Announcements
Happy New Year
All City of LaFayette offices and departments will be closed on Friday, January 1, 2021 for New Year's Day. This will not effect the garbage route for this week. Everyone from the City of LaFayette would like to wish everyone in Our Community a Happy & Safe New Year!
Leaf Pickup Update
Public Works is working to get back on schedule and will continue Leaf Pickup beginning Monday, January 4, 2021. They will begin in Ward 2, followed by Wards 3 and 4. After those areas are complete, they will begin another round through all wards.
Thank you for your understanding and patience!
LHS Junior Council bring a renovated new look to LaFayette Recreation Center with the City of LaFayette
The LaFayette High School Junior Council celebrated their first accomplishment with new renovations to the LaFayette Recreation Center.
In October 2019, the LaFayette High School Junior Council was formed as students were chosen by their teachers to be involved with the LaFayette City Council to engage in their community to make a difference.
The first item the Junior Council wanted to tackle—improvements to the LaFayette Recreation Center.
LaFayette City Manager David Hamilton said the Junior Council began to meet and discuss topics that were important to them, what they were interested in seeing accomplished in the city and what they wanted to see more of as it pertained to their concerns and even some of their complaints.
“It really started to gain some strong momentum prior to COVID-19. It was one of the biggest disappointments of COVID was when schools were shut down and it put a big damper on the progress we were making with the junior council,” Hamilton said. “We had to cancel a couple of events. We were slowly able to get it started again this fall.”
Hamilton said although the current COVID-19 pandemic had delayed the continued progressive momentum of the Junior Council, meetings continued to allow for the students to achieve their first goal of renovating the LaFayette Recreation Center with new furniture, new flooring, a revised lobby and fresh coats of paint throughout the recreation center giving modern, renewed life to one of the city’s most important assets for young people.
“I’m always excited when our kids get involved in community projects, because that’s what LaFayette High School is trying to teach is that if you’re a citizen living here, you want to value what is here,” Walker County Schools Superintendent Damon Raines said.
“So, to see our kids giving back and doing something that is going to have an impact on kids years down the path is always a good thing. I always appreciate our teachers who take the time to find these kinds of projects and let our kids turn it into their own and make it better than we’ve even thought. I’m just glad to be a part of it,” Raines said.
LaFayette High School Principal Maggie Stultz said the City of LaFayette reached out to LHS Community Crew Leader Sarah Jenkins and the project was organized with Hamilton and LaFayette City Council member Chris Davis to begin the LHS Junior Council.
“It’s been exciting, and the kids have been involved and been a part of helping the city make decisions that best benefit students of their own age,” Stultz said.
In February 2019, LHS helped co-sponsor a Valentine’s Love Dance at the LaFayette Recreation Center where the money garnered was matched with the City of LaFayette and the students were able to afford picking out all the new decorations, furniture and flooring to spruce up the recreation center.