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Terrebonne - History
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| Website | http://www.tpcg.org/ |
| Established | March 22, 1822 |
| Disbanded | Still Active |
| Last Modified | RP March 09, 2024 11:43am |
| Description | he Terrebonne Parish Council was first seated as the governing body of Terrebonne Parish on January 9, 1984, when the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government became effective. The fifteen-member Council replaced the fifteen-member Terrebonne Parish Police Jury and the five-member Houma Board of Aldermen. Each Council Member is elected from a district which divides the Parish into relatively equal areas of population. From its ranks, the Council elects a Chairman and Vice-Chairman and appoints the necessary staff.
Council meetings are normally held on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, beginning at 6:00 PM. All meetings are open to the public and anyone may address the Council, provided that they complete a speaker card prior to the beginning of the meeting, or call or send a letter to the Council Office requesting to be placed on the agenda.
In response to a vote of the people in 1995, the Council was reduced from fifteen members to nine, with the first nine-member Council taking office in January of 1996. Committees-of-the-whole review many issues before they appear at the bi-monthly Council meetings. |
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March 13, 1850 -
TERREBONNE lost to LAFOURCHE INTERIOR (now LAFOURCHE).
(La. Acts 1850, 3rd Leg., p. 68)
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March 22, 1822 -
March 13, 1850
TERREBONNE created from LAFOURCHE INTERIOR (now LAFOURCHE).
(La. Acts 1822, 5th Leg., 2nd sess., pp. 74-76)
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