November 12, 2001

Ascension Parish School Board
Mr. Robert Clouatre
38210 Highway 3089
Donaldsonville, La 70346-8586

Sir:

There is still a very serious safety problem looming over students and parents at the Dutchtown Primary School at the highway 74-school zone.

This safety hazard exists because of the way students are being picked up. Day school vans are being loaded first. This takes a good 10 minutes or more. In this time vehicles back up on both sides of highway 74 because of the sheer number of parents that pick up their children. The day school vans should be loaded last. Or these vans should be loaded from the highway 73 side of the school with the rest of the school buses. This would considerably reduce or possibly eliminate the back up of vehicles on to highway 74.

Along with this serious safety problem is the fact that vehicles are not adhering to the twenty-five mile an hour speed limit posted for the school zone A simple phone call from you to the sheriffs office would remove this problem. But I understand that you have a very busy schedule, and finding ten minutes for a phone call to protect students and their parents would be very difficult.

Hopefully you will take the initiative to leave the comfort of your office and investigate this problem personally. In my opinion this is what any good school superintendent would do. But, because you and your staff did not see fit to assist me in my efforts in the past to get the school zone put in place, eliminate the back pack issue, or eliminate the severe temperatures in the school gym, I doubt very much if you will do anything this time around either.

Prove me wrong Mr. Clouatre show up at Dutchtown at 3:15 PM and do the job you are, in my opinion, being overpaid to do.


Chuck Le Mieux

Cc/Fax to:

Ms. Elizabeth Stafford Dutchtown Primary Principle
Ms. Cathy Meredith Dutchtown Middle Principle

Cc/email to:
Mr. Cecil Picard Louisiana Board of Education
Mr. Songy Ascension Parish Assistant School Board Superintendent
Mr. George Valentine Ascension Parish School Board Member
Ms. Patricia Russo Ascension Parish School Board Member
Senator Louis J. Lambert Louisiana State Senate
Representative John Juba Diez
Representative Emma Devillier
Representative Roy Quezaire, Jr.
Mr. Harold Marchand Ascension Parish President
Ms. Patricia Cook Ascension Parish Executive Secretary
Ascension Parish CAO Mr. R. Anderson
The Ascension Parish Council c/o Mr. R. Loupe
Mr. Martin McConnell Ascension Parish Council District 10
Mr. Dudley Brown Ascension Parish Council District 4
Mr. Darnell Martinez Ascension Parish Council District 11
Mr. Jerry Savoy Ascension Parish Council District 9
Mr. Shafter Kling Ascension Parish Council District 8
Mr. Donnell Nickens  Ascension Parish Council District 5
Mr. Alvin Thomas Ascension Parish Council District 1
Mr. Adrian Thompson Ascension Parish Council District 3
WBRZ Channel 2 News Room
WBRZ Channel Two Education Reporter Ms. Jennifer Sheffield
Mr. John MacMillan The Advocate’s River Parish Office
Mr. Steven Ward The Advocate’s River Parish Office
The Ascension Citizen
Mr. David Young The Gonzales Weekly
Mr. David Young The Community Mirror
Mr. David Young Ascension Parish TV
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Essary

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There have been 281 traffic deaths from 1995 through 2007 on Ascension Parish roads
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