THIBODAUX, La. -- Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes have agreed to split the salary cost for an adviser in the Small Business Development Center at Nicholls State University.
The position was necessary after federal budget cuts hindered the center's ability to hire a new employee to handle services for local business owners, parish officials said.
The Daily Comet reported (http://bit.ly/1oYGrB9) Terrebonne and Lafourche will each provide $37,500 for the adviser position.
"With the influx of entrepreneurship in the state, they're having more and more business come into their center," Lafourche Parish Administrator Archie Chaisson said.
The new position will help to support service needs at the center and in the communities.
The money will pay for the position for one fiscal year. The parishes will decide whether to renew funding agreements on a year-by-year basis if the need and budgetary constraints remain the same in the future.
"Hopefully they can find other grants or other funding sources so the parishes don't have to continue to foot that bill," Chaisson said.
Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet and Lafourche President Charlotte Randolph presented requests for their councils to participate in the agreement.
"Terrebonne and Lafourche have benefited over the years from having this center open. And they wanted to see it continue and grow," said Debi Benoit, Nicholls' director of research and sponsored programs.
The purpose of the center, Benoit said, is to stimulate private investment in each parish.
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