Vermilion Parish Police Jury elects new president

The Vermilion Parish Police Jury has a new president - Ronald Menard of Kaplan (District 10) . He was elected unanimously by the jury this week.
Menard, who has been a juror for six years, has been the vice president of the jury for the past two years under president Nathan Granger.
“I am grateful by the jury elected me as president,” said Menard. “For the last two years the jury has run smoothly, and I plan to keep it that way. Nathan did an excellent job his two years, and I would like to continue what he has begun.”
The jurors elected Ronald Darby (District 4) as vice president. It is Darby’s second time being the vice president over the last 10 years.
Menard said if all the jurors are OK with it, everyone will stay on the same committee. All the jurors agreed.
In other police jury business:
• the jurors voted to keep a pit bull alive that killed in a cat in Kaplan. The jurors declared the dog “dangerous.” The owner of the pit bull has to chain up the dog in a fenced-in area and when someone walks the dog in the streets or out of the yard, the dog has to be muzzled.
• the jurors approved payment of $3,7555 to the Garden Center Landscape, LLC relative to tree removal and new landscape, clean, trim, fertilizing and mulch existing landscape. The company also put 50 square feet of gravel on the north side of the courthouse.
• the jurors approved $358,772 payment to LUBA Casualty Insurance Company relative to Workers Compensation Insurance Coverage for 2014.
• the jurors approved $14,470 payment to Terry’s Diesel Repair and Sales relative to transmission repairs.