The LSU Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Friday on an agreement with the LSU Real Estate and Facilities Foundation that would give the REFF authority to select and recommend a private vendor to upgrade the aging utilities and energy systems infrastructure on the main campus. Â
Baton Rouge has missed the Sept. 1 deadline by which it had to spend some $600,000 in federal grant money to purchase a tire shredder that, it was hoped, would reduce abandoned tires that serve as breeding pools for mosquitoes in blighted areas.
East Baton Rouge Parish property owners should have received by now a notice of their new property tax assessments for 2020, but commercial property owners likely saw a smaller increase in their new assessments than did most homeowners. Â