Sheriff candidate Seuzeneau to be removed from Slidell public records lawsuit
St. Tammany Parish sheriff candidate Daniel Seuzeneau will be removed as a defendant in a public records lawsuit against the Slidell Police Department following a hearing Wednesday in the 22nd Judicial District Court…
Continue Reading…Slidell public records hearing remains on schedule as questions persist over Seuzeneau’s SPD role
A hearing in a public records lawsuit against the Slidell Police Department remains scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 28, after attorneys for the department withdrew a request to postpone the proceedings…
Continue Reading…Mandeville audit finds strong finances as sales tax collections continue to climb
An independent auditor told the Mandeville City Council Thursday that the city maintains exceptionally strong financial reserves and carries no outstanding debt, even as council members debated the continued accumulation of millions…
Continue Reading…Judge moves sheriff candidate records lawsuit hearing ahead of election
A judge has moved a hearing in a public records lawsuit involving St. Tammany Parish sheriff candidate Daniel Seuzeneau and the Slidell Police Department to Oct. 28, six days before the…
Continue Reading…Public records dispute involving sheriff candidate heads to court
A public records lawsuit involving St. Tammany Parish sheriff candidate Daniel Seuzeneau and the Slidell Police Department took a new turn Thursday when the attorney who filed the lawsuit asked a judge to move a scheduled hearing to a date before the Nov. 3 sheriff’s election…
Continue Reading…Madden-Berning dispute takes new turn over text message records
The ongoing dispute between Mayor Clay Madden and local businessman Robert “Trey” Berning III has taken another turn, with an exchange of letters between attorneys and additional text messages entered into a police…
Continue Reading…OPINION | Somebody forgot to tell Old Mandeville businesses they’re struggling
There was nothing particularly remarkable about the Mandeville City Council considering another whole-house short-term rental in Old Mandeville at its Sept. 24 meeting. The city has allowed them under a tightly controlled system since 2020. The original ordinance…
Continue Reading…Mandeville closes fiscal year with sales tax growth, heavy capital spending
The City of Mandeville ended its 2026 fiscal year with sales tax collections up $1.24 million from the previous year and slightly above its adjusted budget, while preliminary figures show the city spent more than $17 million on capital projects and assets…
Continue Reading…Rhinehart reappointed to Mandeville Planning and Zoning Commission
The Mandeville City Council unanimously reappointed Brian Rhinehart to the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission on Thursday, keeping an experienced member in place as the city continues work on a rewrite of its zoning…
Continue Reading…Mandeville adopts FY2027 budget with 2.8% employee COLA
The Mandeville City Council adopted a structurally balanced operating budget for the coming fiscal year Thursday, ending weeks of hearings that began with Councilman-at-Large Scott Discon insisting the city was overspending and promising to identify specific areas where spending…
Continue Reading…Council members propose new spending as Mandeville budget heads to final hearing
After weeks of debate over whether Mandeville is spending too much, City Council members emerged from their fourth budget hearing Wednesday without identifying a specific spending cut — but with several proposals to add expenses to Mayor Clay Madden’s proposed FY2027…
Continue Reading…Financial adviser urges City Council to examine employee benefit costs
As the Mandeville City Council considers increasing employee raises in the proposed FY2027 budget, a local financial adviser who had already raised concerns directly with council members urged them Wednesday to look beyond salaries and examine…
Continue Reading…Mayor documents escalating dispute in police report
Mayor Clay Madden filed a report with the Mandeville Police Department this month documenting a series of interactions with local businessman Robert “Trey” Berning III that Madden said had “escalated to the point…
Continue Reading…Council finds nothing to cut in FY2027 operating budget after earlier claim of overspending
After weeks of warnings about city spending and a pointed challenge from Mayor Clay Madden to identify where Mandeville was overspending, Councilman-at-Large Scott Discon completed his review of the proposed fiscal year 2027 operating budget Wednesday night without identifying…
Continue Reading…Joint meeting devolves into confusion as members of competing bodies shout over one another
An unusual joint proceeding between the Mandeville City Council and Civil Service Board descended at one point into members talking and shouting over one another Wednesday night, exposing the practical consequences of a meeting arrangement the city attorney had defended hours earlier under…
Continue Reading…Civil Service Board to join council budget hearing despite council notice making no mention of joint meeting
Mandeville’s Civil Service Board will meet with the City Council during Wednesday night’s budget hearing to discuss and vote on a cost-of-living adjustment for city employees, despite the City Council’s public meeting notice making no mention of the board, a joint meeting or…
Continue Reading…Council adopts expanded public comment rules after 45-minute debate
A City Council effort to give residents more opportunities to speak turned into a roughly 45-minute debate Thursday over when they should speak, what they should be allowed to discuss and how long they should be permitted to…
Continue Reading…Budget hearing erupts over spending claims as councilman questions millions accumulating in restricted funds
What began Thursday evening as the second in a series of largely technical hearings on Mandeville’s proposed FY2027 budget ended in a heated confrontation over whether the city is spending too much — and opened a potentially much larger debate over whether taxpayers should continue pouring money into restricted funds that could accumulate…
Continue Reading…FY2027 budget hearings open with first structurally balanced operating budget in years
Mandeville’s proposed FY2027 budget would pay for recurring city operations entirely with recurring revenues for the first time in years, Finance Director Jessica Farno confirmed Wednesday during the first of five City Council…
Continue Reading…Anonymous mailers, websites mount coordinated campaign against Madden administration
With Mandeville’s next municipal election still nearly two years away, three anonymous political mailers and two anonymously operated websites have mounted a sustained campaign criticizing Mayor Clay Madden’s administration on issues ranging from city finances to water and sewer rates…
Continue Reading…LSU Health Foundation, Woodward Harbor seek to revive dismissed Sucette Harbor appeal
Update (Aug. 7): The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has granted LSU Health Foundation New Orleans and Woodward Harbor’s motion to reinstate the appeal, restoring the case to the court’s active docket. The appeal had been dismissed three days earlier after the appellants failed to timely…
Continue Reading…Federal appeals court dismisses LSU Health Foundation appeal against Mandeville
A federal appeals court has dismissed LSU Health Foundation New Orleans’ appeal challenging the dismissal of its lawsuit against the City of Mandeville, leaving the lower court’s ruling in favor of the city in place unless the appeal is later reinstated…
Continue Reading…Tammany Trace official clarifies electric vehicle rules as Trailhead signage confusion continues
A Tammany Trace official says street-legal electric mobility devices remain permitted on the Tammany Trace, despite confusion stemming from two different sets of signs that govern two separate areas…
Continue Reading…Police respond after parents report teen bicyclists riding through children’s birthday party at Trailhead
Mandeville Police responded Tuesday evening after parents hosting a birthday party for a young child with autism at the Mandeville Trailhead reported that a group of teenagers on bicycles were riding through a party being held under the pavilion and splash pad area in a manner they believed endangered…
Continue Reading…Council postpones meeting rules rewrite, short-term rental vote
The City Council postponed votes Thursday on proposed changes to its meeting procedures and a short-term rental permit, allowing the full council to consider the two matters when they return next…
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