boulevard called IDScan. The firm’s website says it sells

products that provide a range of ID-verification services including catching fake IDs, scanning employee cards for building access and age-verifying entry to websites and venues. It has worked with major brands including Hertz, FedEx, Caesars, GameStop and Target. An executive at the company, Jillian Kossman, in a statement to KrebsOnSecurity said the firm was investigating the breach. Kossman and other company officials did not respond to multiple phone and email inquiries from The TimesPicayune | The Advocate. Zach Edwards, a staff threat researcher at the cybersecurity firm InfoBlox, said the breach could pose national security threats because of the quantity of govern-

ment-issued IDs it apparently accessed. “There’s never been a breach of driver’s license data at this scale, and the threat actors behind this seem to be both sophisticated and also ﬁnancially motivated, which is a bad sign for any efforts to prevent the data from spreading further,” said Edwards, whose own license appeared for sale on the dark web. The “threat actors” alluded on a dark web forum to the data coming from a single source, said Edwards, who has communicated with other victims of the breach in recent days. All of the victims have traced their breaches back to IDScan vendors, Edwards said. The FBI apparently began investigating the breach after learning

of KrebsOnSecurity publisher and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs’ interest in the case. After posting an article on the data breach, Krebs said he was contacted by the FBI and added to a conference call with a halfdozen senior bureau officials, including leaders of the agency’s cybercrime division. Officials on the call said the bureau’s New Orleans field office had opened a probe focused on the IDScan breach. Among the people whose information appeared for sale on the dark web was an assistant FBI director, said Krebs, as well as U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. After Krebs published his initial report on Sept. 1, he said the dark web forum selling the IDs shut down.

N.O. City Council votes for new parade fees to New Orleans, a reMove to help boon cent economic impact study showed that City Hall annucover celebration’s ally goes into the red to present the spectacle. The city costs reportedly spent $11 million

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for police, sanitation and other services during the 12day ofﬁcial Carnival paradThe New Orleans City ing season, which results in Council voted unanimously a shortfall of $3.7 million. on Thursday to impose a new fee on the Carnival Krewe leaders react krewes that present float No Carnival krewe repparades in Orleans Parish resentatives spoke during each year. Thursday’s meeting. But If the fee is approved by contacted by phone after Mayor Helena Moreno, the the vote, Lloyd Frischhertz, largest parades will now captain of the Krewe of pay the city $10,000, medi- Tucks, said his krewe exum-sized parades will pay pected to pay the maximum $7,500, and small parades $10,000 fee, which he felt is would pay $5,000 for per- reasonable. “We’re happy to do it,” he mits. The charge, called the Car- said. “We’re glad some of nival Gap Adjustment for the more radical requests Parades Fee or GAP Fee, is for payment weren’t admeant to help City Hall off- opted and there was a comset the cost of presenting promise with the organizaNew Orleans’ signature cel- tions.” Greg Rhoades, co-founder ebration. It’s also the latest in a se- of the Krewe of Freret, said ries of changes to Carnival the former permit fees for season, many of which have parades, which ranged from been championed by coun- $750 to $1,500, “seemed recil President JP Morrell. In markably low.” It cost more July, the council approved to have a neighborhood a laundry list of new rules block party than to throw a aimed at cutting down pub- major Mardi Gras parade, lic safety and sanitation he said. Sure, he said “the riders costs. Though Carnival has long will have to pay a couple been seen as an economic dollars more,” because of Staff writer

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intersections. A third option would be not to build anything or start the process over. Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and Lafayette Consolidated Government ofﬁcials have endorsed the roundabout design. Stephen Ortego, a Lafayette architect and developer, said the designs don’t give much consideration to pedestrians and triple the distance people would have to walk to get from the LaPlace neighborhood to St. Genevieve Catholic Church. The traffic signal plan, Ortego said, is slightly more accessible to pedestrians than the roundabout plan.

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The Zulu parade rolls through downtown New Orleans on Mardi Gras day Feb. 17. the new fee but we “ultimately support the city.” Jack Rizzuto, captain of both the Pygmalion and the Mid-City parades, said the timing of the fee is a problem, since many riders have already paid their dues and “we can’t go back and ask for more money.” Rizzuto said he also wishes the fee formula did not require riders in smaller parades to pay more than those in larger parades. But, misgivings aside, Rizzuto pledges that both parades will proceed as usual in 2027, even if he has

to “write a check.”

A compromise

those with 37 to 45 pull units or ﬂoats, an average of $5.23 per rider. The second tier of krewes, with 28-36 pull units, would pay an average of $8.87 per rider, and the lowest tier, those with 14 to 27 units, would pay $14.44 per rider on average. “Every little bit to close the budget gap helps,” King said as he exited the council chambers. Andrew Tuozzolo, special council to the mayor, said that part of the challenge of imposing the new fee is trying to implement it just months before the Carnival season begins. The parade permit cost hasn’t increased in years, he pointed out, and the council strove to reach “a compromise, a middle ground, that the krewes can stomach,” but would also allow the city to recoup some service costs. The new fee will not cover the whole shortfall, but Tuozzolo said “this is not the only fee we’re amending.” The city, he said, may be increasing other user fees for permits and inspections, “not just regarding Mardi Gras, but regarding buildings and other things that simply haven’t been updated.”

The GAP Fee, which was proposed by council member Freddie King III at the mayor’s request, is expected to raise $265,000 in 2027 to help cover some of the annual loss. The GAP Fee will go into effect in the upcoming 2027 Carnival season, with payment due in April. The new charge will cost smaller parades more per rider than larger parades. According to the city’s cal- Email Doug MacCash at culations, the highest tier dmaccash@theadvocate. would cost large krewes, com.

Stephen Ortego, a Lafayette architect and developer, right, discusses pedestrian access with Joseph Cains, highway design engineer with Stantec, the prime consultant on the Interstate 49 Lafayette Connector project, on Wednesday.

“For pedestrians,” he said, “you’re at least doubling the footprint.” Matt Mick, of Bike Lafayette, agreed that the roundabout plan is less useful for pedestrians, bicyclists and people using wheelchairs. The roundabouts would save about 12 seconds of travel time per vehicle compared with trafﬁc signals, he said. Crystal Crawford, who recently moved to Lafayette from California, is concerned the connector will further divide the city and reduce quality of life. “I’m concerned we’re making decisions for cars and trucks and not for people, not for the community,” she said. Workers with the SpaceX project in Vermilion Parish may want to live in Lafayette, resident Will Thiele

said. “Nobody’s ever decided to live someplace because of a road,” he said, adding that the I-49 Connector “is a 40-year-old project that’s a solution to a problem we no

ﬁc?” he asked. The I-49 Connector, Humphrey said, should move forward sooner rather than later. Andre Breaux, of One Acadiana, said it’s time to ﬁnish the project. “The status quo,” he said, “is unacceptable.” All the research and data gathered over the past 40 years related to the I-49 Connector could be used to improve the existing Evangeline Thruway, resident Catherine Comeaux said, creating a road that would STAFF PHOTO By better serve residents. CLAIRE TAyLOR The interstate, she added, should be built around Lalonger have.” fayette. SpaceX probably will in“They never did study crease commercial traffic Teche Ridge,” Comeaux through Lafayette, resident said of the option that would move the interstate into Matthew Humphrey said. “How do existing roads St. Martin Parish through support the increased traf- mostly vacant land.

icine for 17 years and remains actively involved in patient care, continuing to serve as a hospitalist, which is a doctor who works exclusively inside a hospital to treat admitted patients. She is board certiﬁed in internal medicine and clinical informatics. “This organization has been my professional home for many years, and I am grateful for the physicians, APPs (advanced practice

providers), nurses, team members and leaders who make our mission possible each day,” she said. “I look forward to building on our strong foundation and continuing to serve the patients and communities of Acadiana.” Logue earned her medical degree from LSU Health Shreveport and did her internal medicine internship, residency and chief residency at the University of

Tennessee Health Science Center. She earned a bachelor’s from LSU. She completed a master of medical management program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. She has also served on the LHA Trust Funds Board and the LHA Physician Leadership Council Steering Committee and has contributed to regional committees focused on research, popu-

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Wilson to be guest picker on College GameDay La. country star tapped for LSU vs. Clemson Staff report ESPN’s College GameDay has announced its ﬁrst guest picker, and it’s Louisiana country singer Lainey Wilson. The pregame show broadcast will be in Baton Rouge on Saturday for the LSU vs. Clemson football game. T h e Grammywinning W i l s o n , Wilson w h o sings the College GameDay Anthem, will also perform live from campus during the program. Although she has lived in Nashville for over a decade, the Baskin native still considers Louisiana home. Not only will Wilson be the ﬁrst guest picker of 2026, but she will also lead off the 40th season of College GameDay and the 500th show. The college football pregame show airs from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on ESPN, ESPNU, Disney+ and the ESPN app. The game picks are the last portion of the show, so to catch Wilson, tune in by 10:30 a.m. LSU vs. Clemson will be the primetime game at 6:30 p.m. on ABC. LSU has won four of the previous five meetings against Clemson, including a 17-10 road win last season.

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ously, that didn’t happen. We didn’t throw it Before trying to anticipate how UL’s ofor catch it very good for most of the season. fense will fare in Saturday’s 7 p.m. season I mean, let’s call it what it is.” opener against Lamar at Our Lady Fast-forward to this week and the of Lourdes Stadium and beyond, expectations are very different for consider where we were at this the 2026 passing game. time last year. There are precious few snaps, All the August camp talk was receptions, yards or touchdowns about how explosive the passing beyond top target Shelton Sampson, game was going to be. There were Kevin who overcame multiple injuries to going to be plenty of big plays Foote catch 32 balls for 537 yards and six — and perhaps struggle with efscores a year ago. ﬁciency. The next most productive returnUL was 10-of-28 passing for 88 ä Lamar yards with no touchdowns and an ining receiver is Landon Strother at UL 7 P.M. with 10 catches for 78 and no terception in a 14-12 loss to Rice. SATURdAy, scores, but he’s still unavailable Even worse, starting quarterback with a broken collarbone. Walker Howard suffered an injury ESPN+ Even worse, the Cajuns won’t in the fourth quarter and the passing have the services of veteran tight game never approached preseason end Brock Chappell, who suffered a leg expectations. “I thought a year ago that we would really injury in the second scrimmage. “We’ve got to play better at wideout,” throw and catch the ball based on the spring Leger said. “I was really excited going into and summer and the production that those guys put on tape year-round,” offensive ä See CAJUNS, page 3C coordinator Tim Leger admitted. “And obvi-

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More controversy surrounds LSU coach days before kickoff

BY REED DARCEY Staff writer

When he was Alabama’s offensive coordinator from 2014-16, LSU coach Lane Kiffin butted heads with Nick Saban, womanized at local bars and angled for a different head coaching gig than the one he ultimately used as a launchpad for his return to prominence, according to one excerpt ä Clemson from a forthcoming book. at LSU 6:30 P.M. And when Kiffin was only a few months into his SATURdAy,ABC tenure at LSU, the book said, he also fed Clemson coach Dabo Swinney information to help him pursue a tampering charge against Ole Miss over a transfer linebacker. Those two moments of Kiffin’s rollercoaster career are detailed in “Lane Being Lane: The Story of Lane Kiffin, College Football’s Agent of Chaos.” Vanity Fair and CBS Sports each published excerpts of the biography, which was written by journalist John Talty, on Wednesday — three days before Kiffin kicks off his tenure at LSU’s head coach with a home game against Clemson (6:30 p.m., ABC). Swinney was asked in a post-practice news conference Wednesday about the report in the book and said that Kiffin had “nothing to do with” Clemson’s decision to file a tampering charge against Ole Miss. “He can’t handle Ole Miss being successful,” one unnamed source told Talty. “(Ole Miss coach) Pete (Golding) said, ‘They better be careful, I know where every body is buried.’ ” The Vanity Fair excerpt covers Kiffin’s rocky exit from Alabama. When the two parties split just days before the 2016 national championship game, they framed it publicly as a “mutual decision” that would

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PATIENCE REQUIRED Saints wide receiver Barion Brown catches a pass for a touchdown during a preseason game against the dallas Cowboys on Friday in Arlington, Texas. AP PHOTO By TONy GUTIERREZ

Saints’ eight-member draft class slowly working its way up BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

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LSU coach Lane Kiffin walks on the field in between drills on Aug. 17 at the team’s practice facility.

Last season, the New Orleans Saints’ rookies were one of the more productive draft classes in the NFL. But the group largely had to wait their turn. From quarterback Tyler Shough not starting until midseason to roles expanding for several others throughout the year, the Saints didn’t roll into Week 1 thinking the class would have the impact that it did. A year later, patience will also be required for this crop of rookies. When the Saints kick off the season Sept. 13 in Detroit, New Orleans will begin its new campaign without expecting many of its eight-member draft class to contribute right away. First-round wide receiver Jordyn Tyson was projected to be a starter, but he’ll instead miss at least the ﬁrst four games with a hamstring injury. Second-round defensive lineman Christen Miller is a backup and has been

brought along slowly. Third-round tight end Oscar Delp (hamstring) is hurt, as is ﬁfth-round cornerback Lorenzo Styles (calf). Fourth-round guard Jeremiah Wright is a backup, while seventh-round corner T.J. Hill is on the practice squad. Wide receivers Bryce Lance (fourth round) and Barion Brown (sixth) have been pleasant surprises and their steady progression throughout training camp could put them into the mix fairly quickly. But the pair will also begin the year as backups behind Chris Olave and Devaughn Vele, unless the coaching staff starts one of them in a three-receiver set. That’s not necessarily out of the norm. The Saints entered the season with only one rookie starter in 2024 and 2025. The 2023 campaign didn’t have any for Week 1. But as last year demonstrated, things can change fast in the NFL. “You’ve got to be ready to go,” Moore said, adding,

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Eala, Osaka advance in U.S. Open BY BRIAN MAHONEY AP sportswriter

NEW YORK — Alex Eala and her fans are headed to the weekend at the U.S. Open, along with twotime champion Naomi Osaka. So is Madison Keys — just barely — but not No. 3 Felix Auger-Aliassime, who became the highest-seeded player knocked out of the tournament thus far. Osaka recovered after a midmatch lapse to advance to the third round with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 victory over Katerina Siniakova on Thursday, before Eala beat Oleksandra Oliynykova 6-1, 6-4. Doubles play also began, though Serena and Venus Williams won’t play their first-round match until Friday night against Hao-Ching Chan and Maya Joint, who beat Serena in singles play at Wimbledon this summer. Eala, the No. 17 seed from the Philippines, gave her passionate backers reason to cheer immediately by winning the first nine points against her Ukrainian opponent, who had won their only previous meeting. “I think everybody represents something in their own way; I’m Filipino and I proudly represent that,” Eala said. “And a lot of the crowd here today is Filipino and I’m sure they share in that sentiment.” Osaka wore silver and white under her long white jacket with a white visor as she arrived for her match in Arthur Ashe Stadium, three days after she was dressed in black with her hair done in cornrows under a headband in a tribute to former NBA superstar Allen Iverson for her opener at night. The No. 13 seed won the first set in 30 minutes and then opened a 4-2 lead in the second. But her level of play took a substantial dip, with 20 unforced errors in the set after only four in the first. Osaka quickly regained control, breaking for a 2-0 lead in the third before finishing a 19-shot rally with a volley for a winner

Liberty forward Sabally out for season with concussion

Satou Sabally’s ﬁrst season with the New York Liberty is over as the team announced Thursday that she’s out for the remainder of the season. Sabally has been sidelined since suffering a concussion on June 23 against the Las Vegas Aces. Liberty coach Chris DeMarco said a few weeks ago that Sabally was going to take some time away from the team to recover. It was her second concussion in the past year. Sabally came to New York as a free agent this past offseason. Sabally played in just 13 games this season and averaged 10.4 points and 2.8 assists. She suffered her ﬁrst concussion in the WNBA Finals last season while playing with Phoenix. New York has clinched a playoff spot and is still battling for postseason positioning.

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Alexandra Eala of the Philippines serves the ball to Oleksandra Oliynykova of Ukraine during the second round of the U.S. Open on Thursday in New york. en route to taking the next game, appearing more relieved than excited by her nice touch. “The match was deﬁnitely really tough and I don’t know, I just felt like I had to fight,” Osaka said. “I deﬁnitely had a couple opportunities in the second set and I think I was a little bit too hard on myself. So I took the bathroom break, regrouped a little, came back and just tried to have no regrets.”

The highest seed to fall so far had been No. 4 Novak Djokovic, who lost in the first round at the U.S. Open for the first time in the 24-time Grand Slam champion’s career. Keys, the 2017 runner-up, also was on the verge of an early exit before erasing five match points and edging Anna Bondar 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (10-5). “That was something, huh? No stress, though, we all knew I had it right?” Keys joked to the fans Auger-Aliassime tumbles out afterward. Other winners included 2022 Auger-Aliassime said he was feeling dizzy and seeing spots and champion Iga Swiatek and 2025 couldn’t recover, falling to Karen runner-up Amanda Anisimova. Taylor Fritz, the 2024 men’s runKhachanov 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. “Karen is a great player. Look, ner-up, eased to 6-0, 6-1, 6-1 vicI cannot beat him or anybody in tory over Mattia Bellucci. this draw feeling the way I felt today,” the Canadian said. “If I can- Night action not move, we’re not talking about Coco Gauff, who won her first tennis here.” major title at Flushing Meadows

in 2023, faces Paula Badosa in a night match that will be followed by No. 1 Alexander Zverev, who hopes for an easier time against Quentin Halys after he needed five sets to edge Lorenzo Sonego on Tuesday, barely avoiding becoming the first No. 1 seed to lose in the first round of a men’s major since 2003. Badosa will be playing for the second straight day, forced to finish her first-round match Wednesday after play was suspended Tuesday because of rain that hampered the tournament for multiple days. The sun was out again Thursday when play began. Also in action is Gael Monfils, who is planning to retire after this year but won Tuesday on his 40th birthday to prolong his Grand Slam career and advance to face No. 14 Learner Tien.

PITTSBURGH — Konnor Griffin is ready to get back to work. The Pittsburgh Pirates rookie shortstop said Thursday that he feels good and is hopeful of being activated off the 60-day injured list on Friday when Pittsburgh opens a three-game series against the Los Angeles Angels. The 20-year-old Griffin hasn’t played since early July due to an issue with the knuckle on the ring finger of his left hand. Griffin wore a splint for about six weeks and has played a handful of games while on a rehab assignment. The Pirates have fallen off the pace in the National League playoff race in Griffin’s absence. Pittsburgh entered Thursday’s game against San Francisco 5½ games back of the final wild card spot.

Rockets sign Thompson to 5-year, $208M extension

HOUSTON — The Houston Rockets signed Amen Thompson to a contract extension, the team announced Thursday. The Rockets didn’t release terms of the deal, but multiple reports said it was a ﬁve-year, $208 million extension that would keep him in Houston until 2032. Thompson, the fourth pick in the 2023 draft, started 79 games last season and averaged 18.3 points, 7.8 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 1.51 steals a game. He joined Luka Doncic as the only players in league history to average at least 18 points, seven rebounds, ﬁve assists and 1.5 steals a game. Thompson has improved steadily in his three seasons in Houston after averaging 9.5 points as a rookie and scoring 14.1 points a game in Year 2.

Two-time NFL All-American Here’s some of the top storylines for the NFL season DB Smith dies at 40 BY DAVID BRANDT AP sportswriter

The NFL regular season opens when the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks host the New England Patriots on Wednesday night. It’s the beginning of a 272game slate — 17 contests for all 32 teams — including a leaguerecord nine international games. All of it leads to the playoffs and Super Bowl 61, which will be played on Feb. 14 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

When does the season start? The Seahawks-Patriots matchup kicks off the schedule before the Los Angeles Rams host the San Francisco 49ers in Melbourne, Australia, next Thursday at 7:35 p.m. The game is actually on Friday in Australia and will start at 9:35 a.m. local time. After that, a full slate of games is set for Sunday, Sept. 13. Among the intriguing matchups: Quarterback Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys travel to face the rival New York Giants while quarterback Kyler Murray makes his debut with the Minnesota Vikings when they host the Green Bay Packers. To finish off the first week, two-time MVP and three-time Super Bowl champion Patrick Mahomes makes his return from a serious knee injury when the Kansas City Chiefs host Bo Nix, playing his ﬁrst game that counts since recovering from a broken ankle, and the Denver Broncos on Monday night.

Returning from injuries Mahomes could only watch the

Oct. 11: Philadelphia Eagles vs. Jacksonville Jaguars in London. Oct. 18: Houston Texans vs. Jacksonville Jaguars in London. Oct. 25: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New Orleans Saints in Paris. Nov. 8: Cincinnati Bengals vs. Atlanta Falcons in Madrid. Nov. 15: New England Patriots vs. Detroit Lions in Munich. Nov. 22: Minnesota Vikings vs. San Francisco 49ers in Mexico City.

Chiefs, Eagles remain contenders Quarterback Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams are the current favorites (+500) to win Super Bowl 61 on their home turf in February, according to BetMGM Sportsbook. After that, it’s a crowded ASSOCIATEd PRESS PHOTO By CHARLIE RIEdEL group that includes the Buffalo Bills (+1000), Baltimore Ravens Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes warms up before a (+1100), defending champion Sepreseason game against the Seattle Seahawks on Friday in Kansas attle Seahawks (+1100) and KanCity, Mo. sas City Chiefs (+1500). For those interested in the longshots, the Arizona Cardinals and end of a disappointing six-win the Rams or shortly after that. Among the others who hope to Miami Dolphins (+50000) would season for Kansas City in 2025 after going down with a torn return this season: Green Bay score the biggest payouts. ACL in Week 15. He’s among edge rusher Micah Parsons, Giseveral star players who hope ants receiver Malik Nabers, In- How to watch to have a more healthy 2026. The most popular sport in the dianapolis quarterback Daniel The San Francisco 49ers were Jones and Baltimore defensive United States is also among the hit particularly hard by injuries tackle Nnamdi Madubuike. most confusing to watch, thanks last season and will welcome to a myriad of streaming services back tight end George Kittle, International games and exclusive online broadcasts. edge rusher Nick Bosa and lineFor those who still have a cable The NFL’s super-sized internabacker Fred Warner. Bosa went tional schedule includes games subscription, most games played down with a season-ending knee in seven different countries. The by the local team can be viewed injury in Week 3, Warner broke 49ers and Rams get things start- on local afﬁliates. Many national his ankle in Week 6 and Kittle ed in Australia, which will host games will also be available, but ruptured his Achilles in a wild- its ﬁrst NFL game. Here are the that’s not always the case. One of the best ways to stream card win at Philadelphia. other eight games. Warner and Bosa are expected Sept. 27: Baltimore Ravens vs. the NFL this season is by subto be ready for Week 1 this sea- Dallas Cowboys in Rio de Janei- scribing to YouTubeTV and paying for the NFL Sunday Ticket son while Kittle remains on the ro. physically unable to perform Oct. 4: Indianapolis Colts vs. service, though it’s fairly pricey list and it’s uncertain whether he Washington Commanders in at $240 for new subscribers and more for returners. will return in Australia against London.

PAHOKEE, Fla. — Alphonso Smith, a two-time All-America defensive back who played in the NFL for four seasons, has died. He was 40. Smith died on Wednesday, according to Wake Forest, who was informed by his family. No cause of death was given. Denver drafted the former Wake Forest star in the second round of the 2009 NFL draft. After playing in 15 games for the Broncos, returning punts and kickoffs, he was traded to Detroit shortly before the 2010 season. Smith played in 33 games, including 11 starts, over the next two seasons with the Lions and had eight interceptions, returning two for touchdowns. Smith was a ﬁrst-team Associated Press All-America defensive back.

Ex-Fox analyst Sanchez pleads guilty to fight charges

Former Fox Sports analyst Mark Sanchez plans to plead guilty to charges ahead of a trial stemming from an October 2025 fight with a truck driver outside an Indianapolis hotel, according to court records filed Thursday. The motion asks Marion County Superior Court to schedule a hearing for Sanchez to plead guilty and be sentenced. Online records did not indicate which charges he plans to plead guilty to. Sanchez faces a felony battery charge, along with three misdemeanor charges, for what prosecutors have said was a fight over parking. The ex-NFL quarterback’s jury trial was scheduled to start Tuesday. The trial had been rescheduled five times since it was initially set to begin in December.

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Saints waive second-year RB Neal, DE Heldman BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

The New Orleans Saints waived two players off injured reserve with an injury settlement Thursday, including a second-year running back who had a promising rookie season. The Saints parted ways with running back Devin Neal and edge rusher Michael Heldman, the team announced. The two had both initially been placed on injured reserve when the Saints made cuts Sunday to ﬁnalize their initial 53-man roster. Neal’s release comes as a surprise. The 23-year-old rushed for 206 yards on 57 carries as a rookie, while also carving out a role as a valuable pass protector. He started three of 10 games and was placed

on injured reserve for the ﬁnal two games. But Neal fell behind this summer in a competitive training camp battle. He had reaggravated the hamstring injury that had previously sidelined him earlier in training camp, as well as at the end of last season. The former sixth-round pick missed about 11 days with the injury before returning in the leadup to an Aug. 22 preseason game against the Los Angeles Rams, only for Neal to get hurt again in the exhibition. Saints coach Kellen Moore said Neal’s hamstring issue would require further evaluation, which eventually led the Saints to place him on injured reserve. Now, the team moved on. Neal will be eligible to be claimed off waivers, and if he’s not picked up,

Saints running back devin Neal runs the ball during a joint practice on Aug. 18 in Oxnard, Calif. Neal was waived by the Saints on Thursday.

he’ll hit free agency. Neither he nor Heldman cannot re-sign with the Saints unless three weeks pass after whatever settlement date the Saints and their camps negotiated in the lead-up to their release. As part of injury settlements, the Saints pay the player for as long as the injury takes to heal. So if an injury takes ﬁve weeks to heal, the player cannot rejoin that team until eight weeks. Heldman’s exact injury was not known publicly. The former undrafted free agent, who had a strong preseason debut with two sacks, got hurt in the team’s preseason finale against the Dallas Cowboys and was seen wearing a medical boot after the game.

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Elko urges focus as No. 8 Texas A&M opens as big favorite vs. Missouri State BY KRISTIE RIEKEN Associated Press

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UL center Cooper Fordham, right, and the offensive line will be counted upon heavily in Saturday’s season opener to spark the Cajuns’ rushing attack.

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Continued from page 1C last season and I didn’t think we played great at wideout at times. I’m concerned right now, because it’s too inconsistent every day. We’re still dropping too many balls. I don’t think some of these guys are in game shape the way they need to be.” Topping that list is Sampson himself. The 6-foot-4, 206-pound redshirt junior missed all of August camp with a bruised knee after missing the spring session as well. In last year’s opener, Sampson was more injured than we knew and suffered multiple drops. Once healthy, he was the big-time playmaker the staff expected. We’ll ﬁnd out Saturday how ready he is to handle a heavy workload. And if he’s not quite there yet, the burden shifts to the offensive line and the defense to keep things moving. “Yes, I think the offensive line is ready for that,” Leger said. “We like the depth and experience there.” Center Cooper Fordham likes what he’s seen during camp. “Last year, I feel like we struggled in the interior games and like pass protection,” he explained. “I feel like we gave up too much pressure starting with the interior, getting the power, the pocket press back into Lunch (Winﬁeld) to where he’s not able to go through his reads. “In the run game, we’re a lot better between the interior stunts and picking up blitzes. I feel like we’re all on the same page ... and know what we’re supposed to do.”

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Continued from page 1C “You have to deﬁne roles for everyone and so everyone understands how they’re helping this team win football games. And if you’re not heavily involved in the gameplan, or you’re not getting the opportunities you want necessarily on a Sunday that you were looking forward to, you’re developing through the whole week. “So that when the opportunity does present, you’re ready.” Under Moore, the Saints set up training camp so that their rookies can maximize their reps. The team holds developmental periods after practice, allowing them to get extra work. Defensive coordinator Brandon Staley noted that last year, third-round Vernon Broughton led the Saints in total snaps during camp. Asked who held that distinction this year, Staley said it belonged to the rookies again.

As for the running backs, the consensus is that group will deliver, despite its lack of playing experience. Steven Blanco is the most seasoned of the bunch, but Darrell Smith, JJ Garner and Anthony Reagan all had their moments during camp. “I feel good about our backs,” Leger said. “We’ve got four guys — really five with the way (true freshman) Ky’Rynn (Smith) has played — that I feel good about playing.” Fordham agrees. “I love our running backs,” he said. “They’re younger guys, but they run hard. They don’t want to be stopped by anything.” Camp fooled everyone when it came to the passing game last season. UL fans are sure hoping camp doesn’t fool anyone when it comes to the defense this season. All signs point to the defense needing to carry a huge load early on this fall. The good thing is all signs point to coach Jim Salgado’s unit being up to the task as well. “I’ve been really pleased with this defense since spring,” UL coach Michael Desormeaux said. “I think they’ve continued to steadily improve. From Day 1 of spring to Day 1 of fall camp, it just felt different than in the past. The way they communicate and the comfort with the way we communicate and knowing where the pieces fit has been a lot better.” In fact, Desormeaux suggested the defense has shown the signs of being the best unit in his five seasons as head coach. That would be a welcome development, even if the passing game is farther along than most expect.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — After a long and intense camp, Texas A&M coach Mike Elko can’t wait to see how his eighth-ranked team matches up against Missouri State in its opener Saturday. “We want to go out there and see where we are... then figure out where the adjustments need to come and what we need to do to become the best team we’re capable of being,” Elko said. Most don’t expect it to be much of a contest with the Aggies entering the game as 401/ 2-point favorites over the Bears, who won seven games last season in their first year at the FBS level. Despite this, Elko is focused on the Aggies playing up to their potential regardless of who is lining up against them. He said it’s a first chance for his players to prove that they’ve listened to his offseason message of playing with focus and urgency. “We have a chance to be really good if we have the ability to go

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out and focus and play with the level of urgency that we need to,” Elko said. “I think we have a very high ceiling but we’ve got to go out and do it.” He praised Missouri State’s hiring of coach Casey Woods, who is in his ﬁrst season at the school after spending last year as SMU’s offensive coordinator, The Aggies lost 10 starters to the NFL draft but return plenty of veterans, led by quarterback Marcel Reed, who enters his third season as starter. Reed threw for 3,169 yards and 25 touchdowns while adding six rushing scores last season to help the Aggies to an 11-2 record and their first College Football Playoff appearance last season. Elko believes he can do even more this season. “He works really hard, he’s gotten better, he’s got a better command of the offense,” Elko said. “But he’s got to go out and we’ve got to play. The reality of this thing is that we’ve done what we’ve had to do to get to this point, now it’s time to go play.” Woods knows how dangerous

Reed can be. “I don’t know that you can stop Marcel Reed,” Woods said. “He’s got strengths. I think that you have to attack his strengths and make sure you contain those things and put him in a position where he’s less comfortable playing, and I don’t know if there’s a lot of that.”

Kiffin wasn’t the first Alabama assistant to visit bars after games, the book said, and he wouldn’t be the last. But one Innisfree employee quoted in the excerpt said he was “visible publicly in a time where Alabama coaches were not visible publicly.” “The other coaches just never went out,” the employee said, “and Lane was definitely different in that aspect. Lane was going to be in public at times, sometimes at very odd times during the season.” Wrote Talty: “He was lonely without his family, and he was facing intense pressure working for a man he couldn’t understand.” Kiffin once told ESPN’s Pete Thamel that he measures time on Saban’s staff in dog years: “Three years is like 21.” He also told reporters in a news conference that he couldn’t recall a “happy moment” working with Saban. Kiffin could only remember, he said, “the ass-chewings.” Talty wrote that Saban was “quite upset” about those comments. Then he grew “disturbed” by something he noticed while he was watching film of Alabama’s 2016 College Football Playoff semifinal win over Washington: Kiffin had called plays the Crimson Tide hadn’t even practiced. The move, according to the book, was a “party trick” of sorts for the

offensive whiz. It also might’ve been Saban’s last straw. Kiffin was fired the following week, left to focus solely on FAU. But that job wasn’t his first choice, Talty wrote. Kiffin preferred Houston’s head coaching job — a gig that was given to the Cougars’ then-offensive coordinator instead. The book says that Kiffin thought his super-agent, CAA’s Jimmy Sexton, “screwed” him out of the Houston job and “pulled the strings” so he’d wind up at FAU. Kiffin and Sexton, according to Talty’s reporting, have a “fatherson” relationship that “went far beyond the typical agent and client dynamic.” Sexton also represents Saban and a slew of other big-name coaches. “He’s Jimmy’s golden boy,” said one unnamed source quote in the book. “Jimmy is really responsible for Lane Kiffin’s rehabilitation.” Kiffin has since cut out alcohol, reconciled with his family and taken up hot yoga. Now he’s slimmer, trimmer, and says he’s even off social media — something he used frequently during his six-year tenure at Ole Miss. That chapter of Kiffin’s career will also be featured in Talty’s book, which goes on sale four days before LSU’s new coach makes his highly anticipated return to Oxford, Mississippi, on Sept. 19.

New line While the Aggies have Reed back to lead the offense, he’ll play behind an almost entirely new line. The only returnee is center Mark Nabou Jr., who will have to help the newcomers mesh quickly. Elko recruited several veteran transfers and he said the group has looked good in camp. He wasn’t ready to say who would start ahead of the opener but noted that depth at the position should beneﬁt the team. “The more guys that you have involved, the more guys that you believe can help you win, the better that is for everything,” Elko said. “It’s better for morale. It’s better for lasting 12 games. It’s better for development.”

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allow Kiffin to focus on his new responsibilities as Florida Atlantic’s head coach. But “everyone involved” with the Crimson Tide, the book says, knew that Kiffin’s departure was more acrimonious. The future LSU head coach had simply caused too many problems for the program — both on and off the field — and “it was clear” near the end of the 2016 season that he needed to “seek employment elsewhere.” “You’ve got to keep Lane away from the girls that are in college,” Saban once told a team staffer, according to one former coach who was interviewed for the book. “Just keep him away from the sorority girls. Make sure they’ve graduated college or are working a job.” At the time, Kiffin was separated from his now ex-wife, Layla, and their three kids. He wasn’t sober, mindful and health-conscious like he is now. Instead, according to the book, Kiffin would frequent Tuscaloosa-area bars such as Innisfree Irish Pub — to the point where an Alabama staffer once had to retrieve a golf cart he had left parked there the night before. One friend who spoke to Talty worried Kiffin would “drink himself to death.”

“When you’re a young player in this league, you have the most room to improve because you haven’t seen as much,” Staley said. “That’s been kind of our goal is to make sure those guys get as much looks at it as possible, while obviously getting your starters and your primary players enough of the live looks too. We struck a good balance of that, but we try to be a developmental program. “Those young guys, you’ve got to focus on them, if you can.” Sometimes, the situation also gives the Saints’ coaching staff an opportunity to evaluate rookies in roles that they hadn’t anticipated. That’s what happened for Lance and Brown — who were thrust into bigger roles once Tyson went down and Ja’Lynn Polk unexpectedly retired. The two took advantage of the opportunities. Lance and Brown each carved out roles throughout camp with impressive playmaking. And as the Saints head into Week 1, Lance and Brown are expected to be the third and fourth

ly. Last year, third-round safety Jonas Sanker went in the season as a backup. By Week 2, he was starting after Julian Blackmon’s season-ending injury. But at least initially, there won’t be a rush to get the class on the field. The Saints, for instance, will take their time with Tyson’s rehab. By placing him on injured reserve, the wide receiver won’t be eligible to return at least until Week 5 — an Oct. 11 showdown against the Minnesota Vikings. Even then, Tyson’s debut could take longer depending on how his recovery goes. “I know he’s going to do everything he can to be back,” quarterback Tyler Shough said. “I know a lot of people are doubting him, STAFF PHOTO By dAVId GRUNFELd but he’s going to come back even Saints wide receiver Jordyn Tyson walks off the field after a preseason stronger and play a lot of football games for us. … I know what kind game on Aug. 15 at the Caesars Superdome. of work he’s going to put in and receivers on the depth chart — a great job.” he’s going to help us out a lot this when they originally looked to be Other times, the situation calls year. No doubt about that.” the fifth and sixth, if that. for rookies to sit and wait — un“All of a sudden, they’re playing sure when the moment will pres- Email Matthew Paras at matt. a lot,’ Moore said. “They’re doing ent itself. But it can come quick- paras@theadvocate.com

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STM, Teurlings meeting in season opener WEEK 1 SCHEDULE

BY ERIC NARCISSE Staff writer

The regular-season opener for high school football naturally generates a lot of excitement and hype. And understandably so, as teams and their fan bases across the state are filled with hope of becoming the next district and/or state champion. But when your season opener pits two crosstown rivals, the excitement is heightened. That’s exactly what Teurlings Catholic and St. Thomas More will experience at 7 p.m Friday when the Cougars host the Rebels in nondistrict action. “We are just very excited,” Rebels second-year coach Michael Courville said. “You put in time year-round you know for 10 weeks and obviously if you make the playoffs, you keep playing a little longer. To finally have the chance to go play those games is something that we’re definitely excited about.” Ditto for STM. “Anytime you are opening the season, you are excited for Game 1,” Cougars offensive coordinator Shane Savoie said. “To be playing against Teurlings in Week 1 is nice caveat to it. Adds a little more to that first game and our kids are excited.” The two teams have a lot in common — most notably strong defenses and offenses replacing a lot of starters.

All games at 7 p.m.

Thursday’s game

North Central at Acadiana Christian

Friday’s games

Acadiana at Central Lafayette at Live Oak Lafayette Renaissance at Karr Northside at Cecilia Carencro at Lafayette Christian New Iberia at Mansﬁeld Brother Martin at Southside Teurlings at St. Thomas More North Vermilion at St. Martin’s Rayne at Crowley Westminster-LAF at Acadiana Renaissance Westgate at Liberty Beau Chene at East Iberville Breaux Bridge at Opelousas Catholic Opelousas at Pineville Church Point at Jennings Bunkie at Eunice JS Clark at Iota Northwest at Notre Dame Welsh at Abbeville Erath at Loreauville Kaplan at Ascension Episcopal St. Martinville at Franklin Vermilion Catholic at Catholic-NI Hanson at Delcambre St. Edmund at West St. John Westminster at Kentwood Patterson at Jeanerette

STAFF FILE PHOTO By BRAd KEMP

St. Thomas More defender Landen Ortte knocks the ball loose from Teurlings Catholic wide receiver Andrew Viator during their game on Oct. 31 at Teurlings. The two teams meet again Friday night at St. Thomas More. Teurlings has nine new starters on offense, including senior quarterback Austin Calandra. After scrimmage and a jamboree, Courville said he’s pleased with the progress the offense has

made. “We have new starters pretty much at every spot. I thought we’ve competed very well in terms of our scrimmage against Carencro,” Courville said. “Then I

thought they rose to the occasion against Acadiana last week. I do think we’re a little further along than I anticipated. “It’s still going to obviously be a battle Friday, but I do have some confidence in our offense that they have the ability to score some points and be productive.” Similarly, the Cougars will start new quarterback Greyson Hemard, who won the job over four other candidates. “When we are taking about new starters, it really is nothing new for us or for Teurlings, because the culture has been built and the expectation is for the next guy to

step in,” Savoie said. A year ago, the Rebels defeated the Cougars 38-14 for their first win over STM since 2015. But Courville doesn’t want his team focusing on that. “Before last year, it had been a while that we had success against them,” Courville said. “Now we have a little bit of conﬁdence, and the kids can believe that they can go and do it. But last year’s game has no bearing on this year.” Excelling at the little things and being efficient on third downs is something both Courville and Savoie agree could decide who wins the game. “Look at last year’s game and third downs were huge,” Savoie said. “I can think of some third and shorts that we weren’t able to convert. A lot of that has to do with focus and assignments. In that moment, can you still get your job done at a high level and be able to convert third downs? I think that is going to be a big determining factor in the game.” Courville agreed. “It’ll come down to who makes big plays in crucial moments,” he said. “There’s going to be some big third downs and some fourth downs in this game. But also, who can protect the football. If one defense takes it away better than the other, that could be a deciding factor. The vast majority of these games have been close, so it’ll come down to who rises up to the challenge.”

SCOREBOARD Holes-in-one Max Lewis

Course: The University Club Hole: No. 16 Yardage: 132 yards Club: Pitching Wedge Witnesses: Scott Perrilloux, Donnie Doyle, Bobby Lormand

Marty Lensing

Course: The University Club Hole: No. 8 Yardage: 127 yards Club: 9 iron Witnesses: Mike Creed & Brad Bourg

Friday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at E. MICH 4 3 (56½)San Jose St at PURDUE 30½ 35½ (55½) Indiana St. at GEORGIA ST 26½ 28½ (62½) NC A&T at KANSAS 40½ 41½ (54½) LIU Post at OKLAHOMA 40½ 40½ (51½) UTEP at MICH ST 10½ 9½ (46½) Toledo at USC 23½ 21½ (51½) Fresno St Miami (FL) 22 24½ (47½) at STNFRD

Saturday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at UCONN 21½ 19½ (52½) Lafayette at SYRACUSE 27½ 33½ (55½) New Hamp at B. GREEN 1½ 2½ (47½) Tarletn St. at J. MADISON 6 6½ (50½) Liberty at NEBRASKA 23½ 23½ (46½) Ohio at HOUSTON 18½ 20½ (49½) Oregon St. at ALABAMA 26½ 27½ (52½) E. Carolina at INDIANA 40½ 40½ (56½) N. Texas at ARMY 37½ 36½ (51½) Bryant at WEST VA 17½ 21 (56½) C. Carolina at PITTS 15½ 16½ (47½)Miami (OH) at OHIO STATE 50½ 50½ (56½) Ball State at S. CAROLINA 34½ 35½ (54½) Kent State at IOWA STATE 30½ 29½ (53½) Smsu at KENTUCKY 27½ 22½ (62½)Yngstwn St at AIR FORCE 23½ 28½ (58½) Duquesne at TEMPLE 12½ 14½ (51½) R. Island at GEORGIA 48½ 46½ (54½) Tenn St. at CHARLOTTE 17½ 20½ (46½) Citadel at UTSA 27½ 28½ (59½) Utrgv at AUBURN 7 7½ (58½) Baylor at NDSU 35½ 41½ (56½) Fordham at NAVY 30½ 30½ (49½) Towson at CINCINNATI 7½ 7½ (50½) B. College at DUKE 9½ 7½ (51½) Tulane at OREGON 24½ 24½ (51½) Boise St. at TEXAS 30½ 29½ (59½)Texas State at TENNESSEE 47½ 46½ (66½) Furman at APP ST 22½ 19½ (53½) Maine at PENN ST 23½ 24½ (52½) Marshall Oklahoma St 12½ 13½ (59½) at TULSA at IOWA 30½ 31½ (44½) N. Illinois at ARKANSAS 40½ 40½ (63½) N. Albama at SOUTH MISS 23½ 20½ (50½) Alcorn St. at OLD DOM 41½ 40½ (52½) Norfolk St. at CSU 3½ 3 (46½) Wyoming at S. ALABAMA 14½ 12½ (52½) Selu at S. FLORIDA 12½ 14½ (51½) Florida Intl at M. TENN 25½ 20½ (57½) Murray St. at KANSAS ST 41½ 40½ (54½)Nicholls St. at UTAH ST. 23½ 14½ (62½) Idaho St. at JAX ST. 20½ 20½ (54½) E. Kentcky at VANDERBILT 35½ 29½ (60½) A. Peay at TEXAS A&M 38½ 40½ (53½)Missouri St. at GA SOUTRN 26½ 25½ (51½)C. Southern at TEX TECH 41½ 42½ (59½) A. Chrstian at RICE 21½ 22½ (47½)Hou Chrstn at TROY 17½ 16½ (54½) Sam Hou at MEMPHIS 10½ 11½ (52½) Arknsas St at MICHIGAN 26½ 27½ (49½) W. Mich at MISS ST. 28½ 28½ (54½) UL Monroe at LSU 11½ 10 (50½) Clemson at VA TECH 47½ 55½ (61½) VMI at LA TECH 40½ 44½ (55½)Nrtwstrn St at FLORIDA 26½ 26½ (59½) Florida Atl at NRTWSTRN 15½ 13½ (46½) Sdsu at UL 17½ 20½ (48½) Lamar at MARYLAND 41½ 45½ (56½) Hampton at BYU 47½ 51½ (61½) Utah Tech at NEW MEX ST23½ 28½ (52½)Mercyhurst at ARIZONA 29½ 31½ (58½) N. Arizona at SDSU 40½ 40½ (61½) Portlnd St UNLV 1½ 3½ (56½) at HAWAII at ARIZONA ST 42½ 43½ (52½) Morgan St at NEW MEX 12½ 10½ (46½) C. Mich at SAC ST 32½ 37½ (56½) Mvsu W. Kentucky 3 1½ (52½) at NEVADA UCLA 1½ 1½ (53½) at CAL FAVORITE at WASH at N.D. at OLE MISS

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 21½ 23½ (50½) Wash St 20½ 20½ (46½) Wisconsin 6½ 6½ (55½) Louisville

FAVORITE SMU

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 2½ 3 (53½) at FSU

MLB

Friday

American League FAVORITE LINE at CLEVELAND OFF Boston -119 at CLEVELAND OFF at WHITE SOX -131 Tampa Bay -124 at KANSAS CITY OFF at SEATTLE OFF National League FAVORITE LINE Milwaukee -162 -111 Atlanta at MIAMI OFF

UNDERDOG LA Angels Arizona at SAN DIEGO

LINE +164 +113 +110

Pro basketball

x-Atlanta x-Indiana x-New York x-Washington Chicago Toronto Connecticut

W 26 26 24 24 15 11 10

L 14 14 16 16 25 29 30

Pct .650 .650 .600 .600 .375 .275 .250

GB — — 2 2 11 15 16

x-Minnesota x-Golden State x-Las Vegas x-Dallas Portland Los Angeles Phoenix Seattle

W 31 29 27 24 16 15 14 8

L 9 11 13 16 24 25 26 32

Pct .775 .725 .675 .600 .400 .375 .350 .200

GB — 2 4 7 15 16 17 23

WESTERN CONFERENCE

x-clinched playoff spot Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled.

Thursday’s Games No games scheduled.

Friday’s Games

No games scheduled.

LINE OFF +100 OFF +110 +104 OFF OFF

UNDERDOG LINE at CINCINNATI +135 at PHILA -108 Chi Cubs OFF

Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York

W 83 79 71 67 63

Central Division

Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati

West Division

W 87 78 70 69 67

Los Angeles Arizona San Diego San Francisco Colorado

W 82 74 73 58 54

L 57 61 69 75 77

Pct .593 .564 .507 .472 .450

GB — 4 12 17 20

L 53 62 70 72 73

Pct .621 .557 .500 .489 .479

GB — 9 17 18½ 20

Pct .590 .525 .521 .411 .386

GB — 9 9½ 25 28½

Wednesday’s Games

L 57 67 67 83 86

Cincinnati 7, San Diego 3 Atlanta 9, Washington 0 Arizona 1, Philadelphia 0 Colorado 6, Baltimore 5, 11 innings N.Y. Mets 10, Tampa Bay 4 San Francisco 5, Pittsburgh 4, 10 innings Miami 9, Kansas City 6 Milwaukee 9, Chicago Cubs 5 St. Louis 8, L.A. Dodgers 6, 10 innings

Milwaukee (Drohan 7-5) at Cincinnati (Lowder 6-8), 5:10 p.m. Atlanta (Sale 13-9) at Philadelphia (Sánchez 16-4), 5:40 p.m. L.A. Angels (Johnson 3-7) at Pittsburgh (Jones 2-6), 5:45 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Imanaga 8-10) at Miami (Junk 6-8), 6:10 p.m. San Francisco (Wilkinson 0-2) at N.Y. Mets (McLean 10-8), 6:10 p.m. Arizona (Kelly 9-12) at Houston (Javier 1-5), 7:10 p.m. St. Louis (Leahy 10-4) at Colorado (Feltner 5-9), 7:40 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Fried 4-4) at San Diego (Buehler 8-6), 8:40 p.m. Washington (Kent 1-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Snell 2-1), 9:10 p.m.

New England at Seattle, 7:20 p.m.

Thursday’s Games

San Francisco vs L.A. Rams at Melbourne, VIC, 7:35 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Atlanta at Pittsburgh, noon Baltimore at Indianapolis, noon Buffalo at Houston, noon Chicago at Carolina, noon Cleveland at Jacksonville, noon N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, noon New Orleans at Detroit, noon Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, noon Arizona at L.A. Chargers, 3:25 p.m. Green Bay at Minnesota, 3:25 p.m. Miami at Las Vegas, 3:25 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 3:25 p.m. Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 7:20 p.m.

College football

Monday’s Games

Denver at Kansas City, 7:15 p.m.

College Football Schedule

Major League Baseball

Thursday’s games EAST

American League Tampa Bay New York Boston Toronto Baltimore

W 83 80 75 70 69

L 56 60 65 71 71

Pct .597 .571 .536 .496 .493

GB — 3½ 8½ 14 14½

Chicago Cleveland Minnesota Detroit Kansas City

W 73 70 67 64 62

L 67 70 73 75 78

Pct .521 .500 .479 .460 .443

GB — 3 6 8½ 11

Houston Texas Seattle Athletics Los Angeles

W 72 69 66 54 53

L 69 71 74 86 87

Pct .511 .493 .471 .386 .379

GB — 2½ 5½ 17½ 18½

West Division

East Division

Friday’s Games

Wednesday’s Games

Central Division

National League

Pittsburgh 5, San Francisco 2 Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, n Miami at Kansas City, n St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, n

NFL Glance

East Division

Toronto (Taillon 2-6) at Kansas City (Lynch 4-4), 7:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Fried 4-4) at San Diego (Buehler 8-6), 8:40 p.m. Athletics (Ginn 9-8) at Seattle (Gilbert 11-8), 9:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games

Pro football

Wednesday’s Games

Athletics 9, Texas 2 Colorado 6, Baltimore 5, 11 innings Seattle 8, Boston 3 Toronto 11, Cleveland 0 N.Y. Mets 10, Tampa Bay 4 Houston 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Miami 9, Kansas City 6 Detroit 11, Minnesota 6, 12 innings N.Y. Yankees 6, L.A. Angels 3, 10 innings

Thursday’s Games

Houston 6, Chicago White Sox 2 Toronto 6, Cleveland 3 Boston at Baltimore, n Miami at Kansas City, n Tampa Bay at Texas, n Athletics at Seattle, n

Friday’s Games UNDERDOG Detroit at BALTIMORE Detroit Minnesota at TEXAS Toronto Athletics

+153 OFF OFF

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Sports Betting Line

Monday

San Fran St. Louis Washington

WNBA Glance

Odds

Sunday

at N.Y METS -185 at COLORADO OFF at LA DODGERS OFF Interleague FAVORITE LINE at PITTSBURGH -198 at HOUSTON -134 N.Y Yankees -132

Detroit (Montero 9-8) at Cleveland (Grifﬁn 15-4), 1:10 p.m., 1st game L.A. Angels (Johnson 3-7) at Pittsburgh (Jones 2-6), 5:45 p.m. Boston (Suarez 5-4) at Baltimore (Baz 5-14), 6:05 p.m. Detroit (Sears 0-1) at Cleveland (TBD), 6:15 p.m., 2nd game Minnesota (Matthews 9-8) at Chicago White Sox (Fedde 7-8), 6:40 p.m. Tampa Bay (Martinez 13-4) at Texas (Rocker 5-10), 7:05 p.m. Arizona (Kelly 9-12) at Houston (Javier 1-5), 7:10 p.m.

Umass at Rutgers, n Merrimack at Delaware, n Lindenwood (Mo.) at Stony Brook, n Albany (NY) at Buffalo, n

SOUTH

Kentucky Christian at Morehead St. , n Akron at Wake Forest, n Bethune-Cookman at UCF, n S. Illinois at Samford, n West Georgia at Kennesaw St. , n Colorado at Georgia Tech, n

MIDWEST

Ark.-Pine Bluff at Missouri, n E. Illinois at Minnesota, n UAB at Illinois, n

FAR WEST

Idaho at Utah, n

Friday’s games EAST

Franklin Pierce (0-0) at Marist (0-1), 6 p.m.

SOUTH

NC A&T (0-1) at Georgia St. (0-0), 6 p.m. MIDWEST San Jose St. (0-1) at E. Michigan (1-0), 6:30 p.m. Indiana St. (0-1) at Purdue (0-0), 6 p.m. LIU Brooklyn (0-1) at Kansas (0-0), 7 p.m. Toledo (0-0) at Michigan St. (0-0), 7 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

UTEP (0-0) at Oklahoma (0-0), 7 p.m.

FAR WEST

Fresno St. (0-0) at Southern Cal (1-0),89 p.m. Miami (0-0) at Stanford (1-0), 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games EAST

S. Connecticut (0-0) at Wagner (0-1), 11 a.m. Lafayette (0-0) at Uconn (0-0), 11 a.m. New Hampshire (0-1) at Syracuse (0-0), 11 a.m. Stonehill (0-1) at New Haven (1-0), 11 a.m. Bryant (1-0) at Army (0-0), 11 a.m. Coastal Carolina (0-0) at West Virginia (0-0), 11 a.m. Miami (Ohio) (0-0) at Pittsburgh (0-0), 11:30 a.m. Lehigh (1-0) at Georgetown (0-0), 11:30 a.m. Holy Cross (0-1) at Colgate (1-0), noon Rhode Island (1-0) at Temple (0-0), 1 p.m. Sacred Heart (0-0) at Monmouth (NJ) (0-1), 1 p.m. Towson (0-1) at Navy (0-0), 2:30 p.m. Marshall (0-0) at Penn St. (0-0), 2:30 p.m.

W. Virginia St. (0-0) at Robert Morris (1-0), 5 p.m. Richmond (1-0) at Howard (1-0), 5 p.m. Villanova (0-1) at Bucknell (0-1), 5 p.m. Hampton (1-0) at Maryland (0-0), 7 p.m.

SOUTH

Webber International (0-0) at Stetson (0-1), 10 a.m. Liberty (0-0) at James Madison (0-0), 11 a.m. East Carolina (0-0) at Alabama (0-0), 11 a.m. Kent St. (0-0) at South Carolina (0-0), 11:45 a.m. Youngstown St. (1-0) at Kentucky (0-0), noon Gardner-Webb (0-1) at Wofford (1-0), 12:30 p.m. Tennessee St. (0-1) at Georgia (0-0), 2 p.m. The Citadel (0-1) at Charlotte (0-0), 2:30 p.m. Auburn (0-0) vs. Baylor (0-0) at Atlanta, 2:30 p.m. W. Carolina (1-0) at Campbell (1-0), 2:30 p.m. Tulane (0-0) at Duke (0-0), 2:30 p.m. Furman (1-0) at Tennessee (0-0), 2:30 p.m. Maine (1-0) at Appalachian St. (0-0), 2:30 p.m. Alcorn St. (1-0) at Southern Miss. (0-0), 4 p.m. Tusculum (0-0) at ETSU (0-1), 4:30 p.m. Delaware St. (1-0) at William & Mary (1-0), 5 p.m. Presbyterian (1-0) at Mercer (1-0), 5 p.m. Norfolk St. (1-0) at Old Dominion (0-0), 5 p.m. Tennessee Tech (1-0) at Chattanooga (1-0), 5 p.m. Elizabeth City St. (0-0) at NC Central (0-1), 5 p.m. Elon (1-0) at Davidson (0-1), 5 p.m. Lane (0-0) at Alabama St. (1-0), 5 p.m. Central St. (Ohio) (0-0) at Grambling St. (1-0), 6 p.m. SE Louisiana (0-1) at South Alabama (0-0), 6 p.m. FIU (0-0) at South Florida (0-0), 6 p.m. Murray St. (0-1) at Middle Tennessee (0-0), 6 p.m. Chicago State Cougars (0-1) at UT Martin (0-1), 6 p.m. E. Kentucky (0-1) at Jacksonville St. (0-1), 6 p.m. Kentucky St. (0-0) at Southern U. (0-1), 6 p.m. Austin Peay (1-0) at Vanderbilt (0-0), 6 p.m. Charleston Southern (0-1) at Georgia Southern (0-0), 6 p.m. Miles (0-1) at Alabama A&M (0-1), 6 p.m. Edward Waters (0-0) at Jackson St. (1-0), 6 p.m. Sam Houston St. (0-0) at Troy (0-0), 6 p.m. Arkansas St. (0-0) at Memphis (1-0), 6 p.m. Texas Wesleyan (0-0) at McNeese St. (0-1), 6 p.m. Louisiana-Monroe (0-0) at Mississippi St. (0-0), 6:30 p.m. Clemson (0-0) at LSU (0-0), 6:30 p.m. VMI (0-1) at Virginia Tech (0-0), 6:30 p.m. Northwestern St. (0-1) at Louisiana Tech (0-0), 6:30 p.m. FAU (0-0) at Florida (0-0), 6:45 p.m. Lamar (1-0) at Louisiana-Lafayette (0-0), 7 p.m.

MIDWEST

Tarleton St. (1-0) at Bowling Green (0-0), 11 a.m. Ohio (0-0) at Nebraska (0-0), 11 a.m. North Texas (0-0) at Indiana (0-0), 11 a.m. Ball St. (0-0) at Ohio St. (0-0), 11:30 a.m. SE Missouri (1-0) at Iowa St. (0-0), noon Fordham (0-1) at N. Dakota St. (1-0), 2:30 p.m. Boston College (0-0) at Cincinnati (0-0), 2:30 p.m. St. Thomas (Minn.) (1-0) at North Dakota (1-0), 3 p.m. N. Illinois (0-0) at Iowa (0-0), 3:15 p.m. Nicholls (1-0) at Kansas St. (0-0), 6 p.m. Illinois St. (1-0) at W. Illinois (1-0), 6 p.m. W. Michigan (0-0) at Michigan (0-0), 6:30 p.m. S. Dakota St. (1-0) at Northwestern (0-0), 7 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

Oregon St. (0-0) at Houston (0-0), 11 a.m. UT Rio Grande Valley (1-0) at UTSA (0-0), 2:30 p.m. Texas State (0-0) at Texas (0-0), 2:30 p.m. Oklahoma St. (0-0) at Tulsa (0-0), 2:45 p.m. North Alabama (1-0) at Arkansas (0-0), 3:15 p.m. West Florida (1-0) at Cent. Arkansas (1-0), 6 p.m. Missouri St. (0-0) at Texas A&M (0-0), 6 p.m. Abilene Christian (0-1) at Texas Tech (0-0), 6 p.m. Houston Christian (1-0) at Rice (0-0), 6 p.m. East Texas A&M (0-1) at Stephen F. Austin (1-0), 7 p.m.

FAR WEST

Duquesne (0-0) at Air Force (0-0), noon Drake (0-1) at Montana (1-0), 2 p.m. Boise St. (0-0) at Oregon (0-0), 2:30 p.m. Wyoming (0-0) at Colorado St. (0-0), 5 p.m. Idaho St. (1-0) at Utah St. (0-0), 6 p.m. N. Iowa (0-0) at E. Washington (0-1), 6 p.m. South Dakota (1-0) at N. Colorado (0-1), 7 p.m. Cent. Washington (0-0) at Cal Poly (1-0), 7 p.m. Weber St. (1-0) at S. Utah (0-1), 7 p.m. Utah Tech (0-1) at BYU (0-0), 7 p.m. Butler (1-0) at Montana St. (1-0), 7:30 p.m. Mercyhurst (0-1) at New Mexico St. (0-1), 8 p.m. N. Arizona (1-0) at Arizona (0-0), 8:30 p.m. Portland St. (0-1) at San Diego St. (0-0), 8:30 p.m. UNLV (0-1) at Hawaii (0-1), 9 p.m. UC Davis (1-0) at San Diego (0-0), 9 p.m. Morgan St. (1-0) at Arizona St. (0-0), 9 p.m. Cent. Michigan (0-0) at New Mexico (0-0),

9 p.m. MVSU (0-1) at Sacramento St. (0-1), 9 p.m. W. Kentucky (0-0) at Nevada (0-0), 9:30 p.m. UCLA (0-0) at California (0-0), 9:30 p.m. Sunday, September 6 SOUTH Florida A&M (1-0) vs. SC State (1-0) at Miami Gardens, Fla., 2 p.m. Mississippi (0-0) vs. Louisville (0-0) at Nashville, Tenn., 6:30 p.m.

MIDWEST

Notre Dame (0-0) vs. Wisconsin (0-0) at Green Bay, Wis., 6:30 p.m. SOUTHWEST Texas Southern (1-0) at Prairie View (0-1), 11 a.m.

FAR WEST

Washington St. (0-0) at Washington (0-0), 3 p.m.

Monday’s games SOUTH

SMU (0-0) at Florida St. (1-0), 6:30 p.m.

Transactions Major League Baseball

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent SS Luis Vázquez outright to Norfolk (IL). SEATTLE MARINERS — Sent RF Connor Joe and RHP Nolan Kingham outright to Tacoma (PCL). TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent 2B Luis Urías on a rehab assignment to Dunedin (IL). National League MIAMI MARLINS — Designated 3B Leo Jiménez for assignment. Recalled 3B Deyvison De Los Santos from Jacksonville (IL). NEW YORK METS — Claimed RHP Cameron Weston off waivers from Baltimore. Designated C Shawn Ross for assignment. Optioned RHP Cameron Weston to Syracuse (IL). PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled RHPs Khristian Curtis and Wilber Dotel from Indianapolis (IL). Optioned LHP Evan Sisk to Indianapolis. Placed RHP Kirby Yates on the 15-day IL retroactive to August 31. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Transferred RHP Keaton Winn to the 60-day IL. Claimed 3B Brett Harris off waivers from Boston. Optioned 3B Brett Harris to Sacramento (PCL).

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS — Re-signed G Amen Thompson to a rookie scale extension.

FOOTBALL

National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed WR Michael Wilson to a three-year contract extension. Signed CB D’Shawn Jamison to the practice squad. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed CB Ladarius Webb Jr. and OL Chuma Edoga to the practice squad. Released C Nick Dawkins and CB Amani Oruwariye from the practice squad. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed RB Ahmani Marshall to the practice squad. Released OL Isaia Glass from the practice squad. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed CB Michael Coats Jr. to the practice squad. HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed OT Max Pircher to the practice squad. LOS ANGELES RAMS — Signed LB Jamie Sheriff to the practice squad. Released DT Tim Keenan III from the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed S Elliott Davison to the practice squad. Released DT Jalen Hunt from the practice squad. NEW YORK JETS — Waived TEs Chase Curtis and Connor Hulstein from injured reserve with settlements. Signed OL Brant Banks to the practice squad. Released OL Marquis Hayes from the practice squad. Released LB Mykal Walker with an injury settlement. Waived/injured RB Dominic Richardson. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed OT Bobby Hart to the practice squad. Released DT Uso Seumalo from the practice squad.

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Major League Soccer FC CINCINNATI — Acquired D Julián Malatini on loan from SV Werder Bremen (Bundesliga). D.C. UNITED — Loaned G Jordan Farr to Loudoun United FC (USL Championship). HOUSTON DYNAMO FC — Signed F Lyle Foster on loan from Burnley FC (English League Championship). INTER MIAMI CF — Aoaned D Noah Allen to Chicago Fire FC through the conclusion of the 2026 MLS season. Signed MF Matías Galarza on loan from CA River Plate (Liga Profesional de Fútbol) through the conclusion of the 2026 Major League Soccer season, with a buy option at the conclusion of the loan. LA GALAXY — Loaned F Ruben Ramos Jr. to Sporting KC through the 2027 MLS sprint season in exchange for $75,000 in 2026 general allocation money (GAM). Acquired MF Pablo Ruiz from Real Salt Lake for $400,000 in 2027 (GAM). LAFC — Acquired F Thayllon Roberth on loan from Avaí FC (Brazilian Série B side) through June 2027 with an option to purchase. MINNESOTA UNITED FC — Acquired D Cherrion Valerius on loan from NAC Breda (Eerste Divisie) through the end of 2026, with a permanent transfer option. NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Acquired D Joshua Wynder on a year-long loan from SL Benﬁca (Liga Portugal) through the end of the 2027 MLS sprint season. REAL SALT LAKE — Permanently acquired MF Dušan Žagar via transfer from FK IMT Belgrade (Serbian SuperLiga). Acquired a 2026 international roster slot from Philadelphia Union in exchange for $170,000 in 2026 general allocation money (GAM).

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ovie theaters are transitioning this week from a red-hot summer to a quieter fall. Summer 2026 yielded the blockbusters “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey” and hits “Michael,” “Toy Story 5,” “Obsession” and “Backrooms.” With school back in session, now there’s room for less bombastic and relatively serious ﬁlms, such as recent ﬁlm festival favorites. Even so, action, animated adventure and horror are all still on cineplex schedules. Many movies opening in theaters between Friday and Nov. 20 are subsequently listed.

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genetically engineered super soldiers goes rogue, forcing an ex-Army sniper (Adria Arjona) to unleash a one-woman war against them.

Bullock and Nicole Kidman conjure an encore to their 1998 romantic comedy with witches.

special forces officer (Brad Pitt) and his combat dog are stranded in the Alaskan wilderness.

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“PRIMETIME”: Robert Pattinson stars as the dangerously ambitious host of the reality TV series “To Catch a Predator.”

“ONSLAUGHT”: A squad of

Soberano and Lea Salonga.

“PRACTICAL MAGIC 2”: Sandra “HEART OF THE BEAST”: A

“RESIDENT EVIL”: In this “Resident Evil” remake, a “HOPE”: Local hunters become medical courier (Austin Abrams) “YOUR MOTHER YOUR unexpectedly embarks on a the hunted after they track a MOTHER YOUR MOTHER”: nonstop, horrifying race for survival. mysterious beast that attacked Mahershala Ali plays a devoutly their village. Featuring Hwang Junreligious man desperately trying Ming,Alicia Vikander and Michael SEPT. 25 to protect his children. Opens in Fassbender. “FORGOTTEN ISLAND”: An limited release, expands Oct. 9 animated adventure in which and goes wide on Oct. 16. SEPT. 11 friends Jo and Raissa enter a “THE UPRISING”: Andrew Garfield portal that transports them to OCT. 2 stars as the leader of a revolt against the magical island their Filipino “DIGGER”: Tom Cruise, as the families told stories about. England’s tyrannical King Richard ä See MOVIES, page 6C Voice talent includes H.E.R., Liza II. Co-starring Jamie Bell, Stephen

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State Fair and Boots on the Bayou release music lineups Staff report With the Greater Baton Rouge State Fair and the Boots on the Bayou Music Festival less than two months away, both events have released their music lineups. The State Fair runs Oct. 22-Nov. 1 at Airline Highway Park/Fairgrounds, 16072 Airline Highway, Baton Rouge. Boots on the Bayou is scheduled for Oct. 24-25 at LamarDixon Expo Center, 9039 S. St. Landry Ave., Gonzales. The State Fair music schedule will be:

SUNDAY, NOV. 1 THURSDAY, OCT. 22 Latin Day: TBA Christian Serpas & Ghost Set to perform at Boots on Town: 6:30-8 p.m. the Bayou are: FRIDAY, OCT. 23 n Trace Adkins Blind Ambition: 7 p.m.n Brantley Gilbert 8 p.m. n Justin Moore SATURDAY, OCT. 24 n Priscilla Block I-10 Bound Band: 2 p.m. n Drew Green Lee Serio Band: 5 p.m. n The Hip Abduction Macdaddy: 7:30 p.m. n KG & The Bad Habits SUNDAY, OCT. 25 n Pants Party Uncle Paul: 4 p.m. n Ben Ragsdale Chubby Carrier: 7 p.m. n Parish County Line FRIDAY, OCT. 30 n Willie Pake MTV83: 7 p.m. n Sami G SATURDAY, OCT. 31 n Chase Tyler. Studio 4 Band: 1:30 p.m. Rewind: 4 p.m. For more info, visit gbrsf. Long Neck Society: 7:30 p.m. com and botbmusic.com.

Grammy-winning zydeco musician Chubby Carrier will play the Greater Baton Rouge State Fair at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25.

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Cleaning spray can damage skin off with my finger. — Carole Dear Heloise: I saw the adF., in Jenks, Oklahoma vice to put window-cleanCarol, we touch so many ing spray on your hand to things during the day that get rings off and immediately Googled if this was a we pick up all kinds of bacteria. You might want good idea. It is not! It can to try using a clean be very drying to facial tissue instead the skin. I’d think of your finger. — that using windowHeloise cleaning spray regularly could also Handbag organizer be damaging to the skin. — Carol B., via Dear Heloise: I store Hints from used plastic bags in email Heloise a hanging handbag Carol, great catch, and thank you for organizer. I label pointing this out! I don’t each pocket according to imagine that people would size or style. My labels use a spray of this kind on are: small, medium, large, their skin very often. If flat, zippered and suit. This they did, not only would it makes it easy to find what dry out their skin, it could I need. — Margaret S., in La Mipotentially cloud their rada, California rings with chemicals that Trick-or-treating rules could damage soft stones (such as opals or pearls). Dear Heloise: In a short It might require constant time, kids will be out trickcleaning afterward. — Heor-treating or attending Halloween parties. Havloise ing raised five children, Lipstick removal I know how excited they become over this once-aDear Eloise: To keep lipyear event, but it’s always stick from getting on my a good idea to remind them teeth, I stick my finger in my mouth as if I’m tasting of a few rules ahead of something, then pull it out. time — some for safety Whatever lipstick that’s on and some for politeness: n Never enter a strangthe inside of my lips comes

er’s home. n Face paint is better than a mask because paint won’t slip and cover their eyes. n Remind them to say, “Thank you,” after candy gets placed in their bag. n If you can’t take your child trick-or-treating, see if they can go with an older sibling, a grandparent, or a group of children. Going out alone to trick-or-treat is dangerous. n It might be wise to map out an area they’re allowed to go. In many subdivisions, trick-or-treating is no longer allowed; instead, there might be a party for the youngsters. While I think this is a wonderful idea, I still miss the children who come by and are so proud of their costumes. They’re all giggles and smiles and so excited. How about your readers? Do they still have the old tradition of children going door-to-door on Halloween in their neighborhoods? — Christine K., in Troy, Michigan Send a hint to heloise@ heloise.com.

TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2026. There are 118 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 4, 1949, more than 140 people were injured following a performance by singer Paul Robeson in Peekskill, New York, as an anti-Communist mob attacked departing concertgoers. Also on this date: In 1781, Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers under the leadership of Gov. Felipe de Neve. In 1886, Chiricahua Apache leader Geronimo surrendered to U.S. troops in present-day Arizona after more than two decades of ﬁghting to protect his homeland. In 1888, George Eastman secured a patent for a hand-roll camera and registered the trademark Kodak. In 1944, during World War II, British troops liberated Antwerp, Belgium. In 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus ordered Na-

tional Guardsmen to prevent nine Black students from entering all-White Central High School in Little Rock. In 1972, U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz became the ﬁrst to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games, winning a seventh gold at the Munich Olympics in the 400-meter medley relay. In 1972, the longestrunning game show in U.S. history, “The Price is Right,” debuted on CBS. In 1974, the United States established diplomatic relations with East Germany. In 1998, Google was founded by Stanford University Ph.D. students Sergey Brin and Larry Page. In 2016, elevating the “saint of the gutters” to one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors, Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa, praising her radical dedication to society’s outcasts and her courage in shaming world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created.”

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Continued from page 5C most powerful man in the world, frantically tries to prove he can save the world from the disaster he created. Oscar-winning writer-director Alejandro G. Iñárritu guides an Oscar-winning and -nominated cast including Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg and Jesse Plemons.

In 2018, the Senate Judiciary Committee began confirmation hearings for future Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on a day that saw rancorous exchanges between Democrats and Republicans. In 2024, a 14-year-old student opened fire at a Georgia high school northeast of Atlanta, killing four people and sending students scrambling for shelter. Today’s birthdays: Golf Hall of Famer Raymond Floyd is 84. Golf Hall of Famer Tom Watson is 77. Actor Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs is 73. Actor Khandi Alexander is 69. Actor-comedian Damon Wayans Sr. is 66. Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Piazza is 58. DJmusician-producer Mark Ronson is 51. Actor Wes Bentley is 48. Actor Max Greenfield is 47. Singeractor Beyoncé is 45. Actor-comedian Whitney Cummings is 44. Actor-comedian Kyle Mooney (TV: “Saturday Night Live”) is 42. Actor Victoria Moroles is 30. Singer Mackenzie Sol is 26.

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“TENZING”: A biopic about Tenzing Norgay (Genden Phuntsok), the Himalayan climber who accompanied Edmund Hillary (Tom Hiddleston) on the first climb to the top of Mount Everest. In select theaters Oct. 9 and on Apple TV on Oct. 16. “THE SOCIAL RECKONING”:

Writer-director Adam Sorkin’s followup to “The Social Network.” Frances Haugen plays a Facebook engineer “THE LAST FIRST: WINTER K2”: A who shares company secrets with a Wall Street Journal reporter (Jeremy documentary about the business and Allen White). culture of extreme mountain climbing. In select theaters and on Apple TV on OCT. 16 Oct. 2.

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Jared Crenshaw’s debut EP, ‘Songs for Friends,’ is out on Friday and that calls for party. Michael Scott Boudreaux and James McCann help him celebrate at 8 p.m. Friday at Blue Moon Saloon, Lafayette.

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LIVE MUSIC: Cane River Pecan Company Pie Bar, New Iberia, 5 p.m. LIVE MUSIC: Charley G’s Seafood Grill, Lafayette, 6 p.m. LIVE MUSIC: Jim Deggy’s Brick Oven Pizza & Brewery, Lafayette, 6 p.m. LIVE MUSIC: Prejean’s, Broussard, 6 p.m. SAYLOR BRASSEAUX: Adopted Dog Brewing, Lafayette, 6 p.m. KIP SONNIER: Buck & Johnny’s, Breaux Bridge, 6:30 p.m. JARED CRENSHAW ALBUM RELEASE PARTY FEATURING MICHAEL SCOTT BOUDREAUX + JAMES MCCANN: Blue Moon Saloon, Lafayette, 8 p.m. LIVE MUSIC: The Barrel of Broussard, Broussard, 8 p.m.

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DON FONTENOT BAND: Fred’s, Mamou, 8 a.m. LEROY THOMAS & THE ZYDECO ROADMASTERS: Buck & Johnny’s, Breaux Bridge, 8:30 a.m. CAJUN JAM: Moncus Park, Lafayette, 9 a.m. SATURDAY MORNING JAM SESSIONS: The Savoy Music Center, Eunice, 9 a.m. ZYDECO BREAKFAST: St. Landry Parish Courthouse Square, Opelousas, 9 a.m. CAJUN JAM: Tante Marie, Breaux Bridge, 11 a.m.

MUSIC MOSAIC — A YEAR OF SOUND AND PLACE — MIA MONTERO: Children’s Museum of Acadiana, Lafayette, noon ORIGINAL SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ZYDECO MUSIC FESTIVAL: Yambilee Festival Grounds, Opelousas, noon CAJUN FRENCH MUSIC JAM: Vermilionville Living History Museum & Folklife Park, Lafayette, 1 p.m. BURRIS: Adopted Dog Brewing, Lafayette, 6 p.m. LIVE MUSIC: Charley G’s Seafood Grill, Lafayette, 6 p.m. LIVE MUSIC: Jim Deggy’s Brick Oven Pizza & Brewery, Lafayette, 6 p.m. LIVE MUSIC: Prejean’s, Broussard, 6 p.m. KEN HALLOWAY: Buck & Johnny’s, Breaux Bridge, 6:30 p.m. EVERSTATIC + JADED + LONE JABRONI + GOODBYE ACADEMY: Blue Moon Saloon, Lafayette, 8 p.m. 4-HORSES: La Poussiere Cajun Dancehall, Breaux Bridge, 8 p.m. LIVE MUSIC: The Barrel of Broussard, Broussard, 8 p.m. SMOKECHARMER, CHOKE, LA PHANTOMS: Freetown Boom Boom Room, Lafayette, 8 p.m.

SUNDAY

LIVE MUSIC: Tante Marie, Breaux Bridge,

11 a.m. JAMBALAYA ACOUSTIC MUSIC JAM: Tom’s Fiddle & Bow, Arnaudville, 12:30 p.m. BAL DU DIMANCHE – LANCE GEORGE & SOUTHERN PRESSURE ZYDECO: Vermilionville Living History Museum & Folklife Park, Lafayette, 1 p.m. OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH CASEY COURVILLE: Adopted Dog Brewing, 4 p.m. LIVE MUSIC: Charley G’s Seafood Grill, Lafayette, 6 p.m. CHAS JUSTUS & THE TRAIL DRIVERS: Hideaway on Lee, Lafayette, 7 p.m. JAMIE BERGERON & THE KICKIN’ CAJUNS: Lakeview Park, Eunice, 8 p.m.

MONDAY

PATRICIO LATINO SOLO: Cafe Habana City, Lafayette, 11 a.m. LIVE MUSIC: Charley G’s Seafood Grill, Lafayette, 6 p.m. BLUEGRASS JAM: Cité des Arts, Lafayette, 6:30 p.m.

TUESDAY

LIVE MUSIC: Charley G’s Seafood Grill, Lafayette, 6 p.m. TERRY HUVAL & FRIENDS: Prejean’s Restaurant, Lafayette, 6 p.m. GREENLIGHT SESSIONS OPEN MIC: The Jefferson Street Greenroom, Lafayette, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

DULCIMER JAM: St. Landry Visitor Center, Opelousas, 10 a.m. LIVE MUSIC: Charley G’s Seafood Grill, Lafayette, 6 p.m. MECREDI SHOW FEATURING JUNIOR DUGAS AND ON DA BAYOU: Pelican Park, Carencro, 6 p.m. WANTED WEDNESDAY KARAOKE NIGHT: The Barrel of Broussard, Broussard, 6 p.m. LIVE MUSIC: The Tap Room, Youngsville, 6:30 p.m. CAJUN JAM: Blue Moon Saloon, Lafayette, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY

LADIES NIGHT WITH DJ DONOVAN IN THE MIX: Cowboys Nightclub, Scott, 6 p.m. LIVE MUSIC: Charley G’s Seafood Grill, Lafayette, 6 p.m. THE HAS BEANS: Hideaway on Lee, Lafayette, 7 p.m. KARAOKE PARTY — PANDA ENTERTAINMENT: Black Bull, Youngsville, 8 p.m.

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Farrelly, co-starring Anthony Ippolito, Matt dillon,AnnaSophia Robb,Tracy Letts and Jay duplass. Opens in limited release, expands Nov. 13 and wide release on Nov. 20. “RAMAYANA”: “The Ramayana” is thought to have been written 2,000 years ago by the Indian poet and maharishi Valmiki. Rama, a prince and avatar for the Hindu god of preservation,Vishnu, must rescue his wife, Sita, from the evil King Ravana. Reportedly is the biggest-budgeted Indian film ever.

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“EBENEZER”: Johnny depp portrays Charles dickens’ classic “A Christmas “KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS”: PROVIdEd PHOTO FROM FOCUS FEATURES Carol” character, Ebenezer Scrooge. “VERITY”: Struggling writer Lowen The gonzo horror masterpiece returns daisy Edgar-Jones plays Elinor dashwood in the new adaptation of Jane Supporting cast includes Rupert Grint Ashleigh (dakota Johnson) moves in a 4K restoration assembled from and Ian McKellen. Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility.’ to the remote Crawford estate to the film’s original camera negative “PAPER TIGER”: Two scheming ghostwrite for a famous novelist and based on Russell’s 2004 Josh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue and Jane select theaters Nov. 6 and on Apple brothers played by Adam driver (Anne Hathaway). Intrigue involving director’s cut.Vanessa Redgrave and Levy. TV on Nov. 13. and Miles Teller become entangled the novelist’s husband (Josh Hartnett) Oliver Reed star. “THE CAT IN THE HAT”: dr. with the Russian mafia. Scarlett ensues. OCT. 23 “ONCE UPON A TIME IN Seuss’ most famous creation takes Johansson co-stars. “CLAYFACE”: A horror-revenge story an animated journey through a HARLEM”: A documentary OCT. 9 “HOW TO ROB A BANK”: Bank featuring Tom Rhys Harries in the fantastical new world. Screened with “FJORD”: Palme d’Or winner Cristian shaped from footage filmmaker robbers broadcast their heists via villainous title role. William Greaves shot of a 1972 the animated short “daffy Season.” Mungiu directs this multilingual social media.Their viewers include reunion of artists and intellectuals “KLARA AND THE SUN”: Based drama about a Norwegian woman “CLUB KID”: The arrival of the a veteran FBI agent and ingenious who participated in the Harlem on the novel by Nobel Prize winner who moves to a small coastal town 10-year-old son he never knew software engineer. Cast includes Kazuo Ishiguro and written and with her religious Romanian husband Renaissance. he had stymies a New york club Nicholas Hoult, Pete davidson,Anna directed by Oscar winner Taika Waititi promoter’s nonstop party. Starring “SENSE AND SENSIBILITY”: A and five children. Sawai, Zoe Kravitz and John C. Reily. (“Jojo Rabbit”). Jenna Ortega plays new adaption of Jane Austen’s classic Jordan Firstman and Cara delevingne. “MISTY GREEN”: Written and an “artificial friend” in search of the NOV. 20 directed by Chris Rock,“Misty Green” novel starring daisy Edgar-Jones and perfect home. Mia Tharia and Amy “GHOST SOLDIER”: A former Esmé Creed-Miles. “THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE stars Rosalind Eleazar as an actress special forces officer (Jim Caviezel) Adams co-star. ON THE REAPING”: A starry prequel “STREET FIGHTER”: Street fighters in search of a comeback.Adam reclaims his lethal skills after a to the earlier “Hunger Games” films. driver, daniel Kaluuya,Anna Kendrick Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters powerful corporation looking for NOV. 6 The impressive cast includes Joseph (Noah Centineo) return to combat hyperscale profits stages a hostile and Rock co-star. Opens in limited “BEING HEUMANN”: A Zada, Jesse Plemons, Ralph Fiennes, when they’re recruited for the World takeover of a small town. release. dramatization of the longest Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Elle Warrior Tournament. “OTHER MOMMY”: Jessica occupation of a U.S. federal building “I PLAY ROCKY”: A Sylvester Fanning and Maya Hawke. “WHALEFALL”: A young man is Chastain and New Orleans native Stallone biopic about the actorin history. Cast includes Madeline swallowed, Jonah-style, by a massive delp, Mark Ruffalo, dylan O’Brien and writer’s quest to bring Rocky Balboa Jay duplass are the parents of a girl Email John Wirt at j_wirt@msn. to the screen. directed by Peter com. who encounters a sinister force in the whale. Cast includes Austin Abrams, Ruth Madeley as Judy Heumann. In

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Advertisement for Bids Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the Lafayette Parish School System Purchasing Department at 202 Rue Iberville, Lafayette, LA 70508, or electronically at www. beaconbid.com/solicit ations/lafayette-parishschool-system until 10:00 a.m. CST on September 23, 2026. Bids received after this date and time will not be considered. Delivery to any depart‐ ment other than the Pur‐ chasing Department may result in non-considera‐ tion. Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the LPSS Purchasing Department Conference Room for the following: School Uniforms Bid# 09-27 Sealed bids shall clearly marked:

School Uniforms Bid# 09-27 Bid Opening: September 23, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. CST Addenda, if any, will be www. posted at beaconbid.com/solicit ations/lafayette-parishschool-system. It shall be the responsibility of all prospective bidders to check this website for any addenda issued be‐ fore the bid opening. All bids must be submit‐ ted in accordance with the requirements of the bid documents. No bid may be with‐ drawn for a period of thirty (30) days after the scheduled time for open‐ ing of bids. The Lafayette Parish School System reserves the right to reject all bids and to waive any infor‐ malities or irregularities in bids received when such is in the best inter‐ est of the School System. In accordance with La. R.S. 38:2251, a preference of up to ten percent (10%) may be granted to products manufactured, produced, grown, or as‐ sembled in Louisiana when such products meet or exceed the spec‐ ifications of this bid. Award of this contract is subject to the availability of funds. The Lafayette Parish School System strongly encourages the partici‐ pation of minority-owned and small business en‐ terprises. Lafayette Parish School System Kristie Sam, Purchasing and Procurement Coordinator Advertisement Dates: September 4, 2026 September 11, 2026 199688 Sept. 4, 11, 2t $60.10 PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF YOUNGSVILLE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES DEBRIS REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL STANDBY CONTRACT City of Youngsville, Louisiana seeks sealed proposals from qualified contractors for DISASTER DEBRIS REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL SERVICES con‐ tingent on damages that may be caused by the approach and landfall of a Hurricane or any other natural or man-made dis‐ asters. Sealed proposals will be received on-line at www. centralauctionhouse. com and/or by the City of Youngsville, Attn: City Clerk, 201 Iberia St., Youngsville, LA 70592, no later than 3:00 PM CST on October 2, 2026. Propos‐ als received after the specified time will not be considered. On September 4, 2026, proposers can download all applicable documents through Central Bidding. For questions related to the RFP, contact Nicole Guidry, City Clerk, at nicoleguidry@youngsv illela.gov or 337-856-4181. Office hours are Monday – Friday 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM. Publication Dates: Sep‐ tember 4, 11 & 18, 2026 199598 Sept. 4, 11, 18, 3t $64.18

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that City Ordinance No. CO-075-2026 has been in‐ troduced and is pro‐ posed for adoption by the Lafayette City Coun‐ cil on October 6, 2026, whereby the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government would sell at public auction and public internet auction surplus vehicles, equip‐ ment and other miscella‐ neous movable property which are no longer needed for public pur‐ poses, the following de‐ scribed property, to wit: misc surplus lcg move‐ able property for public auction & public internet auction vehicle #, description, serial/vin 31201705, 2012 chevy tahoe, 1gnlc2e09cr208460 31201739, 2013 chevy tahoe, 1gnlc2e06dr273185 31201804, 2016 ford ex‐ plorer, 1fm5k8ar3g‐ gc60790 31201812, 2016 ford ex‐ plorer, 1fm5k8ar8g‐ gc60798 31201821, 2016 ford ex‐ plorer, 1fm5k8ar5g‐ gc60807 31201903, 2019 dodge charger, 2c3cdx‐ at1kh605666 31201904, 2019 dodge charger, 2c3cdx‐ at2kh605675 31201909, 2019 dodge charger, 2c3cdx‐ at5kh605668 31201914, 2019 dodge charger, 2c3cdx‐ at2kh605661 31201965, 2021 ford ex‐ plorer, 1fm5k8ab7mgc02048 31201980, 2023 ford ex‐ plorer, 1fm5k8ab9p‐ ga19111 31202003, 2023 ford ex‐ plorer, 1fm5k8ab7p‐ ga63639 31202022, 2023 ford ex‐ plorer, 1fm5k8ab9p‐ ga81611 31300002, 2003 ford f250, 1ftnf20l03eb87225 31400192, 2014 chevy im‐ pala, 2g1wd5e39e1153205 51618810, 2011 john deere backhoe, 1t0310jx‐ ea0193282 59112849, 2019 ram 1500, 1c6rr6stxks668376 70060058, 2020 ram 1500, 1c6rr6kg3ls146466 fixed asset description, quantity aed, 1 computer equipment, 9 couch, 1 desktop computer, 87 laptop computer, 371 monitor, 1 paper folder, 1 radio, 2 sandbag filling machine, 2 scanner, 1 server, 5 slab lift, 1 Any opposition to the proposed ordinance shall be made in writing and filed with the Office of the Lafayette Clerk of the Council within 15 days after the first publication of this notice. If an oppo‐ sition is filed, the Lafayette City Council shall not adopt the ordi‐ nance until hearings have been held.

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NOTICE TO PUBLIC NOTICE OF PROPOSED SURPLUS ORDINANCE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Joint Ordinance No. JO-034-2026 has been in‐ troduced and is pro‐ posed for adoption by the Lafayette Parish Council and the Lafayette City Council on October 6, 2026, whereby the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment would sell at public internet auction surplus equipment and other miscellaneous movable property which are no longer needed for public purposes, the following described property, to wit: misc surplus lcg move‐ able property for public internet auction fixed asset description, quantity bookcase, 3 cabinet, 7 chair, 47 charger, 2 computer equipment, 2 desk, 4 desktop computer, 20 laptop computer, 11 monitor, 82 paper folder, 1 printer, 1 projector, 2 scanner, 1 shelf, 1 shredder, 1 supplies, 1 table, 11 Any opposition to the proposed ordinance shall be made in writing and filed with the Office of the Lafayette Clerk of the Council within 15 days after the first publication of this notice. If an oppo‐ sition is filed, the Lafayette City Council shall not adopt the ordi‐ nance until hearings have been held.

/s/ Joseph Gordon-Wiltz JOSEPH GORDON-WILTZ LAFAYETTE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL Publication Dates: Sep‐ tember 4, September 11, September 18, 2026. 199828 Sept. 4, 11, 18, 3t $49.62 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO PUBLIC NOTICE OF PROPOSED SURPLUS ORDINANCE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Parish Ordinance No. PO-039-2026 has been introduced and is pro‐ posed for adoption by the Lafayette Parish Council on October 6, 2026, whereby the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment would sell at public auction and public inter‐ net auction surplus vehi‐ cles, equipment, and other miscellaneous movable property which are no longer needed for public purposes, the fol‐ lowing described prop‐ erty, to wit: misc surplus lcg move‐ able property for public auction & public internet auction vehicle #, description, serial/vin 51713785, 1999 cajunmas‐ ter trailer, 10yus1059xv000262 ﬁxed asset description, quantity bench, 4 chair, 10 copier, 1 desktop computer, 45 laptop computer, 61 radio, 9 table, 4

Publication Dates: Sep‐ tember 4, September 11, September 18, 2026. 199820 Sept. 4, 11, 18, 3t $47.70 PUBLIC NOTICE --THE FOLLOWING DEVELOPMENTS ARE PROPOSED FOR REVIEW BY THE LAFAYETTE PARISH PLANNING COMMISSION ON SEPTEMBER 14, 2026 5:00 P.M. 220 WEST WILLOW STREET BUILDING B* CDP AUDITORIUM APPROVAL OF MEETING ACTION SUMMARY

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2. 2026-50-PC: Donald Landry Tracts 1C & 1D Plat Location: 121 Oyster Lane, Lafayette Parish Proposed Use: 2 Residen‐ tial Lots Surveyor: Andre’ Mon‐ tagnet 3. 2026-55-PC: Estate of Audrey Mae LeBlanc Tract 1-A-1 Plat Location: 100 & 200 Blk of Summers Oak Ln, Lafayette Parish Proposed Use: 1 Residen‐ tial Lot Surveyor: Trevor Evans 4. 2026-56-PC: Chappuis Tract 1 Plat Location: 400 Blk of Lajaunie Rd, Lafayette Parish Proposed Use: 1 Com‐ mercial Lot Surveyor: Adam Meche OTHER BUSINESS 1. Announcements FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT 291-8000 * ALTERNATE MEETING LOCATION IS 220 W. WIL‐ LOW STREET, BUILDING C – TOWN HALL AUDITO‐ RIUM 198836 Sept. 4 1t $17.40

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PUBLIC NOTICE --HEARING EXAMINER AGENDA SEPTEMBER 11, 2026 COMMUNITY DEVELOP‐ MENT AND PLANNING AUDITORIUM 220 WEST WILLOW STREET, BUILDING B 8:30 A.M. I. Call to Order & Intro‐ duction / Morgan Hart II. Development Review 1. Hearing Review No. 2026-74-HE Proposed Plat Name: Lo‐ dias Roy Partition, Tracts 6C-1-A, 6C-2 & 6C-3 Plat Location: 101, 115, & 117 Lodias Rd Jurisdiction: Parish of Lafayette Proposed Use: Residen‐ tial Surveyor: Shawn MacMe‐ namin 2. Hearing Review No. 2026-75-HE Proposed Plat Name: Andre Savoie Subdivi‐ sion, Tracts 2-A-1 & 2-B-1 Plat Location: 4911 NW Evangeline Thwy Jurisdiction: Parish of Lafayette Proposed Use: Commer‐ cial Surveyor: Shawn MacMe‐ namin 3. Hearing Review No. 2026-76-HE Proposed Plat Name: Lo‐ dias Roy Partition, Tracts 6B-1-A, 6B-2, & 6B-3 Plat Location: 127 Lodias Rd Jurisdiction: Parish of Lafayette Proposed Use: Residen‐ tial Surveyor: Shawn MacMe‐ namin 4. Hearing Review No. 2026-77-HE Proposed Plat Name: Hebert, Joseph W., Lot 2A Plat Location: 904 Langli‐ nais Rd Jurisdiction: Parish of Lafayette Proposed Use: Residen‐ tial Surveyor: Jeremy Soirez III. Adjourn 199576 Sept. 4 1t $14.61

PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE The Lafayette City Coun‐ cil and the Lafayette Parish Council each met in Regular Sessions on September 1, 2026 and introduced the following ordinances. JO-031-2026 A joint ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council authorizing the Lafayette Mayor-President to enter into a First Amendment to March 12, 2021 Con‐ tract for Emergency and Non-Emergency Ambu‐ lance Services for the Parish of Lafayette and the City of Lafayette. JO-032-2026 A joint ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council establishing a procedure to sell surplus movable property valued at less than $5,000 no longer needed for a public pur‐ pose through a public in‐ ternet auction. JO-033-2026 A joint ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council suspending Ordinance No. JO-001-2021 which created a conditional two (2%) percent pay in‐ crease structure for em‐ ployees of the Ofﬁce of the City Marshal, for the proposed FY 2026-2027 budget with considera‐ tion given to the City Marshal pay plan to be included in the Amended FY 2026-2027 Proposed Operating and Five-Year Capital Budget docu‐ ment.

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y Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget and ad‐ justing the manning ta‐ bles of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by authoriz‐ ing the use of existing funds in the amount of $2,676 and appropriating within the Department of Innovation and Technol‐ ogy to add one (1) IS&T manager promotion per Civil Service recommen‐ dation.

y Council, acting in their capacity as the govern‐ ing authority of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, re‐ spectively, and jointly, as the governing authority of the Lafayette CityParish Consolidated Gov‐ ernment, that: WHEREAS, a certain ten (10’) foot utility ease‐ ment and associated niches were dedicated to the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, respectively, by that cer‐ tain act of dedication dated November 28, 2016, and recorded under Act No. 2016-00044572 of the Lafayette Parish Con‐ veyance Records, at‐ tached hereto and made a part hereof in Exhibit B; and WHEREAS, a boundary line adjustment of Lots 72 and 73, created Lot 72A of The Vineyard Subdi‐ vision and is clearly shown on a plat of sur‐ vey conveyance pre‐ pared by Joe Maniscalco, Jr., PE/PLS, dated Janu‐ ary 23, 2026, recorded under Act No. 2026-13191, records of Lafayette Parish; and attached hereto and made a part hereof in Exhibit C; and WHEREAS, a portion of a five (5’) foot x five (5’) foot utility niche on Lot 72-A has been proposed for abandonment and is clearly shown on a plat of survey prepared by Joe Maniscalco, Jr., PE/PLS, dated July 01, 2026, attached hereto and made a part hereof in Exhibit D; and WHEREAS, it has been determined by the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, respec‐ tively, and jointly, as the governing authority of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment, that a certain por‐ tion of the five (5’) x five (5’) foot utility niche, as shown in Exhibit D, is no longer needed for public use and, accordingly, it is appropriate that a cer‐ tain portion of the utility easement be abandoned. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Lafayette City Coun‐ cil and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the gov‐ erning authority of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, re‐ spectively, and jointly, as the governing authority of the Lafayette CityParish Consolidated Gov‐ ernment, that: SECTION 1: All of the aforedescribed “Whereas” clauses are adopted as part of this ordinance. SECTION 2: The Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the governing author‐ ity of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, respec‐ tively, and jointly, as the governing authority of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment, hereby abandons that certain portion of the five (5’) x five (5’) foot utility niche, as shown on a plat of sur‐ vey prepared by Joe Maniscalco, Jr., PE/PLS, dated July 01, 2026, at‐ tached hereto and made a part hereof in Exhibit D. SECTION 3: The Lafayette Mayor-President is hereby authorized and empowered to execute an Act of Abandonment on behalf of the City of Lafayette, the Parish of Lafayette, and the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment in order to effectu‐ ate the abandonment of that certain portion of the five (5’) x five (5’) foot utility niche, as shown on a plat of sur‐ vey prepared by Joe Maniscalco, Jr., PE/PLS, dated July 01, 2026, at‐ tached hereto and made a part hereof in Exhibit D. SECTION 4: The Act of Abandonment authorized in Section 3 shall be sub‐ stantially in the form at‐ tached hereto, but may be revised, and may con‐ tain such additional pro‐ visions, as the Lafayette Mayor-President, in con‐ sultation with the

JO-036-2026 A joint ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment by adjusting the manning tables and in‐ creasing the hourly rate of one (1) Clerk II posi‐ tion within the Depart‐ ment of Innovation & Technology. JO-037-2026 A joint ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the governing author‐ ity of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, respec‐ tively, providing for the abandonment of a cer‐ tain portion of a 50’ pub‐ lic right-of-way (Wall Street) located between Lot 13-A and Lot 14-A of the Van-Way, JP Develop‐ ment Ext 1 Subdivision, and authorizing the Lafayette Mayor-Presi‐ dent to execute an Act of Abandonment in order to effectuate the abandon‐ ment on behalf of the City of Lafayette, and Parish of Lafayette, and the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment. JO-038-2026 A joint ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment by authorizing the transfer of $100,000 in HOME funds within the Community Development and Planning Depart‐ ment to Catholic Chari‐ ties of Acadiana. JO-039-2026 A joint ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment by authorizing the transfer of $164,595 in Home American Rescue Plan (HOME-ARP) funds within the Community Development and Plan‐ ning Department to Faith House, Inc. JO-040-2026 A joint ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment by authorizing the transfer of $125,000 in HOME funds within the Community Development and Planning Depart‐ ment to Catholic Chari‐ ties of Acadiana. JO-041-2026 A joint ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment by authorizing the transfer of $220,000 in HOME funds within the Community Development and Planning Depart‐ ment to Lafayette Habi‐ tat for Humanity. The ordinances will ap‐ pear before both the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council for public hear‐ ing and ﬁnal adoption in the Ted A. Ardoin CityParish Council Audito‐ rium located at 705 W. University Avenue, Lafayette, LA on Septem‐ ber 15, 2026, except JO034-2026 which will be considered for ﬁnal adoption on October 6, 2026.

ORDINANCE NO. JO-030-2026 A JOINT ORDINANCE OF THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL AND THE LAFAYETTE PARISH COUNCIL, ACTING IN THEIR CAPACITY AS THE GOVERNING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE AND THE PARISH OF LAFAYETTE, RESPECTIVELY, PROVID‐ ING FOR THE ABANDON‐ MENT OF A PORTION OF A 60' PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY (LIVE OAK BOULEVARD) LOCATED BETWEEN LOTS 53-55 AND LOTS 56-59 OF LIVE OAK PARK SUBDIVI‐ SION, AND AUTHORIZING THE LAFAYETTE MAYORPRESIDENT TO EXECUTE AN ACT OF ABANDON‐ MENT IN ORDER TO EF‐ FECTUATE THE ABAN‐ DONMENT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE, PARISH OF LAFAYETTE, AND THE LAFAYETTE CITY-PARISH CONSOLI‐ DATED GOVERNMENT BE IT ORDAINED by the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the govern‐ ing authority of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, re‐ spectively, and jointly, as the governing authority of the Lafayette CityParish Consolidated Gov‐ ernment, that: WHEREAS, the streets lo‐ cated in Live Oak Park Subdivision were dedi‐ cated to public use by that certain Act of Dedi‐ cation dated January 14, 1955 and recorded under Entry No. 1955-313762 of the Lafayette Parish Con‐ veyance Records; at‐ tached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit B; and WHEREAS, the Live Oak Park Subdivision was later annexed by and into the corporate limits of the City of Lafayette; and WHEREAS, a portion of Live Oak Boulevard, being a 60’ public rightof-way, located between Lots 53-55 and Lots 56-59 of Live Oak Park Subdivi‐ sion in the City of Lafayette, has been pro‐ posed for abandonment and is clearly shown on a plat of survey prepared by Bradford Habetz Mil‐ lett P.L.S. dated Decem‐ ber 15, 2025, attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit C; and WHEREAS, it has been determined by the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the govern‐ ing authority of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, re‐ spectively, and jointly, as the governing authority of the Lafayette CityParish Consolidated Gov‐ ernment, that a portion of Live Oak Boulevard, being a 60’ foot public right-of-way, located be‐ tween Lots 53-55 and Lots 56-59 of Live Oak Park Subdivision in the City of Lafayette is no longer needed for public use and, accordingly, it is appropriate to abandon said portion of Live Oak Boulevard, subject to the conditions detailed herein. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Lafayette City Coun‐ cil and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the gov‐ erning authority of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, re‐ spectively, and jointly, as the governing authority of the Lafayette CityParish Consolidated Gov‐ ernment, that: SECTION 1: All of the aforedescribed “Whereas” clauses are adopted as part of this joint ordinance. SECTION 2: The Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the governing author‐ ity of the City of Lafayette and the Parish f f

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y of Lafayette, respec‐ tively, and jointly, as the governing authority of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment, hereby abandon that certain portion of Live Oak Boulevard, being a 60’ public rightof-way, located between Lots 53-55 and Lots 56-59 of Live Oak Park Subdivi‐ sion in the City of Lafayette, as shown on the plat of survey pre‐ pared by Bradford Ha‐ betz Millett P.L.S. dated December 15, 2025, a copy of which is at‐ tached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit C; said abandonment herein, pursuant to Louisiana law, shall be subject to those certain Utility & Drainage Servi‐ tudes, and the terms and conditions related thereto, as established in that certain Declaration of Utility & Drainage Servitudes by Destina‐ tion of Owner Dated Feb‐ ruary 24, 2026, and recorded under Entry No. 2026-00007322 of the Con‐ veyance Records of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. SECTION 3: The Lafayette Mayor-President is hereby authorized and empowered to execute an Act of Abandonment on behalf of the City of Lafayette, the Parish of Lafayette, and the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment in order to effectu‐ ate the abandonment of that certain portion of Live Oak Boulevard, being a 60’ public rightof-way, located between Lots 53-55 and Lots 56-59 of Live Oak Park Subdivi‐ sion in the City of Lafayette, as shown on the plat of survey pre‐ pared by Bradford Ha‐ betz Millett P.L.S. dated December 15, 2025, a copy of which is at‐ tached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit C. SECTION 4: The Act of Abandonment authorized in Section 3 shall be sub‐ stantially in the form at‐ tached hereto as Exhibit C, but may be revised, and may contain such additional provisions, as the Lafayette MayorPresident, in consulta‐ tion with the Lafayette City-Parish Attorney, may deem necessary, conve‐ nient, or desirable to carry out the intent and provisions of this joint ordinance. SECTION 5: All ordi‐ nances or resolutions, or parts thereof, in conflict herewith are hereby re‐ pealed. SECTION 6: After first having been adopted by a majority of the autho‐ rized membership of both the Lafayette Parish Council and the Lafayette City Council, this joint ordinance shall become effective upon signature of this joint or‐ dinance by the Lafayette Mayor-President, the elapse of ten (10) days after receipt by the Lafayette Mayor-Presi‐ dent without signature or veto, or upon override of a veto, whichever oc‐ curs first. *****

y City Council authorizing the Lafayette City Mar‐ shal to enter into a Coop‐ erative Endeavor Agree‐ ment with the National Heritage Academies, Inc. o/b/o Willow Charter Academy for one (1) School Resource Ofﬁcer to be provided on the campus of Willow Char‐ ter Academy in addition, this agreement will amend the FY 25/26 oper‐ ating budget and adjust the manning tables of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment by adding one (1) new Deputy City Marshal II position and by in‐ creasing revenues in the amount of $7,592 within the Lafayette City Mar‐ shal’s ofﬁce.

/s/ Joseph Gordon-Wiltz JOSEPH GORDON-WILTZ LAFAYETTE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL 199781 Sept. 4 1t $102.51 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE The Lafayette City Coun‐ cil met in Regular Ses‐ sion on September 1, 2026 and introduced the following ordinances. CO-074-2026 An ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council suspending Ordinance No. O-059-2019 which created a condi‐ tional two (2%) percent pay increase structure for the Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service employees of the Lafayette Police Depart‐ ment, for the proposed FY 2026-2027 budget with consideration given to the police and ﬁre plans included in the FY 20262027 proposed operating and ﬁve-year capital budget document. CO-075-2026 An ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council authorizing the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment to sell at public auction and public inter‐ net auction surplus vehi‐ cles, equipment and other miscellaneous movable property which are no longer needed for public purposes, as per the attached list (public auction and public inter‐ net auction). CO-076-2026 An ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette i il h i i

CO-077-2026 An ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council authorizing the Lafayette MayorPresident to execute the agreement for joint use attachments of electric facilities between the City of Lafayette and Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Cor‐ poration. CO-078-2026 An ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council authorizing and directing the Lafayette Mayor-Presi‐ dent to execute and sub‐ mit the “Temporary Housing and Shelter As‐ sistance Program Waiver of Land Use/Permitting Form” in accordance with La. R.S. 29:726(F)(3) (b)(iii)(aa). The ordinances will ap‐ pear before the Lafayette City Council for public hearing and final adop‐ tion in the Ted A. Ardoin City-Parish Council Audi‐ torium located at 705 W. University Avenue, Lafayette, LA on Septem‐ ber 15, 2026, except CO075-2026 which will be considered for final adoption on October 6, 2026. /s/ Joseph Gordon-Wiltz JOSEPH GORDON-WILTZ LAFAYETTE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL 199806 Sept. 4 1t $26.62 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE The Lafayette City Coun‐ cil met in Regular Ses‐ sion on September 1, 2026 and adopted the fol‐ lowing ordinances: CITY ORDINANCE NO. CO-070-2026 AN ORDINANCE OF THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL AMENDING THE LAFAYETTE DEVELOP‐ MENT CODE AND THE OF‐ FICIAL MAP OF THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE, PROVID‐ ING FOR THE ANNEXA‐ TION OF ADDITIONAL LAND INTO THE CORPO‐ RATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA, CASE NO. 2026-15-REZ 200 COUS‐ SAN ROAD (TRACT 1-A) ANNEXATION, LOCATED GENERALLY NORTH OF WEST PONT DES MOUTON ROAD, EAST OF VETERI‐ NARIAN ROAD, AND SOUTH OF COUSSAN ROAD; AND ASSIGNING A ZONING CLASSIFICATION OF RS-1 (RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY) (DIS‐ TRICT 1) BE IT ORDAINED by the Lafayette City Council, that: SECTION 1: The Lafayette Development Code and official map of the City of Lafayette are hereby amended so as to annex Case No. 2026-15-REZ 200 Coussan Road (Tract 1-A) Annexation, located gen‐ erally north of West Pont des Mouton Road, east of Veterinarian Road, and south of Coussan Road; and assigning a zoning classification of RS-1 (Residential Single-Fam‐ ily). Refer to survey “Map of Proposed Extension for City Of Lafayette, Louisiana, Corporate Limits, Located in Sec‐ tions 11, 39 & 41, T9S-R4E 200 Coussan Road (Tract 1-A) Annexation” pre‐ pared by: Lafayette CityParish Consolidated Gov‐ ernment, Lafayette Utili‐ ties System; a copy is at‐ tached hereto and made a part thereof. SECTION 2: The foregoing described property is lo‐ cated within Lafayette City Council District No. 1. SECTION 3: The descrip‐ tion of the property to be annexed is as follows: Beginning at a point on the existing City of Lafayette corporate lim‐ its, said point is the northwesterly property corner of ELIZABETH LYNETTE MARTIN HAYES, the northeasterly center line of Ancois Coulee, and the southerly rightof-way of Coussan Rd, h

The Lafayette Parish Unincorporated Areas Floodplain Management, hereby gives notice of the Lafayette Parish’s intent to revise the flood hazard information, generally located at the northeastern corner of the intersection of Kaliste Saloom Rd & E. Broussard Rd. Specifically, the flood hazard information shall be revised along an unnamed lateral of Isaac Verot Coulee from a point approximately northwest of the intersection of Kaliste Saloom Rd. & E. Broussard Rd. to a point approximately at the end of Gumbo Rd. As a result of the revision, the 1% annual chance floodplain shall be removed within the area of revision. Maps and detailed analysis of the revision can be reviewed at the SPEC, LLC at 107 Nolan Rd, Broussard, LA 70518. Interested persons may call Clay Boudreaux, CFM at 337-291-8468 for additional information. 199313-683310-sep 2-8-7t $ 3,150.00

/s/ Joseph Gordon-Wiltz JOSEPH GORDON-WILTZ LAFAYETTE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL 199794 Sept. 4 1t $49.13 PUBLIC NOTICE ---

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NOTICE The Lafayette City Coun‐ cil and the Lafayette Parish Council each met in Regular Session on September1, 2026 and adopted the following or‐ dinances:

ORDINANCE NO. JO-029-2026

JO-034-2026 A joint ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council authorizing the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government to sell at public internet auction surplus equipment and other miscellaneous movable property which are no longer needed for public purposes, as per the attached list (public internet auction).

A JOINT ORDINANCE OF THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL AND THE LAFAYETTE PARISH COUNCIL, ACTING IN THEIR CAPACITY AS THE GOVERNING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE AND THE PARISH OF LAFAYETTE, RESPECTIVELY, PROVID‐ ING FOR THE ABANDON‐ MENT OF A CERTAIN POR‐ TION OF A FIVE (5’) FOOT X FIVE (5’) FOOT UTILITY NICHE ON LOT 72-A OF THE VINEYARD SUBDIVI‐ SION, LOCATED AT 101 EVERETT RIDGE, AND AU‐ THORIZING THE LAFAYETTE MAYOR-PRES‐ IDENT TO EXECUTE AN ACT OF ABANDONMENT IN ORDER TO EFFECTUATE THE ABANDONMENT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE, AND PARISH OF LAFAYETTE, AND THE LAFAYETTE CITY-PARISH CONSOLIDATED GOVERN‐ MENT

JO-035-2026 A joint ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette City Council and the f i h il

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y thence S86º39’50”E, a distance of approxi‐ mately 435.02’, along the northerly property line of ELIZABETH LYNETTE MARTIN HAYES, and the southerly right-of-way of Coussan Rd, which is also the existing City of Lafayette corporate lim‐ its to a corner point, thence S16º39’23”E, a distance of approxi‐ mately 261.18’, along the easterly property line of ELIZABETH LYNETTE MARTIN HAYES, and the westerly right-of-way of Coussan Rd to a point, thence S14º18’23”W, a approxi‐ distance of mately 161.21’, along the easterly property line of ELIZABETH LYNETTE MARTIN HAYES, and the westerly right-of-way of Coussan Rd to a corner point, thence N86º17’09”W, a distance of approximately 531.05’, along the southerly prop‐ erty line of ELIZABETH LYNETTE MARTIN HAYES (200 Coussan Rd (Tract 1A)), and the northerly li f

y property line of ELIZA‐ BETH LYNETTE MARTIN HAYES (217 Veterinarian Rd) to a corner point, thence N72º44’40”E, a distance of approxi‐ mately 40.13’, N56º28’02”E, a distance of approximately 30.62’, N38º34’40”E, a distance of approximately 81.41’, N37º07’38”E, a distance of approximately 79.97’, N30º53’37”E, a distance of approximately 46.20’, N00º17’11”E, a distance of approximately 20.81’, N24º08’26”W, a distance of approximately 76.49’, N35º38’31”W, a distance of approximately 69.74’, N44º58’50”W, a distance of approximately 76.62’, along the westerly prop‐ erty line of ELIZABETH LYNETTE MARTIN HAYES (200 Coussan Rd (Tract 1A)), and the easterly cen‐ ter line along Ancois Coulee to a corner point, which is also the existing City of Lafayette corpo‐ rate limits and the point of beginning, all as shown on the attached

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incorporation map pre‐ pared by Lafayette City Parish Consolidated Gov‐ ernment - Lafayette Utili‐ ties System, dated May 6, 2026 entitled, MAP OF PROPOSED EXTENSION FOR CITY OF LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA, CORPORATE LIMITS, LOCATED IN SEC‐ TIONS 11, 39 & 41, T9SR4E, 200 COUSSAN RD (TRACT 1-A) ANNEXATION - APPROX. 3.816 ACRES. SECTION 4: All ordi‐ nances or resolutions, or parts thereof, in conﬂict herewith are hereby re‐ pealed. SECTION 5: This ordi‐ nance shall become ef‐ fective upon the elapse of 30 days after publica‐ tion or posting, pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statute 33:173, et seq. *****

IDENT TO ENTER INTO AN ACT OF DEPOSIT ON BE‐ HALF OF THE LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF MOUNTED HORSE LEVI TO LIEUTENANT BRIDGET KARN (POLICE HORSE)

CITY ORDINANCE NO. CO-071-2026 AN ORDINANCE OF THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZING THE LAFAYETTE MAYOR-PRES‐

PROCEEDINGS OF THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, TAKEN AT A REGULAR MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2026 HELD AT 705 W. UNIVERSITY AVENUE, LAFAYETTE, LA. ATTENDANCE

BE IT ORDAINED by the Lafayette City Council, that: WHEREAS, a certain po‐ lice mounted horse, LEVI, in the service of the Lafayette Police Depart‐ ment, can no longer serve as mounted horse and, therefore, is no longer useful or needed for such purposes; and WHEREAS, the Lafayette Police Department wishes to enter into an Act of Deposit wherein the custody and care of mounted horse LEVI is transferred unto Lieu‐ tenant Bridget Karn; and WHEREAS, the Lafayette City Council agrees that this would be in the best interest of mounted horse LEVI; and WHEREAS, the Lafayette City Council wishes to h i h f

Public Notices Meet/Hear/Min y authorize the Lafayette Mayor-President to exe‐ cute any and all docu‐ ments needed to prop‐ erly transfer the custody and care of the mounted horse LEVI to Lieutenant Bridget Karn including, but not limited to, the Act of Deposit, a copy of which is attached hereto and made a part hereof; and accordingly. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Lafayette City Coun‐ cil, that: SECTION 1: All of the aforedescribed “Whereas” clauses are adopted as part of this ordinance. SECTION 2: The Lafayette Mayor-President, Monique B. Boulet, be and she is hereby autho‐ rized to execute any and all documents needed to properly transfer the custody and care of the mounted horse LEVI to Lieutenant Bridget Karn including, but not limited to, the Act of Deposit. SECTION 3: All ordi‐ nances or resolutions, or

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parts thereof, in conﬂict herewith are hereby re‐ pealed. SECTION 4: This ordi‐ nance shall become ef‐ fective upon signature of the Lafayette MayorPresident, the elapse of ten (10) days after re‐ ceipt by the Lafayette Mayor-President without signature or veto, or upon override of a veto, whichever occurs ﬁrst. *****

DEPARTMENT OF EN‐ ERGY'S GRID DEPLOY‐ MENT OFFICE FOR THE SYSTEM HARDENING AND RESILIENCY PROJECT UNDER SECTION 40101(D) OF THE BIPARTISAN IN‐ FRASTRUCTURE LAW AND APPROPRIATING WITHIN THE UTILITIES DEPART‐ MENT

CITY ORDINANCE NO. CO-072-2026 AN ORDINANCE OF THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL AMENDING THE FY 25/26 OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET OF THE LAFAYETTE CITY-PARISH CONSOLIDATED GOVERN‐ MENT BY INCREASING REVENUES IN THE AMOUNT OF $3,982,500 AWARDED THROUGH A FEDERAL SUB-AWARD GRANT AGREEMENT AD‐ MINISTERED BY THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ENERGY UNDER THE U.S.

YEAS: Broussard, Naquin, Hebert, Hooks, Boudreaux NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to adopt was approved.

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF: Monique B. Boulet (Mayor-President), Rachel Godeaux (Chief Administrative Officer), Karen Fontenot (Chief Financial Officer), Robbie Mahtook (City-Parish Attorney) and Paul Escott (Assistant City-Parish Attorne

AGENDA ITEM NO. 9: JO-030-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the governing authority of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, respectively, providing for the abandonment of a portion of a 60’ public right-of-way (Live Oak Boulevard) located between Lots 53-55 and Lots 56-59 of Live Oak Park Subdivision, and authorizing the Lafayette MayorPresident to execute an Act of Abandonment in order to effectuate the abandonment on behalf of the City of Lafayette, Parish of Lafayette, and the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government, motion to adopt by Hebert, seconded by Naquin, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Broussard, Naquin, Hebert, Hooks, Boudreaux NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to adopt was approved.

(5:36:00) COMMENCEMENT

Two (2) citizens signed in support of the item.

Call to order

Reverend John A. Cannon signed in to speak but only if there were questions and he submitted a seven (7) page master plan to the Council.

COUNCIL: Kenneth Boudreaux (Chair, District 5), Liz Hebert (Vice-Chair, District 3), Elroy Broussard (District 1), Andy Naquin (District 2) and Thomas Hooks (District 4) ABSENT: None COUNCIL STAFF: Joseph Gordon-Wiltz (Clerk of the Council), Cindy M. Semien (Associate Clerk for Legislative Affairs) and Kelly Comeaux (Assistant Clerk for Legislative Affairs)

Chair Boudreaux called the Regular City Council Meeting of September 1, 2026 to order.

One (1) citizen called the Council Office in opposition.

AGENDA ITEM NO. 1: Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance

192 citizens called the Council Office in support.

The Chair called upon Reverend John A. Cannon with Asbury United Methodist Church to cite an invocation and upon Councilmember Naquin to lead the Pledge of Allegiance.

APPEAL

WELCOME AND CHAIR ANNOUNCEMENTS Chair Boudreaux made the following announcements: • Final Adoption of the Budget will be held during a Special Joint Council Meeting on September 10th at 5:15 p.m. • Wished a happy birthday to Kelly Comeaux, Assistant Clerk for Legislative Affairs, which she celebrates on September 12th. AGENDA ITEM NO. 2: COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS Hebert thanked Councilman Matt Romero from the city of Youngsville for attending the meeting. AGENDA ITEM NO. 3: EXECUTIVE/MAYOR-PRESIDENT’S REPORT a. Budget-to-Actual Comparison of Major City Funds – July 2026 Preliminary Boulet noted that the monthly Budget-to-Actual Comparisons are to comply with statewide auditing procedures. b. Audit Findings Update – August 2026 Boulet noted that they are required monthly to give an update to the Louisiana Legislative Auditor on the report findings. Boulet’s announcements: • Discussed SpaceX being an exciting announcement for not only Vermilion Parish but Lafayette Parish as well. This will have a great impact on our traffic and roads. • Gave a reminder of the millages and bond renewal up for vote on the December 12th ballot. This is not a new tax. • DOTD will hold an Open House meeting concerning the I-49 connector. This is a public meeting for any who wish to attend. It will be held Wednesday, September 2nd at the Downtown Convention Center. • The final Lafayette Parish Growth Plan public meeting will be held Tuesday, September 8th at the South Regional Library at 6pm. • The Fire Department will host a September 11th Anniversary Commemoration of 9/11 at Parc Sans Souci downtown. • Welcomed Councilman Matt Romero from Youngsville. • The Thomas Park Tennis Court Ribbon Cutting will be Thursday, September 10th at 10am. • The Annual Coterie Meeting will be held Thursday, September 17th at 6pm at the Downtown Convention Center. ORDINANCES FOR FINAL ADOPTION AGENDA ITEM NO. 4: CO-070-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette City Council amending the Lafayette Development Code and the official map of the City of Lafayette, providing for the annexation of additional land into the corporate limits of the City of Lafayette, Louisiana, Case No. 2026-15REZ 200 Coussan Road (Tract 1-A) Annexation, located generally north of West Pont Des Mouton Road, east of Veterinarian Road, and south of Coussan Road; and assigning a zoning classification of RS-1 (Residential Single-Family) (District 1), motion to adopt by Hebert, seconded by Broussard, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Broussard, Naquin, Hebert, Hooks, Boudreaux NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to adopt was approved. AGENDA ITEM NO. 5: CO-071-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette City Council authorizing the Lafayette Mayor-President to enter into an Act of Deposit on behalf of the Lafayette Police Department of mounted horse Levi to Lieutenant Bridget Karn (Police Horse), motion to adopt by Naquin, seconded by Hebert, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Broussard, Naquin, Hebert, Hooks, Boudreaux NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to adopt was approved. AGENDA ITEM NO. 6 CO-072-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette City Council amending the FY 25/26 operating and capital budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by increasing revenues in the amount of $3,982,500 awarded through a federal Sub-Award Grant Agreement administered by the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office for the System Hardening and Resiliency Project under Section 40101(D) of the bipartisan infrastructure law and appropriating within the Utilities Department, motion to adopt by Hebert, seconded by Hooks, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Broussard, Naquin, Hebert, Hooks, Boudreaux NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to adopt was approved. AGENDA ITEM NO. 7: CO-073-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette City Council amending the FY 25/26 operating and capital budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by transferring appropriations from the City General Fund (Fund 1010) to establish funding for the Council Auditorium Projector Replacement Project, motion to adopt by Naquin, seconded by Hebert, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Broussard, Naquin, Hebert, Hooks, Boudreaux NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to adopt was approved. JOINT ORDINANCES FOR FINAL ADOPTION AGENDA ITEM NO. 8: JO-029-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the governing authority of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, respectively, providing for the abandonment of a certain portion of a five (5’) foot x five (5’) foot utility niche on the Lot 72-A of the Vineyard Subdivision, located at 101 Everett Ridge, and authorizing the Lafayette Mayor-President to execute an Act of Abandonment in order to effectuate the abandonment on behalf of the City of Lafayette, and Parish of Lafayette, and the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government, motion to adopt by Broussard, seconded by Hebert, and the vote was as follows:

AGENDA ITEM NO. 10: Appeal of the decision by the Office of Alcohol & Noise Control for Oasis Hookah Lounge located at 111 Mimosa Place, Lafayette, LA; a. Alcohol Violation dated March 5, 2026. Sally Leger, Alcohol and Noise Manager with Community Development and Planning, gave a recap of the appeal. The appellant failed to renew a liquor license despite the department reaching out to them via letter, email, and phone. The appellant was not in attendance. Motion to uphold the decision of the director was made by Naquin, seconded by Hebert, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Broussard, Naquin, Hebert, Hooks, Boudreaux NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to uphold the decision by the director was approved. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF VACANCIES ON BOARDS/COMMISSIONS AGENDA ITEM NO. 11: Four (4) vacancies exist on the Transportation Policy Committee (the governing board for the Metropolitan Planning Organization) effective immediately. Applicants must be either 1) local elected officials, 2) officials of public agencies that administer or operate major modes of transportation in the metropolitan area, including representation by providers of public transportation. AGENDA ITEM NO. 12: A vacancy exists on the Lafayette Parish Bayou Vermilion District Board of Commissioners for the remainder of an unexpired four-year term through September 30, 2027, effective immediately. Applicants must be black citizens of the Parish of Lafayette. AGENDA ITEM NO. 13: A vacancy exists on the Keep Lafayette Beautiful Committee for a two-year term as of August 11, 2026. AGENDA ITEM NO. 14: A vacancy will exist on the Lafayette Parish Bayou Vermilion District Board (BVD) as of 10-01-2026, this is a four-year term. AGENDA ITEM NO. 15: A vacancy will exist on the Lafayette Public Trust Financing Authority as of 11-01-2026, this is a five-year term. Individuals wishing to submit a resume for the above volunteer vacancies must be a registered voter and a resident of Lafayette Parish. Yearly ethics training for all appointees is required as is financial disclosure under certain circumstances. Resumes are to be forwarded to Joseph Gordon-Wiltz, Clerk of the Council, P.O. Box 4017-C, Lafayette, LA 70502 or emailed to BCLafayette@LafayetteLA.gov no later than noon, Tuesday, September 15, 2026 with appointment(s) to be made at the Tuesday, October 6, 2026 Regular Meeting of the Lafayette City Council. CONSIDER APPOINTMENT(S) BY THE COUNCIL, AS A WHOLE, TO BOARDS/COMMISSIONS AGENDA ITEM NO. 16: Appointment of Rebekke Heider to the Board of Zoning Adjustment for the remainder of a five-year term through June 30, 2029. Hebert nominated Conque, Naquin nominated Heider, and the vote was as follows: CONQUE: Hebert HEIDER: Broussard, Naquin, Hooks, Boudreaux NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Rebekke Heider was appointed. AGENDA ITEM NO. 17: Appointment of Josiah Price to the Downtown Management Committee for a three-year term effective August 1, 2026. Applicants must own property or work in downtown Lafayette. Broussard nominated Price and the vote was as follows: PRICE: Broussard, Naquin, Hebert, Hooks, Boudreaux NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Josiah Price was appointed. AGENDA ITEM NO. 18: Appointment of Scott Hebert to the Downtown Management Committee for a three-year term effective August 1, 2026. Applicants must own property or work in downtown Lafayette. Naquin nominated Hebert and the vote was as follows: HEBERT: Broussard, Naquin, Hebert, Hooks, Boudreaux NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Scott Hebert was appointed. APPOINTMENTS BY COUNCIL MEMBERS, MAYOR-PRESIDENT AND/OR ANY OTHER DIRECT APPOINTING AUTHORITY AGENDA ITEM NO. 19: Liz Hebert, District 3, appointed Kathy Ruckstuhl to the City/Parish Recreation Advisory Commission for a 4-year term effective October 1, 2026. AGENDA ITEM NO. 20: Mayor-President Monique Boulet appointed Robin Blackwell to the City/Parish Awareness Committee on Citizens with Disabilities for a 3-year term effective October 31, 2025. INTRODUCTORY ORDINANCES A motion to introduce agenda items 21 thru 25, in globo, was offered by Broussard, seconded by Naquin. 21. CO-074-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette City Council suspending Ordinance No. O-059-2019 which created a conditional two (2%) percent pay increase structure for the Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service employees of the Lafayette Police Department, for the proposed FY 2026-2027 budget with consideration given to the police and fire plans included in the FY 2026-2027 proposed operating and five-year capital budget document. 22. CO-075-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette City Council authorizing

BE IT ORDAINED by the Lafayette City Council, that: SECTION 1: The FY 25/26 operating and capital budget of the Utilities Department of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment is hereby amended by adjusting the rev‐ enues and appropria‐ tions of the Utilities De‐ partment. SECTION 2: This transfer of funds shall be re‐ flected in any pertinent documents which are at‐ tached and made a part hereof and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Council. SECTION 3: The Lafayette id d h

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y Mayor-President and the Director of the Utilities Department, or either of them, or their respective designees, are hereby authorized to conduct all negotiations and to make, execute, and sub‐ mit all documents and to perform all actions that may be appropriate to fulﬁll the grant agree‐ ment conditions, includ‐ ing providing the corre‐ sponding match, and for the completion of the ap‐ plicable projects. The Lafayette Mayor-Presi‐ dent acknowledges re‐ ceipt of the grant funds pursuant to the terms and conditions of the grant, a copy of which is attached. SECTION 4: The Chief Fi‐ nancial Ofﬁcer, through the Lafayette MayorPresident, is authorized to prepare administrative budget revisions for ad‐ ditional funding that may be needed outside of the grant and local match funds in order to com‐ plete this project. Upon l i h hi f i

p p j p completion, the Chief Fi‐ nancial Officer, through the Lafayette MayorPresident, shall prepare a written report to the Lafayette City Council detailing the amount and nature of any adjust‐ ments required to imple‐ ment the necessary bud‐ get amendments. SECTION 5: All ordi‐ nances or resolutions, or parts thereof, in conflict herewith are hereby re‐ pealed. SECTION 6: This ordi‐ nance shall become ef‐ fective upon signature of the Lafayette MayorPresident, the elapse of ten (10) days after re‐ ceipt by the Lafayette Mayor-President without signature or veto, or upon an override of a veto, whichever occurs first. ***** CITY ORDINANCE NO. CO-073-2026 AN ORDINANCE OF THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL AMENDING THE FY 25/26

the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government to sell at public auction and public internet auction surplus vehicles, equipment and other miscellaneous movable property which are no longer needed for public purposes, as per the attached list (public auction and public internet auction). 23. CO-076-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette City Council authorizing the Lafayette City Marshal to enter into a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement with the National Heritage Academies, Inc. o/b/o Willow Charter Academy for one (1) School Resource Officer to be provided on the campus of Willow Charter Academy in addition, this agreement will amend the FY 25/26 operating budget and adjust the manning tables of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by adding one (1) new Deputy City Marshal II position and by increasing revenues in the amount of $7,592 within the Lafayette City Marshal’s office. 24. CO-077-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette City Council authorizing the Lafayette Mayor-President to execute the agreement for joint use attachments of electric facilities between the City of Lafayette and Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation. 25. CO-078-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette City Council authorizing and directing the Lafayette Mayor-President to execute and submit the “Temporary Housing and Shelter Assistance Program Waiver of Land Use/Permitting Form” in accordance with La. R.S. 29:726(F)(3) (b)(iii)(aa). The Chair then called for a vote to introduce the ordinances 21 thru 25, in globo, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Broussard, Naquin, Hebert, Hooks, Boudreaux NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to introduce, in globo, was approved. JOINT INTRODUCTORY ORDINANCE A motion to introduce agenda items 26 thru 36, in globo, was offered by Naquin, seconded by Hebert. 26. JO-031-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council authorizing the Lafayette Mayor-President to enter into a First Amendment to March 12, 2021 Contract for Emergency and Non-Emergency Ambulance Services for the Parish of Lafayette and the City of Lafayette. 27. JO-032-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council establishing a procedure to sell surplus movable property valued at less than $5,000 no longer needed for a public purpose through a public internet auction. 28. JO-033-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council suspending Ordinance No. JO-001-2021 which created a conditional two (2%) percent pay increase structure for employees of the Office of the City Marshal, for the proposed FY 2026-2027 budget with consideration given to the City Marshal pay plan to be included in the Amended FY 2026-2027 Proposed Operating and Five-Year Capital Budget document. 29. JO-034-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council authorizing the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government to sell at public internet auction surplus equipment and other miscellaneous movable property which are no longer needed for public purposes, as per the attached list (public internet auction). 30. JO-035-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget and adjusting the manning tables of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by authorizing the use of existing funds in the amount of $2,676 and appropriating within the Department of Innovation and Technology to add one (1) IS&T manager promotion per Civil Service recommendation. 31. JO-036-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by adjusting the manning tables and increasing the hourly rate of one (1) Clerk II position within the Department of Innovation & Technology. 32. JO-037-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the governing authority of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, respectively, providing for the abandonment of a certain portion of a 50’ public right-of-way (Wall Street) located between Lot 13-A and Lot 14-A of the Van-Way, JP Development Ext 1 Subdivision, and authorizing the Lafayette Mayor-President to execute an Act of Abandonment in order to effectuate the abandonment on behalf of the City of Lafayette, and Parish of Lafayette, and the Lafayette CityParish Consolidated Government. 33. JO-038-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by authorizing the transfer of $100,000 in HOME funds within the Community Development and Planning Department to Catholic Charities of Acadiana. 34. JO-039-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by authorizing the transfer of $164,595 in Home American Rescue Plan (HOME-ARP) funds within the Community Development and Planning Department to Faith House, Inc. 35. JO-040-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by authorizing the transfer of $125,000 in HOME funds within the Community Development and Planning Department to Catholic Charities of Acadiana. 36. JO-041-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by authorizing the transfer of $220,000 in HOME funds within the Community Development and Planning Department to Lafayette Habitat for Humanity. The Chair then called for a vote to introduce the ordinances 26 thru 36, in globo, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Broussard, Naquin, Hebert, Hooks, Boudreaux NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to introduce, in globo, was approved. One (1) citizen signed in support of item 33. One (1) citizen signed in support of item 35. (6:15:00) ADJOURN There being no further business to come before the Council, Chair Boudreaux declared the Regular Meeting adjourned. /s/ Joseph Gordon-Wiltz JOSEPH GORDON-WILTZ, LAFAYETTE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL

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OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET OF THE LAFAYETTE CITY-PARISH CONSOLIDATED GOVERN‐ MENT BY TRANSFERRING APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE CITY GENERAL FUND (FUND 1010) TO ESTAB‐ LISH FUNDING FOR THE COUNCIL AUDITORIUM PROJECTOR REPLACE‐ MENT PROJECT BE IT ORDAINED by the Lafayette City Council, that: WHEREAS, the Council Auditorium projector has reached the end of its useful life and requires replacement to support the ofﬁcial business of the Councils; and WHEREAS, it is necessary to amend the FY 25/26 operating and capital budget to transfer the re‐ quired appropriations to a capital project account for the Council Audito‐ rium Projector Replace‐ ment. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Lafayette City Coun‐ cil, that: SECTION 1: All of the aforesaid “Whereas” clauses are adopted as part of this ordinance. SECTION 2: The Lafayette City Council hereby amends the operating and capital budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment as follows: Transfer appropriations in the amount of $22,612.00 as follows: FROM: • City General Fund (Fund 1010) ................ $22,612.00 TO: • Council Auditorium Pro‐ jector Replacement Pro‐ ject .......... $22,612.00 SECTION 3: All ordi‐ nances or resolutions, or parts thereof, in conﬂict herewith are hereby re‐ pealed. SECTION 4: After having b d d b

Public Notices Meet/Hear/Min g been adopted by a ma‐ jority of the authorized membership of the Lafayette City Council, this ordinance shall be‐ come effective upon sig‐ nature of this ordinance by the Lafayette MayorPresident, the elapse of ten (10) days after re‐ ceipt by the Lafayette Mayor-President without signature or veto, or upon override of a veto, whichever occurs ﬁrst. ***** /s/ Joseph Gordon-Wiltz JOSEPH GORDON-WILTZ LAFAYETTE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL 199798 Sept. 4 1t $106.37 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE The Lafayette Parish Council met in Regular Session on September 1, 2026 and adopted the fol‐ lowing ordinances: PARISH ORDINANCE NO. PO-036-2026 AN ORDINANCE OF THE LAFAYETTE PARISH COUNCIL AMENDING THE FY 25/26 CAPITAL AND OPERATING BUDGET OF THE LAFAYETTE CITYPARISH CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT BY TRANS‐ FERRING FUNDS FROM ACCOUNT EXT APP-LPSO MAINT SALARIES TO THE BUILDING MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT WITHIN ADULT CORRECTIONAL CENTER FUND TO PROVIDE ADDI‐ TIONAL FUNDING FOR MANDATED EXPENDI‐ TURES BE IT ORDAINED by the Lafayette Parish Council, that:

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SECTION 1: The FY 25/26 capital and operating budgets of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government is hereby amended by transferring funds from account Ext App-LPSO Maint Salaries to Building Maintenance account within the Adult Correctional Center Fund to provide additional funding for mandated ex‐ penditures. SECTION 2: This transfer of funds shall be re‐ flected in any pertinent documents which are at‐ tached and made a part hereof and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Council. SECTION 3: All ordi‐ nances or resolutions, or parts thereof, in conflict herewith are hereby re‐ pealed. SECTION 4: This ordi‐ nance shall become ef‐ fective upon signature of the Lafayette MayorPresident, the elapse of ten (10) days after re‐ ceipt by the Lafayette Mayor-President without signature or veto, or upon an override of a veto, whichever occurs first. *** PARISH ORDINANCE NO. PO-037-2026 AN ORDINANCE OF THE LAFAYETTE PARISH COUNCIL AMENDING THE FY 25/26 OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET OF THE LAFAYETTE CITY-PARISH CONSOLIDATED GOVERN‐ MENT BY INCREASING THE USE OF PRIOR YEAR FUND BALANCE IN LI‐ BRARY FUND 2630 BY $50,000 AND APPROPRI‐ ATING IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET OF LIBRARY FUND 2630 IN THE AMOUNT OF $50,000 FOR THE PURCHASE OF A RE‐ PLACEMENT LIBRARY

PROCEEDINGS OF THE LAFAYETTE PARISH COUNCIL MEETING OF THE PARISH OF LAFAYETTE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, TAKEN AT A REGULAR MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2026 HELD AT 705 W. UNIVERSITY AVENUE, LAFAYETTE, LA. ATTENDANCE COUNCIL: Donald Richard (Chair, District 2), Ken Stansbury (Vice-Chair, District 3), Bryan Tabor (District 1), John Guilbeau (District 4) and AB Rubin (District 5) ABSENT: None COUNCIL STAFF: Joseph Gordon-Wiltz (Clerk of the Council), Cindy M. Semien (Associate Clerk for Legislative Affairs) and Kelly Comeaux (Assistant Clerk for Legislative Affairs) ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF: Monique B. Boulet (Mayor-President), Rachel Godeaux (Chief Administrative Officer), Karen Fontenot (Chief Financial Officer), Robbie Mahtook (City-Parish Attorney) and Paul Escott (Assistant City-Parish Attorney) (4:31:00) COMMENCEMENT Call to order Chair Richard called the Regular Parish Council Meeting of September 1, 2026 to order. AGENDA ITEM NO. 1: Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance The Chair called upon Councilmember Tabor to cite an invocation and upon Councilmember Guilbeau to lead the Pledge of Allegiance. WELCOME AND CHAIR ANNOUNCEMENTS Chair Richard made the following announcements: • Final Adoption of the Budget will be held during a Special Joint Council Meeting on September 10th at 5:15 p.m. • Item #12, Appointment to the Lafayette Parish Waterworks District South Board; a request was made to defer to the October 6th meeting so that the proper verbiage is included in the announcement. • Wished a happy birthday to Kelly Comeaux, Assistant Clerk for Legislative Affairs, which she celebrates on September 12th. AGENDA ITEM NO. 2: COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS No Council Announcements were made. AGENDA ITEM NO. 3: EXECUTIVE/MAYOR-PRESIDENT’S REPORT a. Budget-to-Actual Comparison of Major Parish Funds – July 2026 Preliminary Boulet noted that the monthly Budget-to-Actual Comparisons are to comply with statewide auditing procedures. b. Audit Findings Update – August 2026 Boulet noted that they are required monthly to give an update to the Louisiana Legislative Auditor on the report findings.

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VAN BE IT ORDAINED by the Lafayette Parish Council, that: SECTION 1: The FY 25/26 operating and capital budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government is hereby amended by increasing the use of prior year fund balance in Library Fund 2630 by $50,000 and ap‐ propriating in the capital budget of Library Fund 2630 in the amount of $50,000 for the purchase of a replacement library van. SECTION 2: This transfer of funds shall be re‐ flected in any pertinent documents which are at‐ tached hereto and made a part hereof and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Council. SECTION 3: All ordi‐ nances or resolutions, or parts thereof, in conflict herewith are hereby re‐ pealed. SECTION 4: This ordi‐ nance shall become ef‐ fective upon signature of the Lafayette MayorPresident, the elapse of ten (10) days after re‐ ceipt by the Lafayette Mayor-President without signature or veto, or upon an override of a veto, whichever occurs first. *** /s/ Joseph Gordon-Wiltz JOSEPH GORDON-WILTZ LAFAYETTE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL 199761 Sept. 4 1t $32.62 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE The Lafayette Parish Council met in Regular i b

Public Notices Meet/Hear/Min g Session on September 1, 2026 and introduced the following ordinances. PO-038-2026 An ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating and capital budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Govern‐ ment by transferring $60,000 from the Parish Council District 3 Capital Appropriation to the City of Broussard for the St. Deporres Street bridge replacement project. PO-039-2026 An ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette Parish Council authoriz‐ ing the Lafayette CityParish Consolidated Gov‐ ernment to sell at public auction and public inter‐ net auction surplus vehi‐ cles, equipment and other miscellaneous movable property which are no longer needed for public purposes, as per the attached list (public auction and public inter‐ net auction). PO-040-2026 An ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette Parish Council authoriz‐ ing the Lafayette MayorPresident to enter into a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement with the Town of Vidalia to collab‐ orate in emergency shel‐ tering during declara‐ tions of emergency. PO-041-2026 An ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette Parish Council authoriz‐ ing and directing the Lafayette Mayor-Presi‐ dent to execute and sub‐ mit the “Temporary Housing and Shelter As‐ sistance Program Waiver of Land Use/Permitting Form” in accordance with La. R.S. 29:726(F)(3) (b)(iii)(aa). PO-042-2026

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nance of the Lafayette Parish Council declaring the acquisition of a ware‐ house for the Lafayette Public Library a public necessity and authoriz‐ ing the Lafayette MayorPresident to acquire cer‐ tain immovable property for the location of said warehouse. The ordinances will ap‐ pear before the Lafayette Parish Council for public hearing and ﬁnal adop‐ tion in the Ted A. Ardoin City-Parish Council Audi‐ torium located at 705 W. University Avenue, Lafayette, LA on Septem‐ ber 15, 2026, except PO039-2026 which will be considered for ﬁnal adoption on October 6, 2026. /s/ Joseph Gordon-Wiltz JOSEPH GORDON-WILTZ LAFAYETTE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL 199776 Sept. 4 1t $22.12 PUBLIC NOTICE --See agenda documents at: http://www.lafayettela. gov/obcouncil/default. aspx SPECIAL MEETING LAFAYETTE PUBLIC POWER AUTHORITY 705 W. University Avenue, Ted A. Ardoin City-Parish Council Auditorium THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2026 5:25 p.m. or immediately following the Lafayette City Council and Lafayette Parish Council Special Joint meeting (whichever occurs later). AGENDA CALL TO ORDER

right-of-way (Live Oak Boulevard) located between Lots 53-55 and Lots 56-59 of Live Oak Park Subdivision, and authorizing the Lafayette MayorPresident to execute an Act of Abandonment in order to effectuate the abandonment on behalf of the City of Lafayette, Parish of Lafayette, and the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government, motion to adopt by Guilbeau, seconded by Stansbury, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Tabor, Richard, Stansbury, Guilbeau, Rubin NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to adopt was approved. Two (2) citizens signed in support of the item. Reverend John A. Cannon signed in to speak but only if there were questions and he submitted a seven (7) page master plan to the Council One (1) citizen called the Council Office in opposition. 192 citizens called the Council Office in support. ANNOUNCEMENT OF VACANCIES ON BOARDS/COMMISSIONS AGENDA ITEM NO. 8: A vacancy exists on the Parish Planning and Zoning Commission for the remainder of an unexpired five-year term thru January 6, 2030. AGENDA ITEM NO. 9: A vacancy will exist on the Lafayette Parish Bayou Vermilion District Board (BVD) as of 10-01-2026, this is a four-year term. AGENDA ITEM NO. 10: A vacancy will exist on the Lafayette Parish Waterworks District South Board as of 10-01-2026, this is a five-year term. Applicants must be district residents. Clerk of the Council, Joseph-Gordon-Wiltz, made a recommendation to amend with the proper verbiage to be added to the announcement that applicants must own property in the district. A motion to include the proper verbiage was made by Stansbury, seconded by Guilbeau and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Tabor, Richard, Stansbury, Guilbeau, Rubin NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to add that applicants must own property in the district to the announcement was approved. Individuals wishing to submit a resume for the above volunteer vacancy must be a registered voter and a resident of Lafayette Parish. Yearly ethics training for all appointees is required as is financial disclosure under certain circumstances. Resumes are to be forwarded to Joseph Gordon-Wiltz, Clerk of the Council, P.O. Box 4017-C, Lafayette, LA 70502 or emailed to BCLafayette@LafayetteLA.gov no later than noon, Tuesday, September 15, 2026 with appointment(s) to be made at the Tuesday, October 6, 2026 Regular Meeting of the Lafayette Parish Council. CONSIDER APPOINTMENT(S) BY THE COUNCIL, AS A WHOLE, TO BOARDS/COMMISSIONS

Boulet’s announcements: • Discussed SpaceX being an exciting announcement for not only Vermilion Parish but Lafayette Parish as well. This will have a great impact on our traffic and roads. • Gave a reminder of the millages and bond renewal up for vote on the December 12th ballot. This is not a new tax. • DOTD will hold an Open House meeting concerning the I-49 connector. This is a public meeting for any who wish to attend. It will be held Wednesday, September 2nd at the Downtown Convention Center. • The final Lafayette Parish Growth Plan public meeting will be held Tuesday, September 8th at the South Regional Library at 6pm. • The Fire Department will host a September 11th Anniversary Commemoration of 9/11 at Parc Sans Souci downtown.

AGENDA ITEM NO. 11: Appointment of Shirlene Bender to the Lafayette Animal Care Center Advisory Board for a four-year term effective September 1, 2026. Guilbeau nominated Bender, and the vote was as follows: BENDER: Tabor, Richard, Stansbury, Guilbeau, Rubin NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Shirlene Bender was appointed.

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A motion was made by Rubin to defer the announcement until October 6th so that the proper verbiage be included with the announcement, seconded by Stansbury, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Tabor, Richard, Stansbury, Guilbeau, Rubin NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to defer the announcement until October 6th so that the proper verbiage be included with the announcement was approved.

AGENDA ITEM NO. 4: PO-036-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 capital and operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by transferring funds from account EXT APP-LPSO Maint Salaries to the Building Maintenance account within Adult Correctional Center Fund to provide additional funding for mandated expenditures, motion to adopt by Tabor, seconded by Stansbury and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Tabor, Richard, Stansbury, Guilbeau, Rubin NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to adopt was approved.

AGENDA ITEM NO. 12: Appointment of _______________________ to the Lafayette Parish Waterworks District South Board for the remainder of an unexpired five-year term through October 31, 2028. Applicants must reside within the Lafayette Parish Waterworks District South boundaries.

INTRODUCTORY ORDINANCES A motion to introduce agenda items 13 thru 17, in globo, was offered by Rubin, seconded by Tabor.

AGENDA ITEM NO. 5: PO-037-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating and capital budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by increasing the use of prior year fund balance in Library Fund 2630 by $50,000 and appropriating in the capital budget of Library Fund 2630 in the amount of $50,000 for the purchase of a replacement library van, motion to adopt by Stansbury, seconded by Rubin, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Tabor, Richard, Stansbury, Guilbeau, Rubin NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to adopt was approved.

13. PO-038-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating and capital budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by transferring $60,000 from the Parish Council District 3 Capital Appropriation to the City of Broussard for the St. Deporres Street bridge replacement project.

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15. PO-040-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette Parish Council authorizing the Lafayette Mayor-President to enter into a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement with the Town of Vidalia to collaborate in emergency sheltering during declarations of emergency.

AGENDA ITEM NO. 6: JO-029-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the governing authority of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, respectively, providing for the abandonment of a certain portion of a five (5’) foot x five (5’) foot utility niche on the Lot 72-A of the Vineyard Subdivision, located at 101 Everett Ridge, and authorizing the Lafayette Mayor-President to execute an Act of Abandonment in order to effectuate the abandonment on behalf of the City of Lafayette, and Parish of Lafayette, and the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government, motion to adopt by Guilbeau, seconded by Tabor, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Tabor, Richard, Stansbury, Guilbeau, Rubin NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to adopt was approved. AGENDA ITEM NO. 7: JO-030-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the governing authority of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, respectively, providing for the abandonment of a portion of a 60’ public

14. PO-039-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette Parish Council authorizing the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government to sell at public auction and public internet auction surplus vehicles, equipment and other miscellaneous movable property which are no longer needed for public purposes, as per the attached list (public auction and public internet auction).

16. PO-041-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette Parish Council authorizing and directing the Lafayette Mayor-President to execute and submit the “Temporary Housing and Shelter Assistance Program Waiver of Land Use/Permitting Form” in accordance with La. R.S. 29:726(F)(3) (b)(iii)(aa). 17. PO-042-2026 An ordinance of the Lafayette Parish Council declaring the acquisition of a warehouse for the Lafayette Public Library a public necessity and authorizing the Lafayette Mayor-President to acquire certain immovable property for the location of said warehouse. The Chair then called for a vote to introduce the ordinances 13 thru 17, in globo, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Tabor, Richard, Stansbury, Guilbeau, Rubin NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to introduce, in globo, was approved.

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ORDINANCE FOR FINAL APOPTION 1. O-LPPA-252 An ordi‐ nance of the Lafayette Public Power Authority (LPPA) adopting an oper‐ ating and capital budget of revenues and expendi‐ tures for the Lafayette, Louisiana Public Power Authority for the ﬁscal year beginning Novem‐ ber 1, 2026 and ending October 31, 2027. (Fi‐ nance) ADJOURN IN ACCORDANCE WITH LA. R.S. 42:14(E) AS EN‐ ACTED BY ACT NO. 393 OF 2023 AND THE AMERI‐ CANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, PLEASE CONTACT JOSEPH GORDON-WILTZ, COUNCIL CLERK, AT (337) 291-8810 DESCRIBING THE ASSISTANCE THAT IS NECESSARY, IF SPECIAL ASSISTANCE AND/OR AC‐ COMMODATIONS ARE NEEDED. 199812 Sept. 4 1t $13.54 PUBLIC NOTICE --See agenda documents at: http://www.lafayettela. gov/obcouncil/default. aspx SPECIAL JOINT MEETING LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL AND LAFAYETTE PARISH COUNCIL 705 W. University Avenue, Ted A. Ardoin City-Parish Council Auditorium THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2026 5:15 p.m.

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4. JO-023-2026 A joint or‐ dinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council adopting an Operating & Five-Year Capital Im‐ provement Budget of rev‐ enues and expenditures for the Lafayette CityParish Consolidated Gov‐ ernment for the ﬁscal year beginning Novem‐ ber 1, 2026 and ending October 31, 2027. (Fi‐ nance) ADJOURN IN ACCORDANCE WITH LA. R.S. 42:14(E) AS EN‐ ACTED BY ACT NO. 393 OF 2023 AND THE AMERI‐ CANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, PLEASE CONTACT JOSEPH GORDON-WILTZ, COUNCIL CLERK, AT (337) 291-8810 DESCRIBING THE ASSISTANCE THAT IS NECESSARY, IF SPECIAL ASSISTANCE AND/OR AC‐ COMMODATIONS ARE NEEDED. 199810 Sept. 4 1t $15.04

Public Notices Successions gg g of his intent to sell via private sale, the follow‐ ing: 1. The immovable estate home and property lo‐ cated at 311 Sunny Lane, Lafayette, Louisiana 70506, Being the same property acquired by Mary C. Briggs by Cash Sale from Jeanie Slay Mellinger dated April 29, 1994, recorded on May 2, 1994, under instrument no. 1994-00016195 of the public records of Lafayette, Louisiana.; and 2. All movables within the estate home at 311 Sunny Lane, consisting of home furnishings, deco‐ rations, and kitchenware. Any objections to the sale of the above prop‐ erty can be ﬁled with the 15th Judicial District Court – Parish of Lafayette under probate docket number 20250640, pursuant to LA C.C.P. art 3282. 198202 Aug. 22 to Sept. 20, 30t $456.60

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JOINT INTRODUCTORY ORDINANCES A motion to introduce agenda items 18 thru 28, in globo, was offered by Guilbeau, seconded by Stansbury. 16. JO-031-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council authorizing the Lafayette Mayor-President to enter into a First Amendment to March 12, 2021 Contract for Emergency and Non-Emergency Ambulance Services for the Parish of Lafayette and the City of Lafayette. 19. JO-032-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council establishing a procedure to sell surplus movable property valued at less than $5,000 no longer needed for a public purpose through a public internet auction. 20. JO-033-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council suspending Ordinance No. JO-001-2021 which created a conditional two (2%) percent pay increase structure for employees of the Office of the City Marshal, for the proposed FY 2026-2027 budget with consideration given to the City Marshal pay plan to be included in the Amended FY 2026-2027 Proposed Operating and Five-Year Capital Budget document. 21. JO-034-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council authorizing the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government to sell at public internet auction surplus equipment and other miscellaneous movable property which are no longer needed for public purposes, as per the attached list (public internet auction). 22. JO-035-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget and adjusting the manning tables of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by authorizing the use of existing funds in the amount of $2,676 and appropriating within the Department of Innovation and Technology to add one (1) IS&T manager promotion per Civil Service recommendation. 23. JO-036-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by adjusting the manning tables and increasing the hourly rate of one (1) Clerk II position within the Department of Innovation & Technology. 24. JO-037-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council, acting in their capacity as the governing authority of the City of Lafayette and the Parish of Lafayette, respectively, providing for the abandonment of a certain portion of a 50’ public right-of-way (Wall Street) located between Lot 13-A and Lot 14-A of the Van-Way, JP Development Ext 1 Subdivision, and authorizing the Lafayette Mayor-President to execute an Act of Abandonment in order to effectuate the abandonment on behalf of the City of Lafayette, and Parish of Lafayette, and the Lafayette CityParish Consolidated Government. 25. JO-038-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by authorizing the transfer of $100,000 in HOME funds within the Community Development and Planning Department to Catholic Charities of Acadiana. 26. JO-039-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by authorizing the transfer of $164,595 in Home American Rescue Plan (HOME-ARP) funds within the Community Development and Planning Department to Faith House, Inc. 27. JO-040-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by authorizing the transfer of $125,000 in HOME funds within the Community Development and Planning Department to Catholic Charities of Acadiana. 28. JO-041-2026 A joint ordinance of the Lafayette City Council and the Lafayette Parish Council amending the FY 25/26 operating budget of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government by authorizing the transfer of $220,000 in HOME funds within the Community Development and Planning Department to Lafayette Habitat for Humanity. The Chair then called for a vote to introduce the ordinances 18 thru 28, in globo, and the vote was as follows: YEAS: Tabor, Richard, Stansbury, Guilbeau, Rubin NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Motion to introduce, in globo, was approved. One (1) citizen signed in support of item 25. One (1) citizen signed in support of item 27. COMMENT(S) FROM THE PUBLIC AGENDA ITEM NO. 24: Comments from the public on any other matter(s) not on an agenda and are within the legislative power of the Lafayette Parish Council. Judge Susan Theall thanked the Council for the courtesy of saying hello and asked for their support for the November 3rd election as she is running for re-election. She has been a judge for nine (9) years and has a desire to continue serving the public. (5:04:00) ADJOURN There being no further business to come before the Council, Chair Richard declared the Regular Meeting adjourned. /s/ Joseph Gordon-Wiltz JOSEPH GORDON-WILTZ, LAFAYETTE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL

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