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In the first Vermilion Parish School Board meeting of 2019 with three new school board members, a familiar result occurred.
The new school board members could not decide on whom they wanted to be president. After three votes, the result came up 4-4.
Board members Jean Broussard and Kibbie Pillette put their names up to be the new president.
Last year’s vice president Laura LeBeouf did not want the job.
When it came to voting for Broussard, Chris Gautreaux, Jean Broussard, and Jason Roy voted for Jean.

When the new year kicked in just a few short days ago, so did the City of Abbeville’s new operating budget.
The city’s fiscal year runs from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31. The City Council approved the new budget during its last meeting in 2018.
“It’s a balanced budget,” Mayor Mark Piazza said. “It does include annual cost-of-living pay increases for city employees.
“We are very happy about the outcome of this year’s budget.”
Funds are adequate to maintain the budget.

Andy Perrin, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Acadian Museum, announces that the Acadian Museum will induct Leo Touchet into its Order of Living Legends on Saturday, January 12, 2019.
 The event will take place at the Joie de Vivre Restaurant, Cafe & Bar, 107 N. Main St., Breaux Bridge, LA  70592 at 1:30 p.m.
Leo Touchet’s earliest memory of photography was at the age of six in his hometown of Abbeville, when an uncle returned from World War II with boxes of photographs he had taken, and he has since wanted to travel.