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Lafayette Mayor-President requests $48,000 raise, pushes

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BY CLAIRE TAYLOR | Staff writer Dec 1, 2022

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Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory speaks during press conference at City Hall on Monday, August 15,
2022 in Lafayette, La. Big save on Temu
STAFF PHOTO BY BRAD KEMP Temu

Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory, who has come under fire for taking on extra
jobs to supplement his Lafayette Consolidated Government salary, is seeking a $48,000
raise starting in 2024.

He also is trying once again to give large pay raises to some of his top administrators,
including the chief financial officer who is retiring Feb. 3.

The city and parish councils on Tuesday are scheduled to consider introductory
ordinances that would increase the mayor-president's salary from the current $121,773
a year to about $170,000 a year.

The pay raise would go into effect Jan. 1, 2024. Per the Lafayette Parish Home Rule
Charter, the mayor-president's pay cannot be increased during a four-year term. The
election for mayor-president is in October 2023. Guillory, elected in 2019 and seated in
January 2020, is expected to seek a second term.

Guillory has been criticized for working two part-time jobs in addition to serving as
mayor-president, which the charter says is a full-time job. He has been teaching law
classes part-time at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and continuing to provide
legal services, such as representing clients seeking to expunge criminal offenses from
their records.

Several times since September the councils rejected proposed pay raises for some of
Guillory's top administrators, who serve at his will. He's trying again Tuesday, dividing
the proposed raises into three ordinances. 

One ordinance bundles proposed raises for the mayor-president, chief administrative
officer and fire chief. A second ordinance would increase the pay of the police chief
and a third would increase the salary of the chief financial officer.

CFO Lorrie Toups, who has been in that

position since January 2011, recently
announced her Feb. 3 retirement. If the
councils approve the CFO pay hike, the
salary of her successor could increase
by $35,272 a year, bringing it to $197,000
a year. It's the same increase Guillory
proposed in the 2022-23 budget which
the councils rejected.

Lorrie Toups, chief financial officer for Lafayette Toups may not be around to collect the
Consolidated Government, seen in this 2019 file higher salary, but it could be worth

photo, addressed the Protect the City thousands of dollars upon her
retirement when she'll be paid for
Committee on April 13, 2021, in Lafayette,
unused sick days based in part on her
Louisiana.
salary at the time.
STAFF PHOTO BY BRAD BOWIE

In June, the City Council rejected a Guillory proposal to increase the police chief's
salary from $132,000 a year to $171,000 a year. At the time, the city was searching for a
new chief. An ordinance going before the City Council on Tuesday would bump the
police chief's salary from $134,656 which is in the budget, to $170,000 a year.

Judith Estorge in October was named Lafayette's new police chief, the first woman to
hold that job. 

The third ordinance is a joint ordinance to be voted on by both the city and parish
councils. It would increase the mayor-president's pay, along with the fire chief's and
CAO's. The validity of the ordinance is questionable because the fire chief is a city
position and decisions on city matters are to be voted on only by the City Council,
according to the Home Rule Charter.

Fire Chief Robert Benoit, who has been with the department more than four decades
and is approaching retirement, would receive an additional $32,851 a year in salary,
bumping his pay to about $172,000 a year.

Email Claire Taylor at ctaylor@theadvocate.com.

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