The Chataignier Village Council met in its regulary scheduled meeting Monday night and discussed a half-shell business coming to the village that is turtle powered.
Village Clerk Rhonda Miller reported to the council, "a new resident in town (Leo Bayard, IV) is wanting to open a turtle farm." She commented, "that is quite a business."
Miller reported the business is very regulated. "They have specific things that they have to pay attention to," she said. "They have to filter the water through a system so it's constantly clean."
The clerk went on to report Bayard is fully licensed, and the business is regulated by the State. The purpose of the farm according to Miller is to harvest turtles with a clean bill of health to ship overseas for cancer research.
Mayor Jackie Thomas commented the council will "bring it back to next month's meeting or whichever time that (Bayard) will actually think that he will be available to present all of his information to us and then therefore we can move on and vote."
Thomas then reported the village came out third place in a hen cookoff this past weekend in Ville Platte. She said the cookoff could spark a similar contest in Chataignier. "The person sponsoring the hen cookoff said why don't you come and represent your village and then in turn we'll come and maybe do something and help you guys out to start some kind of cookoff or some type of entertainment here in the Village of Chataignier as to where we don't have anything to offer, so I figure that could be an opportune time to go out there and in turn they may just come here," said the mayor.
Gale McDavid, the village administrator, quipped, "If we get the turtle farm, we could have a turtle cookoff."
In other business
The council approved hiring Justin Darbonne as a seasonal worker for grass cutting.
The council approved to continue using The Gazette as the official municipal journal.
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