BOBBY ARDOIN Editor/Consulting Writer
The St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Commission has included a Monday meeting agenda item which will apparently include discussion about whether garbage should be transported from Evangeline Parish and into the parish landfill at Beggs beginning in 2025.
Richard LeBouef, executive director of the St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Landfill, deflected a question on Thursday about a proposed intergovernmental agreement with Evangeline Parish which will be considered by commissioners during the Monday meeting which begins at 4 pm.
LeBouef said he was headed out of town and was not prepared to “shed any light” on the matter until his return.
However an April 4 post on the Evangeline Parish Solid Waste Commission website and social media page indicates that an agreement to bring garbage from Evangeline to St. Landry is imminent.
The Evangeline Parish SWC, according to the post, is soliciting proposals for hauling curbside residential solid waste from Evangeline into the St. Landry landfill for a five-year period beginning July 1, 2025.
“The disposal site shall be the St. Landry Parish Solid Waste disposal site (according to) a contract between the Evangeline Solid Waste Commission and the St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Commission,” according to the website post.
St. Landry Now.com also attempted to contact Evangeline Parish Landfill executive director Patrick Derouselle on Thursday. Derouselle had not returned the phone call by Friday at noon.
Since the early 1990’s Evangeline Parish at different intervals, has transported garbage into the St. Landry landfill.
From 2005 until 2009, Evangeline Parish paid the St. Landry Commission to bring garbage into the Beggs landfill.
Revenue from that agreement was split among St. Landry Parish government and the parish municipalities. The parish received 50 percent of the funding from the Evangeline Parish intake, while the municipalities received the rest.
Parish president Jessie Bellard remembers that the parish used the money allotted by the St. Landry Commission to purchase equipment that would be used for debris removal.
