The Tallulah City Council during its regular meeting Thurs., May 26, introduced an ordinance to adopt the municipal budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.
The council unanimously approved the introduction of the ordinance to adopt the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023, while also unanimously approving an introduction to amend the current municipal budget for the city for the current fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022.
Budget information can be found in detail in the legal section of this edition of the Madison Journal and is also available for public inspection at Tallulah City Hall, located at 204 North Cedar Street, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
A public hearing concerning the budgets will be held Thurs., June 23, at 5:30 p.m. at city hall, after which the council will vote on adoption of the ordinance.
In other business, the council: recognized Kubrickie Williams, the widow of the late Leroy “Tank” Williams – the only Tallulah police officer to have been killed in the line of duty - in honor of his memory; approved the Madison Journal as the official municipal journal of the city of Tallulah; approved the hiring of Rayvion Gamble as a dispatcher for the Tallulah Police Department and the termination by TPD of Darryel Skinner and Walter Kyle; approved a resolution supporting an application by the City of Tallulah to apply to the Louisiana Community Water Enrichment Fund (CWEF) to fund “loop” connections to identified water main dead ends, connecting areas of town that do not have access to fire hydrants to adequate fire protection; approved a resolution to pay administrative costs for a grant submission to the Love Louisiana Outdoors Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program; approved a resolution to hire Service Group Unlimited engineers in accordance with the Love Louisiana Outdoors CDBG program.
