Stephanie Lynch

City Councilwoman Stephanie Lynch talks about her heated exchange with Chief Administrative Officer Brian Crawford over a lack of city services in her neighborhood.

The Shreveport City Council is beginning the budget process for next year and already tempers are flaring over funding for different departments.

News of an outside audit of Shreveport's water and sewer department has brought the troubled agency back into the spotlight an made it a topic in the mayor's race.

Councilwoman Stephanie Lynch visited to the KEEL studio to discuss the recent controversy regarding the council's funding of the Shreveport Urban Film Festival.

KEEL's Erin McCarty responds to charges by Councilwoman Stephanie Lynch that those who opposed the city's grant to the Urban Film Festival are "inciting a mob".

City Council members Stephanie Lynch and Jerry Bowman exchanged a number of emails in which the pair's discussion of the use of the term "the hood" heated up.

The "H-Word" is "the hood' and Shreveport Councilman Jerry Bowman objected to the use of the word by Councilwoman Stephanie Lynch.

The Councilwoman says "I sent fifty or sixty emails about bulk (trash) pickup that. I didn't even include all of Mooretown. It was just one section."

The City Council will hear the Gateway Development Consortium's presentation at their working session on May 21, then plan to vote at their meeting the next day.

Stephanie Lynch says criticism of the Chief Alan Crump by some council members is "paradoxical...when he's not been on the job quite a year."