By Emily Bonsant • Of the News-Register • 

Lafayette councilor resigns after a month

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Ali

Reed told the entire council in a meeting that he was going to run against them because the council didn’t feel it was right for the city to take over maintenance of a detention pond his HOA is responsible for. This would push the cost of that pond onto every resident in the city, when that detention pond was built solely because their housing development was built. Those residents should be paying for it, not everyone else.

He wants to dissolve his HOA so he doesn’t have to pay those fees, but that can’t happen unless the city takes over the pond. Doing so would be a financial benefit to him, and not for the greater good of the entire town, so as a councilor, it’s a conflict of interest.

He ran for his own personal gain and didn’t like that he didn’t get his way. As soon as he found out there would be no financial benefit to him, he “noped” right out of there, which is fine. Lafayette doesn’t need councilors who run on single self-serving issues.

Angela Flood

Ali - the holding pond is not a private enterprise. It is a public utility.
It is no different than the drains in the street. It serves a similar purpose.

The requirement for the pond is part of the regulation from the Clean Water Drinking Act.

There is no reason the homeowners should be held responsible for the maintenance of the system.

It is past time to rectify that. They should also be reimbursed for their investment over all these years.

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