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THEN and NOW

The Thursday, Feb. 4, 1999 Donaldsonville Chief h

"CITY has option to purchase 80 acres of Land from CF INDUSTRIES"

"The City of Donaldsonville has agreed to have the option to negotiate 80 acres of land off of Highway 70 with CF
Industries.

'This motion will allow the City to be able to purchase the land and to apply for GRANT FUNDING to run the
infrastructure', said Mayor Harold Capello.

'I think we ought to buy it for the simple reason that it's going to create jobs in that area and we are going to be able to get
funded', Capello said.

'The funding is available to put roads on the site at no cost to the City', Capello said, 'We're developing the land, why not
own it?' he said.

A letter of intent to purchase 11.6 acres of land was received from John Folse to locate his plant at the proposed CF site."

People, this article does not read like the old Donaldsonville politics of living in the PAST LIFE of all for me and nothing for
the CITY, and as far as it goes, NEITHER does it read our SOUND like the present day PARISH COUNCIL.

If any of you managed to find and read a very small article in the Saturday, Feb. 6 Advocate, you would have discovered
that Council Member Joseph Pierre made a similar motion in regards to a new Parish or District Courthouse. He was rebuffed by
someone on the Council who desires to live in the past.

Mr. Pierre suggested that the Council find someone that would donate the land or sell the land cheap. Maybe one of the
Industries in East Ascension would sell some land the same way CF Industries did in Donaldsonville.

Our Parish Council is determined to continue to say we do not want TOWNS in East Ascension while crying and weeping
one Council Member upon another Council Member's shoulder as to how expensive it will be to put in sewerage and water works.
To continue on the PATH they have chosen, it will be hard to get FUNDS GRANTED for such an endeavor.

Whereas to incorporate several small towns it will be MUCH EASIER to get GRANTS.





O. W. Stevens