2008 Lafayette Charter - Whoops!

[Darrell Flood]

2008 Lafayette Charter

I am not always the first to admit my mistakes. I made a big mistake.

I was reading the story in the News Register about the 2008 Lafayette
Charter that I filed on Friday August 1, 2008. In the article Nicole
listed of some of the changes we have written into the new charter. I
got the part that said “One Provision would cut the city administrator
and assistant administrator positions to 24 hours a week” and I
thought we didn't write that part. Turns out that could be implied.
Thanks to the News Register we were able to correct what would have
been a grievous mistake. Our intention was to make the city
administrator part time and keep the full time assistant city
administrator.

So to correct this error before it becomes a real problem I have
canceled the initiative I filed on Friday August 1, 2008. We have
fixed that problem and another we found and will file the correct
Charter on Monday August 4, 2008. We are sorry about any inconvenience
this may have caused but, we did not want to compound the problem.

Darrell Flood