By JIM BUTLER 

The Police Jury will hear a committee choice for parish public works director at a special meeting Monday. 

It will also hear a consultant study of the parish civil service pay plan at the 1 p.m. session and consider a recommendation to implement revisions. 

Ryan Elkins has been interim public works chief since jurors fired Cory Ashmore, without comment, in late February. 

Today’s recommendation, according to the posted agenda, is from the Hiring Committee. 

There is no such panel listed among the jury’s standing committees. There is a Personnel, Elections and Insurance.

Whether the two are one and the same could not be determined from information on the parish website. 

No “Hiring Committee” meeting notice and agenda has been posted. Personnel, Elections and Insurance has not taken up the subject, according to public postings, March-May. 

Information such as number of applicants, their names, who was interviewed when, is not reflected in any minutes on the jury site. 

The pay study by SSG Consultants, an acclaimed firm headquartered in Baton Rouge, has not been discussed in Personnel, according to minutes.