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The Vermilion Parish Police Jury re-elected Jason Picard as its president and Brent Landry as its vice president at Wednesday’s first regular meeting of 2023.
Both were the only nominees for the positions.
Picard said the standing committee assignments would largely stay the same as they were in 2022 with a couple of changes.
On the Coastal Protection and Restoration Committee, Picard appointed Chad Lege as the chair and Sandrus Stelly as the vice-chair.
He also appointed Dr. Paul Whittington to the rabies control board.

Abbeville Police Chief Mike Hardy is taking random gunfire seriously. He is so serious that he tracks each time random gunfire is called into the police department.
Chief Hardy plots with a red pin where the gunfire was reported. If anyone was hit with a bullet, he marks the location with a yellow pin.
Since January 2022, Hardy has placed 185 red pins on the map. The red pins represent one shot to as many as 60 shots fired at one location.
Just under 20 yellow pins mark where someone was hit with a bullet.

With school teachers and support staff seeking pay raises throughout Louisiana, one Vermilion Parish School Board member feels school board members in the state should also get a pay raise.
At the end of Thursday’s school board meeting, during board commentary, long-time school board member Kibbie Pillette had a request for Superintendent Tommy Byler.
Pillette told the board that when Bobby Jindal was governor, he created ACT 1, which gives the superintendent power to run the school district.