Two former Lafayette Consolidated Government directors created a political action committee to push for passage of a Home Rule Charter amendment that would create separate city and parish councils.

Kevin Blanchard, former LCG public works director, and Carlee Alm-LaBar, former planning and development director, along with Lafayette attorney Will Kellner, filed documents with the Louisiana Secretary of State Aug. 23 creating the Fix the Charter PAC.

"I think almost everybody who live in Lafayette Parish is proud of our country and proud of being an American," Alm-LaBar said. "Our form of (local) government is more un-American than most. It's not a fair representative democracy, and this charter amendment fixes that to a great extent."

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The Dec. 8 ballot in Lafayette Parish will include a proposal to amend the Home Rule Charter that governs how LCG is run. The proposal would split the nine-person Lafayette City-Parish Council into a five-person city council and a five-person parish council for the first time since LCG kicked off in 1996.

"This is not a perfect system, and this is something we can do to make it better," said Blanchard, who has been active in trying to change the Home Rule Charter since 2013.

"We are getting involved in this because, in part, we recognize that politics, even at the local level, has gotten poisoned," he said Friday. "Normal people are afraid to speak up because, invariably, these processes get ugly."

They decided to counter the mudslinging campaigns that have become typical in recent years with "a positive, information-filled, transparent campaign, Blanchard said.

The Fix the Charter website, fixthecharter.com, is up but not polished yet. Already, more than 100 people — Democrats and Republicans, north side and south side residents, city and parish residents — have volunteered.

"We are super, super excited," he said, "about how positive and productive a conversation we're going to actually be able to have about an issue that's so important."

The Fix the Charter PAC is a typical PAC, Blanchard said. That means the names of people who donate will be reported and will appear on the Louisiana Ethics Administration website. He wouldn't say how much, but people already are pledging financial support.

In an apparent shot at a local anti-tax political committee that has been fighting local tax elections but won't reveal its funding source, Blanchard urged residents to consider getting information from a source "willing to say how they're paid and who is funding them."

"If they're not willing to say who's funding them," he said, "who are they to have an opinion?"