The Evangeline Parish Police Jury Monday ,after much discussion and a request for guidance from Secretary Treasurer Donald Bergeron, agreed for the parish to follow the Centers for Disease Control guidelines as far as protocols to follow dealing with personnel. Bergeron reported that two employees are in self quarantine after finding out members of their families have tested positive for Covid-19. Also the jury is considering a sanitizing company to come in and sanitize parish owned buildings due to Covid-19. The police jury, in other business, approved a request from the Sheriff's Office to purchase three tasers for the parish jail at a cost of $6143. The parish jail warden Josh Lafleur said he and his jailers are seeing more prisoners coming in high on meth and other drugs. In the past, the jail had been using tasers on loan from patrol officers. Crooked Creek Committee Chairman Lamar Johnson said from all indications this past weekend's July 4th bash at Crooked Creek Recreational Park was a big success . He praised Parish Director Kim Ortego for doing a good job. The park has over $81,000 in surplus funds. Johnson said it is important to urge the state to overlay Crooked Creek Park road and also US 167 north of Turkey Creek to encourage campers to travel to Crooked Creek Parks. It was learned that improvements to US 167 are in the state capital outlay budget this year. Evangeline Parish Tourism Commission President Jay Gielow asked for permission to use parish inmates on a project to spend some $2300 to improve the Heritage Garden off Lasalle Street. Gielow said there is a lot of cleanup and planting that needs to be done. The jury approved his request. He also reported that the tourism group plans to erect an historical marker honoring one of high school basketball's winningest coaches, the late Leslie Gaudet of Pine Prairie. Coach Gaudet in 30 years of coaching amassed a record of 1026 wins and 353 losses, a winning percentage of 73 percent. The tourism group will also be working with Crooked Creek to assist in marketing the park to provide online reservations. The police jury approved advertising for the renewal of millage taxes for Cemetery District Number 2, Number 3, Number 7 and the Lone Pine Fire District. The renewal election is scheduled for November. In other action the police jury: --approved renewing a cooperative agreement with the LSU AG Center to continue to provide offices for the County Agent's staff for another five year term. The term will decrease the annual installment paid by the police jury by some $6,000 a year from $27,476 to $21,702.; --approved the resignation of Elizabeth West on the Tourism Board; --received news that sales tax collections decreased by some 5 percent in June; --received word that fire insurance rebate checks were distributed to fire departments throughout the parish; --voted to advertise for a new custodian for the courthouse and a new full time permit clerk for the jury following retirements of personnel.