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Appropriations for a safe room to house a Vermilion Parish emergency operations center will be eliminated from the 2022 federal budget, and funds will be reappropriated for an EOC building, State Rep. Ryan Bourriaque, R-Abbeville, told the Vermilion Parish Police Jury at its meeting Wednesday.
Bourriaque was at the police jury meeting to report on the recent state legislative session and its impact on Vermilion Parish.

MAURICE — Elected officials in the town of Maurice could see salary increases in the future.
Current officials want to make sure that any candidates deciding to run for election this November have an idea of what those salaries will be.
“I think it would be incumbent upon us to set salaries prior to the upcoming election,” Mayor Wayne Theriot said during Wednesday’s monthly Maurice Board of Aldermen meeting.
Maurice will hold its regularly scheduled election in November. Qualifying for that election will be held July 20-22.

The Vermilion Parish School Board is still dealing with repairing school roofs from a pair of hurricanes that occurred two years ago, while at the same time, trying to find ways to save money to run the school system.
Two years ago, Hurricane Laura and Hurricane Delta damaged school roofs. The schools had more than $20 million worth of damage, most being the school roofs.